The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns

Looks like urinating in US schools is a whole different problem from peeing in Norwegian ones.

In the states, the issue is that a classroom trash can was used as a toilet during a lockdown drill:

On Tuesday, Frandino gave the Charlestowne Academy students permission to use the trash can. When a girl used the bathroom, other girls held up jackets to shield the view while other students stood on the opposite wall with their backs turned, school district spokesman Jerry Adams said. Boys also did the same for the boy.

"It's not acceptable," associate superintendent Patricia Yandle told the newspaper.

Duh.

Besides, it was just a drill, you morons. As if the school administration couldn't bend the rules and allow the teacher to take the kids to the bathroom in such an instance to save the kids the embarrassment.

And, in a real situation, hello... that's when you revert to extremes like peeing in a trash can.

Yes, perhaps the teacher was a little hasty considering the lockdown only lasted an hour and was only a drill, but he did have the sense to contact administration to ask them what he should do. I'm not sure what their response was, but the whole problem could have been avoided by just taking the kids to the can, for gosh sakes.

And, if the teacher were to tell the kids that they had to hold it in and wait for the drill to be over, the next thing you know he'd be sued for allowing the children's bladders to burst, or sued for embarrassing the kids who peed in their pants in front of their peers.

Whatever.

You just can't win.