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Anonymous wrote:People smoked in bathrooms when I was in HS in the 90s. This is not new. I have not heard of bathroom hookups, but stuff definitely happened back then, so I assume it would now. It's not an APS thing. It's a HS thing.

I think there was a mid-90s sitcom called My So Called Life (or maybe it was Parker Lewis?) that looked at the dark underbelly of the typical American public high school of that era between Gen X and Millennial. It might be amusing to watch today for social anthropology reasons, like smoking in the bathroom, etc. That era (of most of us parents) was not so innocent. Our expectation of a drug and alcohol free high school experience for the current generation is probably a bit unrealistic.

Sometimes I wonder if the people who frequent this forum I have really bad memories were completely clueless, dorks or just grew up in a highly sheltered environment.

I was definitely a dork but I used the bathrooms without worrying about running into a drug user. They did that nonsense under the bleachers.

APS high school bathrooms in the 90s had a Dangerous Minds the movie aesthetic. Very run down and the plumbing often didn’t work. Only the girls bathrooms had actual stalls for privacy. They often reeked of stink bombs. Not weed or smoking, but stink bombs. Friends at Montgomery Blair, Wilson, and BCC often complained of similarly run down conditions, and stink bombs.

And drug and alcohol use was very widespread. The 90s were the first generation of kids with the higher drinking age (from 18 to 21) and the drinking culture was still alive and well in all the public and private schools.

If anything the problems with alcohol are probably reduced today. But weed use is definitely up. And it is much more potent (and thus potentially dangerous) today.

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Anonymous wrote:Is it really so hard to have a staffer patrol these bathrooms so kids can void in peace? I feel like my broke overcrowded urban high school figured this out 30 years ago, and here we are in rich Arlington and can’t figure it out.

Bus drivers, extended day attendants, cafeteria ladies, and subs are all relatively cheap and in need of more hours. Put them to work. Rolling patrols, different times every day, massive consequences for misbehavior. Boom, problem solved.

Yes. It is.

Right. No adult wants to be alone with a student in the bathroom as they are at risk of being accused of abuse. So then you need two adults. And even then they will be reluctant.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People smoked in bathrooms when I was in HS in the 90s. This is not new. I have not heard of bathroom hookups, but stuff definitely happened back then, so I assume it would now. It's not an APS thing. It's a HS thing.

I think there was a mid-90s sitcom called My So Called Life (or maybe it was Parker Lewis?) that looked at the dark underbelly of the typical American public high school of that era between Gen X and Millennial. It might be amusing to watch today for social anthropology reasons, like smoking in the bathroom, etc. That era (of most of us parents) was not so innocent. Our expectation of a drug and alcohol free high school experience for the current generation is probably a bit unrealistic.

Sometimes I wonder if the people who frequent this forum I have really bad memories were completely clueless, dorks or just grew up in a highly sheltered environment.

I was definitely a dork but I used the bathrooms without worrying about running into a drug user. They did that nonsense under the bleachers.

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Anonymous wrote:On the phone thread PP said that kids were banned from bathroom because of vaping and hooking up in the bathrooms?

We are in 5th grade, so obv none of that is happening at our school

Is this really an issue at MS and HS at APS??

Yes, it’s a problem across the country. APS isn’t immune to it.

+1

And smoking/hooking up in HS bathrooms is also nothing new.

In 5th grade?!?!?! Yes that is new!

The lesbo action in high school is at an epic level right now!