Do you think that schools are okay?

To be fair you have been spikey about your role and are very condescending in your vernacular

30 kids in a classroom all speaking "just" asking for a pen/rubber is too noisy for comfort. There has to be quiet times when no one is speaking, or drumming their fingers or tapping their ruler. It's not like being at home, you have to treat them differently when they are en masse. You can't have them all getting up and moving around when they feel like it, it's too disruptive.
It's better when you're working in smaller groups, the children can have a bit more leeway, but in a whole form classroom the rules have to be applied to everyone just to keep the noise levels acceptable.
Some children do find it difficult, others find it hard to focus when there is noise around them. Decent teachers will try not to raise their voices, and to keep the atmosphere calm, but some children can be very challenging. Keeping children in is about the only sanction there is, other than a discussion about why their behaviour isn't working, and obviously keeping children inside can be counter-productive.
Toilets are more of an issue in secondary school, and I think it has already been explained what the issues are. In primary, they would normally be encouraged to go at a time which meant they would not be missing the instructive part of the lesson, but they are normally allowed to go on request, possibly one at a time depending on the likelihood of mucking around when unsupervised.
School is full of rules, and that doesn't work for some kids. Personally, I hated school after about Y4 because things moved so slowly and I was very bored a lot of the time, waiting for other kids to do what they were asked so that the lesson could move on. One of my DC hated school because he didn't like being told what to do ( at all, ever, ) which was something we could work around at home, but not in school, and tbh it is very wearing having a full discussion about every instruction. You couldn't do it in a classroom situation.
If funding was better with more staff, more space, more choice, some children might enjoy school more, but with government diktats on attendance, curriculum content etc the lessons have to proceed apace in order to get through everything, with very extra little time for independent work or following the children's interests.
As for uniform, I think it is a total waste of effort and energy. I don't understand why children can't wear what they want in all schools. I've worked in some schools with uniform and some without, and it makes no difference to cohesion or school identity or behaviour, and I have never seen a child bullied for their clothes. I guess in secondary school labels could be more of an issue, but in the non-uniforms schools near me they all wear a uniform of baggy jeans or joggers anyway. As for having to ask for permission to take of jackets, or to dress appropriately for the weather, that should be unnecessary. I think children learn better when they are comfortable. I suspect most teachers would prefer not to have enforce petty rules.

What makes me really angry is people making stuff up that they know nothing about.

What makes me angry is stuff like "I wasn't allowed to go to the toilet on my period" said by the child on her period every day.

What makes me angry is "school is like a prison" no it really isn't.

What makes me angry is "we can't talk to each other" yes you can when it is appropriate.

What makes me angry is "the teachers can do XYZ, why can't we" because you're children.

What makes me angry is media representation of schools which are so far from the truth, and the school don't have a right of reply.

Fwiw teenagers have the same human rights as all humans. They are human after all.

@applejane11 the more you talk about your auntie and your friend and the depths of their roles, the less credence it gives to your argument about your role. The truth is that in state schools admin staff do not have a lot to do with the students directly other than do their admin roles and occasional behaviour incidents.

I didn’t say anything like that though, did I?
(Read it again.)

Yet more defensiveness.

It's bedtime, where I should have gone an hour ago.

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all schools should be able to exclude anyone that does not behave

Your school is unusual because it's private. So you have no idea of the behaviour and issues in the state sector and the boundaries needed to get students to behave. You can exclude students easily, which is a big deterrent!

You've linked sensationalist headlines from state schools, quite disingenuous.

If it were a venn diagram, all non teaching staff are support staff, but not all support staff are admin staff

Thats the parents job.

No, thank you for your politeness. Most appreciated.

And, thankyou for your openness with your school environment. Very interesting.

@boblady, well said. @applejane11 is either virtue signalling her imagined higher powers of empathy, or painfully naive.

OP is in an admin role, so she knows what’s best for the kids (sorry adolescents) 😂

I'd put them in support staff not admin but boundaries are blurred because I'm not sure technicians are admin staff either!

Choosing to interact with me again OP. Thank you for your attention towards this 'Piece of Work.'