Teachers in Student Bathrooms
by Vienna Howat
April 16, 2018
The four short minutes between classes barely provide enough time to stop by the bathroom while walking to class, let alone have an awkward conversation with a teacher in there.
Students have been searching for the answers to the questions of why teachers need to bombard our only form of privacy in the school, why we are not allowed in their bathrooms, and why their doors open outwards.
As if walking through H hall was not already bad enough, getting slammed in the face by the door to the teacher bathrooms is the cherry on top. From accidently entering that teacher bathroom once years back, I can personally recall that they have a much more luxurious facility. Jordan McMillen (‘19) poses a resolution by saying, “They got their own bathrooms. They should use them and stay out of ours”. This solution would also prevent teachers from taking up the limited amount of space and number of stalls in our restrooms.
I couldn’t imagine being a guy and having to use a urinal (without stalls!) next to my math teacher. Girls are fortunate to have stalls everywhere in our bathrooms to provide some isolation. It’s interesting that some schools have specific restrooms designed for transgender students while Hampton allows teachers to share bathrooms with students.
Checking if students are doing anything bad in the bathroom, like vaping, justifies a visit by an administrator, but they should just get in and get out instead of actually utilizing the facilities alongside students. This has been an ongoing problem since I can remember being in the restroom with teachers as a freshman and am now a senior.
In all seriousness, this is not a glaring issue in the midst of the rest of the world today, but a simple solution to this first-world problem would be for teachers to stick to using their restrooms only.
Students have been searching for the answers to the questions of why teachers need to bombard our only form of privacy in the school, why we are not allowed in their bathrooms, and why their doors open outwards.
As if walking through H hall was not already bad enough, getting slammed in the face by the door to the teacher bathrooms is the cherry on top. From accidently entering that teacher bathroom once years back, I can personally recall that they have a much more luxurious facility. Jordan McMillen (‘19) poses a resolution by saying, “They got their own bathrooms. They should use them and stay out of ours”. This solution would also prevent teachers from taking up the limited amount of space and number of stalls in our restrooms.
I couldn’t imagine being a guy and having to use a urinal (without stalls!) next to my math teacher. Girls are fortunate to have stalls everywhere in our bathrooms to provide some isolation. It’s interesting that some schools have specific restrooms designed for transgender students while Hampton allows teachers to share bathrooms with students.
Checking if students are doing anything bad in the bathroom, like vaping, justifies a visit by an administrator, but they should just get in and get out instead of actually utilizing the facilities alongside students. This has been an ongoing problem since I can remember being in the restroom with teachers as a freshman and am now a senior.
In all seriousness, this is not a glaring issue in the midst of the rest of the world today, but a simple solution to this first-world problem would be for teachers to stick to using their restrooms only.