School toilets

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Sweetheart1990 · 02/06/2026 12:05

School toilets!
Son text me to say he had walked out of lesson after being refused permission to go to the toilet, he had finished all his work. I have always told him to do this if he is desperate but he never actually has before.
He has been put in isolation.
I'm angry as I really believe that students should be allowed to go when they need to and he had completed all tasks so was just say in the classroom anyway.
What does everyone else think?

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FlowerSticker · 04/06/2026 17:02

ByCyanMoose · 03/06/2026 21:09

So what you really have are school “leaders” who have allowed behavior to degenerate to the point where the school is a dangerous environment for students and teachers, one symptom of which is misbehavior involving the toilets. That seems to be the real problem. The students screaming abuse at you would seem to warrant a lengthy, if not permanent exclusion, as does the vandalism of school facilities. I’m curious to hear what the headteacher did with them.

as far as vandalism, are there not cameras in the corridors that at least show who goes in and out? Putting aside the fact that administration probably knows perfectly well who is doing it but doesn’t have the stones to confront them (or their parents).

None of this, however, justifies a blanket ban on toilets that punishes good students and damage their trust in the school,all for the sake of sparing leadership the trouble of actually doing their jobs, which is to come up with solutions that are not cruel and abusive on their face. Before anyone says “let’s hear them, then!” I would suggest this question be put to the people who are paid to come up with solutions. I would suggest as a starting point, however, looking at the dozens of advanced countries, and the hundreds of schools in the UK, that serve similarly under-resourced (or whatever the term is now) areas, and yet manage to keep toilets open. This won’t happen, of course, because it would require a modicum of actual effort and research on their part; whereas proclaiming that toilets are locked, ties will be so many inches long, and jackets will be worn during heat waves requires none, and leaves the teachers and students to bear all the consequences.

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So a camera shows up to 30 people going in and out... Then a report if damage is made... How does the CCTV help ?

FrankSinatraonToast · 04/06/2026 20:33

I also think parents need to demand cleaner toilets at schools as many children are put off from using them (and drinking less/ no water) because of the state they are in.

And who do you think gets the toilets into such a state?

Imanautumn · Yesterday 08:23

Sweetheart1990 · 03/06/2026 07:50

Is it a bad thing that my priority is my child?

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No it’s not, if our kids aren’t our priority then they won’t be anyone’s. They’ll just be a cog in a huge machine taught to ignore their own feelings and needs.

ruethewhirl · Yesterday 09:19

MyPurpleHeart · 03/06/2026 12:51

Where I live there is an ongoing saga about this. The toilets are locked with a padlocked gate during lesson time, and only opened on break time. Meaning massive queues and very little privacy because there is pressure to get in and out as quickly as possible. Parents are up in arms and the school are not budging.

Some teenage girls have had period related incidents and been forced to sit in it and wait. Kids have wet themselves and then walked out of school, waiting so long in a queue only to have the bell go off and be ushered away and back to lesson. Its barbaric if you ask me.

There was even a girl who had the most horrific battle with ovarian cancer, when she recovered and returned she wasnt given any exemptions to use the toilet in lesson time despite the after effects of chemo and radiation being completely unpredictable.

How it hasnt ended up on the news I dont know

Those examples are absolutely shocking. Our kids are entitled to expect better treatment than this from their schools.

AWeeCupOfTeaAndAnIndividualFruitTrifle · Yesterday 09:54

FrankSinatraonToast · 04/06/2026 20:33

I also think parents need to demand cleaner toilets at schools as many children are put off from using them (and drinking less/ no water) because of the state they are in.

And who do you think gets the toilets into such a state?

Not the well-behaved, conscientious kids who are put off from using them.

It's like so many things, whereby the decent people can't have nice things; but the bad people, who don't care about nice things in the first place, can continue to enjoy the previously-nice things that they preferred to spoil.

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