Students at Pa. school must ask for toilet paper

[Kimberlyd125]

The schools in my area require a hall pass to go the bathroom. In the mornings a teacher stands by the door and kids must sign in before entering the bathroom. If a delinquent clogs up the toilets and floods the bathroom on purpose, it is to track who did it based on the time of the flood and hall pass. This has also stopped the monsters that write bomb threats on the walls.

Seems like a much better solution than withdrawing TP from the restroom to me.

 

[buffetoflies]

The way my highschool did it was to keep the bathrooms locked. If a student needed to go in, they had to ask, and it was unlocked for them, but unlocked in such a way that it would lock once the door closed behind them.

It wasn't a 'clogging' issue so much as a 're-decoration' issue.

I wouldn't have had a problem though as I did back then, and still do, keep about 6-8 folded up kleenex in my pockets at all times.

I think 'mitt' wiping would cause more 'finger breakthrough'. With folding everywhere is the same thickness.

 

[not_my_kids]

This is a health hazard! Not all children wear thick pants. This will expose the other children to Hep A, B and C, parasites, Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli. giardiasis, cryptosporidiosis, shigellosis, and other more obscure illnesses. I'm calling the Schuylkill County Health Department. All parents in that school district should do the same in addition to calling for the resignation of the dumbarse that decided this was a good policy. Ugh!

I think you have a good point. Do they just hand the kid a whole roll to carry with them and them sign back over to the office? If so, that seems really unsanitary. When it's in a dispenser, you pull out as much as you need, but you never have to touch the roll. If they are using the bathroom, then just grabbing the roll and heading back to the office, that means they have to sit the roll somewhere while they are going (probably the floor or the back of the toilet), then they have to set it somewhere while they wash their hands (on the sink probably or on the floor so it doesn't get wet) and that's IF they wash their hands. If not, they just grab it when they're done and walk out.

I honestly see why this can be so offensive now. No matter how they slice it, there is no way to avoid the fact that someone is going to have to wipe their privates with an unsanitary material that has very recently touched the unwashed hands of someone that just urinated or defecated.

EWWWWWW!

 

[mikeysmommom]

It is topics like this that make me glad I am not a kid anymore lol.

 

[txsvicki]

Toilet cloggers who do it on purpose can always find something besides tissue to flush. How embarassing for boys to have to ask snippy secretaries for tissue.

 

[Kimberlyd125]

Toilet cloggers who do it on purpose can always find something besides tissue to flush. How embarassing for boys to have to ask snippy secretaries for tissue.

Yes they can. The principle that made this new TP policy was quoted in one of the articles linked above saying they have used books and other types of paper.

 

[keeponsearching]

Girls have to go sometimes when they gotta go! I remember in high school, I had to wait for class to be over to go. What a mistake that was. Obviously I am talking about that time of month. I was wearing khakis, real nice.

I think people should be able to go, and have the right tools for when they do.

My kindergarten teacher for my daughter thought of an easy idea. When someone doesn't flush, she knows the gender, since the seat is up. She takes away recess but she makes all the boys participate since it was one of them. SO why not take all the boys in the school and do a punishment, eventually boys will get mad and start ratting each other out. Because in my daughters class the boy finally raised his hand and corrected the mistake. I guessteacher is real big on flushing, not sure why my daughter obeys at school but won't flush at home.

 

[txsvicki]

I hope the school has the tissue in a dispenser of some sort so hands aren't all over the roll all day long five days per week. Yuck. I can just imagine some kid with IBD or a virus trying to ask for extra and getting chewed out over asking, then spreading germs because he didn't have enough to clean properly.

 

[SwampMama]

I wonder if they have also taken the paper towels ( for washing hands after using the bathroom) out of the bathroom. Or is there one of those oh-so-effective (not) hand dryers available to dry hands.
If the paper towels are there, then students may be likely to use those rather than asking for toilet paper, thus creating a bigger problem with toilet clogs. If the paper towels are NOT available, then the students are probably not washing their hand which is spreading germs throughout the school.
I think one of the students needs to do a science project and reveal the germs being spread.

On a side note, when I was in high school, we also had a problem with students clogging toilets ( the boys, of course). Our insane disciplinarian decided to dredge all of the trash from the toilets and put it on display on a table for all to see. I can only imagine the germs!!

We thought it was amusing and yet another reason we thought he was nuts. He also used to hide up in trees and wear tennis shoes in efforts to catch us skipping classes and going off campus, lol!! He was a trip and legendary!!