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[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]

I think you're uninformed.  About half the girls in MS are menstruating.  Some of them are bleeding/staining or having other accidents.  Some of them are staying home from school, or leaving school early, when their period is heavy because they can't access the bathroom often enough.  Some are also giving themselves other medical issues by not drinking enough during the day due to bathroom access.  
I'm also taking issue with your "most teachers are reasonable."  It's true, "most" are.  But if you have two teachers that are totally unreasonable and have an ABSOLUTELY NO PASSES policy (which is true for some teachers) or "you can have a pass but only after I totally interrogate you about it and ask you repeatedly if you really, really need or if you can wait" (true for some teachers), that's really enough to ruin your day.  Once my kid graduates, I am sending all of those teachers a nasty email, with a copy to the administration, so that they know the impact that they are having on girls.  [/quote]

YOU are uninformed.  Majority of kids manage just fine around bathroom rules. If your kid can’t, then that’s a problem for you to figure out with the school-
But not a reason for the school to abandon their rules and policies. The truth is it is way for than a few kids being problematic in the bathrooms- they tried other solutions, they didn’t work. Which is why they came down with these strict rules in the first place.  [/quote]

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