I just read this article on MSNBC.com about kids in a California elementary school being forced to use buckets instead of their (working, btw) toilets. Seems that the principal implemented this as part of a lockdown during the immigration protest walk-outs.

But, it gets improbably worse. Quote:

Tim Brown, the district’s director of operations, confirmed some students used buckets but said the principal’s order to impose the most severe type of lockdown was an “honest mistake.�

“When there’s a nuclear attack, that’s when buckets are used,� Brown told the Times. The principal “followed procedure. She made a decision to follow the handbook. She just misread it.�

Must be reassuring to know that your kids will be protected by being locked in with buckets of their own excrement in case of nuclear attack.