Do all high schools have teachers monitoring bathrooms and hallways during planning periods?

[Anonymous]

Just what the title says. Wondering if this is county-wide or just limited to some high schools.

[Anonymous]

No. I’ve been a HS teacher for almost 30 years and taught in FCPS and 2 other local districts. I’ve never had to do this anywhere. My planning blocks are frequently bogged down with other useless meetings.

[Anonymous]

Ours starts the year doing this but then it’s over after a week or two. My sons play a travel sport with teammates from 7 HSs in northwestern Fairfax. All of them say most students avoid bathroom at all costs due to prohibited activities happening in there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ours starts the year doing this but then it’s over after a week or two. My sons play a travel sport with teammates from 7 HSs in northwestern Fairfax. All of them say most students avoid bathroom at all costs due to prohibited activities happening in there.

Up in Montgomery County, MD, the schools finally had to resort to locking the students out of the school bathrooms entirely. Meaning: students just had to hold it until school ends and they arrive back home.

The Washington Post did a whole series on the problem.

[Anonymous]

My spouse teaches at a MS and has to do this, but I’m not sure about the HS.

[Anonymous]

MS teacher here and we started to have to do this year too

[Anonymous]

Yes at Westfield HS.

[Anonymous]

Teachers don’t monitor bathrooms typically. That’s some else’s job.

[Anonymous]

Yes at Chantilly HS

[Anonymous]

Yes at Robinson.

We get a planning period every other day that is "protected". The second period without students is used 100% of the time for either meetings or duties. The priority order is IEPs, 504s, parent meetings, department meetings, CT meetings, and if there happens to be a period without one of those, we are to do our hall monitor duty.

Some staff did not get assigned hall monitoring but instead have bus duty, cafeteria duty, sitting at the secretary's desk so they can have lunch, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teachers don’t monitor bathrooms typically. That’s some else’s job.

This year it is teachers' jobs.

[Anonymous]

OP - why do you ask?

[Anonymous]

What is the reasoning for teachers manning stations outside bathrooms or schools locking bathroom doors?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is the reasoning for teachers manning stations outside bathrooms or schools locking bathroom doors?

A huge number of kids are vaping in the bathrooms

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teachers don’t monitor bathrooms typically. That’s some else’s job.

This year it is teachers' jobs.

I don’t understand how teachers have time for that on top of all of their other duties.

When something needs to get done, just throw it on the teachers. Don’t worry. They’ll get their own work done at home, I guess.