[Sub-Driver]

the public school system....

[TADSLOS]

Kinda has the same ring to it as a flight on a commercial airliner.

[dead]

seventh- and eighth-graders are allowed to leave class for the bathroom a maximum of 15 times a month.

Ouch! That’s going to put a dent in pot sales.

[Paul C. Jesup]

(sarcasm) Ahh, teaching children that they have no rights in the Freest nation on Earth.

[dfwgator]

Maybe after a few students decide to take a whiz on the teacher, they'll take the hint that perhaps this is a bad idea.

[Aquinasfan]

Punish the innocent. Just like when I was in middle school.

[CFW]

Principal Nancy Pitcher thinks the policy offers students ample opportunities to use the bathroom. She said it was a necessary step to guarantee the safety of her students and encourage learning. The high school implemented a similar system the previous year.

"We wanted some control of students in terms of who was going in and out of the bathrooms," she said. "The students have 15 opportunities out of 20 to 22 days in the month to use the bathroom pass, and another 15 to go wherever else they need to go. That is quite a few times."

Is she willing to stick to that schedule herself?

[GOP_Proud]

Once again everyone has to pay for all the abusers. Of course, teachers know who the abusers are but can't "bathroom" profile.

[prion]

This is leaving class to go to the bathroom. Not between classes and lunch. Kindergarten through college, I can't remember a single occasion when I had to leave class to pee. If you're leaving class three times a day for it, I'd have to agree a doctor's visit is in order.

[HIDEK6]

You have to remember, the people running the schools now were the sixties types who signed up for those pie Ed classes because they couldn't cut it in real college.

They had to stay in college, or they would have had to serve in the armed forces (read, do their civic duty).

They have since destroyed all real schools because they're fundamentally stupid and have no sense of honor.

[NYDave]

We called the school and were told the bathroom is a privilege, not a right."

Who was the idiot that thought up that one. A privilege?
Our system of public education is a joke. It's pathetic.

[SamAdams76]

Don't remember any problems when I went to school. Getting a hallway pass to use the bathroom was a rare occurence. Lunchtime and recess seemed to provide sufficient opportunities to use the bathrooms. Fifteen passes a month seems out of hand. I don't think I had to leave class to use the bathrrom that many times in 12 years of school.

What has changed?

[kenth]

The school's approach is silly, but how many kids need to leave class more than fifteen times a month for bathroom breaks? I don't recall ever having to leave class.

[tiamat]

And one wonders what they will tell the girls who get their periods? HARD for adolescents to tell when it will come at that age!

I can think of fewer things more mortifying than having an "accident" and not being able to handle it discretly at that age!

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Less than once per day???

[joesnuffy]

dehydration is good for kids...gotta be a tax payer funded study that will back this up ..somewhere...
Or we can make one...

[Dan from Michigan]

and in other news, "Marlboro" sales dropped dramaticly.

But "Kodiak" sales doubled....

[Libertina]

The good news is that these kids may grow to HATE liberals and their STUPID schemes. (With good reason)

[Scenic Sounds]

They should let these kids save up and sell their unused bathroom privileges. Why not teach the kids a little capitalism??

[Amelia]

Under a new policy at the Lawrence Middle School, seventh- and eighth-graders are allowed to leave class for the bathroom a maximum of 15 times a month.

I'd bet they are still allowed to go between classes.

[SouthernFreebird]

I'm stunned at the amount of posters on this thread who think it's ok when the schools we are required to pay for and send our children to put a limit on one of our most basic human needs.

I have children in all 3 schools, elementary, middle and high, they do not have enough time in between classes to use the rest room and get to class.
Our schools are overcrowded and all classes exchange at the same time. Thats alot of kids hitting the stalls at one time...and the girls restrooms are severly under equipped to handle the running of the bulls, so those who don't get there first are out of luck at waiting for an opening, using and getting to class on time.

I couldn't imagine being a teenage girl with her period in school now, not to mention the health risks. Good Lord, we've let them turn our schools into a nazi boot camp... we pay them to abuse our children and some of the hard core people here see absolutely nothing wrong with our schools putting a limit on how many times our children can pee.

I can hardly sing our National Anthemn anymore without choking over the words "O'er the land of the free".....