This phrase is a common phrase I hear in the classroom several times within a half hour period! Usually it is accompanied by the pee pee dance and a face that looks uncomfortable. Standard restroom procedures for my classroom are the following: You go at recess and lunch or you go when I take you (before or after specials). I do allow kids to go to the restroom during class as long as I am not teaching and it is independent work time. We get in from recess and I have starting teaching reading and a little boy ask if he could go to the restroom. (This kid asks SEVERAL times during the week. At least once or twice a day.) Of course I said, "No, we just went to recess and I am teaching." The kids are pretty good about telling me if it is an emergency, so I didn't think anything of it and continued. About 20 min. later, I hear him crying. (He sits in the front row and I was at the overhead.) So, while I am teaching, I tap on his desk and motion for him to go. Then he stood up...and lo and behold...there was pee all over his clothes!!! I couldn't believe it! I felt so bad because he didn't say it was an emergency and the little stinker just peed his pants without telling me he had to go really bad. Luckily the reading specialist was in there testing a few kids so I was able to get the kids started and I ran to find him. He had already made his way to the nurse. As I was thinking about the situation, I came to the conclusion that he has peed his pants before. How else would you know to go to the nurse when you pee your pants? I wouldn't know...would you? I would probably hide in the bathroom not knowing what to do! Basically, I am the worst teacher and make kids pee their pants.
That's all.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Mrs. Ortega, can I go to the bathroom?
Posted by Staci at 7:11 PM
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2 comments:
Oh poor kid! You are not a bad teacher- I would think he would ask again if it was really an emergency! That is horrible! Sorry!
That is too bad! I was a teachers assistant to kindergarteners a little while back and the teacher would always give the kids "bucks" or something like that, when they would ask to go to the bathroom during class, she would say yes but they would have to give up a buck...it seemed to work well in her class. Little Juan pooped his pants once though. He denied it, but you could smell it...awkward.
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