[Blood of Tyrants]

This is in response to a few kids abusing bathroom breaks. Jeez, did you REALLY need to leave class more than 15 times a month to go to the potty?

You have a break before the class, a 50 minute class and a break afterward. How many students REALLY need to go to the bathroom once every 25 minutes?

[Politicalmom]

It is quite difficult to use a five minute "passing period" to go to the bathroom AND make it to class on time. I'm not too old to remember junior high......BLECH!!

[Rubber_Duckie_27]

When I was in high school (1995-1999) we had a break of 2 minutes between classes. This was in a largish school of more than 1000 students.

Unless your classes were in the same wing of the building, you had little hope of even stopping at your locker and still making it to class on time - I usually carried 3-4 textbooks with me at a time, and STILL had to run to make it to class on time. Forget about making a pit stop at the bathroom!

[Henrietta]

"You have a break before the class, a 50 minute class and a break afterward. How many students REALLY need to go to the bathroom once every 25 minutes?"

While I might be inclined to agree, in fairness, the "break" is really a 3 minute time to get to your next class. Depending on how big the school is, it might be hard to get to the next class during that time, even without a potty break.

But I do agree that our national obsession with being properly hydrated is creating a nation of frequent pee-ers.

But the idea of telling kids when they can and can't relieve themselves bothers me. I wouldn't think that such overreaching would be necessary. Frequent peeing was never I problem when I was in school.