Mum sues school after son, 8, ‘forced to wet himself in class and made to wear bin bag for rest of day’
AN ANGRY mum is suing a school for allegedly forcing her son to wet himself in class and then making him wear a bin bag for the rest of the day.
Sonia Mongol’s boy, eight, was also allegedly offered a classroom rubbish bin to pee in, but feared “exposing himself in front of all the other students” at a US primary school.
A survey of school nurses by the Society for Women's Health Research found that policies about using the loo during class time vary across American schools.
Only half of the 362 nurses quizzed said pupils were able to use the toilet freely - as long as they were given permission by teachers.
Other schools expected pupils to wait until break times to go to the bathroom.
But, The Atlantic said, school toilet rules appeared to show scant regard for bladder health.
And school nurses agreed - saying that break periods between lessons gave too little time for students to use the toilet.
In Texas, Houston mum Candy Mejia told NBC that her young girl had to carry a 20lb school bag to lessons, "so there's no time to go to the bathroom between classes.
"I've told her it's not good for her body to skip the bathroom when she needs it."