An elementary school in Lebanon, Ore., has done away with a policy that required kids to pay to potty.
Some parents said teachers at Cascades Elementary School were punishing their children for needing to use the restroom outside of their scheduled bathroom breaks.
Melissa Dalebout told ABC News’ Portland affiliate KATU that her first-grade, daughter, Lily, had an accident at school while trying to hold in her urine.
In Lily’s class, said Dalebout, children had to pay “Super Pro” bucks to use the bathroom outside their scheduled breaks, or they could hold on to their fake money to buy trinkets at the school store, which parents says gives their kids an incentive to hold it in.
“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,” Dalebout told KATU.
“Super Pro” bucks isn’t the only potty strategy at Cascades Elementary. If kids use the bathroom outside the three designated break times, they could lose two minutes of recess, reported KATU.