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Bathroom Breaks
Bathroom breaks makes the case for allowing students to use toilets during lessons.
Bathroom Breaks: Allowing students to use the toilets during lessons
This paper looks at the issue’s students face in being unable to access to bathrooms during lesson times. It proposes that all curriculum’s in the UK be altered to ensure students have access to bathroom breaks during lessons.
Quick summary
- In the UK, teachers can stop students from using the toilet and there are multiple incidents where this power has led to students bleeding through clothes when they are on their periods or wetting themselves.
- Neither common sense policies nor full bans on students going to the toilet have failed to work.
- All students should be allowed to use the toilets during lessons and alongside this rule, we support a complaints system Ofsted so students can raise complaints about teachers if needed.
Authors
Jasneet Samrai
Deputy Director (internal)
Jasneet coordinates our team and helps to set the policy direction for Centre. They work at Breast Cancer Now, previously worked at Oxfam and has also been a campaign organiser helping to elect 3 MEP’s. Jasneet is also Head of Safeguarding and Pastoral Care.
Foreword
Monica Lennon MSP
Monica Lennon, Scottish Labour and Co-operative Member of the Scottish Parliament for Central Scotland.
Coverage
Free Market Conservatives: The outdated rules on bathroom breaks in schools are in dire need of reform
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