"The toilets are taboo. That cannot be! " the parents of an eleven-year-old girl said in shock.
According to the new rules, teachers decide whether a kid could go to the toilet or not. Parents complain that some kids could be embarrassed to ask permission and will rather restrain themselves until the next break.
Some parents have already reported "incidents" concerning small children who were too shy to express their needs and preferred to stay in class. Parents of elder pupils also criticized the new measure.
"The young women should be able to easily use the toilet during their periods," the mother of a teenage girl said.
The measure has, of course, its prehistory. In this way, the school management reacts to frequent cases of vandalism in the school.
"We will certainly not keep the measure forever. We will regularly check, if it is still necessary," the school's representative Simon Thiriet said.
This is not the first incident of that kind in Switzerland. In 2014, a school in Geneva banned male students aged 12 to 15 years from using the toilet during class.
The explanation for the measure was as following: They should learn to restrain "their human needs during the 45 minutes a lesson lasts".
