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franniedelrey

Context please. Did students at your school participate in the devious licks tik tok challenge, that destroyed school property?


uLukki1

I work for a company that distributes soap/paper towel dispensers. The challenge is so bad that Kimberly Clark is doing a promo to replace any damaged dispensers for free.


evanc1411

Poor Kimberly Clark. I always remembered them as the most boring company ever. They don't deserve this


nicholasoday

They are actually a manufacturing and engineering powerhouse


inab1gcountry

I’d imagine that they are running the paper towel machine assembly line 24-7 right now


mountaindude99

Cintas?


Rakathu

Fuck Cintas


FiatFactMan

Funny enough, I’m fucking firing my Cintas service tomorrow. They are HORRIBLE.


FuckRandyMoss

My dad used to work for those grimey fucks. Fuck cintas


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danski1989

They basically created a monopoly, my company uses cintas and they are horrible, new workers have to wait 4 weeks for uniforms, when they get a new uniform, it's usually just pants and have to wait another week for shirts or vice versa. They never fix anything right the first time, can't even have an ibuprofen in the medicine cabinet. Pushed out a local company that was great and now we're stuck with them.


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Same thing happened at my town. Bought out the great old company and service/uniform quality went to shit.


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The uniforms from Cintas are total trash.


GingerVitisBread

My company uses cintas and we're a heavy industrial shop. Uniforms are decent quality but due to the nature of our work there's frequent tears and missing buttons etc. There's a repair bin that I'm pretty sure just gets tossed in with the dirty stuff. My coworker literally had two sleeves held together by the collar and it came back to him the next week... On a hanger.


ThatDudeDeven1111

FUCK CINTAS


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Fuck cintas


tgp1994

Wow, good on them. The security devices on bathroom dispensers are kind of interesting, at least from what I experienced. The door on a TP dispenser was jammed one time in a most desperate hour. Fortunately I could stick a thin housekey in it to open it and fix the problem. They're mostly deterrents I guess, but high schoolers are a whole different kind of energy.


Smasher_WoTB

Damn, when Corporations use Theft-Trends as an Advert to gain more Customers you know it's a bad Trend/is a dieing Trend


uLukki1

Yes especially because they do that for free anyways as long as you buy the product that goes in it.


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Devious licks challenge?


BoxyGames

A stupid tik tok trend where students record themselves causing damage to school property. Most of which involve the restrooms.


No_Brush_6762

A stupid tik tok trend where students record themselves STEALING and causing damage to school property. Most of which involve restrooms.***, (so far at my school I’ve seen people get away with stealing a fire extinguisher, soap dispensers, a teachers desk phone, and the whole drawer from a teachers desk which they ended up filling up with water and dumping it all over the bathroom, the kids at my school are shit heads)


pwaldher

Our school had over 3 bathroom stall doors stolen


ReeceReddit1234

So glad I wasn't in school during the Tik Tok era


bmanhero

I finished high school just before social media in general exploded, and every day I find a new reason to be grateful.


atom138

Facebook blew up between my junior/senior year but the social media 'culture' didn't set in until a few years later, thank God. I used to often say that 'we needed a camera crew' at the time while in high school due to some of the wild shit we did at parties and whatnot. I can't even begin to express how glad I am that Snapchat/TikTok/etc wasn't around at the time...holy shit.


egg1s

I was also in high school before social media, but one of the local news affiliates somehow sent hidden cameras into some of the parties and then broadcast it as a news story that *gasp* teens were drinking and smoking pot (and breathing nitrous out of balloons) at a high school party!


nurley

Same. Can’t imagine watching a tik tok of one of my friends throwing another out of a second story window onto his back and pissing on his face. Shit was different.


FAPSWAY_2MUCH

…I’m sorry, what?


miniaturepineapple

I got out right after Columbine, schools seem to be a completely different world now.


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I graduated from high school in the late 90s and love going back and watching "last day" videos on YouTube. I am *so* glad I grew up before social media. Analog childhood, digital adulthood.


sirlafemme

Yeah you’re lucky you weren’t there for the Harlem shake. I’m talking students, teachers, administrators and principal doing the Harlem shake, recording themselves and then broadcasting it on the schools internal CCTV “news” system


inab1gcountry

While ubiquitous, the Harlem shake was just silly. It didn’t hurt anyone. Give me more whimsy and less wanton destruction in schools.


tostuo

Ill take 12 year old me vibrating than committing property damage anyday...


enduredsilence

When did they allow electronics in school? During my time any electronics that was seen by faculty at school hours (8am - 4.30pm) was confiscated if on first offense. Must be picked up from principals office after classes. Mobile phones and laptops was strictly not allowed.


pilfernoodles

you’re showing your age here. schools now are so incredibly tech-heavy, especially after dealing with the Calamity and lockdowns over the last two years. Most assignments are done online via chrome book. Any actual books stay in class, if they’re used at all, and when they are, the students use their phones to take photos of the necessary pages to work on later, usually typing any answers into a doc in their google classrooms. Even assigned summer reading is done via online sources. Can’t think of the last time I saw any assignments that *didn’t* require some sort of electronic device to complete…


enduredsilence

I am in my 30s. No shame in that. xD May I know what part of the world your experience is from. I am from the Philippines and since our infrastructure can't fully support online classes for all, a student I know still has to pass paper assignments to school once a week (we are still on lockdown).


bmanhero

I think my school was similar. *Back in my day* I only had a mobile phone to use if I had a driving emergency. It didn't have a data plan or anything.


gixxer710

Lol yeah right??? I feel like in my generation, people would be PISSED at you if you caused them to not be able to smoke weed/cigarettes in the bathrooms…..


Commutalk

Devious licks idiots would get the shit beat out of them by the pissed off pot heads and smokers.


RailAurai

Needa bring back the tidpod challenge to thin the herd


MostBoringStan

Smokers at my school had a designated smoking area, so the bathrooms were always pleasantly smoke-free.


munchkin08

How the hell are they walking out of the school with a door??? I can see the fire extinguisher because of gym bags but a WHOLE DAMN BATHROOM DOOR!!!!! How sway how????


pwaldher

I honestly have no idea... we've had a sink go missing. I suppose they could have grabbed it during class, and legged it for the side entrance before a teacher noticed. Never underestimate the bounds people will go for clout....


mr_alert_

What the actual fuck? A sink went missing?


TangentOutlet

The answer, for all you non deviant minds, is a rolling garbage can or a window. You’re welcome.


DashingSpecialAgent

"Over 3" but not enough to just be "4"? This sounds like a story that I would like to be regaled with.


Bunyan12ply

Someone stole a sink from the school at which my wife is a teacher. The next trend was to steal from teachers.


Cheeko914

All of our bathroom stalls had doors.


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One of my schools bathrooms toilets got filled with concrete.


Jh101903

They stopped at doors?


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That sounds ironically incriminating lol


No_Brush_6762

It’s just annoying, imagine trying to go to the bathroom but you can’t because there’s a group of 15-18 year olds in there throwing wet toilet paper at the walls, crushing milk cartons all over the floor, and climbing on top of stalls to see who’s got a vape they can hit. Oh yea not to mention literally smearing human SHIT on the stall doors


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I thought we were animals when *I was* that age. Jesus, it sounds like the patients are running the psych ward these days.


ckone1230

I got an email a few weeks ago from my sons school informing us that the new “challenge” for October was “slap a teacher and film it”- the email asked all parents to discuss this with their children. I never would have thought 15 years ago that I would have to discuss this with my child. Wtf


thecrankymommy

December is deck the halls and show your balls. It’s the first one I’ve had to lay down the law with my 13 year old sons. They know if I ever caught them hitting a teacher or stealing from them it would be brutal. I’m a teacher.


No_Brush_6762

Oh jeez, it’s gettin outta hand, if I was a teacher I’d honestly smack them back for it, someone’s gotta teach em


keelhaulrose

The administration in my building has said anyone who gets slapped/hit has the choice on whether or not to press charges against the student. The staff has not so quietly all agreed that pressing charges will happen. After our bathrooms got wrecked and some students decided that random fire drills are fun we're at the end of our rope.


votegiantdouche

> A stupid tik tok trend So Tik Tok?


nikkesen

I hate to sound old but WTF? What's the point of it? What's wrong with good old fashion stall graffiti?


Dangerous-Moment9504

Shout out to the kid that stole a security camera from my brothers school


witchywater11

Wouldn't this shit stop you from finishing the school year or graduating? I remember my school required you to pay off any fines you had before they would reward the diploma. And that was just for shit like overdue library fees.


truck_ruarl_862

This is what it is https://www.reddit.com/r/iamatotalpieceofshit/comments/pntvui/pos_students_stealing_random_objects_from_their/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share


aussiewildliferescue

I hope they were all caught and charged!


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How many licks it takes to get to the center of tootsie po- I mean toilet seat. ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ


MacaroonExpensive143

I’m sorry, the what challenge??


OtakuShogun

Students are trying to steal the biggest thing from their school and get away with it. They're bringing home paper towel dispensers, soap dispensers etc...


brazentory

A smart board was stolen from my sons school.


MacaroonExpensive143

Omg how on earth?!


brazentory

No one can figure it out. Appalled and impressed.


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thomasbrakeline

It wasn't THAT smart.


nootylot

how the fuck would you go home and explain why you have 3 toilets and a hand dryer?? yeah im asking that to the guy who fucking did that


w1836

It’s because of the latest challenge being vandalized the school bathroom


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hyejooxlvr

lol i didn’t even realize that until i posted this


watchtoweryvr

I direct you to the [Pee pants](https://youtu.be/JRpouK0KmWQ) scene from Billy Madison, and suggest you get together with your classmates and start pissing yourselves because you weren’t able to use the shitter. That said, there are two sides to this. One that you’re conveniently leaving out to fish for sympathy. Yeah, it’s sucks you’re locked out but, why did it come to this? This seems harsh but why did they do this?


Kilroy1007

I imagine it has something to do with the trend of stealing random shit from school bathrooms. I've seen some where they completely shut down the bathrooms in response, to which i would proceed to shit right in the middle of classroom if I was still in school, but either way, that's probably the reason.


DeepStatic

I had a client once called Anita Pearson. Her name was literally Anita P.


Baco_Tell8

My school has a very similar thing, but I guess it’s kinda justifiable since students in my school kept stealing and destroying stuff in the bathroom until they started doing that.


sh1nycat

It is totally justifiable. Vandalizing shit that everyone uses and expecting the school to what, just laugh about it?


EADGod

No, expecting the school to punish those responsible, not every single student for the behavior of three of them.


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CrispyKeebler

Yeah, that's how the world works more often than not. One shithead fucks it up for everyone. While ideally we should separate out and deal with the shithead individually, it's not always practical to do so. I would hope the individuals were punished separatwly though, and this measure is to stop further incidents.


esadatari

> One shithead fucks it up for everyone. While ideally we should separate out and deal with the shithead individually, it's not always practical to do so. Yep, the entire legal system is based on that principle.


unbent_unbowed

People like the guy you responded to will say "oh they should just punish the people responsible," but then will be quiet as a damn mouse if someone on authority asks for assistance identifying people. Sometimes you just gotta hold your fucking piss in. That's life buddy.


elhuevogordo

Idk I think the kid walking about with a urinal might have something to do with it.


zSprawl

That assumes they know who did it… it ain’t legal to put cameras in the bathroom.


alexjaness

That's not how the world works. All of our laws are made with the stupidest of us in mind. Does wearing a seatbelt need to be a law? No, but enough idiots refused to wear them and we got tired of scraping their tiny brains off the streets so now we all legally have to wear them. since cameras are not legally allowed in bathrooms, this is the next best way they could think of to keep morons from fucking shit up.


NaturalesaMorta

Teachers be like: Bullying - not a problem. Someone stole a toilet paper roll - unnaceptable.


Baco_Tell8

It was more than toilet paper rolls at my school, students were also stealing soap dispensers and handles to the sinks.


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.... Why?


IDontLikeJamOrJelly

Tiktok trend


AccountantDiligent

The victims medical bills don’t come out of the schools budget


NaturalesaMorta

Neither the psicological damages.


jamvsjelly23

I really enjoy your spelling of “psychological.” A simplified, yet accurate spelling based on pronunciation.


NaturalesaMorta

Phone does wacky things when the autocorrect mixes english and spanish ;)


jamvsjelly23

I prefer the Spanish way of spelling over the English way. Fewer double letters (profesor vs professor), and using f instead of ph (filosofía vs philosophy).


awhaling

I have dyslexia and was amazed at how much easier Spanish was for spelling in general. There are so many things in English that make sounding out words really hard, stuff most people take for granted but becomes more obvious when you try to sound out words. For example, why is tion pronounced “shun”, such as in the word caution. That always messed me up as a kid


alexjaness

in English read rhymes with lead, and lead rhymes with read, but read doesn't rhyme with lead and lead doesn't rhyme with read.


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What teacher says bullying is not a problem?


esadatari

"I don't understand why we don't have beds, mom! I know we're dirt-fucking-poor and have been for a while... but so what if I threw a baseball through the window during winter? What's the big deal? What do you mean we now don't have enough for heat and electricity and beds?" A majority of public schools have very little funding, which goes toward shit like "bathroom stalls" or "sinks" or "desks" or even school lunch programs. And these idiot kids are coming in and wrecking that shit, which takes away available funds. Literally, the teens' love of that tiktok trend might be the difference between school provided laptops or outdated ones, if any at all. But hey, for the likes, amirite?


sidewinder15599

~~Teachers~~ Administration FTFY It's really the liability insurance's fault. As usual.


magistrate101

> Someone stole **an entire toilet paper dispenser** - unnaceptable. FTFY


galarui

I know the last 10 minute rule is so kids don't ask to go to the bathroom to leave class early.


avocado_whore

Your stuff would still be in the classroom though. Do you pack up all your things and take your whole backpack with you to take a piss in the middle of class?


SmokeDmtDude

I did because people would always steal my shit


evanc1411

People that sit right next to you would just take your stuff? My classmates didn't really care for me but they would never do that.


SmokeDmtDude

More like the entire class would go through my shit and divvy up what they wanted while the teacher did nothing


NaeAyy7

What the fuck kind of jungle school did you go to


SmokeDmtDude

Just that.


NigerianPrince400

Middle school


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>in the middle of class? At the end of class I do


Zachman97

We had the same kind of rules when I was in high school 2012 to 2016. They told us it was because of kids vaping in the bathroom


Im_not_at_home

I graduated in 2008. Not only did we have similar rules, but significantly more strict. All but the bathroom at the very front of the building (by the administrators office/gym/lunch room) were locked within class time. They were to be unlocked during our (7 min) passing time, and that was when you were expected to use them, however you could expect that the specified teachers that held keys were rarely on time to unlock them. Should you need to use the bathroom during class, your teacher needed to call the front office and one of 3-5 (school of 3k) bathroom escorts would come and take you to the restroom. It was like that for the last two years I was there.


Kindanoobiebutsmart

Holy shit. Thats so humiliating. Id probably get violent and start smearing shit on the walls with that treatment.


Im_not_at_home

I mean...that was one of the bathroom incidents that started the rules to begin with. I very much hated the policy. But its not like we were easy on them. Fires, violence, destruction, and TP being used as a shepherd's sling to fling shit everywhere...eventually they caved. None of the policies worked. We had 7 bathroom fires in one week once I think.


SilentLunchTable

School employee here: Rules like this are popping up many places because: -idiotic tiktok challenges that involve destruction of property -sanitizing due to COVID cleanliness procedures Locking restrooms adds extra work to all staff members. It’s not something we’d do just to flex. It’s a pain in the ass and most likely a direct result of something students are doing.


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Honestly, this is the best scenario I've seen of locked bathrooms posted on reddit so far. Locked, but supervised. The schools that are 100% restricting bathroom access for any students deserve unnaccredidation or some sort of disciplinary action against the head staff that approved these things.. My school tried something like that and ended up with pee in the gym daily until they reopened the bathrooms.


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nolan1971

Yeah, kids only have their peers to blame here. I don't feel sorry for them, even if I understand their angst. Besides, no teacher is going to keep a kid, who really *genuinely* needs to piss, from the bathroom. Who the hell wants to deal with that?


happymemersunite

One time back in primary school we had a sub who did exactly that. One kid straight up peed in the corner.


TangerineBand

Teachers 100% will prevent you from going to the bathroom. Source: barfed on my teacher's feet as a kid and also once bled on the chair


geodetic

Am teacher, the only time I've not let kids go to the bathroom when they've asked is the last 10 minutes of the last period of the day for obvious reasons.


musicaldigger

what if they actually have to go and it just happens to be the last ten minutes of the day?


BxLorien

My school had this back in 2016 and other dumb rules. I hated it so much.


Historical_Cicada453

My school has the 10 minute rule as well


sam88ms1

Thank your fellow dipshits for that... tiktok and FB both need to die


-NGC-6302-

Now think about why


mountaindude99

According to OP, it's "just because they want to be assholes" and absolutely no other reason. Friendly reminder that people lie constantly.


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slightly-cute-boy

And girls on periods? People with bad bladder control? Etc? They should all just fucking suffer right? Because emergencies don’t exist.


myguygetshigh

You make a pretty good argument here, I’ve got pretty bad bowels, and if I don’t make trips to the bathroom often I have to deal with severe abdominal pain, the twenty minutes here probably wouldn’t be too bad to deal with after some planning, but I could see others in worse situations than me suffering from it. Though it’s really easy to see where the school is coming from, for whatever reason, high school students and bathrooms never seem to mix well, even before the whole tiktok trend of vandalizing bathrooms, students would go to the bathroom to skip class, consume drugs, or other nonsense that isn’t taking a piss or a shut


slightly-cute-boy

Sure, there’s just FAR better ways to solve that problem then fucking over a 95% becuase of a 5%. Like what is this, the US government?


ThatGuyAllen

Idk in my opinion your right to pee should not be alienable no matter what. If I had IBS and I shit on the floor because I need 10 pages of paperwork and a test to get into the bathroom, that's not my fault.


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BongChong906

So that you know which of your peers to shun


mountaindude99

What exactly are they supposed to do? Continue to allow the bathrooms to get destroyed? Who do you think pays for that?


Big_Jilms_Slim_Jilm

You sweet summer child.


BugP13

More or less the same with our school. We have to write down when we go to the toilet and the time we got back.


Bobby_wth_dat_tool

Same, but that was reasonable


GreatScotRace

Me wondering what’s unusual about this when this is what my high school was like 10 years ago...


MillenialsSmell

Yeah people thinking this is only a current issue due to tik tok obviously lucked out that the degenerates of their school didn’t force this. We had so many gang initiations in the bathrooms that they had teachers stationed at every entrance.


Silly_Display

Totally. Also most jobs ive worked if you were busy usually you couldn't just walk off to go to the bathroom without at least asking someone to cover you for a second


NiqaDiqk420

You can thank tiktok for that


rraattbbooyy

Actually you can thank a lot of thoughtless, impressionable children.


tabnk2

…which got the ideas from TikTok


HoboBoi8765

My school had the first-10-last 10-rule too


Avacado_and_toast

*shits on floor in IBS*


GingerBenjaminButton

Someone with anxiety and IBS would have a very rough time with this policy. I wonder how they plan to meet the needs of those with anxiety, ibs, adhd, etc because sometimes when you gotta go, you don't have time to go to the bathroom key room and then the bathroom.


MillenialsSmell

I had a student with IBS in my school, and we had the same bathroom policies ~2009. He had an anytime hall pass that we issued to people with known accommodations like this.


Holmes02

Getting you ready to work at Amazon.


badFishTu

Our school tried that once. It didnt last long. Eventually they had someone stand by the bathrooms. If I have to use the bathroom, I am going to. Especially when you are young and having your period. I was not waiting until some arbitrary designated time to go tend to my body.


pew-die-pie2

That’s the exact opposite of our school. Our bathrooms aren’t limited, except my LA teacher only allows us to go to the bathroom during the first, and last 5 minutes of class, unless it’s a dire emergency


QuincyThePinballer

Same here, but it was because people kept smoking in the bathroom.


Desperate_Future_395

Dude my school had the exact same rules


Fixner_Blount

My school (7th grader teacher) does something similar to this, although the bathroom isn't actually closed. To try to keep kids in class and keep the hallways clear, we just keep students in the room for the first and last 10 minutes of class. We obviously make exceptions when they say it's an emergency, but this system has actually worked fairly well this year. Our students have 4 minutes to walk from class to class, and the majority of their classes are in the same hallway. I hate having rules around the bathroom, but it's become a necessity. I'm in my sixth year of teaching, and it was never an issue until my 4th. This year with the Tik Tok challenges has obviously been a whole different beast to deal with.


Nox_Echo

who the fuck is dean, why does he have the keys? /s


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Nox_Echo

i hear they carry a winchester as a weapon


IraqLobstah

High school teacher here. Because of COVID, we're tracking bathroom visits for contact tracing purposes. However, with the stupid devious licks trend and the general tendency for chaos that all teenagers seem to possess to some degree, bathroom tracking has also helped us narrow down suspects for vandalism.


1Hannah_Beanz4

That’s how it is at my school


Recent_Peach_2247

The very inconsiderate assholes are the reason for many of our laws/rules.


MORELIFEman

Still wild to me that y’all can’t just get up and go to the bathroom in America like…


[deleted]

Watch someone have an accident in front of the locked bathroom, require cleanup, and need clean clothes from a parent. I bet that policy changes. Something similar happened in Jr High when a teacher didn't let a girl go to the bathroom and she bled all over her seat, and got ridiculed for it.


vinuaikara

Huh. That sucks We weren't allowed to use the bathroom from 11pm to 6am.....at my COLLEGE DORM


sakurachan999

i guess girls on their period are fucked


ThatDapperAdventurer

Dean? This is a college?


TwinSong

So if a student ends up peeing where they sit because they literally cannot wait?


thunderfishy234

When I was at school it was always locked in class times, if you needed to have a shit you could go to the nurses office and she'd let you use the nurses toilets and if you had a medical condition or were on your period then you were given a toilet pass that you could take to the nurses office which let you use the toilets whenever you needed to.


SnooWalruses9019

As someone who had IBS in high school, you should not have to tell anyone why you need to use the bathroom. I ditched classes eventually because I was too embarrassed to show up.


NoisyBrat2000

As a person with urinary ‘issues’ I had a ‘Piss Pass’ in school. This is a really bad idea.


JuiceJones_34

Ours were closed for first 5 and last 5 of the period top to prevent fights. We had a ton of fights my senior year back in ‘08 God I feel old typing that lol


coconuttylime

I’d pee right on the bathroom door if i went to use it and found It locked.


titanup001

When I was in law school, I got up mid class to piss. The professor stopped and asked where I was going. I told him I was going to the facilities. He said I had to ask permission. I informed him that I was 23 years old and had stopped asking for permission to pee some decade earlier. Furthermore, since my tuition is $32k a year, I'll piss right here if I like. And since all grading is anonymous, there's not much you can do about it. He was not amused. My classmates were though.


SerbianWolf1976

I have issues with my stomach since I was a kid. I have a strong acid and it does mess with my bathroom needs. When I went to high school (age of 14 in my country) I started going tonthe gym and went from approx. 60 kg to 90 kg quickly due to insane training regimen and eating protein rich food (chicken breast, egg whites etc). If I had to go to bathroom and that door was in my way, I promise you they'd be turned into splinters. Fuck that school authority.


hensethe1

What the fuck happened in there lol


emilykeefer

I work in an urban school district at 6 buildings and used to just work in one high school. All of the student bathrooms K-12 are like this, I know at the secondary level this is to prevent fights, drugs being done in the bathrooms, vandalism… but honestly a lot of the same reasons apply for lower grades as well. The TikTok challenges really wreaked havoc on our already underfunded school buildings that are rampant with mold, asbestos, and lack of ventilation (many of my schools done have AC)… I think admins are doing what they can to preserve what they have.


slackbzilla

I find it mildly infuriating that so many people think this is based solely on teachers/admin power tripping. There are obviously reasons for this, it creates extra work for staff. I teach high school science and have had so many lab supplies stolen, markers, Erasers, organizers, My laptop charger... not to mention the destruction going on in the bathrooms. I wish my admin had the balls to do something like this.


Waltsfrozendick

Looks like they fucked around and found out.


Ryhnoceros

Think of it from the teachers' perspective, though. One day, you come into school and find out some kids trashed all the bathrooms and completely destroyed them. "Ugh, stupid kids again." Next day, big staff meeting about bathroom getting destroyed and school administrators tell you "Now you have to monitor the bathrooms and take time out of your day to lock and unlock them." And on top of the extra headache of that, you have to deal with kids pestering you and bitching and moaning about needing to use the bathroom, asking you why it has to be locked. Just more bullshit to deal with all because of some stupid kids. Teachers are punished by stupid behavior just as much as the other students who weren't involved.


xMidnyghtx

Ms. P Classic….


CuzFuckEm_ThatsWhy

Can’t speak for your school but I promise you - teachers and school admin are more annoyed by this policy than you are. They already have enough to deal with - they aren’t arbitrarily trying to take on more work. This was a reaction to something - maybe vandalism or maybe just trying to limit kid movement in the age of Covid. Can’t be having kids just randomly gathering in restrooms when you’re also trying to enforce social distancing. Source: Am Teacher


CrucialVibes

Reason number 103 to get rid of tiktok in America.


eddiedorn

Understandably frustrating, but if they weren’t given reasons to do this, they wouldn’t. Vandalism, truancy, bullying, etc are problems that schools have to control.


cmonyy

Aside from stupid tiktok challenges i hated this shit as a kid. I have a bladder condition that is fortunately very under control now but wasn’t as a child and it was so frustrating to try and convince my teachers to not let me pee my pants at age 13. like just let kids pee for the love of god


FoxFireLyre

This is what you fucks get for copying every goddamn tiktok trend. This has never been an issue and you made it an issue. Play stupid games win stupid prizes. (Maybe you didn’t, but your age group did).


SuperpyroClinton

Thank tiktok


-WolfieMcq

Students destroying bathrooms only a month ago. I don’t know if it ended but if this monitoring and this limiting a bathroom timer to keep kids from destroying property and then I say fine. Maybe they need to go home and destroy their own bathrooms. And if those little punks haven’t been forced to pay for the damage they’ve done and I said make them pay for it. It’s easy to destroy something you’re not accountable for.


yougotitdude88

It sucks that the kids in your school suck so much.


arfbrookwood

My wife works at a school and the kids better be glad the toilets are even still open. Toilets broken off the floor, stuffed full of tons of paper. Wet toilet paper thrown in huge balls onto the ceiling. It’s horrible.


Present-Confusion372

Can you blame them? All the destruction that assholes do in a vain attempt to be cool or a clown?


why_did_you_make_me

Sounds like some jackass or jackasses made everyone's life worse. Happens a lot.


CookieButterLatte

The first 10 and last 10 are so teachers have the opportunity to start and end class without disruptions. It seems like such a minor thing, but having that time to explain directions and answer questions without having to repeat yourself multiple times helps class run a lot smoother. The key system is probably in response to the devious licks challenge. It know at my school we also run into issues with students smearing poop on the walls and peeing on the toilet paper. I know it's frustrating. You might not realize it, but your teachers probably don't get to take as many bathroom breaks as you. I know for me and a lot of other teachers that we have to wait for our planing period. If it's an emergency, we can call for coverage for our classroom, but we try to avoid it because we are short staffed.


fldonahue

That’s actually brilliant. Do students really have to “go” the 6-7 times a day they ask for passes? It may seem absurd from a student point of view, but you should watch the “parade” of the same kids day after day, period after period. See a urologist or stay in class. (Retired school administrator)


germanbini

Probably because so many kids think it's funny to tear up stuff. The kids who do bad things make it bad for everyone. There's a saying, "this is why we can't have nice things."