RESTROOM LAWS?! What does that mean???
June 2, 2010 in Uncategorized by Brandon R. Farmer
We have a compulsory education system in the United States of America, which means that you are required by law to be educated within a specified range of standards. If you cannot receive an approved education at home, then you are sent to a school. If you are required to ask to use the restroom at school, then by default the law is requiring you to do so because you are required to attend.
What is it that makes you required to do any of this? These requirements are being imposed on you, meaning that a system depends on you to do certain things in order for it to accomplish its goals. Let’s get something straight here: Just because you are “required” to do something doesn’t automatically mean that you actually need to do it.
But isn’t asking permission to use the restroom necessary to maintain order in the classroom? No. Even if you always receive permission when you ask for it, the fact that you are asking for it presumes that you could be denied it. If you need to use the restroom, all you have to do to help maintain order is inform the teacher of where you’re going.
I have always told my children that when they need to go to the rest room that they do not need to ask permission to go. That as a courtesy to the teacher they should let her/him know where they are going.
If per chance the teacher says they may not go, they are to go anyway, that they do not need permission.