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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teacher here. I'm really sorry that happened. She should know to say that it's an emergency if it is, though, especially if the schools policy is twice a day. I am a middle school teacher so it's a bit different, and sometimes students claim "emergency" when it's not. A teacher may say not right now and not know it's an emergency. I agree with the walking out if it's a true emergency.

I will never forget when I was in second grade and a classmate was denied going to the bathroom. She was wearing a dress and stockings, made a big triangle by spreading her legs and just peed all over the floor. [/quote]

No. It's not the schools policy to have two bathroom breaks a day, and even if it was, that's bs. A good teacher would stand up for the students right to use the toilet when they need to. What's so important that kids should have to "hold it in" until class bathroom break? Nothing is. How about you only get two bathroom breaks a day? Wouldn't like that, would you?[/quote]

Well, except that isn't quite a fair comparison. Two breaks in an entire day? Go before school. School starts at 9:10. Lunch room at 11:35. A bathroom break in between and at lunch. So the MAX is that you would hold it about an hour if you went around 10:15. Then after lunch/recess, you get another bathroom break between 12:30-3:30 when school is over. So by my count, at any given time the most you'd have to hold it is about an hour or so.

So I'd say if the kid pees her pants in the morning, before the first break, its probably mom's fault for making sure she didn't go right before school. And if she pees in the afternoon, it is the teacher's fault for not insisting everyone use the bathroom when they have the chance. [/quote]
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Not every trip to the restroom should be an emergency. Children should be taught how to void their bladder, bearing down three times at the end to ensure that it is empty. They also should be taught to stretch their bladder. Pediatrician Dr. T. Berry Brazelton advised a method to help with this, specifically for children with bed-wetting problems. You give a child a canned drink (preferably a very rare treat as it was in our home), then you have the child wait to go until s/he was literally dancing around. The bladder, like the stomach, will expand to a certain extent.

I believe that too many kids think that they have to go at the first urge, when in reality, it can wait a little while longer. Of course, school is not the best place to learn this, but parents don't usually see bladder expansion training as part of their duty in teaching their child how to adapt to the world, rather than expecting the world to accommodate their child. I taught my children to go at scheduled times, ask permission only when they couldn't wait, and then politely excuse themselves to the restroom and go to the office afterwards if necessary. I never heard anything about it, so I imagine that if they had to follow my advice, it went fine at school. [/quote]

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