For students, school toilets are “anxiety-provoking” places. This is what a investigation unpublished report from the National Council for the Evaluation of the School System (Cnesco). For three years, Agnès Florin and Philippe Guimard, respectively professor of child and educational psychology and professor of developmental and educational psychology at the University of Nantes, led this work, which focused on to the quality of life at school.
Security issues
Their research, carried out with other specialists, reveals that a third of students fear going to the bathroom in their establishment. A phenomenon which is not without consequences, in particular on thehand hygiene, but also on the learning of intimacy and which is explained by the lack of maintenance of these toilets: 53% of establishments clean their toilets only once a day and in 3% of middle and high schools, cleaning no is not done on a daily basis. Result: 72% of establishments are singled out for deterioration in sanitary facilities and 62% for a lack of hygiene products, namely toilet paper or soap.
Another problem pinpointed by the survey: the lack of sanitary facilities. Thus, 39% of public colleges and high schools say they do not have enough toilets. This work also sheds light on another sensitive point: insecurity, since 16% of establishments have been questioned by students, parents and staff about safety problems in the sanitary facilities. “The toilets are (…) the most sensitive place and the most difficult to monitor”, concludes Philippe Tournier, general secretary of the union of management staff (SNPDEN), to AFP.
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