Posted on 09/22/2025 3:57:13 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Students at a high school in Wisconsin are upset about their district's new electronic pass system that limits the number of times a student can use the bathroom during the school day and week.
Students at a high school in Wisconsin are upset about their district's new electronic pass system that limits the number of times a student can use the bathroom during the school day and week.
The new ePass system at Arrowhead Union High School, located in a suburb of Milwaukee, functions as an electronic hall pass that students must use to take bathroom breaks during school hours.
Students are restricted to three bathroom visits per day and seven total visits per week.
Watch: Only 7 bathroom trips per week, Arrowhead students question limits on new ePass
Students at a high school in Wisconsin are upset about their district's new electronic pass system that limits the number of times a student can use the bathroom during the school day and week. Only 7 bathroom trips per week, Arrowhead students question limits on new ePass Screenshot 2025-09-19 at 3.36.57 PM.png By: Scripps News Group Posted 3:28 PM, Sep 22, 2025
Students at a high school in Wisconsin are upset about their district's new electronic pass system that limits the number of times a student can use the bathroom during the school day and week.
The new ePass system at Arrowhead Union High School, located in a suburb of Milwaukee, functions as an electronic hall pass that students must use to take bathroom breaks during school hours.
Students are restricted to three bathroom visits per day and seven total visits per week.
Watch: Only 7 bathroom trips per week, Arrowhead students question limits on new ePass
"I feel like this system should not have been...
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It doesn't, which is precisely why I took the time to add:
"I'm not pretending to know that's the case here, but if it is, then 7 passes x week is more than ample."
From what I understand, most schools don’t have 5 minute breaks between classes as they did years(decades?) ago. Students barely have time to go to their lockers much less add in a restroom break. Especially when there is a line of others trying to do the same thing.
Which mirrors the low level of educational attainment required for an "education" degree.
In 2017, the state of New York passed a law requiring prospective school teachers to take a literacy test to get their license, but repealed it the following year because 36 percent of whites, 54 percent of Hispanics and 59 percent of blacks failed on the first try.
https://observer.com/2017/04/ny-regents-literacy-test-teachers-flunk/
The impression that I get from the way the poorly written article is worded is that these allowed bathroom visits include time between classes. In other words these are not just what’s permitted if you’re in class and need to go. You’re going from one period to another and you’re still Limited in use of the bathroom. That’s the way this piece is written, who the hell knows what it actually is telling us
We have an article written by incompetent journalists about incompetent school bureaucrats. Is there any wonder we don’t know what’s actually going on?
What about the boys who need to replace a messy tampon? (typed in my best Tim Walz voice)
Yep, it’s hard to discern if it’s the journalists, the school administrators or the students that own the dysfunction in this story.
Sounds more like concentration camp rules. Courts won't allow you to limit inmate access to bathrooms.
How many bathroom breaks will teachers be allowed? If the kids leaving the classroom for toilet breaks are limited, so too should the teachers.
School janitors will love the mess there will be.
The article implies that a pass is needed EVEN while kids are going from one class to another AND during lunch AND recess.
If that is true, then this policy is ridiculous and must be stopped.
I can understand trying to limit the number of times a kid can get excused during a class.
,,, which corporation makes this system? In the wider context it’s a health issue that’s going to impose a degree of stress on users for the sake of controlling them.
Even Amazon thinks this is ridiculous.
Kids are just the grist for Deep State’s diploma mills.
Do parents care?
Someone else needs to remind them that some things are best left unregulated.
And 2017 was the good old days compared to today!
Just another in the endless list of reasons to homeschool
So use all 7 the first day of the week.
Then urinate outside the principals office.
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Projectile diarrhea. Sounds like fun.
It’s a high school. Presumably they can take a break between classes, at lunch and during gym class without a pass, so isn’t the hall pass only for during class? If so, 1 per day should be more than enough except for stomach problems. I don’t think I ever couldn’t wait until class was over. Too embarrassing to have to ask!
So far in this thread, mention of IBS, prostate issues, and blood pressure meds. These aren’t typical FR members, they’re high school kids. Did anyone read? (I already know the answer; I’ve been around here for a long time and I’m as guilty as anyone for engaging in the “comment without reading” tradition).
The 7 restroom trips max per week sounds harsh at first, but it doesn’t include using the restroom between classes, during lunch, etc. I suspect they’re trying to cut down on fake bathroom trips taken just to engage in mischief.
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