Students not allowed to use restroom

Lockdown
4/17/06
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According to the Los Angeles Times students at Worthington Elementary School were banned from using the restroom.
The Times reported that instead students had to use buckets behind the teacher’s desk or those placed in classroom corners.
Parents plan on attending a school board meeting next week according to the Times.
The principal at the Inglewood elementary school imposed a lockdown due to immigration legislation.
On March 27 almost 40,000 middle and high school students staged walkouts throughout southern California.
The Times reported that Principal Angie Marquez misread the handbook for the school district.
The restraining lockdown used by Marquez is reserved to be used during nuclear attacks reports the Times.
It was an “honest mistake” said director of operations for the Inglewood Unified School District, Tim Brown.
Brown confirmed that students had to use the buckets placed in the classrooms.
According to Brown, Marquez “followed procedure. She made a decision to follow the handbook. She just misread it.”
The district plans on updating its emergency preparedness instructions to help principals and teachers deal with student walkouts and other situations Brown told the Times.