Bathroom Pass – The Weird Side of the Internet

Bathroom Pass – The Weird Side of the Internet – by Liam Sweeny.

Were you a smoker in the boy’s room? Or girl’s room, for that matter? I sure was. But in high school, not in grade school. If I was in the bathroom in grade school, I had deliveries to make. Now were kids in there socializing? Sometimes, but not much was made of it, especially not as much as one California math teacher made of it.

An unnamed educator set up a policy, or pee-licy – students get one bathroom pass a week, and if they don’t use it, they get extra credit,

Parents are torn about this. Some are saying it’s barbaric, and unfair to kids who have urinary problems. Some support it, saying that it’s extra credit, and doesn’t affect the students’ actual grades. And supporters say that bathroom passes are misused.

I don’t know if this is one of those “get off my lawn” things. I don’t remember the bathroom being as popular as the playground. Yeah, kids talked amongst the stalls, but it wasn’t a jamboree. Most socializing occurred while you were getting blasted in the face with a red ball the texture of which the old timers among us will never forget.

And you know there’s going to be that one kid with superachiever parents that are going to include a catheter with the PB&J and test the literal interpretation of the rule.

So if a kid pees in his desk, is he free and clear? What exactly constitutes a bathroom here? I know this is a stupid (and gross) question – they don’t have desks you can put things in anymore.

But they still have Gatorade bottles. I guess the moral of the story is don’t drink a whole thing of Gatorade. Or don’t screw up so bad in school that you need extra credit to pass

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