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

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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.

Who else do you think should be responsible for monitoring the bathrooms then?

Our MS has placed monitors across all bathrooms and at hallway intersections. Staff assigned those locations take their laptops with them and still get work done (emails at least) and it has definitely cut down on behaviors and cutting classes. I frequently see my APs in the halls at a desk, monitoring students. And my principal is out in the school as well when they have time.

If you want a "safe" school, everyone needs to pitch in to make that happen.

This is so degrading to teachers who are paid to teach. Just wait until a students looks over the shoulder at a teacher looking at emails in a hallway and reads something confidential or someone complains the teacher wasn’t looking up when a fight occurred because they were on their laptop.

The real reason why it is an issue is that schools no longer give consequences like lengthy detentions or suspend students so students don’t care if they are caught. They just have to do some hocus pocus restorative justice talk and they are on their way to get in some more trouble.

I agree that it is degrading. It is also disrespectful.

We need to move past this culture that teachers should just “do more”.

You know all the threads about missing assignments in the gradebook? Work that hasn’t been returned?

Pick what you want. If you want teachers to focus on education, then they must be given time to work. If you want teachers filling every second of their days doing every random task necessary within the school building, then don’t complain when education suffers.

And grading in the hallway? I need a desk and a place to focus. It already takes 7-10 minutes per writing assignment. How much more time will it taken as I’m getting interrupted every 30 seconds?

What is so disrespectful about asking teachers to sit at a desk outside the bathroom for an hour once a week? If grading requires too much attention and focus, then do something else that requires less focus for that one hour. Clean out your email inbox. Organize your calendar. Ask absolutely anyone in any profession about the grunt work that they have to do as part of their job. We all have to pitch in from time to time. It's part of being a team player.

This is so hilarious and so obvious you have no idea all the endless tasks teachers have to do? You really think a teacher can clean out email inbox with confidential emails while students are walking by and can see the contents of the email? You think teachers are getting anything done when so many students roam the hallways? Teachers would be more than happy to pitch in "from time to time", the issue is it is absolutely never ending the amount of "pitching in" that teachers have to do.

You have absolutely no idea all the grunt work teachers are doing. Do you actually use your own money to bring in supplies for work? If you are at work and someone in your office picks up a chair and throws it, then calls you a whor* or bitc* and knocks things off your desk as they walk out of the office, does your boss tell you that you need to build a better relationship with your aggressive co-worker so you need to make sure to welcome them back into the office tomorrow? When the parking attendant doesn't show up do you go take a shift in the parking garage?

Do you realize there are (except if you bring a weapon) any consequences at schools? It is now really rare to suspend a student. You think students haven't figured out it doesn't matter if I vape in the bathroom, ditch class, get into fights, there are no consequences. So what is the point of a teacher sitting outside the bathroom? Student start to realize most teachers won't go into a student bathroom because of fear they will be accused of something. No way is any teacher going to say , why were you two in the bathroom for twenty minutes? The next thing the teacher knows the parents are claiming the teacher is bullying their child who supposedly has gastrointestinal problems

Since you asked, here are the answers to your questions.

Check this out. I bought it for my laptop so that no one can easily peek at the contents of my screen. My employer didn't buy it for me. https://www.amazon.com/SightPro-Magnetic-Laptop-Privacy-Screen/dp/B0D7MC9QZD/ref=sr_1_4?crid=2I7XKTMN4PTU7&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.VByPKYzReFmuYwirTJdaAyEmx-7wMQGrdHS2ccVkA7kWlFd4CxnAeEoRFQZQbeLIVGFN7cSFGudk4igjqrol_jNHZD93XFOVzGz0VFSVIUN6VsewtaqisfkoDyjmIM_4cL2DI55Pc58gUhWAI4MOHHXek8gYfiCGV3_Jhaprwn0AhloQ9GZ2keC6M397zldnzHwIPwaUML4OJ7D0TNA83dTL6jVhAhtFpXJ5x9mQCTU.AEpeSz6yd3NMCizLNQ4CJ47m9IP8vt1D1pcBJRATwZA&dib_tag=se&keywords=laptop%2Bscreen%2Bprivacy%2Bshield&qid=1761940112&sprefix=Laptop%2BScreen%2BProtectors%2Caps%2C188&sr=8-4&th=1

I imagine the number of students roaming the hallways during a class period is fairly minimal.

Yes, I often use my own money to bring in supplies for work. I buy my own pens, pencils, notebooks, I use my personal iPhone for work, and I don't get reimbursed for it. I often pick up extra office supplies from my local Buy Nothing group. I bought a magnetic board with my own money. I spent money on Halloween decorations to decorate our department. I paid for a Canva subscription.

I've cleaned out the kitchenette fridge, the department fridge, cleaned out other people's workstations when they left the organization.

I've had a coworker flip me off because she disagreed with me. I've had people yell at me because they'd just had a difficult conversation with their boss. It happens everywhere. We all face hardships in the workplace. We all have to pitch in with things that aren't in our job descriptions or that might be beneath our education level.

Different teacher here. No, I’m sorry. It simply isn’t the same.

You purchase supplies for YOU. We purchase them for our students. I spent $70 this week alone on sanitation supplies, boxes of tissues, extra pens, and notebooks for students who don’t have one. That’s my fifth purchase of the year. I spend close between $800-$1000 on my students each year. Yes, and I purchase my own supplies on top of that.

Students in hallways? In a high school, imagine a constant flow of students out of the classroom. At a given time, I suspect 1/10 of our school isn’t in class. Out of 2500 students, that’s a lot. And that means I’m not grading. I’m doing traffic control.

We clean, too. The faculty lounge, our classrooms. I clean my students’ desks daily. All 38 of them.

You had a coworker flip you off. I’ve had chairs thrown at me and I’ve been pushed into a wall.


Sorry, it’s just not the same. At all.

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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.

Who else do you think should be responsible for monitoring the bathrooms then?

Our MS has placed monitors across all bathrooms and at hallway intersections. Staff assigned those locations take their laptops with them and still get work done (emails at least) and it has definitely cut down on behaviors and cutting classes. I frequently see my APs in the halls at a desk, monitoring students. And my principal is out in the school as well when they have time.

If you want a "safe" school, everyone needs to pitch in to make that happen.

This is so degrading to teachers who are paid to teach. Just wait until a students looks over the shoulder at a teacher looking at emails in a hallway and reads something confidential or someone complains the teacher wasn’t looking up when a fight occurred because they were on their laptop.

The real reason why it is an issue is that schools no longer give consequences like lengthy detentions or suspend students so students don’t care if they are caught. They just have to do some hocus pocus restorative justice talk and they are on their way to get in some more trouble.

I agree that it is degrading. It is also disrespectful.

We need to move past this culture that teachers should just “do more”.

You know all the threads about missing assignments in the gradebook? Work that hasn’t been returned?

Pick what you want. If you want teachers to focus on education, then they must be given time to work. If you want teachers filling every second of their days doing every random task necessary within the school building, then don’t complain when education suffers.

And grading in the hallway? I need a desk and a place to focus. It already takes 7-10 minutes per writing assignment. How much more time will it taken as I’m getting interrupted every 30 seconds?

What is so disrespectful about asking teachers to sit at a desk outside the bathroom for an hour once a week? If grading requires too much attention and focus, then do something else that requires less focus for that one hour. Clean out your email inbox. Organize your calendar. Ask absolutely anyone in any profession about the grunt work that they have to do as part of their job. We all have to pitch in from time to time. It's part of being a team player.

This is so hilarious and so obvious you have no idea all the endless tasks teachers have to do? You really think a teacher can clean out email inbox with confidential emails while students are walking by and can see the contents of the email? You think teachers are getting anything done when so many students roam the hallways? Teachers would be more than happy to pitch in "from time to time", the issue is it is absolutely never ending the amount of "pitching in" that teachers have to do.

You have absolutely no idea all the grunt work teachers are doing. Do you actually use your own money to bring in supplies for work? If you are at work and someone in your office picks up a chair and throws it, then calls you a whor* or bitc* and knocks things off your desk as they walk out of the office, does your boss tell you that you need to build a better relationship with your aggressive co-worker so you need to make sure to welcome them back into the office tomorrow? When the parking attendant doesn't show up do you go take a shift in the parking garage?

Do you realize there are (except if you bring a weapon) any consequences at schools? It is now really rare to suspend a student. You think students haven't figured out it doesn't matter if I vape in the bathroom, ditch class, get into fights, there are no consequences. So what is the point of a teacher sitting outside the bathroom? Student start to realize most teachers won't go into a student bathroom because of fear they will be accused of something. No way is any teacher going to say , why were you two in the bathroom for twenty minutes? The next thing the teacher knows the parents are claiming the teacher is bullying their child who supposedly has gastrointestinal problems

Since you asked, here are the answers to your questions.

Check this out. I bought it for my laptop so that no one can easily peek at the contents of my screen. My employer didn't buy it for me. https://www.amazon.com/SightPro-Magnetic-Laptop-Privacy-Screen/dp/B0D7MC9QZD/ref=sr_1_4?crid=2I7XKTMN4PTU7&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.VByPKYzReFmuYwirTJdaAyEmx-7wMQGrdHS2ccVkA7kWlFd4CxnAeEoRFQZQbeLIVGFN7cSFGudk4igjqrol_jNHZD93XFOVzGz0VFSVIUN6VsewtaqisfkoDyjmIM_4cL2DI55Pc58gUhWAI4MOHHXek8gYfiCGV3_Jhaprwn0AhloQ9GZ2keC6M397zldnzHwIPwaUML4OJ7D0TNA83dTL6jVhAhtFpXJ5x9mQCTU.AEpeSz6yd3NMCizLNQ4CJ47m9IP8vt1D1pcBJRATwZA&dib_tag=se&keywords=laptop%2Bscreen%2Bprivacy%2Bshield&qid=1761940112&sprefix=Laptop%2BScreen%2BProtectors%2Caps%2C188&sr=8-4&th=1

I imagine the number of students roaming the hallways during a class period is fairly minimal.

Yes, I often use my own money to bring in supplies for work. I buy my own pens, pencils, notebooks, I use my personal iPhone for work, and I don't get reimbursed for it. I often pick up extra office supplies from my local Buy Nothing group. I bought a magnetic board with my own money. I spent money on Halloween decorations to decorate our department. I paid for a Canva subscription.

I've cleaned out the kitchenette fridge, the department fridge, cleaned out other people's workstations when they left the organization.

I've had a coworker flip me off because she disagreed with me. I've had people yell at me because they'd just had a difficult conversation with their boss. It happens everywhere. We all face hardships in the workplace. We all have to pitch in with things that aren't in our job descriptions or that might be beneath our education level.

Different teacher here. No, I’m sorry. It simply isn’t the same.

You purchase supplies for YOU. We purchase them for our students. I spent $70 this week alone on sanitation supplies, boxes of tissues, extra pens, and notebooks for students who don’t have one. That’s my fifth purchase of the year. I spend close between $800-$1000 on my students each year. Yes, and I purchase my own supplies on top of that.

Students in hallways? In a high school, imagine a constant flow of students out of the classroom. At a given time, I suspect 1/10 of our school isn’t in class. Out of 2500 students, that’s a lot. And that means I’m not grading. I’m doing traffic control.

We clean, too. The faculty lounge, our classrooms. I clean my students’ desks daily. All 38 of them.

You had a coworker flip you off. I’ve had chairs thrown at me and I’ve been pushed into a wall.

Sorry, it’s just not the same. At all.

DP

Wow. That’s a lot! I doubt if I have spent that much in my 30 year teaching career. My spouse teaches at a Title 1 MS and doesn’t buy those items.

Beyond occasionally cleaning items in our classrooms, neither of us have ever had to clean the staff lounge or other areas of the school.

Do you not have E-Hall Pass to limit the number of students out at one time?

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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.

Who else do you think should be responsible for monitoring the bathrooms then?

Our MS has placed monitors across all bathrooms and at hallway intersections. Staff assigned those locations take their laptops with them and still get work done (emails at least) and it has definitely cut down on behaviors and cutting classes. I frequently see my APs in the halls at a desk, monitoring students. And my principal is out in the school as well when they have time.

If you want a "safe" school, everyone needs to pitch in to make that happen.

This is so degrading to teachers who are paid to teach. Just wait until a students looks over the shoulder at a teacher looking at emails in a hallway and reads something confidential or someone complains the teacher wasn’t looking up when a fight occurred because they were on their laptop.

The real reason why it is an issue is that schools no longer give consequences like lengthy detentions or suspend students so students don’t care if they are caught. They just have to do some hocus pocus restorative justice talk and they are on their way to get in some more trouble.

I agree that it is degrading. It is also disrespectful.

We need to move past this culture that teachers should just “do more”.

You know all the threads about missing assignments in the gradebook? Work that hasn’t been returned?

Pick what you want. If you want teachers to focus on education, then they must be given time to work. If you want teachers filling every second of their days doing every random task necessary within the school building, then don’t complain when education suffers.

And grading in the hallway? I need a desk and a place to focus. It already takes 7-10 minutes per writing assignment. How much more time will it taken as I’m getting interrupted every 30 seconds?

What is so disrespectful about asking teachers to sit at a desk outside the bathroom for an hour once a week? If grading requires too much attention and focus, then do something else that requires less focus for that one hour. Clean out your email inbox. Organize your calendar. Ask absolutely anyone in any profession about the grunt work that they have to do as part of their job. We all have to pitch in from time to time. It's part of being a team player.

This is so hilarious and so obvious you have no idea all the endless tasks teachers have to do? You really think a teacher can clean out email inbox with confidential emails while students are walking by and can see the contents of the email? You think teachers are getting anything done when so many students roam the hallways? Teachers would be more than happy to pitch in "from time to time", the issue is it is absolutely never ending the amount of "pitching in" that teachers have to do.

You have absolutely no idea all the grunt work teachers are doing. Do you actually use your own money to bring in supplies for work? If you are at work and someone in your office picks up a chair and throws it, then calls you a whor* or bitc* and knocks things off your desk as they walk out of the office, does your boss tell you that you need to build a better relationship with your aggressive co-worker so you need to make sure to welcome them back into the office tomorrow? When the parking attendant doesn't show up do you go take a shift in the parking garage?

Do you realize there are (except if you bring a weapon) any consequences at schools? It is now really rare to suspend a student. You think students haven't figured out it doesn't matter if I vape in the bathroom, ditch class, get into fights, there are no consequences. So what is the point of a teacher sitting outside the bathroom? Student start to realize most teachers won't go into a student bathroom because of fear they will be accused of something. No way is any teacher going to say , why were you two in the bathroom for twenty minutes? The next thing the teacher knows the parents are claiming the teacher is bullying their child who supposedly has gastrointestinal problems

Since you asked, here are the answers to your questions.

Check this out. I bought it for my laptop so that no one can easily peek at the contents of my screen. My employer didn't buy it for me. https://www.amazon.com/SightPro-Magnetic-Laptop-Privacy-Screen/dp/B0D7MC9QZD/ref=sr_1_4?crid=2I7XKTMN4PTU7&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.VByPKYzReFmuYwirTJdaAyEmx-7wMQGrdHS2ccVkA7kWlFd4CxnAeEoRFQZQbeLIVGFN7cSFGudk4igjqrol_jNHZD93XFOVzGz0VFSVIUN6VsewtaqisfkoDyjmIM_4cL2DI55Pc58gUhWAI4MOHHXek8gYfiCGV3_Jhaprwn0AhloQ9GZ2keC6M397zldnzHwIPwaUML4OJ7D0TNA83dTL6jVhAhtFpXJ5x9mQCTU.AEpeSz6yd3NMCizLNQ4CJ47m9IP8vt1D1pcBJRATwZA&dib_tag=se&keywords=laptop%2Bscreen%2Bprivacy%2Bshield&qid=1761940112&sprefix=Laptop%2BScreen%2BProtectors%2Caps%2C188&sr=8-4&th=1

I imagine the number of students roaming the hallways during a class period is fairly minimal.

Yes, I often use my own money to bring in supplies for work. I buy my own pens, pencils, notebooks, I use my personal iPhone for work, and I don't get reimbursed for it. I often pick up extra office supplies from my local Buy Nothing group. I bought a magnetic board with my own money. I spent money on Halloween decorations to decorate our department. I paid for a Canva subscription.

I've cleaned out the kitchenette fridge, the department fridge, cleaned out other people's workstations when they left the organization.

I've had a coworker flip me off because she disagreed with me. I've had people yell at me because they'd just had a difficult conversation with their boss. It happens everywhere. We all face hardships in the workplace. We all have to pitch in with things that aren't in our job descriptions or that might be beneath our education level.

Different teacher here. No, I’m sorry. It simply isn’t the same.

You purchase supplies for YOU. We purchase them for our students. I spent $70 this week alone on sanitation supplies, boxes of tissues, extra pens, and notebooks for students who don’t have one. That’s my fifth purchase of the year. I spend close between $800-$1000 on my students each year. Yes, and I purchase my own supplies on top of that.

Students in hallways? In a high school, imagine a constant flow of students out of the classroom. At a given time, I suspect 1/10 of our school isn’t in class. Out of 2500 students, that’s a lot. And that means I’m not grading. I’m doing traffic control.

We clean, too. The faculty lounge, our classrooms. I clean my students’ desks daily. All 38 of them.

You had a coworker flip you off. I’ve had chairs thrown at me and I’ve been pushed into a wall.

Sorry, it’s just not the same. At all.

DP

Wow. That’s a lot! I doubt if I have spent that much in my 30 year teaching career. My spouse teaches at a Title 1 MS and doesn’t buy those items.

Beyond occasionally cleaning items in our classrooms, neither of us have ever had to clean the staff lounge or other areas of the school.

Do you not have E-Hall Pass to limit the number of students out at one time?

I currently work in a different district. We have no dept budget, so all supplies become the teacher’s responsibility. (I used to be FCPS.)

And ehallpass only keeps track of the students who show up to class in the first place. We have many students who don’t bother to show up at all. They congregate all period in the halls.

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So many students are in the halls constantly. It's their way of getting out of class, and teachers' way of getting a few minutes of break from them. At our school students are limited to 2 hall passes a day in the online system but many teachers just don't use it and let them go anyway because they're so disruptive in class. So at any given time during the day you have dozens of students roaming around "going to the bathroom" or wherever, and needing to be monitored by the minimal security staff, but mostly by admin and whatever teachers are off that period and supposed to be doing planning. It's ridiculous.

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Back in my day at FCPS, we had two school security people. They would walk the halls/ bathrooms/parking lots during the day and get on people to get back to class or to the right spots. I would think in this day and age those positions still exist with reinforcement from the school resource officers. One our school security guys was an ex Redskin.

Is that not true of FCPS anymore? I’m shocked it they don’t.

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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.

Who else do you think should be responsible for monitoring the bathrooms then?

Our MS has placed monitors across all bathrooms and at hallway intersections. Staff assigned those locations take their laptops with them and still get work done (emails at least) and it has definitely cut down on behaviors and cutting classes. I frequently see my APs in the halls at a desk, monitoring students. And my principal is out in the school as well when they have time.

If you want a "safe" school, everyone needs to pitch in to make that happen.

This is so degrading to teachers who are paid to teach. Just wait until a students looks over the shoulder at a teacher looking at emails in a hallway and reads something confidential or someone complains the teacher wasn’t looking up when a fight occurred because they were on their laptop.

The real reason why it is an issue is that schools no longer give consequences like lengthy detentions or suspend students so students don’t care if they are caught. They just have to do some hocus pocus restorative justice talk and they are on their way to get in some more trouble.

I agree that it is degrading. It is also disrespectful.

We need to move past this culture that teachers should just “do more”.

You know all the threads about missing assignments in the gradebook? Work that hasn’t been returned?

Pick what you want. If you want teachers to focus on education, then they must be given time to work. If you want teachers filling every second of their days doing every random task necessary within the school building, then don’t complain when education suffers.

And grading in the hallway? I need a desk and a place to focus. It already takes 7-10 minutes per writing assignment. How much more time will it taken as I’m getting interrupted every 30 seconds?

What is so disrespectful about asking teachers to sit at a desk outside the bathroom for an hour once a week? If grading requires too much attention and focus, then do something else that requires less focus for that one hour. Clean out your email inbox. Organize your calendar. Ask absolutely anyone in any profession about the grunt work that they have to do as part of their job. We all have to pitch in from time to time. It's part of being a team player.

This is so hilarious and so obvious you have no idea all the endless tasks teachers have to do? You really think a teacher can clean out email inbox with confidential emails while students are walking by and can see the contents of the email? You think teachers are getting anything done when so many students roam the hallways? Teachers would be more than happy to pitch in "from time to time", the issue is it is absolutely never ending the amount of "pitching in" that teachers have to do.

You have absolutely no idea all the grunt work teachers are doing. Do you actually use your own money to bring in supplies for work? If you are at work and someone in your office picks up a chair and throws it, then calls you a whor* or bitc* and knocks things off your desk as they walk out of the office, does your boss tell you that you need to build a better relationship with your aggressive co-worker so you need to make sure to welcome them back into the office tomorrow? When the parking attendant doesn't show up do you go take a shift in the parking garage?

Do you realize there are (except if you bring a weapon) any consequences at schools? It is now really rare to suspend a student. You think students haven't figured out it doesn't matter if I vape in the bathroom, ditch class, get into fights, there are no consequences. So what is the point of a teacher sitting outside the bathroom? Student start to realize most teachers won't go into a student bathroom because of fear they will be accused of something. No way is any teacher going to say , why were you two in the bathroom for twenty minutes? The next thing the teacher knows the parents are claiming the teacher is bullying their child who supposedly has gastrointestinal problems

Since you asked, here are the answers to your questions.

Check this out. I bought it for my laptop so that no one can easily peek at the contents of my screen. My employer didn't buy it for me. https://www.amazon.com/SightPro-Magnetic-Laptop-Privacy-Screen/dp/B0D7MC9QZD/ref=sr_1_4?crid=2I7XKTMN4PTU7&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.VByPKYzReFmuYwirTJdaAyEmx-7wMQGrdHS2ccVkA7kWlFd4CxnAeEoRFQZQbeLIVGFN7cSFGudk4igjqrol_jNHZD93XFOVzGz0VFSVIUN6VsewtaqisfkoDyjmIM_4cL2DI55Pc58gUhWAI4MOHHXek8gYfiCGV3_Jhaprwn0AhloQ9GZ2keC6M397zldnzHwIPwaUML4OJ7D0TNA83dTL6jVhAhtFpXJ5x9mQCTU.AEpeSz6yd3NMCizLNQ4CJ47m9IP8vt1D1pcBJRATwZA&dib_tag=se&keywords=laptop%2Bscreen%2Bprivacy%2Bshield&qid=1761940112&sprefix=Laptop%2BScreen%2BProtectors%2Caps%2C188&sr=8-4&th=1

I imagine the number of students roaming the hallways during a class period is fairly minimal.

Yes, I often use my own money to bring in supplies for work. I buy my own pens, pencils, notebooks, I use my personal iPhone for work, and I don't get reimbursed for it. I often pick up extra office supplies from my local Buy Nothing group. I bought a magnetic board with my own money. I spent money on Halloween decorations to decorate our department. I paid for a Canva subscription.

I've cleaned out the kitchenette fridge, the department fridge, cleaned out other people's workstations when they left the organization.

I've had a coworker flip me off because she disagreed with me. I've had people yell at me because they'd just had a difficult conversation with their boss. It happens everywhere. We all face hardships in the workplace. We all have to pitch in with things that aren't in our job descriptions or that might be beneath our education level.

Different teacher here. No, I’m sorry. It simply isn’t the same.

You purchase supplies for YOU. We purchase them for our students. I spent $70 this week alone on sanitation supplies, boxes of tissues, extra pens, and notebooks for students who don’t have one. That’s my fifth purchase of the year. I spend close between $800-$1000 on my students each year. Yes, and I purchase my own supplies on top of that.

Students in hallways? In a high school, imagine a constant flow of students out of the classroom. At a given time, I suspect 1/10 of our school isn’t in class. Out of 2500 students, that’s a lot. And that means I’m not grading. I’m doing traffic control.

We clean, too. The faculty lounge, our classrooms. I clean my students’ desks daily. All 38 of them.

You had a coworker flip you off. I’ve had chairs thrown at me and I’ve been pushed into a wall.

Sorry, it’s just not the same. At all.

To restock on supplies, try sending out an email to the parents. Let them know school supplies are low. Parents will respond. Send out a request to the PTA. Put out a wish in your local buy nothing group. There are definitely options that don't require you to spend your own cash.

Your school has 250 students roaming the halls at any given time during class periods? 250 would suggest significant supervision or attendance issues, not the norm for a well-run school.

That you've been assaulted twice in your career is certainly awful, and I'm sorry that you had to go through that. However, it doesn't relate to teachers spending one hour a week sitting at a desk with their laptops in the hallway to monitor the halls.

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Anonymous wrote:Back in my day at FCPS, we had two school security people. They would walk the halls/ bathrooms/parking lots during the day and get on people to get back to class or to the right spots. I would think in this day and age those positions still exist with reinforcement from the school resource officers. One our school security guys was an ex Redskin.

Is that not true of FCPS anymore? I’m shocked it they don’t.

Security and school resource officers intimidate students which creates truancy.

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Hahahahaha there are 100s of kids out of class at any given time. There are 4000 kids, divided by an average of 25 per class (some are tiny capped at 10, others have 35), so if 1 per class is out of class for bathroom or water (pretty typical, it’s a constant flow) that’s 160 kids at any given time.

Then add in another 30 who are out for other reasons—checking in/out for the day, attending a meeting, running back to their last class because they left their water bottle, heading to tech because their laptop doesn’t work, going to a conference room for their IEP/504 meeting. Then another 10 or 20 who are ditching class…you’re at 200.

Now consider that some teachers allow kids to work on projects in common areas, and you’ve got another 50-60 kids legitimately working.

It is SO many kids.

As a teacher, I cannot focus at all when I have hall duty. It is constant noise and chaos and kids walking by to say hi and try to engage me to avoid going back to class. I gave up trying to do anything productive during that time. I would get through 5 math quizzes in the hour (normally I can do 30 in the hour). Just not worth the risk of losing one or a kid taking one when my attention was diverted.

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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.

Who else do you think should be responsible for monitoring the bathrooms then?

Our MS has placed monitors across all bathrooms and at hallway intersections. Staff assigned those locations take their laptops with them and still get work done (emails at least) and it has definitely cut down on behaviors and cutting classes. I frequently see my APs in the halls at a desk, monitoring students. And my principal is out in the school as well when they have time.

If you want a "safe" school, everyone needs to pitch in to make that happen.

This is so degrading to teachers who are paid to teach. Just wait until a students looks over the shoulder at a teacher looking at emails in a hallway and reads something confidential or someone complains the teacher wasn’t looking up when a fight occurred because they were on their laptop.

The real reason why it is an issue is that schools no longer give consequences like lengthy detentions or suspend students so students don’t care if they are caught. They just have to do some hocus pocus restorative justice talk and they are on their way to get in some more trouble.

I agree that it is degrading. It is also disrespectful.

We need to move past this culture that teachers should just “do more”.

You know all the threads about missing assignments in the gradebook? Work that hasn’t been returned?

Pick what you want. If you want teachers to focus on education, then they must be given time to work. If you want teachers filling every second of their days doing every random task necessary within the school building, then don’t complain when education suffers.

And grading in the hallway? I need a desk and a place to focus. It already takes 7-10 minutes per writing assignment. How much more time will it taken as I’m getting interrupted every 30 seconds?

What is so disrespectful about asking teachers to sit at a desk outside the bathroom for an hour once a week? If grading requires too much attention and focus, then do something else that requires less focus for that one hour. Clean out your email inbox. Organize your calendar. Ask absolutely anyone in any profession about the grunt work that they have to do as part of their job. We all have to pitch in from time to time. It's part of being a team player.

This is so hilarious and so obvious you have no idea all the endless tasks teachers have to do? You really think a teacher can clean out email inbox with confidential emails while students are walking by and can see the contents of the email? You think teachers are getting anything done when so many students roam the hallways? Teachers would be more than happy to pitch in "from time to time", the issue is it is absolutely never ending the amount of "pitching in" that teachers have to do.

You have absolutely no idea all the grunt work teachers are doing. Do you actually use your own money to bring in supplies for work? If you are at work and someone in your office picks up a chair and throws it, then calls you a whor* or bitc* and knocks things off your desk as they walk out of the office, does your boss tell you that you need to build a better relationship with your aggressive co-worker so you need to make sure to welcome them back into the office tomorrow? When the parking attendant doesn't show up do you go take a shift in the parking garage?

Do you realize there are (except if you bring a weapon) any consequences at schools? It is now really rare to suspend a student. You think students haven't figured out it doesn't matter if I vape in the bathroom, ditch class, get into fights, there are no consequences. So what is the point of a teacher sitting outside the bathroom? Student start to realize most teachers won't go into a student bathroom because of fear they will be accused of something. No way is any teacher going to say , why were you two in the bathroom for twenty minutes? The next thing the teacher knows the parents are claiming the teacher is bullying their child who supposedly has gastrointestinal problems

Since you asked, here are the answers to your questions.

Check this out. I bought it for my laptop so that no one can easily peek at the contents of my screen. My employer didn't buy it for me. https://www.amazon.com/SightPro-Magnetic-Laptop-Privacy-Screen/dp/B0D7MC9QZD/ref=sr_1_4?crid=2I7XKTMN4PTU7&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.VByPKYzReFmuYwirTJdaAyEmx-7wMQGrdHS2ccVkA7kWlFd4CxnAeEoRFQZQbeLIVGFN7cSFGudk4igjqrol_jNHZD93XFOVzGz0VFSVIUN6VsewtaqisfkoDyjmIM_4cL2DI55Pc58gUhWAI4MOHHXek8gYfiCGV3_Jhaprwn0AhloQ9GZ2keC6M397zldnzHwIPwaUML4OJ7D0TNA83dTL6jVhAhtFpXJ5x9mQCTU.AEpeSz6yd3NMCizLNQ4CJ47m9IP8vt1D1pcBJRATwZA&dib_tag=se&keywords=laptop%2Bscreen%2Bprivacy%2Bshield&qid=1761940112&sprefix=Laptop%2BScreen%2BProtectors%2Caps%2C188&sr=8-4&th=1

I imagine the number of students roaming the hallways during a class period is fairly minimal.

Yes, I often use my own money to bring in supplies for work. I buy my own pens, pencils, notebooks, I use my personal iPhone for work, and I don't get reimbursed for it. I often pick up extra office supplies from my local Buy Nothing group. I bought a magnetic board with my own money. I spent money on Halloween decorations to decorate our department. I paid for a Canva subscription.

I've cleaned out the kitchenette fridge, the department fridge, cleaned out other people's workstations when they left the organization.

I've had a coworker flip me off because she disagreed with me. I've had people yell at me because they'd just had a difficult conversation with their boss. It happens everywhere. We all face hardships in the workplace. We all have to pitch in with things that aren't in our job descriptions or that might be beneath our education level.

Different teacher here. No, I’m sorry. It simply isn’t the same.

You purchase supplies for YOU. We purchase them for our students. I spent $70 this week alone on sanitation supplies, boxes of tissues, extra pens, and notebooks for students who don’t have one. That’s my fifth purchase of the year. I spend close between $800-$1000 on my students each year. Yes, and I purchase my own supplies on top of that.

Students in hallways? In a high school, imagine a constant flow of students out of the classroom. At a given time, I suspect 1/10 of our school isn’t in class. Out of 2500 students, that’s a lot. And that means I’m not grading. I’m doing traffic control.

We clean, too. The faculty lounge, our classrooms. I clean my students’ desks daily. All 38 of them.

You had a coworker flip you off. I’ve had chairs thrown at me and I’ve been pushed into a wall.

Sorry, it’s just not the same. At all.

To restock on supplies, try sending out an email to the parents. Let them know school supplies are low. Parents will respond. Send out a request to the PTA. Put out a wish in your local buy nothing group. There are definitely options that don't require you to spend your own cash.

Your school has 250 students roaming the halls at any given time during class periods? 250 would suggest significant supervision or attendance issues, not the norm for a well-run school.

That you've been assaulted twice in your career is certainly awful, and I'm sorry that you had to go through that. However, it doesn't relate to teachers spending one hour a week sitting at a desk with their laptops in the hallway to monitor the halls.

Is there any other profession people are so comfortable commenting on? Just because you once sat in a classroom doesn’t mean you understand teaching.

Many families probably can’t afford supplies. We are actively discouraged from sending emails like those. It is shortsighted and doesn’t respect our community.

And significant supervision issues? That’s most high schools now. The lowered expectations for behavior, attendance, and performance have led to this.

As for just another hour of duty: please don’t criticize me for delayed grades. If you are advocating for taking the precious grading time I have away from me, then you can’t demand that my grades get done. It’s one or the other.

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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.

Who else do you think should be responsible for monitoring the bathrooms then?

Our MS has placed monitors across all bathrooms and at hallway intersections. Staff assigned those locations take their laptops with them and still get work done (emails at least) and it has definitely cut down on behaviors and cutting classes. I frequently see my APs in the halls at a desk, monitoring students. And my principal is out in the school as well when they have time.

If you want a "safe" school, everyone needs to pitch in to make that happen.

This is so degrading to teachers who are paid to teach. Just wait until a students looks over the shoulder at a teacher looking at emails in a hallway and reads something confidential or someone complains the teacher wasn’t looking up when a fight occurred because they were on their laptop.

The real reason why it is an issue is that schools no longer give consequences like lengthy detentions or suspend students so students don’t care if they are caught. They just have to do some hocus pocus restorative justice talk and they are on their way to get in some more trouble.

I agree that it is degrading. It is also disrespectful.

We need to move past this culture that teachers should just “do more”.

You know all the threads about missing assignments in the gradebook? Work that hasn’t been returned?

Pick what you want. If you want teachers to focus on education, then they must be given time to work. If you want teachers filling every second of their days doing every random task necessary within the school building, then don’t complain when education suffers.

And grading in the hallway? I need a desk and a place to focus. It already takes 7-10 minutes per writing assignment. How much more time will it taken as I’m getting interrupted every 30 seconds?

What is so disrespectful about asking teachers to sit at a desk outside the bathroom for an hour once a week? If grading requires too much attention and focus, then do something else that requires less focus for that one hour. Clean out your email inbox. Organize your calendar. Ask absolutely anyone in any profession about the grunt work that they have to do as part of their job. We all have to pitch in from time to time. It's part of being a team player.

This is so hilarious and so obvious you have no idea all the endless tasks teachers have to do? You really think a teacher can clean out email inbox with confidential emails while students are walking by and can see the contents of the email? You think teachers are getting anything done when so many students roam the hallways? Teachers would be more than happy to pitch in "from time to time", the issue is it is absolutely never ending the amount of "pitching in" that teachers have to do.

You have absolutely no idea all the grunt work teachers are doing. Do you actually use your own money to bring in supplies for work? If you are at work and someone in your office picks up a chair and throws it, then calls you a whor* or bitc* and knocks things off your desk as they walk out of the office, does your boss tell you that you need to build a better relationship with your aggressive co-worker so you need to make sure to welcome them back into the office tomorrow? When the parking attendant doesn't show up do you go take a shift in the parking garage?

Do you realize there are (except if you bring a weapon) any consequences at schools? It is now really rare to suspend a student. You think students haven't figured out it doesn't matter if I vape in the bathroom, ditch class, get into fights, there are no consequences. So what is the point of a teacher sitting outside the bathroom? Student start to realize most teachers won't go into a student bathroom because of fear they will be accused of something. No way is any teacher going to say , why were you two in the bathroom for twenty minutes? The next thing the teacher knows the parents are claiming the teacher is bullying their child who supposedly has gastrointestinal problems

Since you asked, here are the answers to your questions.

Check this out. I bought it for my laptop so that no one can easily peek at the contents of my screen. My employer didn't buy it for me. https://www.amazon.com/SightPro-Magnetic-Laptop-Privacy-Screen/dp/B0D7MC9QZD/ref=sr_1_4?crid=2I7XKTMN4PTU7&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.VByPKYzReFmuYwirTJdaAyEmx-7wMQGrdHS2ccVkA7kWlFd4CxnAeEoRFQZQbeLIVGFN7cSFGudk4igjqrol_jNHZD93XFOVzGz0VFSVIUN6VsewtaqisfkoDyjmIM_4cL2DI55Pc58gUhWAI4MOHHXek8gYfiCGV3_Jhaprwn0AhloQ9GZ2keC6M397zldnzHwIPwaUML4OJ7D0TNA83dTL6jVhAhtFpXJ5x9mQCTU.AEpeSz6yd3NMCizLNQ4CJ47m9IP8vt1D1pcBJRATwZA&dib_tag=se&keywords=laptop%2Bscreen%2Bprivacy%2Bshield&qid=1761940112&sprefix=Laptop%2BScreen%2BProtectors%2Caps%2C188&sr=8-4&th=1

I imagine the number of students roaming the hallways during a class period is fairly minimal.

Yes, I often use my own money to bring in supplies for work. I buy my own pens, pencils, notebooks, I use my personal iPhone for work, and I don't get reimbursed for it. I often pick up extra office supplies from my local Buy Nothing group. I bought a magnetic board with my own money. I spent money on Halloween decorations to decorate our department. I paid for a Canva subscription.

I've cleaned out the kitchenette fridge, the department fridge, cleaned out other people's workstations when they left the organization.

I've had a coworker flip me off because she disagreed with me. I've had people yell at me because they'd just had a difficult conversation with their boss. It happens everywhere. We all face hardships in the workplace. We all have to pitch in with things that aren't in our job descriptions or that might be beneath our education level.

Different teacher here. No, I’m sorry. It simply isn’t the same.

You purchase supplies for YOU. We purchase them for our students. I spent $70 this week alone on sanitation supplies, boxes of tissues, extra pens, and notebooks for students who don’t have one. That’s my fifth purchase of the year. I spend close between $800-$1000 on my students each year. Yes, and I purchase my own supplies on top of that.

Students in hallways? In a high school, imagine a constant flow of students out of the classroom. At a given time, I suspect 1/10 of our school isn’t in class. Out of 2500 students, that’s a lot. And that means I’m not grading. I’m doing traffic control.

We clean, too. The faculty lounge, our classrooms. I clean my students’ desks daily. All 38 of them.

You had a coworker flip you off. I’ve had chairs thrown at me and I’ve been pushed into a wall.

Sorry, it’s just not the same. At all.

DP

Wow. That’s a lot! I doubt if I have spent that much in my 30 year teaching career. My spouse teaches at a Title 1 MS and doesn’t buy those items.

Beyond occasionally cleaning items in our classrooms, neither of us have ever had to clean the staff lounge or other areas of the school.

Do you not have E-Hall Pass to limit the number of students out at one time?

I currently work in a different district. We have no dept budget, so all supplies become the teacher’s responsibility. (I used to be FCPS.)

And ehallpass only keeps track of the students who show up to class in the first place. We have many students who don’t bother to show up at all. They congregate all period in the halls.

Ok.
This is an FCPS board.

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Anonymous wrote:Back in my day at FCPS, we had two school security people. They would walk the halls/ bathrooms/parking lots during the day and get on people to get back to class or to the right spots. I would think in this day and age those positions still exist with reinforcement from the school resource officers. One our school security guys was an ex Redskin.

Is that not true of FCPS anymore? I’m shocked it they don’t.

Security and school resource officers intimidate students which creates truancy.

No you have it absolutely backwards! There are no more security and school resource officers so aggressive and defiant students run amok, so it is those out of control students who intimidate and physically assault other students with no consequences. So students who want to learn but don't want to get beat up, want to be able to actually go to the bathroom in peace, and can't handle the chaos then start not coming to school and some eventually stop coming. This is what causes truancy. The LACK of security in schools!

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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

Smoking in bathrooms has been an issue for decades. Why does it seem we need more monitoring? What was the inflection point?

Vaping is worse for their lungs than smoking.

Who cares? If kids want to destroy their body during the school day, have at it.

Yup. I agree. They're only harming themselves. Not the school's or teacher's problem

I think it's wonderful that FCPS administration and staff are doing what they can to keep our kids healthy and safe while under their watch. Thank you so much!

Of course you do. You’re someone that thinks it’s the school’s responsibility to parent your kids.

Parents can't supervise their children while they are at public school. It is literally the job of the staff at the public school to keep the students safe by offering a safe environment. FCPS fails to offer a safe environment and could be doing so much more. That does not mean it should fall on the teachers.

Students vaping in the bathroom =/= FCPS failing to offer a safe environment. That’s a parenting issue that kids are vaping.

Is vaping at school a parent problem?

Partly, but not entirely.
Parents play a critical role in shaping a child’s values, awareness, and boundaries, but vaping at school has become a systemic issue, not just a family one. Many parents genuinely have no idea their child is vaping or that it’s so pervasive during the school day.

Parents often:
• Don’t recognize the signs of vaping (the devices are small, odorless, and easily hidden).
• Assume schools are able to monitor behavior on campus.
• Are unaware of the intense peer pressure and accessibility of vapes at school.

So while parent education and involvement are vital, the root of the problem also lies in access, environment, and enforcement — areas where schools play a major role.

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How do schools influence a student’s likelihood to vape?

Schools can either reduce or increase the likelihood, depending on their culture and systems:

Ways schools may unintentionally enable vaping:
• Limited supervision in restrooms, hallways, or during free periods.
• No vape detectors or security presence in high-risk areas.
• Minimal consequences or inconsistent enforcement, which sends the message that it’s not a serious issue.
• Peer culture and visibility: When students see others vaping without consequences, it normalizes the behavior.
• Stress and pressure: Academically intense environments without healthy coping outlets can push students toward nicotine use as a stress relief.

Ways schools can reduce vaping:
• Install vape detectors and increase adult presence in restrooms and common areas.
• Offer education-based discipline, not just punishment — e.g., counseling or addiction awareness programs.
• Involve student leaders in anti-vaping campaigns to shift peer norms.
• Strengthen family communication, so parents are informed and can watch for signs.
• Work with law enforcement or public health departments to restrict on-campus access and sales.

Vaping at school is not just a “parent problem” — it’s a community problem that requires a coordinated response between families, schools, and public health systems.
• Parents need education and awareness.
• Schools need systems, supervision, and consistent consequences.
• Students need connection and prevention programs, not just punishment.

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Parents often:
• Don’t recognize the signs of vaping (the devices are small, odorless, and easily hidden).
• Assume schools are able to monitor behavior on campus.
• Are unaware of the intense peer pressure and accessibility of vapes at school.

So the small, odorless, easily-hidden devices, as well as the difficult signs of vaping, that parents don't notice are somehow MAGICALLY going to be noticed by the school staff?

Parents have one or two teens to monitor. Teachers have 30+ at a time, usually 150-175. But YES, let's put the responsibility on the school staff.

Parents need to parent. They need to stop expecting the schools to do everything for them. It's completely out of hand.

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Parents often:
• Don’t recognize the signs of vaping (the devices are small, odorless, and easily hidden).
• Assume schools are able to monitor behavior on campus.
• Are unaware of the intense peer pressure and accessibility of vapes at school.

So the small, odorless, easily-hidden devices, as well as the difficult signs of vaping, that parents don't notice are somehow MAGICALLY going to be noticed by the school staff?

Parents have one or two teens to monitor. Teachers have 30+ at a time, usually 150-175. But YES, let's put the responsibility on the school staff.

Parents need to parent. They need to stop expecting the schools to do everything for them. It's completely out of hand.

It is not the teachers job. I am not saying this should be one more teacher responsibility. It is the SCHOOL SYSTEMS job. They could add more security guards to monitor bathrooms and hallways, use vape detectors in bathrooms, get metal detector wands to find hidden vapes on bodies (in pants) and in ceiling tiles, have random drug dog searches, do vape prevention and awareness campaigns (make it not cool), keep cell phone use limited during day (so kids don’t snap/text to meetup), keep social media off school devices (Snapchat), give harsher consequences, use metal detectors (competently!). Kids are dealing vapes at school!

The school system could be doing so much more. And they should be. So many kids are vaping in schools. They are ruining their lungs, becoming addicted, and it’s a gate way drug. Saying “it’s a parenting problem” is really ignorant and shows lack of awareness about the issue.

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Parents often:
• Don’t recognize the signs of vaping (the devices are small, odorless, and easily hidden).
• Assume schools are able to monitor behavior on campus.
• Are unaware of the intense peer pressure and accessibility of vapes at school.

So the small, odorless, easily-hidden devices, as well as the difficult signs of vaping, that parents don't notice are somehow MAGICALLY going to be noticed by the school staff?

Parents have one or two teens to monitor. Teachers have 30+ at a time, usually 150-175. But YES, let's put the responsibility on the school staff.

Parents need to parent. They need to stop expecting the schools to do everything for them. It's completely out of hand.

It is not the teachers job. I am not saying this should be one more teacher responsibility. It is the SCHOOL SYSTEMS job. They could add more security guards to monitor bathrooms and hallways, use vape detectors in bathrooms, get metal detector wands to find hidden vapes on bodies (in pants) and in ceiling tiles, have random drug dog searches, do vape prevention and awareness campaigns (make it not cool), keep cell phone use limited during day (so kids don’t snap/text to meetup), keep social media off school devices (Snapchat), give harsher consequences, use metal detectors (competently!). Kids are dealing vapes at school!

The school system could be doing so much more. And they should be. So many kids are vaping in schools. They are ruining their lungs, becoming addicted, and it’s a gate way drug. Saying “it’s a parenting problem” is really ignorant and shows lack of awareness about the issue.

No. The school system should not be doing more. Schools are there to educate kids, not parent them or prevent them from ruining their lungs or becoming addicts. Do your job as a parent to your kids.