An art teacher forbids her student to go to the bathroom. The girl has to pee in a bucket and gets $ 1.25 million in damages.
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We can all still remember that, earlier on our own school days: There you sit in the middle of class at school and suddenly the bubble comes up. In such a case one announces oneself and asks the teacher, if one may briefly to the toilet, and leaves then usually briefly the classroom. The situation was different for a 14-year-old student in the US, who was denied access to the bathroom. The art teacher suggested to the student, if she had to, so she should go to the storage room in the back of the classroom and pee in a bucket.
The girl then went to the Abestellraum and sued the high school. From a court in San Diego, the inziwschen 19-year-old has now been awarded $ 1.25 million . Compensation is therefore much higher than the sum demanded by the student. This was $ 25, 000.
The event was described by the teenager as very humiliating. After the teenager had urinated in a bucket in the store room, she had to empty the contents in the sink of the classroom. The incident caused the girl to become the laughingstock of the class, subjected to chicanery and obscene sms. She changed school twice.
Even today, the 19-year-old still suffers from the event and is undergoing psychological treatment . Her lawyer is satisfied with the verdict. The school board has seen the mistake of the past and changed the school rules. According to the school board, the art teacher at that time apparently just wanted to apply the school rules correctly, as she was new to the school itself. She had erroneously assumed that students should not leave the classroom under any circumstances. The teacher was suspended after the incident.
