Posted on 12/02/2012 11:53:38 AM PST by Morgana
The mother of a 7-year-old Irving elementary school student says her son wet his pants in class after his teacher refused to let him use the restroom Thursday afternoon.
"I was absolutely appalled," Sonja Cross said. "I could not believe it."
The first-year teacher at J.O. Davis Elementary awards her students with "Boyd Bucks" for good behavior. Going to the bathroom outside of the three scheduled breaks costs two Boyd Bucks per trip.
Cross' son, an honor roll student, needed to go to the bathroom, but he sat back down because he didn’t have any Boyd Bucks, his mother said.
"He tried to hold it as much as he could, but he just couldn’t," Cross said. "He came home from school, and he was crying and really upset."
"Really, that's just unhealthy," Cross said. "I think that she had no concern for the children."
Cross complained to the teacher, but didn’t like the response.
"Originally when I first spoke with the teacher, she was just going to show my son special treatment, but then I said, 'That's just not good enough. I need for you to stop this for all the children,'" she said.
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Bill Cosby should do a monologue on this ...
He used to do one where he said in class, he had to raise one finger for Number 1, two fingers for Number 2 - in case of a tie, Number 2 wins out over Number 1 ...
He also said it was bad enough that the teacher knew he had to do a Number 1 or a Number 2 - the whole class knew it ...
I sent one direct.posted a meaasge at the news outlet and they pulled it
I’ll never hear back from that guy I guess. I’m going to write an email to everyone on the school board I guess. If I am going to be ignored, might as well go to the top.
The teacher can just tax the students who’ve earned too many “Boyd Bucks” and re-distribute the wealth to the lazy, dumb, or misbehaved kids so it’s all “fair”. Quite simple, really.
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Letting the kid get up and go.
This stupid program does not work. They have been doing this for 40 years apparently. It teaches kids to hate their schools and teachers with a seething hatred.
How do you think it feels being denied permission to pee when you really really have to go? You think they can help when they have to go?
There is nothing discipinary about this. Nothing.
Be nice these types will call da man if they feel threatened as most do just going out doors
Yup, that would be me.
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Someone peeing in class is a lot more disruptive than letting a kid leave to use the restroom.
You are totally right. There is no way that rules this strict have been applied in this program for the last 40 years. That is the biggest clue as to just how inexperienced this teacher was. I can assure you that this was an incident that this teacher won’t forget and if she has any brains at all she learned a big lesson from it.
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It happened to me in the late 70’s, in the same school district.
I am shocked to see they are still doing this.
Was the kid not going to the restroom during breaks and was making a habit of asking to go when back in class?
I’m not making excuses for the teacher, but there must have been a reason behind the rule.
I’m not going to be critical of a first year teacher dealing with 20 or more 6 and 7 year olds....and their mothers! I would rather dig ditches!!
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Yep. I am betting there is more to this story, but the writer wants to sensationalize this, and the mother probably wants $1M in damages.
When I went to elementary school in the 1950s, Sister took the entire class to the rest room. We went quietly in an orderly line, two by two. A certain number of us went in at a time, did what we were supposed to, and came out to get into the line that faced the way back to the classroom.
There was no nonsense tolerated, and we did what we were told. Not because we were threatened in any way but because we were raised to behave and to respect authority.
Oh, yeah, and there were usually about 30-40 kids in a classroom.
everyone should go up to her desk and pee on it all at once.
It happened to me in the late 70’s.
There is no more to it.
Nope. doesn’t have to be more to it.
Happened to me - same school district- in the late 70’s.
Made no sense then, makes no sense now.
Makes less sense now.
Kids love to use bathroom break as an excuse to leave their work and go dawdle in the bathroom. And they'll lie, oh will they lie. I've learned to tell my students "Okay, but you owe me 5 minutes after school." 70% of the time they stop dancing around and say "never mind."
These parents also have kids who aren't learning lick in their institutional school, as well.
There have been NO studies done that measures the amount of learning acquired in the classroom as compared to that learned in the home through homework. Homework is merely another name for homeschooling.
It is my observation that academically successful children, whether home or institutionally schooled, are doing the **same** amount of home study. And...Their parents share the **same** value for education and have similar discipline and home habit.
In other words....If there is an academically successful child, that child has been homeschooled whether he is in the home full-time or institutionalized. Both groups are **home** schooled.
My conclusion:
If every government school in this nation were to disappear tomorrow, the **same** children getting and education today would get one tomorrow. Why? Answer: Because the **REAL** work is done IN THE HOME!
That's not a bad analogy.
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