re: Female student forced to pee in bucket during class wins $1.3M

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Are you saying it was school policy to not let kids go to the restroom?

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The school district’s attorney said that Wolf, a favorite art teacher, thought she had found a way around the school’s no-bathroom-break policy.

In a “lapse of judgment, she thought that was a good idea,” attorney Kathryn Martin told jurors this month, according to the Union-Tribune.

Martin added that although the school had imposed a policy banning bathroom breaks during class time, it expected teachers to use “common sense” when determining whether to enforce it, according to the newspaper.

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