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I've told both of my kids, if you have to go to the bathroom and the teacher says no, then you go ahead and walk out of class and go to the restroom. When you're done, go to the office and tell them you walked out of class because you weren't allowed to go to the restroom. And then I will take care of the rest.
Yep, me too.
I still remember the time a boy in my 3rd grade class wet his pants because the teacher said he couldn't go to the bathroom. So did everyone else in our school.
My husband is in his 50s and still talks about the time a nun at his school wouldn't let him go to the bathroom at the end of the school day and he wet his pants while waiting for the bus when he was in kindergarten.
Could the teacher have called another instructor to walk the child to the bathroom?
Having volunteered in classrooms for years I know there are some kids who will ask to go to the bathroom only to wander down the hall, bypass the bathroom, get a drink from the fountain or peek into other classrooms, and walk SLOWLY back. Having an escort at least to the bathroom door would ensure the child arrives back quickly with no extra stops along the way.
Going back to my early yrs in the 1930's I was in the same room for 3 yrs. (4 room school)
Two rows of Kindergarten...two rows of 1st grade and one row for 2nd grade.
Teacher (Miss Near) would take turns teaching each grade during the day.
Anyway one boy in Kindergarten wet his pants and the classroom had a free recess period outside in the play yard while the janitor cleaned the room.
The main issue here is that he carried that incident around with him during the 3 yrs of school with the same kids in the same room. It is a lfe dwelling remembrace.
That little girl soiling herself will be in the same boat the rest of her life.
I have to wonder what the parent is thinking going to the press.
Kindergartners have accidents all the time. When my daughter was 5 the bathroom was in the kindergartners' room and she had an accident because the room was occupied. But all kindergartners kept a change of clothes in their cubbies.
The only thing I see they did wrong was to not have her change her once it happened, that is a health issue and I have never heard of a school that did not have an emergency change of clothes. That being said, many public schools are not allowed to help a child change clothes in any situation EVER. What the school should have done was call the parent to come get the child from the nurse's office.
Again, even with those mistakes, the real humiliation is coming from having her "accident" be public knowledge and talked about far and wide. And that part is the parents doing.
Oh and for all the people with the crystal clear memories of those things from kindergarten, more power to you. My daughter just realized a couple of days ago that her bf of nearly months was in her kindergarten class. They cannot even remember each other let alone who had an accident one day.
I have to wonder what the parent is thinking going to the press.
Kindergartners have accidents all the time. When my daughter was 5 the bathroom was in the kindergartners' room and she had an accident because the room was occupied. But all kindergartners kept a change of clothes in their cubbies.
The only thing I see they did wrong was to not have her change her once it happened, that is a health issue and I have never heard of a school that did not have an emergency change of clothes. That being said, many public schools are not allowed to help a child change clothes in any situation EVER. What the school should have done was call the parent to come get the child from the nurse's office.
Again, even with those mistakes, the real humiliation is coming from having her "accident" be public knowledge and talked about far and wide. And that part is the parents doing.
Oh and for all the people with the crystal clear memories of those things from kindergarten, more power to you. My daughter just realized a couple of days ago that her bf of nearly months was in her kindergarten class. They cannot even remember each other let alone who had an accident one day.
IF he had had a public bathroom accident ~ your daughter would have remembered him, I'll betcha. I'm not a mean person; it's just something that sticks with you.
I have to wonder what the parent is thinking going to the press.
Kindergartners have accidents all the time. When my daughter was 5 the bathroom was in the kindergartners' room and she had an accident because the room was occupied. But all kindergartners kept a change of clothes in their cubbies.
The only thing I see they did wrong was to not have her change her once it happened, that is a health issue and I have never heard of a school that did not have an emergency change of clothes. That being said, many public schools are not allowed to help a child change clothes in any situation EVER. What the school should have done was call the parent to come get the child from the nurse's office.
Again, even with those mistakes, the real humiliation is coming from having her "accident" be public knowledge and talked about far and wide. And that part is the parents doing.
Oh and for all the people with the crystal clear memories of those things from kindergarten, more power to you. My daughter just realized a couple of days ago that her bf of nearly months was in her kindergarten class. They cannot even remember each other let alone who had an accident one day.
I wouldn't really consider this an accident. An bathroom 'accident' is sudden and no one's fault- you just don't make it in time. This child was denied a break after she asked and as a consequence had diarrhea on her own person. The teacher caused this consequence- that's not an accident.
I had IBS through middle and high school. I had serious stomach pains and sometimes would have to rush to the bathroom. Denying me a break would have been cruelty.
IF he had had a public bathroom accident ~ your daughter would have remembered him, I'll betcha. I'm not a mean person; it's just something that sticks with you.
But you are also wrong.
She had an accident in that class, they don't remember each other let alone an accident.
She had an accident in that class, they don't remember each other let alone an accident.
Well. Quite interesting. I stand corrected.
Apparently, it's just an everyday kinda thing for some people.
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