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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teachers don’t monitor bathrooms typically. That’s some else’s job. [/quote]

This year it is teachers' jobs.[/quote]

I don’t understand how teachers have time for that on top of all of their other duties.

When something needs to get done, just throw it on the teachers. Don’t worry. They’ll get their own work done at home, I guess. [/quote]

Who else do you think should be responsible for monitoring the bathrooms then?

Our MS has placed monitors across all bathrooms and at hallway intersections. Staff assigned those locations take their laptops with them and still get work done (emails at least) and it has definitely cut down on behaviors and cutting classes. I frequently see my APs in the halls at a desk, monitoring students. And my principal is out in the school as well when they have time.

If you want a "safe" school, everyone needs to pitch in to make that happen.[/quote]

This is so degrading to teachers who are paid to teach. Just wait until a students looks over the shoulder at a teacher looking at emails in a hallway and reads something confidential or someone complains the teacher wasn’t looking up when a fight occurred because they were on their laptop.

The real reason why it is an issue is that schools no longer give consequences like lengthy detentions or suspend students so students don’t care if they are caught. They just have to do some hocus pocus restorative justice talk and they are on their way to get in some more trouble. [/quote]

I agree that it is degrading. It is also disrespectful.

We need to move past this culture that teachers should just “do more”.

You know all the threads about missing assignments in the gradebook? Work that hasn’t been returned?

Pick what you want. If you want teachers to focus on education, then they must be given time to work. If you want teachers filling every second of their days doing every random task necessary within the school building, then don’t complain when education suffers.

And grading in the hallway? I need a desk and a place to focus. It already takes 7-10 minutes per writing assignment. How much more time will it taken as I’m getting interrupted every 30 seconds?[/quote]

What is so disrespectful about asking teachers to sit at a desk outside the bathroom for an hour once a week? If grading requires too much attention and focus, then do something else that requires less focus for that one hour. Clean out your email inbox. Organize your calendar. Ask absolutely anyone in any profession about the grunt work that they have to do as part of their job. We all have to pitch in from time to time. It's part of being a team player.[/quote]

This is so hilarious and so obvious you have no idea all the endless tasks teachers have to do?  You really think a teacher can clean out email inbox with confidential emails while students are walking by and can see the contents of the email? You think teachers are getting anything done when so many students roam the hallways? Teachers would be more than happy to pitch in "from time to time", the issue is it is absolutely never ending the amount of "pitching in" that teachers have to do.

You have absolutely no idea all the grunt work teachers are doing. Do you actually use your own money to bring in supplies for work? If you are at work and someone in your office picks up a chair and throws it, then calls you a whor* or bitc* and knocks things off your desk as they walk out of the office, does your boss tell you that you need to build a better relationship with your aggressive co-worker so you need to make sure to welcome them back into the office tomorrow?  When the parking attendant doesn't show up do you go take a shift in the parking garage?

Do you realize there are (except if you bring a weapon) any consequences at schools? It is now really rare to suspend a student. You think students haven't figured out it doesn't matter if I vape in the bathroom, ditch class, get into fights, there are no consequences. So what is the point of a teacher sitting outside the bathroom? Student start to realize most teachers won't go into a student bathroom because of fear they will be accused of something. No way is any teacher going to say , why were you two in the bathroom for twenty minutes? The next thing the teacher knows the parents are claiming the teacher is bullying their child who supposedly has gastrointestinal problems [/quote]

Since you asked, here are the answers to your questions.

Check this out. I bought it for my laptop so that no one can easily peek at the contents of my screen. My employer didn't buy it for me. https://www.amazon.com/SightPro-Magnetic-Laptop-Privacy-Screen/dp/B0D7MC9QZD/ref=sr_1_4?crid=2I7XKTMN4PTU7&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.VByPKYzReFmuYwirTJdaAyEmx-7wMQGrdHS2ccVkA7kWlFd4CxnAeEoRFQZQbeLIVGFN7cSFGudk4igjqrol_jNHZD93XFOVzGz0VFSVIUN6VsewtaqisfkoDyjmIM_4cL2DI55Pc58gUhWAI4MOHHXek8gYfiCGV3_Jhaprwn0AhloQ9GZ2keC6M397zldnzHwIPwaUML4OJ7D0TNA83dTL6jVhAhtFpXJ5x9mQCTU.AEpeSz6yd3NMCizLNQ4CJ47m9IP8vt1D1pcBJRATwZA&dib_tag=se&keywords=laptop%2Bscreen%2Bprivacy%2Bshield&qid=1761940112&sprefix=Laptop%2BScreen%2BProtectors%2Caps%2C188&sr=8-4&th=1

I imagine the number of students roaming the hallways during a class period is fairly minimal.

Yes, I often use my own money to bring in supplies for work. I buy my own pens, pencils, notebooks, I use my personal iPhone for work, and I don't get reimbursed for it. I often pick up extra office supplies from my local Buy Nothing group. I bought a magnetic board with my own money. I spent money on Halloween decorations to decorate our department. I paid for a Canva subscription.

I've cleaned out the kitchenette fridge, the department fridge, cleaned out other people's workstations when they left the organization.

I've had a coworker flip me off because she disagreed with me. I've had people yell at me because they'd just had a difficult conversation with their boss. It happens everywhere. We all face hardships in the workplace. We all have to pitch in with things that aren't in our job descriptions or that might be beneath our education level.[/quote]

Different teacher here. No, I’m sorry. It simply isn’t the same.

You purchase supplies for YOU. We purchase them for our students. I spent $70 this week alone on sanitation supplies, boxes of tissues, extra pens, and notebooks for students who don’t have one. That’s my fifth purchase of the year. I spend close between [b]$800-$1000[/b] on my students each year. Yes, and I purchase my own supplies on top of that.

Students in hallways? In a high school, imagine a constant flow of students out of the classroom. At a given time, I suspect 1/10 of our school isn’t in class. Out of 2500 students, that’s a lot. And that means I’m not grading. I’m doing traffic control.

We clean, too. The faculty lounge, our classrooms. I clean my students’ desks daily. All 38 of them.

You had a coworker flip you off. I’ve had chairs thrown at me and I’ve been pushed into a wall.

Sorry, it’s just not the same. At all. [/quote]

Wow. That’s a lot! I doubt if I have spent that much in my 30 year teaching career. My spouse teaches at a Title 1 MS and doesn’t buy those items.

Beyond occasionally cleaning items in our classrooms, neither of us have ever had to clean the staff lounge or other areas of the school.

Do you not have E-Hall Pass to limit the number of students out at one time? [/quote]

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