{"id":1578,"date":"2023-04-01T00:00:35","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T04:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2022-2023\/?p=1578"},"modified":"2023-04-23T01:43:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-23T05:43:23","slug":"school-bathrooms-locked-students-and-teachers-struggle-for-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2022-2023\/2023\/04\/01\/school-bathrooms-locked-students-and-teachers-struggle-for-access\/","title":{"rendered":"School Bathrooms Locked: Students And Teachers Struggle For Access"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Lilliana Escobar<\/p>\nStaff Writer <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I check the clock. 1:44. Ugh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please let me go to the bathroom, I think to myself. It’s one minute before the 10-minute mark.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I raise my hand, but Mrs. Lubricant is looking down at her computer. I stare at the clock, watching as the minute hand ever so slowly moves from number to number.  \u201cCan I use the bathroom?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mrs. Lubricant looks up from her computer screen and checks the clock. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the most monotone tone, she says, \u201cNo leaving class ten minutes before the bell.\u201d I sigh, stuck staring at the clock\u2019s hands again. Ten whole minutes until the passing period. I sit there in silence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

*Ding Ding<\/em>* <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFinally!\u201d Skips-a-lot, my seat partner, exclaims.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I skip down the hall to the nearest bathroom on the A-side of the second floor. But the bathroom is locked. Oh, what a lovely surprise! The sign reads, \u201cBathroom is closed. Go to A2\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHow would I know where these bathrooms are..?\u201d my friend Nic Breath mutters next to me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I walk toward the opposite end of the hall to see if there are any bathrooms near my next class. Closed again. Yay! Another surprise! I didn\u2019t know it was my birthday already. Thank you, ACHS! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I end up walking up a flight of stairs on the third floor of the C-side. At this point, I consider happily peeing on the floor. While I walk down the hall, I feel as if I have entered a haze. I see a teacher, a pregnant woman, walk out of a classroom and dash to the bathroom I am approaching. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWHAT THE\u2026 It was OPEN last week!\u201d I hear her shout. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once again, we have another pregnant lady scavenging for an open bathroom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I see her hold her stomach and flop through the hall to complain to two security guards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to sound like I am asking for access to a human need, but if you could be so kind as to open this bathroom, it would be greatly appreciated,\u201d the Pregnant Lady says. The security guards whisper to each other. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat do I get out of it?\u201d Security Guard 1 asks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy pee off the ground,\u201d Pregnant Lady says defiantly, staring them in the eyes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I follow them to the bathroom and watch the security guards walk away so the Pregnant Lady can go to the bathroom in peace. The forbidden gate has been unlocked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Feature photo by Lilliana Escobar for <\/em>Theogony<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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