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Toilet-gate has California students flush with anger
College Times ^ | 11 Feb 2012 | Theresa Harrington

Posted on 02/12/2012 10:40:04 PM PST by smokingfrog

CONCORD, Calif. — Instead of beating the bell between classes at Mount Diablo High, senior Charles Campos often finds himself waiting frantically for a chance to use a rare unlocked restroom on the sprawling campus.

Relief has been hard to come by since beleaguered Principal Kate McClatchy closed all but one boys and girls' bathroom to the 1,400 students last year. Although McClatchy unlocked a second set of restrooms this week, the dearth of commodes may violate the state's education code. She refused to say why she did it, but district trustee Gary Eberhart said he's been told it's because of graffiti.

So while McClatchy may have solved one problem, she has indisputably caused another. The lockout has made Campos and other students late to class, and those who skip the urinals in favor of making it to class on time are antsy and distracted because they couldn't go. A few have resorted to urinating in stairwells or other places, Campos said.

"And there's no toilet paper," Campos told the school board Monday.

Recognizing the urgent cause, the school's Amnesty International club has launched a new campaign: "Pissing is a Human Right."

(Excerpt) Read more at ecollegetimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: educrats; freewillie; govtskools; graffiti; homeschoolingisgood; napl; publicschool; publicschools
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To: null and void

Damnatio Bathroomoriae.
It’s worse than Damnatio Memoriae.


81 posted on 02/13/2012 9:54:31 AM PST by Darksheare (You will never defeat Bok Choy!)
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To: USAF80

Tried that at one place I worked, but they had to give it up.

Some of the engineers routinely got so wrapped up in the problems/plans they were using the pads for, that ‘rescue parties’ had to be sent after them.


82 posted on 02/13/2012 10:15:50 AM PST by ApplegateRanch ("Public service" does NOT mean servicing the people, like a bull among heifers.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh oh oh the PAIN! I am laughing so hard it HURTS! LOLZ!!!!


83 posted on 02/13/2012 11:56:56 AM PST by Danae (Anailnathrach ortha bhais beatha do cheal deanaimha)
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To: Danae

Much like the kids in the story, I aim to please.


84 posted on 02/13/2012 12:50:14 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

.... Oh so many snarky comments I could make... so little time... lolz


85 posted on 02/13/2012 12:52:54 PM PST by Danae (Anailnathrach ortha bhais beatha do cheal deanaimha)
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To: Slings and Arrows

.... Oh so many snarky comments I could make... so little time... lolz but far be it for me to get into a pissing contest with you! Your sense of lyrical humor never misses the mark!

(Giggles)


86 posted on 02/13/2012 12:55:53 PM PST by Danae (Anailnathrach ortha bhais beatha do cheal deanaimha)
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To: Danae

This too shall pass.


87 posted on 02/13/2012 1:30:41 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Some shyster is going to take this case and be singing “urine the money” for the rest of his life.


88 posted on 02/13/2012 1:38:36 PM PST by Clay Moore (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of a fool to the left. Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: Clay Moore

Just another day in the Golden State.


89 posted on 02/13/2012 1:44:12 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

I can just picture the school administrators being washed away when the, uh, “waters” come rushing back in.


90 posted on 02/13/2012 2:01:34 PM PST by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: smokingfrog

Back in my day (70s) the graffiti in the UCLA bathrooms were masterpieces of erotic wit. What a humorless society nowadays!


91 posted on 02/13/2012 3:58:23 PM PST by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: Buddy Sorrell
I’m sure that the school has free condoms. Why not Depends?

lol Isn't the juxtaposition just amazing?
Liberalism is utterly amazing.
92 posted on 02/13/2012 4:07:08 PM PST by JSteff ((((It was ALL about SCOTUS. Most forget about that and HAVE DOOMED us for a generation or more.))))
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To: RitchieAprile; Slings and Arrows

I don’t believe in punishing every kid for the actions of a few. The principal needs to find out which kids did it and make them clean the graffiti PLUS clean the bathrooms for two weeks or be suspended. Or both maybe. I prefer them cleaning the bathrooms. I like old fashion punishments.


93 posted on 02/13/2012 4:14:50 PM PST by Morgana (I only come here to see what happens next. It normally does.)
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To: smokingfrog

We should applaud the morons that are creating conservatives out of our college students.


94 posted on 02/13/2012 4:17:31 PM PST by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: Irenic

that is a seriously brilliant idea. but grafitti pales compared to one negligence lawsuit against the district
when someones kid is seriously injured or killed as a result of criminal activity.

at work the common area whiteboards are kid territory.
some draw ninjas, other practice their calligraphy
on top of the einstein/feynmann quotes.


95 posted on 02/13/2012 4:29:56 PM PST by RitchieAprile
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To: Nik Naym

schools aren’t not all bucolic and playful today as in days of yore, the kids of today are dangerous, unpredictable and even more so when in gangs/on drugs.

the little bandits ruined it for the young scholars.


96 posted on 02/13/2012 4:44:00 PM PST by RitchieAprile
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To: dixiechick2000
I have to wonder, though...when weighing peeing against graffiti...

That might wash it off, if they used water soluble paint.

97 posted on 02/13/2012 4:57:07 PM PST by Grizzled Bear (No More RINOS!)
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To: RitchieAprile

No the “little bandits” didn’t ruin it.

The administration’s inability to run their school did.

The administration’s inability to control the troublemakers.

The administration’s inability to protect the good kids from the bad kids.

All of THAT is what led to this.

It IS NOT the students responsibility to police the other students. As a matter of fact, if kids try to intervene when others are doing wrong, the ones who are trying to do good are punished.

(I could replace any and all instances of the word “inability” above with the word “unwillingness” and probably be more correct.)


98 posted on 02/13/2012 5:19:24 PM PST by Nik Naym (It's not my fault... I have compulsive smartass disorder.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

“Think about the kind of person who becomes an urban public school administrator.”

Nope.....don’t wanna go there. I don’t “get” most of them.


99 posted on 02/14/2012 12:31:53 AM PST by dixiechick2000 (This hobbit is looking for her pitchfork...God help the GOP if I find it.)
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To: Grizzled Bear

“That might wash it off, if they used water soluble paint.”

That there is funny, I don’t care who you are. lol


100 posted on 02/14/2012 12:35:13 AM PST by dixiechick2000 (This hobbit is looking for her pitchfork...God help the GOP if I find it.)
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