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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What the person describes is totally accurate. At two high schools that I know of the extra duty is becoming totally unacceptable. Imagine having to count how many kids go into a bathroom so that there can be no more in the bathroom then there are stalls. Teachers are being treated so poorly it is a wonder why they will stay in the classroom. [/quote]

Elementary teachers have always had these duties to cover supervision of students at arrival, dismissal, and lunch.  The MS/HS students still need this supervision too in the halls and restroom areas because of vaping, fights, bullying, technology, sex, crime, and more. As a parent, I’m thankful that there will be more supervision of students and shocked that it was so lax in the past. I think that there should be more security guards or even parent volunteers so that this duty doesn’t fall on teachers. [/quote]

When I was in high school--many, many years ago--teachers frequently stood in the doors during class change.  They also would check out the bathrooms from time to time.  I don't know how that worked, maybe they took turns?  But, there were not many male teachers in my school, so the boys' bathrooms likely did not get checked often.

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HS teacher home with a sick baby.

We have always stood in the hallways greeting students between classes, monitoring for shoving, helping kids, etc. It's more now though--during our former planning period we are to go bathroom to bathroom and/or wander the hallways for 45 minutes looking for kids to escort back to class.

I have no issue with this, in theory. But then I need 1 fewer section to teach, because you took away my planning and I couldn't even get the job done without significant weekend work with the amount of planning i had last year. They cannot keep adding to our plates without taking some of the things away. Prior years have been turning up the temperature 1-2 degrees so the frogs don't notice. This year was a full 20 degree increase and we're all panicking, because nothing has been removed.[/quote]

This is the issue in FCPS....they are more than happy to pile it on without taking anything off the plates of teachers. The teachers are constantly burned out and the kids are the ones to lose out.[/quote]

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