GA 2nd grade teacher creates “fart corner” for her classroom

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There are no pumps. No convenience store. No windshield squeegees. And, despite what one might reasonably expect, there is no requirement that anyone actually purchase gas.

It is a designated corner of an Atlanta elementary school classroom where students can go when they need to pass ... gas.

Its creator, Candy Sydney-Browning, a 36-year-old second-grade teacher, calls it the “gas station.” The specific spot where students go is the “gusty winds area.” There are air freshener sprays nearby.

And, according to Sydney-Browning, it works.

“I have a very weak stomach, so I cannot take it,” she tells TODAY.com. “And so I was like, OK, I’m just gonna create this little area over here, and you just get up, you go over there, do your business, come back, and that’s just it.”

The arrangement has recently attracted considerable attention online after Sydney-Browning posted a TikTok showing the corner and explaining how it works. The video prompted thousands of reactions, ranging from disbelief to enthusiastic declarations that every classroom should have one.

One commenter wrote, “This is genius and normalizing body functions without disturbing the classroom amazing.”

Another asked the question that seems to trouble many adults: “And the rest of the class stays focused while somebody is farting in the corner???”

There was also a predictable amount of parental and teacher horror.

“I’d be so embarrassed with the whole class knowing I’m getting up to go fart,” one person wrote.

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