What were your experiences like in your Physical Education classes. What was your teachers like and what was your PE Uniform at Primary and secondary.

[b]OK this one is horrifying, especially for you gen z ers. As a teenager we were required to swim nude, in the school's pool. I grew up in the 60-70's. [/b]

It was not uncommon for public schools to have the boys swim nude during PE swim class. Hower, I do recall swim class being an elective class. And as boys, back in those days, we thought nothing of it.

I recall the reasoning being that some kids could not afford proper trunks and it was too cumbersome to determine what was,[i] via construction and materials[/i], acceptable swimwear. It was said that fibers would get caught up in the pool filters and cause significant damage.

For years I have told this story to a few ,[b][u]only [/u][/b]because, although I am from major city, we did have the reputation as being unsophisticated,backwoods and country. And, those few I did mention it to seemed highly suspicious towards the tale, so I just forgot about and haven't told a soul since the 80's. Now, many decades later,[i] I was even beginning to question myself as to if this was a false or exaggerated memory.[/i]

I came across the commenter's posed question,just by random but ,[b][i]before even constructing this reply; I decided to search it ou[/i][/b]t. Believe me, there are some ignorant trolls on 'Similar Worlds's, in the same fashion as they run amuck on [i](snarky youth-dominated)[/i] Reddit. I already have had previous experiences with buffoonish comments towards my posting of unusual yet true events. So I took a long shot and did a internet search and I indeed found others, [i]on other sites[/i], posting similar experiences in their gym classes.

However, now living in an age where much of the hidden past has been revealed, I wonder; as boys we thought nothing of but, what about those gym teachers (LOL -...I think ? ...yikes !)