Denied toilet break

I teach year 2 and never let them go to the toilet the lessons immediately after a break, but will let them go if they ask twice at any other time. Only one boy and girl allowed at a time

My daughter is a teacher, and its the schools policy that they are not to go to the toilet during lessons. She says she feels uneasy sometimes telling them they cannot go for a wee, but that they seem to be ok with it.

I Personally feel its wrong an had it been a member of my family I would have complained

I used to teach year 2 and would not let them go to the toilet during class.

The children had an afternoon playtime though, and the longest they went without a toilet break was an hour an half. I certainly would not have made a child wait 2 hours

Still think it's a man/boy...

Has to be a windup - no reasonable school would tolerate the idiosyncrasies of one teacher who's out to score points over pupils!

Of course it's a wind-up. Too many inconsistencies and lack of knowledge of school procedures,

Are you some sort of sadist, vicwarren? So the poor girl had waited an hour and a half after asking to go to the toilet and asked again - but no! You decided to punish her further...

Ana 25 minutes is not that long, also it came an hour and half after the initial request so figured she would be able to wait another 25 minutes, most 10 year old should manage a couple of hours without a wee

Seems yours is an odd school in a few ways vic.
Don't remember being free to post on social media between 4 and 4.30!

I do hope that you're not really a teacher, just a wind-up merchant getting a rise from a bunch of grannies.

The girl's request was her first - why should she be punished because a boy was running down the corridor?

Are not some 10 year-old girls menstruating?

My classes didn't seem to see the situation as a challenge!
As I sent them out at break-time I reminded them to go. As they lined up to return to class I suggested that anyone who needed to go should do so on the way to class. By the time the others had hung up coats and settled the 'stragglers'had caught up and no more than a minute or two was wasted.

Well worth it to avoid creating unnecessary confrontation.

On the very rare occasion that someone did actually have to go I simply asked them to be as quick as possible.

And yes anya out staff saw teaching as a higher priority than patrolling corridors to catch escapees!

Only 25 minutes...for a Year 5 child?

Vampire

Under normal circumstances I would have. However taking into account what happened with the boy I decided against it. It was only 25 minutes until the end of the day when the girl made the second request

Usually UK.

Synchronise.

Ana

Apology accepted I am a women.

riverwalk,

No of course they didn't synchronize their toilet breaks, they were just messing about, I doubt the boy I let out even needed the toilet.

Riverwalk

"A girl asked if she could nip to the loo as she came in from lunch, I explained that she should have gone at lunch and the answer was no. She did ask again later on and said she was really desperate,but i stuck to my guns and said no, she hung on until the end of the day"

You said in an earlier post that if they tell you they're desperate you let them go. Now you say you didn't let her go.

No way do the teachers in my school use mobile phones during lesson times. Some very harsh comments about teachers on here!
Most teachers I know try to discourage children leaving the classroom as it interrupts lessons, but will usually know when a child really needs to visit the toilet. We quickly get to know our classes and it is not set in stone that there are no toilet breaks.However, if a child asks 5 minutes into the lesson we will remind them to make sure they go at break in future. Once one child goes to the loo it seems to become contagious and there can be constant requests with a steady stream of children in and out.

...... as he was running down the corridor with another child who had been let out from another class

So they synchronized their loo breaks in order to run down the corridor?

Sounds like fun

Oh! I thought *Vic was a man - seems like one to me...(apologies if I've got that wrong)

How odd too that this alleged incident happened today so that our 'Y5 teacher ' (newly returned from a weeks bereavement leave) could use it to justify her actions.

How very opportune

Me too mcem - always allowed toilet breaks and the children never abused that.

Methinks this is a very ill-disciplined school yet with enough staff to be wandering the corridors to sweep up unruly pupils!

mcem

"occasional loo breaks" So you did say no sometimes.

Like I say when the boy was allowed to go he was found misbehaving.

And you find 'managed to hang on' a perfectly reasonable statement. I'd be knocking on the door of yourself, the HT and the LEA if you treated mine like that.
That's not from a doting mum or GP but from a retired teacher of many years who didn't have a disrupted classroom despite allowing occasional loo breaks!