[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by Ref Ump Welsch

We did have a situation a few weeks ago where we had a female member on the 3-whistle crew and had to share one office. Luckily, the office had a bathroom, so female partner went in there to change while the men used the office and then announced to our partner we were decent. We had no arguements about this set-up, as it was a small school and they were limited on space, even so bad to the point the locker rooms for the teams were down the hall and around the corner from the gym, and just around the corner from our room.

Another situation I had was in a big high school which has a smaller gym on an upper floor away from the main gym. I was escorted to a classroom, where the female teacher was still working on grading, and I had no expectation of privacy for changing, so I went to a bathroom down the hallway to change. My partner arrived just as I was returning to the classroom, and I told him he might want to change in the bathroom. He saw why I said that, but got to be an a** about it and went into a corner she couldn't see and changed anyway (he had his undergarments on). Gutsy. I relayed my concerns about this to the site administrator, and her response was, you should have come prepared knowing you would be in a classroom to change. I wanted to respond that I had never changed in that classroom before, it was always the boys' coaches' locker room off the main gym, but bit my tongue and emailed the AD. The AD didn't apologize, only repeating the same thing the site administrator said. That email got forwarded to the assigner as soon as it popped up on my email.

Ridiculous.

Good job. Will your assignor handle it, or what about your local President, or even the school board. For an administrator or AD to insist that expected changing facilities is a classroom is pathetic.