School Makes Kids Use Buckets for Toilets

[rodeodance]

No one can be this stupid can they?



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060417/ap_on_re_us/immigration_classroom_buckets;_ylt=AlbGUDc9iSoMWquOcyWLIGGs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3b2NibDltBHNlYwM3MTY-
School Makes Kids Use Buckets for Toilets

20 minutes ago

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - An principal trying to prevent walkouts during immigration rallies inadvertently introduced a lockdown so strict that children weren't allowed to go to the bathroom, and instead had to use buckets in the classroom, an official said.

Worthington Elementary School Principal Angie Marquez imposed the lockdown March 27 as nearly 40,000 students across Southern California left classes to attend immigrants' rights demonstrations.

Marquez apparently misread the district handbook and ordered a lockdown designed for nuclear attacks.

Tim Brown, the district's director of operations, confirmed some students used buckets but said the principal's order to impose the most severe type of lockdown was an "honest mistake."

[saigon68]

1. WOW Now when they go to WAR

They will know how to SHIT in a bucket !!!

[Orangepeel]

2. so peeing in a bucket will keep me safe in a nuclear war? who knew?

I'm really glad I'm not in high school anymore.

[rodeodance]

3. Interesting--they must have buckets available.

...."When there's a nuclear attack, that's when buckets are used," Brown told the Los Angeles Times. The principal "followed procedure. She made a decision to follow the handbook. She just misread it."

A message left by The Associated Press for the principal at the school before business hours Monday was not immediately returned, and Marquez did not return telephone calls from the Times.

Appalled parents have complained to the school board. Brown said the school district planned to update its emergency preparedness instructions to give more explicit directions.
....

"There was no violence at the protests, so this was based on w

[Gman]

4. The lockdown was an honestly

incompetent mistake.

I love teachers. They educated my kids. The vast majority are bright and driven to educate our kids. But I swear there are some that are dumber than dirt and are teaching because they can't fnd a decent job in the private sector because of stupidity or whatever. This woman probably falls in this category.

[rodeodance]

6. she was the Principal, -Peter Principle=WH

[saigon68]

10. "HEY ANGIE" you're doing a hell of a job

I wonder who held the roll of toilet paper so they could wipe themselves

Maybe they just let the 1st graders "DRIP DRY"

[truthisfreedom]

5. what, she phoned in the lockdown from the local bar?

how could she not realize what was going on in her own school?

[tanyev]

7. So...how does peeing in a bucket keep you safe from the nuclear attack?

[Akoto]

8. Probably in the same way that hiding under your desk does.

That is to say, it doesn't. :P

[Strawman]

9. Was this Flatpoint High?

Sounds about that absurd.

[DesertRat]

11. where's the teacher's union?

No way would I allow kids to be peeing and defecating in buckets in my classroom!

[Ilsa]

12. Did the kids have any privacy when using the buckets?

What a humiliating ordeal.

I hope this principal understands that will henceforth be remembered for her incompetence and lack of common sense.

Why didn't the other teachers try and stop her? I wonder if they despise her for other reasons and was hoping she'd screw up and get the boot.

[Bushies gotta go]

13. Incredible

Exactly how many elementary students did she expect to join a protest? Did anyone tell her that this is pretty much limited to older students?

This woman needs to have both her Principal and Teaching certificates yanked, then be fired and blackballed from education. A Mere "she misread so we'll forgive" doesn't cut it. Where the hell is the outrage in this community?

[anotherdrew]

14. the "honest mistake" was mindlessly following such an assinine directive

everyone involved needs their damn heads examined.

[brentspeak]

15. The mistake was letting this person become principal in the first place

[anotherdrew]

16. so... all classrooms are equiped with piss-buckets now? how 21st century!

shame on you Angie Marquez

[ConcernedCanuk]

17. The United States of America - the NEWEST 3rd world country

.
.
.

my, my

what a progressive nation you are

[NYC]

18. Why was she so willing to comply such a drastic lockdown?

Even if she thought it had been ordered, why didn't she resist?