So, the school district I teach in gave out buckets in case of a lockdown to new teachers. If there is a lockdown, no one can enter or leave classrooms until it is lifted. This is their solution to if kids need to go to the bathroom. shit bucket.

A bucket!?! On one hand, if there was an apocalypse and all the bathrooms in the world got wiped out, I would be happy to have it, but I don't think I could go in front of students until it was a true emergency!

And do they include transfer forms for anyone that has to take a shit in front of their class? I mean, seriously, how would you face your students or classmates after having used this?

Sue, they are super great. Cotton. Comfy. Long lasting. I am still wearing ones I bought two years ago and they look fab. I even wore them when I was earlish pregnant and they were comfy.

Honestly, at that age (or now, for that matter) I would have had an accident in my pants before I'd openly take a dump in a bucket in front of the entire class.

Um. And how weird and appalling would that be, to be 13 and having to use the bucket. No one would EVER forget it.

What sort of thing would you have a lockdown for ? Wouldn't the bucket be less exciting than the crazed gunman or whatever?

(Or maybe y'all lock down over all sorts of stuff?)

dump in a bucket

Does that strike anyone else as the title of the next R. Kelly opus?

Oh great, now I'm visualizing the Dave Chappelle spoof video of it.

Does that strike anyone else as the title of the next R. Kelly opus?

SERIOUSLY! Oh man. That's funny.

And do they include transfer forms for anyone that has to take a shit in front of their class? I mean, seriously, how would you face your students or classmates after having used this?

Cashmere, when we had a lockdown at a former school of mine, we were locked down for about 5 hours, even past the normal end of the school day. A girl had to pee in one of the 6th grade classes so the teacher double bagged a trashcan and had her use that. My former students, who weren't even in her class, still would mention it 3 years later. I wonder if they still mention it now that they are seniors?

So. No. I don't know how you face your classmates after.

One of the cool things at my daughter's elementary school is that all the Kindergarten classes have attached bathrooms. Not that it is practical for every classroom, but the Kindergarten teachers are probably happy about it.

I wonder how long it will be before schools are designed with emergency lockdown bathrooms in each classroom.