This makes me angry. I understand people needing to feel like they're protecting their kids from pedophiles, but a pedo is going to unzip your kids pants whether or not it's against the law, and in the meantime these poor kidlettes and teachers have to pay for a parents' false sense of security. Retarded.

lol "teacher touched my forbidden zone". That you Ralph Wiggum??

That's awful, but there is a way to solve this problem without resorting to being embarrassing and unsanitary. The trick to this is to get other staff members- especially supervisors to watch if you can find one in time (oh lord that sounds wrong). That way they can back you up if you need witnesses to say you were helping the kid.

You can't really help it. It's the district's fault, not yours. Now send him to the nurse or call his parents or something. If they bitch about it, blame it on them because unless they oppose the legislation, it's as much their fault as it could be anybody else's that supports it.

OP that really sucks. Try an oppose the laws, get the parents involved. This is getting ridiculous. Laws like this DON'T stop the people that were doing harm, and are only causing problems for those who have good intentions. It's situations like this, where you had no options, that really make me angry. This is going to be the hardest part of being a teacher, I expect. I think I'll be able to deal with crazy parents, and I already have had situations where I've had to deal with a lot of different kids and teach them. But stupid laws? I have no idea how I'll deal with that. Sorry that you were put into this situation. :(

Yet another reason not to send my kid to public school. All these stupid rules to protect the admin. and not really help the kids.

I was expecting to read that the poor little guy had his junk caught in his zipper and you left him that way. Next time you should lend him a hand or have mom send him to school in sweatpants.

Unfortunately it is because of parents that over react that these laws become created. Mom: "What did you do in school today?" Little Johnny: "Miss Sally unzipped my pants." Mom: "What!! Oh hell no!" Then mom calls the school and there is an investigation and before everything gets sorted out, the teacher goes through hell trying to prove that she is not a pedophile. And even if it is proven that she did nothing wrong, she most likely still have other parents and staff watching her because they want to be sure. It's sad. These days we send our children out to spend sometimes 8-10 hours a day in other peoples care. And we expect them to treat these children as their own yet they are not allowed to provide the most basic care that our children need. OP FYL indeed.

The administration would much prefer that a few kids wet themselves than a lawsuit from crazed parents. I am inclined to agree with their perspective. Stupid policies aren't just the result of administration. You can bet that behind almost every stupid policy is an even dumber story involving parents, kids, and teachers.

There's somewhere in England that's just banned parents from going in the play park with their kids, what are they supposed to do if a kid gets hurt? they can't go in and help them. And there's also this rule now that you're not allowed to take pictures of your own kids/grandkids etc because other children are around