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My son had a first grade teacher with this rule. We told him to just get up and go and we’d deal with her. Wound up being a huge ordeal that involved meeting with a counselor, principal and teacher and they actually defended the teacher! Long story short we got a pediatrician to write a note and sign that our son had to have bathroom access at all times and could not be made to hold it. It worked as soon as we put that on file and he was never told no again. I hope it changed for others too.
I can see having determined bathroom breaks, sure, but if a kid really has to go they have to go. I have walked out of a meeting because I had to before - sometimes you just can’t hold it. And I sure as heck don’t expect my child to.
I teach 9 and 10 year olds. I don't allow children to go to the toilet/bathroom during class time, only during break and lunch. Would the rule bother you?
I guess you fancy pools of urine, crying and humiliated kids, and their irate parents showing up.
I can see this rule in high school. People need to learn to time their breaks. You cannot walk out of a meeting, a courtroom, or drop your welding torch because you suddenly have to pee. You have to finish what you are doing. Saying you need to go before or hold it is something they will need to learn, but 9-10 years old is too young.
It should NEVER be in any school.
We don't need schools enforcing any rules regarding using the washroom...
People DO "learn to time their breaks" when it becomes necessary {as in your examples}...not when in school.
Have you ever heard of someone losing their job because they stopped to use the washroom????
This is not something that anyone "needs to learn"...it's a given in certain situations...and that's something every adult understands..not something they learned in a school.
As a second grade teacher, I see both sides. It's frustrating to have children interrupt teaching to ask to go. Even worse is when one child starts a chain- one asks to go and like 4 others decide that they want to go, too.
To not allow children to go except during break and lunch seems restrictive. I know a first grade teacher who ended up with a student peeing all over her floor because of this type of rule.
In my classroom, the kids may not go while I'm giving whole-group instruction. That means that they can go... during silent reading time, during 'seat work', when we first come in in the morning, during our two class bathroom breaks (one in the morning and one in the afternoon), on our way to specials, or at lunch/recess. By maybe mid September, the kids have figured out when they can and cannot go and it's not really an issue.
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