I was reading a cheerleader story by own of the authors here and something made me sit up and go "Wha?"
The cheerleaders were getting ready for a high school football game, and using the girl's locker room.
This is a big goof because when there's a game between two high schools at one of the schools, the home team using the boys locker room. the visiting team uses the *girls* locker room.
The cheerleaders get stuck with changing one of the girls restrooms.
I'm mostly aware of this because I got dragged into the wrestling team at the (tiny) school I went to as a senior. (I ended the year with a perfect record: no wins. But at least I got us some byes when the other team didn't have anyone in my weight class :-)
So anyway, the cheerleaders will be using the girls locker room for changing for practice and showering afterwards. But on game days, it's not available. adjust your plots accordingly.
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interesting. Something I didnt know. Well anyway, I think the main idea was that he was allowed to dress and pbe part of it, with the girls in the lockerroom preparing as any of them were
even if it was in the boys locker room. It was the girls locker room to them
Thank you for the information
When you set your stories in an environment that you aren't really familiar with it's easy to make mistakes like that.
surely it depends on the size of the school
I know a few schools that have 2 sets of changing rooms (that's 2 of each)
especially older ones that have had more modern sports facilities built without replacing the older set
My school only had one locker room - in total
The boys had gym either at a neighouring school or at the YMCA.
Thanks for increasing my
Thanks for increasing my knowledge of my ignorance.
What is the difference between a locker room and a restroom ?
When I was at school, in the UK, we had "toilets" which I thought you called "the bathroom" (even though they are unlikely to have any vessels for submerging whole bodies), "changing rooms" which I thought were your "locker rooms", and our lockers lived in corridors.
Changing rooms vs. locker rooms
In my high school, and, I suspect most high schools in the U.S., we had two lockers: one in the hallway for our books, and one in the locker room (changing room) to keep our P.E. uniform in when not being worn, and our street clothes in when wearing the P.E. uniform. The locker rooms also had showers.
My high school was middle-sized (1600 students) so we had a gym, a pool, a boy's locker room and a girl's locker room. We also had one of the few lighted football fields in the league, so our home games were mostly in the evening.
The cheerleaders wore their uniforms to school on game days, so they probably didn't need to change for a game. I suspect the visiting team's cheerleader did the same.
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In general, in the U.S., "Bathroom" means a toilet facility with a (gasp!) bathtub. A 3/4 bath means a shower with toilet facilities, 1/2 bath is just one toilet and sink (private residence), and in a commercial/public building, "rest room" is used to denote a facility with one or more toilets and sinks A locker room includes lockers (again with the Gasp!), changing facilities, showers, toilets, and sinks.
My high school (10, 11, & 12 grades, ~1,000 students) was fairly new and we had a visiting team locker room as well as mens and womens locker rooms.
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Well at the junior high I
Well at the junior high I went to and the large high school, the "locker rooms" were what you'd call changing rooms. The only lockers in them were for folks on the sports teams.
The PE "uniforms" were kept in wire baskets in an area called "the cage". It was partioned off with floor to ceiling cyclone fencing. The were a couple of gates (locked most of the time) a a couple of "windows" where you'd go up to get you basket at the start of class.
In the rest of the locker room there were rows of benches with clothes hooks above them and a shelf above that for your books and the basket.
So you'd grab a spot on a bench, go up to the window to get your basket, go back to the bench and change into your PE gear. Most of the time the guys would strip off at the bench and then go over to get the basket.
after "suiting up" you'd go do whatever your section of the class was doing that day. when the bell rang for showers. You'd go back to the locker room, strip off the uniform and put it back in the basket. Then you'd drop it off at the window (the windows were "manned" by a couple of students who had that duty at the start & end of the class).
After dropping off the basket, you'd go shower. Then you'd grab a towel off the stack, and dry off at the bench and get redressed in your school clothes. You'd toss the towel in a bin on your way out of the locker room.
At that large high school, the boys and girls locker rooms doubled as the changing rooms for the swimming pool when it was open to the public. Instead of baskets, they had these mesh bags with built in hangers. Your clothes and whatever went in the bag. There were a couple of pockets on the outside for your shoes. Each bag had a number and a safety pin stamped with that number. You'd get a bag at the window, go to a bench and change into your swim suit and pin the pin on your suit.
Then you'd take the bag back to the window and they'd hang it up. after that it was into the shower to rinse off and out to the pool. reverse things when you were done.
There were toilets in the locker rooms.
The "bathrooms"/restrooms in the rest of the school just had toilets and sinks.
Probably way too much info, but I figured better too much than too little.
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Is that why...
Is that the reason behind the Spirit Day on match days that we see so often where the cheerleader pass the day in uniforms..?
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Just saying.
Just saying.
Most of the schools I went to had PE locker rooms and sports locker rooms so a total of 4. Home team used the sports locker rooms and the away team was in the PE locker room.
Smaller high schools have less....
My high school was about 800. Students. Off the gym we had 2 locker rooms. 2 rows of lockers (about 30) and many rows of baskets (wire cubes 2 feet on a side) (about 400). You “leased” a combination lock from the school and locked your PE clothes in the basket. During PE you moved the lock to the bigger locker to secure your books and clothes. We all had a bigger locker in the hallway for more books and boots (winter wear) and coats. During the season athletes had a locker with a lock in the locker room. Cheerleaders had no changing area. Course their were only 5 of them.... And yes, visiting teams used the opposite sex locker room (volleyball and girls basketball too).
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