Friday, October 17, 2014

School bars students from using bathroom – without doctor’s note!

School bars students from using bathroom – without doctor’s note! - EAGnews.org:
KENT, U.K. – Parents are angry after two British schools have banned students from using the bathroom without a doctor’s note.
toilet-signThe Mirror reports:
Two secondary schools have banned pupils from using toilets during lessons for health and safety reasons.
Staff at Westlands School and Sittingbourne Community College in Kent lock the facilities and said allowing pupils to use them unsupervised would breach “safeguarding” rules.
From this term, students must produce a doctor’s note about a relevant medical condition or go to the nurse’s office to request permission during lessons.
Clare Stevens, whose son attends the school, says, “The nurse’s office is a 10- to 15-minute walk to the other side of the building, and all the toilets are locked on the way there.
“When he got there the nurse questioned him about why he had to go.”
She says her son was denied permission to use the toilet.
Another parent, Sam Bright, tells the paper about his daughter, “She was absolutely bursting the other week and she was told that she couldn’t go and to sit back down unless she had a medical note.”

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