
You’re naive. Assuming the kid did stay in the bathroom all 20 minutes, he was likely using that time entertaining himself on his phone. |
Because the school rule is that each teacher can only have one student out at the bathroom at a time. I'm not going to risk my career in breaking those rules when my principal comes down hard on teachers who break them. |
I hope someone filed a Title IX complaint. I will join that. I find this policy to be discriminating and scarring for girls. |
I wouldn’t blame the teachers. This is policy that comes down from admin. Teachers have to do what admin asks them to do. If you have issue with it, check in with your school’s admin team. Don’t harass teachers. |
At my kid’s high school, the 3rd floor bathrooms were simply closed for the school year. Not enough security staff, I guess? And too many kids vaping and smoking weed in the bathrooms. |
This is why the first 10/last 10 minute ban doesn’t make sense to me. Wouldn’t they rather have the kids go at that time? It would likely be less disruptive than having them leave in the middle of class. Also, do all of these policies actually help? Are the schools finding that harsh bathroom regulations means that the classes have better attendance? |
Because the first 10 minutes is when you introduce the new material, or explain the task that the kids will work on. |
My middle schoolers attend private school and use the bathroom anytime they want. I’m truly shocked with this MCPS policy. |
School policy to only allow one student out at a time and they provide a specific lanyard with a pass. I don’t have any other passes nor do I want to get written up for breaking protocol. I’ve gotten scolded by admin in the past for assuming bad intentions of students or exaggerating concern so I did not contact security. |
It’s a different, written pass for the nurse, main office and counseling office. So other kids can leave the room, but not for the restroom |
This kind of thing is why people make snarky comments about obnoxious private school parents. |
My kids' bathroom policy is the same except for the 4 passes per year policy, I'm not sure if they have that.
I know there is a temptation, especially for rugged individualist Americans, to see restrictions on movement as "controlling." But the point of school is to learn, and when a teacher is trying to teach a class it really cannot work if the students are allowed to leave frequently (or talk quietly to a friend, or get up to stretch their legs, etc). Kids need to learn that sometimes their needs and wants have to wait for the sake of the good of the group. |
No, I’m with the poster. Every time I’m annoyed with my private school I hop on over to this forum and see what it would be like if we went to public. I always find something that seems insane like a restrictive bathroom policy because of drugs and violence in a school for 11 year olds. How is it obnoxious to want something other than that for my children? |
I worked 10 years in a private school in Bethesda and we still only let one kid use the bathroom at a time. |
At my kids’ private they only let one kid out of the classroom at a time but class sizes are 12 or smaller so my kids have said they’ve never waited more than a few minutes, if at all. They don’t have issues with drugs or violence in the bathrooms either. |