*An attempt to discourage students from flushing full rolls down the toilet led a South Carolina high school to threaten to remove toilet paper from students’ restrooms.
“Administration has decided to take the toilet tissue out of the restrooms for the remainder of the school year,” an email sent to teachers and students by Newberry High School Assistant Principal Cornelius Cromer reads, according to WIS-TV.
According to the email, students would be required to get tissue paper from the school’s front desk before using the facilities.
Students and parents received the warning last Tuesday but by the end of the day, Newberry High School Principal Brandon Ross retracted the toilet paper ban, WIS-TV reports.
Meanwhile, some members of the community had mixed reactions to the assistant principal’s email.
“[The] administration stated they cannot have toilet paper to destroy the bathrooms. You can have toilet paper; you just will go about getting it in a different manner,” said Christina Cerra, a teacher at a different South Carolina school, Fox 11 reports.
Cerra pointed to “a rise in discipline issues across the board in schools this includes basic respect for adults, each other and facilities.”
Local attorney Robert Rikard said the email was “a wholly unreasonable position for a school administrator to take.”
Rikard warned that if such a policy is implemented, it could likely be met with litigation “and increase bullying and other behaviors that the schools do not want.”
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