teacher refused a pupil a toilet visit

heuchera

Person_one wrote: »

What do you think I should have done in my situation then? I had asked to leave but was told no, several times, and was definitely going to vomit in the next 5 minutes.

Migraine is a medical condition and your parents should have told the school about it. In which case you'd have been allowed to go to the toilet.

There's some very overgrown teenagers on this thread! :rotfl:

smithers1981

Peeing is a basic human right, i wouldn't expect my daughter to be refused a toilet visit!

heuchera

mum2one wrote: »

A discussion with my DD about an incident at school.

4th lesson of day (2 lessons, break, tutor, 2 lessons, lunch 1 lesson), yr 8 (12/13yrs)

In lesson 4 - over half way through pupil asks can they go to the toilet, teacher says no, pupil asks again - no.

Apparently the head has decided that unless you have a toilet pass, tough luck..
apparently skiving, damage to property,- so blanket policy.

The pupil is not one that asks to go to the toilet, literally 1st request in almost 2 yrs...

Surely this can'rt be right...

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I appriciate that toilet visits can interfere with the class teaching etc, bit surely if its a desperate situ.

Very nearly an accident, - the pupil had bad cramps waiting to get to the toilet, was in discomfort and took nothing in of the lesson,

I remember asking to go to the loo when I was in primary school and the teacher said no. What did I do? I waited and went after school.

There was one girl who was allowed to go to the loo during the lesson. I think she had a medical condition which meant she couldn't wait.

Most people on the thread are of the general consensus that healthy pupils can wait for an hour or so without any serious consequences. Obviously if someone's genuinely ill with diarrhoea etc, they shouldn't be at school in the first place spreading their germs around.

Person_one

barbarawright wrote: »

Ourageous. But surely this doesn't still happen though?

Strange things happen in schools. They are strange places, and we've never been very good at treating our teenagers like human beings.

My favourite was the way they used to have a teacher standing at every entrance making sure everybody took their coat off before entering the building, even if it was pouring down which it often was!

A friend of mine teaches there now, she hates the rule but still has to do it. I have asked her what terrible consequences ensue if children wear their coats until they get to their desks/seats and take them off there like the adults do, but nobody's explained that...

missbiggles1

Person_one wrote: »

What do you think I should have done in my situation then? I had asked to leave but was told no, several times, and was definitely going to vomit in the next 5 minutes.

But you had at least asked. The person I replied to said that anybody should be able to just walk out at any time, which I think is different and unacceptable

peachyprice

Person_one wrote: »

It's not always an hour or less. Some schools have 2 hour lessons, some don't have gaps between all heir lessons.

Thinking back, at my secondary school we were in a classroom at 8.45am and the first possible toilet break was about 11.15.

Even more reason to go before lessons start then.

mary_hinge

Peter333 wrote: »

Your daughter was 'pregnant with her second' and was called by college who demanded she went in.

Please tell me she was a tutor/staff member, and not a STUDENT!"

If she was a student, I'm done.

Re the OP, of course they can't have kids naffing off to the loo willy nilly, and I bet massive emergencies, kids doing it on the floor, vomiting over the teacher etc, are extremely rare.

They have a break every 90 minutes to 2 hours. Surely they can wait THAT long?!

People of all ages attend college these days...... on my last college course I had a lady that was a mother of 4 and 44years old.....why would Pigpen's daughter bring a student be a problem for you?

heuchera

Peter333 wrote: »

Your daughter was 'pregnant with her second' and was called by college who demanded she went in.

Please tell me she was a tutor/staff member, and not a STUDENT!"

If she was a student, I'm done.

Re the OP, of course they can't have kids naffing off to the loo willy nilly, and I bet massive emergencies, kids doing it on the floor, vomiting over the teacher etc, are extremely rare.

They have a break every 90 minutes to 2 hours. Surely they can wait THAT long?!

The phrase 'personal tutor' suggests it is a student and not a staff member...

Person_one

missbiggles1 wrote: »

But you had at least asked. The person I replied to said that anybody should be able to just walk out at any time, which I think is different and unacceptable

I thought they were saying that pupils should feel able to walk out if they were refused but they knew their need was genuine. If you're ok with that I agree with you.

Person_one

peachyprice wrote: »

Even more reason to go before lessons start then.

Well, yeah, but if you need to go you need to go, the body doesn't always behave exactly as you'd like it to!