Is it cruel to make kids clean feces?

Posted 09.30.2005 by Dave

A substitute teacher in a Wichita school has been told not to come back after making some disruptive students clean up a pile of poop that mysteriously appeared in a fourth-grade classroom.

Here's what happened: three students started laughing and acting up after "discovering" a someone's recycled school lunch on the floor in the back of the room. The teacher made them clean it up -- and for that, she got the boot.

Cheryl Ward, who has a kindergartner and second-grader at Gammon, said the teacher's actions could have put the children's health at risk. "There can be hepatitis and all sorts of things spread through human feces," said Ward, an emergency medical technician. "It just doesn't make sense to have children cleaning that up."

First of all, a little poop never hurt anyone. Yes, disease can be spread through human feces, but they don't just magically appear -- the pooper has to have the disease in order for it to be in the poop. Unless any of those kids have hepatitis, there's not as much to worry about. If poop is left to rot then of course bacteria and vermin will thrive; however, a fresh poop won't do much worse to a kid than just make him nauseous.

But here's the more crucial issue: where did the poop come from? The article makes it clear that they don't know if it was intentionally pooped by one of the three, or if some other poor kid had an accident to the great amusement of the class clowns. If it was an accident, the teacher should have been as understanding and non-confrontational so as not to scar the child for life. That's the PoopReporter's way.

But if it were on purpose -- if those little brats had at such a tender age already graduated to turd terrorism -- then by all means they should have been the ones to clean it up. Otherwise, I think it sends a bad life message to kids -- that when they create a big pile of poop, the authorities will be the ones to deal with the aftermath.

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IT WASNT ME (21) -- 09.30.2005

well if one of them did it then hell yeah they should have to clean it up!!

Fart Poopie (1257) -- 09.30.2005

The poor used and abused janitor should have been called to clean it up. The teacher never saw the kids dump it there, so it could have been that someone had an accident and were too embarrassed to report it.
IF, and only IF, the teacher saw the kids take a dump in the back of the class, THEN should they be made to clean it up. In a situation like that, I would take the other students out of the classroom and put them in the gym or cafeteria with some supervisors (vice principal, lunch ladies, who ever is around) then contact the turd terrorists' parents, and make them aware that those little bastards of theirs are going to clean up their own feces.

toilet muck (20) -- 09.30.2005

if i absolutely knew who it was i wouldn't really do this, but in a comedic fashion i mould tell them to eat it, then back down if they actually were going to ingest it.

bloody poopreport (not verified) -- 11.10.2005

they should of made the kids sit there the whole day until someone actually addmited

SwampAss (not verified) -- 11.17.2005

Camera's in the classrooms, that's how they could pass the next school levy around here...."(T)Issue 1 ".5 mills allocated for the installation of camera's in all school facilities (each room)(no, not the bathrooms) to insure against all the crap caused by defecating children and the derelict teachers WHO DON'T SEE WHO SHITS IN THEIR CLASS!!!! This will cost the owner of a $100,000.00 parcel $40.00 per year"
Yep, I'll vote for that!
'nshit.