Secondary school BATHROOMS

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Anonymous wrote:Ah, the toilet crisis in our schools – the silent struggle that leaves students holding their bladders in solidarity. Picture it: bathroom doors locked or labeled "Enter at Your Own Risk" and janitors carrying plungers like medieval knights on a quest for the holy grail – or in this case, the holy bowl.

It all starts innocently enough. A student sprints down the hallway, backpack bouncing, desperate to answer nature's call. But alas, they are greeted by a sight more horrifying than any poop quiz: a queue longer than a Black Friday line at the electronics store.

This is a crisis of dire proportions that requires an immediate resolution!

It is so weird that you are making light of this. If your employer told you that you couldn’t use the bathroom all day, you’d be filing an OSHA complaint and looking for a new job. If prisoners were prohibited from using the bathroom, they would file cruel and unusual punishment claims. But it’s okay for our teens because there might be vandalism or safety issues? They can’t come up with any other solution? It’s unacceptable.
If it’s not a problem at your high school please name the HS so we can use you as a model for our HS admins!

SERIOUSLY!

Or even better - if it is a problem at your high-school let us know so we can avoid those schools.

Keep dodging and evading. We're onto your game.

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Anonymous wrote:For the poster who keeps insisting we're all making the bathroom locking situation up, here's yet another article from another student high school newspaper, complaining about this problem: https://thermtide.com/22277/news/locked-bathrooms-cause-frustration-among-students-and-staff/

However, some acknowledge that RM staff is locking bathrooms in order to prevent students from vaping or participating in other activities during school hours. RM security recognizes that students are frustrated but also sees the pros in the situation.

“We are trying to avoid the kids vaping and doing other things in the bathroom,” Security guard Tim Thompson said.

MCPS’s restroom policy includes staff monitoring bathrooms, schools limiting access to certain bathrooms during transition and unstructured periods and keeping the doors of unlocked bathrooms open with latches. This plan also states that frequently used restrooms should stay accessible to students.

Some RM students are also confused about why the restrooms are locked as they believe it is not beneficial to the school.

“I don’t really see why they’re locking them in the first place,” Benachenhou said.

Mr. Thompson explained some possible reasons bathrooms would be locked during the school day. “It’s usually if there is graffiti, [if] somebody messes up a toilet or something breaks,” Thompson said. “It’s more so what the students are going inside of them and forcing building services to have to clean them.”

The rationale behind locking the restrooms includes not only reducing drug usage and preventing skipping classes but also in order to maintain cleanliness in school. Students clogging toilets and leaving the restrooms dirty seems to be a large part of the problem.

OMG the graffiti makes me feel so unsafe! You people need to get a life.

Who are the you people? The kids don’t care about the graffiti and as a parent I. Are more about bathrooms being ooen than about graffiti. It may be that the schools are locking bathrooms without good reason….but that just underlines the problem of having locked bathrooms. Honestly I don’t care how bad the safety issues are — I think the bathrooms should remain unlocked, end of story.

I actually do care greatly about the safety issues, but I too think the bathrooms should remain unlocked since locking them clearly is not preventing the vaping and drug use in schools anyway, so an intervention tool it’s ineffective.

They lock a few of them at our school but it has more to do with concern about vandalism or safety not vaping or drug use which are mostly non-existant.

I think our kids must go to the same school, or some of these posters are just hyping this nonsense.

Thanks for dissing our kids! Very kind if you.

Happy to point out the dishonesty and hype when it occurs.

What on earth makes you think anyone is making things up, especially since it's literally been reported in the news?

What on earth makes you think all schools are like yours?

MCPS administrators.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ah, the toilet crisis in our schools – the silent struggle that leaves students holding their bladders in solidarity. Picture it: bathroom doors locked or labeled "Enter at Your Own Risk" and janitors carrying plungers like medieval knights on a quest for the holy grail – or in this case, the holy bowl.

It all starts innocently enough. A student sprints down the hallway, backpack bouncing, desperate to answer nature's call. But alas, they are greeted by a sight more horrifying than any poop quiz: a queue longer than a Black Friday line at the electronics store.

This is a crisis of dire proportions that requires an immediate resolution!

It is so weird that you are making light of this. If your employer told you that you couldn’t use the bathroom all day, you’d be filing an OSHA complaint and looking for a new job. If prisoners were prohibited from using the bathroom, they would file cruel and unusual punishment claims. But it’s okay for our teens because there might be vandalism or safety issues? They can’t come up with any other solution? It’s unacceptable.
If it’s not a problem at your high school please name the HS so we can use you as a model for our HS admins!

Its odd that adults are finding humor in teens having to spend 20 minutes trying to find an unlocked bathroom then waiting longer in line at the only one that is open. Maybe you don't have a teen who menstruates, has ibd, or just needs to be able to have their basic needs met in the 8 hours they are at school. For the rest of us, and our kids who are dealing with locked bathrooms every day, it isn't funny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ah, the toilet crisis in our schools – the silent struggle that leaves students holding their bladders in solidarity. Picture it: bathroom doors locked or labeled "Enter at Your Own Risk" and janitors carrying plungers like medieval knights on a quest for the holy grail – or in this case, the holy bowl.

It all starts innocently enough. A student sprints down the hallway, backpack bouncing, desperate to answer nature's call. But alas, they are greeted by a sight more horrifying than any poop quiz: a queue longer than a Black Friday line at the electronics store.

This is a crisis of dire proportions that requires an immediate resolution!

It is so weird that you are making light of this. If your employer told you that you couldn’t use the bathroom all day, you’d be filing an OSHA complaint and looking for a new job. If prisoners were prohibited from using the bathroom, they would file cruel and unusual punishment claims. But it’s okay for our teens because there might be vandalism or safety issues? They can’t come up with any other solution? It’s unacceptable.
If it’s not a problem at your high school please name the HS so we can use you as a model for our HS admins!

SERIOUSLY!

Or even better - if it is a problem at your high-school let us know so we can avoid those schools.

People have already named at least RM and WJ as schools with a lot of locked bathrooms. Someone said Whitman as well but I couldn’t tell if that was a sincere post or a weirdo who likes to just post Whitman in respjonse to things. I think someone also said BCC has this problem as well.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For the poster who keeps insisting we're all making the bathroom locking situation up, here's yet another article from another student high school newspaper, complaining about this problem: https://thermtide.com/22277/news/locked-bathrooms-cause-frustration-among-students-and-staff/

However, some acknowledge that RM staff is locking bathrooms in order to prevent students from vaping or participating in other activities during school hours. RM security recognizes that students are frustrated but also sees the pros in the situation.

“We are trying to avoid the kids vaping and doing other things in the bathroom,” Security guard Tim Thompson said.

MCPS’s restroom policy includes staff monitoring bathrooms, schools limiting access to certain bathrooms during transition and unstructured periods and keeping the doors of unlocked bathrooms open with latches. This plan also states that frequently used restrooms should stay accessible to students.

Some RM students are also confused about why the restrooms are locked as they believe it is not beneficial to the school.

“I don’t really see why they’re locking them in the first place,” Benachenhou said.

Mr. Thompson explained some possible reasons bathrooms would be locked during the school day. “It’s usually if there is graffiti, [if] somebody messes up a toilet or something breaks,” Thompson said. “It’s more so what the students are going inside of them and forcing building services to have to clean them.”

The rationale behind locking the restrooms includes not only reducing drug usage and preventing skipping classes but also in order to maintain cleanliness in school. Students clogging toilets and leaving the restrooms dirty seems to be a large part of the problem.

OMG the graffiti makes me feel so unsafe! You people need to get a life.

Who are the you people? The kids don’t care about the graffiti and as a parent I. Are more about bathrooms being ooen than about graffiti. It may be that the schools are locking bathrooms without good reason….but that just underlines the problem of having locked bathrooms. Honestly I don’t care how bad the safety issues are — I think the bathrooms should remain unlocked, end of story.

I actually do care greatly about the safety issues, but I too think the bathrooms should remain unlocked since locking them clearly is not preventing the vaping and drug use in schools anyway, so an intervention tool it’s ineffective.

They lock a few of them at our school but it has more to do with concern about vandalism or safety not vaping or drug use which are mostly non-existant.

I think our kids must go to the same school, or some of these posters are just hyping this nonsense.

Thanks for dissing our kids! Very kind if you.

Happy to point out the dishonesty and hype when it occurs.

What on earth makes you think anyone is making things up, especially since it's literally been reported in the news?

What on earth makes you think all schools are like yours?

conceit

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ah, the toilet crisis in our schools – the silent struggle that leaves students holding their bladders in solidarity. Picture it: bathroom doors locked or labeled "Enter at Your Own Risk" and janitors carrying plungers like medieval knights on a quest for the holy grail – or in this case, the holy bowl.

It all starts innocently enough. A student sprints down the hallway, backpack bouncing, desperate to answer nature's call. But alas, they are greeted by a sight more horrifying than any poop quiz: a queue longer than a Black Friday line at the electronics store.

This is a crisis of dire proportions that requires an immediate resolution!

It is so weird that you are making light of this. If your employer told you that you couldn’t use the bathroom all day, you’d be filing an OSHA complaint and looking for a new job. If prisoners were prohibited from using the bathroom, they would file cruel and unusual punishment claims. But it’s okay for our teens because there might be vandalism or safety issues? They can’t come up with any other solution? It’s unacceptable.
If it’s not a problem at your high school please name the HS so we can use you as a model for our HS admins!

SERIOUSLY!

Or even better - if it is a problem at your high-school let us know so we can avoid those schools.

People have already named at least RM and WJ as schools with a lot of locked bathrooms. Someone said Whitman as well but I couldn’t tell if that was a sincere post or a weirdo who likes to just post Whitman in respjonse to things. I think someone also said BCC has this problem as well.

Well, I've heard Whitman's bathrooms are synonymous with weirdos. Also, a lot of posts here are talking about locked bathrooms, while others are about unsafe bathrooms. These don't seem to be about the same thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ah, the toilet crisis in our schools – the silent struggle that leaves students holding their bladders in solidarity. Picture it: bathroom doors locked or labeled "Enter at Your Own Risk" and janitors carrying plungers like medieval knights on a quest for the holy grail – or in this case, the holy bowl.

It all starts innocently enough. A student sprints down the hallway, backpack bouncing, desperate to answer nature's call. But alas, they are greeted by a sight more horrifying than any poop quiz: a queue longer than a Black Friday line at the electronics store.

This is a crisis of dire proportions that requires an immediate resolution!

It is so weird that you are making light of this. If your employer told you that you couldn’t use the bathroom all day, you’d be filing an OSHA complaint and looking for a new job. If prisoners were prohibited from using the bathroom, they would file cruel and unusual punishment claims. But it’s okay for our teens because there might be vandalism or safety issues? They can’t come up with any other solution? It’s unacceptable.
If it’s not a problem at your high school please name the HS so we can use you as a model for our HS admins!

SERIOUSLY!

Or even better - if it is a problem at your high-school let us know so we can avoid those schools.

People have already named at least RM and WJ as schools with a lot of locked bathrooms. Someone said Whitman as well but I couldn’t tell if that was a sincere post or a weirdo who likes to just post Whitman in respjonse to things. I think someone also said BCC has this problem as well.

Well, I've heard Whitman's bathrooms are synonymous with weirdos. Also, a lot of posts here are talking about locked bathrooms, while others are about unsafe bathrooms. These don't seem to be about the same thing.

The schools that have locked bathrooms are locking them to prevent or mitigate unsafe behaviors that have been happening in those bathrooms. They are directly linked....

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ah, the toilet crisis in our schools – the silent struggle that leaves students holding their bladders in solidarity. Picture it: bathroom doors locked or labeled "Enter at Your Own Risk" and janitors carrying plungers like medieval knights on a quest for the holy grail – or in this case, the holy bowl.

It all starts innocently enough. A student sprints down the hallway, backpack bouncing, desperate to answer nature's call. But alas, they are greeted by a sight more horrifying than any poop quiz: a queue longer than a Black Friday line at the electronics store.

This is a crisis of dire proportions that requires an immediate resolution!

It is so weird that you are making light of this. If your employer told you that you couldn’t use the bathroom all day, you’d be filing an OSHA complaint and looking for a new job. If prisoners were prohibited from using the bathroom, they would file cruel and unusual punishment claims. But it’s okay for our teens because there might be vandalism or safety issues? They can’t come up with any other solution? It’s unacceptable.
If it’s not a problem at your high school please name the HS so we can use you as a model for our HS admins!

SERIOUSLY!

Or even better - if it is a problem at your high-school let us know so we can avoid those schools.

People have already named at least RM and WJ as schools with a lot of locked bathrooms. Someone said Whitman as well but I couldn’t tell if that was a sincere post or a weirdo who likes to just post Whitman in respjonse to things. I think someone also said BCC has this problem as well.

Well, I've heard Whitman's bathrooms are synonymous with weirdos. Also, a lot of posts here are talking about locked bathrooms, while others are about unsafe bathrooms. These don't seem to be about the same thing.

The schools that have locked bathrooms are locking them to prevent or mitigate unsafe behaviors that have been happening in those bathrooms. They are directly linked....

This could be solved by simply mandating students to use Depends.

[Anonymous]

BCC has this issue

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BCC has this issue

Wheaton HS has this issue.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:BCC has this issue

Wheaton HS has this issue.

Here's a running list:

Kennedy
Wheaton
Quince Orchard
Richard Montgomery
B-CC
Whitman
Paint Branch

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:BCC has this issue

Wheaton HS has this issue.

Here's a running list:

Kennedy
Wheaton
Quince Orchard
Richard Montgomery
B-CC
Whitman
Paint Branch

Are you sure Wheaton belongs on this list?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BCC has this issue

I heard about the drunk kids passed out in the bathroom at BCC last year.

[Anonymous]

Wootton has some bathrooms closed because they are falling apart.

[Anonymous]

I need to know- is this happening at Robert frost?? What about Wootton?? Too many pages to find this info!!!