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Toilet Rules - Are Schools Being Too Strict?

Children in schools which lock toilets during lessons say it's causing them upset and embarrassment.

Children in schools which lock toilets during lessons say it's causing them upset and embarrassment. Head teachers say it's to stop young people finding a reason to slip out of the classroom. But 成人快手 Newsround has heard from one student with a medical condition who says the restrictions worry her every day. Another student says she ended up in hospital with a urine infection because of the strict rules. In this episode of 5 Questions On, teenagers talk frankly to Newsround reporter Jenny Lawrence about the problems locked toilets can cause.

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