Who's in-charge in handling toilet accidents in your school?

ColleenJune · Aug 5, 2011

I work in a K-5 elementary school, so not yet potty trained is seldom an issue. However, accidents are still common - last year I gave out 112 changes of clothes in a school of 400 students (I'm required to track these things). Here's a hint: keep socks in your spare clothing inventory. You'd be surprised how many times a "big kid" will need to change their socks along with their underwear and pants.

mustlovepoodles, RN · Aug 13, 2011

Who's in-charge in handling toilet accidents in your school?

:uhoh3: anybody but me. Seriously. I have on *one* occasion worked the poopy dooty. It was a little 2nd grader who was simultaneously puking and having explosive diarrhea in my clinic. I had already had her change pants twice and we were running out of clothes. What a mess that was! But this was a very rare, one-time-only event. Not that I actually mind pee-pee or poo-poo accidents. But there is only one of me and there are teachers' assistants in every classroom, k-3. If i were to start taking charge of the toileting cleanup I would have a steady parade of suddenly helpless teachers and assistants shoving their little stinkers through my door.

amnesiac1c · Aug 16, 2011

I'm not sure if special ed has some policies that might address that but it's not me. I call parents to come take them home for cleaning up poop accidents. I do keep changes of clothing for tinkle accidents but they have to change themselves.