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13. Oh geez! The dreaded rope! It was a requirement from 4th to 8th grades, and

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Mon Dec 8, 2025, 08:15 PM

Dec 8

thankfully it didn’t make an appearance in high school P.E. I wish we would have had the option with the knots as a way to begin. I never did make it to the top, usually giving up about 2/3 up. I could climb the trees in our yard but that thick oily smelling scratchy rope with every one watching was dreaded. I was not a fan of dodge ball either. I had forgotten about “Chicken Fat”! 😁 Our teacher who used that also taught us dances in gym class: polka, square dance, scottische, are ones I remember and there was lots of giggling and shyness in 4th grade.

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The "good old days". [View all] RandySF Dec 8 OP

My school didn't require P.E., Haggard Celine Dec 8 #1

So true, and I was really good at it too. I got rope burn on my hands Emile Dec 8 #2

Wow Randy BOSSHOG Dec 8 #3

I hated that as an acrophobe. NNadir Dec 8 #4

Yes, they had that at my Jr High School and I could never do it LymphocyteLover Dec 8 #5

Here was our gym class. OldBaldy1701E Dec 8 #6

Thank you, OldBaldy1701E, That was what most of my gym class consisted of in 8th grade. Now I have an earworm. debm55 Dec 8 #10

You had ropes? We had a gymnasium, cafeteria, auditorium, bingo hall. Two basketball hoops and a tiled concrete floor. twodogsbarking Dec 8 #7

Ah, the memories... Wuddles440 Dec 8 #8

I remember doing that in the 1960's Martin Eden Dec 8 #9

Ha! In JH ours were bolted to rafters. During one class a kid climbed the rope, straddled the rafter and pulled the rope Floyd R. Turbo Dec 8 #11

We had a knotted rope for the weaklings and the girls. hunter Dec 8 #12

Oh geez! The dreaded rope! It was a requirement from 4th to 8th grades, and KitFox Dec 8 #13

Two gym activities we had to do LogDog75 Dec 8 #14

my husband told me he was required to do that in gym class LNM Dec 9 #15

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