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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In literally [b]every other job[/b], if you need to go to the bathroom, you get up and go.  Have you ever considered that?  If a teacher has to go to the restroom, they have to wait a few hours for lunch, or somehow magically find an extra adult that is certified to be alone with the children in the classroom, without leaving the room or using a phone.

Someone pointed that out to me, and that is tortuous.  [/quote]

Wait a few hours for lunch... what about recess.  That's an opportunity twice/day to go to the bathroom.

So nurses just leave the room to pee whenever they need to?

I had a desk job for awhile in an office where we could only leave our desk for breaks.

That one doesn't fly.[/quote]

If you happen to teach elementary school, you might get a 20 minute recess break at lunch time, where you can try to pee, get to the copy machine etc . . . but it won't be twice.  Twice a day recess is a rare thing these days, and when it happens teachers will generally be assigned to cover one of the two slots.

When I've been in hospitals, nurses come in, they spend a few minutes, and then they go out to chart, or see the next patient, or talk to a doctor.  Same thing with the pediatrician, the nurse is never in the room for hours on end.    I assume that if they desperately need to pee or change a tampon there's a chance they could fit it in there somewhere.  Surgical nurses and maybe ICU nurses are obviously different.

I now teach high school, in part because my body could no longer handle not peeing the way it needs to to teach elementary school.  We get a break every 90 minutes when the kids change classes and in an emergency I can run to the bathroom then.[/quote]

Yeah.  I spent quite a few years in an elementary school.  Teachers found time to pee.  Issues happened with pregnancy, or UTI's.   On a daily basis though, there was time to pee.

I agree with a lot of the issues with teaching, but from what I've seen this isn't a huge issue.  I'm not saying it is never a problem.

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