School Regulates Potty Time

[quidmonkey]

A Chinese high school has suggested that students schedule their bodily needs around classes.

Toilet time tends to be one aspect of life that remains private and self-regulated, even in the sometimes harshly regimented world of Chinese schools.

But the administrators at Sanmenxia No.1 High School decided that managing nature’s call was too much responsibility for their students. Banners were erected last week advising the student body to sync their bodies to avoid having to leave class to go to the restroom.

Oh. Tee Hee (http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/05/18/chinese-high-school-tells-students-bathroom/).

[pronounconnoun]

Wont everybody be late for class because they were waiting in line to use the restroom?

[Commissar Rob]

Bah! Teachers have had to do this all along. You leave a room mid-class for a bio-break, you return the bloody THUNDER DOME.

[Kielaran]

Wont everybody be late for class because they were waiting in line to use the restroom?

I came in here with the purpose of posting the same thing.

[Johan]

Schools regulate everything. News at 11.

[ShivaX]

But will the school fall down on them when they're all trying to take a poop?

[sam36]

No more gallon of coffee before class then...

[Spockrocket]

Oh China. What won't you regulate?

[cppcrusader]

Oh China. What won't you regulate?

Poisoned food and lead in toys?

[Shrinn]

They're trying to create jobs in a no leak teenage diaper industry. Crazy Chinese.

[pronounconnoun]

They're trying to create jobs in a no leak teenage diaper industry. Crazy Chinese.

The government should just give them money to NOT make teenage diapers like they do in America. Tax cuts for all failing industries!

[rifter]

Is this any different from US Schools? When I was little, we went to the bathroom during recess/lunch. When in Jr High/High school, it was during breaks/lunch. Very rarely were you allowed to go out during class, and generally that was for an emergency.

[ShivaX]

Is this any different from US Schools? When I was little, we went to the bathroom during recess/lunch. When in Jr High/High school, it was during breaks/lunch. Very rarely were you allowed to go out during class, and generally that was for an emergency.

When I went to school you generally tried to go between classes or during breaks, but it wasn't at all uncommon to go to the bathroom during a class. By High School most people could hold it until the period ended so it wasn't a big deal. Evidently Chinese people can't hold their piss or something, or they were possibly (knowing High School kids) taking advantage of the system to effectively cut out of class and/or disrupt the teaching.

[Johan]

The teacher who tells a student they cannot go to the bathroom, at least in the U.S. , is playing Russian roulette with a lawsuit over a pants-wetting incident.

I never say no. I simply watch the time out of class, and double or triple it after school if it becomes abusive. I will not be liable for a kid peeing themselves or crying to their parents about the cruel teacher who won't let them pee.

Don't think that happens? Read up...

[Thanasimos]

Most of my high school teachers were very leery of sending kids out to the restroom; it was always accompanied by a lecture, and as a result most kids learned to hold it effectively. I can understand this completely, and don't understand why it's news when there are schools everywhere that operate on effectively the same system.

[Shamrock Jimmy]

Is this any different from US Schools? When I was little, we went to the bathroom during recess/lunch. When in Jr High/High school, it was during breaks/lunch. Very rarely were you allowed to go out during class, and generally that was for an emergency.

Hell when I was in highschool we didn't have bathrooms (well but they were locked at all times)