This teacher may be a potty pooper.
An educator is being dumped on online over a cruel and unusual policy in which she apparently only allowed her students to use the bathroom three times a month.
The bladder-busting measure was outlined in a note the unidentified teacher had issued to pupils, per a Reddit post currently blowing up online.
It’s yet unclear what prompted the measure, although it was presumably to combat the epidemic of students treating classrooms as revolving doors.
According to the leaked message, “titled bathroom ticket” students were allotted “three tickets a month” which they had to hand in every time they used the bathroom.
The advisory stipulated that leaving the classroom sans permission “automatically uses” one of these lavatory ration cards.
Meanwhile, the professor will check the loo user’s name off and keep tabs on how long they’re gone, per the Draconian-seeming pooping policy.
And don’t try hoarding these poop passes a la a prison commissary. “You may not use another classmate’s ticket and these tickets do not roll over,” the note warns.
The Redditariat didn’t take too kindly to the constipation-inducing policy with one incensed poster writing, “Just walk out. What are they gonna do? Tell your parents you went to pee?”
Another suggested, “Pick a corner, any corner, and that’s the piss corner now. Make sure the whole class knows.”
Other users shared accounts of similarly barbaric bathroom policies.
“My second grade teacher just HATED me,” recalled one Redditor. “I ended up peeing myself one day because she wouldn’t let me go to the bathroom. Then when my VERY angry mother showed up to school she tried to tell her I did it on purpose to be disruptive.”
Another recounted, “I had a teacher, 3rd grade, who hated me so much that even when I was waiting to use the restroom (there was a line for it) she allowed ANYONE to go in front of me. Recently over that summer, I was in the hospital with constipation. If anyone wants advice with this, just go to the restroom. It’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission.”
Fortunately, in some instances, the pee police received their comeuppance in epic fashion.
“Many years ago, when I was an angsty teen, a guy in my maths class asked to use the bathroom and was refused,” said one commenter. “He did not take this well, and ended up walking to the front of the class and pissing into the wastepaper bin next to the teacher’s desk, in front of everyone.”
They added, “The teacher was not happy, and the kid would later be occasionally laughed at by his peers for it, but the school definitely eased up on the refusals after that show of adolescent dominance….”
Of course, ludicrously stringent school rules aren’t just limited to the bathroom.
In January, a British elementary school was compared to a “concentration camp” after requiring kids to walk with their hands behind their backs and make small talk about preassigned topics.