Overview
- St Leo’s Catholic College has begun sending real-time notifications to parents when a student uses the bathroom during class time.
- School leaders say tracking during lessons provides data for conversations with families about unsupervised misuse.
- CCTV covers only the entry and exit of bathrooms, with the principal stating no cameras are placed inside private areas.
- The measures respond to reports of vandalism in refurbished toilets, including wet toilet paper on ceilings and stall doors being removed.
- Reactions from families range from supportive to uneasy, and the school will review the trial at a Parents in Partnership meeting later this term, with NSW Police to be engaged if perpetrators are identified.