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Home : 2003 : October : 31
Perhaps you can speak with your principal, as we have, about having your parents come in to volunteer to do the task for you from time to time so that you can have one day where Johnny doesn't smash his peas in his applesauce! You probably also have teaching assistants in your school. Why not ask your principal if the teaching assistants could come around to each room whenever needed to give you a potty break? I worked in a school like that once. All I had to do was press the call button and ask for an assistant. She'd come over within minutes, and I go leave for ten minutes to clear my head and use the bathroom. I take my kids to the cafeteria where other teachers are having lunch with their kids. I ask the other teachers to watch my students while I leave for the bathroom. My hands are dirty, anyway, and I need to wash them. My feeling is that there should be a law, even for teachers to have a ten-minute break twice a day. I guess they figure that our planning period constitutes a break, but that's one block of time. There's still the afternoon. Whoever failed to make up a law about teachers needing a break needs to come into the classroom and try to do what we do all day long every day.
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