{"id":657,"date":"2004-02-18T20:36:51","date_gmt":"2004-02-19T01:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/02\/no_permission_to_pee\/"},"modified":"2004-02-18T20:36:51","modified_gmt":"2004-02-19T01:36:51","slug":"no_permission_to_pee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/no_permission_to_pee\/","title":{"rendered":"No Permission to Pee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boy, I wouldn&#8217;t fare very well at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyjournal.com\/news\/stories\/20040217\/localnews\/425919.html\">this school<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Under a new policy at the Lawrence Middle School, seventh- and eighth-graders are allowed to leave class for the bathroom a maximum of 15 times a month. As a result, some are afraid to use up their bathroom passes too quickly and end up with a full bladder and nowhere to go.<br \/>\nSchool officials defend the policy as a way to ensure safety, security and order. But some parents say the system goes too far. The right to go to the bathroom, they say, is a health and civil rights issue and as taxpayers, they think it is a freedom they pay for.<br \/>\n&#8220;When my son Matthew used all his passes, he was then told he couldn&#8217;t go to the bathroom,&#8221; parent Susan Gregory said in a published report. &#8220;We called the school and were told the bathroom is a privilege, not a right.<br \/>\n&#8220;This is utterly ridiculous. Now my son doesn&#8217;t want to go to the bathroom at school,&#8221; she said. &#8220;He says he won&#8217;t drink or he&#8217;ll hold it until he gets home. This can&#8217;t be healthy.&#8221;<br \/>\nUrologists say the practice can lead to infections and incontinence.<br \/>\n&#8220;Common sense tells you the policy doesn&#8217;t make any sense,&#8221; said Dr. Christopher S. Cooper, an associate professor of urology at the University of Iowa who specializes in pediatric urology. &#8220;When children need to go, they should be allowed to go. It isn&#8217;t good to hold it in or drink less fluids. It could have long-term effects on a child&#8217;s health.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The school reportedly adopted this policy because of bomb threats and students cutting class.  Bomb threats?  I don&#8217;t quite follow the logic.  I just hope the brains at the Department of Homeland Security don&#8217;t pick up on this as an effective way of combating terrorism.  I don&#8217;t want to have to hold it every time we go to code orange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/no_permission_to_pee\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to No Permission to Pee\"><p>Boy, I wouldn&#8217;t fare very well at this school: Under a new policy at the Lawrence Middle School, seventh- and eighth-graders are allowed to leave class for the bathroom a maximum of 15 times a month. As a result, some are afraid to use up their bathroom passes too quickly and end up with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}