How to Make Friends in a New School Year

I've definitely heard of incidents like in our high school or like neighboring high schools where you know teachers wouldn't let students go to the bathroom. I think luckily for us teachers usually wouldn't just straight up say no unless it was like a very unreasonable time. But it was definitely a problem. Like you could tell sometimes that it was just like a bunch of students were like I need to go to the bathrooms and y'all just going to mess around. So it was just definitely that's very cool that they have like a full 10 minutes but I guess as you mentioned there's the whole pros and cons because it's easier for them to form these kinds of like clicks and issues with bullying