myrmepropagandistOct 14, 2024

A Pennsylvania school added a gender neutral bathroom (in addition to "girls" and "boys") not my favorite solution. But then they also put a window in it. (?)

School bathrooms are. .. weird. If you haven't worked in a school you might not know: schools tend to have separate bathrooms for children/adults. For the very small children the toilets are smaller, the sinks are lower. Which is a thoughtful touch IMO.

With the older students its to avoid "appearances of impropriety" 1/

Show threadRemco van BreeOct 17, 2024
@futurebird I always thought the separation between faculty bathrooms and student bathrooms was because student bathrooms tend to get gross and teachers deserve better facilities than that.
Show threadmyrmepropagandistOct 17, 2024

@blikkie

No, that is the reason for "faculty dining rooms" at colleges. I remember my delight as a student when I realized that no one really enforced the rule about going to the faculty dining room at my college. THEY got nicer food and china plates.

I just put on a blazer and blended in with the sad bedraggled graduate students who were allowed to eat there since they were all TAs.

Show threadSkip Lacaze
@futurebird @blikkie At #UCSC in the late 1960s, we did not have separate dining rooms for faculty in general, although I’m sure that the Chancellor and his minions had a nice place of their own. Each residential college of 500-odd students had a dining commons that sat 300 or more, which we shared with our on-campus faculty couples and many of the commuters. However, the Junior Commons next to the dining halls had televisions, while the faculty-only #CrownCollege Senior Commons had much more comfortable leather couches, a walk-in marble fireplace (borrowed from Hearst’s San Simeon Castle), and sherry. We use it for small reunions now, but the couches haven’t held up so well.
Oct 17, 2024 at 12:52pmWeb