Controversy
Lawrence Middle School was in the media in the midst of a scandal about bathroom pass policies in 2004. The school was mentioned on major news networks, and was used in a joke on the hit NBC late night show, Saturday Night Live, in which Tina Fey said: "A controversial new discipline policy at Lawrence Middle School in New Jersey is limiting students to just 15 bathroom breaks a month."
The bathroom pass scandal was the result of administration trying to make the school safer. Taking the bathroom pass policies from the Lawrence High School, which allowed students only 15 trips to the bathroom, administration felt they would be able to limit the amount of bomb threat pranks the school had. The Lawrence Middle School is known for its unusually high amount of bomb threats, a problem which has not transferred to the Lawrence High School.
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