WASHBURN, Mo. -- A mother is upset over over a classroom incident that left her kindergartner embarrassed. A 6-year-old girl had an accident in her classroom, and her parents are pushing for policy changes.
"They told me that the teacher had asked her to go to the restroom before testing time," said mother Lisa Skidmore.
Skidmore says asking a young child to go to the bathroom on demand is next to impossible.
"You can't do that to a 6-year-old."
That's why, when her kindergartner told her teacher she had to go to the restroom during the test and wasn't allowed, Skidmore couldn't believe it. Her little girl couldn't hold it.
"They didn't even bother trying to clean her up or anything. She still had poop, diarrhea poop, coming out the back, up her front, down her legs," she said.
Skidmore says her daughter was forced to sit in the class for the remainder of test time, about 15 minutes, then mom was called after the test, and it was a 20-minute drive to school to pick up her daughter.
All the while, the little girl had to sit in the mess. No one bothered to clean her up, although a teacher did give her a trash bag to wrap around herself.
"You don't even treat a dog that way!" Skidmore said.
She says she's hoping policy will change, and common sense will prevail.
"I don't want this to happen to any other kid. That's the point of this: I don't want this ever happening."
School District Superintendent Bob Walker didn't want to go on camera but said he wishes the school would've handled it differently.
"Bottom line, we regret what happened," Walker said.
He says, from here on out, he has instructed all his teachers to be more sensitive to other situations that might come up during testing like this one.
The little girl's dad has a tough time even talking about it.
"If any parent sent their kid to school with crappy pants, diarrhea-type crap, wrapped up in a garbage bag, stench badly, I believe with all my heart those parents would be facing criminal charges, I believe that with all my heart."
The family isn't pressing charges, but likely pressed hard enough for the school to consider changing its ways.
"If it's your child, I mean it hits a raw nerve, deep."
Many kids right now are taking Missouri Assessment Program (MAP) tests, the state standardized testing required by law. Those tests start in third grade, but the superintendent says the reason the teacher was sticking so closely to MAP testing guidelines, even for a kindergartner, is because she was trying to simulate the stringent rules to prepare students for what's to come.
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Barcelona to open football school in India
The Catalan giants have founded a training facility in the Asian country in order to give young talented footbalBarcelona have announced plans to open a department of their school, FCBEscola, in India.
The facility is set to operate according to a model based on the Catalans' football development philosophy, and will be aimed at children aged 6 to 14, with the main objective being the integral training of the students.lers the opportunity to develop their qualities
The school is the first of its kind in India, and it is planned to open doors within this year.
"This is one of the most ambitious projects for FCBescola worldwide," director of FCBEscola, Xevi Marce, said to reporters.
"We hope to train 10,000 young footballers in the coming three years and with this initiative we will provide the depth and the quality needed to develop coaches and players from a very young age."
Antonio Claveria, who made a trip to Delhi when the Catalan club had their first camp at the Heritage School, has been appointed technical director of the facility.
Newlywed husband stabs pregnant wife killing her and premature son one week after wedding
A newlywed man is being held on a murder charge Wednesday after his pregnant wife staggered into a western Arkansas police station with a stab wound to her chest and collapsed.
Emergency responders rushed Celestia Duffin, who was nearly seven months pregnant, to a local hospital where doctors delivered her baby, though they were too late and both she and her son died.
Duffin, 32, had run to the police station from a nearby traffic accident Tuesday where officers found her husband, James Herring.
The couple married a week ago Wednesday, according to court records, but Herring told investigators they were already talking about divorce, Fort Smith police spokesman Sargent Daniel Grubbs said.
Local 5 News reports that, upon questioning, Herring was not happy with their relationship.
‘I don’t understand why he thought that because the marriage was bad he had to do that? That's ridiculous!’ Ms Duffin’s close friend Kari Coffman told the station.
Authorities believe that Duffin was driving with her husband when Herring stabbed her and caused her to crash.
She managed to run to the nearby police station, where she asked for help before collapsing and losing consciousness.
About the same time, someone called police about the accident and found Herring, who 'appeared to be in a state of shock,' Mr Grubbs said in a statement.
At the hospital, doctors delivered Duffin's son, but he died before hospital staff could fly him to Little Rock for care. Duffin also has a 6-year-old son.
After talking to investigators, Herring was arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder and attempted murder.
Those charges could change and will likely have more added on because the baby died after Herring was booked into jail. Herring, 34, was being held without bond in Sebastian County, near the Oklahoma state border.
'She was very, very excited to find out what the baby was and to get ready to have that baby,' said Ms Coffman..
‘Her son and my daughter played all the time. That boy was the light of her life!
'She was fun to be around, she always made me laugh.
'She's not just someone or something and neither was that baby. She is Celestia.’
Emergency responders rushed Celestia Duffin, who was nearly seven months pregnant, to a local hospital where doctors delivered her baby, though they were too late and both she and her son died.
Duffin, 32, had run to the police station from a nearby traffic accident Tuesday where officers found her husband, James Herring.
The couple married a week ago Wednesday, according to court records, but Herring told investigators they were already talking about divorce, Fort Smith police spokesman Sargent Daniel Grubbs said.
Local 5 News reports that, upon questioning, Herring was not happy with their relationship.
‘I don’t understand why he thought that because the marriage was bad he had to do that? That's ridiculous!’ Ms Duffin’s close friend Kari Coffman told the station.
Authorities believe that Duffin was driving with her husband when Herring stabbed her and caused her to crash.
She managed to run to the nearby police station, where she asked for help before collapsing and losing consciousness.
About the same time, someone called police about the accident and found Herring, who 'appeared to be in a state of shock,' Mr Grubbs said in a statement.
At the hospital, doctors delivered Duffin's son, but he died before hospital staff could fly him to Little Rock for care. Duffin also has a 6-year-old son.
After talking to investigators, Herring was arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder and attempted murder.
Those charges could change and will likely have more added on because the baby died after Herring was booked into jail. Herring, 34, was being held without bond in Sebastian County, near the Oklahoma state border.
'She was very, very excited to find out what the baby was and to get ready to have that baby,' said Ms Coffman..
‘Her son and my daughter played all the time. That boy was the light of her life!
'She was fun to be around, she always made me laugh.
'She's not just someone or something and neither was that baby. She is Celestia.’
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