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Not to mention the fact that Mrs. White isn’t qualified to teach.
She should be required to take a remedial English course.
“I have went”? please. It’s “I have gone”, Mrs. White. 

first, my kid would not sign anything without me seeing it first. 2nd, upon seeing it i would be at the superintendant’s office the next morning.
then we would speak to the teacher.
black folk gotta nip it in the bud.

Dont let your children be controlled like this. I remember back when I was in school my mom always told me “if you really need to use the bathroom or attend to an emergency and the teacher won’t let you, then just leave the classroom and I’ll deal with teacher and principle”

Mom had my back

If I was this kid I would use up those passes and then just fuckin’ throw up or get a severe nosebleed in the classroom and then refuse to leave because “sorry, I can’t go to the nurse, I already used up my two passes for the fucking MONTH”

There was a student at my high school, who we will call John Doe, who actually did that. When teachers gave him a limited number of bathroom allowances (usually 3 per semester, which was the standard at my school), he would use them in the first week, and then induce vomitting my eating rotten food he found around the school garbage cans. If teachers refused to let him go, he would just throw up on something they had to touch. Light switches, keyboards, whatever was available.

Instead of making admin do anything about this toxic policy, they just doubled down harder, to the extent that one girl politely informed a teacher that she felt like she might be about to have a seizure and could she go to the nurse, please. She was denied, sat back down at her desk, and promptly passed out and concussed herself on the concrete floor when she fell. 

Another girl had severe vertigo-induced fainting, could not get a teacher to excuse her from a phys ed class, and fell off a monkey bars and split her head open, and nearly lost an eye because her glasses broke when she landed.

A student with, I believe, diabetes had a severe blood sugar drop and tried to eat a candy bar in a class with a “no food or drinks” rule. The candy bar was taken away, and she had to be taken out by EMTs. 

This kind of human rights abuse in public schools is not new. I graduated a full decade ago. 

I’m glad it’s being publically discussed again, (briefly around 2003-2005 this was also a popular subject of discussion). I hope that this time, concrete changes in policy are actually affected.

if i were this kids parent i would be reminding ms white that contracts signed by a minor are not legally binding so fuck your hall pass

do american schools not have a concept of “reasonable adjustments” for sick and disabled students?

They say they do but it depends on if you bring the papers for it and even then ..depends on the good graces of the teachers/if ur parents make a big enough stink about it. I had a asthmatic friend pass out during p.e bc they forced us to run laps in the heat all day and despite knowing he had asthma they just ignored his pleas

Even then. Most humans use the bathroom at similar intervals and u can hurt yourself holding in waste and obviously trying to hold in your waste is a huge distraction. It’s pretty fucking obvious which people go to the bathroom constantly to just avoid class and even if they do like..just let them fail Jesus Christ. I shouldn’t have had to get my therapist to write me doctor’s note so I could use the bathroom in one of my classes in 11th grade. Public school is so controlling and u wonder why we all come out this way

America sure is really fucking close to being a dystopian land

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