Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Too Much Time in the Bathroom At the school that I am interning at there is a student in one of my classes who takes excessive amounts of time in the bathroom. Sometimes, it will take this student up to 20 minutes to use the bathroom right around the corner, and come back. We are not sure whether or not the student is actually using the bathroom or just saying that he is so he does not have to participate. My CT, her assistant and I are all women, so we are unable to go into the bathroom. What should we do? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) We have this same problem within my internship classroom. My teacher, the I.A. and myself are all female also. Our student will use the restroom for entire class periods at a time if we let him. In order to reduce this behavior, he have decided to require him to use the restroom inside of the participatory ESE classroom. Our I.A. will walk him to the restroom and her I.A. will walk him back. This has been very successful in limiting the amount of time that he spends in the bathroom. I would suggest requiring him to use a bathroom located inside of a classroom/office and escourting him there and back for the first couple of times that he uses it. This ensures that he is being supervised at all times, thus limiting the behavior.