Interesting Links for 01-10-2018

[andrewducker]

You are always allowed to leave

(tags: boundaries advice society )

Ethiopian baboons are domesticating wolves

(tags: monkey wolves )

He Got Schizophrenia. He Got Cancer. And Then He Got Cured.

(tags: schizophrenia immune_system microbiome inflammation )

California has a new law: No more all-male boards

(tags: business equality women )

11-year-old girl forced to sit through classes in blood-soaked clothes after getting first period

There's a teacher who should be fucking sacked.
(tags: school menstruation OhForFucksSake )

A trade expert explains why Brexit is catastrophic

And, because of technical issues, actually gets a decent amount of time to talk about it.
(tags: Europe trade doom uk )

Jeremy Hunt rebuked by Latvian ambassador for saying EU membership is like being occupied by the USSR

(tags: OhForFucksSake Conservatives russia Europe uk )

Comments

[cmcmck]

I'd never had allowed that to happen when I was teaching.

I'm inclined to wonder what gender the teacher was...........

[rmc28]

It was apparently two female teachers saying "so what's your doctor going to do about it" for a girl in her FIRST period. Like, surely there is the idea of letting the body find out its baseline before you start adding unnecessary treatments.

(I think pain relief for the child is necessary; I think hormonal treatments to make her bleeding less inconvenient for the school is excessive and unnecessary.)

[cmcmck]

Which makes it worse especially when we're told and told not to waste doctors' time with unnecessary stuff.

I hope there'll be at least some discipline process here, but sadly, I doubt it.

[naath]

I think she needed a loo break, and making kids who need the loo for any reason jump through hoops in advance to be allowed bodily comfort is just vile, to all children. I don't know why they think it is reasonable to make kids wait and maybe get bodily fluids all over thoir clothes and the school furniture; how is this in any way better than just letting tchem go to the damn loo?

[adrian_turtle]

The first link about "you are always allowed to leave" combines oddly with the one about the girl who was not permitted to leave her class to go to the loo and change a menstrual pad.

[andrewducker]

Yeah, that's systems of control for you.

Telling children they can't use the toilet when they need to seems awful to me.

[danieldwilliam]

I'm not advocating preventing young children from going to the loo if they need to.

But at some point there is a legitimate expectation that most people will turn up to class (or some other form of meeting) most of the time not needing to disrupt it by going to the loo.

What would you suggest is an acceptable pathway from it always being totally fine for a kid to pop off to the loo to some rules where older kids are expected to manage themselve so that they don't need to go to the loo during a class?

[andrewducker]

Sure. If a child consistently asks to go to the toilet in a manner which indicates a behavioural problem then that can be dealt with as an issue.

But that strikes me as something which should be dealt with when it happens, not assumed in advance.

[naath]

If you have an issue with a person going to the loo *every class* then maybe you need a discussion about that. Once is not a pattern of mischievous bunking off; just let them use the loo if they need to. Personally I have ... bladder issues... if I need to go I need to go *now*, and, no, I don't want to explain my health issues in a meeting.

[aldabra]

That looks to me like wolves domesticating babboons, to provide hunting cover, not babboons domesticating wolves.