Bathroom Frequency
I have a student that legit uses the bathroom every five minutes. For context, I teach first grade and we take a bathroom break between every subject so maximum time between breaks is 45 minutes to an hour MAYBE. For students that don’t use that time wisely and decide to go during class time, there is a punishment. Mom felt my punishment was unfair and got a doctors note saying her child gets unlimited bathroom breaks because of a condition. What blows my mind is somehow this condition does not affect him during recess, PE, or any preferred task. He can hold it for hours then, but if we’re doing a reading activity he doesn’t like, it’s in and out every five minutes and mom has told him this is okay. Our school requires that all classroom doors are locked and only adults are allowed to open them. This means I am having to stop instruction every five to ten minutes to go open the door and there’s nothing I can do about it.
If you don’t feel like reading all that, what is a reasonable time I can expect a first grader to wait for the bathroom and what can I do for a child that is only going during non-preferred tasks?