Comments on: High School Tells Students to ‘Hold It’

By: Casey

Casey — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:20:20 +0000

I live in the U.S. and I went to a public school that had this rule. I felt kind of annoyed by it because I never abused
"bathroom time", but I knew tons of kids who did.

Either way though, in big schools that have rules like this they probably get a flood of people in the few minutes between classes, it's probably unsanitary and inefficient.

By: QueenBee

QueenBee — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:59:20 +0000

It's a stupid rule for 2 reasons:
#1, and of course, #2!

By: nazischools

nazischools — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:37:41 +0000

my school pulls this crap all the time. except they get around legal issues by saying in their handbook that it is encouraged that students use the bathroom during passing periods between class and only go during class if it's an emergency. except some teachers are real bitches. at the begining of the last school year my history teacher told us straight up that she doesnt allow kids to go to the bathroom. what really didn't make sense was that her class was only a few feet from the bathroom. and every year at school they shorten our passing period by a minute, while increasing the size of the school by 2011 it will be 3 stories tall.

By: grumman

grumman — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:56:14 +0000

i agree..it's a common thing that teachers encourage the students to use the toilet before they attend lessons..it's for their own good..what's so wrong about it?

By: Matty

Matty — Tue, 19 May 2009 23:53:23 +0000

What's so unusual about a school saying you shouldn't go to the toilet during classes?
I was always told I should go to toilet before class when I lived in Australia. This article is exaggerating an internationally standard thing. Teachers naturally dislike students going to the toilet during class as it disrupts the entire class often. Anyway, going to the toilet before class isn't that big an issue.