Toilet breaks.

[Christan]

If a child sometimes asks to go, let them, of it is constant one random day then have them check in with the school nurse, it could be the squirts, so contagious, or it could be a UTI, so may need a doctors visit.(either way they may need to get sent home)

But if it is the same kid day after day hour by hour? Make them hold it. (Medical conditions notwithstanding)

The thing is, unless youre at the bathroom door you dont really know if they are actually taking a wee, though pretty sure you’d hear the squirts from the doorway.

Always take young chldren at their word about needing to go (aforementioned reasons of previous posters)unless they have been shown to be liars.

[shadowmouse]

Seems like bait seeing as this thread is your first post..

But ... say it ain't so! Surely people simply flock to the off topic forum of a gaming site to make their first post about potty breaks. They would never have access to things such as websites for teachers and no school would ever have something like a policy for this kind of thing, right?

[AeneasBK]

Kid pissed himself in class in year 4 in my school, was called pissypants or similar for years. In retrospect, was probably a lot more harmful to him than missing 10 minutes of class to go to the bathroom would have been.

[belfpala]

But ... say it ain't so! Surely people simply flock to the off topic forum of a gaming site to make their first post about potty breaks. They would never have access to things such as websites for teachers and no school would ever have something like a policy for this kind of thing, right?

Nor would they have accesss to law websites, or contact information of superiors. Nope. Never.

Anyway, I looked up the law here and kids must be given reasonable bathroom breaks. It may be required that the kid is escorted by an approved staff member, and that is all the law says, unless the breaks become unreasonable, in which case the kid goes to the on-site nurse for evaluation.

[THEORACLE64]

I spent my whole early life avoiding using the restroom in any way during school. Somehow, I really dont know. I think it starts with never having breakfast.

I could also never get sick or go to school sick and live with it. When I started to find out that other people got to actually have lives and not worry about authority, I kind of fell apart.

Now, I definitely want into the good life. Fuck everyone else to death. They only tell you drugs are bad and show you like 10 shitbags who couldn't handle their shit because they're fucking so dumb they'd have died in a car crash it wasn't the drugs that killed them, to keep you away from their drugs so they could have more drugs for themselves.

Which I'll do now, because fuck them to death and I'm only for me, I can lie to people to preserve my resources too, and I'll feel nothing cultivating them out of other's corpses but joy. I'm a tortoise but I'm about to enter a roll that's so long and hard you're all fucking doomed, we're talking Fenrir levels of bullshit, I've got so many tricks, and the best part is nothing I do will be wrong or against the law. But it's still going to destroy everyone to death hahaha, bet you didn't see hawking was gonna die, you can't even begin to imagine what's coming next, who do you think at cambridge university is holding his brain right now? hahahah!

What in the psychotic school shooter mess is this.

[belfpala]

Kid pissed himself in class in year 4 in my school, was called pissypants or similar for years. In retrospect, was probably a lot more harmful to him than missing 10 minutes of class to go to the bathroom would have been.

I puked in the middle of 2nd grade because I thought I needed permission to leave class. Right there, on the floor, In the middle of class. I was Pukey for a couple years.

[Deleted]

Always wonder how teachers get educated these days?! Some books from late 1800s "how to create iron youth" for some disciplinarian society?

In my country it's against the law to not let them go to toilet. (German link -> https://www.anwalt.de/rechtstipps/sc...ig_060575.html )

[Doctor Amadeus]

I can see it probably sounds like a wind up but it is not.

The children never go more than a couple of hours without a break, obviously medical conditions are an exception.
One of the mums was annoyed because her daughter was desperate on the way home after I hadn't let her go during the afternoon.

Until you said this, I was thinking that's nice little way of getting your ass sued, but now that you said this, meh yeah I can understand it, I still think you're cruisin for a bruisin if one of the little darlings indeed has an accident, but it doesn't sound as if you are like " NO BATHROOM because I said so" It sounds as if you are trying to build structure instead, I can dig it, but all the same be careful.

[Cruor]

This is likely bait but whatever. I can see where you are coming from, maybe trying to get some discipline going but overall it's all been said. When you gotta go, you gotta go and anyone who needs to go won't be paying attention. I'd say keep track of kids who constantly ask to go during lessons. If they have to take a 10 min number 2 during every lesson, then there is an issue. Don't punish those that really do need to go.

[Tommi]

my boss requires employees not to use the toilet, even not during break time.
(its a rather shitty new rule)

Wut? How the fuck does that work? What if you need a big poop or piss like a race horse?

[Bigbazz]

Seems legit, you make an account on MMO champ specifically to talk about forcing kids to piss themselves in class, trying to incite a reaction?

[Deleted]

I'm an employer and I'm required by law to give reasonable bathroom breaks. You are too.

problem with kids is that they use it as an excuse to be out of the classroom. I did this trick as well. And if you allow, 1 ... the other 20 might follow in the same lesson.

The rule on my schools were (im 30+ now, so its a long time ago) that you go to the bathroom in between lessons which were a max of 45 minutes I believe (90 minutes max in highschool) and that is fine 99% of the cases.

If you had a bladder infection, you just tell the teacher in the beginning of the lesson and then you can go more often. Simple

[Deleted]

Glad I went to a Montessori school, where you could just get a toilet pass off the wall yourself and go to the bathroom whenever you wanted to.

[belfpala]

problem with kids is that they use it as an excuse to be out of the classroom. I did this trick as well. And if you allow, 1 ... the other 20 might follow in the same lesson.

That doesn't change the law. If taking all 20 children is what it takes, then it must be done.

[Deleted]

I am a primary school teacher (year 2). (6 and 7 year olds). I don't let children go to the toilet during lesson time. Do you think it is harsh? Would you have a problem as a parent?

depending on what country you live in, you are required by law ! either way you should, 6-7 seven year olds seldom lies to skip class.

[Sykol]

Total bait, but as a teacher you have no rights to withhold bathroom breaks or even keep your students in class. If my kid came to me and said you wouldn't let them use the bathroom when they needed to, I would come down your throat so hard you'd call me Peter North.

[Deleted]

Total bait, but as a teacher you have no rights to withhold bathroom breaks or even keep your students in class. If my kid came to me and said you wouldn't let them use the bathroom when they needed to, I would come down your throat so hard you'd call me Peter North.

I am ashamed I understood the refference :P But what if your kid did this 5 times in 45 minutes for 5 minutes each? Also here we are obliged to study till 18, and if you skip lessons you get a fine (or your parents in this case)

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That doesn't change the law. If taking all 20 children is what it takes, then it must be done.

But the law is not always black and white is it! You are also obliged to study, and you get a fine without. If you go to the toilet 5 times a lesson and you skip most of it, you could get a fine BY LAW since you skipped too much ... and this is 1 of the 100 laws that would infringe with everything

[Sykol]

I am ashamed I understood the refference :P But what if your kid did this 5 times in 45 minutes for 5 minutes each? Also here we are obliged to study till 18, and if you skip lessons you get a fine (or your parents in this case)

If that were the case, I'd think it would be something brought up with the parents in case there is an underlying medical issue, or at least to give them the chance to correct the behavior on their own. If it continued without reason, maybe then have the student removed from the class or school if it's entirely disruptive. But I would be hard-pressed to find any situation where I'd want a teacher to be in charge of disciplining or providing medical advice for students.

And here you do need to stay in school too, but it isn't up to the teachers to enforce that. The administration contacts a truancy officer, who then confirms that the student is either continuing education in some form, whether in school or home-schooling.

[McFuu]

I am a primary school teacher (year 2). (6 and 7 year olds). I don't let children go to the toilet during lesson time. Do you think it is harsh? Would you have a problem as a parent?

When I was about 5 in elementary school, there was a teacher that didn't let me use the bathroom either. I peed in a potted plant in the corner. That was the last day that teacher taught at that school (private school).

[MisterBigglez]

When I was a kid around the age group of your students, the only time you had to ask to go to the toilet is if you were in the middle of an activity. Any other time, you could just walk to the toilet which was next door. Let them go if they need to, what do you think they are attempting to do? Escape?