Russian school charges pupils for toilet trips - to pay for repairs

AP ^ | Wed, Nov 19, 2003

[presidio9]

Pay toilets are not unusual, but in school?

For a short time, students at a high school in the southern Russian city of Taganrog had to do more than raise their hands and ask for permission to use the bathroom - they had to fork over cash, NTV television reported Tuesday. School officials instituted a plan to charge pupils for toilet trips in order to pay for repairs that were needed after students vandalized bathroom fixtures, NTV said. City education authorities quickly halted the practice, NTV reported, without saying how much they had to pay.

The network broadcast part of what it said was an amateur video taken in a school hallway, showing a boy asking a cleaning woman whether he could use the bathroom. Her reply: "Pay."

[nothingnew]

"Here I sit broken hearted...payed a dime and only farted."

FMCDH

[Serb5150]

This could just lead to a lot of little boys p*ssing on the walls.

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

School officials instituted a plan to charge pupils for toilet trips in order to pay for repairs that were needed after students vandalized bathroom fixtures

This sounds so quintessentially liberal to me. High crime? No problem, just raise taxes for everybody to clean up the mess left by the criminals.

It does give new meaning to pay-as-you-go, however.

[Brilliant]

Seems like the Russians may be taking this capitalism thing a little too far.