<p>The bathroom situation at my S's school got so out of hand last year (lots of smoking...cigarettes and "other", fights,fires in trash cans, kids just going to hang out and get out of class) that a new rule was put in place. Anyone needing to leave class to go to the bathroom had to wait for the teacher to make a call to the office and then be escorted to the bathroom and back to class by a security guard. Kids hated it. Parents were up in arms but it did quell some of the mayhem taking place in the bathrooms.</p>