Not without being hypocritical, no you didn't.
We're talking about kids able to go potty, not whether someone has ever had kids in the school system. Try and stay on topic Mr. Member.
Teacher can tell kids how many times to potty??
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witness23
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Your panties in a bunch their kiddo.
Considering the topic, its a valid question. Besides, I don't think I was talking to you. If Greg chooses to answer the question or not, that's up to him.
I'd have thought that by now you were experienced enough to know the consequences of posting something in a public forum where anyone can reply. Apparently I am wrong, so I will explain it to you. When you post in public, you are talking to everybody who is able to read it. When you want to have a private conversation where you don't want others to reply, you should do that in private, as with a PM (or Private Message). If you need any assistance in using the PM system here at EO, do not hesitate to ask me or any of the other members or moderators for help.
In any event, whomever you thought you were talking to, I was talking to you. Please stay on topic and refrain from personalizing the issues. Whether anyone has or has had kids in the school system is irrelevant to the topic of kids going to the potty at school. Asking that question serves one of two purposes: (a) to change the topic outright, or (b) to use the information found in the answer in a logically fallacy, usually ad hominem or ad verecundiam. If you want to ask those kinds of questions, then you have to be willing to answer them yourself. Otherwise it's hypocritical.
In any event, whomever you thought you were talking to, I was talking to you. Please stay on topic and refrain from personalizing the issues. Whether anyone has or has had kids in the school system is irrelevant to the topic of kids going to the potty at school. Asking that question serves one of two purposes: (a) to change the topic outright, or (b) to use the information found in the answer in a logically fallacy, usually ad hominem or ad verecundiam. If you want to ask those kinds of questions, then you have to be willing to answer them yourself. Otherwise it's hypocritical.
witness23
Veteran Expediter
Nice try Mr. Moderator.
pelicn
Veteran Expediter
Turtle...was this in a different article about the story or what? I didn't see it in the article I read.
The way I read that article was that the kids ONLY had 3 bathroom breaks a week...and that's what I commented on. That would be ridiculous.
Yes, it would be ridiculous. The article is badly written, and the uproar over it is because everyone thinks these kids are allowed to go to the bathroom just three times a week, and no more, while at school. It's, if you will pardon the ridiculous pun, Yellow Journalism at it's finest. If you read it closely, it says the reason for it to limit classroom disruptions. But these wee-wee whiz kids are not imprisoned in that classroom all day long with no options to go to the bathroom. That would also be ridiculous.
Simple logic and common sense tells you that they have opportunities outside of classroom time to go to the bathroom, like at lunch, before school and after school. Most elementary schools (including New York numbered PS districts) usually have a 30-45 minute break in the middle of the morning either for recess or gym class.
The story at the link above, despite it being from an NBC website, doesn't contain any original reporting, and leaves out a great deal from it's source, the original article at the New Your Post.
Granted, the original Post article is written to stir up controversy, a most Post stories are, and fails to fully explain the situation, as well. (You read the story that way because they wanted you to read it that way. Welcome to Bamboozed and Hoodwinked. Imagine how they can do that with politics?) It does, however, at least explain the program is more detail, including at least part of what is contained on the Potty Policy Poster that's hanging in the classroom.
Simple logic and common sense tells you that they have opportunities outside of classroom time to go to the bathroom, like at lunch, before school and after school. Most elementary schools (including New York numbered PS districts) usually have a 30-45 minute break in the middle of the morning either for recess or gym class.
The story at the link above, despite it being from an NBC website, doesn't contain any original reporting, and leaves out a great deal from it's source, the original article at the New Your Post.
Granted, the original Post article is written to stir up controversy, a most Post stories are, and fails to fully explain the situation, as well. (You read the story that way because they wanted you to read it that way. Welcome to Bamboozed and Hoodwinked. Imagine how they can do that with politics?) It does, however, at least explain the program is more detail, including at least part of what is contained on the Potty Policy Poster that's hanging in the classroom.
So the Potty Policy doesn't apply to kids who go during lunch, before classes begin or after school is out, or during recess. Other articles and things like reader comments and Tweets which were dug up because I'm insanely bored shed a little sane light on the subject.