Students at Pennsylvania school must ask for toilet paper
MAHANOY CITY, Pa. (AP) - An eastern Pennsylvania high school says vandalism forced it to create a policy in which toilet paper has been taken out of the boys' bathrooms.
Boys at Mahanoy Area High School now must go to the school office to request toilet paper and sign it out. Principal Thomas Smith says that's helped solve a major problem of intentionally clogging toilets that's been going on for two years.
Smith says boys must sign out the toilet paper and then sign it back in. But the Republican-Herald of Pottsville reports some parents are protesting the policy.
Parent Karen Yedsena says some students are too embarrassed to go to the office to get toilet paper and are going home sick instead. School officials say they aren't aware of any such problems.
Boys at Mahanoy Area High School now must go to the school office to request toilet paper and sign it out. Principal Thomas Smith says that's helped solve a major problem of intentionally clogging toilets that's been going on for two years.
Smith says boys must sign out the toilet paper and then sign it back in. But the Republican-Herald of Pottsville reports some parents are protesting the policy.
Parent Karen Yedsena says some students are too embarrassed to go to the office to get toilet paper and are going home sick instead. School officials say they aren't aware of any such problems.
Too embarrassed?  Then your child needs to grow some.  Or wimp out and send them with pocket toilet paper in their bag. Â
sounds like my work have to bring our own boss is to cheap to buy tp
Act like little sh$%s get treated like them...(sorry couldn't resist, too many puns are plopping into my head)
Pocket size kleenex in a back pack. Screw the school.
First world problems. You have to pay to flush in France, pee in holes in Saudi Arabia, and wipe with leaves in other  places. A roll of TP was our bathroom pass in one of my HS classes. The protesting parents need to unclench.
What a crappy situation.
Can't punish everyone, when its only a few people at the root of the problem. That is ridiculous.Â
 @Just my say This is how I feel about gun control. Sorry to go there.
Uh, are they counting the squares on the roll when it's brought back to make sure not too many squares were used? Â Makes no sense at all.
This is unacceptable. How embarrassing.
I'd just bring my own roll.
 @Half-Baked I bet you roll your own quite frequently, yes?
Sounds sabitary passing the roll in and out of the office.
 @Romey_Rome I was thinking the same thing. Yuck.
I'm not sure how effective this would be. Any of the vandals could easily clog the toilet with something else or ask one of their female friends to get them some paper out of the girls room.
 @queenofthenight You assume stupid kids think that far ahead.
 @slappywag That is because I know that kids who do stupid things like this aren't necessarily stupid. Even when they are stupid they can still think outside the box.
LOL! For 2 years? Hey, most schools I know have been dealing with it for years! My advice to the kids, just bring your own toilet paper! If you gotta go, you gotta go! You don't have time to run to the office and do all the (what I like to call) school politics! Once again, all comes down to the dumb bored idiot kids ruining it for everybody.
Oh, you plugged a toilet? Oh, that's so cool and original, not to mention hard to do. The only credit you're getting is jackass credit!
I was at Aberdeen Proving Grounds (Army Base) where they took down the walls between the crappers in the training school because the punk students kept vandalizing the walls. Solved that problem. The few that are causing the problems need to be taken care of.
 @Thepriest And just how do you plan to identify them, there, Skippy?
If you're pooping in the middle of the day at school, you're eating too much.Â
 @lakeview I'm sorry I forgot to ask if you were being serious??
 @lakeview What about the girls who have to pee?
 @lakeview Wow really?  Everyone has bowels that work on the same time interval?  I learned something new today.  If that is true, maybe the schools and the food police can start working together... start marking down when a kid goes poo after 10 pm and report his family to CPS for feeding him/her too much.  Then Michelle Obama can come to the school and lecture all the kiddies on what foods and quantities are approved of by the state.  After all Big Brother will be in charge of most peoples medical plans soon enough.
 @K. Coleman And who says fat people don't have a sense of humor...
 @K. Coleman  @lakeview Nicely done K.
 @K. Coleman  @lakeview Well said.
"Parent Karen Yedsena says some students are too embarrassed to go to the office to get toilet paper and are going home sick instead."
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Kids are going to face more embarrassing situations in life than asking for TP. Better learn to deal with these situations without running home to Mama.
 @Ned I agree.  Also if this 'going home' thing is true, it's probably just an excuse to ditch school, you know kids.
What a crappy idea.  :-)=
I like the idea, but I think the rule should apply to both boys and girls. I feel like it's quite the assumption to think that only boys mess things up - I've done my share in the girls' room! I also do not like the boys being singled out for this. But that's just me...
 @DMT It's not about making a mess. It's about deliberately clogging the toilets. And then flooding the bathroom most likely. Obviously it's only happening in the boys bathrooms.
 @ChristopherC I know it's about clogging toilets...because I've done that too back in the day! I still stand by my statement that boys shouldn't be singled out for this sort of treatment.
 @WA State Mom  @ChristopherC Okay, I have something I can throw out: Even though it's a boys' bathroom having the problem, what proof is there that boys are the actual perpetrators? Sure, likely, but is there proof it's being done by the boys?
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Like I've said, I've been there and done that - in BOTH bathrooms! No worries; not proud of that, just using my experience to illustrate a point.
 @DMT  @ChristopherC Why? If it were just happening in the Girl's Bathroom, then, the policy would just apply to the girls. Silly to generalize the policy when 1 specific, easily identified group, is causing the problem to THEIR OWN bathroom.Â
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How embarrassing. Â I'd never go to the office and ask for TP. Â Â I'd sneak in one of those little rolls you can buy for camping/travelling. Â
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Always a few punks who ruin it for the rest of the people!
I would just send my boy to school with toilet paper enough for him and his friends.  Heck it would be double ply I'm sure it would be appreciated by the kids.
 @APenny4MyThoughts They could create a black market for TP, become the TP kingpins.  Maybe the girls will start selling their TP.
I don't have a problem with this policy. If a few jerks are going to ruin it for the rest of the boys, so be it. Now they can suffer the consequences along with them. The school shouldn't have to waste time and money in supplying extra toilet paper and cleaning up intentionally clogged toilets again and again, nor should they have to babysit the boys in the bathroom to make sure they're behaving themselves. This is probably the best middle-ground option available.
 @spacegoddess There is a better answer: Lock the bathrooms. Instead of them having to ask for TP they can ask a teacher to unlock the bathroom for them.
 @Jalharad That doesn't help during the breaks between classes. You'd have to have someone in there the whole time to make sure they weren't clogging the toilets then. You'd also be wasting the time of an employee with better things to do than go back and forth locking and unlocking the bathroom. That's where the "middle ground" I spoke of comes in. How to secure the bathrooms against toilet clogging vandalism without having to babysit the kids or waste time and money keeping an employee running back and forth to lock and unlock the bathrooms (and have to wait while students are in there so the doors can be relocked).
 @spacegoddess better yet, secure the doors (like you see in offices) with badges. Make the student ID their badge to get into the building and bathrooms. Then you have a log of who went in there when and can question and punish those who actually were clogging the toilets.
 @Jalharad That's quite a bit more expensive to implement than simply having them go to the office to sign TP in and out. They may not have tags in their ID cards already, so they'd have to issue new IDs to everyone and get the card readers on all bathroom doors. It seems to me that a pen and paper for a sign-out sheet is a lot cheaper, and would actually save on the cost of TP since there would be less used overall.