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Boy pees in lunchbox while hiding behind classroom bookcase
The middle school student reportedly did it because the teacher told him to hold it or use her lunchbox. He chose the latter. Was the teacher joking? A school board lawyer says: "I think we clearly know she didn't tell him, 'Go pee in this box,' in the sense of going to go do that. That's beyond our comprehension." (Orlando Sentinel | Central Florida News 13)
March 19, 2008 | Permalink
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It may well be beyond his comprehension, but if the teacher said it, in front of the entire class, and then allowed the child to do it, then "Jameeka" needs to be removed from teaching, period.
Posted by: Violent Acres | Mar 19, 2008 5:42:20 AM
When you gotta go...
Posted by: Lois Lane | Mar 19, 2008 5:50:06 AM
Some teachers act like little Kim Jong-il's. They are the dictator of their classroom and believe what they have to say is extremely important and always right.
When she is fired and ends up working in Walmart, maybe then she'll figure out she's not so special.
Posted by: G-Man | Mar 19, 2008 6:04:04 AM
A dog peed on my friend's lunchbox and I thought it was funny as hell. This beats that by a long shot!
Posted by: twerp | Mar 19, 2008 6:05:31 AM
6th graders, 11-12, are assholes and would do it on a bet to impress their freinds. Whatever the teacher said was carried to the 18th degree and the kid is more guilty that the teacher.
But because she is a Florida Gator, tar and feather her and make her eat McDonald's.
Posted by: Ted | Mar 19, 2008 6:22:40 AM
How do you get a University of Florida Grad off your porch?
Pay for the Pizza.
Posted by: jupiterjim | Mar 19, 2008 6:35:09 AM
What have the classmates said about what happened?
As a 12 - 14 yr old boy...would you REALLY take the teacher literally and piss in her lunchbox? Maybe as a 1st grader...but at his age...? Come on.
If he went behind a bookcase in the class and the teacher did nothing to stop him...that just doesnt add up. If you joke with a kid and say...."hold it or pee in the box"...if the kid went to take the box you'd say something to the effect of "I wasn't serious".
This is just weird. The social decline in the US is frightening.
Posted by: Cherie | Mar 19, 2008 6:37:08 AM
...pee in her lunchbox...
there's something sort of disturbingly freudian about that. what a weird suggestion even as a joke.
Posted by: nellagain | Mar 19, 2008 6:42:41 AM
Quonterius?! C'mon, you just made that up. That made me lol.
Posted by: sometimesilie | Mar 19, 2008 6:51:43 AM
People develop bathroom patterns. Back in the '60's, mine was to go during math class. Math teacher said "No", I went anyway. When I emerged from the bathroom, the teacher was waiting for me. He demanded a note from my parents regarding my behaviour. My father was a veterinarian, and a student of the English language. His letter went into amazing detail, using all the long words dad could find, regarding how the human digestive system works and why. The teacher accepted the note and returned it the next day with a handwritten note on the bottom saying "Thank you for explaining X's unfortunate condition." Stupid teacher had no clue. Fascism is alive and well in the schools.
Posted by: primus | Mar 19, 2008 7:02:53 AM
"As one committed to service to all mankind, scholastic achievement, and the well-being of all persons, I look forward to assisting all my students reach their personal stars,"
by pissing in a box. It worked for "Dick in a Box," why not?
Posted by: jdotglenn | Mar 19, 2008 7:05:35 AM
G-Man, do you really believe she'll get fired? She's part of the teacher's union. She'll get a smack on the wrist and they may put her in a different school, but thats about it.
Posted by: Cherie | Mar 19, 2008 7:20:38 AM
but I don't like peas for lunch!
Posted by: pawprints | Mar 19, 2008 7:43:43 AM
but I don't like peas for lunch!
Posted by: pawprints | Mar 19, 2008 7:46:59 AM
oops, sorry; I have a double.
Posted by: pawprints | Mar 19, 2008 7:47:53 AM
Just goes to show you that there are stupid teachers out there...just like there are stupid cops, stupid politicians, stupid judges...
Maybe Forrest Gump was right on the money!
Posted by: Jack | Mar 19, 2008 7:49:18 AM
maybe this kid was just screwing around like plenty of people I knew back in school when we were that age. Maybe he's hell on wheels and his past bathroom trips are nothing but an excuse to leave the classroom and go nuts. Maybe the teacher is really a jerk. I read both the articles and couldn't find enough info. to make a clear cut case for either. It may be telling though to see how much of a hurry mumzy was to retain a lawyer. Pay me.
Posted by: sometimesilie | Mar 19, 2008 7:58:23 AM
Could have been worse; imagine if he had to go No. 2 instead.
Seriously, what is wrong with some of these teachers today? The hiring practices of the administration should be reviewed.
Posted by: JB | Mar 19, 2008 7:59:02 AM
"Just goes to show you that there are stupid teachers out there...just like there are stupid cops, stupid politicians, stupid judges..."
Um, this is just the DAILY stupid teacher story on this site alone!!!!!....kinda makes you wonder how many moronic teachers activities aren't reported here.
Posted by: jj | Mar 19, 2008 8:03:01 AM
My daughter has irritable bowel syndrome and even though we have told the school and the teachers we have still had fights over her going to the bathroom. I've told her if she really has to go (and when she has to it's right away) to just go and I would deal with the school later.
Posted by: lld | Mar 19, 2008 8:18:03 AM
The teacher could have just been sarcastic. Or she could have been jerking the kid around about going to the bathroom; I remember several petty authoritarian teachers who did similar things back in the day. Or the kid could have been a jokester who decided to take the teacher's words literally. Could be a combination of all of the above.
Posted by: Phranqlin | Mar 19, 2008 8:32:35 AM
>>G-Man, do you really believe she'll get fired? She's part of the teacher's union. She'll get a smack on the wrist and they may put her in a different school, but thats about it.<<
Don't be so sure about that Cherie. She's a first year teacher and has yet to achieve tenure which bestows the full benefits of protection. At least, this is the case in Chicago Public Schools which are *notorius* for keeping on the most incompetent and truly abusive teacher simply because they reached the three year mark that allows tenure per the union contract with the district.
The kid, unless he's borderline mentally handicapped, was clearly testing limits and may get away with it. By his age, most kids use and understand sarcasm quite easily.
And I agree with Nellagain. Pee in my box!
Posted by: andie | Mar 19, 2008 9:26:01 AM
I've told people to go piss up a rope before, but to the best of my knowledge nobody's ever tried it.
Then again, I'm not a teacher.
Posted by: Wolf | Mar 19, 2008 9:26:31 AM
Okay, this is how I see it:
Kids are instructed from infancy to "do as you're told," "don't disrespect [insert authority figure here]," etc.
So, he says the teacher said either do A or do B, and the school does not seem to deny this. Well, based on instruction from the authority figure he's been trained to respect, he made his choice.
That teacher is an idiot in this case, for forgetting that there are kids out there that might take her at her word. I don't know that this is a case for firing, perhaps a bit of a reality check. She may be unaware that there are kids being brought up without learning to think for themselves. I see it all the time here in my subdivision.
Posted by: Soo | Mar 19, 2008 9:59:14 AM
maybe this kid was just screwing around like plenty of people I knew back in school when we were that age.
From interviews with the other kids, the student in question had a tendency to fool around in class a lot. When he asked to go to the bathroom, other students thought he was joking.
Also, I have some names for you to laugh at (got them off of stork bytes):
Girls:
Ta'Laja Da'Mya
Akiah Ka'Myriah
Tracyauma Maria
Jakyrah Nyleasia
Boys:
Quintavious Deonte
Tre'Von Jaedon LeCraig
Antinio Ra'shun
Jar'Tavious Kenarrio
Posted by: Naga Please! | Mar 19, 2008 10:19:58 AM
My daughter's name is Silvara.
After reading those, I am relieved it is so easy to spell.
Posted by: WZ | Mar 19, 2008 10:40:54 AM
"Jakyrah Nyleasia"
dayam! Is there a cure for that? I think I had a friend who had a cousin whose boyfriend had that. He died, it wasn't pretty.
Posted by: sometimesilie | Mar 19, 2008 10:43:42 AM
Naga: and here I felt stupid for naming my kids after European royalty. Well, perhaps maybe I am stupid, because obviously it's much more fun to make up stuff on your own. I lack imagination, apparently. Or weed. It's a toss-up.
Posted by: Soo | Mar 19, 2008 11:27:15 AM
I plan on giving my kids Hebrew and Greek names (depending if they are boy or girl): Persephone, Hermione, Rivka, Absalom, Remiel, Sariel.
The name Tre'Von Jaedon LeCraig kills me. LeCraig? WTF?
What's up with the apostrophes?
Posted by: Naga Please! | Mar 19, 2008 11:31:03 AM
Naga: are you sure you want to go with "Absalom"? Doesn't that just mean he'll grow up long-haired, vain, stupid, and dead at early age?
The apostophes are being incorrectly used as markers to syllable breaks.
However, it is in the US constitution that you can call yourself whatever you want and spell it any damn way you please.
Posted by: nellagain | Mar 19, 2008 2:43:48 PM
Naga: are you sure you want to go with "Absalom"? Doesn't that just mean he'll grow up long-haired, vain, stupid, and dead at early age?
The name means "favored son". So it's not too bad.
The apostophes are being incorrectly used as markers to syllable breaks.
I think it's done more to be different. /shrug
There was an episode of the Tyra Banks show where black women were chastised for refusing to name their kids jacked up names like that.
Posted by: Naga Please! | Mar 19, 2008 3:36:39 PM
Whatever for? Is there any logic in the random apostrophes?
Posted by: Wo'lf | Mar 19, 2008 5:21:33 PM
Kids urinating in lunch boxes, teachers suggesting it and all the while America's kids are getting dumber and dumber.
How about the kids learn a little more discipline and respect for their teachers and teachers learn to act with a bit more professionalism? Maybe then we'd stop ranking so far own the scale in the scope of global education.
Seriously? She told a middle schooler to pee in a lunch box and expected them to NOT do it?
Does she realize how literal those kids are, and how much of what the see and hear they repeat? Is she insane?
I've had kids in my classes that just want to get into the hallways and text message their friends, or go to the bathroom to smoke.
My rules? Either you will have a hall pass and be back in a reasonable amount of time (nothing more than ten minutes), or you do not go. Both of those rules are because I've said so, end of discussion.
Of course the real reason is that those are the school's rules. At the end of the school day, they lock the bathroom doors, so I truly cannot allow a student to leave my classes.
In either case, my classroom, my rules.
We both have a job to do there. Mine to teach, theirs to learn. I respect them, they in turn respect me.
NEVER do I tell them to urinate in the trash cans, or their lunch boxes, its unprofessional and promotes a disruptive learning environment.
I guess I've typed enough on this.
Posted by: Passing Through | Mar 19, 2008 6:50:32 PM
I'm a high school student and once had a kid in one of my class pee in a trash can. Our school has a strict no pass policy and that means no passes unless you are gonna go into labor (Which has happened twice. lol). Anyways... The teacher told him he couldn't go and needless to say the kid whipped it out and did the deed.
Posted by: JQ | Mar 19, 2008 8:24:11 PM
Excellent story showing why "zero tolerance" for anything is a ridiculous policy, JQ.
I was a public school attendee WayBack, and I remember hallways being a great place to get a pounding by the local bully, stairwells being great places for nookie and smokes. However, punishing an entire school population for the stupidity of a few is wrong. Sometimes, you just gotta go.
Posted by: Soo | Mar 20, 2008 5:32:33 AM
"People develop bathroom patterns. Back in the '60's, mine was to go [urinate] during math class."
I never had to pee at a particular time. But I remember in 9th grade always getting an erection in History class, same time every day. And although I enjoy History now, at the time, there was nothing stimulating about it at all. Also, every day on the bus ride home I'd get a boner. Um...yeah. That's why I always had my shirt untucked.
Posted by: Dave | Mar 21, 2008 5:49:59 AM
