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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [/quote]

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
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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?[/quote]

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. [/quote]

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. [/quote]

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.  [/quote]
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. [/quote]

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

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.[/quote]

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. [/quote]

No, I think one part of this that’s important to understand is that this has long been the accepted norm for teachers.

I have worked at schools with 80 minute class periods, 5 minute passing periods, and the nearest faculty restroom two floors down, with an inevitable line.  So, the bell rings and you have 5 minutes to talk the kids who line up at your desk to ask questions, touch base with another teacher, walk down the hallway, past behavior like blocking the boys bathroom that is so egregious you have to stop and address it, get in line for a stall, realize there is time for one more person to go if you’re going to make it back for the end of the passing period, offer your spot to the 8 month pregnant colleague behind you and hold it until you can try again.

Now, is that the way it should be? No, of course not.

And does the fact that that is how it often works means the kids should be treated the same way?  No, of course not.

But it does mean that a segment of the teacher population is thinking “we’re preparing them for the real world”, because in their experience that is what the real world is like.

It also means that when people suggest solutions like “teachers should monitor the bathrooms during passing periods” they get push back.[/quote]

I mean I've been "living in the real world" since I graduated high school 20 years ago and the only time I have not had reliable access to a bathroom was.....in high school. [/quote]
It's basically hazing and needs to be called out for what it is [/quote]

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