Hello readers! As many of us on here are teachers, I couldn't resist posting this recent news story for us all to enjoy. I have taken the liberty of jotting down my own personal comments. How does this relate to Disney you ask? Well, this took place in Orlando, and this teacher CLEARLY wasn't having a Disney day! Feel free to post your own comments.
The 13-year-old boy who urinated in his teacher's lunchbox last week said Wednesday that his teacher seemed serious when she denied his repeated requests to go to the restroom and eventually told him to hold it or use her lunchbox.
Quonterius Thomas, a sixth-grader at Meadowbrook Middle School in Orange County, said he debated what to do for a while.
Ok, so the boy is 13 and in the 6th grade. Strike one...Now, I can imagine an inexperienced teacher giving an ultimatum like, "Hold it or go in your pants," but where on earth did this teacher come up with the lunch box option? I also like how the article says Quonterius debated about what to do. Can you picture him weighing the pros and cons of whether to pee in his teacher's lunch box? 
Eventually, fearing he would get in trouble if he left the room or wet himself if he waited longer, he relieved himself in the vinyl lunchbox, Quonterius said.The teenager said he was embarrassed about what had happened March 13 and did not want to return to school. He missed two days after the incident, returning to classes Tuesday at his mother's insistence.
"Everybody keeps on giving me questions," he said in an interview after school Wednesday. "I hope everything goes back to normal."
The teacher, Jameeka Chambers, was placed on paid leave Tuesday while district administrators investigate what happened.
I think it's safe to say that his teacher is the most embarrassed one!
School officials said Tuesday that they thought Chambers made the comment in jest or with sarcasm, without intending for the teenager to literally follow her command. But based on other students' statements, they believe that she said it and that the teenager urinated in her lunchbox while standing behind a classroom bookcase.
Well, at least the child tried to hide himself...What was the teacher doing while this was happening? How could she not notice what was going on?
Chambers is scheduled to be interviewed by district administrators Monday, and school officials hope to gain a fuller explanation of what happened, and why. Officials said Wednesday that they had no new information about the investigation.
Quonterius said he asked Chambers at least twice if he could use the restroom and she said no. When he asked again, he at first thought she was joking when she told him to use the lunchbox. But when she still would not let him leave, he decided she was not. He waited a while, but there were still about 30 minutes left in class.
"I was thinking about it," he said. "Should I do it, or should I not do it? I had to go even worse. I had to go. I was going to pee on myself."
He said he ducked behind a bookcase, but other students in the class knew what took place. They were talking and laughing about it.
Once again, how could the teacher not know what was going on??? 
He returned the lunchbox to Chambers, he said, who told him to take it to the boys' bathroom, where he emptied the lunchbox and then threw it in the trash.
GROSS! Hey, at least he took care of that lunchbox.
Later that day, he told his mother what happened.
Quonterius' mother, Shameka Bryant, said she does not think Chambers belongs back in front of students.
Maybe her son doesn't belong back in front of teachers! He knew what he was doing was wrong, and he did it anyway.
Bryant said she first thought her son was "playing" when he told her what happened, but she got upset when she realized he was not.
I love it. She gets upset with the teacher and totally absolves the son from responsibility. Only in America!
The next morning, she went to the school to speak with the principal and contacted Central Florida News 13, which brought a television crew to the campus. By that time, Chambers was in New Orleans at a conference, which delayed the investigation and the decision to place her on leave.
Clearly mom isn't concerned about embarrassing her son further. She called the press! I think we all know that a lawsuit is in the near future. Maybe mom will take son to Disney with all the money they'll win!
Wait a minute, how come this teacher gets to attend a cool conference in New Orleans? Nevermind, I think I'd rather have POFQ than the real thing!
Chambers is a University of Florida graduate in her first year of teaching. She is paid $37,000 a year. She could not be reached for comment.
Bryant said her son is in Chambers' language-arts class and has had no other problems in her room, except for the time she gave him a referral because he had forgotten a belt and his pants were hanging too low.
The incident did not occur during his language-arts class, however. He was doing work on a classroom computer for his math class.
Shamefully low salary to have to deal with a child who won't pull up his pants and pees in your lunchbox!
I think that both sides are in the wrong here. I just thought I'd throw this out there to see what you all think.
, because trust me it's just not your DH. Whenever this happens to me, whether it's with DS or male co-workers, I just have one response, "boys." There's no other explanation needed, they're just boys...but boy do we 
them.
. Perhaps once he is there and eating at the WCC, he will feel differently. Are you still going to go ahead and make the ressie?
Sorry you couldn't keep your surprise and that he wasn't excited by it!! Maybe you can still surprise him (he definitely won't think you are doing it now) and plan something different for that day.
..The new baby can't be left out of a trip to see the Mouse.
Hello! Thanks for joining in!
Take your time getting through this thing. I can't believe I still have 4 months left to go! 
Needless to say, DH and I are trying to find a happy medium. 
. He'd then surprise me with a dream Disney vow renewal and we'd immediately buy into DVC amid our euphoria. End of BrittBritt dream sequence.
...I hear ya...
