Maybe they should install bidets.  They sell them at CleanButt.com (no joke-that is the website.)





Cat

Oh come on, folks -- what is so ridiculous about this?  It may or may not be effective, since a kid can still take the paper and clog the drain, but it may give them pause if the teacher gives them a full roll and will be suspicious if a practically empty one is returned.

What's a better solution?  Cameras in the restrooms?  Full-time bathroom monitors?  Or maybe students should just have to accept the fact that a few pranksters make it impossible for everyone else to use the toilets in a sanitary manner? 

WTF is the big deal about having to ask for toilet paper and being held accountable for returning the unused portion when you're done?

::)

Are you sure this isn't a hoax?  Really?  I mean, it's got to be.  I'm checking snopes.com!




I was on my way there myself...this can't be true.....

then again, it is Tennessee  ;) ::) ;D

Oh come on, folks -- what is so ridiculous about this?  It may or may not be effective, since a kid can still take the paper and clog the drain, but it may give them pause if the teacher gives them a full roll and will be suspicious if a practically empty one is returned.

What's a better solution?  Cameras in the restrooms?  Full-time bathroom monitors?  Or maybe students should just have to accept the fact that a few pranksters make it impossible for everyone else to use the toilets in a sanitary manner? 

WTF is the big deal about having to ask for toilet paper and being held accountable for returning the unused portion when you're done?

::)
Are YOU some kid who is EMBARRASSED about having to ASK for toilet paper IN FRONT OF THE WHOLE CLASS...see it from the kid's point of view...and what if that kid has the runs, has to go NOW, and has to wait for the teacher WHO'S BUSY TEACHING CLASS to hand them the roll...and then the kid has an accident? That's something to think about.

I was on my way there myself...this can't be true.....

then again, it is Tennessee   ;) ::) ;D

That's why it's a hoax!  They never had no toilet paper in them lavertories in Tenn-UH-saaay!
(joke)

Are YOU some kid who is EMBARRASSED about having to ASK for toilet paper IN FRONT OF THE WHOLE CLASS...see it from the kid's point of view...and what if that kid has the runs, has to go NOW, and has to wait for the teacher WHO'S BUSY TEACHING CLASS to hand them the roll...and then the kid has an accident? That's something to think about.

"M'lady, there is only one thing more embarrassing than asking for toilet paper, and that is not asking for toilet paper!"
--Oscar Wilde

Pfftt...!

So what's new?

In all of my time at my school, our toilets never had paper!

(Unless it was that horrible stuff which had the consistency of hardboard!)

Pfftt...!

So what's new?

In all of my time at my school, our toilets never had paper!

(Unless it was that horrible stuff which had the consistency of hardboard!)

So I assume you didn't get to go to one of those cushy public schools, then? 

So I assume you didn't get to go to one of those cushy public schools, then? 


No, sadly I was one of the many 'great unwashed'...

This is no exaggeration...as well as no paper, this toilet didn't even have a roof!

No, sadly I was one of the many 'great unwashed'...

This is no exaggeration...as well as no paper, this toilet didn't even have a roof!

You mean those old-school johns that flushed with the pull of a chain, or are you talking about an un-plumbed outhouse?
:o

You mean those old-school johns that flushed with the pull of a chain, or are you talking about an un-plumbed outhouse?
:o


Oh no...not a cesspool - we'd come along a bit since then!

Everything was plumbed in (to a certain degree, although I'm convined the end cubicle had something living in it!), but it was as if someone had got part way through building it, then ran out of ideas when the roof came into view...!!

Al fresco crapping...Ah! Them was the days!

Are YOU some kid who is EMBARRASSED about having to ASK for toilet paper IN FRONT OF THE WHOLE CLASS...see it from the kid's point of view...and what if that kid has the runs, has to go NOW, and has to wait for the teacher WHO'S BUSY TEACHING CLASS to hand them the roll...and then the kid has an accident? That's something to think about.


You're kidding, right? They have to ask permission to go to the bathroom anyway, or do kids just roam the halls at will these days? (not that that would surprise me much). And asking for a roll of toilet paper is somewhat less embarrassing than crapping your pants because some idiot overflowed the toilets and you weren't able to do the doo.  ::)

That's why it's a hoax!  They never had no toilet paper in them lavertories in Tenn-UH-saaay!
(joke)
You know how they wipe down in Tennessee? They grab hold of the front and back of their overalls, and they just tug 'em back and forth.

You know how they wipe down in Tennessee? They grab hold of the front and back of their overalls, and they just tug 'em back and forth.


lol! that just seems wrong somehow!

lol! that just seems wrong somehow!
They might as well ban..female necessities. Girls having to tell the teacher they need..ahem..a sanitary pad the first time they have their..ahem,monthly..now that would be reason to die from embarrassment.

I seem to remember when I was in elementary, up to grade 4, the teacher would take the whole class to the restroom a couple times a day, usually after recess and later in the day. I also remember in grade 1, at a different school, there was a boy's and girl's bathroom built into the classroom, as well as community facilities.

I can see the day of toilet cops in the future....."Officers,....line up for inspection.....prese-e-e-e-ent plungers."

Maybe they should install bidets.

Those are becoming more popular in newer homes.

Well, I went to school with a girl who was raised.....shall I say....."sheltered" and didn't KNOW what to do when "Aunt Flo" came to visit and would just use TP folded over....until the day she walked into the lunch room with white (and red) pants on and a lunchroom monitor FINALLY took her to the nurse.....I guess from what I heard that she had been walking around all day like that :(

Did you ever see "Carrie"?  Well, we had this girl from a really tweaked-out Christian funny-mentalist family.  Mom didn't explain to Ann-Marie the facts of life, and I gather blustered the school into excusing her from any prior sex ed. curriculum.  You know where this story is going!  The first time Ann-Marie's monthly visitor arrived, it happened in school, and she panicked!  She thought she was dying!
:-[
I felt sooo bad for her.  It's just child abuse to deny a kid certain biological knowledge into the age of twelve.  Such as junior high goes, she got razzed mercilessly afterward, like she didn't have it bad enough before.  And that nurse...who could stand a chalk talk on "your uterus and you" from that starchy old school nurse?!  Sheesh!
It was a lot like "Carrie," but Ann-Marie didn't look like nooo Sissy Spacek, tell ya that much!
:-\\

Yes, I've seen "Carrie".  The funny thing about Tricia was that she didn't come from an overtly religious family, her mom just sheltered from the most basic things.....she (the mom) was a real whackjob.  For example:  she wasn't allowed to eat anything remotely hard because her mom said it would "ruin her teeth" so she had a peanut butter sandwich, tomato soup and a banana for lunch EVERY DAY.  She was so naive that someone told her she could get pregnant from holding a guy's hand and she believed them (of course, a guy had asked her to hold hands earlier in the day).  It was actually pretty sad :-\\

Boy, there sure are some nutty parents out there!  It's actually detrimental to one's teeth to only consume soft foods.  The abrasove nature of crunching actually does strengthen enamel and has a debriding effect.  Anyway,  PBJ, tomato soup, and a banana might hit the spot just about now...but not every day!

Yeah, I think there was a "Gimme A Break" episode about that misconception, but at least on that episode it was because dad said, "Oh, a girl starts kissing boys, the next thing you know she's pregnant!"  Anyway, it shows how child abuse induces illogical thinking.  What if she'd come home and said, "But mom, I see guys and girls holding hands all the time, and they don't get pregnant..."

I realise that some parents like to have "the talk" with their kids privately, but I don't agree with having to get a parent's permission in order to discuss human sexuality in school. Why should it be treated any differently from any other scientific/biological subject? If the parents want to supplement the school education with some teachings of their own, then that's their business, but we have to make sure that the population is educated about these things so that we can keep down teen pregnancy, STDs, etc... We don't have to ask permission to teach evolution, or to teach foreign languages... and there are plenty of parents who would be opposed to those as well.

What are these parents afraid of? It's not like the teacher's going to explain what a dirty sanchez is, she's just going to go over the basics, inform them about the various diseases in detail, inform them about safer sex, and suggest that they not do it until they're much older. Those are things that every healthy citizen needs to know about, whether they believe in them or not. It's awful that some kids had to go through what's been described here. It's even more awful that such a significant portion of the population is so ignorant when it comes to the realities of sex, pregnancy, and STDs...

Well, I went to school with a girl who was raised.....shall I say....."sheltered" and didn't KNOW what to do when "Aunt Flo" came to visit and would just use TP folded over....until the day she walked into the lunch room with white (and red) pants on and a lunchroom monitor FINALLY took her to the nurse.....I guess from what I heard that she had been walking around all day like that :(



My mother used to get the pads that you used with belts-and no belts.  ::) So we used to have those pads riding up on us all day.  :-[ I thought it only happened to me until many years later my sister told me that I wasn't alone. (I'm sure very few women here will remember those belts)




Cat

My mother used to get the pads that you used with belts-and no belts.  ::) So we used to have those pads riding up on us all day.  :-[ I thought it only happened to me until many years later my sister told me that I wasn't alone. (I'm sure very few women here will remember those belts)




Cat







Really?  Growing up thumbing through my big sister's copies of "Glamour," "Self," and "Cosmo," I thought a woman's period was the time of the month she went horseback riding, Olympic diving, did gymnastics, and cartwheels on the beach!
;D

I realise that some parents like to have "the talk" with their kids privately, but I don't agree with having to get a parent's permission in order to discuss human sexuality in school. Why should it be treated any differently from any other scientific/biological subject? If the parents want to supplement the school education with some teachings of their own, then that's their business, but we have to make sure that the population is educated about these things so that we can keep down teen pregnancy, STDs, etc... We don't have to ask permission to teach evolution, or to teach foreign languages... and there are plenty of parents who would be opposed to those as well.

What are these parents afraid of? It's not like the teacher's going to explain what a dirty sanchez is, she's just going to go over the basics, inform them about the various diseases in detail, inform them about safer sex, and suggest that they not do it until they're much older. Those are things that every healthy citizen needs to know about, whether they believe in them or not. It's awful that some kids had to go through what's been described here. It's even more awful that such a significant portion of the population is so ignorant when it comes to the realities of sex, pregnancy, and STDs...



Well, obviously, if they don't know about it, they won't DO it, right?  I mean if a fifteen year old doesn't know what a condom is for, he's not going to go out and fornicate.  We've got to keep our children pure and virtuous.  I don't want a bunch of perverted secularist public school teachers turning my boy into a slobbering horndog!
>:(

Well, obviously, if they don't know about it, they won't DO it, right?  I mean if a fifteen year old doesn't know what a condom is for, he's not going to go out and fornicate.  We've got to keep our children pure and virtuous.  I don't want a bunch of perverted secularist public school teachers turning my boy into a slobbering horndog!
>:(


Spoken like a true Bay-Stater.  ;D

As a parent at the school in which this happened, I am here to set the record straight. The children were with out toliet paper for a month. The local news was contacted after trying by several parents to reason with this principal. Only after news cameras were on the school property was the toliet paper put back. After contacting school board  members tonight, I was told this was a comical issue, by one school board member. I contacted him because she is distrubting a copy of the msn video website, with the caption above that she will be available for signing autographs this week. I did not find this a laughing matter. If anyone has any suggestions on where to turn now we as a group of concerned parents would love to have any input.

In some of the stores and other public places around here, we have a different type of toilet paper dispenser from the normal.  I don't know how to explain it, but maybe someone else who is familiar with these can explain it better.

Anyway, you pull the end of the roll, and after about three sheets, it won't pull anymore unless you stop pulling, adjust the roll a bit, and then pull again.  It takes forever to get a nice handful of toilet paper.  I doubt most kids would want to waste that much time just to plug up a toilet. That would probably be more effective than no toilet paper at all.

As a parent at the school in which this happened, I am here to set the record straight. The children were with out toliet paper for a month. The local news was contacted after trying by several parents to reason with this principal. Only after news cameras were on the school property was the toliet paper put back. After contacting school board  members tonight, I was told this was a comical issue, by one school board member. I contacted him because she is distrubting a copy of the msn video website, with the caption above that she will be available for signing autographs this week. I did not find this a laughing matter. If anyone has any suggestions on where to turn now we as a group of concerned parents would love to have any input.

Welcome to inthe00s, hope to see more of your posts.

My mother used to get the pads that you used with belts-and no belts.  ::) So we used to have those pads riding up on us all day.  :-[ I thought it only happened to me until many years later my sister told me that I wasn't alone. (I'm sure very few women here will remember those belts)




Cat






I remember those ugly 'sanitary belts'...the darn thing showed right through if one was wearing tight jeans(you could see it like panty lines)..they were horrible.  I started using tampons when I was 12, on the sneak at first because my foster mom had the mistaken belief that they 'compromised your virginity'!

As a parent at the school in which this happened, I am here to set the record straight. The children were with out toliet paper for a month. The local news was contacted after trying by several parents to reason with this principal. Only after news cameras were on the school property was the toliet paper put back. After contacting school board  members tonight, I was told this was a comical issue, by one school board member. I contacted him because she is distrubting a copy of the msn video website, with the caption above that she will be available for signing autographs this week. I did not find this a laughing matter. If anyone has any suggestions on where to turn now we as a group of concerned parents would love to have any input.


How did you happen to hear about this little thread in this tiny area of the web?  ???

Why doesn't each child carry a couple of feet of toilet paper to school with him/her?  That way each one has enough for them to use, but not enough to cause mischief.  That would be about 10 squares, right?  Fits in a shirt pocket. 

We are at war, people don't have jobs, political conversation is at an all-time low, and we're alerting the media about a meanie principal?