KENT, U.K. – Parents are angry after two British schools have banned students from using the bathroom without a doctor’s note.

The Mirror reports:

Two secondary schools have banned pupils from using toilets during lessons for health and safety reasons.

Staff at Westlands School and Sittingbourne Community College in Kent lock the facilities and said allowing pupils to use them unsupervised would breach “safeguarding” rules.

From this term, students must produce a doctor’s note about a relevant medical condition or go to the nurse’s office to request permission during lessons.

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Clare Stevens, whose son attends the school, says, “The nurse’s office is a 10- to 15-minute walk to the other side of the building, and all the toilets are locked on the way there.

“When he got there the nurse questioned him about why he had to go.”

She says her son was denied permission to use the toilet.

Another parent, Sam Bright, tells the paper about his daughter, “She was absolutely bursting the other week and she was told that she couldn’t go and to sit back down unless she had a medical note.”

“There are extensive toilet facilities around the school for pupils to use at breaktime and lunchtime when staff are on duty to supervise the areas,” Westlands head teacher Simon Cox tells Kent Online.

He adds, “It is not common sense to allow pupils to use them during lessons when there is no supervision.”

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There is no indication students were unsafe or undisciplined, which could warrant such a rule.

“The policy of the school is children don’t go to the toilet during lesson hours,” Sittingbourne Community College head Fiona Trigwell tells the Mirror.

While the bathroom doors at Westlands may be locked, at least they have toilets to begin with.

Parents in India are upset because their kids are forced to urinate in trash cans.

dnaindia.com reports:

The parents of 12 students of St Mary’s (SSC) Mazgaon have written to the south zone education department raising many complaints about the school. A major complaint that figures in the letter is about students being forced to urinate in dustbins for want of toilets in each floor of the school.

According to a complaint filed by parents, the school does not have toilets on each of its floors, as the Right to Education Act requires.

And teachers often refuse students permission to go to the toilet which is located in the ground floor at the backside of the school, according to the news site.

Because of that, students are forced to urinate in the “dustbin” when they can’t hold it any longer.