‘Everyone knew it was ridiculous’: Preschool teacher reluctantly complies with boss's outrageous bathroom break schedule after a student wets themselves; gets justified when the entire school backs her up

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    Human - Boss: "FROM NOW ON YOU GO EVERY 20 MINUTES. BATHROOM BREAK, THE WHOLE CLASS, EVERY 20 MINUTES." Teacher: "If you say so..."
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    Font - r/r/MaliciousCompliance Posted by u/LeilahAdams 2 hours ago I will report every bathroom break, of course! M OC
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    Font - So several years ago I worked for the worst boss ever! I was working as a teacher at a preschool. I had 28 students in my class, ages 4 - 5. I had no assistant, at any time of the day. So this meant I had to do quite a lot of tasks all at once, by myself.
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    Font - One of these things were bathroom breaks. The bathroom had a half wall, boys on one side and girls the other. This way the teacher can supervise all learners at once.
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    Font - I had a very well oiled routine with my class at bathroom breaks. I'll explain in detail here, if you don't want to read skip to the next paragraph. So I had 2 lines - boys and girls. They lined up at opposite sides so that they could not see into the other
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    Font - toilet. Kids go in 4 at a time. Once you're done you sit on the floor in the doorway until everyone is done. This way I could keep my eyes on almost every child at all times. The doors were always open so I
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    Organism - could run out if needed. I jumped over the half wall if needed. And basically I had everyone within a few meters of myself. This entire routine took about 10 minutes.
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    Font - I did my routine once every hour. Kids could go to the bathroom by themselves in between bathroom breaks. There were no issues. My boss comes shouting into my class one day, a girl in my class has had an accident. She wet herself while on her way to the
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    Font - bathroom. My boss shouted about this girl wetting her pants in front of all my students, who were having free play. The kids were all silent. She screamed at me and I just tried to explain that she was on her way, she just didn't make it and our next
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    Font - bathroom break was in 10 minutes. She continued shouting at me. I waited for her to finish screaming and asked of the child who wet herself had been helped to change. She says no, I have to go do it. I cannot leave my learners unsupervised
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    Font - so I ask of she could please keep an eye on my class while I change the student into dry clothes. She looks me in the eye and says 'NO. YOUR WHOLE CLASS IS HAVING A BATHROOM BREAK NOW. AND FROM NOW ON YOU GO EVERY 20 MINUTES. BATHROOM BREAK, THE WHOLE CLASS, EVERY 20 MINUTES.'
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    Font - I just nodded my head and told my learners pack up time. She said to leave the class as is and go to the bathroom. The kids line up at the class door. Then we walk outside a few meters to the lockers. We line up again,
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    Font - while I collect new clothes. Then we walk to the bathroom and do the routine as above, plus I need to change my student into dry clothes. It was a nightmare.
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    Font - I checked the clock when we left and made a mental note to come back in 20 minutes. And I did. Every 20 minutes. The problem is, the bathrooms get cleaned every 30 minutes so often times we would have to wait outside because the bathroom was wet. Other
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    Font - classes needed to use the toilet, but we were constantly in there. We walked to the toilet and just walked back if no one said they needed the bathroom. By the end of the day, they were so sick of going to the toilet (1pm/ish). The next morning we continued the routine. That meant that
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    Font - sometimes parents came to drop off and there was no one to welcome them or watch their child. Or that parents were still trying to do a hand over and then it's been 20 minutes so it's time for bathroom break. We started our morning circle ring and went to the bathroom. We
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    Font - read a story and went to the bathroom. We had free play and bathroom. Every 20 minutes. Everyone in that school was SO ANNOYED with me. Everyone knew it was ridiculous. But I told them, that's what boss lady said
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    Font - so. That afternoon a schedule was sent out as to when every class may use the bathroom, scheduling the bathroom breaks and cleaning breaks for all the classes. And wouldn't you know it, my class was scheduled for once every 60 minutes! Ha.
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    Font - Tekuzo +1 55 min. ago After reading the entire story the one thing that sticks with me is how incredibly inappropriate it is to give a dressing down to an employee in front of children much less yelling. Did any of the parents complain about their children potentially being traumatized?
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    Smile - TheFilthyDIL +1. 1 hr. ago She'll remember it for the rest of her life, and quite possibly so will her classmates.
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    Rectangle - Wren1101 1 hr. ago +2. Omg poor child! Why are people like that even in education?
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    Rectangle - hkrfluff . 37 min. ago Power trip. Those with a big ego and little control will exercise every last ounce of it to make themselves feel important.
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    Font - wielandmc +2. 1 hr. ago So was it 20 minutes between the end of a bathroom break and the beginning of another bathroom break? As I would have taken that as 20 minutes start to start. That way you can stretch each break to 20.minutes to get the kids through it and just stay in the bathrooms all day.
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    Font - StarKiller99 +2. 27 min. ago I had a similar incident 60 years ago, that I remember to this day. They didn't yell at me or make me wear a diaper. They just called my mom to bring dry clothes.
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    Font - Contrantier +3. 25 min. ago Yeah that b need to be working around children, losing control of herself like that. Doesn't sound good at all. doesn't

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