Not to mention the fact that Mrs. White isn’t qualified to teach.
She should be required to take a remedial English course.
“I have went”? please. It’s “I have gone”, Mrs. White.
first, my kid would not sign anything without me seeing it first. 2nd, upon seeing it i would be at the superintendant’s office the next morning.
then we would speak to the teacher.
black folk gotta nip it in the bud.
Dont let your children be controlled like this. I remember back when I was in school my mom always told me “if you really need to use the bathroom or attend to an emergency and the teacher won’t let you, then just leave the classroom and I’ll deal with teacher and principle”
Mom had my back
If I was this kid I would use up those passes and then just fuckin’ throw up or get a severe nosebleed in the classroom and then refuse to leave because “sorry, I can’t go to the nurse, I already used up my two passes for the fucking MONTH”
There was a student at my high school, who we will call John Doe, who actually did that. When teachers gave him a limited number of bathroom allowances (usually 3 per semester, which was the standard at my school), he would use them in the first week, and then induce vomitting my eating rotten food he found around the school garbage cans. If teachers refused to let him go, he would just throw up on something they had to touch. Light switches, keyboards, whatever was available.
Instead of making admin do anything about this toxic policy, they just doubled down harder, to the extent that one girl politely informed a teacher that she felt like she might be about to have a seizure and could she go to the nurse, please. She was denied, sat back down at her desk, and promptly passed out and concussed herself on the concrete floor when she fell.
Another girl had severe vertigo-induced fainting, could not get a teacher to excuse her from a phys ed class, and fell off a monkey bars and split her head open, and nearly lost an eye because her glasses broke when she landed.
A student with, I believe, diabetes had a severe blood sugar drop and tried to eat a candy bar in a class with a “no food or drinks” rule. The candy bar was taken away, and she had to be taken out by EMTs.
This kind of human rights abuse in public schools is not new. I graduated a full decade ago.
I’m glad it’s being publically discussed again, (briefly around 2003-2005 this was also a popular subject of discussion). I hope that this time, concrete changes in policy are actually affected.
My mother, who was a teacher, would have been on the warpath if this kind of thing had been implemented on me or my brother.
this is so surreal to me like, in sweden (at least where I’m from) do you know what we do when we need to go to the bathroom?
we just leave. it’s that simple. maybe if you feel like it, or if they’re in the middle of a lecture you might give a quiet excuse before going, but I’ve never asked for permission to go to the bathroom.
and i shouldn’t have to.
When Americans get to college we literally need to be told “if you need to use the restroom just go, don’t raise your hand and ask” because for the 12+ years prior we couldn’t use the restroom/leave for the nurse’s office/get a drink of water without explicit permission, otherwise we would get written up or given detentions or whatever else
My school that was not in any part of North America would actively lock the bathroom doors during class time, and the nurse’s office would be in an extremely difficult place to go to [we had the girl’s wing, main building, then the boy’s wing, and the nurse’s office was in the main building which was really far away] that it would be pointless to go to the nurse’s office anyway. So if you ever felt sick you would just tough it out and go to school, because this is also a school system where your years are pre-selected and if you fail ONE course you have to repeat the entire year so no one would be absent on fear of failing a year’s worth of school. We would also not be allowed in the classrooms or the buildings during our break because we would make the classes smell thanks to our food, and we’d have to go to this cramped bathroom outside that was always hot
Mind you, I lived in a hot, humid desert country that would go from 30C to 45C [86F to 113F] everyday. Even if we asked permission our teachers would always berate us for being irresponsible and not going during breaktime. And even though I am in university now and I am an adult, I still carry the fear of causing issues for the authorities and being disrespectful by wanting to take care of my own body because of the way teachers and school workers treated their students. I still cannot comprehend that I am just allowed to leave the lecture halls to take care of myself, go home, or whatever just in case I feel bad. It’s just foreign. Students need to be treated as people not subhuman.
It’s the same in Denmark as it is in Sweden. In the beginning of school you might excuse yourself and say you’re going to the bathroom, so the teachers know where you are, but you don’t need to ask permission to leave.
If you’re feeling sick, the teacher might place their hand on your forehead to check your temperature, and then decide whether you should go to the nurse or if your parents/guardians should be called to take you home.
The whole idea of having to ask for permission to go to the bathroom, especially when you’re a small kid who might not have the greatest bladder control seems super dumb and harmful to me
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