“I personally don’t mind it,” Ray Stevens said of the idea of separate shower stalls.

To keep up with the changing sensibilities, new schools are built with fewer showers but greater privacy. It’s a trend that could help mitigate privacy concerns about transgender students’ access

Hit the showers!

For generations of middle and high school kids, a P.E. teacher bellowing that command meant stripping down and showering in a big, open room with a bunch of kids you barely knew.

It was an awkward, eye-opening, coming-of-age moment.

These days, gang-style showers with multiple shower heads are going the way of the chalkboard and slide rule.

When kids hit the showers today, they’re more likely to step into an individual stall with a curtain.

School officials say body-conscious kids simply refuse to shower together, and some won’t shower at school at all.

So to keep up with the changing sensibilities, new schools are built with fewer showers but greater privacy. At least two Nebraska high schools — in Crete and Elkhorn — and a middle school in the Papillion-La Vista district were built in recent years with only private stalls. And Kearney’s new high school just opened with a combination of a gang-style and private stalls.

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