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Offline SimpleMan

Windows to observe students in high school locker rooms? Really?
« on: February 05, 2021, 08:14:07 AM »
https://www.bakersfield.com/ap/national/south-carolina-s-largest-catholic-high-school-sued-for-300-million-for-invasive-locker-room/article_01b91a3e-89fc-5330-82c7-2c60d43b91c6.html

This is really bizarre.  I've used many a locker room in my life, and never a single time have I seen one with windows for observation.  Who came up with this idea?  And why?

Coaches are perfectly capable of breaking up fights and disciplining miscreants without needing windows. I've seen it done.  It's not rocket science.

That's a chunk of change they're suing for.  Even having the plaintiffs awarded a fraction of that amount, would blow serious holes in any diocese's financial well-being.

Any thoughts?
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Offline SeanJohnson

Re: Windows to observe students in high school locker rooms? Really?
« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2021, 08:39:56 AM »
Not sure what the problem is here.  I presumed every high school shower/locker room was open to observation by staff.

Just imagine the filth which would transpire if  the kids knew nobody was/might be watching.

I went to public school, and the coaches/phy Ed staff’s office had floor to ceiling windows overlooking the locker room and shower area.  I never heard anyone complaining about it.  It’s just the way it was.

Earlier in jr. high, the gym teacher used to hang out in the locker area and peek into the shower once in a while.  We teased him and called him a fag, but in later years understood it was completely necessary that a bunch of naked post-pubescent kids would have to be supervised.

Just imagine what might have happened in that school’s locker room had kids, for the last 21 years, known. nobody might be watching.  The lawsuit makes it sound like there was something kinky about the windows.  

Obviously a snowflake millennial or an opportunist.
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Offline SimpleMan

Re: Windows to observe students in high school locker rooms? Really?
« Reply #2 on: February 05, 2021, 09:04:39 AM »
Quote from: SeanJohnson on February 05, 2021, 08:39:56 AM
Not sure what the problem is here.  I presumed every high school shower/locker room was open to observation by staff.

Just imagine the filth which would transpire if  the kids knew nobody was/might be watching.

I went to public school, and the coaches/phy Ed staff’s office had floor to ceiling windows overlooking the locker room and shower area.  I never heard anyone complaining about it.  It’s just the way it was.

Earlier in jr. high, the gym teacher used to hang out in the locker area and peek into the shower once in a while.  We teased him and called him a fag, but in later years understood it was completely necessary that a bunch of naked post-pubescent kids would have to be supervised.

Just imagine what might have happened in that school’s locker room had kids, for the last 21 years, known. nobody might be watching.  The lawsuit makes it sound like there was something kinky about the windows.  

Obviously a snowflake millennial or an opportunist.
Well, then, evidently our mileages varied.  I'd never heard of something like this before.

That will be one key argument for the defense --- that this is common practice.  If it is, then there's no case.  Maybe I've just been exposed to a narrower range of locker room configurations in my day.
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Offline forlorn

Re: Windows to observe students in high school locker rooms? Really?
« Reply #3 on: February 05, 2021, 09:24:31 AM »
We had no windows, but teachers did wander in and out of our locker-rooms. I don't think they'd ever look into the showers though; that is pretty weird. Sometimes the coaches would wander in to the shower room to yell at us to hurry up, but the showers themselves all had curtains so it wasn't an issue.
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Offline B from A

Re: Windows to observe students in high school locker rooms? Really?
« Reply #4 on: February 05, 2021, 09:25:15 AM »
Quote from: SimpleMan on February 05, 2021, 09:04:39 AM
Well, then, evidently our mileages varied.  I'd never heard of something like this before.
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ugh - Luckily my experience is more like SM's.  Went to a Catholic HS, so maybe that makes a difference, plus the fact that I'm a girl.  If there was a window into our locker room:  :(.  I think I would have worn my gym clothes under my uniform!
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