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Outrageous, right?
You shouldn't have to scrub toilets that hard until you're an adult.
The London Daily Mail reports Catherine Saur, an art teacher at Kennelly Elementary School in Hartford, Conn., allegedly has some cleanliness issues. Whenever one of her students had to use the potty, she supposedly made the child clean the porcelain. Thoroughly.
This went for two years, the Mail reports, until some parents had enough. Now Saur is under suspension while school authorities investigate parents' complaints.
Those complaints include horror stories of kids peeing their pants to avoid going to the bathroom and one child who suffered a severe allergic reaction to the bleach he was required to use to clean the toilet.
That child's mother was incensed that her boy was ordered to clean a toilet.
"That's the custodian's job," the Daily Mail quotes her from a meeting at the school.
School district spokesman Dave Medina tells the Daily Mail the district doesn't comment on personnel matters. Saur declines to comment.
Not everyone thinks Saur is a heartless fiend. The Daily Mail reports PTA Secretary Nancy Moreaux spoke poetically in defense of Saur at the same school meeting.
"If you sprinkle when you tinkle," she said, "please be neat and wipe the seat."
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 5)
5-27-2011 @ 2:27PM
Leapy60 said...I can understand the "please be neat wipe the seat" policy. That should be considered everywhere not just school. But to have kids scrub the toilet with bleach everytime they use it is crazy!
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5-27-2011 @ 6:44PM
jan said...Turns out it wasn't bleach, according to Hartford Courant. Believe half of what you read on this story.
5-27-2011 @ 7:30PM
Jennifer said...I don't have children, but if I did, I wouldn't expect them to be cleaning toilets at the school. Isn't that what the Janitor gets paid to do? The school is supposed to educate, not use the children for labor. This isn't even acceptable for detention purposes. (Unless they had some sort of fit in the bathroom and trashed it.)
5-28-2011 @ 10:11AM
K said...trust me kids of today do not do enough and there needs to be more required of them, however, teachers are in a unique sub-culture of our society. I am a certified teacher who has chosen to sub in order to raise my family the way I want to with a flexible schedule. I have had the inside experience dealing with teachers and students of every grade. The majority of teachers are all the same and this story does not surprise me. They are not living in the real world and they think their crap doesn't stink. The way they deal with things is really astounding sometimes. They worry about the pettiest of things and are all so "liberated". Please...they ought to clean the friggin toilets themselves in order to get their PENSIONS they so deserve.
5-27-2011 @ 2:43PM
Please don't breed. said...Oh look, more parents whining about how their 'precious, unique little snowflake' shouldn't have to do any manual labor. Glad to see the trend of raising overly entitled, spoiled brats is still strong.
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5-27-2011 @ 2:47PM
kimcrdr said...you bet "when you tinkle a lilltle sprinkle, please be neat and wipe the seat" be an adult and not a kid hit the toilet not the lid..get it...these are kids we are talking about, I bet if her child had to scrub the toilet she would be pissed.......
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5-27-2011 @ 3:01PM
xtina said...Whining? I don't think so. As one parent said, that's the custodian's job. It is perfectly fine to have a child (your own) clean or do chores at home but its ridiculous for a teacher to make them clean a public restroom.... she crossed the line. I can totally understand wiping the seat if you "sprinkle" but cleaning with bleach.... there's a reason labels say keep out of reach of children! They don't necessarily understand the dangers of such a chemical.
5-27-2011 @ 4:57PM
Julie said...LOL, @ "pissed"!
5-27-2011 @ 7:29PM
jotwinowski said...It is not the job of children to clean public toilets BUT I would love to see everyone who uses a public toilet FIRMLY taught that it is hi or her job to clean up after. I don't know the details so I can only comment in a general sense. It is not the child's job to clean the toilet? Is it the job of the NEXT child who has to use the toilet to clean up after the first???
5-27-2011 @ 2:56PM
poptart said...don't be an ass... this is over the top behavior by an ADHD teacher
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5-27-2011 @ 3:00PM
Andie said...Just taking a shot in the dark, here... you have no idea what ADHD is, do you?
5-29-2011 @ 12:35PM
Cheryl said...I agree. You don't know what ADHD is.
5-27-2011 @ 6:12PM
kelly said...I think it would be OCD not ADHD,,just saying...
5-27-2011 @ 2:59PM
Andie said...Sounds like it could be a case of OCPD. :/
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5-27-2011 @ 2:58PM
CRYSTAL said...I UNDERSTAND TEACHING YOUR KIDS AT HOME TO DO THE BATHROOM POLICY THAT WAY WHEN THEY GET INTO SCHOOL ITS SOMETHING THEY DO ANYWAY. I WOULD NOT EXPECT MY KIDS TO BE SCRUBBING THE TOILET JUST TO USE IT. THEY SHOULD BE LEARNING RATHER THAN CLEANING. ITS NOT THAT THE KIDS ARE SPOILED AND SHOULD NOT CLEAN UP AFTER THEMSELVES. ITS THE POINT THAT BATHROOM IS NOT THEIR JOB TO CLEAN CAUSE THE TEACHER HAS AN ISSUE WITH IT. THAT TEACHER SHOULD HAVE CLEANED IT IF IT BOTHERED THEM THAT MUCH.
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5-27-2011 @ 3:07PM
fsitera said...What about when you go to a bathroom used mostly by adults and see urine all over the seat and floor ? I'd like to see this teacher treat those offenders the same way. I find that people in general are slobs when using public facilities
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5-27-2011 @ 8:11PM
John Davies said...Where does it say anywhere about pissing on the seat in the account of this teacher? She made the kids "clean the toilet". I think she went beyond just punishing boys that pee.
5-27-2011 @ 3:07PM
Tony Whitlow said...This article doesn't mention how old the children were. It would be innapropriate for younger children to be asked to clean the toilet, but I think there would be nothing wrong in asking the older kids to do so. I think the mentality of teaching our kids that it is someone elses "job" to clean up the mess, would the wrong lesson for them. Even though the school has a custodian, he can't be there everytime someone makes a mess of the toilet.
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5-27-2011 @ 3:37PM
Lydia said...It's an Elementary School, so the kids are under 10.You people that actually commend this idiot schoolteacher miss the point. I do NOT send my kids to school for anything else but a scholastic education.I live in Ct so there is more to this story then what is told here.This actual act was just one of the forms of punishment that she inflicted on her kids, and the one that is being publicized the most because he used it more often.It should not be her sole judgement that is used in how to inflict punishment.Why wasn't the principal told about this, or the school counselor? She was just a freaking bully.
5-27-2011 @ 4:55PM
Ace Ventura said...Well, it was in elementary school, which is anywhere from First Grade to Eighth Grade . You do the math, if you can