Georgia teacher’s ‘fart corner’ lets students pass gas without disruptions: ‘This is genius’
She’s breaking barriers — by breaking wind!
A Georgia elementary school teacher has gone viral for setting up a “fart corner” in her classroom so students can have a shame-free spot to pass gas without disrupting lessons.
Candy Sydney-Browning, 36, built the so-called “gas station” — with air freshener sprays and a sign reading “gusty winds area” — for her class of second graders at Dobbs Elementary School in Atlanta, TODAY.com reported Tuesday.
“I have a very weak stomach, so I cannot take it,” she said of the smell. “And so I was like, OK, I’m just gonna create this little area over here, and you just get up, you go over there, do your business, come back, and that’s just it.”
The corner helps kids relieve themselves without having to excuse themselves and miss a lesson — and it normalizes bodily functions, she said.
“I don’t have to stop teaching in order to say yes. You can go,” she said.
“The students inside the classroom, they don’t lose any instruction,” she said. “They can continue to learn. It’s a win-win situation.”
The “gas station” also prevents the interruptions that had been happening when a student would let one rip while she was trying to teach, she said.
“They were like, ‘He did it, she did it,’” Sydney-Browning said of the old way. “And they’ll point fingers and they’ll try to move away from each other.”

Parents and teachers called the fart corner a total gas after she posted a playful video about it on TikTok, along with follow-up footage of her classroom layout.
“This is genius and normalizing body functions without disturbing the classroom amazing,” one observer wrote.
A fellow teacher proclaimed, “I teach middle school and we have a fart closet.”
Others warned that the corner could cause stink, so to speak.
“The rest of the class stays focused while somebody is farting in the corner???” one commenter asked.
“I’d be so embarrassed with the whole class knowing I’m getting up to go fart,” another added.
Sydney-Browning’s video had raked in more than 460,000 likes as of Friday.