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Going to the restroom in the middle of class
is a God-given American right
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[September 24, 2016]
It
takes a special person to be a good teacher in a rural school.
Unlike the great city amalgamated and homogenized institutes of
lower learning, the rural schools tend not to have teachers who are
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And it’s a mixed blessing, because rural schools sometimes have
to hire someone whose only qualification is a pulse. But there are
those rural teachers who go down in legend for their creativity.
Like John Lewis.
After his first semester teaching at the high school, John
discovered that some of the boys in class … usually the misbehavers,
would raise their hands and ask to go to the john in the middle of a
class session. He suspected, when they returned smelling like
tobacco, that bodily functions weren’t the prime incentive for the
trip.
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So he got a stick and made a big cardboard sign and stuck it in the
closet behind his desk. Then, the very next time someone indicated a
peristaltic urgency, he stood and smiled and addressed the class.
“Everybody up!” he said, smiling. The class stood, looking
dumbfounded at each other. “Since going to the restroom in the
middle of class is a God-given American right, I believe it’s only
fair that we all share a small part of it. So Pete, since you have
asked to go, you get to lead the parade to the restroom. Okay now,
Cheryl, here’s the Potty Patrol sign. You get to carry it. Let’s
go!”
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And with John singing his new Potty Patrol song, they all marched
over to the restroom and waited outside, chanting, until Pete had
finished (in an amazingly short time) and then they all marched back
to class with Pete once again leading the way.
Strangely enough, the restroom trips dropped dramatically in all of
John’s classes.
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