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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I taught first grade through third grades and the first year I taught I had some kids who wet their pants.

After that year I started telling the students that they can use the bathroom down the hall during class without penalty. A lot of students find the bathrooms way to chaotic to use during recess. Way too many students in there.

I had them go in pairs and if a kid ever had an accident I would have them often be the partner to the kid who asked to go to encourage them to go as well.

I also told my students if you go into the bathroom and something is making you feel uncomfortable- maybe there is an older students or maybe someone is playing around or looking under stalls, come back to class and I will let you go again in a few minutes. I added that I would never get mad at them for going too often. I figured the kid who said they had to go and really didn't was telling me they just needed a quick break.

There are way too many teachers who don't allow kids to freely go to the bathroom. Sometimes it is because the school is crowded or kids make a mess, but I always thought it was cruel to restrict bathroom access in anyway. [/quote]

Thank you for being same. My kid struggled with this in K and I get annoyed when I see people saying it's because she wasn't potty trained. At one point my kid has an accident three consecutive days and it was only on the third day that the teacher admitted the issue was that their classroom bathroom was out of order and kids had to go to another classroom down the hall and ask the teacher there if they could use her bathroom. Well my kid was 5 and shy and she was scared to walk into a classroom full of kids and ask a teacher she didn't know if she could use the bathroom while the other kids looked at her. So she'd hold it until she couldn't anymore. But for two days the teacher acted like "she's gotta do a better job of going on her own" with no accommodations. And I also learned there were like 5 kids in class having the same problem-- one kid has accidents on the way home because he's been holding it all day.

After that the teacher built a bathroom break in by picking the kids up early from music, until her classroom bathroom was fixed. Problem solved.

New K kids need some handholding. This is normal. You can't treat them like 3rd graders. This is actually part of teaching them.[/quote]

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