What does your school do when your PK3/4 has a poop accident? DCPS *only* (not charter)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whenever a student in my child's DCPS PK3 or PK4 class had a poop accident, the child was changed, and the clothes were washed and dried in the washer and drier that are in one of the PK classrooms.

I’m not washing the poop clothing. But I’ll make sure the child’s clean.

[Anonymous]

I don’t think you should expect the staff to change him. Teach him to clean himself and change his underwear. The other option is to give him medication that eliminated the odour. That way he can keep wearing them without everyone knowing or bothering anyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our school nurses will not assist with any poop or pee accidents. They state that it is not in their DOH contract/job description. It is challenging for the teacher to stop teaching to change a child when there is a school nurse present and available who should be able to assist.

What can school nurses do? Honest question because all the school nurse at my child’s school seems to do is convince us to pick them up for every little issue.

I am a DCPS teacher and parent and have the same experience, so I think the answer is basically nothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:at our DCPS - the teacher changed PK kids and if it b/c a pattern would reach out to the parents to discuss a strategy

The same was true of our DCPS. My kid had only a couple of accidents in his two years of ECE but one was umm, rather explosive.

Both DCPS schools we've attended have had strong leaders and staff AND a policy asking parents to please supply an extra set of clothes to K and under. So I don't know what policy your school is referring to, OP, but agree with posters who say it is unhygienic.