What's wrong with anonymous postings? I am the student who was quoted in the article, and I have some good reasons for not writing a signed letter to the editor. Think about the negative consequences that could result from my comments if I had signed my name. Teachers would know who I am, and I doubt that they'd be fond of me after what was said. This would impact the rest of my high school experience. You know how teachers talk. When I get a new batch of teachers, they might have preconceived ideas about me in their heads (if I had my name published). I just didn't want to take any chances. However, I did feel the need to speak out, as I see this policy as a great injustice to the students. My comments are my opinions and an honest representation of what I've experienced at FCHS. I'm not trying to slander the school or anything like that. So please calm down and take others' advice. If it bothers you that much, don't read it!

Gee Howie, how self righteous can you get. Here's a suggestion for you, if it offends you don't read it. Throw it away, you don't pay for it, if this site offends you don't look at it, see how easy it is?

I yam what I yam....Popeye

Disagree Howie-Thompson does a good job. I disagree with Dollar and Howie. Great that you put your name out there Howie. Don't expect high school students to totally speak their minds because they might suffer great unpopularity. Heck, when we point to Jim Pace's leaking roof as the DevAuth wheelbarrows the cash away, the whole Chamber of Commerce strips us of all Christmas invites and parking passes. Even worse for a high school kid. (Gosh, I sound like Dollar). Ole Diceman got trashed on just because I talked about the former White House Woodwinds Ensemble. Whodathunkit.

Let me ask you this---- can you name one time that Thompson had a big blunder that required a retraction? Not me. People like Munford are afraid of their own shadows, for fear of getting cut off and not getting info from the insiders. Thompson has always tried his best to write the story even if it made people uncomfortable.

Hutch is right. You ain't paying for this so just give it up.

The Thompson article was a little over the top as far as investigative facts are concerned, but I am more ashamed of the Citizen for their columnists than I could ever be for Thompson and Fayette County High School's bathroom fiasco.
The whole country soon will be going back to democrat rule--except for Fayette County--and I doubt they ever will!
Still afeard of 1865, I think!
Most are "not going to take it anymore, stick your head out your window and shout, I'm not going to take it anymore as loudly as you can."

It's not just the school system. Almost every government department in Fayette Co., and perhaps other counties, make mass rules and punishments for the action of a few. The heads of departments find it easier to hide behind a stack of rules and paperwork rather than face the minority of people doing something wrong and punishing them. Another term is "over reacting". Use common sense!

The answer is NO!

If I had kids there I would be there for a day or two and check it out for myself.
If they refused me entrance, I would be back with 15 more the next day!
They really think that a few days of this torture will solve the problem! It will make it, or something else worse.

All this bathroom stuff reminds me of the time I went to the Courthouse near the Fayette library to find one department. There were no signs to indicate the closest place to park for any department. I parked and walked maybe three blocks to the building. Of course I was on the wrong end.
I tried to discuss with an employee very casually that it would be helpful if they had a sign or two to indicate where things were. Her answer was: why? "we all know where everything is and have a close-up parking space, anyway."

The most important invention for civility in 7,000 years. Just imagine how those cave-men caves smelled in the winter time!

Now we want to send our kids back to those times! Bet the administration and teachers don't write graffiti on their walls, do they? Wonder why?
Does any gang of teachers ever pile-up on another gang? Bet not.

How hard can it be to run the bathrooms properly? I can remember a coach or principal storming into a bathroom and straightening out everything in there that might be going wrong! Including the girls---we had a mean woman coach! She would paddle their rears with her hands. Nobody got hurt just embarrassed.
Except for smoking, which we could flush quickly, we were afraid to do much else. But even the smell of smoke meant several hours after school getting to the bottom of that!
By the time you got home the school had sent an administrator before you to "explain" your lateness! Yes, they knew where everyone lived.
It ain't hard, just takes devotion to discipline on the part of the school. Schools taught more than readin ritin and arithmetic then.
They don't even teach that now since half of the students can't read. Would you believe how many graduates can't read or write cursive?

You MUST be kiddin! People who can think aren't running schools, they are working at the Pentagon!
We simply refuse to sort the kids who can learn from those who can't or don't. Same school, different classes and teachers.
Most of them could major in sports, farming, welding, bricklaying, driving, bulldozers, or minor supervision.

but the taxpayers will cry about the cost

I still think it would be easier to kick out all of the illegals.

Now that's funny, I don't care who you are, that's funny.

This locked bathroom thing is a crazy situation. Surely all those great minds could come up with a better plan than locking the doors! Maybe some off duty police officers who are looking for extra income. I well understand that teachers, administrators, and SRO's have much more to do than monitor restrooms; however, someone needs to be checking on activities.

If we would just make an example of the offenders, punish them severly the other potential troublemakers will get the message.

They need to get the message that Fayette County "culture" involves obeying the law.

I actually thought the headline was kind of creative.
I'm pretty speechless as far as this policy goes it's completely opposite of what should happen. It's actually nice to see the High School students speak out in this case as they need to be heard!

FCHS should call in and pay substitutes to monitor the bathrooms in this case (not sure if there is a shortage of subs but that's my first thought), or pay some of the bus drivers extra pay after they finish their bus routes to monitor the restrooms!

The school shouldn't lock them! The staff shouldn't worry about the parking lot, they should focus on "inside the school". Start focusing on the important issues that are inside the school where the students are and where the "Gang Initiation" took place.

If you go around Fayette County High School and listen to everything that the people have to say then you will be shocked that the majority of it has to do with the new bathroom policy. The new rule at FCHS starting about two weeks ago was that unless you go to the restroom between classes then you have to go to the office to get a key. Many people think that this rule is ridiculous only because they think that it is for one reason, they are wrong. The bathroom rule was made not just for the gang beat in many weeks ago but also for many other reasons. These reasons are graffiti on the walls, smoking in the bathrooms, sexual acts being performed in the bathrooms and children not even going to the restroom when they have a pass but they end up just roaming the hallways.
I myself am I office aide and I have to deal with the harshness of the students when they go to the bathroom. They do not realize that the people in the office are not too thrilled about the new rule but it was something that had to be done. The “key” rule was only supposed to be temporary but with the outburst and rebellion from the student body there is no telling when the keys will stop being passed out.Also this policy is helping the students stay in the class. unless it is a complete emergency they need to stay within the class and learn instead of using the bathroom for something that isnt even a emergency and in which they could hold and wait to go in between classes.
Some people think that this new rule is the problem but if they would quit overreacting then it would not be that bad. When I pass out keys in the office on average it takes a guy less than three minutes to come to the office, use a key, bring the key back and go back to class. On average for a female it takes about five minutes for the whole process. Many of the students are very vulgar when it comes to the bathroom and said many rude things including cuss words to myself and the administrators. It is a shock at how the student body has reacted, I myself know that you do not have to go to the bathroom many times a day and if you do then there is a problem. You can control yourself to once a day and if many times then you can go to the restroom in between classes.
Maybe if everyone ranting and raving would actually go to the school and see that there are no lines and there is no reason for everyone to be so infuriated that they would shut their mouth. I am yet to see a student use the bathroom every class period and if they do there is a problem.

Someone working at the school can't write any better than this? And has no understanding of the exceptions! Once a day to the bathroom?
Do I understand that they ARE NOT locked between classes, but are and someone stands there with a key? What are the details?
Is it sex, graffiti, smoking, or fighting that is the problem? All of them you say?
Sounds like a planning problem to me! Don't totally blame minorities for these uncivil actions.

It's time for us to bring back paddling.

Wow they need to be suspended, and the parents need to fined everytime their little "angels" can't control their foul mouths.

This is one of the more outrageous things I have heard yet. What kind of horrendous people raise vicious brats like this??

i've never seen my fellow peers act like this before. yes they cuss and its not the out of county kids doing only, its the all american athletes and the honor roll kids as well. The new rule isnt that ridiculous and i invite everyone that has a problem with it to come to the school and watch.

thanks for posting from a student's and office aid's perspective. I would ask why you weren't in school today, but I remembered. How is your Mom doing now? Take care of her and yourself.

There are other duties for the Administrators and the SRO to perform than roaming the halls (mostly paperwork for the APs and patrolling the parking lot for the SRO and patrolling the cafeteria during lunch for both)

Also, there are no doors to get into the bathrooms, just gates.
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to their restrooms, except for the ones in the Commons Area, and those are open with no doors or gates.

Really?

I must only remember the Commons area ones. Wasn't the new FCHS built after SCHS?

Cause SCHS has no doors to get into the bathrooms.
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When we moved to Fayette County, I think the new (current) FCHS was begin built, so I don't know which high school was built first between FCHS or SCHS.

Maybe you can clarify something I heard: in the past, SCHS has done something along these same lines as FCHS is doing now with the locked restrooms. Does this ring a bell for you, or since you're a recent SCHS graduate, can you elaborate on it?

After someone set off the fire alarm on the Fine arts wing (before there was a camera installed in that part of the wing) the gates were put on the bathrooms and not unlocked unless you got a key from one of the fine arts teachers or a janitor, but those two were the only bathrooms that got shut down.

Nothing this extensive has happened at SCHS as far as I know.
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for the explanation.

FCHS really needs to find a better solution than what they're doing at this time.

Well then all of the teachers should have keys (or at least the teachers with classrooms closest to the bathrooms) so that at the beginning of EVERY passing period the bathrooms could be unlocked. I am just thankful that my children will not go to FCHS!!

I'm not sure how many teachers have a key to the bathrooms, but they should all have keys and should coordinate who's job it's going to be on a certain day to unlock the bathrooms.
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They should have fixed Shamrock first.

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Daniel & heatjam: there is at least one teacher on each hall that has a bathroom key and is responsible for unlocking them during class changes, then locking them afterwards.

Of course the bathrooms could be open as usual---maybe with an official at each door. They don't want to do toilet duty (never have) and won't.
It is just to make a point about how dare you embarrass us!
School administrators never have been the sharpest pencils in the can.

In my three years at FCHS more than 20 years ago, I don't recall EVER using the bathroom ... and few of my friends did, either. It was a risk even back then! Instead, my bladder was "trained" not to need a break between 8:25 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.

As soon as I got home? Well ... that's a different story.

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You mean they haven't been able to figure out how to run bathrooms inside in all that time?
I never did see the girls or the teacher use the old outdoor johnny, come to think of it! I think they went home and came back!

"It was a risk even back then! Instead, my bladder was "trained" not to need a break between 8:25 a.m. and 3:30 p.m."

Reminds me of a kid in Second Grade (Ernie), who always smelled like pee.