What's your opinion about a teacher telling a student "you come here to study, not to use washroom. So don't drink much water"?

the burden of proof is on the student not the teacher because of medical confidentiality. medical conditions requiring special accommodations are on file with the school - at least where i’m from.@SW-User

@NiftyWhite Similar to here but the burden of proof is on the parent, and as far as i'm aware the teacher can't challenge the student about anything medical, and they'd have to contact their parents and discuss it. There's been law suits in the past where teachers made medical assumptions.. ie that's not anaphylaxis you're just trying to get out of physical ed class. If the student was making it up though it'd become a disciplinary issue i'd imagine.

a student who’s 18 should be able to represent himself and provide documentation about any medical conditions he needs accommodations for. that would be in his best interest to do so if that’s in fact the case.

i doubt a student would be disciplined for faking anything. besides that any student with anaphylaxis is documented at the office - so faking it not, they’re getting an injection and a trip to the hospital.@SW-User that’s what happens here

@NiftyWhite Most high school students here are under 18. Unless you are talking about Uni students who are older? In which case yes, those ones would represent themselves.

the OP identifies as 18-21! @SW-User

@NiftyWhite I assumed he was under 18 like many of those that are on here. Their isn't an under 18 category for them. He sounded like an under 18 high school student as he also mentioned teacher that's all rather than a uni student that wouldn't have this type of issue as someone who's paying thousands for a Uni course aren't going to get lecturers telling them off for bathroom breaks. They can take as many as they need and if they fail due to lack of attendance then it's on them.

there’s a 12-15 category or something like it - i have them all filtered out so i know it’s there @SW-User

@NiftyWhite Yes but many join in the 18-21 category so that they can interact with the adult population.

if I can’t make assumptions about age @SW-User neither can you. what’s posted is 18-21. that’s all we’ve got. regardless of the actual age, it says 18+ he could he 7 for all we know.

@NiftyWhite You can make assumptions and so can i. He says teacher so that suggests high school not university, and the vast majority of high school students are under 18 so adding that to the fact that a significant number of under 18's are listed on here as 18-21 then one could conclude that it's statistically more likely that he's under 18. Then since it's just a fun forum based around a lot of assumptions and we're not a legal body about to make a policy decision affecting schools and students in future, i chose to not to request further data on age and other factors before i posted what was a fairly general response to his general question about a teacher/student interaction that i have had some experience with, within my local environment. I'm sure if my assumptions or yours were incorrect, the OP, if it concerned him would question us or provide further data to allow for a more accurate response.