Twice in a month….hhmm….I thought it was going to say twice a day.
For the teacher to bring in this rule im guessing that there is a real problem with children constantly getting up and down to leave class which is very disruptive. I really cant remember any of the kids in my class ever having to leave class to visit the toilet. We all went during our breaks.

I wonder what the real reason behind this is. Maybe the children are taking a lend of the teacher and constantly being absent from their seats. Very hard to teach someone who isn’t there most of the time.

So in 8th grade I had a different teacher for every subject, meaning Mrs White’s class may go for 40mins and leaving other opportunities for the bathroom. It certainly does not see fair, especially for year 8 girls!

I’d like to know the reasons why the teacher felt it necessary to enforce this and to get the children to sign it. Surely there are exceptions to the rule.

I wouldn’t go as far to say that it’s petty, however, it does come across very harsh. I think by that age students should be time managing and going to the bathroom on their breaks, however, not being able to see a nurse if they are legitimately sick is probably going too far. As to water, break times were always enough for me, or even on the way to class to grab a drink, I think the toilet and water breaks side of it is reasonable.

Yes. I understand how many students abuse classtime and use these reasons to get out of class, but you can’t make the entire class suffer for a few. Not allowed.

This seems unreasonable – a kid can’t control how often they get sck, for example.

Terrible really!!

Oh my goodness, that’s just crazy!

Utterly ridiculous!!

Maybe some of the article was meant to be “tongue in cheek”. Even though I always went to the toilet during each break at school there were times when I did need to go apart from that. Nature doesn’t always work on a clock.
I consider drinks of water should be allowed in the classroom. By the time you feel thirsty you have already started dehydrating according to many medical professionals. Most breaks are about 1 1/2 hours apart, sometimes longer.

For girls at the age that might all of a sudden get their first period, they will need to go more than twice a month to the toilet or nurse.

I think it’s very wrong. Two of my family (including my husband) get the urge to poo very suddenly. When they feel they have to go, they really have to go immediately. And my eldest is regularly constipated, I have to teach her not to delay but to go when she feels to need to. Of course we encourage our kids to go to the toilet during the breaks and sit on the toilet before school, when possible for 10 minutes or so. Also a child might get a belly ache, or a headache or need to vomit suddenly, they might fall and hurt themselves, they should be allowed to go to sick bay when they don’t feel good at any time.

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  • • mom93821 replied
    • 12 Sep 2018 , 8:06 am

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  There can be any number of complications due to not going to the toilet when needed. Ignoring a body needing to get rid of waste is ignoring normal bodily functions.

There is such a thing called human rights!

She’s worded it in a tongue-in-cheek manner but you can tell this teacher is fed up of toilet passes. 8th grade is high school, you get breaks between classes to use for toilet breaks anyway so unless there’s an underlying medical issue its not that big an ask that kids use some commonsense and go in that five minutes between classes. However applying a twice a month limit for seeing the nurse, dadmin or needing a drink of water is a different matter and completely inappropriate to limit.