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In reply to the discussion: Student disciplined for unauthorized potty break [View all]Ms. Toad
(34,062 posts)52. There is a difference between
"whipping it out" and discretely hiding a bottle in his pants and peeing in it without exposing anything after repeatedly being denied a pass to the bathroom.
Describing his actions as "whipping it out" or exposing his penis is inflammatory and misleading.
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It sure doesn't sound like the kid's first incident, based on the charges:
Hassin Bin Sober
Jan 2012
#5
My French teacher in high school always gave me detentions for "insubordination".
Saving Hawaii
Jan 2012
#33
If you told a kid to wet themselves then yes , in my opinion you are a tyrant..
Fumesucker
Jan 2012
#17
She gets 6 minutes in between classes to go to the bathroom and the school is not that large.
beyurslf
Jan 2012
#24
If you think your job involves telling a kid who desperately needs to go to the bathroom
Arkana
Jan 2012
#48
True. He could have simply peed his pants. I mean, really, the choice was his, right?
uppityperson
Feb 2012
#72
I love how every time a school discipline story comes up people start making up the facts. (nt)
Posteritatis
Jan 2012
#14
Some people love zero tolerance, means they don't have to make a decision.
A Simple Game
Jan 2012
#18
Do you think there should be a transition during high school from "zero tolerance"?
Saving Hawaii
Jan 2012
#37
I take it you've never been in a school restroom after it's been vandalized
proud2BlibKansan
Jan 2012
#31
My little mommie fixed up a teacher once for doing the same thing to me, but I peed on her floor.
lonestarnot
Jan 2012
#38
No. My position is that there is a good reason schools don't allow kids to use the restroom
proud2BlibKansan
Jan 2012
#54
This sounds like a classroom "Power Issue"... Happens daily. I would dump that "teacher".
NYC_SKP
Jan 2012
#63