Student suspended for "relieving himself" in class

SACRAMENTO, California (AP) -- School officials on Monday suspended a 14-year-old boy who said he had to urinate in a bottle after his science teacher refused to let him use the restroom. The teacher was being transferred to another school.

The link to the CNN Story: http://www.cnn.com/2007/EDUCATION/05/01/classroom.urination.ap/index.html

"I can't believe they don't believe me," student Michael Patterson said in a telephone interview after he was given the five-day suspension. "I have no reason to lie. What I said happened, happened."

The suspension notice said he was barred from class until May 8 for "relieving himself in the classroom, which caused a school disruption."

Patterson said he went into a corner of the classroom on Tuesday and urinated into an empty Gatorade bottle after his teacher repeatedly refused to give him a pass to use the restroom and threatened to have him suspended if he left the classroom.

"He said, 'Do what you got to do,"' Patterson said. "I said, 'I've got a bottle' and he said, 'Go in the corner.' So I just handled my business."

The teacher, Peter Stanzler, has been placed on paid leave and was being transferred from Goethe Middle School to another school, said Marcus Walton, a spokesman for the Sacramento school district. He said officials were finishing up an investigation Monday.

Stanzler, reached by telephone late Monday, said that news accounts of the incident have been one-sided, but that he was advised by his principal and union not to discuss it.

"I can confirm one thing," he said. "It was not a race issue whatsoever."

The boy's mother, Kelly Jacko, and the local chapter of the NAACP have demanded that the district fire him. Patterson is black and Stanzler is white, but Jacko said she had had no indication that the incident was related to race.

Jacko said she didn't know what recourse she had to protest the suspension, which begins Tuesday. "I don't know what it is I can do," she said. "I'm kind of caught off guard."

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lol, thats bad really :|:| i hope he does get sacked

 

Yeah... I never understood the whole deal with teachers denying permission. Happened so much throughout grade school rofl. I would've just left the classroom.

When I first read the topic title, I thought a student had relieved themselves in some other way which would definitely be good grounds for suspension.

 

i would of done the same thing lol idc

 

^ hahaha. It happened to me last year.. I just walked out like you said.

 

Peeing in a bottle? Hardly intelligent discussion.

Moved.

 

LMFAO. Thats sad. That happened to me and I called my teacher gay, and she took it!

 

That is pretty messed up, if I was in that situation, getting denied to leave class to go urinate, and the teacher was being an ass to me, I would have urinated on the teacher, just to prove a point.

 

i piseed onh my teachers cabinet when he didnt let me go rofl

 

Wow that sucks bad. That teacher should defiently get fired. If I were that kid I would just walk out of the room, and if I were stopped by the teacher then, dunno.

 

paid leave , what a fucking disgrace the scumbag of a teacher should be tied up and ;let me and hundreds of other uikrainian basatrds spunk all ove his fucking face.

 

Lol i walked out one time.. didnt go over to well cuz my school is just stupid.
Btw JayBurnz you might wnana take it down a bit jeeze.

 

That is retarded.. I would have held it until it exploded and I had to go the hospital. I would have then had that teachers paychecks for the rest of his unnatural life. Denying restroom breaks is feasable, unless the student isn't interupting anything. and even then, they have to allow it. He can simply say "I felt like I would have peed my pants, and then I would have smelled, and been sent to the office, and made even more fun of. But instead I took a intellectual action in urinating in a closable container." If it were me, that teacher would be forced to pay me for "Social Scarring" mainly because I would say media coverage of my penis has led me to not having a social life, and makes me look disabled. .

 

lmfao thats hilarious, i hope the guy gets fired

 

Why don't people just go in their pants!

 

lolol

 

I go to the school that happened at - or used to.

Anyways, he should've let him. If I had the choice, I would've flipped him a birdie and left the classroom.

 

haha nice

 

Then you punch the fucker in the nose and leave.

 

yea again rofl;