Bathroom Breaks

In order to increase productivity and learning time in school, administrators should allow students to carry backpacks to their classes. As a result of bringing backpacks to class, students will come to class prepared and organized, with no reason to return to their locker. Often times students forget their supplies and must utilize class time to retrieve the forgotten materials. With backpacks, students will already have their materials with them, eliminating the need to waste class time. Another advantage of allowing backpacks in class is that it will give students plenty of time to use the restroom between classes as opposed to during lecture time. High schools are notoriously larger than middle and elementary schools, therefore the five-minutes

Instead of taking entire class to drink water and use restroom after lunch, allow groups of students to go while others are working on bell ringers.

“ I'm so tired of sitting in those same boring classes with teachers talking the whole class period, I would like a break in between academic classes.” Schools should have a break in the day where students can have time to get away from all the teacher talking. With that said, students should have recess in schools, because minor movement at recess can alter the child's physical health, when at recess with their peers they can learn cooperation skills and negotiation skills, and children learn many things by playing at recess. Recess can also help students with their communication skills, brain development, and physical health.

They will only let a certain number of people go the bathroom in one class period and yell at the student if they go when they’re not supposed to or if they go at a “bad time.”

Students should be able to have longer passing periods for restroom usage, and to also have a snack. According to Jacqueline Hatfield “ I would like a longer passing period because I don’t think 2 minutes is long enough for people to use the bathroom and

“The science shows pretty clearly that taking breaks in the day makes students better able to encode memory and learn and perform academically. There’s a lot on the table in terms of the child’s health, well being, and academic success.” said Murray, former chairman of the AAP’s Council on School Health (Recess Helps Kids Learn Better in School) . This shows that breaks are essential for helping children and teens focus. If there were not any breaks, then kids’ and teens’ brains would get too overwhelmed with the information, and they would start to lose their focus, because their brains would be looking for something else to do. That is why recess is a crucial part of a normal school day!

I feel that the gender-neutral bathrooms in schools are not a very good idea because as a woman I feel that not a very common or safe idea. I would not feel safe because I do not want to share a bathroom with men. One thing that could happen in the gender-neutral bathrooms is sexual assault. Women and girls are the number one victims in these cases of sexual assault. I also feel that I do not have my personal or private place to use anymore. By adding the males in the females and females to males, gives us both the feeling of los-ing our privacy of a girl and a guy to do what we need to in the bathrooms. I feel that having separate bathrooms will help with the safety issues of the males walking into a fe-male bathroom and vice versa. Overall,

At a local school, a student had to vomit during lunch, but wasn’t allowed to use the bathroom. A teacher forced the student to stay in his seat and the student vomited on his food. Students that go to Springdale Jr./Sr. High School should be allowed to use the bathroom during lunch because they need to wash up, to use it for emergencies, and to use it if you all of the sudden need to use it during lunch.

When the school only gives you five minutes in between each class period and you have a whole bunches of things to do like go talk to the office or run to your locker up stairs, or talk to a teacher about missing assignments, whatever it might be five minutes just isn't enough time. I think it should be 15 minute breaks between each class for several reasons. One is it gives you plenty of time to talk to a teacher or run to your locker without constantly worrying about being late for class. Or if you have no errands to do it could give you some time to study for a big test next period, or work on homework

Lastly, some people don’t agree with the new rules because in my school they are only letting one person per class to go to the bathroom and you have to sign in and out to see how long you were gone and make sure they know where you are. I think this is good so people know where you are and what you are doing and making sure you are not going somewhere you shouldn’t be going. Also, if you are gone too long the teacher will call security and find you to see what you are doing and if you are ok or not.

It brings great obstacles to those who walk down the halls of Silverado High School day in and day out to be by bombarded by thirty-six hundred plus students. This prompts trying to go to the bathroom between classes beyond implausible, for it’s intense enough to just make it to class on time as it is without trying to make a pit stop at the bathroom. Students have been reduced to plowing and shoving their way through people in order to possibly make it to class and be in their seat before the tardy bell rings. I think all parents and more important, students involved will agree that this gargantuan number of students trying to push through one another to make it to the restroom or simply to

Bullying is bound to happen anywhere at any time but occurs mostly within school limits. Kathleen Winkler defines bulling in her book, Bullying, as “...any kind of ongoing physical or verbal mistreatment, done with the intent to harm, where there is an imbalance of power between bully and victim” (Winkler 14). Bullying has an extremely important impact on one’s everyday life and can affect their life negatively getting to the point where they can no longer take the blow. To try and prevent bullying from taking place in schools, one needs to know how bullying effects a person, what the role of each person involved in the situation is, and have knowledge of specific methods on how to prevent it. Bullying in schools is a serious problem and a handful of school do their part to prevent it; others, not as much, which means there is room for improvements.

In past generations, it has been clear to society that males and females use segregated bathrooms. It is also known that the rate of transgender people has been growing over the past years. Transgender people constantly face troubles when using a bathroom in public. Nevertheless, as society has become more aware of the transgender population and the issues that they face, many schools have had to decide how they will respond about the issue of school bathrooms when students identify themselves as transgender. A school should be able to provide separate facilities based on sex, but must allow transgender students access to the facility which matches their gender identity.

When the applied the focus no longer on learning, it flips on to when and where a person should use the bathroom. If a student does not have the ability to use the bathroom they are comfortable with then what should they do? Schools do not normally have gender neutral bathrooms unless it is in the faculty lounge or an area only accessible to non-students. Those bathrooms can be all the way across campus depending on where that

About twenty-eight percent of student’s ages 12-18 reported being bullied at school during the school year according to the Indicators of School Crime and Safety report, by the Bureau of Justice statistics. Across thirty-nine states survey, 7.2 percent of students admit to not attending school because they do not feel safe. The importance of bullying can’t be undermined. Teachers and parents must understand the importance of looking and listening for signs and behaviors of bullying. This will help tackle the issue before it gets serious and someone gets hurt.