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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"Price of tea in China"...gah! that's an old one... older than me!
A kid on the row next to me did worse than pee in his pants during our 2nd grade Christmas party. I remember that!
Might have been one of those teachers that hired the professional license examination test taker to take her teachers license exam.
I don't remember ever needing my parents help doing homework...except maybe giving me spelling words or listening recite something I had to memorize. In fact, I do remember trying to get it done in school so I didn't have homework. I hated homework.
imagine you just spent 5 Boyd Bucks, which you earned through hard work and good behavior, on stickers and stuff.
Then the very next day you have a bathroom emergency and not allowed to go because you don’t have the 2 “bucks”.
You don’t have them, not because you were a bad kid, but because you spent them on trinkets. Now you have to be humiliated in front of the whole class who get to watch you pee your pants!
Where is the incentive to keep being a good kid??
Remember this happened to me in the late 70’s, in the SAME school dstrict!!
BWAHAHAHA!!! It's called homework, you kill me.
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Wintertime
That’s what homeschooling parent do.
Homeschooling parents of academically successful children that I know didn’t and aren’t helicopter parents. Academically successful children ( home or institutionally educated ) are independent learners.
I would not have cared for the “bucks” back then and even though the word was not yet in my vocabulary my attitude would have been f*** it.
I was an am a really nice and ultra decent person. IMO
“I was an am a really nice and ultra decent person. IMO”
—who was not paddled often in school.
lolz
Quite frankly, parents who send their children to government-run schools deserve just about whatever they get.
The system is designed to produce compliant, non-independent thinking little secular humanists.
Because good people refuse to get involved. 40 years ago the elementary school I went to was going to stop bus transportation if you lived within a certain distance. My father drove the routes and figured that we were outside of that radius. The superintendent told him that the distance was "As the crow flies." My father explained that children don't cut through yards etc...,and asked how to get it changed. The superintendent told him he had to be on the board. My father got on the board and got the policy changed. As Gandhi said "Be the change you want in the world."
“Because good people refuse to get involved.”
No the problem is government schooling itself. It was always intended to produce compliant, non-independent thinking little secular humanists. Adjusting bus routes won’t solve that problem.
Way to miss the point! the point was my father wanted to make a change in something that he had an interest in so he got involved.
BTW the founding fathers did support public education, so your "universal positive" statement was in error.
More likely a Liberal (and a lesbo too?).
I sent this to the whole school board
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After reading a news report about a recent incident at Davis Elementary I was flabberghasted that this whole program was still happening. You probably know the incident I am referring to, a child was denied a trip to the bathroom because he didn’t have enough “Boyd bucks”. Maybe he had just spent them on stickers or something.
Children cannot control WHEN they have to go to the bathroom. I think teachers who know the kids in their classroom would be able to tell the good kids and bad kids apart and know if the kid was telling the truth. Like I said, you cannot put their bladders on a schedule.
They aren’t learning discipline when they are forced to dig through their desks desperate to find these “bucks” as the whole class watches and then traumatized and humiliated as the whole class watches him pee his pants. The only thing that kid learns is not to trust teachers and will probably start hating school. Letting a kid go to the bathroom is a lot less disruptive than having all of that happen. Especially if they empty the class and have it cleaned.
Why was I shocked to see this was going on?
Because the same thing happened to me in the late 70’s. I attended Schulze Elementary (okay probably others too since we moved a lot). It was the exact same kind of thing. It is a stupid idea to give kids “bucks” and let them spend it on goodies and trinkets if you then make them pee their pants because they no longer can buy an emergency bathroom break.
Bathroom breaks should be teachers discretion with the knowledge that kids can’t always hold it, especially since doing this a lot can bring on Urinary Tract problems. The emergency bathroom break should not be dependent on something as -yes- STUPID as “Boyd bucks”. I would rather expect the teachers to be adults and be able to make this decision by their own discretion.
Sincerely,
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I didn’t miss the point, but I think you did. Nothing I do can change government schools into institutions which provide a Christian education.
Regardless of what the Founders believed about public schooling, they clearly didn’t envision the federal government being involved.
My understanding is that the early promoters of publicly funded and controlled education wanted to re-engineer society away from Christianity and family, to a society in which citizens gave their allegiance to the State. That has been going on for close to 200 years and it has been very successful.
Well, they had public funds (such as it was) spent on schools way back in the 1660’s colonies, albeit irregularly (here and there, for a year here and sometimes not after) and not in any coordinated manner. No, they weren’t anything like they are now and the government did not try to dictate all kinds of insane schemes.
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