<p>I considered myself lucky if I could manage to get to my locker at least once in the middle of the day, I have no idea how people would have managed to use the bathroom between classes unless they had 2 classes right next to each other. During the breaks I think most of the bathrooms were full of girls smoking, anyway...some of them were more known for it than others and the one bathroom actually didn't have any doors on any of the stalls anymore.</p>
<p>Our school went through a variety of bathroom pass methods over the years. I think they pretty much assumed that anyone who wanted to go to the bathroom just wanted to spend as much time out of class as possible. One year, we each got a pass sheet every 2 weeks that had maybe about 10 spaces, and you could use it for going to the bathroom/nurse/wherever as long as you had spaces left, and when it was full you couldn't use it again until you got a new one. So you couldn't use it every day, there weren't enough spaces.</p>
<p>Then they changed to the teachers only having one pass at a time that could be used at the teacher's discretion. Our teachers either told us that we pretty much weren't allowed to use the pass at all, or that we were only allowed to use it if there wasn't a lesson in progress and we had finished our work, or if we asked at the very beginning of the class, usually before the bell rung.</p>
<p>Most of my friends and I learned to just not have to go at all, all day. The teachers made you feel like they were doing you a huge unnecessary favor by giving you the pass, and if you asked for it too much they'd stop giving it to you. I got lucky a few years because my art class had a bathroom in the actual classroom that we could use whenever. Or in gym class if you changed really quickly. I wish they'd given us extra credit for it, if we were going through all the extra effort.</p>