Restroom policy for middle/high school?

Question

The restroom pass system did not work very well for me. I would give them a certain number of passes per grading period, but when they used them up, they would come and beg me to go, stressing what an emergency it was. If I don't let them go, they just whine and drive me crazy until I do. (We do not have very good discipline at our school, and if I have any problems, I have to deal with them myself. So, if I punished them for whining and they didn't respond to my punishment, there would be nothing I could do. The administration does not do much to help.) Can anyone suggest a restroom policy that would work?

Answer 1

Instead of them just being good for restroom passes, (which everyone would like to use up either way) make they double as extra credit, or a way to make up missing assignments.  In middle school and especially high school they know they might need some extra credit later on.  Most kids will save them because a lot of the time they can just wait.

Answer 2

Students need to learn how to plan so that they have a time between classes to g to the restroom. So, for example, if they don't need to return to their locker to get books, then they can go to the restroom. They should try being a teacher. I go before school starts at 8:05 and then I cannot go until 11:45 when I go to lunch. You have to learn to cope. Btw, they only whine because they know you will eventually give in. I would go to the principal and have the principal make a school wide policy that will be the same in each class.

Answer 3

this might cost u a little, but it will help u.

give out points or tokens for everytime the students turn in homework, behave, etc.

At the end of the month or something, they count up their points and u can have like an auction for prizes, extra credit, or homework pass.

however, they have to give up points or tokens(maybe like 5-10 depending on the offense)  whenever they misbehave, have to go to the bathroom, or not do their work.

Hope you figure something out :D

Answer 4

I used to substitute for junior high and I just didn't let them go. Of course, I was only there temporarily. I would suggest that you maybe create a classroom checking system and charge them for using the bathroom. Start them off with a certain amount of points and take away points when they use the bathroom, turn in things late, come late to class, etc. I would also give them points when they go a quarter without using the bathroom or being late, and points for each assignment turned in on time. It would take some planning to create, but I think with kids that have discipline problems, they need positive reinforcement and reality check because they don't get them at home.

Answer 5

I've had teachers stick firmly to the policy of only going to the bathrooms during locker breaks and such. That worked about 50% of the time.

I've had others have one male and one female pass that you could take. When you took one though, you had to sign out and if your name was signed repeatedly and it was an issue, you wouldn't be allowed to go. That worked better than most I saw.

Answer 6

Hi I am a student and our school system offers 1 bathroom per teacher per week.

Answer 7

I have a sign out sheet at my door.  Students are told on the first day, "Three people per class may leave the room to go to the restroom.  You may sign out ONE TIME PER WEEK, so if you pee on Monday, you'll have to hold it the rest of the week!  Sign out when you leave, and sign back in when you return.  DO NOT ASK ME!  You may go once you are working on your own, NOT when I am talking or we're having a discussion.  I check the list on Friday.  If you have been out more than once during the week OR if you were the fourth person out for a day, you lose ALL restroom privileges for the rest of the 9 weeks."  

This policy is also put in the syllabus and the parents and child have to sign it.

When the first person breaks the rule, I put a red paper on the wall with all names who have lost privileges.  Anyone who goes after they've lost privileges is sent to the office.

Answer 8

At my old middle school, we had a restroom policy that worked out pretty well. Students could only go to the restroom 15 minutes after class began, but they couldn't go 15 minutes before class ended. Students we also restricted to 3 minutes at the most in the restroom but that was because the restrooms were across the hallway. i also suggest having a boys and girls hallpass so that if someone is already in the restroom, no one else can leave.

Answer 9

for older kids, you could still use a point system or what my teachers did was kept a sign out sheet in the room. it was there until it ran out of places to put names. if your name was already on the sheet, you couldn't go. also, more than one boy and more than one girl wasn't let out of the room at a time.

also, if they switch classes, give them a monthly pass. that's what we did in middle school. we got one pass for the month with slots for teachers to sign when we used the restroom. if you lost the pass, you didn't go. if a teacher saw you went last class, they wouldn't let you go.

Answer 10

It's hard to control when you have to pee, if they are truthful when they say they have to go they should be able to go, and return to the classroom right when they're done

Answer 11

My teachers make us write down when we go to the bathroom, allow us three to four minutes, and then we write down when we came back. Another thing they stress is that only a few number of students are allowed to leave during the entire class (maybe three or four). That kind of fuels other students to stop the kids that are always going to the bathroom just to loiter around. Also, if we have too many bathroom trips in a week or a month, we aren't allowed to go ever again for the entire semester.