School Locks Students Out Of Restrooms

According to this story, one school locked down the restrooms to prevent students from participating in immigration riots. Instead, pupils were, for the most part, compelled to relive themselves in buckets.

This might sound like a "back in my day response", but they should be glad to have had the buckets.

For when I was in school, usually towards the end of the school year when students and teachers got tired of looking at each other, there would be an incident of some sort or the other such as graffiti in one of the restrooms and one year even a smoke bomb (the perpetrator of which was never revealed to the student body, thus possibly pointing to one of the teacher's kids as the culprit) that would grant the administration an excuse to justifying the suspension of normal restroom "privileges".

This would mean students would only be allowed to use the restrooms at certain times of the day, mostly right before lunch.

"Sounds better than the bucket to me,” some might respond. Don't make such a hasty conclusion.

The bucket might have actually been preferable as where I went to school during those times of year when staff and faculty would get their butts up on their shoulders either the principal or some other teacher would be stationed at the back of the restroom watching students as they went to and fro for this brief five minute period, acting as if they were doing students a favor at all by allowing us to use the toilet.

If one was able to rush into the closed stall, one was OK, but if one came in as second runners-up and channeled towards one of the urinals before the tardy bell rang, it would mean almost an entire school day without emptying the bladder since it is a tad difficult to turn on the waterworks with an authority figure just about breathing down one's neck.

Would have been glad to have a bucket with a bit of privacy.

It would have been rather pointless for parents to have complained about these conditions as in a private school, anytime you went against the directives of the academic and ecclesiastical elites, you usually got a lecture on how good Christians are submissive to those in authority and that little things like rights and such were actually inventions of the devil. Furthermore, if you or your parents said too much, they could simply have you expelled and this was in the days when homeschooling was not as widespread as it is now and there were not that many other Protestant high schools to pick from.

While overall public schools are inferior to the private alternative, at least these parents in this California incident are able to publicly air their grievances without fear of the retaliation that might befall their offspring.

Reflecting on this article and my own experience, something tells me the infringement of this fundamental biological necessity is more widespread than most Americans are willing to admit as educators like nothing more to set themselves up as petty tyrants. Things have gotten so far out of line that we can't even wiz or take a dump without permission or apply for a license.

by Frederick Meekins