Bathrooms are locked at ACHS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Was there a big parent outcry at the last School Board meeting? Will there be one at the meeting this week?

Did anyone from PTAC speak at the meeting on this? Any public statement from PTAC and the PTAs?

PTAC actually advocating for students? That would be a first.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Word on the street is that the new superintendent of Alexandria City Public Schools now treats students at the high school like prisoners in jail. Bathrooms are locked and students are only allowed to access them at certain times. Teens are told that if they have a problem with this then they should wear depends. Depends instead of being able to relive themselves in a restroom! Anyone know a WaPo education reporter to investigate this? Absolutely is outrageous!

Instead of building more than one highschool including an alternative school to manage students humanely the superintendent has turned the one highschool into an actual jail.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Was there a big parent outcry at the last School Board meeting? Will there be one at the meeting this week?

Did anyone from PTAC speak at the meeting on this? Any public statement from PTAC and the PTAs?

PTAC actually advocating for students? That would be a first.

Ha! True and their website is covered in photos of the current past president (and her husband). It's weird.

[Anonymous]

Did this come up at the superintendent's thing last night?

[Anonymous]

What do parents have planned for the school board meeting tonight? Protest outside? Have they filled the speaking slots? showing up and filling all the seats?

The PTAs and PTAC must be organizing people. Because if they can't organize parents on the basic issue of children being able to go to the bathroom at school...why do they exist and why are parents funding them?

I haven't seen any press or quotes from school board members but surely the school board members have spoken out?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What do parents have planned for the school board meeting tonight? Protest outside? Have they filled the speaking slots? showing up and filling all the seats?

The PTAs and PTAC must be organizing people. Because if they can't organize parents on the basic issue of children being able to go to the bathroom at school...why do they exist and why are parents funding them?

I haven't seen any press or quotes from school board members but surely the school board members have spoken out?

There was again one (maybe two if you count the first comment) public comment on the bathroom issue after one last week.

There were some good comments on the lack of teachers. The Board asked a few questions of staff on that after a HR update but it was too rah rah ACPS rather than showing any real care about the students not receiving an education.

[Anonymous]

Remember in nursery school when all the kids were marched to the bathroom at specific times of the day, like right after lunch, or before naptime?
What's wrong with having specified windows of time for bathroom visits?
Heck, visit an older Chinese hotel and guests have specified windows of time for hot water availability so people only bathe during those times.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Remember in nursery school when all the kids were marched to the bathroom at specific times of the day, like right after lunch, or before naptime?
What's wrong with having specified windows of time for bathroom visits?
Heck, visit an older Chinese hotel and guests have specified windows of time for hot water availability so people only bathe during those times.

Is this some kind of bit?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There seems to be an unwillingness of admin to issue consequences these days. They would rather punish the whole student body by turning the school into a prison rather than simply punish the students who are the bad actors. Students selling weed in the bathroom? Suspend them/. Report them to law enforcement. Students having sex in the bathroom? Same thing. Suspend them. They do some dumb shit they need to suffer the consequences. Instead what you have is students who can’t go to the bathroom because admin have decided to lock all the bathrooms and even if they can go, they don’t feel safe because of all the shit going on in there.

Sorry, I know this is a serious topic, but the bolded above made me LOL.

[Anonymous]

Do the UMC "honors" students have access to bathrooms?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do the UMC "honors" students have access to bathrooms?

Not at GWMS

[Anonymous]

Any updates on this? Is this still policy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any updates on this? Is this still policy?

Still policy at GWMS so presumably still policy at ACHS and elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

Is the ONE parent who dared to speak about this at a School Board meeting getting any support? Any support from the PTAs or PTAC? Surely they are all over this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Was there a big parent outcry at the last School Board meeting? Will there be one at the meeting this week?

Did anyone from PTAC speak at the meeting on this? Any public statement from PTAC and the PTAs?

PTAC actually advocating for students? That would be a first.

Ha! True and their website is covered in photos of the current past president (and her husband). It's weird.

I didn’t believe this and had to look and you’re right. She’s in almost every single photo. She’s infamous. Hilarious.

Also she’s super mad about the lack of teachers this year, she’s always complaining about it on FB. How the mighty have fallen! Typical position of ACPS is perfect and anyone who criticizes it is racist until wait a minute, it’s happening to my kid now and they re-evaluate.