At this school showers boys and girls together – parents react – Dagbladet.no

(Dagbladet): When Alice Frantzen was at a parents for a couple of months ago, she esteemed. Then came the fact emerged that boys and girls in first grade at Dysjaland school in Sola parts wardrobe after swimming hours.

Toddlers mother, who has a daughter in first grade, reacted strongly. Now she will have a discussion about the phenomenon. For is it really okay that boys and girls of school age showers together?

– Girls and boys are different and have a right to keep his body private. It is parents’ responsibility to ensure, not a six-year old, says Frantzen Dagbladet.

– Why should it be normalized?

It was Solabladet who first publicized the special wardrobe conditions at the school. It allegedly been going this way for several years, but Frantzen – who is a stranger in the village – seems scheme must be abolished.

As far as she knows, does not have other parents reacted weirdly.

– When nobody reacts seems that this is normal and they have certainly been doing this for quite a few years, but I who are not used to it reacts. I do not think it should be like. Boys and girls are different, so why should normalize this ?, she asks.

There are several reasons why she thinks it is problematic. Firstly, several children in the six to the age of seven have cell phones or other digital gadgets that can be used to capture images of the opposite sex.

She fears that any photos, or just that everyone has seen each other naked, can lead to bullying later school years.

– I imagine that there may be episodes where one hears that “I have seen you naked, and you have a birthmark,” exemplifies her.

Moreover, she thinks it’s unnatural, when the children in first grade already know what sex is and how it takes place. She fears it could happen unpleasant episodes that children do not dare to speak about because they are embarrassed.

– There is a lot of kids ending in kindergarten, and they start first grade. Where I mean to draw the line, his mother said.

– Storm water glass

The school management is of a different view. They have set the limit at the second grade. Then get the kids separate wardrobes.

The principal Atle Tanum have never experienced that someone has challenged the communal shower room, which has gone the same way since the swimming pool next to the school opened in 1987-88.

– There is no first grade who bring their mobiles, so it is the parents who make a small storm in a teacup. We do not intend this as a problem at all, but we are taking an assessment on it, he says to Dagbladet.

He says there are practical reasons why weirdly going that way for the first graders. On Dysjaland school there namely adapted for swimming lessons from the first class of. Meanwhile, the school has arranged for a nearby nursery can use the second of the two dressing rooms while freshmen gather together with two adults in the other locker room.

The school should have disclosed it at parent-teacher for first grade parents, and have received few responses.

– I am very concerned that we are adults problematize this, because kids are not necessarily on the planet adults, says the headmaster.

– Never heard of this before

He says he recognizes that neither the County or Ombudsman states that the school is doing something wrong by allowing six year olds shower together.

It has the two agencies namely stated to Solabladet.

– We have never heard of this before. Most places are starting a not swimming so early and it is not normal that a shower in connection with physical education until around fourth grade. We think that it must be up to the children and decide if they think it’s okay, says press contact Kari Sten Lindquist in the Ombudsman told the newspaper.

Nor is it something in the Education Act that allows this is not allowed, said the County of Rogaland.

– The Education Act does not express itself on the legality of the boys and girls use the same wardrobe simultaneous. Thus, this can not be considered illegal, says adviser Una Bjørnseth Haugen.

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