Did your high school have a swimming pool?

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

How can you guys have had co-educational gym classes?  You mean you played in games together?  I can't imagine how that could possibly work.

We did have the girls in the same gymnasium with us - at the other end of the place.  You could see them over there, and they could see us (which is what made pantsing such a terrible embarrassment), but we never played together in any fashion, and obviously we had our own 'locker rooms'.

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[minionofmidas]

we had our own 'locker rooms'.

Yes, that we did.

And a male teacher who obviously rather liked to supervise us there in 7th form.

[angus]

Two of the three high schools I went to had pools.

[Donerail]

My school doesn't, but another school a few miles away does - the swim team goes there to practice.

[TJ in Oregon]

Yes. Almost every high school in my area did. Swimming is a huge sport along the shores of Lake Erie. My high school in particular was known for swimming and we had a USS team that rented out our pool for practice every day.

I was one of those kids that started competitive swimming at age 7 because my mom made all of us (she was strangely paranoid we'd drown in the lake or something if we weren't all swimmers). I continued swimming through high school, though I was never incredibly talented at it. I was okay. I was good enough to make it to the level before state every year but my freshman year, but never remotely close to actually making it to state. Over the years, despite being passionate about the sport while in season, I became less interested in swimming otherwise as I turned into a runner.

[politicallefty]

I remember there being rumors about a secret swimming pool on the roof. Very hush-hush type stuff.

Other than than the rooftop part, that was true of my HS as well. Of course, it wasn't true at all. But considering the amount of money the district spent on sports, there was really no reason not to have one.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Two of the three high schools I went to had pools.

You're so bourgeois, Brother Angus.

[HoosierPoliticalJunkie]

Yes, they called it an "aquatic center", but I don't know what the criteria for being one is.  Apparently, there are only 2 in Indiana, one at IUPUI and one at our high school in suburban Chicago.

[Platypus]

Yeah, the private one has it's own pool, and the public one had a pool that was open to the public outside school hours.

[Vosem]

How can you guys have had co-educational gym classes?  You mean you played in games together?  I can't imagine how that could possibly work.

Of course -- happened last Friday, and it'll happen again tomorrow.

We did have the girls in the same gymnasium with us - at the other end of the place.  You could see them over there, and they could see us (which is what made pantsing such a terrible embarrassment), but we never played together in any fashion, and obviously we had our own 'locker rooms'.

Yeah, there's separate locker rooms but otherwise gym class is close to totally integrated -- the only other difference I can think of is all the stuff you have to accomplish so that you don't have to attend final exam is slightly less for them than for us. (Same activities, just a smaller number of pushups, situps, etc.) But they're crazy low anyway; I've only ever known one person who had to attend, and that was because she skipped too many gym classes, not out of being unable to reach the standard physically.

Our high school does not have a pool (I wish; a neighboring private school that has one allows you to use it during study halls ), but we do have a very successful swim team, whose swimsuits are provided by the school. They practice at the local recreation center, which has multiple pools.

[Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden]

Mine does.

[traininthedistance]

I remember there being rumors about a secret swimming pool on the roof. Very hush-hush type stuff.

We had the same thing.

(Of course, there was no swimming pool.)

[Ban my account ffs!]

Our local middle school and high school both have pools.  We had swimming lessons every year from 3rd-8th grade that were mandatory for all students... but swimming lessons were a necessity for most outside of school as well.

My town has 400 lakes within a 25 mile radius... and much of the in between is covered in bogs and wetlands... water is just a fact of life here, whether liquid or frozen... and it's important that all children learn from a young age how to move themselves about in it safely.

It's kind of interesting how the beginning and end of the Mississippi river are similar... in that they are waterlogged landscapes.  Of course we don't have alligators or poisonous snakes.  But you could get your neck snapped by a mountain lion or mauled to death by wolves.  Most likely, you'll just be miserable due to biting black flies and mosquitoes.

When they were building our new school in 1998-2000, the original plans had an olympic sized swimming pool and a hot tub included.. but because the only way they could get the hot tub in there was to set the pool to an angle, the swimmers complained they wouldn't be able to stay straight when doing the backcrawl.  (They align themselves with beams ont he ceiling)  So no hot tub.  Also, not pit for small string ensembles to play in the lobby area before shows.

Still, the school came in $11 million under budget and so we replaced a 1916 elementary school as well.  My school district has been remarkably fiscally responsible... so the voters tend to give them what they want when they ask.

[Redalgo]

No pools at the high schools out here!

[angus]

Two of the three high schools I went to had pools.

You're so bourgeois, Brother Angus.

Actually, the high school I graduated from was a big public school, graduating about 700 people per year, and mostly not from good neighborhoods.  Its pool was large, and for most of the kids it was probably the only pool they ever got to play in.  In fact, of the three schools that I attended, all public, the one that didn't have the pool was probably the "best" one, in terms of percent of students on free lunch, standardized test scores, etc.