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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sounds to  me like there might be more to this story.  I taught first grade for years and kids will use the bathroom as an excuse to change the scenery.  Sometimes, I would ask if they could wait a few minutes.  I never had a child wet himself under those circumstances.  I taught for a number of years and could count on one hand --with one exception--the number of "accidents"--and those were not kids who asked to go.  However, the accidents that did occur were at recess--maybe because they didn't want to leave recess.  Could be the same in this situation.

Also, the kids are generally not allowed to go alone, so it means another child would have to miss PE, too.

The one exception to the accidents that I could count on one hand was a child who had frequent accidents.  He had "carte blanche" to go to the bathroom "anytime he liked without asking."  (DR said it was not a physical problem--I'm not so sure.) Even with permission to just go to the bathroom, he had accidents.

Where I taught, the bathrooms were down the hall--so, if the kids needed to go outside the times I took them for a break, they had to ask.  [/quote]

Or there isn't more to the story and the teacher just sucks. Back when my DD was in 1st, she had an accident in school after asking the teacher for permission to go - twice - and telling her it was urgent. It was very humiliating for my DD and the teacher apologized profusely after it happened. She said it was because other kids had abused bathroom time to go chat. This was a teacher with poor classroom management skills in general so it doesn't surprise me much. Anyway, after that I told my DD that *I* gave her permission to go anytime she truly needed to go and she didn't need to wait on the teacher if it was an emergency.

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