Gender separated phys. education school classes

[nancielle]

Same thing with my jr. high and the showers. Our gym suits were blue, too, but made of stretchy fabric, with blue bottoms and a horizontally striped top. Zipped up the front. Hated them...

Augh! All those memories I had repressed came flooding back with this gym suit description. Ours were powder blue colored. Ick. As if the humiliation of wearing them in the school gym weren't bad enough, when the weather was nice we had to trudge to a nearby park for class (soft ball or soccer) and endure public humiliation. The guys just wore dark blue or black shorts with a blue t-shirt. By junior year a certain someone ( ahem, who shall remain nameless to protect the guilty ) rallied a few like minded females and showed up to class wearing the same thing the boys did. Created quite the stir (this was a parochial school...how dare we challenge authority!) but eventually led to the switch to "normal" gym shorts and t-shirts.

In elementary school we didn't have formal PE but the girls and boys had separate playgrounds. Later on PE classes were segregated.

[sundial]

I was in a co-ed jr high PE class and I remember having to play dodgeball and dodging those big red balls that the guys threw as hard and fast as possible.

Then we had to play tether ball. I can't think of any applicable skills I garnered from tether ball.

In high school we wore gray t-shirts and polyester double knit Rocky shorts, tube socks, and boys hand-me-down Converse high top tennis shoes that curled up after the coach washed it in the autoclave.

[colby]

I grew up in Seattle, graduated about 10 years ago. Co-ed PE all the way, end-to-end. Separate locker rooms in middle/high school (in primary school it was just a matter of going to play, which is no different than any other day, right ). My brother is 16 now and having the same experiences here (eastern WA).

We had uniforms in middle school that they introduced my second year there, just cotton shirts and loose fitting shorts (that held true through my brother and sister who went through a few years after me). In high school, there was a dress code of basically the same thing, but no uniform. My brother went through the same thing recently, also a super-basic uniform of cotton tshirt/loose gym shorts in middle school and when he got to high school he just used a tshirt and the shorts he used in middle school.

Team sports are separated, of course, but neither of us are really team sports kind of people