School bathroom closures statewide drive rising tensions, pushback

[Ringtone]

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School bathroom closures statewide drive rising tensions, pushback​

Jenna Russell - Yesterday 12:57 PM

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The condition of bathrooms in Boston Public Schools, and in other urban districts, has fueled public outrage for years, with broken taps and empty towel dispensers seen as sorry symbols of a failure to meet even basic needs.​

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© Erin Clark for The Boston GlobeA bathroom in a Boston high school.​

But across the state and country, an even more fundamental problem is gaining attention: increasing restrictions on students’ access to bathrooms, as administrators keep more restrooms locked and off limits for more of the school day.​

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Driven by efforts to curtail teen vaping, and to prevent outbreaks of vandalism sparked by the TikTok trend known as “Devious Licks”, the widespread crackdowns on bathroom access have left students in some schools searching urgently for unlocked stalls — and pining for any open restroom, no matter how broken or dirty. As teenagers learn to hold their urine for hours – or stop eating and drinking at school to avoid discomfort — the outcry against the closures from students and parents has grown louder.​

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“I understand that there are safety concerns, but the whole school shouldn’t have basic human rights taken away,” said Nevaeh Lopez, 16, a student at Holyoke High School who started an online petition to push back against bathroom closures at her school this spring.​

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The issue has provoked fiery debate at school committee meetings and in online forums around the region in recent months, as well as calls and e-mails to principals and school nurses. A post about bathroom restrictions at New Bedford High School, on the New Bedford Live Facebook page in October, garnered nearly 200 comments, from students who described missing class time while waiting in long bathroom lines, and from adults who placed blame squarely on the teenagers. (“If they would act like civilized human beings they would be able to be trusted,” wrote one.)​

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There is no doubt uncivilized — and sometimes violent — acts have taken place in school bathrooms. Several students were suspended at Wilmington High School in March after they picked up another student and tried to force his head into a toilet in a boys’ bathroom. “What is equally disturbing is the fact that other students were present and did nothing to stop the incident, and in fact recorded the altercation,” Superintendent Glenn Brand said later.​

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In Worcester, when student leaders raised concerns about locked bathrooms as part of a presentation to the School Committee in January, then-Superintendent Maureen Binienda defended the practice. “There have been some serious injuries, serious fights, drugs in bathrooms, so the reason they get locked is for school safety,” she said.​

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School leaders nationwide have reported a general uptick in discipline and behavior issues, including fighting and bullying, since students returned to full-time, in-person school following two years of disruption. The troubling trend has been linked to the mental health toll of the pandemic, and to social development delays possibly caused by students’ recent isolation.​

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Rest of Article​

Also see: School, police investigating ‘disturbing’ physical altercation inside restroom at Wilmington High School

 

[Dekster]

In my high school of 3500 students there was exactly one stall with one door on it in one boy's bathroom outside of the gym/lockerroom area to discourage smoking on campus. People somehow survived.

 

[Sunsettommy]

If they start suspending or expel bad students, this problem will quickly become manageable.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

Well, yes, but you need to realize that schools are attending to that which REALLY matters -- turning kids into transexuals.

 

[Ringtone]

If they start suspending or expel bad students, this problem will quickly become manageable.

But the teacher unions that control the schools oppose taking aggressive measures against such behavior. Besides, teachers have to monitor pronoun usage, enforce speech codes, groom, and create safe spaces. There's only so many hours in a day.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 6But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. 7And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. 8Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.


So, the Christians in this thread think Jesus had it all wrong?




asking for a friend.

 

[Moonglow]

They should just piss wherever they can find a spot and not get caught.

 

[Resnic]

Well this is what happens when you turn bathrooms into warzone between gender issues with a men's and women's bathroom and who should use what, when you let girls be afraid of tranny dudes in their with them, when you don't crack down on vaping in schools like the article pointed out, when you elect representatives that care more about racism and cry and drag shows in school than anything else, when you let teachers teach that don't give a shit about anything, when you don't crack down on students, and when you don't fund schools properly and put principals in place that don't have morals and care about the students. You end up with shit like this.

10 years ago schools didn't have anywhere near as many oddball issues as they do now. So what has changed?

 

[August West]

But the teacher unions that control the schools oppose taking aggressive measures against such behavior. Besides, teachers have to monitor pronoun usage, enforce speech codes, groom, and create safe spaces. There's only so many hours in a day.

Losers like to blame all of our problems on unions. Did you forget that the teachers also have to conduct Active Shooter Drills or is that a topic Deplorables would rather not talk about. Those drills are for real unlike the stupid shit you posted.

 

[Ringtone]

Losers like to blame all of our problems on unions. Did you forget that the teachers also have to conduct Active Shooter Drills or is that a topic Deplorables would rather not talk about. Those drills are for real unlike the stupid shit you posted.

Calm down, Norma Rae.

 

[petro]

In my high school of 3500 students there was exactly one stall with one door on it in one boy's bathroom outside of the gym/lockerroom area to discourage smoking on campus. People somehow survived.

Back in the early eighties we were allowed to smoke in a designated area outside between classes because adults at the time chose common sense and to not fight a losing battle of kids smoking in the boys room or skipping off school grounds.

 

[Dekster]

Back in the early eighties we were allowed to smoke in a designated area outside between classes because adults at the time chose common sense and to not fight a losing battle of kids smoking in the boys room or skipping off school grounds.

I was told that back when smoking was 18 our high school used to allow seniors to smoke outside between classes like that but so many were doing it, very few other people cut between buildings the haze would be so thick for those 5 minutes between bells

 

[miketx]

The left proves again they are evil ghouls.

 

[jehanne1431]

Comment: State school are seething cauldrons of ideological tyranny, degeneracy, mediocrity, violence and now backed up bowels and bladders. Universal school choice funding now!
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School bathroom closures statewide drive rising tensions, pushback​

Jenna Russell - Yesterday 12:57 PM

Excerpt:

The condition of bathrooms in Boston Public Schools, and in other urban districts, has fueled public outrage for years, with broken taps and empty towel dispensers seen as sorry symbols of a failure to meet even basic needs.​

​

© Erin Clark for The Boston GlobeA bathroom in a Boston high school.​

But across the state and country, an even more fundamental problem is gaining attention: increasing restrictions on students’ access to bathrooms, as administrators keep more restrooms locked and off limits for more of the school day.​

​

Driven by efforts to curtail teen vaping, and to prevent outbreaks of vandalism sparked by the TikTok trend known as “Devious Licks”, the widespread crackdowns on bathroom access have left students in some schools searching urgently for unlocked stalls — and pining for any open restroom, no matter how broken or dirty. As teenagers learn to hold their urine for hours – or stop eating and drinking at school to avoid discomfort — the outcry against the closures from students and parents has grown louder.​

​

“I understand that there are safety concerns, but the whole school shouldn’t have basic human rights taken away,” said Nevaeh Lopez, 16, a student at Holyoke High School who started an online petition to push back against bathroom closures at her school this spring.​

​

The issue has provoked fiery debate at school committee meetings and in online forums around the region in recent months, as well as calls and e-mails to principals and school nurses. A post about bathroom restrictions at New Bedford High School, on the New Bedford Live Facebook page in October, garnered nearly 200 comments, from students who described missing class time while waiting in long bathroom lines, and from adults who placed blame squarely on the teenagers. (“If they would act like civilized human beings they would be able to be trusted,” wrote one.)​

​

There is no doubt uncivilized — and sometimes violent — acts have taken place in school bathrooms. Several students were suspended at Wilmington High School in March after they picked up another student and tried to force his head into a toilet in a boys’ bathroom. “What is equally disturbing is the fact that other students were present and did nothing to stop the incident, and in fact recorded the altercation,” Superintendent Glenn Brand said later.​

​

In Worcester, when student leaders raised concerns about locked bathrooms as part of a presentation to the School Committee in January, then-Superintendent Maureen Binienda defended the practice. “There have been some serious injuries, serious fights, drugs in bathrooms, so the reason they get locked is for school safety,” she said.​

​

School leaders nationwide have reported a general uptick in discipline and behavior issues, including fighting and bullying, since students returned to full-time, in-person school following two years of disruption. The troubling trend has been linked to the mental health toll of the pandemic, and to social development delays possibly caused by students’ recent isolation.​

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Rest of Article​

Also see: School, police investigating ‘disturbing’ physical altercation inside restroom at Wilmington High School

What we are expected to accept as honorable efforts to help our children by the public education leaders these days is beyond shocking. They will let filth like this go and their remedy is to close bathrooms???!!!! Meanwhile, they are obsessed with teaching 7 year olds about sex and changing genders???!!! And they hate Christianity but they love sin, freakiness and immorality. So sorry some parents (or are they domestic terrorists according to Biden's cabinet?) are actually outraged.

 

[JOSweetHeart]

Right me if I am wrong, but shouldn't every school be closed completely now due to summer vacation?

God bless you always!!!

Holly

 

[22lcidw]

Losers like to blame all of our problems on unions. Did you forget that the teachers also have to conduct Active Shooter Drills or is that a topic Deplorables would rather not talk about. Those drills are for real unlike the stupid shit you posted.

For the costs per student it is not worth it. Ghettos will never end.

 

[talksalot]

Comment: State school are seething cauldrons of ideological tyranny, degeneracy, mediocrity, violence and now backed up bowels and bladders. Universal school choice funding now!
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School bathroom closures statewide drive rising tensions, pushback​

Jenna Russell - Yesterday 12:57 PM

Excerpt:

The condition of bathrooms in Boston Public Schools, and in other urban districts, has fueled public outrage for years, with broken taps and empty towel dispensers seen as sorry symbols of a failure to meet even basic needs.​

​

© Erin Clark for The Boston GlobeA bathroom in a Boston high school.​

But across the state and country, an even more fundamental problem is gaining attention: increasing restrictions on students’ access to bathrooms, as administrators keep more restrooms locked and off limits for more of the school day.​

​

Driven by efforts to curtail teen vaping, and to prevent outbreaks of vandalism sparked by the TikTok trend known as “Devious Licks”, the widespread crackdowns on bathroom access have left students in some schools searching urgently for unlocked stalls — and pining for any open restroom, no matter how broken or dirty. As teenagers learn to hold their urine for hours – or stop eating and drinking at school to avoid discomfort — the outcry against the closures from students and parents has grown louder.​

​

“I understand that there are safety concerns, but the whole school shouldn’t have basic human rights taken away,” said Nevaeh Lopez, 16, a student at Holyoke High School who started an online petition to push back against bathroom closures at her school this spring.​

​

The issue has provoked fiery debate at school committee meetings and in online forums around the region in recent months, as well as calls and e-mails to principals and school nurses. A post about bathroom restrictions at New Bedford High School, on the New Bedford Live Facebook page in October, garnered nearly 200 comments, from students who described missing class time while waiting in long bathroom lines, and from adults who placed blame squarely on the teenagers. (“If they would act like civilized human beings they would be able to be trusted,” wrote one.)​

​

There is no doubt uncivilized — and sometimes violent — acts have taken place in school bathrooms. Several students were suspended at Wilmington High School in March after they picked up another student and tried to force his head into a toilet in a boys’ bathroom. “What is equally disturbing is the fact that other students were present and did nothing to stop the incident, and in fact recorded the altercation,” Superintendent Glenn Brand said later.​

​

In Worcester, when student leaders raised concerns about locked bathrooms as part of a presentation to the School Committee in January, then-Superintendent Maureen Binienda defended the practice. “There have been some serious injuries, serious fights, drugs in bathrooms, so the reason they get locked is for school safety,” she said.​

​

School leaders nationwide have reported a general uptick in discipline and behavior issues, including fighting and bullying, since students returned to full-time, in-person school following two years of disruption. The troubling trend has been linked to the mental health toll of the pandemic, and to social development delays possibly caused by students’ recent isolation.​

​

Rest of Article​

Also see: School, police investigating ‘disturbing’ physical altercation inside restroom at Wilmington High School

Democrats are making us a third-world country.