changing rooms at school

[missyB1]

Just need to get other people's perspective on this as I'm not sure if I'm expecting too much / being a bit precious. So ds is age 8, year four, in a private school. They have sport every day and do various sports with various kits so lots of getting changed in the changing rooms.
They are nearly always unsupervised in the changing rooms, is this normal? At first I thought ds was making it up but on speaking to other parents they all confirmed there is rarely a teacher or any adult in the changing rooms. Ds hates being in there because its loud chaotic and often a bit "Lord of the Flies"!
I asked the school about it and the response was
" The children should try to only enter the changing rooms when a teacher is available. If they choose to change when there is no teacher then that is their own poor choice."

Wtf is that supposed to mean? Ds says they dont have a choice about when they change and are often told to do it in break time or lunchtime.

Am i being weird about this? I just think they are only 8 years old surely they should be supervised?

Maybe it just happens in both cases that there are less girls in the class than boys.

There are boarders in ds year and that ratio of boarders to day pupils increases as the years go up. It’s beginning to dawn on me that actually the school is run predominantly to the benefit of the boarders and I may have been naive in not anticipating that. There is zero chance we would ever board him, and I suspect we won’t keep him there for senior school. Luckily there are other options in our town so I will need to start doing some research.

Because the boys in my class are louder than my girls. I can control them in my classroom a lot easier. My girls are quieter and I know they can be outside without disrupting other classes.

If it was the other way round, I would switch them.