While the showering rules appear to have quietly fallen by the wayside in local school districts, they have crashed noisily in other parts of the country.
"There were always some kids who were embarrassed, but they had to anyway. "When I was in high school, you had to," said Clint Herbick, basketball coach at Dunedin High School. "At that age they're so disparate in their physical dimensions, their physical characteristics, it can be embarrassing."Īs many adults will recall, embarrassment didn't used to matter. "When kids get to be 13 or 14, they don't feel comfortable parading before their peers in the shower," said Judy Young, executive director of the National Association for Sport and Physical Education. "As open as kids are about how they talk and what they talk about, and what they see in movies and TV, you wouldn't expect to see this kind of modesty," said George Jones, supervisor of physical education for Pinellas County schools. The change also has left some school officials scratching their heads. "I don't care how sweaty I get, I'll wait 'til I get home."
I only take showers in my own shower," said Chamberlain senior Mike Shevsky. Never," said Nick Gentile, a senior at Chamberlain High School in Tampa. The gradual change has left most students quite content _ and surprised that things used to be different. As a sort of a symbolic recognition of the trend, the Pinellas County School Board is scheduled next month to vote to discontinue the age-old rule that made showering a part of the physical education grade.
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