it’s a redefining of the same kind of mindless control issues by a teacher in “her” classroom – a phrase i heard echoed over and over as a student and still hear as if they were judge & jury … well gues? i think if anyone “owns” the class – it is the students – the instructor is very very exepndable and replaced and before anyone starts with a ‘favorite’ teacher … our of how many teachers?

So what you do is give kids bigger breaks between classes so they actually have time to cool off and go to the bathroom, like they do in Europe. Receiving a lot of instruction clearly can’t take kids beyond reading. US is at the bottom of the list for math scores worldwide. It’s not the hours of “instruction” that you put in, it’s the complexity of material. Harassing kids into not going to bathroom doesn’t prepare MIT or Harvard material.

I remember going to the batroom 17 times a day while in school just to smoke.

So let the kids leave all day long to use the bathroom as they say but then lets tie in student scores with a teachers performance…how will that work fairly?

When you’re on a road trip with children, you encourage them to “hold it” until you find a clean rest room. What’s wrong with that? No one’s punishing them…Geez….can the adult in the classroom leave to use the facilities any time they want? No. We’ve all had to hold it. Stop “poor babying” those kids.

What is it with bathrooms and this city ? It is amazing how many people have to suffer every day trying to find a bathroom. Not having access to a bathroom is NY’s dirty little secret. Even places that by LAW !!!! should have a bathroom DON’T.

If I have to go and people aren’t decent enough to let me use their bathroom out it goes into a public street tough S$%%T. Either get it together get up to 3rd world standards or suffer.

If you are a child in school and you need to use the bathroom just GET UP and use the bathroom. To heck with the teacher.

Tell them buttbisquit told you it was ok.

Yuppies think they control the world

This is yet another ridiculous ploy by some vendetta-driven imbeciles who unfortunately teach at the school. The principal is a remarkable educator who is consistently the subject of these absurd, and at times libelous, stories. No one bothers to report on less sensational goings-on at the school, like her commitment to providing additional, sorely-needed support to Special Education students or demanding that teachers actually step up to teach their students (as opposed to taking naps under their desks, as they had done under previous administrations).

Kids abuse going to the bathroom all the time. And in 5th grade? Anyone who has spent real time in an elementary school knows that as kids get older, the bathroom becomes a space for socializing and wasting time. Some can argue that the teacher isn’t engaging them enough – cop out rationale. The teacher’s intentions were not to abuse children, but to ensure that they are at least present for critical instructional time. The implementation of this idea went off-track but the story is being spun to a) generate ratings/readership and b) implicate the principal in yet another scandal by a group of incompetent idiots who should be stripped of their tenure.

These stories get me so angry! It is too often that a teacher is automatically attacked for trying to implement something into their classroom to correct a problem. Do teachers now need permission from each parent before any type of discipline? It is a fact that kids often go to the bathroom during class time when they don’t really have to go. Being a teacher, I can attest to this (as can any teacher.) I do not know this teacher and I do not know the exact way that she ran this method but, it seems to me like the kids had a few designated times throughout the day that they were allowed to go to the bathroom. The passes were an incentive used so that the kids would choose to go to the bathroom at the appropriate times and not go just to play around. The parents reactions is as if the kids were not allowed to go all day.. It’s just ridiculous! People seriously need to walk a day in teachers shoes. They would all be in for quite a surprise!

Let’s see–20 to 30 kids in a class coming and going as they please–and then you wonder why Johnny can’t read!

My daughters school gives out very few bathroom passes and if you ask for ‘extra’ you will get in trouble. Even if you are a young girl who is having her period, I believe you get 3 passes for the week. But no prizes here,, just punishment. Coney Island Prep.

Speaking from experience, I was directly told no less then three times, not to let the children out to pee during a lockdown drill, I didn’t, but one girl needed to. I called the office two times to get an OK. Principal never got back with me. Then all the other wanted to go, (in 5th grade the power of suggestion is big). I said, “In a real situation with an intruder we’d have to adapt. What could we do? I let them screen themselves, pee in the trashcan (those who wanted to…I NEVER FORCED THEM.., gave them sanitary wipes and that was that. Until parents complained and I was fired. LOL. Oh well, there is no way to be a please all please all all the time. Too many kids leave to leave. I think it was creative. If you are holding it to get an eraser, obviously, you have problems your parents should have addressed a long time ago.

We are raising one big freakin’ bunch of sissies. If we were ever in dire straights … I mean, really dire straights, most people in this country would have no clue how to survive. Wah, wah, wah, little Billy can’t disrupt the class to go take a whiz. Wah, wah, wah, Suzy needs to pee every hour on the hour or her bladder will burst.

Tell you what … let all those lawyers who have sued this country into oblivion take this on. Might as well take NYC and its people for a few more bucks. What’s a few more million added onto our tab?

Bodily waste must be excreted. ” Holding it in ” can be extremely hazardous to your health. I drove an MTA bus for 30 years, any transit worker will agree.

As a teacher, I sympathize with the parents and students, but trying to let 20 children go in and out of my classroom in 42 minutes becomes unmanageable; I understand the teacher’s frustration. My question : does every 11 year-old need to come to school with 16oz bottles of water every day, and then buy more water at lunch? By 8th period they are bursting. When did it become required for children to drink a quart of water a day, in school? I only allow my students to sip some water if they come from gym, unless it’s 90 degrees outside. There are two sides to this. I don’t remember this “bathroom rush” 20 years ago when everyone didn’t have a bottle of water with them in school all day.

I have a 10 years old and 12 years old in school, the younger one has problem holding it in to the point that if she doesn’t go it’l leak. that’ll be embarrassing for her and any child has the same issue. It used to make me mad when I hear from her that the teacher told her to wait, so I strongly disagree with forcing children to hold it in and delay bathroom trips because it will cause medical problem for them.. My children’s safely and health comes before anything else.

HOLD IT IN? THIS IS HOW YOU GET URINARY TRACT INFECTION!
TELL THE TEACHER THEY SHOULD HOLD IT IN AND SEE HOW THEY FEEL??
REALLY!!

I am an educator in the Jersey City Public School System. My students are eminded to never ask to go to the bathroom….just say,”I need to use the bathroom now”…..and do so….now. To think, allowing someone else permission to control when another can eliminate body waste. Purely, stupidity the least

I am long out of school, but Old Bridge High School in NJ would always be on “pass restriction” when we had too many subs, there was a fight, or it was a Friday. That meant you were not allowed to go to the bathroom except during lunch, gym, or the 4 minute change of classes. Eventually they said you weren’t allowed to go to the nurse either and use the bathroom, you had to be legitimately sick.

I am long out of high school, but I had years where I had lunch at 12:45 and gym at 1:00. School started at 7:35.

I used to have a teacher that hung on her wall a supreme court ruling or something that being allowed to go to the bathroom was a privilege and not a right in HUGE letters.

The few spoil it for the many and people in power often mandate policies they would never want to be subjected to.

This is not the first incident of schools doing this. The Brooklyn School for Global Studies on Baltic Street in Brooklyn has instituted this policy over two years ago over strong objections of the parents, students and even teachers. The reasoning was that a “few” students were using the bathroom excuse as a way to get out of the class to open the doors to let their friends in. Since that time video cameras have been placed in the school with the Assistant Principal and Security monitoring the perimeters. So why are they still prohibiting students from using the bathroom. Bathrooms are not a privilege but a necessity. Have you ever eaten food that has not agreed with you. There is no way a person can hold it just as long as it’s not during the first or last 10 minutes of class. Then to finally be allowed to go and the bathrooms are locked and the AP sends you back to class. As this is a middle school/high school, the kids are still developing not to mention that as an adult if you are constantly holding it in you weaken your bladder muscles. Kids are being treated like barbarians. Your job is to penalize those that are miss behaving and not the entire school. I hope CBS 2 News reads this comment and investigate this school also.

MANALAPAN HIGH IN NJ HAS JUST AS BAD OF A POLICY. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED

maybe there is a link between kids that use trhe bathroom a lot and kids not doing well in school? I bet students that are freqent flyers I am sure do less work and obtain lower grades. Maybe we shouls stop being so soft of a society

While this schedule does seem particularly rigid with small windows of opportunity, the DOE’s claim that “teachers decide who goes to the bathroom and when” is a false statement- in my school, students may not use the bathroom during period 1, period 8, the period before lunch, or the period after. this leaves period 2, 3, and 7 open, just as long as it’s not during the first or last 10 minutes of either of those periods either. So now we are down to 90 minutes of opportunity, which ought to be fine just as long as 3 other students haven’t already left the room that period, in which case all pass requests are to be denied. So it’s not all that different and this is a schoolwide policy. On the other hand, teachers are told to always allow a child to go if that child explains that it is an “emergency,” so we realize that the policy is meant to limit the desire to just leave the room unless it is truly necessary. This teacher is simply following procedures that she has surely seen before, and would not be so foolish as to deny a legitimate request to leave the room. She is just rewarding those who can be responsible for their own behavior. Believe me, nobody who is of the age to actually read her chart will actually allow themselves to urinate on themselves just to earn an eraser. Let’s be real!!!!

Just pee in the classroom. Do it at the teacher’s desk. Problem solved in a few days – teachers are slow.

mabe they should try this in congress