An elementary teacher in Texas is currently on leave after she allegedly revoked bathroom privileges for her entire first-grade class, and some students ended up wetting themselves and going home with soiled clothing.
On Wednesday, students in Ashley Barrera’s first-grade class allegedly began misbehaving in the hallway at Bartlett Elementary School in Conroe, a city of 103,000 residents about 40 miles north of Houston. In reprisal, Ms. Barrera reportedly took away their bathroom privileges in apparent defiance of the district’s Student Code of Conduct.
‘There was a puddle of urine under the chair that nobody came to help with, and nobody came to clean her up for the remainder of the day.’
A report from KPRC, which can be viewed here, indicated that students may have been denied access to the bathroom for up to three hours between lunch and afternoon dismissal. During that time, multiple students “ended up peeing on themselves,” according to a message Barrera reportedly sent to parents later that day.
In the alleged message, Barrera apologized for the incident but also seemed to suggest that the students were somehow in the wrong.
“I had talk [sic] with the students about how…
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