The Washington Post found room on its front page today to inform us that some schools in the area give extra credit to children who don’t take bathroom breaks.
Here’s the lead:
Even though Daniel Thornton occasionally needed to go to the bathroom during his AP history course last year, he also needed a B on the midterm to maintain his grade. So he did what lots of students at Forest Park Senior High School in Woodbridge do in their Darwinian pursuit of academic success: Thornton endured a full bladder and instead hoarded his two restroom passes, which, unused, were worth six points of extra credit.
And here is perhaps the best quote I have read in a newspaper in a long time.
“What’s the correlation between holding your urine and succeeding on a history test?”
I am not sure this was intended as a serious question, but by all means, have a go at answering it.