Classroom Pissing Match: A Student Pees in a Water Bottle

One 7th grade boy really got into a pissing match over a teacher's bathroom pass policy....literally. When a teacher refused to allow him to use the restroom, the student surreptitiously urinated in a water bottle. As he left class, the water bottle fell out of his jacket. Initially, the school planned to transfer him to an alternative school for a month but instead he will serve three days detention for bringing a water bottle into class and drinking from it.

If everything reported is true, and the teacher refused multiple requests, threatened disciplinary action if he asked again, and finished with telling him that she hopes he "pees his pants", there is just no excuse for that.

Having taught high school, though, I can sympathize with the classroom discipline issues. Ideally, you create an environment of mutual trust and respect and the kids rise to the occasion. Still, no matter how brilliant your management strategies and engaging your teaching, there will always be students who find ways to game the loopholes. And there are fewer eyes on the hallways these days to monitor behavior outside of the classrooms.

My first year, I asked students to quietly exit and take a pass when they needed to use the restroom. Let's just say that policy did not last long.

You cannot teach students who aren't there and you cannot allow one child to disrupt an entire classroom. 

Perhaps sitting down with the student, principal, and parents and expressing "deep concern" about the boy's frequent "need" to urinate ("Perhaps he is ill, Mrs. and Mr. Smith...?") might have put the damper on any unnecessary trips. Then again, I have witnessed the trend of parents backing a child up no matter what.
 

Was this a case of when you gotta go, you gotta go? Or is this a very talented prankster who gets a kick out of taking the piss out of his teachers?