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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In addition to physical limitations (closing facilities) many schools also limit numbers of passes for students. I counted what my child is "entitled to" based on the policies at his school and he can go 5x/class during a marking period, and has 7 classes, so he can go to the bathroom 35/45 days. I guess the other days he just has to go during lunch or hold it.

I have given him permission to just leave the room if he's denied access to a bathroom and needs it. I'll deal with the discipline. His doctor is willing to write a note because [b]my kid has suffered from health consequences related to holding pee and poop before.[/b]

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Every parent on behalf of a
child with this kind of problem should have the doctor write a note stating a diagnosis and that the child should have a 504 plan with a "flash pass" to the bathroom.

I'd like to see this dumb policy spawn hundreds of 504 plan requests per school. [/quote]

Situations:
1. Kid has to hold it in because they used up all the bathroom passes allowed per quarter. Hopefully not all the teachers have this policy or is this school-wide? Some HS also restrict bathroom use for first 10 and last 10 min of class.
2. When kid gets to an unlocked bathroom, there is either a line, or is occupied by other students who are using stalls/toilet for smoking etc., and in some cases, those same students tell the kid to leave because kid is not part of whatever is going on in that bathroom. So then kid [b]leaves Bathroom A in hopes of making it to Bathroom B in time[/b]. And this cycle may repeat. 
3. Not enough time to use bathroom between classes.
4. With less than a handful of bathrooms out of 20+ unlocked, long lines to use it at lunch, and as stated in #2 above, smokers and inappropriately behaving students may have occupied the stalls or the entire bathroom. [/quote]

Can not emphasize this enough, students are walking around having to SEARCH for an UNLOCKED, UNOCCUPIED, SAFE bathroom to use during the school day. What the F country do we live in?! 
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No SROs or any other law enforcement in schools!

Defund the police!

#BlackLivesMatter[/quote]

So you agree that SROs should be guarding our toilets?[/quote]

NP - after reading this thread, I want to guard the bathrooms myself. I have a 5th grader and a 3rd grader… it’s really weird and distressing to think that they may not have proper access to bathrooms. I went through MCPS. I remember not loving the bathrooms in high school, but I felt reasonably safe. There were certainly no issues with the middle school bathrooms. I believe that my kids can adapt to this mess, but they shouldn’t have to.[/quote]

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