NarrativeBear , (edited )

It's funny how this repeats every generation.

20 years back, my school removed mirrors in both the men's and women's washrooms, girls kept leaving lipstick on the mirrors, and the guys kept drawing on them with Sharpies.

They even removed toilet paper and hand towels because kids kept soaking it in water and throwing it up on the ceiling.

After that they even removed all the doors to the stalls in the men's because kids kept leaving black marker "doodles" on them (ie. graffiti).

On my third year they ended up painting everything a very dark green colour. This included the walls, stalls and the ceiling to cover up all the black marker. The green made it almost impossible to make our any new graffiti added in black marker.

xpinchx ,

Was anyone else here brave enough to shit without a stall door? I had so much anxiety as a kid, but when u gotta go u gotta go.

Some kids tried to bully me and I was just like... I'm taking a shit, we all do it so fuck off. Still nerve wracking tho

NarrativeBear ,

Barrier free washrooms should be in pretty much every building/school. This is usually the most comfortable place to go number two.

The gym change room/locker room washrooms are usually more quite as well. They may still have their doors on in most cases.

doylio ,

Why not just smartphones in school? There's ample research now that they're harmful to teen mental health

AccmRazr ,

I know a few schools in my area tried to institute zero tolerance no phones rule and the screaming from parents was loud enough that they gave up. One of the big sticking points was because of school shootings. Another was that schools have been bad about getting kids on the bus, that kids are getting lost or even ending up in bus depots at the end of the day.

doylio ,

I think a good middle ground might be to ban smartphones but not phones entirely. If you want your kid to be able to call you, buy them a nokia or something without internet capabilities

Corkyskog ,

I mean the real reason is that parents are almost as bad as their kids with their phones. They have become accustomed to texting their children throughout the day.

rekabis ,

There are better tools these days than blanket prohibition.

The signals that voice and data go over are different from each other, so not all modern cellphone jammers jam the entire spectrum. Some can be set up to allow voice calls over the traditional channels while jamming data. This forces students to use the school’s wifi network for any Internet connectivity, whereupon their connectivity to apps and services can be whitelisted/blacklisted as deemed necessary by system admins.

Ergo, a system that keeps students off of their smartphones while allowing parental connectivity.

starflower ,

these are U.S. schools - how will you call your parents goodbye before you get shot?

richieadler ,

Flip phones.

hemko ,

Add phone functionality to their guns?

AFC1886VCC ,

https://youtu.be/rFtW419VwtY

Got you covered

pastermil ,

You don't. You die like everybody else, without saying goodbye.

eruchitanda ,
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Because no one wants to deal with parents.

crystalmerchant ,

Yep this will stop them making tiktoks alright

bjoern_tantau ,
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Or how about you give the kids extra space to let them practice their creativity?

vivavideri ,

GOP's master plot of defunding public schools is years in the making in NC. Teacher pay, at least before I left, was one of the worst in the nation.
As a result, this is sadly on point for the area.

wheeldawg ,

Someone is always going to be the worst in the nation.

EdibleFriend ,
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Holy christ yes. This post is stupid, everything about the situation is stupid but how the hell do you get from 'some random ass school took down the mirrors because of tik tok' too 'GOP EVIL1!!1!!11'

Believe me....I get that the GOP is evil but holy fuck do people stretch to get to that subject here.

betterdeadthanreddit ,

Or how about those kids get back to class since they're at school.

Jiggle_Physics ,

The school could provide a time and space for learning how to make better videos. It doesn't have to be a fuck off and make tiktoks in lieu of going to curriculum classes. Make it something akin to a vocational class, even if an extra-curricular. Less a space for kids to fuck off during the day to make lame tiktoks and more of a means of teaching video production and the things that go into it. Photography, editing software, basic equipment operation, how to properly record audio, lighting, all of that type off thing.

This may sound ridiculously expensive, but I have seen schools have classes, and clubs, that do just this for just over two thousand dollars. This won't stop kids from being disruptive with whatever bullshit is popular at the time, nothing will, but it can enrich those that do these things with actual interest in the craft.

EdibleFriend ,
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They do. It's called art class.

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