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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

This data shows that a majority of students on campus are willing to implement gender neutral bathrooms, while a minority is not. It is obvious that gender neutral bathrooms should be included in our campus to make sure all students are comfortable going to the bathroom. However, it was surprising that some students did not support gender neutral bathrooms. We believe that, due to the other questions asked in the survey, the students who answered that they did not support gender neutral bathrooms believed that the question was asking should all bathrooms be made gender neutral on campus, or should pre-existing unisex multi-stall bathrooms be replaced by gender neutral bathrooms. However, this is not the case. Due to knowledge gained later in

Let’s begin with the obvious, all women have had their period. This process is as natural as eating, peeing, drinking and sleeping. Now have any of you ever walked into a bathroom and had to pay for the toilet paper? No, you haven’t. I’m sure that it also never occurred to anyone to carry around toilet paper in case they had to do their business away from home. For sanitary reasons we want people to wipe their behinds. For sexist reasons, we don’t offer the same concern for women who don’t want to bleed on furniture or their clothes. After years of women being shamed into not talking about periods more and more are speaking up.

Young girls across the world are constantly being sexualized and told to cover up their bodies. Girls starting from middle school through high school are told to meet ridiculous standards that are required to be appropriate to attend public school. Girls who are forced to change or go home based on these absurd demands are being told that putting their education on pause, is more important that being comfortable in their clothes they are wearing. A boys wears a shirt to school with a bikini model on it, and nothing is said. A girl wears a tanktop on a 90 degree day, and she is pulled out of class. Standards like this are interrupting the education of many young women across the world, and they need to be stopped. Ruining self esteem for

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,

It is a known fact that both men and women use the restroom. What many are not aware of, is that using the toilet in public areas reinforces the differences between male and female. For instance, the very first thing any individual sees when entering a public restroom is the little dolls of a man or a woman as an indication of a female restrooms and or the male restrooms. This simple sign reaffirms the sexual differences of gender and also unconsciously the individual’s identity for that matter. The concept of gender neutral bathrooms is to break the imaginary wall of gender separation thus allowing either sex to use one single restroom. If we think about it, in our home we share one restroom, and are pretty much accepting of the fact that we all use the toilet. The book states that gender salience is the relation of gender across activities and spaces. The book further discusses that when teachers would place children alphabetically versus by gender the importance of gender reduced. Gender is a persistent element in any school. The concept is simple when it boils down to education the main purpose is to place the students together by groups of the ones that are getting the material and are able to proceed to the next or placing them in a group of students that need more time grasping the given material and curriculum. Although gender salience is like a roller coaster in different parts of the elementary school experience the flow of gender is a persistent element in education. Gendered bathrooms, as previously discussed reinforces the differences between male and female. Back in the Victorian era, they created restrooms for women with a special room that had a resting area before entering the section in which the restrooms were located. This was primary because back then it was not lady like to dispose bodily fluids. They believe that women should keep such matters private, and it was pretty much unheard of for women to even use the restrooms the way it is indented. Till this day many women restrooms still have a resting area before entering the restroom section. Bathrooms are designed with an assumption that everyone is heterosexual. Thus not allowing the possibility of that many individuals don’t

Have you ever had to go all the way to your locker just to get one thing for one class? If we could just take our backpacks or something to carry things with, we wouldn’t have that problem. At Romig Middle School, we aren’t allowed to bring such things. Instead of carrying our backpacks we have to keep them in our lockers at all times. If we do take backpacks with us to class, we get in trouble by our teachers or security guards. Going back and forth through the hallways wastes needed energy that we already don’t have because of the long and early school hours. Not only does it waste energy, but it’s also time consuming and causes us to become late for class. Students should have the option of carrying some of our things through the hallways

Using a public restrooms seems like a simple task to the majority of us. This is not the case for people who fall outside the gender norm. Seldom does one have a choice beyond boy’s room or girl’s room. This can be a very stressful environment if your outward appearance doesn’t match your biological sex. Spotlighting those who are not perceived by society as gender normal could lead to depression, anxiety and self-loathing. Something as simple as going to the restroom in the mall could lead to a violent encounter. This would be greatly reduced of people would just be more observant. This all because society developed rules everyone must follow in order to be perceived as normal.

I am unsure about what actions to take on this article because I feel like there should be access to tampons and pads within the gender neutral bathrooms but unsure on how to start that process. I know that it took awhile to even have gender neutral bathroom on campus so I am unsure on how to start raising awareness of this issue. I will begin to start using the gender neutral bathroom to reduce the stigma that is attached to this bathroom to make it a more normalized

I think that it is absolutely absurd to separate boys and girls into different classes for a problem that has such a simple solution. If that does truly become a problem then one thing that could be taken into consideration is possibly switch a few kids out so there will be less children there and can be easily watched so it will be harder for them to do it.

Why should this sign read we don’t care? Obviously I do care, that’s why I choose this debated topic. Normally I am not a prejudice person, but to this debate I am. I know there are people that will disagree with me, but I just cant sit back and say nothing. I have nieces and I just want them to be safe when they go into a female bathroom. They don’t need to see all these people that may not look like females, but they are far from not in the bathroom they are using.

Going through the years of puberty can be full of very stressful times. The first period, hormones increasing, and onset of sexual maturity. It would be helpful to teenage girls by having birth control, making it beneficial that they have access to it, and giving them a better understanding of it. In this paper I argue why birth control methods without a prescription should be available to teenage girls.

Kira said, “I think gender neutral bathrooms are great things for all schools to have because at our age, people are figuring out who they are and they might not feel comfortable changing around

As this generation goes on, a lot of foods are being processed with more and more hormones every time. This causes little girls at the age of ten or eleven to start getting their menstrual cycle due to all the hormones in the variety of foods. The young, undeveloped girls have so many hormones that they result in an irregular menstrual cycle. As many people know, it is bad for a girl’s menstrual cycle to get delayed, within a period of a long time, because it can cause various complications. The birth control pill will help regulate the majority of any irregular menstrual cycles. Sometimes the girls do not want to talk to their doctor about the circumstances because some are too young to even imagine what is coming their way. Girls will prefer to conversate with their parents and then go to a pharmacy right away to get the pill. Even though, the pill will not be effective immediately by the time their next cycle comes around the pill would have regulated their menstrual cycle. Having over the counter birth pills is a faster and more effective way instead of making an appointment and having to wait impatiently just for a prescription. Girls at that age are not usually sexually active however there should be no chance so the pill will avoid two frustrating

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