Is It Time to Home School Our Kids? What a Teacher makes a kid do during class.

[under13]

A Florida teacher makes a kid urinate in a lunch box.

Link http://www.abc2news.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=c7d543d9-6e2c-4c3d-b371-42d8e64a836d

Video  http://www.abc2news.com/mediacenter/local.aspx?videoId=8722@wmar.dayport.com

Story: 

A student in Orange County, Florida says his teacher forced him to urinate in a lunch box. The student says the teacher refused to let him use the bathroom .

The teacher is on administrative leave while the investigation into the incident goes on. 13 year old Quonterious Thomas says "If I had waited any longer, I would have peed on myself and that would have been even more embarrassing."

The student told his mother about the incident and that's when the investigation began.

[Fingers!]

Eventually, we wouldn't be allowed to do that.  This just happened in California.

CA Home Schooling Ban

[BigFoot_BigThumb]

I think the teacher deserves to be fired or reassigned for that. It was out of line.


My next question is why did that woman name her child "Quonterius?"  If that aint made up.

[BassbyGrace]

Okay this is my thing about this story.  This is where effective parenting comes into play.  My mother taught me EARLY in school days, if I REALLY gotta go, GO, and if there is any reprocussions, then let her know and she'll handle it.  My mother was not only a teacher, but very active in my education.  I was to follow rules, but as far as this is concerned, screw the teacher, if you gotta go you gotta go.  Of course theres always my 50% rule of "we dont know the full background" of the story too. 

[BigFoot_BigThumb]

Okay this is my thing about this story.  This is where effective parenting comes into play.  My mother taught me EARLY in school days, if I REALLY gotta go, GO, and if there is any reprocussions, then let her know and she'll handle it.  My mother was not only a teacher, but very active in my education.  I was to follow rules, but as far as this is concerned, screw the teacher, if you gotta go you gotta go.  Of course theres always my 50% rule of "we dont know the full background" of the story too. 

True.  Little Quontavious could be a bad ### child.  Maybe he's went and took forever to come back in the past.  But making the boy go in a lunchbox is inexcusable.

[csedwards2]

True.  Little Quontavious could be a bad ### child.  Maybe he's went and took forever to come back in the past.  But making the boy go in a lunchbox is inexcusable.

IDK, sometimes, when teachers cay crap like this, its to blow off a wolf-crier. Im almost willing to bet the teacher wasnt serious, because they thought the child wasnt serious. Oh  well, they'll be looking for a new career.

[B3Wannabe]

Eventually, we wouldn't be allowed to do that.  This just happened in California.

CA Home Schooling Ban

It won't stick. You don't make policies based on exceptions. If that's the case one could say all blacks should be finger-printed, just in case we commit a crime. They do have a lot of us in jail, no?

[T-Block]

My first thoughts reading this thread were:

1. How big is the lunchbox?

and

2. How much pee did the kid have?

[sjonathan02]

I think the teacher deserves to be fired

You were good, right here. Even if <insert child's silly name, here> is a habitual abuser of bathroom privileges, you allow them to go. Give them an after school detention, if necessary. Speak with the principal about this issue. Bring in the parent and have a conference and set up a plan of action.

Asking a child to urinate in their lunch box would cause ME to lose it on said teacher, if I were the parent.

[SirTJ]

This is similar to an event at my school. A teacher wouldn't let one of the students go to the bathroom, so the boy walked over to the Trash Can and was prepared to take his leak right there on the spot! Of course, the teacher immediately stopped him and took  him to the office where he proceeded to get suspended.

[Lildrummaboy66]

This is truly pitiful! The thing about it is, parents will be ready to hang all teachers because of the actions of one!

[B3Wannabe]

This is truly pitiful! The thing about it is, parents will be ready to hang all teachers because of the actions of one!

....and the reverse is the case about the homeschooling issue in CA. I'm extremely offended at someone thinking they need to monitor me, because I may hurt my kids.

[Fingers!]

It won't stick. You don't make policies based on exceptions. If that's the case one could say all blacks should be finger-printed, just in case we commit a crime. They do have a lot of us in jail, no?

At the moment, that's not far-fetched.  I know this article is in UK but we've been copying each others' laws lately:

 Put young children on DNA list, urge police

[B3Wannabe]

At the moment, that's not far-fetched.  I know this article is in UK but we've been copying each others' laws lately:

 Put young children on DNA list, urge police

[gtrdave]

Minority Report, anyone?

[sjonathan02]

Minority Report, anyone?

Great movie!!

[gtrdave]

Great movie!!

Yeah but a little frightening to think of as reality. 

[recee]

 I WAS Homeschooled and it was the best thing my parents every did... i even gradutated out early!!!

[sjonathan02]

Yeah but a little frightening to think of as reality. 

Only if you have bad thoughts that you're contemplating putting into action.

[themidiroom]

IDK, sometimes, when teachers cay crap like this, its to blow off a wolf-crier. Im almost willing to bet the teacher wasnt serious, because they thought the child wasnt serious. Oh  well, they'll be looking for a new career.

I also found it somewhat disturbing that the article says that everyone(including the teacher) just watched.  When I was in the sixth grade and you wanted to be excused to the restroom, you had to get a pass and you had a timeframe to return.  If you didn't come back soon enough, someone would come looking for you.