Parents lash out as school removes toilet doors to make pupils 'feel safer'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukParents say they are unhappy with a school's decision to remove the doors to the girls' and boys' toilets. Students returned back to Parrenthorn High in Prestwich, Bury, on Monday morning to discover that the doors to two toilet areas had been removed over the summer.
They were told in assembly that the decision had been taken to open them up 'to keep pupils as safe as possible and improve the school environment'. Read more: First Class of 2022!
Send us your photos But the parent of one child at the school said it's made youngsters feel uncomfortable and is taking away their privacy. "I am not happy that on return to school today my child finds that the doors to the toilets have been removed - not the cubicle doors, but the doors to the toilets," she said. "The privacy has gone for both genders.
Do you really want to adjust yourself at the mirrors in full view of anyone passing by? Especially when a teenager, I think not." And she said that if the change has been made to prevent other problems, they will still happen regardless. "Is it to stop bullying?" said the parent. "Bullying does not confine itself to the toilets, so address the bullying.
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