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nailak · 07/11/2011 18:53

to think that if you know a child is regularly wetting himself, in reception, that you or the ta would remind him to go to the toilet?

or atleast after lunch/break check if he was dry, and not leave him in soaking wet clothes all day, so that 90% of the time he is wet when his mum picks him up?

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jamdonut · 11/11/2011 19:23

1 child will ask to go to the loo,then everyone wants to go. Lots ask to go when they want to get out of doing something. It's not meaness on the part of staff...every time a child decides they want to go, in the middle of a teacher's input, it causes a certain amount of disruption,and takes attention away.So we try to ensure they go only at breaktimes (It is the same for us staff!!Smile) Having said that, if someone is in obvious need,well of course they can go,but in my experience it will be the same children asking every time.

AndiMac · 11/11/2011 23:56

This is four year olds we are talking about. And I think it's terrible that asking and being allowed to go to the toilet may be more of a disruption than same child going in their pants and being left in their wet clothes. Very happy my child doesn't go to a school where this is the norm.

jamdonut · 12/11/2011 10:44

I agree a four year old should be allowed to go,and they would be at our school. Older children are not stopped from going, just encouraged to go at breaktime...we can't make them!! I was just trying to show what happens as a result , and didn't make myself very clear. I had a 9 year old have an 'accident' this week, and sorted her out straight away. That was because she left it too late before asking to go to the toilet, then because she couldn't get her tights down quick enough at the toilet, ended up wetting herself. It was no problem,there was no crossness,(is that a word?) it was sorted quickly and discreetly.

Sometimes I just wish parents (and I have 3 children myself) would try to see things from the school's point of view.

I confess,though, I am baffled that the child was left in wet clothes,unless they actually had no changes of clothing left to give out,(some parents never seem to return borrowed items), in which case they should have phoned you to fetch some in . Or maybe it had only just happened? I do think,though, if you know your child has a problem, you should send spare clothing,just in case.

If it really was the staff's fault i.e. they knew and chose to do nothing, then that definitely needs complaining about,preferably in writing, to the head.

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