Going to the toilet during lessons.

[Procrastinator35]

You're a ******* 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.

But they have to learn their addition & subtraction....even if it kills em......This is way too important.

And besides....I am the dungeon master now.

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

What are you going to do if you have teach grade 5 or 6, OP? If a girl gets her period she needs to go to the toilet, stat.

 

[Quivorir]

Nah she should have gotten her period at recess/lunch time. Tough shit now.

 

[PoppedCorn]

I guess when someone pisses their pants you'll have to explain why to the parents

 

[Smoooothy]

I guess when someone pisses their pants you'll have to explain why to the parents

kids fault for being a disobedient little turd

 

[I Lost My Keays]

Surely this is a joke? Nobody would seriously do that?

 

[dogs105]

If there busting they could have at break and they wait.

They're.

 

[dogs105]

i hope a kid shits on your desk

Except they don't have a desk, as they're not a real teacher. Not with that attitude. Or with spelling like that.

 

[Reynolds Number]

My autistic brother soiled his pants in year 2.

You are going to be in for a treat if you haven't dealt with such kids.

 

[ioppolo]

When I was six (year 1) my teacher wouldn't let me go to the toilet. It was in between recess and lunch from memory. Anyway she didn't let me so I pissed my pants out of spite. I didn't even try to hold it, I just let loose purely out of spite.

Kids were always allowed to go though otherwise.

 

[PP34]

Teachers who didn't allow kids to go were always the worst. Used to have one old campaigner at high school who was a prick about going to the toilet. Never stopped him from leaving the class and going though if he needed.

Even today as an adult sometimes I'll randomly need to pee pretty badly all of a sudden. At work I don't just hold on, I go when I feel like it.

They're kids for goodness sake. The kids will probably stop drinking as much water as they should because of you. Teachers like you are always the reason some kid gets bullied too after he/she pees their pants in class and everyone witnesses it. A kid missing a couple of minutes because they need to pee isn't going to lead to them repeating grade 3.

A kid pissed his pants in year 9 because of a campaigner teacher and boy did he cop it. If he had not have left the school a year later I think people still would have brought it up in year 12.

 

[Richard Cranium]

Solid troll thread. Would read again.

 

[Richard Cranium]

I mean seriously, some of the posts from people in here...

 

[mad_monkey_j]

Real serious issue this one. Few people having some repressed memories brought back.

 

[RelaxMax]

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

Agreed™

It's a risk not worth taking

And you can mostly tell when they need to go. Sometimes I have to stop what we're doing so they will actually go to the toilet. (FOMO)

 

[atlas1]

 

[Jack Stevens]

Surely everyone has a story of a kid pissing their pants in class because a teacher wouldn't let them use the toilet.

Judging by the OP's username they're still pretty young, but I bet they're on their way to being be the teacher every kid thinks is actually a witch.

 

[Richard Cranium]

That was, and forever will be, Dave Franco's brightest moment.

 

[the_interloper]

I went to go to the dunny during a packed lecture once. I thought the exit was up the middle aisle, turned out I walked into the projection room. Was quite a walk of shame out of the projection room back out of the theater that's for sure.

 

[Biggy_Boy]

I don't think that's good practice. I think you're more likely to induce anxiety due to kids becoming concerned they'll piss their pants, which will hinder learning, or because they do piss their pants and then wind up getting bullied for a long time afterwards (and are just generally embarrassed).

Rather than staunchly refusing to allow them to go to the toilet, you should try encouraging habit formation that will limit the amount of content missed from toilet time. As teachers so often do, make sure to remind them to go at break times and repeat the message sternly if they request to go shortly after a break ends. If it's soon after a break, don't let them go in pairs to reduce the incentive of going the bathroom to talk, play around and waste time. Try to have them not leave when you are giving instruction on new content; they can leave when knowledge is being applied to a worksheet or activity or whatever, because they can catch up with this more easily.

Going to the toilet is a human right, and at that age you can't expect kids to be able to exercise the best judgement or the best bladder control, so I wouldn't consider it ideal to deny them the ability to go during class time. A student who has their legs knotted together trying to hold back something from coming out probably isn't giving your lesson very much attention regardless. I'm sure they'd feel more comfortable knowing they can relieve themselves. A student leaving for a few minutes will be less of a distraction/inconvenience than the ordeal of someone letting go during class. That'll be a lot of time spent managing the fallout among students, the cleanup and the student's parents that could have been easily avoided.

 

[Hawk88]

What kind of person doesn't want kids to go to the toilet? They are kids FFS

Would be interested to see if the OP actually has kids of their own

 

[Stevi_Tigers]

id just walk out if i needed and got told no

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

id just walk out if i needed and got told no

As an adult you would, sure. Not many grade 1 kids will do that.

 

[Allikat]

What a monster

 

[Soups]

I disagree with this sorry.

Regardless of whether they can go during a break or not, going to the toilet to relieve one self is a human right. Kids at that age might find it difficult to hold on.

Even in high schools, I think it should be illegal to refuse a student their right to go to the toilet. Yeah sure, some do it to get out of class, but is it really worth forcing kids to hold it in just on the risk someone might wag? If a kid wags, eventually they will get caught. Other kids shouldn't have to suffer because of that risk.

My mate in highschool was actually busting to go and the teacher wouldn’t let him go, so he pissed in the bin. He got suspended for 2 days.