For gym, the students have to take swimming lessons at the pool. Simone, after trying to go into the girls' locker-room is forced to use the boys' locker-room by the gym teacher.
After her mother lost her dog, Simone, out of protests cuts off her hair. Later when she arrives at her new school, Simone, is mistaken as a boy. Simone decides not to correct her teacher and pretend she's a boy.