Re: High School Bathrooms

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Back in the early 1980's when I was in high school and in
the school choir, we once performed at another high school,
where they had bathrooms like that. I couldn't believe that
people would be expected to go the bathroom without privacy.
What we did was have a fried stand in the doorway to the stall
while we used the toilet -- thus serving the function of a
stall door. It was still pretty bad going to the bathroom
like that, but we didn't have much choice. I felt really
sorry for the girls who had to go #2 like that. I don't think
I could have done that no matter how bad I had to go.

Bathroom stalls should have doors on them. That's not
only common sense but common decency. I'm surprised that
students at your daughter's school aren't sneaking into the
teacher's bathrooms to do their business.

On 9/20/11, Veronica wrote:
> I’m not a teacher (I’m a parent), but I’d like a
> teacher’s perspective on this. Recently, I attended the
> annual Back to School Night for parents at my daughter’s
> high school. At one point I went to use the girls’ room
> and was absolutely shocked to discover that the individual
> toilet stalls had no doors on them for privacy. I tried
> two other girls’ rooms and it was the same thing – the
> stalls were completely open in the front. I ended up
> leaving early that night so I could go home to use the
> bathroom.
>
> The real issue, of course, is not me but my daughter.
> To put it simply, she just doesn’t seem to care that the
> bathrooms are like that. She’s a sophomore now and never
> once complained about the situation last year and the same
> is true this year. In fact, she never thought it
> noteworthy enough to even tell me about it. Hence, it’s
> why I didn’t even know about it until I had to go in there
> myself. When I asked her about it, she said that she uses
> the bathrooms all the time and simply couldn’t care less
> whether the stalls had doors on them or not. She says that
> it’s really no big deal – everyone just goes about their
> own business and no one pays any attention to what other
> girls are doing in there.
>
> I guess I should be thankful that my daughter has such
> a healthy attitude about that and I am relieved (so to
> speak) that she’s able to use the girls’ room under those
> conditions. I shudder to think about what I would have
> done in high school if I were faced with girls’ rooms like
> that – I didn’t even want to use it now as an adult. I am
> quite simply appalled that the school would have so little
> consideration for the students as to not provide bathroom
> facilities with doors on the stalls.
>
> I want to complain to the principal about that, but I
> keep coming back to my daughter. As much as I’m appalled
> by this, it kind of seems ridiculous to complain about
> something that’s only a problem for me and not my
> daughter. I keep thinking that if it’s not a problem for
> my daughter, why should it be a problem for me. But then
> again, bathroom stalls should have doors on them. They
> really need to put doors on the stalls. I’m not sure what I
> should do next or even if I should do anything.
 

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