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The school I'm asscociated with has been rehoused in a 'new build'. Although the tiolets are all cubicled, they have decided to allocate male/female blocks. However, there is no place to hide; You can see from one end out to the other as if it were a corridor, with cubical doors one on side, and basins on the other.

There are no Adult Only toilets, although many staff members prefer to use the disabled facilities (staff/disabled swipe card access)

The thinking behind it is that the students won't be able to hide to bunk off lessons, or to smoke. Being in effect open plan, there isn't any incentive to hang around, and staff can easily check if there is a suspicion of wrong doing, without placing themselves at risk of unfounded accusations.

Thanks +++DetEcTive+++. Having read your comments and observations, I can now see the thinking behind it.

oooh yuk! why would any girl want to use the same toilets as teenage boys? That's beside all the other issues of privacy and child protection that Janet mentioned.

I wonder what the nations reaction would be if all public loos were made to be unisex???


Saying that my Daughter avioded school loos at all costs, she said they were never very nice and it was a worry if the older girls were lurking in there. My son also avoids them for the same reason. I had children who would go all day without drinking which is not good for them.

Teresa

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I was just thinking the same, why on earth would any boy want to go anywhere near toilets that teenage girls had been using.

George

lol George :)

Has anyone been quoted on the benefits of these unisex toilets ?

apparently the actual cubicles are male or female and the toilets are for different age groups.
I suspect cost was a benefit to the school, and they have been built in such a way as to eliminate corners where smokers can hide. (The spokesman says).

So no benefit has been offered whatsoever ........ apart from the supposition that one age group may need longer to pee than another and some would prefer not to be overheard in the next cubicle.

Seems to me that someone is after a jobsworth accreditation !

Slow down peeps

My daughters school has done this they have a brand new school and at £35 million we as parents where SHOCKED to say the least!!!

But .....as Anninglos has said they are these full cubicials and each door is either pink or blue and it works ...one year down the line my daughter likes them ....

No Sl*gs hanging in them to bully you when you go in ...coz no smoking and they get and do their bussiness and move on .....no bunking off .....and we dont use the boys ones and they dont use ours

She likes them

Is your daughter among the oldest or youngest at the school Kemp? I wondered if it made a difference if she had not known any difference. But I can see that there would be less chance of being bullied. I think we were thinking that the cloakroom/loo is the place girls go to for refuge when upset and they wouldn't be able to do that with boys in and out. But if it works..........

She is 16and half and in year 13 ...they finished the school in sept 2011 so she had them for 15 months

they have an open plan section and on this exta large coridoor they have seats set back into the wall areas for cool off places and quiet areas....

It does sound as if it is well planned. And they don't find it embarrassing for boys to be in and out?

No ....seems not ..

She says well we all know why we are going in there so who cares!! It seems we are the ones left with red faces ...

I must say I,ve been shocked that they all seem to "not " care

A different generation I suppose, they seem to have all merged into one sex somehow, it isn't us and them any more is it.

Cor if I was 12 years old again I'd say great


But as a father ,grandad it's a NO NO

Eldest had her friend over after school and I made a point of double checking they have Male and Female toilets there in the new build.........

Asked them how they'd feel about merged loos even if patrolled and no gaps floor to ceiling and both of them looked horrified.

Some things are just not to be shared at that age.

And toilet facilities are the top of that list imho. x

If working in school has taught me anything, it is that that is a recipe for disaster big time. Kids like little hidey places like the loos and big kids and hormones with mixed hidey places arghh!!! They will become no go areas for those who need them for their correct use while others stand on guard etc
If you are thinking of putting a member of staff nearby to man the toilets to make sure they are ok then that should tell you that its not going to work dont build!

I agree with all the concerns . What is the person who thought this up living in ?? a bubble? All those raging hormones and silly moments for both sexes need channelling . Can imagine lots of embarrassing moments for girls with their time of month worries/embarrassing moments ( I didn.t even like to tell my mum I needed ST,s )

Plus can imagine enlisting willing mates to stand guard whilst teenage fumblings ETC! went on and then later wonder how/why another teenage pregnancy .

Well! I sometimes clean the toilets at our school when acting caretaker and judging by the filthy boys loos as a girl I would not care to sit on the seats. Girls too can be messy not being able to put paper towels in bins but they do not pee on the floor or wipe fingers covered in !!!! onto the walls. Definately no unisex. Elaine.
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