The fed-up principal of a Colorado elementary school has had some second thoughts about forcing students to look inside a soggy bag of human feces and urine. I guess that's good news?
He's defending the exercise by reminding everybody that he did make students wear gloves before handling the mess (wait, they handled the bag?). He also required them to wash their hands afterwards. But, if you're like me, you're asking yourself ... why the human fecal matter in the first place? Is this an instance of "real science" gone too far?
No.
Peyton Elementary Principal Michael Auclaire wanted to make a point about being neater in the bathroom. He and the janitorial staff were tired of frequent messes in the girls bathroom, most likely left by the fourth- and fifth-graders.
From the Colorado Springs Gazette:
While his intention was to get the kids to understand how
inappropriate it was to defecate on the floor or a toilet seat, or to
leave a bag of excrement, he said Tuesday that making the students
handle the bag of waste "was not the best thing to do."
"So today I went in and apologized to the kids, and I wrote a letter to apologize to their parents," he said.
Of course there is outrage among parents (and probably the kids who have stopped gagging, too). The principal later said he thinks the messes are being made by a troubled student and that they would monitor the bathrooms better from now on.
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