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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][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“During transition periods and more unstructured times, like before school, after school and lunch periods, schools may limit access to designated restrooms.”

So, at the impacted secondary schools, when do kids use the bathroom? During class only? Or wait during lunch for the only open restroom? Will teachers always allow kids to use the bathroom during class? [/quote]

It would help if you found a new hobby. Obsessing about bathrooms seems unhealthy.[/quote]

Okay, boymom[/quote]

FTR, I am a boymom and the bathroom situation infuriates me.  My son avoids going to the bathroom also and it’s ridiculous. [/quote]

School bathrooms were sketchy when I was in school 30 years ago, and I avoided them. I guess nothing really changes.[/quote]

Kids were overdosing and dying or getting shot in the bathrooms 30 years ago?

Kind of hard to believe since[b] Magruder was the first-ever school shooting in MCPS history[/b]....[/quote]

It's good to know that a rare thing then.[/quote]

How many bathroom shootings will it take for you to feel MCPS should alter its security strategy and posture with regard to bathrooms? 10 dead kids? 20? How much collateral damage are you ok with so you can preserve the status quo and why are their lives worth that to you?[/quote]

A better question might be how many school shootings do there have to be until common Sense gun legislation is enacted. This isn't about bathrooms or MCPS. Anyone who says otherwise is a moron.[/quote]

If the previous poster is concerned about school shootings like they claim, then gun control legislation makes perfect sense to but I have the impression they have a different political agenda. [/quote]

Clearly YOU have a political agenda.

Reading this thread, there seems to be plenty of parents posting who do not have a political agenda, but who want their kids to be able to use the restrooms at school during the day.

That is not an unreasonable expectation.

I am happy to support whatever will help improve the situation.  Bathrooms have become a ‘safe’ place for kids to use and distribute drugs.  All kids of drugs.  This needs to be fixed,  they can deal/use drugs elsewhere, but get them out of our schools.  [/quote]

Station a teacher outside each bathroom. No more than 2 or 3 students at a time allowed to enter bathroom. No backpacks, jackets, or hoodies. It works.[/quote]
Security is not teachers' job. Why are we lobbing yet another responsibility onto teachers?

Teachers are hired to teach. Security personnel should be hired to provide school security.

Get the right resources for the right job. Stop expecting teachers to be superheroes. Enough.[/quote]

Teacher here. It's what we do in our schools, plus a resource officer. Our schools aren't overrun with drugs. It works! It's called a work day. [/quote]
How are you checking the bathrooms throughout the day if you are teaching?  Are you checking the bathrooms before and after school, and  during lunch?[/quote]

PP here. I should add that I'm retired and part-time.  I'm talking about between classes. Yes, someone is stationed outside the bathrooms before/after school. We have duties, including bus duty, hall duty, early morning and after school duty. We have alternating schedules throughout the year. [/quote]

So you're a part-timer and you have a resource officer at your school? Are you working in an MCPS high school?

Your part-timer status makes sense for why you might have free time to do extra assignments, but full-time teachers who might be a sponsor of a club or activity certainly aren't in the same position.[/quote]

I was just trying to explain why I was posting during the day. I was a full time special ed teacher. I totally understand what you're saying, but it's what we do. No, I'm not an MCPS employee but work in a very large public school system -- middle school. We are not unionized.[/quote]

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