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Posted: Mon 2:03 PM, Oct 17, 2011
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High School Sets Restroom Visit Limit For Students

Posted Monday, October 17, 2011 --- 2:00 p.m.

EVERGREEN PARK, Ill. (AP) -- Students at a suburban Chicago high school will have to hold it or risk staying after school.

A policy at Evergreen Park High School allows students to leave class three times per semester to go to the restroom. After that, they have to make up any missed class time after school.

Principal Bill Sanderson tells the (Tinley Park) SouthtownStar (http://bit.ly/qWWm4L ) that the policy is designed to make sure that students don't miss valuable class time. He says it deters them from using restroom visits as an excuse to miss class.

Each teacher gets to decide whether to enforce the policy in their classes.

But some students argue that they don't have time to stop at the restroom otherwise because they only get five minutes between classes.

Copyright 2011. The Associated Press.

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  • by Dotknot Location: Madison on Oct 22, 2011 at 07:12 AM
    That is ridiculous. Employers can't pull that Draconian bull and neither should schools. Guess the principal can clean it up if someone pees in class... then pay when the parents sue for human rights abuse. Kids are way too rushed between classes, and having visited Memorial here I can say that their toilet facilities are small and in major disrepair- like doors that don't actually latch. So if you can find a stall that is actually functional and then wait your turn- oh, late for class anyways!! Don't get me started on lack of locker space and having to lug around 50 pound backpacks all day. Treating kids like cattle...
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