After teachers at an elementary school in Lebanon, Ore., instituted a policy requiring students to “pay” to use the bathroom, the protests of outraged parents convinced school officials to flush the program down the toilet.

Teachers at Cascades Elementary School started charging students "Super Pro" bucks -- fake money they could otherwise spend at the school store -- to use the toilet in an effort to make kids use their bathroom breaks more wisely.


Since kids love trinkets, they were doing everything possible to hold onto the phony cash, including wetting themselves.

Melissa Dalebout’s daughter had an accident at school. "I just feel my children should not be punished for having to use the bathroom, even if they didn't take advantage of a recess break because they may not have been thinking of it,” Dalebout told KATU. "They're children. I'd like to see that policy or teacher rule, gone. I don't believe that's right."

Teachers say they were just trying to keep kids in the classroom as much as possible.

"Typically if the kiddo is missing any core instruction time, they want them to make up what they've missed," said school principal Tami Volz. "If a student is chronically leaving the classroom, it becomes an intervention strategy for the teacher, I think, to really encourage them to be in class.”

The policy ended up being more of a punishment than anything else.

"She was crying one morning, because she felt her tummy to be a little sour so she was thinking that she might have to use the restroom at school,” parent Sarah Palkki said of her daughter.

Although teachers can still hold kids in from recess for missing too much time for bathroom breaks, Principal Volz has dropped the Super Pro payment policy.

[KATU] [ABC News]