Hey people, during my school years, we always had to ask the teacher to go to the bathroom. Like “May I use the bathroom?”, if they said no we were left to our devices which I think is inhumane.( Was a victim myself) What do you guys think especially the teachers about this system considering how difficult it is to manage classroom discipline?
Fair number of answers, no one saying what country they are from
US here, we had to ask but it was basically always a yes.
Reasons for a no:
Middle of a test
Middle of explaining something important, then you might be asked to wait a few minutes
If you were just abusing the system asked always asking just to get out of class they would probably start saying no. If you had a medical issue you could always meet the teacher after class or before school and say you have a medical issue that prevents your from waiting. It it was a sudden thing like diarrhea… Well just get up and go.
Above 16 years old we were allowed to take smoke breaks during exams. :)
Only during the final exams we had to be accompanied by a teacher to the toilet and back to the class, smoking was not allowed. Otherwise we basically only had to inform the teacher when we wanted to go to the toilet or go smoking. ;) Ah, the nineties.
Also USA. My teachers ran the gamut from not letting anyone to treating us like adults. My school was VERY white with only a handful of black kids across all of high school. One of the teachers was well known for never letting the black kids go until one of them went and peed in his trash can to prove a point.
The ones who treated us like adults got treated with the most respect. Weird how that works.