{"id":2194,"date":"2016-03-31T15:15:27","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T20:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/?p=2194"},"modified":"2023-06-14T00:04:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T05:04:05","slug":"nude-swimming-back-in-the-day-at-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/?p=2194","title":{"rendered":"Nude swimming back in the day at school"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As a product of the Oklahoma City Public Schools, specifically Gatewood Elementary and Classen Junior\/Senior High, I participated in regular gym classes and was an athlete, playing basketball and tennis in my sophomore through senior years.\u00a0 The old school building of Classen was built in the early 1920\u2019s, and has a rich and deep history.\u00a0 The famous Mr. Henry Payne Iba, known to the world as Mr. Iba, the foremost college and Olympic coach of his time, led my school to the National High School championship tournaments in the late 1920\u2019s.\u00a0 Other notable people, such as actors, politicians, and military leaders attended the school at various times.<\/p>\n

One item of interest that I have thought about over the years was the large swimming pool that was in the inner confines of the building.\u00a0 A pool that saw various great athletes take their swimming skills to greater heights than just state swimming championships.\u00a0 With that pool, the general student at Classen was given the opportunity to learn to swim in the\u00a0 course of their daily physical education program. As I was already a swimmer in 1965, my first year at Classen as a seventh grade student, I still\u00a0participated in the weekly swim classes that both the boys and girls were required to take.\u00a0 The classes were segregated according to gender, so the boys would swim without the girls and vice versa.\u00a0 As the custom of the day, and I am sure back to the days of Mr. Iba at my school, we had the option to swim in the nude or wear a swim suit.\u00a0 That option was given to both the boys and girls, and no pressure was ever put on anyone for wearing or not wearing a suit.<\/p>\n

Classen PE teacher and head\u00a0boys basketball coach Harvey Tedford was our teacher and the girls had a female PE teacher that supervised the pool activities for the females.\u00a0 I have had discussions on this subject\u00a0with\u00a0other friends\u00a0that do not believe me.\u00a0 But it did happen\u00a0that way.\u00a0 Nudity was the norm. <\/span><\/p>\n

Today, I don\u2019t think this could happen as we have not\u00a0progressed\u00a0as a\u00a0society with our morals in many respects.\u00a0\u00a0Our screwed up\u00a0beliefs and attitudes today\u00a0toward nudity has taken us to a place of making many\u00a0of us feel negativity toward our bodies and nudity.\u00a0\u00a0One example where we have not improved\u00a0our society in America from the past.<\/span><\/p>\n

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