Teacher May Be Suspended After Student Urinates In Closet

[matcom]

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CLEARWATER, Fla. -- A teacher has been recommended for suspension after she did not allow a student to use a restroom, resulting in the student urinating in a trash can in a classroom closet, school officials said.

Clearwater High School teacher, Lesley Campbell, violated the school district's policy that prohibits a teacher from making inappropriate remarks to a student or "exposing a student to unnecessary embarrassment or disparagement," district officials said.

Clayton Wilcox, superintendent of Pinellas County schools, says Campbell, 64, should be suspended without pay for 10 days.

"Her decision-making process wasn't appropriate in the classroom," Wilcox said. "Certainly the student did some things that were highly inappropriate, but my focus is on the behavior of the employees and then, separately, on the students."

Campbell said when she told the junior he could not use the restroom Nov. 17, he suggested urinating in the can. Her reply, "Go ahead."

"I didn't let him go, but I should have," Campbell said. "Surely, I never thought he would use the trash can. It was astonishing. By the time he had grabbed the can and headed for the closet, I didn't feel comfortable approaching him."

Campbell, an English teacher, has requested a hearing on her recommended suspension.

She has taught at the school for 20 years.

It was not known if the unidentified student was disciplined.

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[Babette]

1. Heck, when I was teaching the super himself

told us to tell the kids to pee in the corner! Too many problems with every kid needing to go to the bathroom every five minutes - either to sneak a smoke or just wander the halls. Eventually there was so much vandalism in the bathrooms that admin changed policy so no one could go to the bathroom during class. If there was an emergency, we'd call the office and the principal or dean would escort the kid to the bathroom and watch everything they did. Even after that we still had goofballs who thought they could get out of class!

[philosophie_en_rose]

2. Teacher was wrong, but the student was also wrong.

I don't think that it's fair to keep kids from using the bathroom when they need it. It's cruel and unfair.

However, I also don't think that a junior in high school can't manage to go before class or wait until after class. The teacher's mistake was being flippant, when she should have forbidden him to use the can.

[Redstone]

3. When you gotta go, you gotta go. (Somebody had to say that, yes?)

Dumb teacher.

Redstone

[Robb]

4. So the kid decides to teach teacher a lesson

And teacher gets suspended.

Lesson? "I can do what I want."

Brilliant. :eyes: