My principal won’t teach the kids to control their bladders.

Ev—Ry feels like a crooked word at our terrorist-free zone school. <br><br>Background: I don’t use the bathroom at lunch with students because I don’t want to be shit-talked on the bus. I work with 5th grade. I’ve been doing this for 3 years now, and we have a really hard time accommodating these requests because we can’t leave the kids unsupervised. <br><br>I do my best to take them at lunch but realistically I only see about half the class, and I don’t want them to throw their food at the monitors so I usually let them go at the end of lunch. <br><br>I apparently let too many kids go at the end last Friday and they matched up with their boy bathroom, who knows what happened, but accident after accident after accident. I was like okay, if you need to go, you do, I will not let your pants get wet. <br><br>I also find out if they just go to the bathroom, apparently they just go hang out and drive the boys crazy. Boys aren’t the only ones who apparently like to do this. <br><br>Letting them go to the bathroom during class also makes it harder to add or subtract kids who we have to keep an eye on. This is not a hard thing. We have terrorist-free zone signs outside, I have them inside to remind them. <br><br>But the principal doesn’t want this, because it’s inconveniencing add or subtract kids. <br><br>Today, to be fair to her, add or subtract kids are really hard lately. They don’t apparently like to be left behind. Overall 13 kids, most with books in hand, walked to the add or subtract classroom because they weren’t honest, they weren’t trustworthy, or they were terroristy. <br><br>The bathroom feels like a prison sentence. I really don’t like it. I really like the kids to go to the bathroom if they have to. We often don’t get to class. <br><br>I really do not like pushing kids to do the right thing, and I really don’t like being an enforcer. I really don’t like being treated like a guard. I don’t know how I’m going to talk to them when I start to get them in 3rd grade. <br><br>I feel so bad for these kids. I wonder what they’re going to be like when I have them 3rd grade, since I have them for 3 years. The only thing I can hope is that add or subtract kids feels like a prison sentence as well so they’ll start being more trustworthy. <br><br>I didn’t sign up for this apparently. I didn’t sign up for this crazy thing.