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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t know why parents aren’t rioting in the streets about this bathroom insanity. If the school has kids that are so poorly behaved that they are doing whatever the issue is inside the bathrooms then the schools need to get rid of those kids, not take away bathrooms for all students at school.[/quote]

They can’t “get rid of those kids.” They just can’t, for many reasons.  We have dismantled the discipline system in schools in the name of equity, and many parents don’t discipline effectively, and/or the kids has an IEP, or some other excuse.  This is the reality in many schools.  Schools haven’t taken away bathrooms, there are just strict limits on them.  Nearly all kids have managed to work within these limits. No one is soiling themselves in school.  OPs kid will manage, like all the rest. [/quote]
Sure. She will manage by waiting in line—and then being tardy. And with enough tardies, she will be suspended.

Or, she holds her urine and feces, and bleeds all over her clothes. [/quote]

That isn’t happening.  Nearly girl in the middle school is menstruating.  No one is peeing themselves and bleeding all over. OPs kid can figure it out.  Maybe it means wearing period underwear as back up, packing lunch that week so she has more time during lunch hour to use bathroom, using bathroom before/after the classes that are very close to bathroom.  She can figure it out.  Plus on the rare occasion she absolutely has to go during class they have emergency passes and most teachers are reasonable if she hasn’t abused passes.

Between being strategic about when to use the bathroom for most efficacy, lunch time, emergency passes, and an occasional tardy- she should be fine [/quote]
She had two tardies in one seven hour day because she was forced to stand in line in order to change her bloody pad. If she acquires enough tardies, she faces the consequence of losing school privileges (dances, playing and attending sports, etc) and if she accrues enough, she faces expulsion. I get what you’re saying, but you’re not getting what I’m saying. The school came up with a temporary solution, but what’s the long game? The best solution can’t possibly be standing in line, which causes tardiness. [/quote]

It’s one day and the policy just started. The long game is your daughter figures out how/when to use the bathroom during passing time, lunch, and with emergency passes in order to be in class on time.  She will figure it out. [/quote]
You don’t just “figure out” when you need to change a pad, or poop, or whatever, and it’s ridiculous to say a person should have to wait. And wait until when? Passing time? That’s when she DID wait until, and so did every other girl, hence the line. Lunch? What if her pad doesn’t need changing then but suddenly does later? What if she doesn’t need to make a BM at lunch but then suddenly does later. And what “emergency pass”? I already established that those have been abolished, too. [/quote]

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