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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wait. If they do not have enough staff for bathroom monitors, then how are they enforcing one child at a time in the bathroom?[/quote]

The teachers enforce it which means that it only falls on the kids who are good kids and listen to the teachers.

Can you imagine if your employer told you that you couldn’t go to the bathroom because of the possibility that some other people might vandalize the bathroom?  You’d be calling the state regulations.  It’s ridiculous.  The school district has to bear the cost of vandalism — not individual children.

Even with the safety thing, the odds of my kids being caught in a bathroom fight are infinitesimal.  The odds of them being uncomfortable and unable to focus on their work because they couldn’t use the bathroom are extremely high.  [/quote]

Can you imagine if you were an employee and you etched racist/profane writing into the bathroom wall, emptied the soap onto the floor, attempted to flushed your vape pen down the toilet, rendering it unusable, and were taking pictures and videos in the bathroom.  You’d be fired. [b]We can’t fire kids from school. And good luck expelling.[/b] [/quote]

“Expelling” learners has been repeatedly shown to have a disparate impact on BIPOC learners; it is the very opposite of the goal of economic and racial equity (which is the “E” in DEI).

Public schools need more DEI, not less.

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BIPOC [b]learners[/b]?

People skipping class to vandalize bathrooms, do drugs in bathrooms, have sex in bathrooms, or otherwise misuse the bathrooms are not learning anything, BIPOC or not.

The learners (BIPOC included) are the ones whose learning experience (and possibly health) is compromised by them not being able to tend to their physical needs.

I think anyone (regardless of ethnicity) who wants to vandalize the bathroom should be removed so that those who want to learn (regardless of ethnicity) will be free to do so. Vandals can be suspended (either in-school with restricted bathroom access or at-home) and provided access to virtual learning should they decide they actually want to be learners. If repeated suspensions prove that they have no interest in learning and the only school activity they will participate in is vandalism, then I agree that expulsion should be an option.

In order to avoid stigmatizing people with destructive behavior, we’ve turned the discipline policy on its end. Instead of punishing troublemakers to hopefully modify their behavior and focus on learning (or at the very least remove their disruptive influence so that those who want to can learn), we now punish EVERYONE, and still have the problem of disruptive behavior. To simply:
Old system - punish the guilty, less disruption and more learning
New system - don’t punish the guilty, more disruption, everyone is restricted/punished, less learning

If you want to help BIPOC [b]learners[/b], focus more on “learner” and less on “BIPOC”.

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When troublemakers are identified, their use is restricted. We have numerous kids who need to be escorted to the bathroom.  Staffing is already an issue without all the babysitting. Administrators and teachers are trying. Teachers walk into bathrooms to find kids hanging out, dancing, eating, you name it. When the students are told to get back to class, they walk into a stall and close the door. Are you going to drag them out? Wait for them to exit and miss instructional time with your class? The principals are busy rounding up the kids who have been fighting and can’t wait outside the bathroom to babysit the vandals.  There is not an easy solution-or maybe there would be if some parents would control their kids. [/quote]

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