The four largest school districts in Maryland have implemented a state policy requiring teachers to provide potty training to children up to age 5 as taxpayer-funded “pre-K for all” expands among low-income families.
Maryland is the only state that directs teachers to assist students in toilet training. New York allows school districts to designate whether aides, nurses or teachers provide such assistance.
Anne Arundel County Public Schools, which includes the state capital, Annapolis, became the latest to enforce the policy in May. It is Maryland’s fourth-largest district, with roughly 84,000 students.
Anne Arundel’s new regulation makes pre-kindergarten and kindergarten staff “responsible for implementing personal care and toileting strategies to move students toward personal care and toileting independence.”
Montgomery County, Baltimore County and Prince George’s County implemented similar policies after a 2021 state law expanded full-day early education programs to more “historically underserved” immigrants and minorities.
“All staff strictly adhere to Maryland state reporting laws and personal safety curriculum guidelines to ensure that any necessary bathroom assistance is conducted legally and safely,” said Liliana Lopez, a spokeswoman for Montgomery County Public Schools, the state’s largest district, with roughly 156,000 students.
She cited the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future, a 2021 law that included an $84.8 million increase for the Prekindergarten Grant Program. The money allows districts to provide free full-day preschool to 3- and 4-year-olds from families living at 300% of the federal poverty level.
Maryland is full of *hit. why are we paying for illegals to get potty trained? I hate this state; but right now I hate this country. Liberal crap has ruined everything. There is no where to go where actual american citizens have more rights than illegal criminals….
The whole thing is marxist plan to replace the family with the state. If you send your kids to public school of any kind, you DO NOT LOVE THEM.
This is total bullshit! Those kids should be in nursery school or daycare, not public schools!! Next they will have to housebreak their puppies for them! I do not want my tax dollars used to housebreak kids. Tax Moore is at it again!! This is nothing but a free babysitting service! Their mothers are probably not even working. Keep your untrained kids at home and potty train them yourself, Not on my tax dollar!!!
Potty training is parents’ job