Deal bathrooms

[Anonymous]

As a Deal teacher, I respectfully disagree. Bathrooms are a right, not a privilege.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a Deal teacher, I respectfully disagree. Bathrooms are a right, not a privilege.

There are other bathrooms open! They didn’t lock them all. Kids can walk to use other restrooms. ?? Many of you cannot identify a real problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do work for DCPS as a teacher and I also believe in Restorative Justice.

Oh it is a belief system.

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Anonymous wrote:This is an old school tactic! My principal did this at my high school. We had one bathroom, on the other side of campus (this was out West where we had multiple 2 story buildings with classrooms), for 1800 students. I learned to hold it for the entire school day.

Um, there aren’t laws against what the principal at Deal is doing? Child abuse anyone?

Child abuse Lmao. What an entitled bunch of parents

I suspect you work for dcps. Your attitude about denying children access to bathrooms that all humans need for medical reasons is terrifying.

I do work for DCPS as a teacher and I also believe in Restorative Justice. When you can't use something properly and its unsafe you temporarily lose that privilege. There are plenty of other options for bathrooms at Deal and the teachers there aren't exactly militaristic. As I mentioned upthread, there is no teacher who would refuse to accommodate a student with a medical reason. Parents that have been fear mongering this thread with that example have curiously not actually told the school about their children's issues.

Now, if they never reopen the bathrooms, I would agree that is a problem. But as of now, its pretty clearly not safe so they have to keep it shut down.

How will they accomdate a student when the bathrooms are locked? I assume you mean, they will allow the student to miss class as they wander the halls looking for an open bathroom?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As a Deal teacher, I respectfully disagree. Bathrooms are a right, not a privilege.

There are other bathrooms open! They didn’t lock them all. Kids can walk to use other restrooms. ?? Many of you cannot identify a real problem.

Deal teacher pp- It can take me 10 minutes to find a student one to use. I have 4 minutes in between classes. Do you want your children unsupervised because we’re off in another wing of the school? Do you want your kids missing chunks of class in order to be healthy?

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Anonymous wrote:This is an old school tactic! My principal did this at my high school. We had one bathroom, on the other side of campus (this was out West where we had multiple 2 story buildings with classrooms), for 1800 students. I learned to hold it for the entire school day.

Um, there aren’t laws against what the principal at Deal is doing? Child abuse anyone?

Child abuse Lmao. What an entitled bunch of parents

I suspect you work for dcps. Your attitude about denying children access to bathrooms that all humans need for medical reasons is terrifying.

I do work for DCPS as a teacher and I also believe in Restorative Justice. When you can't use something properly and its unsafe you temporarily lose that privilege. There are plenty of other options for bathrooms at Deal and the teachers there aren't exactly militaristic. As I mentioned upthread, there is no teacher who would refuse to accommodate a student with a medical reason. Parents that have been fear mongering this thread with that example have curiously not actually told the school about their children's issues.

Now, if they never reopen the bathrooms, I would agree that is a problem. But as of now, its pretty clearly not safe so they have to keep it shut down.

How will they accomdate a student when the bathrooms are locked? I assume you mean, they will allow the student to miss class as they wander the halls looking for an open bathroom?

Again, you all are pretending these middle school kids are helpless. I’m sure they can identify the nearest bathroom, or staff can support in identifying that for them so they are not wandering. And yes, teachers would either let them leave early from a class or arrive a few minutes late.
When I was in HS one of my best friends had colitis and would just run out the door when he needed to go and the teacher was fine, bc family provided medical info. Teachers are very good at accommodating needs

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As a Deal teacher, I respectfully disagree. Bathrooms are a right, not a privilege.

There are other bathrooms open! They didn’t lock them all. Kids can walk to use other restrooms. ?? Many of you cannot identify a real problem.

Deal teacher pp- It can take me 10 minutes to find a student one to use. I have 4 minutes in between classes. Do you want your children unsupervised because we’re off in another wing of the school? Do you want your kids missing chunks of class in order to be healthy?

If the school is so dangerous that they can’t walk the hallways unsupervised maybe they should go to another school. If they have to go to the bathroom enough to consistently miss chunks of class the extra few minutes isn’t making a big difference. Some of you live to make more problems instead of identifying solutions. As a DCPS teacher I’m honestly over people like you who just complain and give no effort to find solutions

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As a Deal teacher, I respectfully disagree. Bathrooms are a right, not a privilege.

There are other bathrooms open! They didn’t lock them all. Kids can walk to use other restrooms. ?? Many of you cannot identify a real problem.

Deal teacher pp- It can take me 10 minutes to find a student one to use. I have 4 minutes in between classes. Do you want your children unsupervised because we’re off in another wing of the school? Do you want your kids missing chunks of class in order to be healthy?

If the school is so dangerous that they can’t walk the hallways unsupervised maybe they should go to another school. If they have to go to the bathroom enough to consistently miss chunks of class the extra few minutes isn’t making a big difference. Some of you live to make more problems instead of identifying solutions. As a DCPS teacher I’m honestly over people like you who just complain and give no effort to find solutions

No. Bathrooms should be open and available to teachers and students. This is a basic right and essential to any public infrastructure. Punishment for misbehavior should be administrated otherwise. You are the only one defending this inane policy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As a Deal teacher, I respectfully disagree. Bathrooms are a right, not a privilege.

There are other bathrooms open! They didn’t lock them all. Kids can walk to use other restrooms. ?? Many of you cannot identify a real problem.

Deal teacher pp- It can take me 10 minutes to find a student one to use. I have 4 minutes in between classes. Do you want your children unsupervised because we’re off in another wing of the school? Do you want your kids missing chunks of class in order to be healthy?

If the school is so dangerous that they can’t walk the hallways unsupervised maybe they should go to another school. If they have to go to the bathroom enough to consistently miss chunks of class the extra few minutes isn’t making a big difference. Some of you live to make more problems instead of identifying solutions. As a DCPS teacher I’m honestly over people like you who just complain and give no effort to find solutions

No. Bathrooms should be open and available to teachers and students. This is a basic right and essential to any public infrastructure. Punishment for misbehavior should be administrated otherwise. You are the only one defending this inane policy.

1) bring this same energy when other schools have bathrooms shut down for operational reasons EOTR. Not just bc your kids are acting foolish.

2) plenty of bathrooms in the school are open

3) clearly I’m not the only one defending this decision, or they’d have been reopened

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As a Deal teacher, I respectfully disagree. Bathrooms are a right, not a privilege.

There are other bathrooms open! They didn’t lock them all. Kids can walk to use other restrooms. ?? Many of you cannot identify a real problem.

Deal teacher pp- It can take me 10 minutes to find a student one to use. I have 4 minutes in between classes. Do you want your children unsupervised because we’re off in another wing of the school? Do you want your kids missing chunks of class in order to be healthy?

If the school is so dangerous that they can’t walk the hallways unsupervised maybe they should go to another school. If they have to go to the bathroom enough to consistently miss chunks of class the extra few minutes isn’t making a big difference. Some of you live to make more problems instead of identifying solutions. As a DCPS teacher I’m honestly over people like you who just complain and give no effort to find solutions

No. Bathrooms should be open and available to teachers and students. This is a basic right and essential to any public infrastructure. Punishment for misbehavior should be administrated otherwise. You are the only one defending this inane policy.

1) bring this same energy when other schools have bathrooms shut down for operational reasons EOTR. Not just bc your kids are acting foolish.

2) plenty of bathrooms in the school are open

3) clearly I’m not the only one defending this decision, or they’d have been reopened

Stop deflecting and making excuses for an inexcusable policy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As a Deal teacher, I respectfully disagree. Bathrooms are a right, not a privilege.

There are other bathrooms open! They didn’t lock them all. Kids can walk to use other restrooms. ?? Many of you cannot identify a real problem.

Deal teacher pp- It can take me 10 minutes to find a student one to use. I have 4 minutes in between classes. Do you want your children unsupervised because we’re off in another wing of the school? Do you want your kids missing chunks of class in order to be healthy?

If the school is so dangerous that they can’t walk the hallways unsupervised maybe they should go to another school. If they have to go to the bathroom enough to consistently miss chunks of class the extra few minutes isn’t making a big difference. Some of you live to make more problems instead of identifying solutions. As a DCPS teacher I’m honestly over people like you who just complain and give no effort to find solutions

No. Bathrooms should be open and available to teachers and students. This is a basic right and essential to any public infrastructure. Punishment for misbehavior should be administrated otherwise. You are the only one defending this inane policy.

1) bring this same energy when other schools have bathrooms shut down for operational reasons EOTR. Not just bc your kids are acting foolish.

2) plenty of bathrooms in the school are open

3) clearly I’m not the only one defending this decision, or they’d have been reopened

Stop deflecting and making excuses for an inexcusable policy.

Considering I’m able to provide reasons (in your terms “excuses), I don’t think it’s inexcusable. You saying that doesn’t make it so.

[Anonymous]

What do bathrooms in any other school have anything to do with bathrooms at Deal?

Do you think the opinions of teachers at Deal have more or less weight than yours? At your school, should your opinion count more than the opinions of teachers and parents at other schools?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As a Deal teacher, I respectfully disagree. Bathrooms are a right, not a privilege.

There are other bathrooms open! They didn’t lock them all. Kids can walk to use other restrooms. ?? Many of you cannot identify a real problem.

Deal teacher pp- It can take me 10 minutes to find a student one to use. I have 4 minutes in between classes. Do you want your children unsupervised because we’re off in another wing of the school? Do you want your kids missing chunks of class in order to be healthy?

If the school is so dangerous that they can’t walk the hallways unsupervised maybe they should go to another school. If they have to go to the bathroom enough to consistently miss chunks of class the extra few minutes isn’t making a big difference. Some of you live to make more problems instead of identifying solutions. As a DCPS teacher I’m honestly over people like you who just complain and give no effort to find solutions

Safety is not the issue. Missing class is the issue. Are you endorsing further learning loss?

What do you mean by “If they have to go to the bathroom enough to consistently miss chunks of class the extra few minutes isn’t making a big difference.”

[Anonymous]

I work at a different school in DCPS. Our bathrooms are closed because the students continue to break stuff on purpose and trash the room completely, and the majority of our custodial team has quit. They didn't sign clean up bathrooms that have been deliberately destroyed, every single day.

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Anonymous wrote:As a Deal teacher, I respectfully disagree. Bathrooms are a right, not a privilege.

There are other bathrooms open! They didn’t lock them all. Kids can walk to use other restrooms. ?? Many of you cannot identify a real problem.

Deal teacher pp- It can take me 10 minutes to find a student one to use. I have 4 minutes in between classes. Do you want your children unsupervised because we’re off in another wing of the school? Do you want your kids missing chunks of class in order to be healthy?

My kids refuse to use school bathrooms. But again, I posted up thread that this happened to me in high school. It’s inconvenient but they’ll survive.