First days of school

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Anonymous wrote:E hall pass is amazing from a school perspective as we can now limit how many students are in the hallway building wide. Set the cap at 15 and it locks anyone else from submitting a pass when that number is reached. I used it in a different school system and it was very successful.

The only downside from a teacher's perspective is that you will have to temporarily stop instruction to approve the pass but that's no different than having to stop to write a hand written pass.

Building on this since I can't edit the original post, it was also great because as a highly data driven teacher, it calculates how long each student is out of the classroom so I can collect that data and use it when communicating with parents to justify a student's performance. "Yes Mrs. Jones I understand you are upset with your child having a D in my class but the data indicates they have spent the equivalent of 3 whole class periods in the hallway and bathroom this marking period."

Why can't that same data be captured on a sign in sign out sheet/clipboard in the classroom?

And who would analyze that handwritten data, enter it into a system and keep it updated daily? Are you volunteering?

There could be many volunteers if it means students don't have to plan their pee and poop breaks

Sure, parents are mad in the other thread that teachers get told about students’ medical conditions in order to keep them safe, but we are ok with parents monitoring classroom data? Ok.

[Anonymous]

Its amazing how many of these kids with "bathroom emergencies" suddenly don't need to go any more when I require them to trade their cell phone for a bathroom pass.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:E hall pass is amazing from a school perspective as we can now limit how many students are in the hallway building wide. Set the cap at 15 and it locks anyone else from submitting a pass when that number is reached. I used it in a different school system and it was very successful.

The only downside from a teacher's perspective is that you will have to temporarily stop instruction to approve the pass but that's no different than having to stop to write a hand written pass.

But what about kid #16 who really needs to go … like now.

They’re SOL. These policies are absurd. You can’t go during the first 10 minutes or last 10 minutes of any class; you can’t go if too many other people already have passes; you can’t go in a bathroom if there’s already a certain number of people in it (even in between classes, so that’s not necessarily an option); the electronic pass is only good for 10 minutes, even if you’re coming from a portable, so even if you’re carrying a traditional pass, if the electronic one expires before you get back to class, you’re in trouble; you can’t go to the bathroom during classroom instruction more than 4 times per quarter (or was it semester?). I was in the health room at the beginning of lunch and there was a steady stream of kids asking the nurse if they could use the health room’s bathroom. They’re allowed to, but even during lunch, they had to sign in in multiple places and only one person can use it at a time.

On top of all this, at one of my kids’ schools, if you’re late to class, you can’t enter the classroom until 20 minutes into class. Kids who are still out in the halls when a period starts will all be shepherded into a waiting area (I can’t remember if it was the cafeteria or gym or auditorium), where they will have to wait until they all can enter their classrooms en masse 20 minutes late. The purpose is to minimize disruptions, but it also maximizes missed instructional time. My dc has to go back and forth between the third floor of the main building and the portables multiple times per day.

Hopefully the enforcement of these policies will become lax very quickly.

Journalists time to do another story
Parents it's past time to sue
Report to MSDE
Report issue to Dept of Ed

Some of ya'll need to home school. JFC a news story. That's part of the problem as it is that ya'll are constantly trying to get a new story written about the district. If your MS/HS kid can't manage their bladder, 98% of the time that's a them or you issue, not a medical one. Go before school, at lunch, after school, or plan to wait 10 min into class. Your snowflake kid is not the only person in the building. These policies didn't come about because everything was going swimmingly. There are 2000+ kids in these buildings. If you can do better, go up to the school and let them know you'd like an opportunity to take a crack at falling on your face.

My kids can manage their bladders, bowels, and uteruses just fine, thanks. What they can’t manage is balancing their owns needs with those of 2,000 other kids’, all of whom have to follow these ludicrously strict rules.

No one can use the restroom the first or last 10 minutes of a class. You can’t be late to class. Your pass is limited to 10 minutes even if your class is in a portable and it’s a hike to the nearest bathroom. Only one student in a class can use a pass at a time. To obtain the electronic hall pass, you have to request a specific bathroom, the teacher has to check whether that particular bathroom is already at the pre-set capacity threshold, and then they have to approve your pass electronically. How are 2,000 people supposed to navigate this system that depends so heavily on the actions of other people, over which they have no control?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:E hall pass is amazing from a school perspective as we can now limit how many students are in the hallway building wide. Set the cap at 15 and it locks anyone else from submitting a pass when that number is reached. I used it in a different school system and it was very successful.

The only downside from a teacher's perspective is that you will have to temporarily stop instruction to approve the pass but that's no different than having to stop to write a hand written pass.

But what about kid #16 who really needs to go … like now.

They’re SOL. These policies are absurd. You can’t go during the first 10 minutes or last 10 minutes of any class; you can’t go if too many other people already have passes; you can’t go in a bathroom if there’s already a certain number of people in it (even in between classes, so that’s not necessarily an option); the electronic pass is only good for 10 minutes, even if you’re coming from a portable, so even if you’re carrying a traditional pass, if the electronic one expires before you get back to class, you’re in trouble; you can’t go to the bathroom during classroom instruction more than 4 times per quarter (or was it semester?). I was in the health room at the beginning of lunch and there was a steady stream of kids asking the nurse if they could use the health room’s bathroom. They’re allowed to, but even during lunch, they had to sign in in multiple places and only one person can use it at a time.

On top of all this, at one of my kids’ schools, if you’re late to class, you can’t enter the classroom until 20 minutes into class. Kids who are still out in the halls when a period starts will all be shepherded into a waiting area (I can’t remember if it was the cafeteria or gym or auditorium), where they will have to wait until they all can enter their classrooms en masse 20 minutes late. The purpose is to minimize disruptions, but it also maximizes missed instructional time. My dc has to go back and forth between the third floor of the main building and the portables multiple times per day.

Hopefully the enforcement of these policies will become lax very quickly.

Journalists time to do another story
Parents it's past time to sue
Report to MSDE
Report issue to Dept of Ed

Some of ya'll need to home school. JFC a news story. That's part of the problem as it is that ya'll are constantly trying to get a new story written about the district. If your MS/HS kid can't manage their bladder, 98% of the time that's a them or you issue, not a medical one. Go before school, at lunch, after school, or plan to wait 10 min into class. Your snowflake kid is not the only person in the building. These policies didn't come about because everything was going swimmingly. There are 2000+ kids in these buildings. If you can do better, go up to the school and let them know you'd like an opportunity to take a crack at falling on your face.

My kids can manage their bladders, bowels, and uteruses just fine, thanks. What they can’t manage is balancing their owns needs with those of 2,000 other kids’, all of whom have to follow these ludicrously strict rules.

No one can use the restroom the first or last 10 minutes of a class. You can’t be late to class. Your pass is limited to 10 minutes even if your class is in a portable and it’s a hike to the nearest bathroom. Only one student in a class can use a pass at a time. To obtain the electronic hall pass, you have to request a specific bathroom, the teacher has to check whether that particular bathroom is already at the pre-set capacity threshold, and then they have to approve your pass electronically. How are 2,000 people supposed to navigate this system that depends so heavily on the actions of other people, over which they have no control?

I forgot to mention that they also limit the total number of times you can use the restroom per semester.

Imagine having to ask your boss to sign off on permission for you to use the restroom and your boss responds that you’ve already used up your allotted bathroom breaks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Its amazing how many of these kids with "bathroom emergencies" suddenly don't need to go any more when I require them to trade their cell phone for a bathroom pass.

That’s great. Problem solved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, 35 students in MS Spanish class.

MS enjoyed meeting the teachers and friends

I feel bad for the teachers. We had Back to School Night last night and so many of them talked about how crazy it is to balance the first weeks of getting to know 150+ students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has your child never had to wait like 10 minutes for a bathroom? When you’re on a road trip or something? Assuming no special needs they can wait a few minutes.

The problem is they’re waiting more than four hours from leaving home for bus to getting to lunch time. (And there’s, of course, a line at lunch.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Its amazing how many of these kids with "bathroom emergencies" suddenly don't need to go any more when I require them to trade their cell phone for a bathroom pass.

If no one is around I’d want my kid to have their phone. They have health issues. It’s amazing how some teachers pick and choose what they know about some kids and ignore parent emails.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has your child never had to wait like 10 minutes for a bathroom? When you’re on a road trip or something? Assuming no special needs they can wait a few minutes.

I sometimes can’t wait. Stay blessed with no health issues or other needs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:E hall pass is amazing from a school perspective as we can now limit how many students are in the hallway building wide. Set the cap at 15 and it locks anyone else from submitting a pass when that number is reached. I used it in a different school system and it was very successful.

The only downside from a teacher's perspective is that you will have to temporarily stop instruction to approve the pass but that's no different than having to stop to write a hand written pass.

But what about kid #16 who really needs to go … like now.

They’re SOL. These policies are absurd. You can’t go during the first 10 minutes or last 10 minutes of any class; you can’t go if too many other people already have passes; you can’t go in a bathroom if there’s already a certain number of people in it (even in between classes, so that’s not necessarily an option); the electronic pass is only good for 10 minutes, even if you’re coming from a portable, so even if you’re carrying a traditional pass, if the electronic one expires before you get back to class, you’re in trouble; you can’t go to the bathroom during classroom instruction more than 4 times per quarter (or was it semester?). I was in the health room at the beginning of lunch and there was a steady stream of kids asking the nurse if they could use the health room’s bathroom. They’re allowed to, but even during lunch, they had to sign in in multiple places and only one person can use it at a time.

On top of all this, at one of my kids’ schools, if you’re late to class, you can’t enter the classroom until 20 minutes into class. Kids who are still out in the halls when a period starts will all be shepherded into a waiting area (I can’t remember if it was the cafeteria or gym or auditorium), where they will have to wait until they all can enter their classrooms en masse 20 minutes late. The purpose is to minimize disruptions, but it also maximizes missed instructional time. My dc has to go back and forth between the third floor of the main building and the portables multiple times per day.

Hopefully the enforcement of these policies will become lax very quickly.

Journalists time to do another story
Parents it's past time to sue
Report to MSDE
Report issue to Dept of Ed

Some of ya'll need to home school. JFC a news story. That's part of the problem as it is that ya'll are constantly trying to get a new story written about the district. If your MS/HS kid can't manage their bladder, 98% of the time that's a them or you issue, not a medical one. Go before school, at lunch, after school, or plan to wait 10 min into class. Your snowflake kid is not the only person in the building. These policies didn't come about because everything was going swimmingly. There are 2000+ kids in these buildings. If you can do better, go up to the school and let them know you'd like an opportunity to take a crack at falling on your face.

The point was the school district step up and comes up with a plan that will work not leave it to the schools and good lordy the PARENTS (not parents' job to do this)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:E hall pass is amazing from a school perspective as we can now limit how many students are in the hallway building wide. Set the cap at 15 and it locks anyone else from submitting a pass when that number is reached. I used it in a different school system and it was very successful.

The only downside from a teacher's perspective is that you will have to temporarily stop instruction to approve the pass but that's no different than having to stop to write a hand written pass.

But what about kid #16 who really needs to go … like now.

They’re SOL. These policies are absurd. You can’t go during the first 10 minutes or last 10 minutes of any class; you can’t go if too many other people already have passes; you can’t go in a bathroom if there’s already a certain number of people in it (even in between classes, so that’s not necessarily an option); the electronic pass is only good for 10 minutes, even if you’re coming from a portable, so even if you’re carrying a traditional pass, if the electronic one expires before you get back to class, you’re in trouble; you can’t go to the bathroom during classroom instruction more than 4 times per quarter (or was it semester?). I was in the health room at the beginning of lunch and there was a steady stream of kids asking the nurse if they could use the health room’s bathroom. They’re allowed to, but even during lunch, they had to sign in in multiple places and only one person can use it at a time.

On top of all this, at one of my kids’ schools, if you’re late to class, you can’t enter the classroom until 20 minutes into class. Kids who are still out in the halls when a period starts will all be shepherded into a waiting area (I can’t remember if it was the cafeteria or gym or auditorium), where they will have to wait until they all can enter their classrooms en masse 20 minutes late. The purpose is to minimize disruptions, but it also maximizes missed instructional time. My dc has to go back and forth between the third floor of the main building and the portables multiple times per day.

Hopefully the enforcement of these policies will become lax very quickly.

Journalists time to do another story
Parents it's past time to sue
Report to MSDE
Report issue to Dept of Ed

Some of ya'll need to home school. JFC a news story. That's part of the problem as it is that ya'll are constantly trying to get a new story written about the district. If your MS/HS kid can't manage their bladder, 98% of the time that's a them or you issue, not a medical one. Go before school, at lunch, after school, or plan to wait 10 min into class. Your snowflake kid is not the only person in the building. These policies didn't come about because everything was going swimmingly. There are 2000+ kids in these buildings. If you can do better, go up to the school and let them know you'd like an opportunity to take a crack at falling on your face.

My kids can manage their bladders, bowels, and uteruses just fine, thanks. What they can’t manage is balancing their owns needs with those of 2,000 other kids’, all of whom have to follow these ludicrously strict rules.

No one can use the restroom the first or last 10 minutes of a class. You can’t be late to class. Your pass is limited to 10 minutes even if your class is in a portable and it’s a hike to the nearest bathroom. Only one student in a class can use a pass at a time. To obtain the electronic hall pass, you have to request a specific bathroom, the teacher has to check whether that particular bathroom is already at the pre-set capacity threshold, and then they have to approve your pass electronically. How are 2,000 people supposed to navigate this system that depends so heavily on the actions of other people, over which they have no control?

Teachers having to play hall monitor. No wonder they can't fcck ing teach anymore!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:E hall pass is amazing from a school perspective as we can now limit how many students are in the hallway building wide. Set the cap at 15 and it locks anyone else from submitting a pass when that number is reached. I used it in a different school system and it was very successful.

The only downside from a teacher's perspective is that you will have to temporarily stop instruction to approve the pass but that's no different than having to stop to write a hand written pass.

But what about kid #16 who really needs to go … like now.

They’re SOL. These policies are absurd. You can’t go during the first 10 minutes or last 10 minutes of any class; you can’t go if too many other people already have passes; you can’t go in a bathroom if there’s already a certain number of people in it (even in between classes, so that’s not necessarily an option); the electronic pass is only good for 10 minutes, even if you’re coming from a portable, so even if you’re carrying a traditional pass, if the electronic one expires before you get back to class, you’re in trouble; you can’t go to the bathroom during classroom instruction more than 4 times per quarter (or was it semester?). I was in the health room at the beginning of lunch and there was a steady stream of kids asking the nurse if they could use the health room’s bathroom. They’re allowed to, but even during lunch, they had to sign in in multiple places and only one person can use it at a time.

On top of all this, at one of my kids’ schools, if you’re late to class, you can’t enter the classroom until 20 minutes into class. Kids who are still out in the halls when a period starts will all be shepherded into a waiting area (I can’t remember if it was the cafeteria or gym or auditorium), where they will have to wait until they all can enter their classrooms en masse 20 minutes late. The purpose is to minimize disruptions, but it also maximizes missed instructional time. My dc has to go back and forth between the third floor of the main building and the portables multiple times per day.

Hopefully the enforcement of these policies will become lax very quickly.

Journalists time to do another story
Parents it's past time to sue
Report to MSDE
Report issue to Dept of Ed

Some of ya'll need to home school. JFC a news story. That's part of the problem as it is that ya'll are constantly trying to get a new story written about the district. If your MS/HS kid can't manage their bladder, 98% of the time that's a them or you issue, not a medical one. Go before school, at lunch, after school, or plan to wait 10 min into class. Your snowflake kid is not the only person in the building. These policies didn't come about because everything was going swimmingly. There are 2000+ kids in these buildings. If you can do better, go up to the school and let them know you'd like an opportunity to take a crack at falling on your face.

My kids can manage their bladders, bowels, and uteruses just fine, thanks. What they can’t manage is balancing their owns needs with those of 2,000 other kids’, all of whom have to follow these ludicrously strict rules.

No one can use the restroom the first or last 10 minutes of a class. You can’t be late to class. Your pass is limited to 10 minutes even if your class is in a portable and it’s a hike to the nearest bathroom. Only one student in a class can use a pass at a time. To obtain the electronic hall pass, you have to request a specific bathroom, the teacher has to check whether that particular bathroom is already at the pre-set capacity threshold, and then they have to approve your pass electronically. How are 2,000 people supposed to navigate this system that depends so heavily on the actions of other people, over which they have no control?

I forgot to mention that they also limit the total number of times you can use the restroom per semester.

Imagine having to ask your boss to sign off on permission for you to use the restroom and your boss responds that you’ve already used up your allotted bathroom breaks.

Imagine not knowing the difference between an adult and a child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:E hall pass is amazing from a school perspective as we can now limit how many students are in the hallway building wide. Set the cap at 15 and it locks anyone else from submitting a pass when that number is reached. I used it in a different school system and it was very successful.

The only downside from a teacher's perspective is that you will have to temporarily stop instruction to approve the pass but that's no different than having to stop to write a hand written pass.

But what about kid #16 who really needs to go … like now.

They’re SOL. These policies are absurd. You can’t go during the first 10 minutes or last 10 minutes of any class; you can’t go if too many other people already have passes; you can’t go in a bathroom if there’s already a certain number of people in it (even in between classes, so that’s not necessarily an option); the electronic pass is only good for 10 minutes, even if you’re coming from a portable, so even if you’re carrying a traditional pass, if the electronic one expires before you get back to class, you’re in trouble; you can’t go to the bathroom during classroom instruction more than 4 times per quarter (or was it semester?). I was in the health room at the beginning of lunch and there was a steady stream of kids asking the nurse if they could use the health room’s bathroom. They’re allowed to, but even during lunch, they had to sign in in multiple places and only one person can use it at a time.

On top of all this, at one of my kids’ schools, if you’re late to class, you can’t enter the classroom until 20 minutes into class. Kids who are still out in the halls when a period starts will all be shepherded into a waiting area (I can’t remember if it was the cafeteria or gym or auditorium), where they will have to wait until they all can enter their classrooms en masse 20 minutes late. The purpose is to minimize disruptions, but it also maximizes missed instructional time. My dc has to go back and forth between the third floor of the main building and the portables multiple times per day.

Hopefully the enforcement of these policies will become lax very quickly.

Journalists time to do another story
Parents it's past time to sue
Report to MSDE
Report issue to Dept of Ed

Some of ya'll need to home school. JFC a news story. That's part of the problem as it is that ya'll are constantly trying to get a new story written about the district. If your MS/HS kid can't manage their bladder, 98% of the time that's a them or you issue, not a medical one. Go before school, at lunch, after school, or plan to wait 10 min into class. Your snowflake kid is not the only person in the building. These policies didn't come about because everything was going swimmingly. There are 2000+ kids in these buildings. If you can do better, go up to the school and let them know you'd like an opportunity to take a crack at falling on your face.

My kids can manage their bladders, bowels, and uteruses just fine, thanks. What they can’t manage is balancing their owns needs with those of 2,000 other kids’, all of whom have to follow these ludicrously strict rules.

No one can use the restroom the first or last 10 minutes of a class. You can’t be late to class. Your pass is limited to 10 minutes even if your class is in a portable and it’s a hike to the nearest bathroom. Only one student in a class can use a pass at a time. To obtain the electronic hall pass, you have to request a specific bathroom, the teacher has to check whether that particular bathroom is already at the pre-set capacity threshold, and then they have to approve your pass electronically. How are 2,000 people supposed to navigate this system that depends so heavily on the actions of other people, over which they have no control?

I forgot to mention that they also limit the total number of times you can use the restroom per semester.

Imagine having to ask your boss to sign off on permission for you to use the restroom and your boss responds that you’ve already used up your allotted bathroom breaks.

Imagine not knowing the difference between an adult and a child.

These policies apply to students who are legal adults. Do their bodies function differently from yours?

[Anonymous]

Has every school completed a lockdown drill this week? What other drills do they do in school? Earthquake?

[Anonymous]

What happen if kid has anxiety issues or bowel constipation issue or kid is on menstrual cycle? 10 minutes pass is crazy includes walk back and forth to classroom?