Listen to your grandmother, NEVER hold your pee!

Everyone remembers their high school experience whether it was five years ago or 25 and if it was anything like mine, there were a lot of rules.
Looking back, almost too many.

Compared to the freedom as adults, it is amazing that they even let us breathe on our own.

You needed hall passes, you couldn’t chew gum in class, you couldn’t eat or drink in class, and the one that always bothered me, was that you couldn’t go to the bathroom unless you had permission.

That is absurd! There was always a pass involved with a huge thing attached.

So because you’re going to the bathroom you had to carry a huge, and germ infested, pass with you while you do your business.

It was almost like a privilege to use the bathroom even though it is a human right that no one can control.

Obviously there are maturity issues when you’re in high school, but should a student have to wait 20 minutes, or anytime at all, to do, what is basically a human right?

Imagine getting yelled at, or even detention, for running out of class for food poisoning because “someone else was already using the pass and you should’ve waited your turn”.

According to Goaskalice.colombia.edu, holding urine for long periods of time can increase the chances of getting urinary tract infections (UTIs).

The website also said that if you frequently hold your urine for long periods of time, you can start to loose sensitivity and could have an accident or leak and not be able to control it.

Obviously, not all high schools are like the movie Sixteen Candles, or any other fantastic movie about high school, but there are usually always people who are always making fun of kids for every little thing, we call them “Bullies” or “assholes” later in life.

As mentioned earlier, the maturity levels are a tad bit lower in high school than in college, but kids can be particularly cruel in high school without a reason like peeing your pants because Mr./Mrs. so and so wouldn’t let you go to the bathroom until lunch time.

And we’ve all heard the reasons for the rules like, “ if I can’t go then you can’t go” or “only one boy and one girl at a time”, once again, the maturity level is lower in high school than college!

Teenagers in high school are going through puberty and have hormones raging and in my experience it only made kids a little more ADHD(Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder) and even a little more obnoxious, if that was possible.

Kids in high school may have a tendency to run off for twenty minutes talking to their friends or even ditching school all together but don’t you think that is their problem?

I know, I know, high school is mostly public and required BUT for one, if there are going to ditch school they are going to do it no matter what. And two, how else are they going to learn that there are consequences to their actions?

In college if you do not come back for forty five minutes because you ran into a close friend, then you are on your own to figure out what you missed. If there happen to be a pop quiz then that is something that you can’t make up and have to deal with.

The same should go for high school kids.

There were so many rules in high school that it was too easy to be rebellious because there were so many things to rebel against.

It’s like with a puppy. If you hold a puppy and don’t let it go, it will push and push to let itself free. But if you just relax then it will come to you because it wants to, not because it’s being forced.