US Students 'Bleeding through trousers' due to strict bathroom policy

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This is awful.

catfan my son is year 8 and ASD. He has problems with his bowel and bladder as in he doesn't recognise always the need to go until it's urgent. The OT he saw said he needs a toilet card, he has one yet still teachers chose to ignore it and say he should've gone at break. This is unacceptable and demoralising to be disciplined for something he can't change.

It's no different to a girl who also can't change the way her uterus decides it wants to bleed. I find it quite awful that in a civilised society this is ignored.

How interesting than an old thread has been resurrected with a common Mumsnet perv trope - "I'm a teacher and I won't let children use the toilet during lessons".

I'd recommend people stop providing anecdotes, personally.

I have a child about to go into yr 4. He still asks as we sit down whether we are having lunch or dinner sometimes. He hasn't the first clue about when things are happening, can't tell the time and gets so involved in playtime games that he wouldn't notice if Armageddon kicked off 20 metres away. Luckily his bladder is cast iron but all the same I hope he never encounters a teacher like you who expects him to have the time management skills of a 25yo at all times.

That had occurred to me too, Miz (which is why I asked why the poster had bumped it!) - an AS shows the bumper to be a brand-new poster today.

Good point miz. The sad truth is though that teachers like that are alas all too common. But yes, over and out.

catfan you cone across as a petty little dictator, enjoying having power of a group of 11 year olds. Poor kids.

This is awful.

It goes on in UK schools too though. I remember having this very issue and this is like 15 years back now. Our school said we could not under any circumstances go to the loo during lessons, and the toilets were locked except for in breaks (so you couldn't even nip there between lessons). It was horrendous, and going from people I know the rule is still in place. We even had a kid in our class with bowel issues that shat himself because of this rule, a few times. His parents eventually moved his school as they would not even make an exception for someone with a disability. I would hope such draconian rules were not still around, but it seems they are getting worse.

I actually used to play truant when I had my period. Or, if my parents actually took me to school, in the first break I would hide in the loos to get locked in, then just spend my day in the toilets reading

And the jumper round waist 'solution' is vile too tbh.

They used to lock the toilets in lesson times when I was in secondary (2006-11) and so even the nice teachers COULDNT let you go because you wouldn't be able to get in anyway.
One poor girl had a bad accident because of it and was mercilessly bullied for years.