Pupils have won prizes for proposals to improve facilities that in some cases were so filthy they wouldn’t use them
has met, seeking initiatives across the EU’s biggest country to make facilities less off-putting for children driven to holding it in all day rather than visiting the loos that up to half of pupils have said they try to avoid.
The competition organised by the German Toilet Organisation with student and parent groups accepted submissions from 135 schools from 14 out of the 16 states to improve cleanlinesss, fight odours, discourage offensive graffiti and enhance safety in the school facilities. Prizes valued at €50,000 beckoned.
Simon admitted he tried not to use the facilities until he got home. “It wasn’t very nice sitting in class with such a pressing feeling,” he said.
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