Deal bathrooms

[Anonymous]

It’s not a political issue.

Contact Mary Cheh.

Have her contact Ms. Neal.

Have Ms. Neal restore basic bathroom rights to students and adults.

If she refuses, go to the press.

Done.

[Anonymous]

I feel bad for the girls dealing with their periods. Unless just the boys’ bathrooms are locked.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel bad for the girls dealing with their periods. Unless just the boys’ bathrooms are locked.

It’s both.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Lazy use of misogynistic term in those posts.

And no, they also didn’t offer any solutions.

Calling one closed bathroom in a school child abuse is far far far from a solution.

You misunderstand. The PPs using the lazy, misogynistic pejorative to shut people up offered only insults, no solutions.

You offer nothing either. You can also stop policing my language. Locking bathrooms is a very old solution to bathroom issues. It was done in the 80s when kids would smoke in the bathrooms at my HS. Guess what? My parents didn’t throw a hissy fit like the moms posting here. In fact, none of the parents did because they were helicopter parents. Stop embarrassing yourself. Your snowflake will be fine. Talk to Ms Neal and see if your snowflake could get a special hall pass. Calling it child abuse is ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

I cannot believe that some posters are defending the closing of bathrooms to children in a public building paid for by tax-payers. It’s a very basic right to have access to a bathroom. It is not a solution for punishing the misbehavior of a few. There is something deeply sadistic about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lazy use of misogynistic term in those posts.

And no, they also didn’t offer any solutions.

Calling one closed bathroom in a school child abuse is far far far from a solution.

You misunderstand. The PPs using the lazy, misogynistic pejorative to shut people up offered only insults, no solutions.

You offer nothing either. You can also stop policing my language. Locking bathrooms is a very old solution to bathroom issues. It was done in the 80s when kids would smoke in the bathrooms at my HS. Guess what? My parents didn’t throw a hissy fit like the moms posting here. In fact, none of the parents did because they were helicopter parents. Stop embarrassing yourself. Your snowflake will be fine. Talk to Ms Neal and see if your snowflake could get a special hall pass. Calling it child abuse is ridiculous.

You are upset at criticism of your use of the latest in a long line of pejoratives aimed at shutting women up? Who is the snowflake here?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I cannot believe that some posters are defending the closing of bathrooms to children in a public building paid for by tax-payers. It’s a very basic right to have access to a bathroom. It is not a solution for punishing the misbehavior of a few. There is something deeply sadistic about it.

Agreed. It's really wrong.

[Anonymous]

Is there seriously a lack of soap in the Deal bathrooms? And closed adult bathrooms in the Reno building due to maintenance/repairs? Is someone pushing DGS on that? Is the PTA active at Deal?

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Anonymous wrote:My kid did and was told that kids should figure out who is messing them up and tell her. That isn’t my kid’s job.

It's actually awesome. F those kids. If they keep ruining a priviledge - take it away.

Bathrooms aren’t a privilege. They are a right. Do you have to walk for 10 minutes at work to find somewhere to pee that might not have toilet paper or soap when you get there?

I mean we allow this to happen to unhoused people.

This is so weird.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you know how much time kids have that deal between classes to use the bathroom? Would you rather have them lose instructional time because they need to use the bathroom during class? Do they have to choose between using the bathroom because they have to use the bathroom and being late to class and getting in trouble for that?

I think its absolutely hilarious that the parents on this site complain all the time about how nobody ever uses discipline or consequences anymore (there was like a 30 page thread specifically related to Deal this fall), and then, when Deal implements a consequence, the parents can't believe that their child would ever be inconvenienced. God bless Ms. Neal and please let me know if you ever need me to send you a bottle of wine for dealing with these nuts.

Good god taking away bathrooms that kids need to pee is not an appropriate consequence!! This would drive me to private school.

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Anonymous wrote:This is an old school tactic! My principal did this at my high school. We had one bathroom, on the other side of campus (this was out West where we had multiple 2 story buildings with classrooms), for 1800 students. I learned to hold it for the entire school day.

Um, there aren’t laws against what the principal at Deal is doing? Child abuse anyone?

Child abuse Lmao. What an entitled bunch of parents

I suspect you work for dcps. Your attitude about denying children access to bathrooms that all humans need for medical reasons is terrifying.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do you know how much time kids have that deal between classes to use the bathroom? Would you rather have them lose instructional time because they need to use the bathroom during class? Do they have to choose between using the bathroom because they have to use the bathroom and being late to class and getting in trouble for that?

I think its absolutely hilarious that the parents on this site complain all the time about how nobody ever uses discipline or consequences anymore (there was like a 30 page thread specifically related to Deal this fall), and then, when Deal implements a consequence, the parents can't believe that their child would ever be inconvenienced. God bless Ms. Neal and please let me know if you ever need me to send you a bottle of wine for dealing with these nuts.

Good god taking away bathrooms that kids need to pee is not an appropriate consequence!! This would drive me to private school.

It’s pure gaslighting to call this a “consequence.” A consequence would be something imposed on the kids causing the problems. This is just administrative laziness / an arbitrary and capricious blanket punishment imposed on all students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there seriously a lack of soap in the Deal bathrooms? And closed adult bathrooms in the Reno building due to maintenance/repairs? Is someone pushing DGS on that? Is the PTA active at Deal?

Soap and toilet paper…

[Anonymous]

That is insane. Sounds very Middle Ages England. Do they also slap their palms with a long ruler? *Shudder*

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is an old school tactic! My principal did this at my high school. We had one bathroom, on the other side of campus (this was out West where we had multiple 2 story buildings with classrooms), for 1800 students. I learned to hold it for the entire school day.

Um, there aren’t laws against what the principal at Deal is doing? Child abuse anyone?

Child abuse Lmao. What an entitled bunch of parents

I suspect you work for dcps. Your attitude about denying children access to bathrooms that all humans need for medical reasons is terrifying.

I do work for DCPS as a teacher and I also believe in Restorative Justice. When you can't use something properly and its unsafe you temporarily lose that privilege. There are plenty of other options for bathrooms at Deal and the teachers there aren't exactly militaristic. As I mentioned upthread, there is no teacher who would refuse to accommodate a student with a medical reason. Parents that have been fear mongering this thread with that example have curiously not actually told the school about their children's issues.

Now, if they never reopen the bathrooms, I would agree that is a problem. But as of now, its pretty clearly not safe so they have to keep it shut down.