Going to the toilet during lessons.

[NaturalDisaster]

I've done it twice. They repay the time because they are missing working time.

Grade two ? it’s not like they are doing anything immensely difficult.

I missed weeks due to sickness in grade two and was fine, 5-10 minutes won’t hurt.

Why are you online? Don’t you have a class to teach in the morning?

 

[Plugger35]

Remember year 1 when I pissed myself because I was too scared to ask the teacher if I could go to the toilet.

Then you would get taken down to the toilets and put into a pair of bright yellow "you pissed yourself" shorts and brought back to the front of the class.

Then your mum would pick you up and ask "why didn't you ask the teacher if you could go to the toilet?" and you'd be like "Because I'm 6 years old bitch".

 

[Catfish Alley]

Yep, harsh. I’d probably tell the teacher to ease up if it were my kids.

 

[TimmeT]

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/anger-at-school-toilet-trial-20110811-1iovx.html

Next we'll see super toilet policies like these.

 

[Plugger35]

Yep, harsh. I’d probably tell the teacher to ease up if it were my kids.

You can't be too hard on the teachers.

I remember reading time on the mat and quite often there would be a growing puddle of piss from one of the year 1 kids that the teacher had to deal with.

They probably wouldn't be taught how to deal with that in teachers college.

 

[Doss]

A disruption free lesson.

I daresay one day that your ’disruption free’ lesson will be disrupted anyway, because someone will soak or fill their daks because of your rather archaic position on letting them go in the first place.

But then this strikes me as one big troll anyway.

 

[Tbonefreo]

Yeah its year 2 buddy relax

 

[Damon_3388]

I feel it says more about the teacher or boss, when the first assumption is that going to the toilet is being used as an excuse to waste time or get out of something, rather than to simply exercise natural bodily functions.

Making them "make up the time" just reinforces the idea that they're doing something wrong by needing to piss or shit as well.

 

[radiojake]

I had two prep guitar students where one would always ask to go to the toilet during our 30 min guitar lesson which was straight after recess, to which the other girl would suddenly say "I need the toilet too!"

It was pretty obvious they were doing it because they knew they could could get out of class (they were too young for guitar lessons in my opinion), but like hell I'm gonna stop two 6-year old girls who've asked to go to the toilet

 

[Bluelegs]

A few years back my partner was a student teacher for a prep class. The senior teacher had a similar outlook, one kid was always saying he needed to go to the toilet, so much so that it had become a 'boy who cried wolf' situation. So one day he is asking and asking and asking to the toilet incessantly, my partner can see that he's straining and brings it up with the teacher but is ignored. The kid ends up wetting his pants and my partner had to take him to the office and cop a spray from an angry mother about it.

When you've gotta go you've gotta go. Let your kids relieve themselves and they'll be much more attentive students.

 

[Damon_3388]

I had two prep guitar students where one would always ask to go to the toilet during our 30 min guitar lesson which was straight after recess, to which the other girl would suddenly say "I need the toilet too!"

It was pretty obvious they were doing it because they knew they could could get out of class (they were too young for guitar lessons in my opinion), but like hell I'm gonna stop two 6-year old girls who've asked to go to the toilet

The immediate assumption of deviousness and deception from 6-year-olds is the part I have a problem with.

 

[RolandF1]

I am a primary school teacher year 3 ( 7 and 8 year olds) I don't let children go to the toilet during lessons. Do you think I'm harsh? Would it concern you as a parent?

Yes. At school I was witness to a couple of times when teachers laid down that law and the unfortunate result. The humiliation of those students I wouldnt wish on anyone.

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

They're 7. Let them go to the ****ing toilet.

 

[perthblue]

Jesus Christ OP they're children not soldiers, let them go to the toilet FFS

 

[iluvparis]

Jesus Christ OP they're children not soldiers, let them go to the toilet FFS

I believe you overlooking that OP is obviously teaching school in East Germany

 

[perthblue]

I believe you overlooking that OP is obviously teaching school in East Germany

There is something very Sovietty about OP's attitude

 

[Morganashlee]

I think we are missing the most important question.

Do they sit down or stand up to wipe?

 

[Procrastinator35]

I am a primary school teacher year 3 ( 7 and 8 year olds) I don't let children go to the toilet during lessons. Do you think I'm harsh? Would it concern you as a parent?

No one is concentrating on what you have to say or what they need to do, when their bladder or bowel needs emptying....Stopping a kid from going to the loo has nothing to do with discipline.

 

[Firestarter]

Yeah this thread made me uncomfortable from the first post...

Just waiting for the name of the school so my future kids can avoid it.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

It's simple.
If you need to go to the toilet at school, you ask to go irrespective if you're 6 or 18.

Not everyone has the same bladder or bowel control.
Especially folk like myself with disability.

 

[Smoooothy]

i hope a kid shits on your desk

 

[radiojake]

The immediate assumption of deviousness and deception from 6-year-olds is the part I have a problem with.

When the other one suddenly says "I need to go too" as soon as it's mentioned it kinda seems obvious

Also whatmakes you think a six yr old is incapable of deception? It doesn't inherently make it sinister


By the way i'm not the one who refuses to let them go just quietly

OP actually seems like a pisstake rather than a legit 3rd grade teacher

 

[Perth gal]

Well put it this way. If it was your child asking to go to the toilet what would you want them to say?

 

[wal]

 

[Cruyff14]

You let one go they all want to go easier just to say no. Teachers have to hold it.

You're a ****ing grown adult who has much higher tolerance for things. One of them being not needing to go to the toilet.

You're a horrible human being who should not be "educating" the youth of today.