Doesn't everyone have the right to use the bathroom when they need to?

That can't be legal?

And young girls need the restroom for monthly issues-wth!

Is this even legal??

So they'd rather have students be excused from class to use the restrooms? I'd think going between classes would be preferred: not missing part of the class, not interrupting to ask to be excused.... This makes no sense.

It's against human rights.

As much as I love faux outrage, this is usually done during off seasons to limit the use of facilities and maintenance. I'd wager there are open bathrooms in the active parts of the facilities. Because, yes, it would be illegal otherwise.

So what are you supposed to do now? Pee your pants if you need the toilet in class?

ADA violation I'm pretty sure. If not it should be.

Let them boys wee or poo on door... They might reconsider

So American schools are essentially prisons for kids?

WHAT???

Again, how is this possible?

That metal contraption needs to go up someone's backside...

Oh, now *surely* that's illegal?

Is this Florida again?

Isn't this illegal?

Just the blocking access to disabled toilets alone is surely illegal? I'm not speaking for every disabled person btw. Each disability is unique but I can't always feel if I need to "go" straight away. Well... I'll just have to poop in the hallway then. You blocked the access, YOU can clean up the mess.

Don't understand why they still build schools with two gendered bathrooms of multiple stalls when the gender neutral version with its own door directly off the hallway is also a thing. Old schools are one thing, but schools literally under construction right now are still being built with the "gendered bathroom where everyone can hear you go" model. I've heard a lot of reasons why it could never work, but none of those things is currently happening in the accessible bathrooms, which are single gender neutral stalls off the corridor.

what?? at my school, we have to go while we're switching classes because some teachers are strict after about going during their class!!

All the angry people, please take a minute to think. I have worked in a few secondary schools. Children with medical needs do have passes. Children unexpectedly caught short, are allowed to go to the bathroom. Children getting used to periods are understood. However, there are kids who ask to go to the toilet just to make trouble. I'm not talking about just wanting to get out of class for a bit either. 2 members of staff need to be paid to look after toilets, which still gets vandalised and can be scary places for many students. Many kids (especially with ASD) will not go at all even if desperate because of the problem children. Vapes set of fire alarms and block toilets all the time. Anxious non attenders often listening toilet worries as one fear of school - not that teachers won't let them go, but that they will need to face badly behaved bullies there. And yet whenever schools try and limit the problem, so toilets are safe non scary places, everyone starts yelling like we are cruel

P**s in the fountain!

Not gonna stop me from squatting and peeing on the ground.

More common in UK now due to daily vandalism.

First we can only go between classes and now we can't go ever?

Are the kids then allowed to go during classes?

Just what are they trying to stop?...menstruation maybe?

So when are you supposed to go, during classes?

That looks temptingly like a urinal right next to the gate...

So, we bought, and installed these “security gates”, on an unrelated note, we are having to fire three teachers.

And schools have still learned nothing. Kids do d***s in school bathrooms. Rather than deal with the problem (and consequently have their numbers look bad) they simply lock the bathrooms except for one that is easy to check (near the office). Kids in Parkland died outside of locked bathrooms.

UK here, some schools do it here too. My daughter's school did this to prevent kids vaping/d***s. If she needed the loo she had to walk to the main office to grab a key.

This has GOT to be in a Democrat-run cesspool. This is their level of Tyranny.

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That is because people get assaulted, raped or do d***s in there. Sad but true.