Unisex toilets in secondary school

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CherryAndAlmond · 05/10/2021 17:56

DS14 has just informed me that all the toilets in his school were switched to unisex over the summer holidays. Is this a common thing in secondary schools now? What I'm concerned about, aside from the obvious, is that parents were not consulted or informed. How do I raise this with the school, and is it even worth it? Thanks.

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MarshmallowSwede · 05/10/2021 18:25

What a great way to encourage sex at school! Have they ever been around any teenagers?

They don’t even have to sneak and hide to go into the toilets together anymore. They just go right in and screw in the toilets and back to chemistry class before anyone notices.

I hope they are at least supplying condoms in toilets. This is a recipe for disaster… and not only because of the consensual sex that’s going to happen. There’s so many reasons why a teenage girl would want a woman’s only bathroom.

I would have been mortified as a teen being on my period and having to change my tampon with boys in the bathroom.

LaBellina · 05/10/2021 18:16

I would be very very concerned about how seriously this school is about safeguarding for making toilets unisex in the first place but not even mentioning it to parents is really taking it to the next level, apparently they didn’t even consider it might be a safe guarding concern. This wouldn’t sit right with me at all!

thelastgoldeneagle · 05/10/2021 18:12

That's a really helpful fact sheet, @Jaysmith71!

Jaysmith71 · 05/10/2021 18:00

Teenage boys in the cubicle next to teenage girls? Really? Really, Really?

These people couldn't be trusted with the school hamster at half-term. They'd put it in with the ferret in case it felt lonely.

safeschoolsallianceuk.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/singlesextoiletsfactsheet.pdf

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