Time to fire the teacher.

I am more confused about the necessity of this assignment for an 11y.o. What purpose does grading someone's hopes and dreams is? This seems like a pointless display of authority by the teacher from the start.

They do know that these students actually have these body parts are already intimately familiar with them?

Protect the unborn so we can get them later"

Okay, that's flat out corruption. The teacher needs exposing in public, and then sacking.

What's not to love about the American school system? It amazes me that we still have college graduates who can read, write, theorize, and win Pulitzer prizes.

That would be a no from me, mate.

That's so stupid! The teacher apparently doesn't want to teach the kids chemistry but to follow blindly instructions without thinking. That is in fact the opposite of teaching.

Eat an apple. Kill a turtle. Keep things balanced.

Well now. If that's the barrier which stops the *boys* going for a pee in the proper hygenic manner, it seems to me that there's a straightforward solution... I mean, if you gotta go, you gotta go, and those horizontal bars won't stop a stream of fluid passing by.

hope you got em infected

Can anyone explain this sort of nonsense to me? What sort of society thinks it makes sense to limit when children are allowed to attend to natural bodily functions?

I had a teacher tell me I couldn't go to the bathroom during class and I looked them in the eyes and said "You can clean up the blood on the chair then." For the record, we didn't have a break period that day because of a sports event so it had been almost 6 hours since I'd last been to the bathroom.

Or I could just sue you for not letting me use the bathroom-which is a personal, human right-and for giving me a bladder infection. Look, I get that it's disruptive to have people getting up and leaving class. And if you're over a certain age, you shouldn't need a bathroom break every 5 minutes. When you start working your boss is gonna fire you if you're going to the bathroom for 10 minutes at a time every half hour. That's work avoidance. But how about just talking to them about this issue like human beings? Or simply have a 'no coming back' policy. One of my professors got so tired of the up and down of people walking around while he was trying to lecture that he just said that if you need to leave, you aren't allowed back in the room. It's the same policy he has for exams. If you leave the room during an exam, unless you explain it's an emergency and schedule a makeup, then you get graded on what you completed but you can't come back in. It solved the problem.

My school does this but you get like 24 spots.

Apparently kids were "messing around" in the bathrooms so their first thought was "let's deny human rights!"

Go right there in the classroom.

They have it better than us lol

You get three a month? At my school, we get three per semester (aug-dec & jan-may)

Mine only lets me do it 5 times a semester. Also the school makes us use an app that if you are out of class after making a pass for longer than 7 minutes it makes a warning and alerts the office.

Appalling.

Reason #87 why kids are disengaged and just want to stare at their phone.

getting used to unpaid leave

I guess this makes sense if the pupils were taking advantage and it was becoming very disruptive. On the other hand, I have a stoma which can be unpredictable - as would any students, and girls have periods which may meed more than three bathroom breaks.

I don’t get it. Don’t schools have cameras around hallways? Won’t it make sense to deal with each student who uses excuse to use the bathroom for something else? That would happen in our school. But no way my kids won’t have a right to go to the bathroom when they need to. Unimaginable.

Just about excusable if there were explicit instructions not to use staples but instead use a tag (what they called "treasury tags" in my youth). Otherwise, the teacher needs reprimanding.

That looks utterly revolting 🤢

This is when your essay immediately becomes a future TED talk about how censorship and limitations on circulation of information hamper academical research.

well, the pedantic teachers have taught the kids well - peanuts aren't 'nuts'.

Yes, pls, thanx.

You see this quite a bit with fields of study that are either new, or prone to regular changes. In both cases, they don't want you reselling the books, because in both cases, there's no guarantee that each year's textbook is going to be the same. Saw that happen with my environmental engineering textbook when I was going for my degree. Hell, halfway through the semester, our professor had to have us completely ignore two whole chapters of the text book because the standards that were presented there, had changed, and those processes could no longer be used.

I can understand because this was probably happened right when everything got shut down and the demand suddenly skyrocketed

looks like soemone scammed that school

In grade school one teacher would make us do this with words we weren't supposed to say. Which once lead to me writing ORGY hundreds of times. I'm not sure she really thought that through enough. :)

You've got to start them early on the 'buy this and get this free'. They don't want anyone figuring out what a c**p show that is.

Ah yes, Greenland, the island of green meadows.

my school does this garbage , too. Admin and staff received 6% raise/teachers nothing (for last 3 years); at Christmas teachers receive a card for a $50 for ham (sorry if you're Jewish or Vegan...just give your card to someone else we would value!)

My high school's art class was like this after they cut the art department's budget. There used to be multiple art classes (drawing, crafts, photography, painting), but my senior year they just offered one ("Art"). No art supplies beyond some cheap paper and a box of broken coloured pencils, and not enough desks or chairs, so a good chunk of the students sat on the counters, tables, on desks, and on the windowsills. Our teacher (Goldie, she was a saint) had a nervous breakdown like 2 months into the school year and they never hired a replacement art teacher, just used subs for the rest of the year. The school did still have 10 working 35mm cameras--Goldie doled them out to the few of us who were actually interested in art and told us to never return them, she would just tell the school they were lost or stolen. I still have that camera.

Given the color of the tiles around the registers, I would be willing to bet that the decision happened around the time the school was constructed. Likely in the 1980's, when those tiles were seen as a viable and cheap ceiling choice, when compared with other options. At the time, they likely never considered hoodlums would be more interested in getting basketballs stuck in the ceiling.

I mean - as long as he checked if everything is correct, it should be okay for a teacher to use chatgpt for such things.

Wow! Bigger gaps than normal! Ffs, the American system is off their nuts! Can't even hide in here if there's an active shooter! F******g disgraceful!

Context is important. Bag checks don't just look at a clear bag. Students must also pass through a metal detector, and around a d**g detection dog. That's because while the backpack may be clear, their clothing is not.