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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]

Question:
Are the counselors and administrators visible and checking hallways and bathrooms?

I can see asking teachers to spend a few minutes doing this for a week or two at the beginning of the year--but the whole planning period all year?  Not right. Not appropriate.[/quote]

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