Sinister reason school has removed doors from girls' toilet cubicles

High school students and their parents were shocked to discover the doors from girls’ toilet cubicles had been removed after a student allegedly wrote a note on one, threatening a school shooting.

Despite both Beardstown High School students and their parents being outraged by the decision, the Illinois school district is standing by their decision, ABC 20 reports.

After the initial shock of discovering their privacy had been taken away from them, some students have been forced to get creative.

“Mostly girls have been bringing blankets from their house and hanging it up in the stalls so people can’t see them,” said Juan Juarez, a Beardstown High School student, where the door-ban has taken effect.

“Yesterday people started putting their shoes and boots in front of the stall so people would know they’re in the bathroom,” Juan added.

In fact, many female students have raised their concerns over the lack of privacy, but the Beardstown School District says they will be permitted to use the private restroom in the nurse’s office.

This, however, raises concerns if it unfairly causes female students to miss out on class time by not only traveling to the nurse’s office but also having to wait to use the one private restroom available.

“You have to understand when kids have a place to spend time, whether it’s a minute or five minutes, sometimes things happen whether it’s good, bad or otherwise. It has helped limit some of the things that were taking place,” district head Ron Gilbert told ABC 20.

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The school district has taken additional precautions regarding the threat written in the bathroom stall, including allowing students to only enter and exit the school through one door, conducting random searches, and utilising handheld metal detectors at after-school events.

The school is reportedly listening to parent’s feedback regarding the stall doors and will take that into consideration.

The discovery of the note in the toilet cubicle comes after a series of shooting threats were scribbled on toilet seats and stalls at various US schools in recent weeks.

Two girls at a Florida school were last year expelled and face serious charges after they brought knives to school in a foiled “satanic” plot to kill classmates by staking out a school bathroom and waiting for smaller students to enter.

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