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School visit, smelly toilets

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myroxybackpack · 01/10/2015 18:37

DD will have to move school (unavoidable).

I've been to visit two possibilities.

  1. fairly uninspiring. Recent inspection not great, particularly for children with additional needs. Everything was fine, just a bit... dull.

  2. lovely staff, couldn't do enough to help me (even the receptionist!) I went to visit the P1 class. There was such a lovely atmosphere and very child friendly. DD would have a ball there.

But as I was walking down the corridor in number 2), the toilets stunk. It was really, really unpleasant.

AIBU to be put off?!

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JenniferYellowHat1980 · 01/10/2015 19:21

My school's loos don't stink and they're very close to my room. At a previous school the boys' loos did always stink of pee. I think it might have been a drainage issue but it was a problem for years and ought to have been fixed.

Jumpchicken · 01/10/2015 19:19

I teach at an outstanding school - a river runs along side it and exacerbates plumbing probs. Awful toilets, brilliant school!

PHANTOMnamechanger · 01/10/2015 19:15

I once arrived at our local soft play at 9am on a weekday morning just as it was opening and the staff had arrived 2 minutes before me. we were allowed straight in. DD needed the loo. They were vile. Each of the 3 loos were full of pee and poo which had been sat there since closing time at 4pm the previous afternoon and it stank to high heaven. Not only that but the carpets had not even been vacced and there were half used jugs of squash and sticky puddles on all the tables. It was rank and we never went back.

teacherwith2kids · 01/10/2015 19:13

I work in a school where an 'experimental' material for constructing drains was used when the school was built 50 years ago ... and the school has since doubled in size without being able to rebuild the drainage system ...

The experimental material was...less than successful .... and the problem is compounded by the additional 200 children + associated adults...

Fantastic school. Occasionally very whiffy indeed.

Original poster
myroxybackpack · 01/10/2015 19:08

The germs....

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GrannyAch1ng · 01/10/2015 19:04

Another school with wiffy toilets here, otherwise really good.

They've introduced a pre-lunch clean and it has helped a bit.

laffymeal · 01/10/2015 18:58

I've worked in 4 schools and the toilets reeked in all of them, it's no reflection on the quality of teaching I can assure you of that.

reni2 · 01/10/2015 18:54

Half past 2 many school toilets will be vile. Children appear to lose the ability to flush anything ever in school. The housekeepers will usually do what they can but 300 kids go to the loo in a day producing who knows how many turds and urine, most of it unflushed.

But I agree at 9am it should be better, I did rule out an otherwise nice school that was very filthy and the classrooms stank of the toilet stench at 9am.

PHANTOMnamechanger · 01/10/2015 18:44

school loos will always smell, just like public loos do

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myroxybackpack · 01/10/2015 18:44

No wonder so many children don't like going!

(maybe that is the plan? Grin )

Ugh, it was horrible. I did love the school though.

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Sirzy · 01/10/2015 18:42

That wouldn't bother me then. Think how many children have used them, think how many have missed (especially if it was boys toilets!) there is bound to be a bit of a smell.

If they stink at 9am then I would be less than amused

Thelushinthepub · 01/10/2015 18:42

Yuk but maybe it was a plumbing problem (ie temporary)

Whatthefreakinwhatnow · 01/10/2015 18:40

in my experience, all school toilets reek by the end of the school day, no matter how good the school is. I wouldn't base my decision on this at all

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myroxybackpack · 01/10/2015 18:39

Half past 2.

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Sirzy · 01/10/2015 18:38

What time of day was it?

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