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Bathroom Issue

by Karen

Jan 2, 2013

An issue has arisen just today at my daughter's high school and I wanted to get some opinions on it.

It all started back before Christmas Vacation. Because of all the time they missed due to Hurricane Sandy, the school changed the last day of school before Christmas vacation to a full day when they usually only have half a day. A lot of girls, including my daughter, were upset about that. A bunch of girls protested by clogging up quite a few of the toilets in the girls' rooms. I'm told that they unravelling huge amounts of toilet paper into the the toilets and then flushed them and made them overflow. As I understand it, they did this to over half of the girls' room toilets in the school.

The principal was livid about this and demanded that the names of those girls who did this be turned over to her. She warned of "serious consequences" if the guilty parties were not identified. Apparently, they never were identified.

Today, as they returned from Christmas...See MoreAn issue has arisen just today at my daughter's high school and I wanted to get some opinions on it.

It all started back before Christmas Vacation. Because of all the time they missed due to Hurricane Sandy, the school changed the last day of school before Christmas vacation to a full day when they usually only have half a day. A lot of girls, including my daughter, were upset about that. A bunch of girls protested by clogging up quite a few of the toilets in the girls' rooms. I'm told that they unravelling huge amounts of toilet paper into the the toilets and then flushed them and made them overflow. As I understand it, they did this to over half of the girls' room toilets in the school.

The principal was livid about this and demanded that the names of those girls who did this be turned over to her. She warned of "serious consequences" if the guilty parties were not identified. Apparently, they never were identified.

Today, as they returned from Christmas Vacation, the girls got a taste of those consquences. Over the break, she had the doors removed from the individual toilet stalls in all the girls' rooms in the school. As my daughter describes it, all the toilet stalls are now completely open in the front of you don't have any privacy when using the toilet. Today, my daughter came running home to the bathroom after holding it in all day in school. She says she'd rather go in her pants than use the toilet like this. Now, I certainly doubt that's true but she was truely quite desperate as she went running for the bathroom as she got home from school this afternoon.

My question is whether it's even legal to take the stall doors off the toilets in the girls' rooms. I know that boys' rooms are often like that (I'm told that the boys' rooms at my daughter's school have always lacked doors on the stalls), but I always thought that the girls' rooms where required to have doors on the stalls. I can assure you that my daughter isn't the only girl upset by this lack of privacy and I seriously doubt that she's the only one who's going to be avoiding using the girls' rooms in school. The principal explained the new policy today and she promised that the privacy doors would remain off the stalls until she had the names of those girls responsible for clogging the toilets before Christmas break.

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mrsd Well, it's easy. Somebody should step up and reveal the girls' names. It's not a matter of narking on somebody. It's a matter of revealing criminal activity. These girls over-reacted to a necessary change in their school day. If these were my own HIGH SCHOOL children, I would be horrified and would institute consequences at home too. These girls so...See More

Jan 5, 2013

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anony mouse The girls were wrong, but the principal is even more in the wrong. She's punishing the innocent as well as the guilty, and it's a pretty darn nasty thing to do. Just because she MAY have the right to do that, does make it the right thing to do. I'd take it up with the superintendent, and file a formal complaint.

Jan 5, 2013

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Emmy The mother should go to the principal and offer suggestions such as a. signing time out and time in when students go to the restroom b. teachers monitor the bathroom during breaks between classes

She should go to the principal before she goes to the superintendent.

The mother should have been upset beyond belief that girls would...See More

Jan 5, 2013

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Mom to Three I agree the teens who did the initial act were wrong and it should be pointed out to one and all. However, the principal is really impacting on the lives of all teens - most of whom had nothing to do with it. And let's face it, "girls' have particular needs to be met in a bathroom stall that boys do not and for which total privacy is due. I would p...See More

Jan 8, 2013

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