Toilet passes

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My DD is 9.her school don't allow the children to go to the toilet in lesson times-fine.At break and lunch times if they want to go, they have to ask the teacher on duty , who will issue a toilet pass if there is no-one from their class in the toilet ie there is one girls pass and one boys pass for each class.
AIBU to think this is a bit demeaning .There should be a time they are allowed to go without having to ak permission?

I have to say, as a secondary teacher, there's a "look" a girl gives you when she needs to go to deal with period things that means you let her go straight away, no explanation necessary! And I don't let kids go as a rule of thumb (because yes, they do all ask once one has gone. And the desperate ones ask again in a non dramatic way a couple of minutes later, and I do let them go then).

That's it Brian. When I've taught higher up the school (in schools that allow children to go to the toilet in lesson time) I asses each request as it comes. It depends on when they ask, if someone else has just gone and if you put them off for 5 minutes if they ask again.

localeditor in which case, a note would go on her file/a mental note in the teacher's head 'if mini editor asks to go to the toilet, let her'.

Localeditor, that is why DS wet himself because the teacher said 'no more going to the bathroom until lunch' and he is very black and white and so didn't ask and ended up having a big puddle. This was late in the year so the teacher should have known this about him but she didn't.

I had a friend in primary school who would wet herself in year 4 because the cow of a teacher (she really was) wouldn't let her go during class.

I still say that passes are a good idea if there have been shenanigans in the past and I certainly know how disruptive the flood of "Miss, Miss!" can be when you are trying to teach to the whole class and one by one they all ask to leave.

Isn't thrre also a safety issue about knowing where the children are, see the complaint seems to be about passes being used at break time, it's also the staffs break time, so the only staff actually aware of where the children are and what their doing are the two/three staff on play ground duty.

I when used to work in my local primary school, children would often slip back in to their class room go through other children's bags, sit and read in the library.

What if they slipped and banged their head and no staff knew where they were? Locked themselves in the toilet? Parents would complain about the lack of duty of care wouldn't they?

During breaks children are meant to be in the playground supervised by the duty staff, how are they meant to be supervised is know one knows where they are?! Which is the reason for passes.

I agree with a previous poster that hopefully this isn't the case for reception or even year 1 but above that I can see why the use of passes.