Preschool toilets

Tell me what it was like going to the bathroom when you were in preschool? Was there any privacy? How many toilets were there? If there was more than one, did they have any dividers or stalls or were they open? Did you ever see kids of the opposite sex going potty? Did you see their privates? Were most boys circumcised or uncircumcised? Any funny stories?

I remember all 3 toilets being open in preschool, I saw all the boys and most of the girls going pee. I remember crossing pee swords with two boys at a time, comparing penises with two other boys, and following a girl into the bathroom when I didn’t really have to go, just so I could hear her tinkles. I also remember another little boy peeing in the trashcan in the bathroom.

In my preschool there were 5 or 6 toilets in a row, along a wall. There were dividers between the toilets, but no stalls. there were no doors so anyone walking down the line could see every toilet user sitting. This school had no girls, just boys.

An interesting thing is, when not being sat on, the seats, which were polished black plastic and were open in front, were automatically raised at about a 30 degree from the horizontal, as if they had not been fully lowered. That was not the case, however, because as soon as you sat on the seat the toilet gave a short flush.

When you were done and stood up, the toilet automatically gave a much longer flush. This was actually pretty nice because you never found unflushed poo in the toilet

If you looked too long... more than a brief glance... at another guy's genitalia or face, like as not you'd get beaten up, so things were pretty discrete. We did not like the doorless stalls, but they were a fact of life.

At mine each room had one ,and the doors opened out ,so kids couldn't lock themselves in or barricade themselves in . Limited the horseplay and bathroom games a lot .

I also remember that the first potty was the boys’ toilet, and the one on the end was the girls’ toilet, and the one in the middle was for either, mostly only for pooping. Every time one of the boys used the toilet on the end, the other boys would laugh and say “you’re going in the girls toilet”

I also remember that most boys were circumcised except for myself and two other ones. I taught one of them how to retract his foreskin when I saw he was uncircumcised.

Anyone else have any funny stories?

I don’t remember pre-school at all, other than the trauma of being separated from my parents. Kindergarten was only half days and I don’t remember ever using the bathroom there, either. First grade, however, there was a bathroom adjoining the classroom, and it had two toilets with no dividers, stalls or any privacy at all. It was the same set up at the pediatric ward during a hospital stay I had at 6, except there they had separate boys and girls rooms. My first grade teacher would let girls go first in pairs, then boys.

All other school bathrooms growing up in the 80s had dividers but no doors. That way you could not horseplay or get in any trouble. Teachers would often come in and check the bathrooms, so you had zero privacy.

Back in the 1950s or 1960s, little consideration was given to the giving private places to pee or poo to school kids. I doubt it ever even entered any adult's mind. And thiis was not limited to preschoolers or young kids.

When I was about 10 or 11, one day I was feeling pretty sick. The teacher noticed and, as was standard practice, I was sent to the school nurse. Tye nurse's office was on an upper floor of the school and had her office, three small cubicals with a cot and sink in each, an a toilet in a 4th cubical. All the cubicals had curtains across the front, but no doors, Everything that went on in one, could plainly be heard in the others.

Anyway, after a quick temperature check, nurse told me to lie down in one of the cubicals and said she'd be back in a few minutes after finishing with another boy. I took off my jacket and laid down on the cot. After a couple of minutes, I saw the nurse walk by to the cubical next to mine, carrying a white irrigating can, with the hose draped over her hand. The kid next to me started to protest as soon as he saw her walk in, but there was no arguing with her.

For the next few minutes, I heard the unmistakable sounds of a big enema being given and the recipient complaining about the fullness and cramping.. Then nurse said, OK, you can go to the toilet now and the kid scrambled to the toilet. I could clearly hear the enema working.

Soon, nurse came back in to see me and said she'd called my mom and they'd agreed I should go home early because it looked like I was getting a cold, so left. I never did learn who got the enema, but it sure sounded like he needed it and it really worked.

@Sean said

. . . . . Anyway, after a quick temperature check, nurse told me to lie down in one of the cubicals and said she'd be back in a few minutes after finishing with another boy. I took off my jacket and laid down on the cot. After a couple of minutes, I saw the nurse walk by to the cubical next to mine, carrying a white irrigating can, with the hose draped over her hand. The kid next to me started to protest as soon as he saw her walk in, but there was no arguing with her.

For the next few minutes, I heard the unmistakable sounds of a big enema being given and the recipient complaining about the fullness and cramping.. Then nurse said, OK, you can go to the toilet now and the kid scrambled to the toilet. I could clearly hear the enema working. . . .

A school nurse gave a student an enema???????????????

That seems HIGHLY irregular and possibly illegal in many jurisdictions.

@SwitchableSusie

Different times.

Back then, the student prefects could cane kids for transgressions. Now a teacher probably can't even give a student a 'time out' for bringing a gun to class.

Much of the world has become ridiculously Politically Correct.

Today, a mom can probably go to jail for giving a constipated kid an enema, if she is not a "medical professional". Or even taking a rectal temperature.

Don't judge history by today's standards.

I have worked in or near daycares. My strongest memories are of toilets much closer to the floor

Mine was like 2 or 3 little stalls with small toilets and no door, and there was this on teacher who would always watch. the last stall was a normal stall with normal toilet and door

A school nurse gave a student an enema???????????????

That seems HIGHLY irregular and possibly illegal in many jurisdictions.

My uncle had a preschool in the 60s. While I never heard of an enema being given I do remember the stalls had no doors and walking by, it wasn't unusual to see a girl or boy with pants around ankles and sitting there nonchalantly. I'm also pretty sure that if a grade school or high school was big enough to have a nurse that having her administer an enema wouldn't be out of the question after a call home.

I don't know if preschools even existed '53-55...

Private kindergarten in mid 40s was unisex with several toilets, no stalls, no urinals.

I was bought up in a childrens home. Before I was lived there the groups were children of the same age and separate boys and girls, then it became mixed age/gender groups, like a family. The toilets for the youngest age group were still there - very small toilets with brightly coloured small metal screens between each toilet but no doors. They had wood bits each side of the china, not a proper seat. We used them if we were in that part of the home and wanted a stand up pee.

There were also boys and girls who would come into the home for shorter stays, one or two weeks. They would find the toilets and think they were the only ones and use them. I remember going into the young childrens toilets and there was an older boy on a visit to the home doing his business. He shouted for us to go away but we didn't and had a good look at his exposed privates! Another time there was a girl with her knickers around her ankles and her skirt pulled up. Again we could see everything because the toilets were so small and low down, until she realised we were there and she tried to cover herself. We thought finding boys and girls using the toilets was very funny. I doubt the visiting children thought the same!

The kindergarten kids used the same bathroom for all the Grades only it was more supervised. Get it done and leave. Same scenario--toilet stalls had no doors with about 6-7 urinals lined up by the sinks. A huge--long mirror affixed to the wall above the sinks.

The toilets in the boys room of my school were quite unusual.

There were 5 or 6 of them in a row along one wall, separated by partitions about 4' high between the poo stations. One could not see a neighboring user when sitting, but could when they stood up. The stalls had no doors, so there was no privacy at all. And this was decades before there were any drug issues.,

Getting back to the toilets, they may have been the lower, kiddie style, but I don't remember any more.

What was unusual were the seats. They were unlike any others I've ever seen. The seats were supported by a metal “U”. The actual 2 seating areas were black plastic, about the size and shape of a hospital ‘kidney basin’ . When you sat, those supported your thighs, leaving you entire butt area floating in space and accessible from all sides and back (for easy wiping?). It was just about impossible to poo the seat.

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But that was not the only thing. When one walked into the stall, the seat was not flat on the toilet. It was partly raised at about a 45 degree angle. As the user sat, the toilet would automatically flush for a few seconds. When the user was done pooing and arose, the toilet would automatically flush for a longer time. So there was never a time when someone going into the stall would see a pile of someone else's poo sitting in the toilet because a previous pig user didn't flush. I think this is extremely gross. (It happened to me a few yeas ago, at a doctor's office, when she wanted a urine sample. Yukkk !)

Preschool, what's that? 1st thru 4th grades were in the same school with toilets in the basement. Both sexes used the same toilets and there were no dividers just toilets lined up along the wall like in the army. There were urinals for the boys behind a wall. The girls were supposed to use the toilets closest to one end but many of them didn't, as an “in your face thing” to the boys.

From what I see in my kids' the preschool toilets (the very small ones) do not have any kid of privacy.