Yeah... Protect me from those creeps watching my kid in the bathroom.. wait..
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Do all these weirdos have gendered bathrooms in their homes? Just install single person non gendered bathrooms or floor to ceiling stalls and non connected sinks and be done with it.
I point out that communal bathrooms are the problem every time this type of nonsense shows up
I think the problem is the bigotry, personally.
Does $9,000 seem a bit low for the cost of adding windows to all the relevant restrooms in a school district?
Eh. Sawzall through cinder-block, pre-built window and frame, some caulk. Sure.
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Ah, this takes me back to my own high school days back in the 90s where none of the boys' toilet stalls had doors on them. I assume as some sort of anti-masturbation tactic. I've got nervous bathroom issues already so I basically held it in until I got home most of the time.
We had a bunch of stalls in the 90s without doors, but the janitors told us it was just because asshole kids would break the doors for fun and the school would run out of money to repair them.
Even just partially damaging a door can make it a dangerous enough that the school would rather take it down than risk a lawsuit.
Made more sense to me than some sort of anti masturbation strategy. High school kids are fucking dumb as shit and I can definitely imagine them breaking stall doors for fun
Curtain rods and opaque shower curtains it is then. The more they get stolen the more kid like they get replaced with until they have to shit looking at Dora the Explorer.
It only just occurred to me that bathroom stalls in the schools almost never have any marketing on them like they do at shopping centres, ours certainly don't.
Which isn't weird, (obviously don't want corporate marketing into schools) but at home you hang stuff in your bathroom when you have kids- map of the world, vexology poster, dinosaur poster, etc, and I'm always trying to find a way to force my students to actually look at the term calendar in advance instead of being suprised that there's a scheduled assessment today.
I'm replacing the soap in the bathrooms every day, how has it never occurred to me to slap a poster on the back of the door so the students have something to look at, I've got so many posters with no wall space too!
That's a pretty awesome idea. Just know that it's going to get defaced so you'll likely have to replace it every now and then.
These posters are destined for the recycling bin (they're the old ones from the main classroom) so if anything it might reduce damage to other things if people are defacing the poster instead.
though in saying that, we don't have a tagging issue at our centre - I've rarely had to remove graffiti from toilets, it's only the soap dispensers that keep getting messed with here, but ripping the posters is also fine, if it makes someone less tempted to rip the soap off the wall.
Well that's cool, I like seeing educators this involved.
It helps that I work in community ed, there are 5 people on our entire faculty, so we litteraly all do a little bit of every job there is to do at an education centre.
My payslips look hilarious because I get paid 8 different rates per week depending on what I'm actually doing, admin, custodial, teaching, etc.
But this is the style of chaotic yet whole-ass-in education that drives me. I would quickly burn out at a more structured school-based workplace.
I went through 4 years of high school without ever taking a shit at school for this very reason.
You only need two types of bathrooms. One for standing while peeing and the other for sitting. That's the only way bathrooms need to be divided.
I noticed neither of your stated options has windows.
Well no...that would be weird.
For a lot of women the bathroom is the only way to escape unwanted male attention.
But that's not what bathrooms are for. I lament the state of our society that has so many women scared of men and I do what (little) I can to be a good ally.
But bathrooms are for expelling biological waste from one of three holes in the human body. And for washing afterwards. For that purpose, single occupancy toilet stalls (with floor to ceiling walls) and communal sinks is sufficient.
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I prefer to have open bathrooms. The only secure room is the stall itself (along the wall) and once you’re done, you step out to the bank of handwashing stations across from the stalls in the open. You’re never IN the bathroom with others as it’s out in the open.
There are always gaps in the doors. You can clearly see in the stall from that cut out.
Never been to Europe, I see.
It's entirely possible to have floor to ceiling doors for bathroom privacy, you see it plenty in Europe. That being said, gaps in stalks have always been weird to me. I don't need anyone trying to figure out who is taking a dump through the gap
Oh I know it's only an American thing. It's so weird.
Iirc it's because of the American fire code. If it's a complete door, it's a "room" and needs a fire detector/sprinkler. Too expensive.
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That seems to be what they are going for here. Instead of using the space as one shared restroom with a hand washing station and 4 stalls, they are converting it into 4 private restrooms, with a shared hand washing station in a "public area" outside the restrooms.
So long as they build actual walls and use actual doors on the ~~stalls~~ "private restrooms", this isn't a completely terrible idea.
They are out of their minds
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And the school board president ran as a member of the "Libertarian Party".
In case anyone else was wondering how they came up with 5 types of bathroom:
bathrooms for males assigned as male at birth, females assigned as female at birth, males based on gender identity, females based on gender identity, and private, single-use bathrooms for all students to use.
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