School ends pay-to-go-potty policy for students

Parents complained that the school was punishing kids for needing to use the restroom and causing undue strain on their tiny bladders.

One parent told the TV station that her first-grader had an accident at school while trying not to go to the bathroom.

“I just feel my children should not be punished for having to use the bathroom, even if they didn’t take advantage of a recess break because they may not have been thinking of it. They’re children,” she told KATU.

The school’s principal ended the policy, however, she told KATU it had been helpful in keeping students from overusing bathroom breaks to get out of class.