Secondary school BATHROOMS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid comes home and spends an hour on the toilet with diarrhea and or constipation from holding it in each day. It's horrible especially when kids have their periods too. Known health crisis and they alway say "We're looking into it". It's ruined my kids digestive system. She tries to poop before school to try to avoid this and it actually is a problem if sports are after school. Sometimes she'll leave to got to a nearby coffee shop which believe it or not- has a line.

This is horrible. I am sorry. I heard about a kid with an iep due to ibs and he has to spend 20 minutes trying to find an unlocked bathroom. This can't go on. I am willing to write a letter or join others in making noise about this.

I agree, it’s a terrible situation.

But I’d think a kid with a medical IEP could use the nurse’s office.

Haven't you heard of DEPENDS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have kids at two different MCPS high schools. They do not use the bathrooms. I only know this, because during Covid I asked them if there was enough soap for them to wash their hands and they looked at me like I was crazy and said, we don’t use the bathrooms. They just hold it in all day. It’s awful. Wish we could afford private

True of middle school students as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid comes home and spends an hour on the toilet with diarrhea and or constipation from holding it in each day. It's horrible especially when kids have their periods too. Known health crisis and they alway say "We're looking into it". It's ruined my kids digestive system. She tries to poop before school to try to avoid this and it actually is a problem if sports are after school. Sometimes she'll leave to got to a nearby coffee shop which believe it or not- has a line.

This is horrible. I am sorry. I heard about a kid with an iep due to ibs and he has to spend 20 minutes trying to find an unlocked bathroom. This can't go on. I am willing to write a letter or join others in making noise about this.

Testify at the board of education or make news to a reporter. They ignore letters and emails because those are private. MCPS only responds to public shaming.

These anecdotes are very sad, but the student just needs to pick up the bathroom schedule from the front office.

You don't have a student in MCPS 7-12 grades do you? What bathroom schedule? And spend another X # of minutes waiting in line to use a toilet?! Get the smokers outside!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid comes home and spends an hour on the toilet with diarrhea and or constipation from holding it in each day. It's horrible especially when kids have their periods too. Known health crisis and they alway say "We're looking into it". It's ruined my kids digestive system. She tries to poop before school to try to avoid this and it actually is a problem if sports are after school. Sometimes she'll leave to got to a nearby coffee shop which believe it or not- has a line.

This is horrible. I am sorry. I heard about a kid with an iep due to ibs and he has to spend 20 minutes trying to find an unlocked bathroom. This can't go on. I am willing to write a letter or join others in making noise about this.

I agree, it’s a terrible situation.

But I’d think a kid with a medical IEP could use the nurse’s office.

Haven't you heard of DEPENDS?

Joel, stick to your thread and isn't the bar open in Mexico now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCPD needs a special SRO division dedicated to policing school bathrooms.

NO!

Police are NOT the answer! NO POLICE / SROs IN SCHOOLS ! !

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid comes home and spends an hour on the toilet with diarrhea and or constipation from holding it in each day. It's horrible especially when kids have their periods too. Known health crisis and they alway say "We're looking into it". It's ruined my kids digestive system. She tries to poop before school to try to avoid this and it actually is a problem if sports are after school. Sometimes she'll leave to got to a nearby coffee shop which believe it or not- has a line.

This is horrible. I am sorry. I heard about a kid with an iep due to ibs and he has to spend 20 minutes trying to find an unlocked bathroom. This can't go on. I am willing to write a letter or join others in making noise about this.

I would also be happy to get involved if there was any kind of group effort amongst parents to address this issue. It affects my kids on a daily basis. Our HS PTA tried but got nowhere. If someone is able to form an online group or something to get parents together, I will happy contribute time and money to the cause.

But what would the solution be?

So you organize; form a group.

To do . . . what, exactly??

Nothing; obviously.

[Anonymous]

a class action lawsuit? would that get the students (and staff?) bathrooms they have a right to?
Smokers OUTSIDE!

[Anonymous]

Where do staff who smoke do so during the school day? They too in bathrooms??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPD needs a special SRO division dedicated to policing school bathrooms.

NO!

Police are NOT the answer! NO POLICE / SROs IN SCHOOLS ! !

dp.. disagree.. they can be one part of the solution. No one else has any real meaningful solution, certainly not Elrich who defunded SROs, even though the Principals wanted them, and maybe, this is one of the reasons why the Principals wanted them to remain.

So, unless you can come up with a better solution, SROs should be brought back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where do staff who smoke do so during the school day? They too in bathrooms??

Staff have their own bathrooms. Nice, eh?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where do staff who smoke do so during the school day? They too in bathrooms??

Staff have their own bathrooms. Nice, eh?

Are the staff bathrooms those that have just one toilet? Have they always used a key to enter? Or is it more of a recent change if they found students were using staff bathrooms?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:a class action lawsuit? would that get the students (and staff?) bathrooms they have a right to?
Smokers OUTSIDE!

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid comes home and spends an hour on the toilet with diarrhea and or constipation from holding it in each day. It's horrible especially when kids have their periods too. Known health crisis and they alway say "We're looking into it". It's ruined my kids digestive system. She tries to poop before school to try to avoid this and it actually is a problem if sports are after school. Sometimes she'll leave to got to a nearby coffee shop which believe it or not- has a line.

This is horrible. I am sorry. I heard about a kid with an iep due to ibs and he has to spend 20 minutes trying to find an unlocked bathroom. This can't go on. I am willing to write a letter or join others in making noise about this.

I agree, it’s a terrible situation.

But I’d think a kid with a medical IEP could use the nurse’s office.

Haven't you heard of DEPENDS?

Let's don't go pampering our kids!

[Anonymous]

virtual school attendees need not worry about bathrooms.

parentscoalitionmc.blogspot.com/2024/02/first-pto-parent-teacher-organization.html?m=1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPD needs a special SRO division dedicated to policing school bathrooms.

NO!

Police are NOT the answer! NO POLICE / SROs IN SCHOOLS ! !

dp.. disagree.. they can be one part of the solution. No one else has any real meaningful solution, certainly not Elrich who defunded SROs, even though the Principals wanted them, and maybe, this is one of the reasons why the Principals wanted them to remain.

So, unless you can come up with a better solution, SROs should be brought back.

And why won't they arm teachers too?