According to my kids, the boys vape out in the open. The girls lock themselves in stalls to vape, sometimes occupying all of the stalls for the entire passing time so no other girls are able to use the bathrooms. |
My dd drives home everyday at lunch to poop |
We had teachers assigned to do this at the “problem” bathrooms in my HS in the 90s. |
You're simply clueless if you think most bathrooms are limited to 3 stalls. Each bathroom would now need it's own sink, toilet, and be handicap accessible. A new build might accommodate this, but this would be impossible in any existing structure without significant renovation and loss of other facilities (like classrooms). And yes, I agree that there are sick people out there that want boys in girls bathrooms, but insanity is the norm these days. |
This. So much this. Ask any student or staff member and they'll tell you there are 10-20 kids who ruin it for everyone else. These are the same kids who get Uber Eats paid for by the principal or counselor for doing the absolute bare minimum while the ones who show up on time and actually do their work in class hardly get any acknowledgment. |
The slew of "reforms" to education over the last 40 years have gradually eviscerated schools' ability to hold students accountable by shifting the onus for everything to schools and teachers.
Well, it takes two to dance. If you want change, it needs to start at the federal and state level to restore some semblance of sanity to this crazy system and start holding parents and students accountable. |
Uber eats? What are you talking about? |
Ordering food for students using Uber Eats or Door Dash. |
SnapChat is perfect for organizing the toilet vaping play-dates popular with FCPS students in 2024. |
What are you going to do about those 10-20 kids? Suspend them? Equity demands the schools NOT suspend any child over poor, or even criminal, behavior. Equity, diversity, and inclusion. |
If you think it’s bad now, just look where democrats led the Montgomery County schools by eliminating most student discipline in the name of “equity:”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/02/26/montgomery-county-schools-bathrooms-dangerous/ Even the WaPo is calling MoCo school bathrooms dangerous. And in their infinite wisdom, MoCo removed all Special Resource Officers from schools, to “defund the police.” If you want sanity, stop voting for democrats. |
There are technological solutions for these problems. AI cameras that don't record and don't send anything out to the network/cloud can be trained to recognize things like vaping / drugs / spending too long in a stall / more than one person in a stall / fighting / etc. and alert someone to go check things out. |
Dangerous schools are not just an issue of politics. It’s also changing demographics. Both MoCo and NoVa are a lot more social-economically diverse than in previous generations. Go look at red states/counties with a greater percentage of low income students. Is it any better? |
That's not what equity demands. Equity demands that everyone is given what they need to be successful. Rewarding the kids who are behaving the worst is not helping them to become more successful. Anyone who believes otherwise has obviously not followed up with these kids after they get out of school. |
It’s so sad to hear my kid can’t use the bathroom at school because he’s afraid to get into fights. Not sure if there’s any solution. |