Chapter 3: Naked in School, the Original Way

Daan spent the next several days reading and absorbing the material that he had received from the school. On Friday evening, when Kimberly returned home, he told her about what he had read.

“Damn, honey, I don’t know what kind of hacks they got to put that shit together about how to run a school classroom full of naked kids. Pat, Curtis, and the others all agree; they don’t see how any of it will be useful and we don’t want to inflict some of that suggested crap on the kids.”

“Remind me about their backgrounds, sweetie,” Kimberly asked.

“Sure. So Pat deVoss was a track star in college; went to Penn State, and has a bachelor’s in ed with a sports physiology minor—she’s the track, field, and cross-country coach, and Curtis Black played basketball at Alabama. Also has an ed bachelor’s with a phys ed concentration—he’s the boys’ basketball coach. And there are four other teachers who teach in P.E. plus teach an academic subject too, but they’re not in my core P.E. and Health class group. As assistant AD, I’m kinda the supervisor of all six of them.

“Oh, and we have Ginny Tate too; she’s our phys ed assistant and helps supervise the kids in all of our classes. The other team coaches come under George Simmons, the AD, since none of them have class teaching responsibilities, so George deals with them. I doubt that they’ll be playing football, baseball, soccer, or girls’ basketball naked though, and we don’t have a volleyball team. I won’t have the swim teams compete naked. Curtis says that he won’t have his boys’ team playing basketball naked, but it looks like track, field, and cross-country might be a naked sport.”

“So none of your teachers have a psych background then.”

“Sadly, no, just the regular ed-degree psych courses. Very broad-brush approach; enough to identify pathologies or recommend needed interventions in troubled kids.”

“Of course. So how are you guys gonna handle your P.E. classes with this nudity mandate?”

“Here’s what I came up with for P.E. classes and my health and psych classes; the others added a few ideas. I’ll have the kids naked in swim class but not for the swim team, in either practice or competition. Curtis won’t do naked basketball, but Pat plans to try naked track, field, and cross-country, like the other schools in the region will be doing. And since we were given free rein, I don’t need to clear anything with Sanderson or Barnes.”

Dr Sandra Barnes was the school’s principal and Theodore Sanderson was the school district superintendent.

On Monday morning, Daan’s first class was a ninth-grade P.E. class. It was a sunny day outside and the warming light was streaming through the gym’s high windows as the four teachers in the gym were waiting with anxious anticipation for the kids to appear; they were wondering how the kids would respond to the news that they’d be getting. Soon the kids began to emerge from the locker rooms and they jogged to the bleachers, as they had been doing all year. When Ginny Tate indicated that everyone was present, Daan used his whistle to give a short tweet to call everyone to attention. He actually disliked using the whistle, but all of the kids had been conditioned to respond to P.E. whistle blasts to get their attention, so Daan just went with the flow—but he still only used it when absolutely necessary to get everyone’s attention. The whistle was actually useful when the gym was noisy, though.

“Alright, all you sluggards, you all look hung over this morning,” Daan roared at the class. “Hard partying this weekend, right? We’ll help you work out those cobwebs during your class today...”

Groans.

“ ... but first, the coaches and I have some important news about changes in Newton Charter’s P.E. program.”

Now the kids began paying closer attention.

“Okay, this class is called ‘physical’ education,” he said, stressing the word “physical.” “This means that we attempt to help you boys and girls to develop your bodies, because when your bodies are strong and healthy, those benefits significantly help in brain development too. You might not get smarter, but you sure as ‘h’ will think faster and more clearly. Okay then, our sponsor’s commercial is over.”

There were chuckles, but he had everyone’s full attention now.

“Someone tell me the name of this big room we’re all in right now ... Mr Foster? Go ahead.”

“You mean the gym, Coach, right?” Glen Foster answered.

“Exactly. Anyone know where the word comes from? ‘Gym’ is short for gymnasium, as I’m sure you all know.”

He got blank looks from all the kids.

“All right, the word is actually Greek and pronounced gum-nah-see-um; the root is gymnós”; he pronounced it GUM-nohs. “So why this Greek lesson now? Simple. Gymnós is Greek for naked or nude, and the Greek word meaning ‘to train naked’ is gymnazō. So the word ‘gymnasium’ literally means ‘the place where naked training occurs.’ Why am I telling you this? Because that’s precisely what this room will be from this point on, boys and girls. The place for naked training.”

The muttering, gasps, and cries of “No!” had reached a crescendo now, so Daan used his whistle.

“Not ‘No,’ but yes, you’ll all be naked in P.E. classes going forward. I’m sure you’ve seen all the news reports that large numbers of other high schools have already begun their own naked P.E. classes, and now it’s our turn. Now I’m noticing that a significant number of you aren’t alarmed or distressed at that news. I think it would help your classmates’ nerves if any of you would care to share with us why this news didn’t seem to upset you ... oh, good. Yes, Miss Nelson? Your hand was kind of up.”

“Umm...” Sheila Nelson began, blushing slightly. “Ah, well ... me and my girlfriends ... psst, Rose, Audrey! ... don’t look like you don’t know me! Um, we three went to the mall this weekend to shop. And we were all naked too,” she giggled nervously and blushed as the kids around her gasped. “Okay, yeah, so several of the shops were giving discounts—as much as twenty percent! For shoppers who came to the mall naked. It actually was kinda fun; people were staring, so we kinda felt special. We liked that. Um ... it felt liberating to do that, I guess.”

She looked pointedly at her friends and did an “acknowledge me” hand motion to them; they smiled shyly back at her and nodded their agreement.

“Okay, Miss Nelson, and Misses Rodgers and Whitely, you’d have no problem doing our P.E. classes naked then, I’m guessing?” Daan asked.

All three said that they’d be okay, perhaps fairly uneasy about it, but that they could do it.

Daan looked at the thirty kids sitting there, nervously squirming on the bleachers, and nodded at them.

“This is how the nudity will work here. Those gals who need the extra chest support can wear a sports bra when needed to give that support, else it’ll be both top and bottom free, for example, when we do our stretching and strength-work sessions. For activities where there’s a chance for injury to a boy’s testicles, cups will be permitted—no, required, actually. Everyone wears gym shoes. Girls on their monthlies, Coach Tate will explain those details. Show of hands now. Those who think you can be brave like Nelson, Whitely and Rodgers and do P.E. classes while naked?”

He was surprised to see that slightly more than half of the class members raised their hands ... although a few did it quite reluctantly.

“Excellent, we’ll start right now,” and with Daan’s nod to the other teachers, all four of them quickly stripped themselves naked.

Daan was vastly amused at the amount of gasps, squeals, and exclamations like, “Holy shit!” “Jesus, look at them!” “Oh-my-god, look at Coaches Black and Janssen!”

Curtis Black was big. He was six feet, seven inches tall, carrying 230 pounds of solid muscle; at Alabama he had been a power forward. But what caught the kids’ attention was that he was majorly hung; his penis, though fully flaccid, hung down to his mid thigh, making it almost seven inches long. And it was thick too.