What are your thoughts about asking permission to use the restroom in school and its effects on the students? Did you ever ask permission to use the restroom in school? Did you ever get denied permission, or know of someone else that has happened to? Here’s your chance to let the world know about it and why requiring permission to use the restroom at school is so absurd. Please tell your story in the comments below:
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At my kid’s school they earn coins when they do well….raise their hand, follow the rules, finish their work. At the end of the week they have a class store that they can spend their coins in and buy stickers and pencils, bouncy balls or things like that. My son has peed his pants 4 times in school because they make them PAY to use the restroom during class! 2 coins to use the bathroom! When I questioned the teacher she said it’s because they’re supposed to use the bathroom at lunch and recess and that every teacher in grades 4 and under uses this method in this school. I have complained to the Principal and everyone there seems to think that I’m crazy to think that this is an ABSURD rule! How can you MAKE yourself use the bathroom at certain times? What if at recess he didn’t have to pee but an hour later he does? He’s to be essentially punished for that? I am outraged and SO glad to have found that there are others who feel the same way. Thank you!
In first grade, my friend who sat next to me peed his pants because he couldn’t hold it until the class-break when we were allowed to use the restrooms.
In middle and high school, I recall many, many instances of my fellow classmates asking politely to use the restroom, and being denied, even after they expressed just how urgent they needed to go… their faces said it all: they were suffering. The teachers would never believe them, and would even laugh at them sometimes as though they were lying.
I have hundreds of accounts myself! But here are two where the teachers put me and other in danger by refusing restroom access.
In 9th grade honors biology, the student sitting to my left was an honors student with diarrhea. We were in a 45-minute class and the teacher would not let him use the restroom. He had never caused trouble before (the whole class was comprised of well-behaved though sometimes chatty/rambunctious honors students).
In 11th grade IB (advanced college level) Spanish, a different honors student (very quiet, shy male) sitting in front of me had diarrhea and our teacher wouldn’t let him go to the restroom.
So, on at least two different occasions in high school I, and all the other students in the class, could have been exposed to a biohazard if these boys were not able to make it to the restroom after class.
(I also have many, many, many more stories — but causing good children to suffer during a serious emergency, while also exposing the rest of the children to harmful airborne pathogens, really takes the cake.)