I was responsible for the supervision of the boarders. That’s why I was the one saddled with their serious misbehaviour, and it also required me to exercise close supervision of them. I certainly didn’t come close to supervising every shower, I did look in fairly often – in a boarding house environment, if you let boys decide there’s a place they are completely safe from supervision, you get real problems.
Our school also has compulsory sport every Saturday morning, with compulsory sports training two nights a week after school. The only way we can have every boy in the school doing sport, is for nearly all the teachers to be coaching a team. And it means that twice a week we have the entire school in the change rooms and a large proportion of the staff walking around those change rooms. Doing that, I’ve seen a lot of boys undressed over the years. It’s not suspicious, it’s normal. We do try to give boys a bit more privacy today than in the past, mainly because they are shyer, but it’s still not unusual to see a boy without clothes, nor is it suspicious – and not that long ago, it was even more common.