he let the kids use the classroom trash barrel [1]. With classmates of the same gender forming a privacy screen around the children as they relieved themselves, and sanitary wipes on hand to cleanse young tushes and hands, the makeshift latrine worked well and made several bladders and bowels happy during the lockdown.
Unfortunately, some of the parents weren't so pleased with Frandino's act of compassion. One mother, Caron Weldon, even plans to yank her son out of Charlestown Academy because he would have been in Frandino's classroom next year. She even thanked her deity of choice that she got her kid out in time, and claimed that, were she in Frandino's position during an actual lockdown, she would have instead "encouraged" the children "to think of something other than the bathroom."
Yeah, right, Caron. Easy for you to say when things are easy-peasy. Let's see what you think about when a gun-toting crazy is stalking the halls. Would your bladder and bowels focus on anything other than evacuating their contents in typical "fight or flight" instinct? You're going to tell a roomful of squirmy, cross-legged, squeezed-sphinctered fifth-graders that they should think about fuzzy kittens, rainbows and pink balloons, and not rivers of lemonade or mounds of fudge cake, when what they really need to do is release the raging torrents in their bulging bladders and bowels?
If an intruder ever did enter the Charlestown Academy, God forbid, just about every kid and adult would be on the verge of crapping their pants So, shouldn't the drills emulate real-life as closely as possible? I'd say that Frandino resourcefully fulfilled that aim by doing exactly what he would have done in a genuine emergency lockdown: let the kids crap in a barrel.
Frandino has been placed on administrative leave, with pay.
