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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Since bathroom vandalism shuts down bathrooms completely and since there are probably not extra staff to act as bathroom monitors, I’d be glad that the school is trying to solve that problem. [/quote]

They are not trying to solve the problem. If they were, they'd be punishing the few kids that vandalize the bathrooms in order to allow everyone else to use the bathrooms when they actually need to.[/quote]

Unless you control access, you can't identify which students are the vandals.

I'm not saying that the OP's school's solution is the right one.  I'm not saying that at all.  But the solution will probably involve one kid in the bathroom at a time, along with some kind of monitoring of who goes in and out so they can identify the problem.  It just also needs to involve longer and/or staggered passing periods, and excused tardies, and ideally single stall restrooms with cameras that show who goes in and out, but obviously don't show the inside of the stall.

But saying "just punish the kids who do it" ignores the fact that teachers can't enter student bathrooms because of child protection concerns, and so figuring out which kid did it is very challenging.  [/quote]

Schools absolutely know which students are the vandals. Public middle and high schools in the DMV have cameras in the hallways and it's easy to see who was in the bathroom right before it became unusable. A lot of schools also use electronic hall passes so administrators can see where students are when they're not in the classrooms. Like parents, too many administrators are trying to be these kids' friends and not set any kind of boundaries or enforce any rules. It's not working when it happens at home and it's certainly not working at schools either.[/quote]

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