School toilet rules

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Anyone see this article and think that it might be down to teachers not letting kids go to the loos when they need? So kids are not drinking enough water...
I spoke to my kids and they said they are not allowed to use the bathroom in class time... If I wasn't allowed to use the bathroom as and when I needed to - I certainly wouldn't be chugging water.

Also, I'm not sure we can blame this on covid lockdown... surely some of the kids weren't even born then!

www.theguardian.com/education/2025/feb/18/laxatives-and-nappies-how-schools-are-coping-with-constipation-in-pupils

Toilet rules haven't suddenly changed post-covid.

The article states it is plain water the children are reluctant to drink. and more than ever before are on movicol.

in 25 years of teaching, and then my own schooling, toilets were not accessible during lessons unless you had a medical reason, so that hasnt changed.

But we know many children are growing up in poverty and where there is child poverty there will be god-awful diets. Lack of fresh fruit and veg. More carbs lacking nutrition. pizza and chips again anyone?

• UNICEF measures child food poverty by the percentage of children who eat from at least five of eight food groups in a day.

Poor children have a poor diet. Poor diet harms gut health.

In child poverty there is also a lack of exercise, clubs, activities.

‘Free access to toilets’ screams laziness. It does nothing to address the actual issues with poor children, poor parenting, societies issues. And who pays for the damage?

We have one child on movicol who also wears pull-ups as the effects of the meds can make her ‘leak’ poo. ~She’s 7. Her diet consists of Macdonalds daily because ‘that’s all she’ll eat’. She even brings a packed lunch of cold MDs!!

We are also in an area that has had multiple safety issues with drinking water with bottles being handed out. I think the water companies not putting their profits into maintaining drinking water facilities and the news that seems to be almost weekly around this, may be having an impact on people not wanting to drink tap water.