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First day of maternity leave.

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  • Do people thinks it's wrong I don't allow loo breaks in lesson time?
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Depends on the age of the child, the length of the class and the opportunities to go between classes.  I can imagine having kids go in the middle of class would be disruptive.   I guess it's up to you to judge the likelihood of having a mess to clear and a humiliated child as against a child trying it on.   
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  • Joyce21Joyce21 Posts: 15,489
    I am a retired secondary school teacher and would allow a girl out to the toilet in the morning as sometimes the toilets were so busy at the interval that they didn't have time to go. Girls don't seem able to "hold on" as long as boys can.
    SW Scotland
  • Joyce21 said:
    I am a retired secondary school teacher and would allow a girl out to the toilet in the morning as sometimes the toilets were so busy at the interval that they didn't have time to go. Girls don't seem able to "hold on" as long as boys can.
    Is that not a bit sexist?
  • Obelixx said:
    Depends on the age of the child, the length of the class and the opportunities to go between classes.  I can imagine having kids go in the middle of class would be disruptive.   I guess it's up to you to judge the likelihood of having a mess to clear and a humiliated child as against a child trying it on.   
    10 and 11. They never go more than a couple of hours with a break.
  • Joyce21Joyce21 Posts: 15,489
    Is that not a bit sexist?

    No.  It's a fact.
    SW Scotland
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    When I was at secondary school a girl would never have been told they couldn't go to the loo ... although the teacher might sometimes ask you to wait until she'd finished covering a particular piece of information.  I really don't recall any girl taking advantage of the teachers by asking unnecessarily ... in fact some teachers didn't expect us to ask permission ... just to get up and leave the room quietly and return quickly in the same manner as would happen as an adult in the workplace.



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  • Pauline 7Pauline 7 Posts: 2,246
    Older school girls may well have to the toilet more often than boys due to mother nature. 
    West Yorkshire
  • Joyce21 said:
    Is that not a bit sexist?

    No.  It's a fact.
    What I meant was didn't boys complain if you let girls go?
    I only let them if they have medical reason. I cannot say I have ever noticed any difference in holding ability between genders.
  • Secondary Maths here and also expecting a baby. I'm working until the Easter break and it really is exhausting.

    Last Sunday I was outside digging and planting when i should have been marking assessments. I got the marking done in the end but I was up in the middle of the night finishing it. I can't wait to spend more time in the garden before baby comes.

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