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Kids ill after 'refusing to use smelly school loos'
Published: 16 Nov 12 07:59 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20121116-46195.html
A doctor who says school toilets are so disgusting that children are refusing to use them and developing health problems as a result, is trying to raise money to pay for cleaners and toilet monitors.
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"I have a seen a range of problems like this, and after talking with the children, they tell me about the toilets at the schools - and they say they refuse to use them," she said, speaking from her practice in the Borbeck area of Essen.
"It is the smell more than anything else that is putting them off."
She said that hygiene at many schools seemed to be lacking. "A simple wipe is not enough to clean toilets. Children often miss the toilets, and all facilities should be cleaned thoroughly and regularly with a disinfectant.
"I have visited two schools, have an appointment at another and am in contact with a fourth," Tatros-Tajer said.
She said she had started a campaign locally to raise money to pay to employ toilet monitors and cleaners in schools. "They should not only keep things clean, they should also be there to talk with the children about the importance of washing hands and so on," she said.
"If parents would pay €1.50 for each child each month, it would be a good start, although we would also need sponsors and donations."
She said she had been overwhelmed by the level of support from people in the area for her plan, but admitted that no sponsor had yet come forward to help.
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I watched the ladies with the cleaning cart go into the loo and grab the waste basket empty it and move on.
Was never like that at my school.
If your children want clean toilets, let the apply to study in Spain or Greece under the Erasmus program. they have clean toilets there, paid for by British and German taxpayers.
Problem solved.
I assume this school is for little kids? The article doesn't say where it is. So, where is this?
"If they're so happy to teach children to be good little socialists they need to set the example themselves."
Would you not think this was a cost cutting exercise brought about by austerity savings from the haves against the have nots and not a "socialist " brainwashing scheme.
@ realist1961
"Difficult to imagine this in a socialistic society. "
Not difficult impossible maybe we should try building a "socialistic society. "
@raandy
Or as they now say in Southern Europe
"One door closes another one shuts "