Teacher told child she could wet herself

louiseturner wrote: »

Well you had better get used to it, as it is likely he will not be allowed to go to the toilet.They have breaks to prepare class and take precautions against needing the toilet. Yes needing a wee desperately is distracting, but so is children going to the toilet in lesson time.

No actually I don't. I honestly do not care if you find it distracting it is your job to be able to deal with that. You are a trained adult who should be able to cope with this situation. They are children.

My daughter is 11 and will start her periods soon. I would be devastated if she was not able to go to the toilet.

As I am sure you will be aware for the first few years of starting a period they can be very irregular. Also sometimes very heavy. Sometimes lots of pain. Yes I will help her to be able to accept cope and deal with all of this but to deny the human right of being able to change a sanitary product. ????


I am lucky. I have a good job, reasonable standard of living and work long and hard. I am respected in my field but my body sometimes does things out of schedule. Very annoying but being a human being I accept this. This is life.

It is not more important that you may be distracted for a milli second than children sit in discomfort for a lesson. How much to you think that they are actually taking in while worrying to hold everything in.

I want my children to go to a good school where educational excellence is expected. Where they are taught to be respectful, and with our ( parents) help can grow to become amazing wonderful young people. I have two children. One boy 14 one girl 11. I would back them 100% for walking out of the lesson if they had had I mean had to go.

Please remember that respect is something that is a has to be earned and is very easily lost. I would hate to think that my two would be taught by someone who is not prepared to treat them with respect. They are young people and you have the honor of helping to make them special.

Please do not miss understand me my two are no angels. My son is just about to start his ebach, ( think that is how you spell it ) and my daughter moving to middle school in sept. I do and would continue to full support my children's schools for any lapse of behavior or attitude. But when you need the loo you need the loo. Being forced to give a detailed reason is draconian.

You are a teacher so I will try and be as respectful of the fantastic job that most teachers do but have to say Louise you sound a little power crazed???

I once remember standing in a chemistry lesson with Mr Stewart who looked like a frog and when he would not let me go the to toilet I had to scream it was because I was leaking blood everywhere. Not nice to have a class of 15 year old's staring at you laughing. It must have affected me because I still remember how humiliated I felt even now over twenty years later.

There was no period in this case but there might of been?

Groundhog day on the thread and debate!