Friday, September 19, 2008

Solution to bathroom breaks

There is at least one person who will complain about repeated references to bathroom on this blog, but somethings are just too interesting to ignore. Looking at log of my blog, I noticed that ‘bathroom break’ was one prominent search term used to access this blog. On googling (sorry Google) for the same, I came across a teachers’ forum discussing this problem among their students. Two comments. One. Teachers’ forum is a neat idea. Of course, since we have forums for all and sundry purposes, it is not surprising, but still something that didn’t cross my mind. Two. Look at the creative solutions they are proposing! I’ve not seen these solutions in Indian schools, not that I’ve given much though to the matter. Link 1. Link 2. Time permitting, I am going to give this forum some serious curious look.

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