Deal bathrooms

[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.”

They can go at lunch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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. If this is their biggest gripe, life is good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.”

I mean that if they’re missing 12 minutes of a class for medical issues , it doesn’t really matter if they miss 15.

[Anonymous]

Ms. Neal should have polled parents on this issue

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ms. Neal should have polled parents on this issue

And one hopes that parents would volunteer to supervise the bathrooms. Win / Win!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ms. Neal should have polled parents on this issue

No she shouldn’t! Who are you people?! You put helicopter parents to shame.

[Anonymous]

I showed my 6th and 8th grade DC at Deal this thread and they laughed and said those parents are crazy! They haven’t had ANY issues finding a bathroom all year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I showed my 6th and 8th grade DC at Deal this thread and they laughed and said those parents are crazy! They haven’t had ANY issues finding a bathroom all year.

And the 3 teams affected by this are 7th grade…

[Anonymous]

I drive a 6th grade carpool and I asked this group if there were any bathroom concerns. my daughter and friends all reported that they encounter locked bathrooms. They said "so we try to find another one or wait until until we'll at home". My daughter does not have her period yet. I can imagine this could get more stressful for those who do.

[Anonymous]

Previous poster
"We're", not "we'll"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

+1

A DCPS teacher at a school with understaffed custodial team. They lock bathrooms because they can’t keep them clean and don’t want kids trashing them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I showed my 6th and 8th grade DC at Deal this thread and they laughed and said those parents are crazy! They haven’t had ANY issues finding a bathroom all year.

And the 3 teams affected by this are 7th grade…

DP. My 7th grader just rolled her eyes at these parents.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is an example for why Deal is just too big. The administration can't manage the behavior of 1500 students under one roof.

Bathrooms have always been an issue there. Lots of terrible conduct. My two former Deal students always would rush home and straight into the home bathroom because they hated using the bathrooms at Deal - they never had soap, often were broken and inevitably there was always some kid causing trouble there. Many students just didn't feel safe using those bathrooms. So sad that it has come to the school actually closing the bathroom though - I assume that is the solution the school landed on because they tried everything else. But really, that is the sign of a facility that should be shut down for code violations.

Exactly this. They have no power to discipline the kids who misbehave and the kids know it.

They cannot even provide safe bathrooms? It’s ridiculous.

It's like a microcosm of DC restorative justice dysfunction, but in a school. The bathrooms in Union Station should be locked too, since the city can't keep the nicely.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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.

+1

A DCPS teacher at a school with understaffed custodial team. They lock bathrooms because they can’t keep them clean and don’t want kids trashing them.

…or, Principal Neal has lost control of the school and can’t use politics to hide behind this one. She’s just wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

+1

A DCPS teacher at a school with understaffed custodial team. They lock bathrooms because they can’t keep them clean and don’t want kids trashing them.

…or, Principal Neal has lost control of the school and can’t use politics to hide behind this one. She’s just wrong.

Agreed.