School Makes Kids Use Buckets for Toilets

[MSgt213]

I guess its asking a little much to expect a prinicpal to be able to read and comprehend simple instructions. But at least now of these kids marched.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - A principal trying to prevent walkouts during immigration rallies inadvertently introduced a lockdown so strict that children weren't allowed to go to the bathroom, and instead had to use buckets in the classroom, an official said.

Worthington Elementary School Principal Angie Marquez imposed the lockdown March 27 as nearly 40,000 students across Southern California left classes that morning to attend immigrants' rights demonstrations. The lockdown continued into the following morning.

Marquez apparently misread the district handbook and ordered a lockdown designed for nuclear attacks.

Tim Brown, the district's director of operations, confirmed some students used buckets but said the principal's order to impose the most severe type of lockdown was an "honest mistake."

"When there's a nuclear attack, that's when buckets are used," Brown told the Los Angeles Times. The principal "followed procedure. She made a decision to follow the handbook. She just misread it."

In some cases teachers escorted classmates to regular restroom facilities, students said.

Telephones rang unanswered Monday at Worthington Elementary School because of spring break and messages left for Marquez and Brown at school district headquarters were not returned.

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[benburch]

1. Do you think some viginante action would be a good idea?

Maybe if this principle were given a "GI Shower" no principle in the land would ever dare do such a thing to children again?

[joemurphy]

2. No Child Left Behind! n/t

[sendero]

3. They're lucky..

... they had buckets. Back when I was a kid we had to use paper bags! :)

[FiveGoodMen]

7. Paper bags? You were lucky!

There were 124 of us all trying to use a thimble at the same time -- AND we had to lick it clean with tongue!

[MercutioATC]

4. Yeah, I shot him...but I "followed procedure".

You're allowed to shoot somebody who looks at you funny.

...oh, wait, shooting is only the correct procedure if the other person's trying to kill you? Oops...wrong procedure...

...well, it was an "honest mistake".

[benddem]

5. Besides the fact

this was disgusting and disgracefull...who the hell ever told them that in a nuclear attack they should use buckets for toilets. What in god's earth would that accomplish? Is the radiation worse in the bathroom than in the classroom. What nuts.

[LuckyLib]

6. Imagine the high end elementary school in your community,

you know, the one with the highest income levels and the highest standardized test scores. That one. Imagine teachers making students use a bucket. Just imagine the uproar and thelawsuits. Imagine.