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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

No, never heard of that, and it's not even legal in most areas, if not all.

Well, this is a board for FCPS and in FCPS this year it is mandated that all high schools assign their teachers "duties". One of those duties is hall and bathroom monitoring. It doesn't really matter if that's not legal in other states.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:FCP needs to hire more security guards. End of story. They can’t educate children if it’s not safe at school. Fighting, drugs, slap boxing in the bathroom, skipping classes, sexual assault, sex and more. It’s not just a few kids. It is a significant number of kids because there’s not adequate supervision and they are way too many kids roaming the halls. It is not the teachers jobs. They need security guards in hallways, around bathrooms, and operating the metal detectors (all day). There are 1000s of children in a building. Part of parenting is making sure that your children go to safe places. The schools aren’t safe right now. That is on the school board.

Truer words were never spoken. Our schools are NOT safe right now.

The people directly responsible for our unsafe schools are the School Board and Michelle Reid.

I agree 100%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCP needs to hire more security guards. End of story. They can’t educate children if it’s not safe at school. Fighting, drugs, slap boxing in the bathroom, skipping classes, sexual assault, sex and more. It’s not just a few kids. It is a significant number of kids because there’s not adequate supervision and they are way too many kids roaming the halls. It is not the teachers jobs. They need security guards in hallways, around bathrooms, and operating the metal detectors (all day). There are 1000s of children in a building. Part of parenting is making sure that your children go to safe places. The schools aren’t safe right now. That is on the school board.

Stop fear-mongering. I went to private school in the 70's and it was less safe than the public I work at now. Nothing you mentioned is new, nor is any of it rampant in our schools.

Blissful ignorance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCP needs to hire more security guards. End of story. They can’t educate children if it’s not safe at school. Fighting, drugs, slap boxing in the bathroom, skipping classes, sexual assault, sex and more. It’s not just a few kids. It is a significant number of kids because there’s not adequate supervision and they are way too many kids roaming the halls. It is not the teachers jobs. They need security guards in hallways, around bathrooms, and operating the metal detectors (all day). There are 1000s of children in a building. Part of parenting is making sure that your children go to safe places. The schools aren’t safe right now. That is on the school board.

Truer words were never spoken. Our schools are NOT safe right now.

The people directly responsible for our unsafe schools are the School Board and Michelle Reid.

Not sure where you work (or if you even do work at a school, which is unlikely) but I work in what is arguably the "worst" high school in Northern Virginia and it is perfectly safe. We do have security and metal detectors and locks on bathroom doors, but most of that is to prevent cell phone use, vaping in the bathroom, and cutting class.

Respectfully, you are ignorant to the unsafe, horrible nonsense that has happening in these middle school and high schools. It is not the teacher’s fault nor is that their responsibility. It is the school board responsibility to hire adequate security staff, and implement appropriate safety precautions, including using metal detectors in a competent way.

I don’t think it’s right that teachers have to monitor hallways and bathrooms. FCPS should hire other staff to do so (security guards) or allow parent volunteers. All of the parents who think the schools are safe or the same ans when we were in public schools are totally ignorant. That’s exactly what FCPS would like for you to think. They can go ahead and spend their money on non-essentials, while the basics like safety and having enough teaching staff or IAS isn’t prioritized.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They don't check if a kid is skipping?

Of course we do. Every child in the hallway should have both an electronic pass and a physical pass.

What if they are in the bathroom skipping?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They don't check if a kid is skipping?

Of course we do. Every child in the hallway should have both an electronic pass and a physical pass.

What if they are in the bathroom skipping?

If a kid doesn't enter class, they are marked UNV in attendance and an email/phone call home happens. At that point, if the parent dropped off the child, hopefully they are contacting the school to question where they are and starting a search to track the kid down.

If a student is present for 3 periods a day but missing for the 4th, the admin assistants (at my school at least) run a report each day that flags those kids. They email me confirming attendance, and then admin is notified.

If a child enters class, asks to go to the bathroom, and disappears for 45 minutes, they will have an electronic pass confirming their departure time from class. A teacher can request admin track down the child (often by looking up the video footage of hallways to determine where the child went after leaving the classroom), and assign consequences as necessary.

Teachers with hall duty can pop their heads in the restroom of the same gender and call out if they observe a child in the bathroom for long periods of time. They can either help escort the child to the clinic if there is a health reason they are in there so long, or they can call security to escort them to be searched. They can ask any child in the hall to see their physical pass (bathroom pass or paper check out pass) if they are suspicious of why they are not in class. Refusal is justification to notify admin/security who can then look up video footage and determine who the child was and identify where they were supposed to be.

It is way, way more restrictive than it was when I was in high school. All of this relies on a LOT of people doing a LOT of work.