My daughter, a junior in high school, complains about stall-stalking faculty members. Sometimes they will spend up to five or ten seconds outside each stall peeking in on the user. I know that one of the things they look for is evidence of smoking -- a big problem at my daughter's school -- and that is why they take more time to glance around the stall.

Once, because there was smoke throughout the bathroom and especially near Mindy's stall, a teacher apparently mistook why Mindy suddenly dropped something she was holding between her legs and into the bowl. It was only two sheets of toilet paper that she had done some preliminary wiping with!

Last week, Mindy was constipated, on the stool and with her laptop on her lap while reading her e-mail. An assistant principal demanded that she put the computer away and continued to peer in between the door and partition until Mindy had turned it off and placed it back down in its carrying case. Then the lady continued to watch her and told her that she needed to return to class within three minutes or that her restroom pass was going to be permanently revoked.

It just seems that Mindy can never get the benefit of the doubt and, of course, her privacy is not recognized.