Girl sat in blood soaked clothes after being told she couldnt go to the toilet and would require a £15 toilet pass.

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FFS! What is wrong with some people And a £15 toilet pass. Misogyny and sex discrimination.

Two staff members also asked her what action the doctor was going to take to lighten her doctors flow.

Im absolutely furious reading this Im sorry if there already is a thread. I couldnt see one.

I think/hope kirstybabe is a wind up. No primary teacher worth their salt would let a child go for two hours ‘desperate for a wee’ and if they did, how could they state they had just had their lunch when there is a two hour time gap! The original post sounds awful for the girl involved and I hope policies change in the school for the good of the kids and the staff.

The girl should have told the teacher she had her period

Have you met any eleven year old girls? My 11yo won't tell me if she has her period never mind a stranger. I only knew she started because the Always started diminishing at a quicker rate than when it was only her sister using them.

What if there was a queue and she didn't have time? You still made her aware of her full bladder for a full 2 hours. Cruel

Its obvious what its all about Preparing the kids for the world of work at places like Sports Direct...............smh

How many toilets for how many children? I hate it when I need the toilet and can't get to one. 2 hours is a long time to hold on. How she doesn't end up with a uti

Hope*

Adult bladders are larger than a child one

Well kirsty there was a thread from a retail worker on the Chat board who had the problem of working in a busy retail job and not being able to go to the loo while on her period It doesnt make it OK.

It was on the Chat board last Christmas.

i was out on Tuesday for 3 hours and needed a wee 4 times I went twice at the salon before and after a 15 min wax and twice in Sainsburys when i was shopping i was on day three of mine.

I can do a pee before I take the kids to school and still need to pee on the way home

It drives me crackers pixie and its even worse when im on.

kirstybabe Thank you for the clarification but if the afternoon session is two hours long the children really haven’t ‘just had lunch’ have they if it is half past two etc! I agree with you that teachers can usually tell the difference between true emergencies and a bit of a skive but do think that to have a zero tolerance policy altogether for children who are still Primary is a bit (sorry) harsh.

Wow that is absolutely disgraceful

Kirsty that is awful. I cant believe you let her go 2 hours uncomfortable and scared of wetting herself. As a parent I would be putting in a serious complaint.

So maybe she should have gone at lunch and forgot, and realised 5 mins i to the lesson. It happens. Ive done that. Or sometimes gone and realised I needed to go again. I cant believe you made her wait.

3 weeks into term. That poor child has the rest of the year with you and you will have lost her trust.

Poor girl

Can a teacher now no longer use their common sense we all know girls from the age of nine sometimes younger have periods

And I can believe some teachers would be dismissive and ask why she hasn’t been to the GP I have known women who don’t suffer much with their periods to claim that if only they exercised/ate a better diet/were not so fragile/we all have periods we just get in with it attitudes

It’s about time periods were spoken about more openly, how for many girls they struggle especially when they first start their period on trying to manage and understand their body changes and how much they can negatively impact on our lives

We have been conditioned for years not to openly discuss our dirty secret, keep quite about it and now on tv adverts with women who seem to rejoice when having their period which strangely is often blue

I've never understood this business of not letting kids out of the classroom to use the toilet? Very strange, you'd think it would be a human rights violation. If I was the parent of the girl in Kirsty's class I'd be reporting it as that at least, you sound like a sadist, that's not someone I'd want around my kids.

At the elementary school my DCs attended (again in the US) there were whole class toileting breaks to age 6 and after that if anyone needed to go they simply put up a hand folded into a fist and would be nodded or gestured by the teacher to take one of the three hall passes. If all three were in use then students had to wait until one was returned.

No need for a verbal interruption. No need to reveal personal information. Lesson went on without fuss of any kind.

When I was in school I avoided the loos at lunchtime as there were always certain cliques hanging out in them. Kirsty, is it possible the poor girl in your class has similar reservations about using the loos at lunch?

Did it occur to you that the girl might have known her loo use would take more than the time she had left to use it at the end of lunch? Children can get constipated, especially if they don't drink much during the day out of fear of having to pee and being made to wait.

The girl should have told the teacher she had her period
For real?

Someone with your approach would be drummed out of both the (excellent) schools my DCs attended.