Gender separated phys. education school classes

[shootingstar]

Did you have physical education classes at any time when you went to school where the boys and girls were separated into their own clases with their own teachers?

Of course if you went to an all-girl's school, pretty obvious.

I went to co-ed schools. Separation of boys and girls for physical education/sports for me, started when I transferred to a primary school that had a girls' playground and boys' playground, each at different ends of the school. However for some classes for certain team sports..ie. baseball, broom hockey, ice skating we were co-ed. (We had an outdoor ice rink. Yes, the janitor was involved in making that rink).

Starting in Grades 7 onward, there were separate girls' and boys' classes with their individual teachers. Of course the big deal, was dancing...which was more like simple ballroom dancing and..square dancing. I'm not kiddin'. That's when the hormones start raging...

Are physical education classes more co-ed these days now? I don't have children but I do see packs of children/teens jogging together during the day when I'm cycling.

[PscyclePath]

Yep... It probably shows a little of my age, but we had separate classes and instructors for PE back when I was in junior high and high school both.

Me, I dropped out and joined the band, which was co-ed and carried the same credits ;-)

Tom

[five one]

For me, PE was co-ed in grammar school (late 50's-early 60's). In junior high, we were segregated from the boys. Good thing, too, because we had to wear these horrible blue gym suits . We had to wear these through high school as well. I was in both Colorado and Alabama in high school. Two states, same gym suit. No wonder girls didn't want to play sports back then! Not that we could. This was way before Title IX.

Those were the days...

[shootingstar]

For me, PE was co-ed in grammar school (late 50's-early 60's). In junior high, we were segregated from the boys. Good thing, too, because we had to wear these horrible blue gym suits . We had to wear these through high school as well. I was in both Colorado and Alabama in high school. Two states, same gym suit. No wonder girls didn't want to play sports back then! Not that we could. This was way before Title IX.

Those were the days...

Girls wore those gymsuits too, except they had a front zipper and did not have a cinched in waistline. Kinda like a blue zippered tube sack that was sleevless also. (Another requirement...shaving starts then for girls, right?) I felt so self-conscious because my mother sewed mine and hence, it was a different shade of blue. The gymsuit uniform was abandoned after Gr. 9 at our high school. But during Gr. 7-8, girls also had to make sure our white running shoes were clean looking..if not, white shoe polish. Can you imagine, on running shoes???? What was the rationale for that? Must be a throwback from military thinking or whatever.

[GLC1968]

I had partially separated PE for most of my grade school and HS days.

When we were younger, we were separated for some sports but together for others. Girls didn't wrestle with the boys, but we did play soccer or dodge ball together. I was just thinking about our 'square dancing' PE sessions - that was co-ed and actually a lot of fun (7th grade, if I am remembering correctly).

Once we got to HS, we were separated for most things and I always assumed it was because there was a clear difference in athletic abilities by then and if we didn't, the girls wouldn't get to play a lot of the time. Plus, I lived in New England and the boys didn't play either field hockey or lacrosse which was part of the program. Now that I think about it though, we were together for most of the winter indoor sports (like in the field house or for swimming) but separated for most of the fall/spring outdoor things (like field hockey and football). Maybe it was more a facilities issue than it was a gender thing?

I should mention that pretty much all of my PE experince was post Title IX.

[shootingstar]

When we were younger, we were separated for some sports but together for others. Girls didn't wrestle with the boys, but we did play soccer or dodge ball together. I was just thinking about our 'square dancing' PE sessions - that was co-ed and actually a lot of fun (7th grade, if I am remembering correctly).

Once we got to HS, we were separated for most things and I always assumed it was because there was a clear difference in athletic abilities by then and if we didn't, the girls wouldn't get to play a lot of the time. Plus, I lived in New England and the boys didn't play either field hockey or lacrosse which was part of the program. .

Boys did get to play lacrosse for a few classes. Girls at our school did not learn lacrosse. It was field hockey which I loved to play.

Ice hockey was confined during classes to just the boys. I don't recall any girls, even the most consistently and naturally athletic girls being interested in playing ice hockey at the time. But most of the girls, like myself, did often watch the TV enthusiastically and consistently the National Hockey League games and 'Hockey night in Canada'. Unless these girls played hockey at home in their neighbourhoods which I wouldn't know. Girls' ice hockey teams did not exist at all in the city. Nor did any soccer exist for girls in the city as a tournament sport, during the time I was growing up. Soccer was still gender-separated at our school, even in high school.

Frankly, I felt better being in separate girls' phys ed. classes. I was a nerd and uncoordinated but did love certain sports. Of course, we never had any cycling class groups nor anything on bike safety.

[Zen]

We had to wear those gym suits too. Gawd.
like Jack Lalanne's jumpsuit, but shorts instead of long pants.

[Crankin]

I had coed PE until middle school, then we were separated. We had to wear those bloomers in a bilious green color. And we had to shower and tell the teacher when we had our period to be excused from that. Same in HS. When I moved to Florida, their gym suits were white and I stood out like a sore thumb.
I loved field hockey!