Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

New toilet design to tackle bullying
This is Local London ^ | May 2, 2007 | Mark Chandler and Michael Reilly

Posted on 05/02/2007 6:11:01 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

UNISEX wash basin areas could be built in schools to help tackle bullying.

The move is part of recommendations covering schools in England being rebuilt or refurbished as part of the Government's £45bn Building Schools for the Future (BSF) scheme.

BSF aims to rebuild or renew every one of England's 3,500 state secondary schools during the 15-year lifetime of the initiative.

The new guidelines were issued by the Government agency responsible for delivering the programme, Partnerships for Schools.

Toilets in Schools was published earlier this month and details new toilet block designs to be incorporated into all BSF schools.

It is hoped the new designs will combat bullying in secondary schools and make toilets more attractive, cleaner and safer for pupils to use.

The agency recommends making hand-washing areas unisex and more visible and placing toilet blocks opposite classrooms and staff to improve the way they are supervised.

Gravesham Teachers' Association secretary Brian Chadwick said: "Any improvement which helps reduce bullying to a minimum is something we would support.

"But this would only be the tip of the iceberg and we would expect schools to have checks in place to deal with bullying anyway."

Councillor Michael Snelling, who represents Gravesham Rural at Kent County Council, said: "The real problem with toilets is they are enclosed spaces but I think this can be designed out when we're building schools for the future."

As well as overhauling the design of toilets, the BSF programme will address anti-social behaviour through further design features.

Dead-end corridors and dark corners will be avoided and the general visibility in all parts of schools will be increased.

Other recommendations include having blurred glass cubicles and not having urinals.

Partnerships for Schools chief executive Tim Byles said: "Toilets in BSF schools will no longer provide bullies with places which lend themselves all too readily to anti-social behaviour."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: allymcbeal; antisocialbehavior; bathrooms; bsf; bullies; bullying; england; eu; europe; euroweenies; genderneutral; greatbritain; hiddenagenda; homosexualagenda; islam; islamists; muslimagenda; muslims; pc; peesittingdown; politicalcorrectness; politicallycorrect; rop; schools; secondaryschools; sexism; sitzpinklers; toilets; trop; uk; unisex; unitedkingdom; urinals; washbasins
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-57 next last
Comment #21 Removed by Moderator

To: john
Swirly proof?

22 posted on 05/02/2007 7:10:01 AM PDT by beeber (stuned)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: weegee

I wonder when school authorities in the US and UK will get around to self-defense curricula and fighting lessons for victims of bullying? Oh, that’s right, they’re into pacifism now...


23 posted on 05/02/2007 7:10:02 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (G*d bless and heal Virginia Tech!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: expatguy

The muslims want us all to pee sitting down? And what of the unisex washbasins...wouldn’t they want the boys and girls separated?


24 posted on 05/02/2007 7:12:50 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (G*d bless and heal Virginia Tech!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Other recommendations include having blurred glass cubicles and not having urinals.

The Euro-feminists are really on a jihad against urinals, aren't they?

25 posted on 05/02/2007 7:14:34 AM PDT by B Knotts (Anybody but Giuliani!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: expatguy

Ah...that makes sense. Feminists + Muslims = no urinals.


26 posted on 05/02/2007 7:15:42 AM PDT by B Knotts (Anybody but Giuliani!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: camle
The euroweenies launched a campaign last year to eliminate the urinal because it is sexist - remember?

Møøselimb men are required to squat to pee...

27 posted on 05/02/2007 7:16:09 AM PDT by null and void (The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Piquaboy
Would someone explain to me what a unisex wash basin area is or looks like.

My hunch is that instead of separate wash basin areas in each restroom, there will be a single (probably larger) wash basin area at the restroom entrance. The toilet areas would still be segregated and would "share" the hand-washing room.

Some of the boys will probable like this setup - and most of the girls will probably hate it.

28 posted on 05/02/2007 7:17:24 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Liberals are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Whats this toilet fixation lately?

I could say something but people may think I am a “potty mouth”.


29 posted on 05/02/2007 7:20:05 AM PDT by dforest (Fighting the new liberal Conservatism. The Left foot in the GOP door.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
From this ...

....to this...


30 posted on 05/02/2007 7:21:22 AM PDT by Daffynition
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: afortiori
It was probably a nerd that invented the bully resistant toilet.
31 posted on 05/02/2007 7:23:57 AM PDT by ThomasThomas
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I believe one of the oldest bars in the country, McSorley’s in NYC, when finally court-ordered to allow women into the bar (early 70’s IIRC), just kept the one bathroom.


32 posted on 05/02/2007 7:31:29 AM PDT by Hat-Trick (Do you trust a government that cannot trust you with guns?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: CORedneck
At my son's school, the sinks are out in the hallway which is interesting.

So then they can transfer their "dirty" hands to the door handles for all to enjoy and appreciate....where are the towels...in the cafeteria?Idiots!

33 posted on 05/02/2007 7:33:00 AM PDT by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: ThomasThomas
I think it was someone ... erm ... light in the loafers ...


34 posted on 05/02/2007 7:56:02 AM PDT by Daffynition
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]

To: Piquaboy
Would someone explain to me what a unisex wash basin area is or looks like.

A row of sink in the hall on the wall space between the doors to the two toilet areas. Some US schools have those.
35 posted on 05/02/2007 7:57:16 AM PDT by TalonDJ
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: CORedneck
At my son's school, the sinks are out in the hallway which is interesting.

If that had been the case in Clinton's White House, the course of history might have been different (snicker).

36 posted on 05/02/2007 8:03:20 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine (Is /sarc really needed?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: rainbow sprinkles

I like the pictures. Where are they at ? The pics of the ladies on the wall reminds me of the bathroom at the Sofitel Hotel in Queenstown, NZ.


37 posted on 05/02/2007 8:07:39 AM PDT by CORedneck
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 30 | View Replies]

To: indylindy

Just thought it was something interesting to post...


38 posted on 05/02/2007 8:09:40 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (G*d bless and heal Virginia Tech!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I recently took a walk through my old high school in a fairly wealthy suburb, a town with the proverbial "great school system." There were no doors on any of the stalls, just as when I was in high school. I don't know if the kids tore them off or what, but there haven't been doors on the stalls for at least 25 years now.

They have added shiny chrome plates over the sinks to replace the glass ones that were constantly smashed.

Take a walk through your great school system sometime. You never know what you'll find.

Also, there was an earth flag hanging from the ceiling of the gym, and no American flag.

39 posted on 05/02/2007 8:20:25 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

This is an "Earth flag."

40 posted on 05/02/2007 8:27:15 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 39 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-57 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson