Teacher Makes Student Clean Classmate's Urine

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. - WPBF.com

A Port St. Lucie elementary school teacher was removed from the classroom after she made one of her students wipe up the urine of another classmate.

Port St. Lucie police said Martha Ensley, a teacher at Floresta Elementary School, told a kindergarten student to clean up the urine of another student in the class bathroom.

According to the incident report, a 6-year-old girl found urine on the floor of the bathroom and told Ensley about it. Ensley said she "was in the middle of a lesson and told (the girl) to just clean it up."

The girl complied and received three school dollars for it.

Police said Ensley has a classroom policy that if a student uses the bathroom and makes a mess, that student is supposed to clean it up, but if another student enters the bathroom and finds a mess, he or she is supposed to exit immediately and raise his or her hand.

When an officer asked Ensley if she made other students do this type of thing in the past, the teacher replied that she had.

"I think she should lose her job," the girl's mother, Lisa Portieles, told WPBF 25 News.

Portieles said she thought Ensley was being lazy.

"I can see if maybe it was her urine," Portieles said. "OK, maybe I can understand, you know, OK, she peed on the floor, (so) she's got to clean the mess, but not some other child's mess."

Portieles said it worries her that her daughter received school dollars for the task.

"It worries me because she's got a stack this big," Portieles said, showing how many school dollars her daughter had earned. "And I'm just imagining if she had done that, what else did she do for that stack?"

According to the report, Ensley admitted that she made a poor decision but said she wasn't trying to demean the student or cause her any harm.

Other parents at the school agreed that Ensley should be fired.

"The teacher should take full responsibility of it," parent Britney Blevins said. "I don't think she should be working here anymore, either. I do have a kindergartener and I would be very upset if he had to do something like that."

Ensley was not home to comment.

Police said no crime was committed, but the St. Lucie County school district is conducting an internal investigation.

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