[honeygrl]

"- and haven't had toilet paper in the restrooms for years...or doors on the stalls."

It's horrifying to me to go into a restroom with no stall doors. I flat out refuse to pee in front of anyone. There is no excuse for a school to leave bathrooms that run down. If they can't afford new doors, a sheet would work just fine and could easily be gotten via donations from parents. Not having tissue creates a sanitation problem and should be dealt with as well.

[truthkeeper]

I agree with you completely. I don't know how they have gotten away with this either. Apparently the problem is not only district wide, but state wide as well. Additionally, it doesn't seem to bug many of the other parents...only me.

But then, I've been telling my kids to avoid the school restrooms entirely for years...

[Luis Gonzalez]

First time I visited England, on my very first day there, I was having a spot of lunch in a local eatery with the rest of my traveling group, when I excused myself and headed for the restroom to rid myself of the several pints of good English lager that I had downed with my fish and chips. I entered the "loo" and stood there dumbfounded...not a urinal in sight, and the two WC's available were occupied.

I could not figure out what the hell was going on, until a local walked in, said "cheers", and began to urinate against the wall!

I was aghast!

It took me quite some time to get used to the occasional troughs that passed for urinals in the older Pubs in Jolly Old England, but I made damned sure to pee before leaving our hotel room for dinner every day of our stay there.

[PLMerite]

"It's horrifying to me to go into a restroom with no stall doors. I flat out refuse to pee in front of anyone. There is no excuse for a school to leave bathrooms that run down. If they can't afford new doors, a sheet would work just fine and could easily be gotten via donations from parents."

I think perhaps the doors were removed for a reason. If there are no doors on the stalls, it's harder to do anything wrong (smoking, sex, violence) in them. If the doors are off the stalls when you go for parent's night, ask the administrators what the heck is going on.

When I was in elementary school (1960s), the principal had the doors taken off our lavatory stalls. It lasted for about a week before the parents raised heck.