Bathroom usage: Would you contact the school?

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Anonymous wrote:At McLean HS, there are a group of boys who hang out in one bathroom and deny entry to any other boys; they even post a “lookout” at the door. Probably vaping in there, or maybe sneaking their girlfriends in for a BJ during a skipped class.

The schools need to actually discipline the kids and then these things wouldn’t be problems anymore.

+1. Are there absolutely no teachers in nearby classrooms or administrators walking the halls who could force the boys denying entrance to the bathrooms to step aside? It sounds as though teachers never leave their classrooms and administrators never leave their offices based on the amount of power students have to close the bathrooms.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Just got an email that bathrooms will be open again today. So stupid.

I’m happy to hear this for your daughter.

I recognize there is a bathroom issue and I know some kids use the excuse to avoid going to class but closing the bathrooms for everybody punishes the majority of students who are going to the bathroom for legitimate reasons.

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe some of you are in favor of this. Bathrooms were inaccessible like this when I was in high school and I coped by not drinking any water at all during the day. I had constant anxiety about needing to use the bathroom and not being able to, and also a lot of headaches and digestive issues from being dehydrated.

That’s dramatic. No one in high school in the 90s early 2000s was carrying around a water bottle drinking water all day. We were all fine. No one was have digestive problems and headaches from not carrying around their Stanley all day.

It isn’t that I’m in favor or limiting the bathroom, but I just don’t see it as that big of a deal. You get 20-30 min lunch plus 5 min in between classes. Figure out when to fit in bathroom breaks if you need to. Most heathy teens don’t need to use the bathroom very often. Most teachers grant exceptions too. If this is a problem for your particular student then talk to principal or teachers. But it actually is a reasonable expectation for most students to contain bathroom trips to lunch and passing time- and most kids are fine with this

At that time most people were bringing disposable water bottles. Are you really saying it’s totally normal for a teenager to drink nothing all day until they return home from school and this unhealthy or fine? It was hard to go to the bathroom during the five minutes between classes because they would look the bathrooms, or only lock some but you never knew which would be open.
You all would riot if an office did this to you but it’s ok for teenagers?

Yes. Teens can survive until 2:30 having “only” eaten and drank at breakfast and lunch. It isn’t some special ops mission to be able to mange going to the bathroom at lunch hour or passing if you need to. As you can see from the teachers chiming in, it’s a complicated problem that is beyond just couple kids, and isn’t limited to only vandalism. Schools try to limit access to passing and lunch and parents complain, schools try to discipline kids vandalising, parents deny and complain, schools try to limit kids who are seeming to ask for too many passes and are gone too long, parents complain. Schools can’t win.

Serious question, do you only drink liquids at breakfast, lunch, and dinner? I am an adult and I normally drink coffee at breakfast and sip water throughout the day. I normally need to use the bathroom at least twice before lunch, once right when I arrive at the office. Imagine what you would do if an employer told you you could not access a bathroom until lunch time.

No, I don’t continuously sip water throughout the day. I definitely didn’t in high school or elementary school. No one carried water bottles or used the fountains regularly. Besides, it’s not even all day. School gets out at 2:30 or earlier. They are eating and drinking at breakfast and lunch. No one is getting clinically dehydrated in those hours.

It is absolutely crazy town to even begin to contemplate fluid restriction. Adding it to my list of reasons why I homeschool. This is literally abuse and nobody can tell me differently.

Not to mention, people have to poop (sometimes more than once a day!) and girls have menstrual cycles. This is abusive and unhygienic and sex-based discrimination.

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Anonymous wrote:At McLean HS, there are a group of boys who hang out in one bathroom and deny entry to any other boys; they even post a “lookout” at the door. Probably vaping in there, or maybe sneaking their girlfriends in for a BJ during a skipped class.

The schools need to actually discipline the kids and then these things wouldn’t be problems anymore.

+1. Are there absolutely no teachers in nearby classrooms or administrators walking the halls who could force the boys denying entrance to the bathrooms to step aside? It sounds as though teachers never leave their classrooms and administrators never leave their offices based on the amount of power students have to close the bathrooms.

Solution: the problem children are accompanied to the toilet by a same-sex truancy officer who can listen to them poop. This is the world they authored with their own behavior. Enjoy boys!

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe some of you are in favor of this. Bathrooms were inaccessible like this when I was in high school and I coped by not drinking any water at all during the day. I had constant anxiety about needing to use the bathroom and not being able to, and also a lot of headaches and digestive issues from being dehydrated.

That’s dramatic. No one in high school in the 90s early 2000s was carrying around a water bottle drinking water all day. We were all fine. No one was have digestive problems and headaches from not carrying around their Stanley all day.

It isn’t that I’m in favor or limiting the bathroom, but I just don’t see it as that big of a deal. You get 20-30 min lunch plus 5 min in between classes. Figure out when to fit in bathroom breaks if you need to. Most heathy teens don’t need to use the bathroom very often. Most teachers grant exceptions too. If this is a problem for your particular student then talk to principal or teachers. But it actually is a reasonable expectation for most students to contain bathroom trips to lunch and passing time- and most kids are fine with this

At that time most people were bringing disposable water bottles. Are you really saying it’s totally normal for a teenager to drink nothing all day until they return home from school and this unhealthy or fine? It was hard to go to the bathroom during the five minutes between classes because they would look the bathrooms, or only lock some but you never knew which would be open.
You all would riot if an office did this to you but it’s ok for teenagers?

Yes. Teens can survive until 2:30 having “only” eaten and drank at breakfast and lunch. It isn’t some special ops mission to be able to mange going to the bathroom at lunch hour or passing if you need to. As you can see from the teachers chiming in, it’s a complicated problem that is beyond just couple kids, and isn’t limited to only vandalism. Schools try to limit access to passing and lunch and parents complain, schools try to discipline kids vandalising, parents deny and complain, schools try to limit kids who are seeming to ask for too many passes and are gone too long, parents complain. Schools can’t win.

Serious question, do you only drink liquids at breakfast, lunch, and dinner? I am an adult and I normally drink coffee at breakfast and sip water throughout the day. I normally need to use the bathroom at least twice before lunch, once right when I arrive at the office. Imagine what you would do if an employer told you you could not access a bathroom until lunch time.

No, I don’t continuously sip water throughout the day. I definitely didn’t in high school or elementary school. No one carried water bottles or used the fountains regularly. Besides, it’s not even all day. School gets out at 2:30 or earlier. They are eating and drinking at breakfast and lunch. No one is getting clinically dehydrated in those hours.

It is absolutely crazy town to even begin to contemplate fluid restriction. Adding it to my list of reasons why I homeschool. This is literally abuse and nobody can tell me differently.

Not to mention, people have to poop (sometimes more than once a day!) and girls have menstrual cycles. This is abusive and unhygienic and sex-based discrimination.

Right?? Again I cannot believe some people are condoning this. Human beings need to eat and drink and relieve themselves. High schoolers too!

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe some of you are in favor of this. Bathrooms were inaccessible like this when I was in high school and I coped by not drinking any water at all during the day. I had constant anxiety about needing to use the bathroom and not being able to, and also a lot of headaches and digestive issues from being dehydrated.

That’s dramatic. No one in high school in the 90s early 2000s was carrying around a water bottle drinking water all day. We were all fine. No one was have digestive problems and headaches from not carrying around their Stanley all day.

It isn’t that I’m in favor or limiting the bathroom, but I just don’t see it as that big of a deal. You get 20-30 min lunch plus 5 min in between classes. Figure out when to fit in bathroom breaks if you need to. Most heathy teens don’t need to use the bathroom very often. Most teachers grant exceptions too. If this is a problem for your particular student then talk to principal or teachers. But it actually is a reasonable expectation for most students to contain bathroom trips to lunch and passing time- and most kids are fine with this

At that time most people were bringing disposable water bottles. Are you really saying it’s totally normal for a teenager to drink nothing all day until they return home from school and this unhealthy or fine? It was hard to go to the bathroom during the five minutes between classes because they would look the bathrooms, or only lock some but you never knew which would be open.
You all would riot if an office did this to you but it’s ok for teenagers?

Yes. Teens can survive until 2:30 having “only” eaten and drank at breakfast and lunch. It isn’t some special ops mission to be able to mange going to the bathroom at lunch hour or passing if you need to. As you can see from the teachers chiming in, it’s a complicated problem that is beyond just couple kids, and isn’t limited to only vandalism. Schools try to limit access to passing and lunch and parents complain, schools try to discipline kids vandalising, parents deny and complain, schools try to limit kids who are seeming to ask for too many passes and are gone too long, parents complain. Schools can’t win.

Serious question, do you only drink liquids at breakfast, lunch, and dinner? I am an adult and I normally drink coffee at breakfast and sip water throughout the day. I normally need to use the bathroom at least twice before lunch, once right when I arrive at the office. Imagine what you would do if an employer told you you could not access a bathroom until lunch time.

No, I don’t continuously sip water throughout the day. I definitely didn’t in high school or elementary school. No one carried water bottles or used the fountains regularly. Besides, it’s not even all day. School gets out at 2:30 or earlier. They are eating and drinking at breakfast and lunch. No one is getting clinically dehydrated in those hours.

It is absolutely crazy town to even begin to contemplate fluid restriction. Adding it to my list of reasons why I homeschool. This is literally abuse and nobody can tell me differently.

Not to mention, people have to poop (sometimes more than once a day!) and girls have menstrual cycles. This is abusive and unhygienic and sex-based discrimination.

Who’s restricting? No one. Just pointing out it isn’t essential to continuously drink water at school. If you want to cool, but it isn’t hurting anyone to “only” drink at breakfast and lunch. School is done my 2:30

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:At McLean HS, there are a group of boys who hang out in one bathroom and deny entry to any other boys; they even post a “lookout” at the door. Probably vaping in there, or maybe sneaking their girlfriends in for a BJ during a skipped class.

The schools need to actually discipline the kids and then these things wouldn’t be problems anymore.

It’s offensive to DEIA to “discipline” students. Hard pass on so-called “discipline.”

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe some of you are in favor of this. Bathrooms were inaccessible like this when I was in high school and I coped by not drinking any water at all during the day. I had constant anxiety about needing to use the bathroom and not being able to, and also a lot of headaches and digestive issues from being dehydrated.

That’s dramatic. No one in high school in the 90s early 2000s was carrying around a water bottle drinking water all day. We were all fine. No one was have digestive problems and headaches from not carrying around their Stanley all day.

It isn’t that I’m in favor or limiting the bathroom, but I just don’t see it as that big of a deal. You get 20-30 min lunch plus 5 min in between classes. Figure out when to fit in bathroom breaks if you need to. Most heathy teens don’t need to use the bathroom very often. Most teachers grant exceptions too. If this is a problem for your particular student then talk to principal or teachers. But it actually is a reasonable expectation for most students to contain bathroom trips to lunch and passing time- and most kids are fine with this

At that time most people were bringing disposable water bottles. Are you really saying it’s totally normal for a teenager to drink nothing all day until they return home from school and this unhealthy or fine? It was hard to go to the bathroom during the five minutes between classes because they would look the bathrooms, or only lock some but you never knew which would be open.
You all would riot if an office did this to you but it’s ok for teenagers?

Yes. Teens can survive until 2:30 having “only” eaten and drank at breakfast and lunch. It isn’t some special ops mission to be able to mange going to the bathroom at lunch hour or passing if you need to. As you can see from the teachers chiming in, it’s a complicated problem that is beyond just couple kids, and isn’t limited to only vandalism. Schools try to limit access to passing and lunch and parents complain, schools try to discipline kids vandalising, parents deny and complain, schools try to limit kids who are seeming to ask for too many passes and are gone too long, parents complain. Schools can’t win.

Serious question, do you only drink liquids at breakfast, lunch, and dinner? I am an adult and I normally drink coffee at breakfast and sip water throughout the day. I normally need to use the bathroom at least twice before lunch, once right when I arrive at the office. Imagine what you would do if an employer told you you could not access a bathroom until lunch time.

No, I don’t continuously sip water throughout the day. I definitely didn’t in high school or elementary school. No one carried water bottles or used the fountains regularly. Besides, it’s not even all day. School gets out at 2:30 or earlier. They are eating and drinking at breakfast and lunch. No one is getting clinically dehydrated in those hours.

It is absolutely crazy town to even begin to contemplate fluid restriction. Adding it to my list of reasons why I homeschool. This is literally abuse and nobody can tell me differently.

Not to mention, people have to poop (sometimes more than once a day!) and girls have menstrual cycles. This is abusive and unhygienic and sex-based discrimination.

I agree. And listen to them twist themselves into a pretzel to try to defend the indefensible.

“Kids can’t use the bathroom at school? That’s outrageous.”
“They don’t need the bathroom if they don’t eat or drink at school. They can fast all day and start eating and drinking at 3pm when school is done.”
“Are you nuts? That’s abuse.”
“Who said they can’t drink? I don’t say that. They can drink if they want to.”

I can’t even with these people. Someone needs to take this insanity to congress. Pretty sure our dear leaders (whose kids all go to expensive privates) have no idea how bad things are in many public schools here.

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe some of you are in favor of this. Bathrooms were inaccessible like this when I was in high school and I coped by not drinking any water at all during the day. I had constant anxiety about needing to use the bathroom and not being able to, and also a lot of headaches and digestive issues from being dehydrated.

That’s dramatic. No one in high school in the 90s early 2000s was carrying around a water bottle drinking water all day. We were all fine. No one was have digestive problems and headaches from not carrying around their Stanley all day.

It isn’t that I’m in favor or limiting the bathroom, but I just don’t see it as that big of a deal. You get 20-30 min lunch plus 5 min in between classes. Figure out when to fit in bathroom breaks if you need to. Most heathy teens don’t need to use the bathroom very often. Most teachers grant exceptions too. If this is a problem for your particular student then talk to principal or teachers. But it actually is a reasonable expectation for most students to contain bathroom trips to lunch and passing time- and most kids are fine with this

At that time most people were bringing disposable water bottles. Are you really saying it’s totally normal for a teenager to drink nothing all day until they return home from school and this unhealthy or fine? It was hard to go to the bathroom during the five minutes between classes because they would look the bathrooms, or only lock some but you never knew which would be open.
You all would riot if an office did this to you but it’s ok for teenagers?

Yes. Teens can survive until 2:30 having “only” eaten and drank at breakfast and lunch. It isn’t some special ops mission to be able to mange going to the bathroom at lunch hour or passing if you need to. As you can see from the teachers chiming in, it’s a complicated problem that is beyond just couple kids, and isn’t limited to only vandalism. Schools try to limit access to passing and lunch and parents complain, schools try to discipline kids vandalising, parents deny and complain, schools try to limit kids who are seeming to ask for too many passes and are gone too long, parents complain. Schools can’t win.

Serious question, do you only drink liquids at breakfast, lunch, and dinner? I am an adult and I normally drink coffee at breakfast and sip water throughout the day. I normally need to use the bathroom at least twice before lunch, once right when I arrive at the office. Imagine what you would do if an employer told you you could not access a bathroom until lunch time.

No, I don’t continuously sip water throughout the day. I definitely didn’t in high school or elementary school. No one carried water bottles or used the fountains regularly. Besides, it’s not even all day. School gets out at 2:30 or earlier. They are eating and drinking at breakfast and lunch. No one is getting clinically dehydrated in those hours.

It is absolutely crazy town to even begin to contemplate fluid restriction. Adding it to my list of reasons why I homeschool. This is literally abuse and nobody can tell me differently.

Not to mention, people have to poop (sometimes more than once a day!) and girls have menstrual cycles. This is abusive and unhygienic and sex-based discrimination.

Who’s restricting? No one. Just pointing out it isn’t essential to continuously drink water at school. If you want to cool, but it isn’t hurting anyone to “only” drink at breakfast and lunch. School is done my 2:30

If you drink at breakfast and lunch, you need to pee. For most people, it doesn’t come out immediately but they also can’t hold it for hours and hours. Especially kids who are trying to focus on learning, might have exams, etc.

Not to mention that many girls need to change sanitary protection every couple of hours or there will be a leak.

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe some of you are in favor of this. Bathrooms were inaccessible like this when I was in high school and I coped by not drinking any water at all during the day. I had constant anxiety about needing to use the bathroom and not being able to, and also a lot of headaches and digestive issues from being dehydrated.

That’s dramatic. No one in high school in the 90s early 2000s was carrying around a water bottle drinking water all day. We were all fine. No one was have digestive problems and headaches from not carrying around their Stanley all day.

It isn’t that I’m in favor or limiting the bathroom, but I just don’t see it as that big of a deal. You get 20-30 min lunch plus 5 min in between classes. Figure out when to fit in bathroom breaks if you need to. Most heathy teens don’t need to use the bathroom very often. Most teachers grant exceptions too. If this is a problem for your particular student then talk to principal or teachers. But it actually is a reasonable expectation for most students to contain bathroom trips to lunch and passing time- and most kids are fine with this

At that time most people were bringing disposable water bottles. Are you really saying it’s totally normal for a teenager to drink nothing all day until they return home from school and this unhealthy or fine? It was hard to go to the bathroom during the five minutes between classes because they would look the bathrooms, or only lock some but you never knew which would be open.
You all would riot if an office did this to you but it’s ok for teenagers?

Yes. Teens can survive until 2:30 having “only” eaten and drank at breakfast and lunch. It isn’t some special ops mission to be able to mange going to the bathroom at lunch hour or passing if you need to. As you can see from the teachers chiming in, it’s a complicated problem that is beyond just couple kids, and isn’t limited to only vandalism. Schools try to limit access to passing and lunch and parents complain, schools try to discipline kids vandalising, parents deny and complain, schools try to limit kids who are seeming to ask for too many passes and are gone too long, parents complain. Schools can’t win.

Serious question, do you only drink liquids at breakfast, lunch, and dinner? I am an adult and I normally drink coffee at breakfast and sip water throughout the day. I normally need to use the bathroom at least twice before lunch, once right when I arrive at the office. Imagine what you would do if an employer told you you could not access a bathroom until lunch time.

No, I don’t continuously sip water throughout the day. I definitely didn’t in high school or elementary school. No one carried water bottles or used the fountains regularly. Besides, it’s not even all day. School gets out at 2:30 or earlier. They are eating and drinking at breakfast and lunch. No one is getting clinically dehydrated in those hours.

It is absolutely crazy town to even begin to contemplate fluid restriction. Adding it to my list of reasons why I homeschool. This is literally abuse and nobody can tell me differently.

Not to mention, people have to poop (sometimes more than once a day!) and girls have menstrual cycles. This is abusive and unhygienic and sex-based discrimination.

I agree. And listen to them twist themselves into a pretzel to try to defend the indefensible.

“Kids can’t use the bathroom at school? That’s outrageous.”
“They don’t need the bathroom if they don’t eat or drink at school. They can fast all day and start eating and drinking at 3pm when school is done.”
“Are you nuts? That’s abuse.”
“Who said they can’t drink? I don’t say that. They can drink if they want to.”

I can’t even with these people. Someone needs to take this insanity to congress. Pretty sure our dear leaders (whose kids all go to expensive privates) have no idea how bad things are in many public schools here.

I think the people arguing that it’s no big deal are school administrators. Who probably have a bathroom available foe their use whenever they want it.

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe some of you are in favor of this. Bathrooms were inaccessible like this when I was in high school and I coped by not drinking any water at all during the day. I had constant anxiety about needing to use the bathroom and not being able to, and also a lot of headaches and digestive issues from being dehydrated.

That’s dramatic. No one in high school in the 90s early 2000s was carrying around a water bottle drinking water all day. We were all fine. No one was have digestive problems and headaches from not carrying around their Stanley all day.

It isn’t that I’m in favor or limiting the bathroom, but I just don’t see it as that big of a deal. You get 20-30 min lunch plus 5 min in between classes. Figure out when to fit in bathroom breaks if you need to. Most heathy teens don’t need to use the bathroom very often. Most teachers grant exceptions too. If this is a problem for your particular student then talk to principal or teachers. But it actually is a reasonable expectation for most students to contain bathroom trips to lunch and passing time- and most kids are fine with this

At that time most people were bringing disposable water bottles. Are you really saying it’s totally normal for a teenager to drink nothing all day until they return home from school and this unhealthy or fine? It was hard to go to the bathroom during the five minutes between classes because they would look the bathrooms, or only lock some but you never knew which would be open.
You all would riot if an office did this to you but it’s ok for teenagers?

Yes. Teens can survive until 2:30 having “only” eaten and drank at breakfast and lunch. It isn’t some special ops mission to be able to mange going to the bathroom at lunch hour or passing if you need to. As you can see from the teachers chiming in, it’s a complicated problem that is beyond just couple kids, and isn’t limited to only vandalism. Schools try to limit access to passing and lunch and parents complain, schools try to discipline kids vandalising, parents deny and complain, schools try to limit kids who are seeming to ask for too many passes and are gone too long, parents complain. Schools can’t win.

Serious question, do you only drink liquids at breakfast, lunch, and dinner? I am an adult and I normally drink coffee at breakfast and sip water throughout the day. I normally need to use the bathroom at least twice before lunch, once right when I arrive at the office. Imagine what you would do if an employer told you you could not access a bathroom until lunch time.

No, I don’t continuously sip water throughout the day. I definitely didn’t in high school or elementary school. No one carried water bottles or used the fountains regularly. Besides, it’s not even all day. School gets out at 2:30 or earlier. They are eating and drinking at breakfast and lunch. No one is getting clinically dehydrated in those hours.

It is absolutely crazy town to even begin to contemplate fluid restriction. Adding it to my list of reasons why I homeschool. This is literally abuse and nobody can tell me differently.

Not to mention, people have to poop (sometimes more than once a day!) and girls have menstrual cycles. This is abusive and unhygienic and sex-based discrimination.

Right?? Again I cannot believe some people are condoning this. Human beings need to eat and drink and relieve themselves. High schoolers too!

Female teachers also deal with limited time for bathroom trips when dealing with their period.

My son's school sent kids to the washroom in pairs (planned, one responsible student with one who may struggle) for a while to keep them accountable. Go, do what you need to, come back to class.

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe some of you are in favor of this. Bathrooms were inaccessible like this when I was in high school and I coped by not drinking any water at all during the day. I had constant anxiety about needing to use the bathroom and not being able to, and also a lot of headaches and digestive issues from being dehydrated.

That’s dramatic. No one in high school in the 90s early 2000s was carrying around a water bottle drinking water all day. We were all fine. No one was have digestive problems and headaches from not carrying around their Stanley all day.

It isn’t that I’m in favor or limiting the bathroom, but I just don’t see it as that big of a deal. You get 20-30 min lunch plus 5 min in between classes. Figure out when to fit in bathroom breaks if you need to. Most heathy teens don’t need to use the bathroom very often. Most teachers grant exceptions too. If this is a problem for your particular student then talk to principal or teachers. But it actually is a reasonable expectation for most students to contain bathroom trips to lunch and passing time- and most kids are fine with this

At that time most people were bringing disposable water bottles. Are you really saying it’s totally normal for a teenager to drink nothing all day until they return home from school and this unhealthy or fine? It was hard to go to the bathroom during the five minutes between classes because they would look the bathrooms, or only lock some but you never knew which would be open.
You all would riot if an office did this to you but it’s ok for teenagers?

Yes. Teens can survive until 2:30 having “only” eaten and drank at breakfast and lunch. It isn’t some special ops mission to be able to mange going to the bathroom at lunch hour or passing if you need to. As you can see from the teachers chiming in, it’s a complicated problem that is beyond just couple kids, and isn’t limited to only vandalism. Schools try to limit access to passing and lunch and parents complain, schools try to discipline kids vandalising, parents deny and complain, schools try to limit kids who are seeming to ask for too many passes and are gone too long, parents complain. Schools can’t win.

Serious question, do you only drink liquids at breakfast, lunch, and dinner? I am an adult and I normally drink coffee at breakfast and sip water throughout the day. I normally need to use the bathroom at least twice before lunch, once right when I arrive at the office. Imagine what you would do if an employer told you you could not access a bathroom until lunch time.

No, I don’t continuously sip water throughout the day. I definitely didn’t in high school or elementary school. No one carried water bottles or used the fountains regularly. Besides, it’s not even all day. School gets out at 2:30 or earlier. They are eating and drinking at breakfast and lunch. No one is getting clinically dehydrated in those hours.

It is absolutely crazy town to even begin to contemplate fluid restriction. Adding it to my list of reasons why I homeschool. This is literally abuse and nobody can tell me differently.

Not to mention, people have to poop (sometimes more than once a day!) and girls have menstrual cycles. This is abusive and unhygienic and sex-based discrimination.

Right?? Again I cannot believe some people are condoning this. Human beings need to eat and drink and relieve themselves. High schoolers too!

Female teachers also deal with limited time for bathroom trips when dealing with their period.

My son's school sent kids to the washroom in pairs (planned, one responsible student with one who may struggle) for a while to keep them accountable. Go, do what you need to, come back to class.

Pretty sure female teachers have more bathroom access than the students. They are probably not having to spend time running around trying to find a bathroom that isn’t locked.

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe some of you are in favor of this. Bathrooms were inaccessible like this when I was in high school and I coped by not drinking any water at all during the day. I had constant anxiety about needing to use the bathroom and not being able to, and also a lot of headaches and digestive issues from being dehydrated.

That’s dramatic. No one in high school in the 90s early 2000s was carrying around a water bottle drinking water all day. We were all fine. No one was have digestive problems and headaches from not carrying around their Stanley all day.

It isn’t that I’m in favor or limiting the bathroom, but I just don’t see it as that big of a deal. You get 20-30 min lunch plus 5 min in between classes. Figure out when to fit in bathroom breaks if you need to. Most heathy teens don’t need to use the bathroom very often. Most teachers grant exceptions too. If this is a problem for your particular student then talk to principal or teachers. But it actually is a reasonable expectation for most students to contain bathroom trips to lunch and passing time- and most kids are fine with this

At that time most people were bringing disposable water bottles. Are you really saying it’s totally normal for a teenager to drink nothing all day until they return home from school and this unhealthy or fine? It was hard to go to the bathroom during the five minutes between classes because they would look the bathrooms, or only lock some but you never knew which would be open.
You all would riot if an office did this to you but it’s ok for teenagers?

Yes. Teens can survive until 2:30 having “only” eaten and drank at breakfast and lunch. It isn’t some special ops mission to be able to mange going to the bathroom at lunch hour or passing if you need to. As you can see from the teachers chiming in, it’s a complicated problem that is beyond just couple kids, and isn’t limited to only vandalism. Schools try to limit access to passing and lunch and parents complain, schools try to discipline kids vandalising, parents deny and complain, schools try to limit kids who are seeming to ask for too many passes and are gone too long, parents complain. Schools can’t win.

Serious question, do you only drink liquids at breakfast, lunch, and dinner? I am an adult and I normally drink coffee at breakfast and sip water throughout the day. I normally need to use the bathroom at least twice before lunch, once right when I arrive at the office. Imagine what you would do if an employer told you you could not access a bathroom until lunch time.

No, I don’t continuously sip water throughout the day. I definitely didn’t in high school or elementary school. No one carried water bottles or used the fountains regularly. Besides, it’s not even all day. School gets out at 2:30 or earlier. They are eating and drinking at breakfast and lunch. No one is getting clinically dehydrated in those hours.

It is absolutely crazy town to even begin to contemplate fluid restriction. Adding it to my list of reasons why I homeschool. This is literally abuse and nobody can tell me differently.

Not to mention, people have to poop (sometimes more than once a day!) and girls have menstrual cycles. This is abusive and unhygienic and sex-based discrimination.

Right?? Again I cannot believe some people are condoning this. Human beings need to eat and drink and relieve themselves. High schoolers too!

Female teachers also deal with limited time for bathroom trips when dealing with their period.

My son's school sent kids to the washroom in pairs (planned, one responsible student with one who may struggle) for a while to keep them accountable. Go, do what you need to, come back to class.

Pretty sure female teachers have more bathroom access than the students. They are probably not having to spend time running around trying to find a bathroom that isn’t locked.

Are you, now? Maybe ask some.

Op said the bathrooms have been unlocked. Hopefully they have a better plan in place now.

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe some of you are in favor of this. Bathrooms were inaccessible like this when I was in high school and I coped by not drinking any water at all during the day. I had constant anxiety about needing to use the bathroom and not being able to, and also a lot of headaches and digestive issues from being dehydrated.

That’s dramatic. No one in high school in the 90s early 2000s was carrying around a water bottle drinking water all day. We were all fine. No one was have digestive problems and headaches from not carrying around their Stanley all day.

It isn’t that I’m in favor or limiting the bathroom, but I just don’t see it as that big of a deal. You get 20-30 min lunch plus 5 min in between classes. Figure out when to fit in bathroom breaks if you need to. Most heathy teens don’t need to use the bathroom very often. Most teachers grant exceptions too. If this is a problem for your particular student then talk to principal or teachers. But it actually is a reasonable expectation for most students to contain bathroom trips to lunch and passing time- and most kids are fine with this

At that time most people were bringing disposable water bottles. Are you really saying it’s totally normal for a teenager to drink nothing all day until they return home from school and this unhealthy or fine? It was hard to go to the bathroom during the five minutes between classes because they would look the bathrooms, or only lock some but you never knew which would be open.
You all would riot if an office did this to you but it’s ok for teenagers?

Yes. Teens can survive until 2:30 having “only” eaten and drank at breakfast and lunch. It isn’t some special ops mission to be able to mange going to the bathroom at lunch hour or passing if you need to. As you can see from the teachers chiming in, it’s a complicated problem that is beyond just couple kids, and isn’t limited to only vandalism. Schools try to limit access to passing and lunch and parents complain, schools try to discipline kids vandalising, parents deny and complain, schools try to limit kids who are seeming to ask for too many passes and are gone too long, parents complain. Schools can’t win.

Serious question, do you only drink liquids at breakfast, lunch, and dinner? I am an adult and I normally drink coffee at breakfast and sip water throughout the day. I normally need to use the bathroom at least twice before lunch, once right when I arrive at the office. Imagine what you would do if an employer told you you could not access a bathroom until lunch time.

No, I don’t continuously sip water throughout the day. I definitely didn’t in high school or elementary school. No one carried water bottles or used the fountains regularly. Besides, it’s not even all day. School gets out at 2:30 or earlier. They are eating and drinking at breakfast and lunch. No one is getting clinically dehydrated in those hours.

It is absolutely crazy town to even begin to contemplate fluid restriction. Adding it to my list of reasons why I homeschool. This is literally abuse and nobody can tell me differently.

Not to mention, people have to poop (sometimes more than once a day!) and girls have menstrual cycles. This is abusive and unhygienic and sex-based discrimination.

Right?? Again I cannot believe some people are condoning this. Human beings need to eat and drink and relieve themselves. High schoolers too!

Female teachers also deal with limited time for bathroom trips when dealing with their period.

My son's school sent kids to the washroom in pairs (planned, one responsible student with one who may struggle) for a while to keep them accountable. Go, do what you need to, come back to class.

Pretty sure female teachers have more bathroom access than the students. They are probably not having to spend time running around trying to find a bathroom that isn’t locked.

Ha!

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe some of you are in favor of this. Bathrooms were inaccessible like this when I was in high school and I coped by not drinking any water at all during the day. I had constant anxiety about needing to use the bathroom and not being able to, and also a lot of headaches and digestive issues from being dehydrated.

That’s dramatic. No one in high school in the 90s early 2000s was carrying around a water bottle drinking water all day. We were all fine. No one was have digestive problems and headaches from not carrying around their Stanley all day.

It isn’t that I’m in favor or limiting the bathroom, but I just don’t see it as that big of a deal. You get 20-30 min lunch plus 5 min in between classes. Figure out when to fit in bathroom breaks if you need to. Most heathy teens don’t need to use the bathroom very often. Most teachers grant exceptions too. If this is a problem for your particular student then talk to principal or teachers. But it actually is a reasonable expectation for most students to contain bathroom trips to lunch and passing time- and most kids are fine with this

At that time most people were bringing disposable water bottles. Are you really saying it’s totally normal for a teenager to drink nothing all day until they return home from school and this unhealthy or fine? It was hard to go to the bathroom during the five minutes between classes because they would look the bathrooms, or only lock some but you never knew which would be open.
You all would riot if an office did this to you but it’s ok for teenagers?

Yes. Teens can survive until 2:30 having “only” eaten and drank at breakfast and lunch. It isn’t some special ops mission to be able to mange going to the bathroom at lunch hour or passing if you need to. As you can see from the teachers chiming in, it’s a complicated problem that is beyond just couple kids, and isn’t limited to only vandalism. Schools try to limit access to passing and lunch and parents complain, schools try to discipline kids vandalising, parents deny and complain, schools try to limit kids who are seeming to ask for too many passes and are gone too long, parents complain. Schools can’t win.

Serious question, do you only drink liquids at breakfast, lunch, and dinner? I am an adult and I normally drink coffee at breakfast and sip water throughout the day. I normally need to use the bathroom at least twice before lunch, once right when I arrive at the office. Imagine what you would do if an employer told you you could not access a bathroom until lunch time.

No, I don’t continuously sip water throughout the day. I definitely didn’t in high school or elementary school. No one carried water bottles or used the fountains regularly. Besides, it’s not even all day. School gets out at 2:30 or earlier. They are eating and drinking at breakfast and lunch. No one is getting clinically dehydrated in those hours.

It is absolutely crazy town to even begin to contemplate fluid restriction. Adding it to my list of reasons why I homeschool. This is literally abuse and nobody can tell me differently.

Not to mention, people have to poop (sometimes more than once a day!) and girls have menstrual cycles. This is abusive and unhygienic and sex-based discrimination.

Right?? Again I cannot believe some people are condoning this. Human beings need to eat and drink and relieve themselves. High schoolers too!

Female teachers also deal with limited time for bathroom trips when dealing with their period.

My son's school sent kids to the washroom in pairs (planned, one responsible student with one who may struggle) for a while to keep them accountable. Go, do what you need to, come back to class.

Pretty sure female teachers have more bathroom access than the students. They are probably not having to spend time running around trying to find a bathroom that isn’t locked.

Are you, now? Maybe ask some.

Op said the bathrooms have been unlocked. Hopefully they have a better plan in place now.

Ok then why would an adult accept that kind of treatment at a job? I have been working since I was 16 and some of the jobs I had when I was younger were pretty crappy but I can’t think of a single one where I did not have the option to run to an easily accessible bathroom when I needed to go.