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| 10/02/2008 | Frankie, aged 10, from --- Please select --- in England wrote:
Our school toilets are absolutely terrible. People have to vote on whether somebody is allowed to use the toilet! Also, I get really embarrassed when I have my periods because there are no doors on the loos and the toilets are mixed. PLEASE help. xxx
Bog Standard response:
A voting system is cruel and unacceptable. Unisex toilets can improve behaviour, encourage schools to leave these toilets unlocked, and remove the argument for CCTV cameras inside the toilets. Actually, the Government guidance was for segregated, single sex cubicles with unisex washrooms – not unisex toilets! If students share the toilets or washrooms, privacy is extremely important – such as floor to ceiling cubicles and doors, sanitary disposal units in each girl’s cubicle for those aged 8 and over, a private and discrete way of obtaining sanitary products in an emergency. Single-sex toilets should also be provided so that students have the choice of which to use. | |
| 17/03/2007 | Joey , aged 13, from Essex in England wrote:
Finally! I have found somebody who will accept my comments, cos my school will not! We have mixed loos in every year group and gangs hang around them all the time, that is why I hate going! And that is when ou are actually ALLOWED to go! Please help, Joey.
Bog Standard response:
Oh dear, mixed toilets normally discourage gangs from hanging around the toilets. Clearly this is not the case in your school. Teachers and the school council need to work on pupil behaviour and provide alternative and more attractive indoor social areas so that toilets can be reclaimed for those who need to use them. I suggest you write a letter to the school council, headteacher and the chair of governors, explain the problem and the effect it has on you (and you won't be alone) and ask them to look at this website. | |
| 08/01/2006 | Clare, aged 13, from Essex in England wrote:
Mixed sex toilets are a bad idea because going to the toilet is private and boys standing there at the urinals while girls walk past would be weird, and their would be a lot of social stuff going on in there.
Bog Standard response:
Urinals in mixed toilets aren't allowed by law. We agree that this would be too like some of the French public toilets we've been to on holiday! The main reason we support some mixed toilets in schools (ideally there should also be some single sex toilets too) is because they have been found to really improve the behaviour of pupils in the toilets, so schools no longer have an excuse to lock the toilets during lessons! It's best if the pupils are consulted before the school makes a decision. | |
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