This is serious. How can they expect students to learn when they're freaked out about having to crap?

This is the way it should be.

Kids need to learn early that life sucks and is very unfair.

We might as well start where it is the most painful, the bowels.

Quit your bitching, get an education, get a good job and get rich. Then you can buy a mansion with 10 bathrooms and hire someone to clean up your ass.

You should protest. Activism looks good on a college application. Have a shit-in.

Craptivism!

oh man, this is a story of my life...except i usually end up the "turd Terrorist"

we should...no, we have to for the sake of children and their colons everywhere.

p.s. principal pete, fuck you, i dont plan on getting a job\education, i plan on being a hit man to kill fuckers like you.

peace out

i feel your pain, danny. literally. my school has the same problem with people pissing on the seats. i wonder how it's possible for somebody to have that bad of an aim.

and the papertowel holders. they're up before first hour, but by third hour, they're torn down and in the trash can. it's crazy.

we should figure out some way to protest the poor bathroom facilities at school.

I try to stick it out, but I can only survive because I bring my own lunch, as opposed to the greasy bowel-moving school food. It really sucks when I have an after-school activity like drama club to keep me toilet free for a few more hours. There is an article on the after-effects of this system somewhere on mf.multifarity.com written by a friend of mine. I'm too lazy to find the article myself right now, I'll post it later. Antway, most of the articles are good.

I hated shatting in high school and middle school. I was petrified of using the toilets...There were usually no doors on the stalls and kids can be rough on public poopers. I don't know how I ever made it come to think of it. I guess I was pretty regular back then. When I got to college, it was a different story obviously. I think everyone knows about the 'secret' pooping area that you would go to in between classes that was always clean and no one ever interrupted you. For me, it was the thrid floor of the library. It took a little effort if you really had to go, but once you got there it was worth it.

I COMPLETLY AGREE!

haha poopie wan reportie

man thats awesome.

im glad im not in school.

This was the same story I told every day behind the doors of Colerain High School. The men's room had no doors, because the faculty wanted to catch people smoking. If there was toilet paper, it was usually saturated with piss. I kid you not, in the two years I went to that shit hole, I never took a shit in their stalls. I would hold it and with God's grace, I made it home before I unloaded. Others I knew weren't so lucky. Rise up against the system my friend. Fight for the noble cause of crapping comfort!

You go to Boston Latin School? Isnt that supposed to be one of the better places---top notch private school, and they force you guys to shit in degrading Third World conditions? Fuck em! You should sneak in and take some digital camera photos of the worst bathrooms and find a way to post 'em on the web--especially so parents can find out what crappy conditons they are sending their kids to at $15-20 K per yer--whatever the amount you have to cough up to send your son or daughter to that crap hole. IF there is some way to get photos of the faculty bathrooms for a compare/contrast scenario, that would really be good...

If you end up being rich and powerful, use this lesson to create dignified conditions for your employees--its the only way to redeem a situation like this--that and doing a sizzling expose

Excellent idea, Pooperscooper. Get evidence and bring it to the attention of the school district authority people, or parents, or whatever. Maybe post up a petition saying, "Our bathrooms suck! There's always piss on the toilet paper and you can never crap in peace. We as students have more important things to concentrate on than whether or not we're going to shit our pants due to the poor condition of the school bathrooms. Give us better bathrooms, dammit!"

My schools were always like that. However, in my middle school we got back at the teachers that were poop NAZIs. You see, they had separate faculty restrooms with locking doors. This one teacher, Mr. Winston, was careless with locking the door to the faculty restroom on the 2nd floor and once my friend was aware of this word got out to every guy we knew.

This was like 10 years ago but to this day I still don't know who did it but they went in, pulled out their jimmy, and pissed all over the restroom. I think they even did a Michael Jackson 360 on one leg while going "oh yeah...wooooo". LMAO

That's the way I heard it. No one was caught or punished but I bet the teachers were scared for years.

Oh yeah, the bathrooms are all locked after school, even though clubs stay until 4 usually. Some stay more (Before a show, Improv club has daily meetings to 6 pm. We call it "Hell Week" because we can't hold it from 7:45 am to 6 pm easily. I've heard stories of the scholl newspaper working until 10 to meet a deadline, but I don't believe it).

And BLS is an exam school, so it is one of the best in the country. But it's also a public school (just not open to the public...our school has lot's of weird stuff like that. The guy who made braile signs last year thought that braile was a language, as in he could do it with a marker.) so you don't pay for it. In tuition, anyway.

I know how you feel. Back when I was in highschool they kept the bathrooms locked except for lunch time and before and after school. If you had to go during the day it was quite a task just to try and get in a bathroom. One would first have to convince the teacher to grant a pass then it was on to the main school office. Once there a search would begin for the assistant principal whom, if found, would then walk to a bathroom and unlock it.

Now that I am in college I always find a faculty bathroom to use. ;)

youre right, most of the time its hard ta crap when youre in a rush.especially when someone is in the stall already

A school poo is the most shameless shit of all, it takes a truly shameless shitter to go when various varieties of classmate could walk in at any moment, even in the most user friendly of toilets. This sort of thing raises the already high shit difficulty to criminal levels. I survived by sneaking into the disabled loo- we only had one kid in a wheelchair and desperation made me more than prepared to confront his minder should there have been a confrontation. But some of my friends would sometimes have to sprint home...

I didn't go to the bathroom once while I was in school! I would wait until I got home and shit until I couldn't shit anymore!

In 8th grade i had to crap so bad every 5th hour. I would sit at my desk sweating so hard just cuz i had to poop every single day during fifth hour. I think i almost crapped my pants, before i would decide to just get it over with. it was terrible.

wait a sec...you wear your backpack while on the crapper? you know what i hate, that fucking toilet paper that's so thin you can't unroll it because it tears off too soon. then you have to stick your hand in the despenser to unroll manually.

You went to an expensive private school. I went to a public school in the middle of the city. Everything you have at your school is about 1000% better, including the bathrooms, I'm sure.

At my school, the bathroom stalls had no doors, and the toilet paper, for my first year, was not even a roll, it came out of something resembling a napkin holder... it wasn't even bleached, it was this brown thin paper-resembing stuff you couldn't even pull out of the dispenser without tearing let alone wipe your ass with any success at keeping your hands clean. And of course the sinks had no soap, ever. After my first year they upgraded to the industrial toilet paper dispensers in in those huge 1 foot diameter rolls with the serrated edged translucent plastic dispensers... not a great improvement. I never took a shit at school, ever. Period.

However, I don't think the quality of the restrooms has anything to do with affecting your education. IF anything, though, I would blame the school on getting me started smoking. There was an average quality restaurant down the street from school, where you could go to get ok food and they actually had stalls with real toilet paper and doors! I would go down there and of course the main reason everyone was down there besides to take a shit in a reasonable restroom was to have somewhere to smoke indoors during the winter... I soon associated the feeling of release of a good shit with cigarette smoking and had my first smoke in that very restaurant and haven't quit till this day.

hey, does anyone have a phobia about pooping in a stall when somebody is right next to you, not cuz of the stink, but just because they will hear the "plop" and know youre pooping? also, when i smoke weed, i often get the strangest need to go let loose a big turd. very satisfying dumping while stoned!!!

I went to a private school which I called "Ga-Ku-eN" because of the uniforms (I called them Jap"anese" uniforms). there was a shit smear on the 2nd story door that was there for years

Ha the days of trying to use the school toilets. My mate reckons any boy who goes for a shit at school must simply be mad. this is because he was court dumping at 15 and some lads scaled the bog door and took the complete piss out of him. This was not as bad as our school where there was no locks on the doors and someone deliberately flushed the loo role down the bogs every morning-thats when they were bored of shaking and dragging you away from the urinals. Welcome to School life boys and learn to hold it in. I do think tricks like that are rather amusing providing its not you its done to.

I've always had a world of poop of my own. There are different kinds of poop in my imagination. Like my favorite one is when I was in elementry school I always had to poop and I thought it was all part of going to school. So I always had a fear of going poop there in school and it made defecating poop from a day at school at home the good part and defecating at school the bad part. Poop has always been my interest and blessing to my fantasy:)

one time the stalls were all dirty so i shat in a garbage can

I suggest that those bitchy teachers have their butt cheeks welded. Then, after a week of no shitting, if the teacher does not change, we force them to eat the most shit inducing meals. Once their butt cracks, they will definately change their minds.

Viva la poop!

Man I only took 1 turd at public school in 16 years. And I've only pinched 2 at school in the last 3 years. One on a saturday morning with no one around and one early morning in a deserted building during finals week.

Why am I telling you this? I have no clue.

Crap, that's supposed to say "And I've only pinched 2 at college in the last 3 years."

Anyways, I'll add that shitting at University is way better than at public school. There's just so many damn bathrooms. There's clean ones, private ones, obscure ones, etc... There's always a basement or top floor shitter you can retreat to if you need. hehe

i'm totally hating this website so take my advise get off the enternet.

I used to shit @ school in 1st grade. But the sucky part is that a whole "WHOLE" class would come in at just the wrong time and i would lift my legs up so they couldnt see my feet.

yeah what's with schools locking the doors to bathrooms? in my school there was always one particular one that was always locked. my theory was that the janitors didn't feel like cleaning, due to the fact that they just sat in the janitor office (or room- i wouldn't really call it an office) and listen to the radio all day long. For example, once there was a turd laying on the floor of the locker room bathroom for about a whole year. And we never had toilet paper, soap or paper towels, and like many of you have stated many stalls also lacked doors.
I don't know how I made it, but i rarely ever crapped at school- probably 2 or 3 times at the most. I guess you can accustom your body to amazing things, like not taking a crap all day long. These experierces have scarred me and countless others. now that im in college, people dont make a big deal about taking a shit, it's all part of life. But it takes time to get over it. I still find myself often nervous or very self-conscious. i especially suffer from fear of shit noise syndrome (FSNS), the symptoms of which POOscooter mentioned above.

Let the healing begin mates.

OMG I AM SO SHITTING GLAD (HORRIBLE PUN) THAT SKOOL'S OUT!!!!! NOW I CAN ACTUALLY SHIT! I HAVE NEVER NOT ONCE SHAT IN SKOOL. WE DONT HAVE SOAP OR TOILET PAPER OR NE TING. BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, U HAVE AN IMAGE. IF SUM1 SAW YOU SHITTING AT SKOOL UM........

Things have changed alot since 1995 (the year I graduated).

I rarely, if ever pooped at school. If we had to use the bathroom, all we had to do was raise our hand, and the teacher would excuse the student that had to use the restrooms.
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Watch out for the deadly F4, though he's been gone since '53, he will be back.

You know I like the idea of the shit in or possibly THE GREATEST turd terrorist act of all. Picture it 35 little kids simultaneously shitting their pants! That ought to teach them that poop naziism will NOT be tolerated.

I remember back about four years ago in high school, I shitted whenever I needed to. If people wanted to bother me, whatever. That's their perogative, and immaturity for something that they do daily... It's also amusing to yell things while you're shitting. It causes people to leave or laugh.

PS... Try smoking while you're shitting. You can look like one of the "cool" kids.

In my high school you find that all the football players piss on the toilet paper...thats the worst nightmare you could ever exerience.

I'm a high school senior and can attest to the fact that poopers are oppressed at my high school. It is one of the largest in the state, has a restroom for each sex on opposite ends of each of the four floors and in the basement.

I go in to pee once in the morning (usually right after I arrive at school) and at mid-afternoon. At most, I'm on the stool, wipe, wash my hands, and back in class within three or four minutes. The problem is that I have to crap 5th hour each day, about 45 minutes after lunch. I like go in, will check out six or seven open stalls to find one that's not gross with shit or pee or a combination thereof in it, and by the time I've seated meself and I'm trying to relax, another girl is throwing the door open (the administration took the latches off last summer)and it takes me a while to get my composure back. Although I try to remember before sitting down, sometimes after I finish, I find the toilet paper is all gone so I have to pull up my jeans and waddle to one of the stalls I rejected in order to clean myself. Then while I'm seated and wiping, another door comes open on me. It's not unusual that I'll log in my time on the classroom restroom log so that it will show 5 minutes rather than the actual 10 minutes or more in the bathroom. My teachers don't watch it that carefully but they do make sarcastic remarks to those who ask to go every day.

Guys--you don't have it so bad. Try having to sit down at school three or four times a day!

Angie complains about the door being thrown open on her. At least she has a door. Us guys, have become accustomed to shitting in doorless stalls (I personally don't think they qualify as stalls!) since middle school. We do, however, know who is the most shy about sitting exposed to 30 or 40 other guys and we often will stand front of them and talk to them while they crap. A couple of us especially will offer to do that for a couple of the freshmen who have classes on our wing of the building because they seem to be the most itimidated about the open stalls. More than anything else, most of us just hold our shits in until we get home or arrive at our after school jobs. For a lot of us, we've been doing it for six years now.

Angie writes in her post that she can attest to the fact that poopers are "oppressed" in her high school. Yet, she said there's a bathroom for each sex at the end of each hallway in her school. Teachers allow students to go. The fact that the latches have been taken off doors is probably an administrative action due to illegal activities such as smoking and sex. Another gripe of hers is that the toilet paper runs out. You could have a roll as wide as a car tire and eventually it will run out on someone. Might it be the individual's responsibility to check on something like that BEFORE sitting down? I've only been out of school for 10 years, but I know that students need to do a better job of policing their own. Vandalism and misuse needs to be reported to the administration. Students just hanging out or prowling in the bathrooms need to be disciplined. With the right to use a bathroom comes responsibility. It's a two-way street that whiny students need to understand. In my four years of high school, I don't think I went to the bathroom at school more than five or six times. I basically regulated myself and always went at home before leaving in the morning. And I crapped when I got back home. Nuf said!

You may have only been out of school for ten years, but you sound like you've been away from your childhood for forty.

Destiny, not all high school allow kids to go to the bathroom. In fact, not all grade school teachers allow kids to go the bathroom, either. It's awful. If you read the comments on this site, you'll see it's not only a big problem, but it can damage a child's bladder. When a kid's organs are only half th size of an adult's, making them hold it is ridiculous. If you ever take the time to Google search catholic school survivors and bladder trouble, you'll be surprised. People are scattered all over the country who now have trouble holding their urine because of this nazi-like attitude.

I hope I never forget how hard it was to be a kid no matter how old or calloused I get; and I hope Poopreport can help any kid who comes here with the trouble our "whiners" have the audacity to come here with.

We welcome "whiners". Look at the doormat, it says so.

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My name is Nikki. By Destiny's definition, I'm a whiner. After I write this, I'm heading off to school. I'm 14. I share one bathroom with 5 sisters who are ages 4-18. I would be late to school every morning if I was to wait and crap at home when our bathroom is open. Then I would be getting detentions from my teachers and, worse yet, scarcasm about being late and unprepared. My 1st hour Math teacher sucks the worse. There's always a wise comment when I come in with my tardy check, and then when it's time for my morning BM (which I hold for a half hour or more so that I have less tardy minutes because the punishment time increases after 100 minutes--and that includes all tardies for the semester that ends in two weeks) I get more scarcasm when I ask to sign out to crap. I don't think I owe him or any of my 7 teachers an explanation of why I crap at school so early in the morning or why I frequently have to pee twice each afternoon (small bladder--lots of pop), but I still feel guilty every time I go into a stall and sit down in what's often a cold and filthy stall and a toilet that I'm not sure has been cleaned in the past several days. But I guess I have seven more semesters of whining ahead of me.

I'm 15, female, and a whiner. I refuse to use the bathrooms at my high school because they are so filthy. Would you want to wipe the urine off the seat and prepare to sit down on a toilet that was plugged up with the shit and pee of like a half dozen others and subject yourself to eyes looking at you through an inch-wide space between the stall door and partition, and a latch that is so loose that it seems like it is going to fall off everytime a student jiggles it to see if there's really someone in there? The conditions suck so bad they make me want to cry. Like the bathrooms suck so bad even teachers whose classrooms are within a few steps will not use them. My art teacher sympathizes with us and will leave class for 10 minutes while she walks to the other side of the building where the teachers bathroom is. Sure, there are some students who deliberately mess up the toilets, wipe themselves and smear it on the seat, and sometimes smoke, but I think it's wrong that all the rest of us have to pay the consequences like holding it, going to the Shell station across the street, or crapping a block away while we are at Starbucks. It just doesn't seem fair.

When I was at senior school (years ago!) there was only one stall out of 20 available to about 700 boys from 11-18 that had a lock (suppose we were lucky there were doors), there was rarely any TP, and boys taking a crap often had pranks played on them or the piss taken out of them. So must of us did not go at all. We learned to hold it in till we got home and became very self-conscious about taking a crap in public. I've got over the self-consciousness now, but not the bouts of constipation that a doctor told me are the result of so often suppressing the urge to go.

So I think our students have good cause to 'whine' - if they really need to crap they should be able to do so in hygenic conditions without fear of persecution.

I can sympathize with many of the posters here. With so many students using the limited bathrooms at school, things can get messed up and pretty fast. As I remember it, the last month of junior high, we had a daily lesson about skills and decisions we would have to make as high school students. We studied the food groups and nutrition (since we would have several selections to choose from at lunch), the harms of smoking and drugs (more than half of our class smoked--at least occasionally), and we had a lesson about the courtesies involved in using much larger bathrooms. Mentally, at least, we were exposed to some of the situations were would be in. I crapped at home just before leaving for school and usually didn't need to pee until I got home. However, my daughter (Class of 2008) has racked up several tardies for being late to class because of the lines for the toilets during passing periods. In several cases, she has waited patiently in line and when her turn came, she notices there's no toilet paper for wiping. Then she has to go into another group waiting to use one of the stalls that is stocked up and not completely filthy. She refuses to sit down directly on the seat! If I could only get her to regulate herself so that she can go at home before leaving for school. So many of the girls just think nothing of messing up the bathrooms. Others then must suffer.

Sarah writes that her daughter (who is a high school SENIOR and to me that makes it even more extreme) will stand in a line, and when the toilet opens, refuse to use it if there's no toilet paper to put over the seat first and to wipe with. That is so totally unrealistic! And like doesn't she notice that the next girl and the next girl will go in and sit down and do what they need to do. I'm only a sophomore and I figured out early on that carrying a small pack of Kleenex in my purse lets me wipe myself in such situations and saves valuable time, helps my GPA and keeps me out of Saturday morning school for excessive tardies. How is Sarah's daughter going to function when she's off at college and after she graduates. Dirty public bathrooms are a reality, but you have to learn to USE them and make the best of the situation!

Brooke writes and with considerable bite: "Dirty public bathrooms are a reality, but you have to learn to USE them and make the best of the situation." Say that again? It's easier said than done. My best friend since 2nd grade will not sit on a seat at school without covering it first. She's been that way for years after she sat on a log of shit on a black seat of a dimly lit public park restroom about five years ago. And my mom, especially when we're traveling or at the mall, will squat to both pee and crap and has for as long as I can remember. Sure, I'm a bit more open-minded and I do sit down, but I don't feel those who take more precautions or have more fears should be labeled as the non-functioning neurotics that Brooke seems to suggest. Each user needs to decide what's right for them.

It's interesting that we have a significant portion of the U.S. population with bowel problems and also have a serious problem with adequate bathroom facilities. Could there be a relation? Perhaps our denial of this basic bodily function is related to these physical problems?

I've made several trips overseas including Australia, Switzerland, France, Italy, Spain and even Brazil. During all of those visits, I had more positive bathroom experiences than I typically do here in the States. Bathrooms weren't difficult to find, they were cleaner, had soap, toilet paper . . .

Were there ever exceptions to that? Of course, but overall the facilities were much better than here in the US. Perhaps we, students, employees, customers, etc. need to demand higher quality facilities. There have been changes to the building codes that require more bathrooms, but what good are they if they're hard to find, broken, filthy, and unstocked?

We need to stand up for our right to sit down with dignity!

Realistic Junior, just what do you think "Dirty public bathrooms are a reality, but you have to learn to USE them and make the best of the situation" means? Did you actually read what she said or did you glance at a few words and get irritated?

If your best friend since second grade covers public toilet seats with tp before sitting down, then she's doing just that what Brooke suggest. She's making the best of the situation. Brooke's reference to the girl who won't use a toilet unless there's tp to cover the seat with IS neurotic because she could do what your mother does, which is to hover and make the best of the situation. So in effect, your post actually bolstered Brooke's opinion instead of refuting it.

Even More Realistic Junior apparently has not hovered to shit. The hover peeing is easy and I do it sometimes at places such as our city auditorium and at the mall. However, I'm unable to shit that way because I'm one of those girls who needs to push and push to get the log to come out and in doing the pushing, I just end up sitting down on the dirty seat anyway. Totally avoiding using a bathroom at school because you don't want to sit right down on the seat is neurotic bahavior to me. Sitting on a school toilet two or three times a week is not going to transmit an SDT or other communicable disease. My bowels only move when I'm seated and push hard.

It's amusing to see the girls continually debate about whether to sit down on school toilets or not. Have they nothing better to worry about? I could conclude that any "poop oppression" on their part is mental. I'm a senior and I crap at school most every day. I go into a stall, check for toilet paper first (it's not hard to remember to do that if you've been finished a few times on a stool in an open stall and then make that surprising discovery!)and if there's urine on the seat, I will quickly wipe it off before sitting down. Some of my friends by the way sit right in the urine and don't consider it a big deal. What is most important is to empty your bowels. A bath or shower daily takes care of any germs and to me, handwashing is the most important thing. To me, any "poop oppression" is mostly self-imposed by immature girls and this insane idea that you will self-destruct if you sit on a school toilet.

Trey's posting says: "To me, any 'poop oppression' is mostly self-imposed by immature girls and this insane idea that you will self-destruct if you sit on a school toilet." Well, I'm a sane 15-year-old freshman being raised in a small apartment by a single parent mother. She drops me off at my school by 6:30 a.m. on her way to work and I normally have my morning crap about 7:30 a.m. after I've had my coffee and do my homework. Then between 2nd and 3rd hour I have to pee. I pee again during lunch hour and will stop and pee again when 8th hour gets out before I start my 13 block walk home. That's four times a day I'm sitting on a toilet that dozens of other girls are sitting on each day. I place one strip of toilet paper over both sides of the seat before sitting down. My mom has always done the same thing and I don't think it makes us insane.

here in the UK, we dont give a shit about who's been and gone, we sit-we shit-we go, no paper, no liners, just a cold ass!

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No paper!!! I'd hate to be a midget stuck on an elevator with a bunch of you Brits.

It is insane for a person to fret over whether or not to use a public toilet, whether to line the seat or hover, wipe it and hope for the better, or better yet--and this might be somewhat utopian for some, including my younger sister--sit on the public toilet just as you would at home. I remember driving my younger sister home from middle school last year and have her plead with me to run the yellow lights because she was ready to crap her pants. She pee squatted but found she couldn't crap that way. So she would hold her crap in. Then one afternoon, I had a detention for homeroom tardies (an FBI offense, I guess) and she was really pissed when I picked her up at 5 p.m. because she had to sit down and crap at school. Mom took her side; Dad took mine, but out of it all she gained more confidence and is now crapping regularly at school like I think most normal students do. Yes, we have a few guys who put paper on the seats too and it just gets wasted before the next person sits down and really needs it to wipe. That kind of poop oppression is not the school's fault. Some people are just "strange" and the schools can't be blamed for what they do.

I volunteer at my daughter's middle school and my son's high school. And although the bathrooms are not as clean or accessible as we would find at home or actually prefer, they're not that bad. The problem, as I see it, is children have not been taught properly by parents to pick up after themselves, flush, and take pride in shared areas of the school. Why else would someone stick gum over the faucet of a drinking fountain, use their fist to knock a pencil sharpener off the wall, or bend a toilet stall door so severely that it has to be taken off the one hinge that's holding it up. And when we've caught students vandalizing bathrooms, the parents blame the school and threaten legal action. As a result, someone's daughter will come home with a bruised knee from having a latchless door thrown on her as she's peeing or your son will come home early and need to cleanup after he sat in the super glue on the toilet seat. But we can't prosecute because it was only a senior prank, they happen every year, and it's just a right of passage--and especially when the guilty are members of some of the most prominent families in the community. I use the student bathrooms once a day; it's not a highlight for me, but it's a necessity. The teacher I work for feels its a deterrant of sorts and that all her colleagues should use the student bathrooms. I don't think we'd have that many takers, though.

I don't have that problem. I have two bathrooms in the entire school. One of which contains a shower, for our conveinence. There is less then 40 kids in my school! So haha!!

i allways crap at my grade school lol. the toilets are clean but people tend to look under the stalls while i crap to see whos shitting which creeps me out.

I'm in my first year as a high school language arts teacher. I crap each morning during my prep period and I pee at least once, usually each afternoon. I use the student bathroom down the hall from my classroom for both functions. I find it's more convenient for me and it is keeping in the spirit of our faculty handbook which says we're suppose to be out and with the students as much as possible. My supervisor has complimented me twice when she's walked in and found me using the student bathroom and she says such a presence is a deterrent to vandalism and other misuse.

I disagree, however with Parent of Two because several of my fellow teachers use the student bathrooms. There's a certain look when you flush and open the stall door, only to find the next user is one very surprised student who has just skipped your class the previous hour. In two or three cases so far this year, a student has neglected to flush, opens the door and sees me, apologizes and reaches back and flushes. Such civic responsibity is commendable. I've also caught one smoker; she blindly opened the door and intended to give me her cigarette while she was tucking in her blouse and preparing to make a run to class.

Just like Rookie Crapper Kaitlyn, we have several teachers use or "supervise" the student bathrooms in my school. It sucks! You're standing in line, thinking about risking a detention for tardies or holding your pee or crap for another 48 minutes when the stall door opens and one of your teachers walks out. How rude! They have their own bathrooms which are locked down on each floor of the building. They should be using those. They have alternatives; we don't. That's what I call oppression.