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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]E hall pass is amazing from a school perspective as we can now limit how many students are in the hallway building wide.  Set the cap at 15 and it locks anyone else from submitting a pass when that number is reached.  I used it in a different school system and it was very successful.

The only downside from a teacher's perspective is that you will have to temporarily stop instruction to approve the pass but that's no different than having to stop to write a hand written pass.[/quote]

But what about kid #16 who really needs to go … like now.[/quote]
They’re SOL. These policies are absurd. You can’t go during the first 10 minutes or last 10 minutes of any class; you can’t go if too many other people already have passes; you can’t go in a bathroom if there’s already a certain number of people in it (even in between classes, so that’s not necessarily an option); the electronic pass is only good for 10 minutes, even if you’re coming from a portable, so even if you’re carrying a traditional pass, if the electronic one expires before you get back to class, you’re in trouble; you can’t go to the bathroom during classroom instruction more than 4 times per quarter (or was it semester?). I was in the health room at the beginning of lunch and there was a steady stream of kids asking the nurse if they could use the health room’s bathroom. They’re allowed to, but even during lunch, they had to sign in in multiple places and only one person can use it at a time.

On top of all this, at one of my kids’ schools, if you’re late to class, you can’t enter the classroom until 20 minutes into class. Kids who are still out in the halls when a period starts will all be shepherded into a waiting area (I can’t remember if it was the cafeteria or gym or auditorium), where they will have to wait until they all can enter their classrooms en masse 20 minutes late. The purpose is to minimize disruptions, but it also maximizes missed instructional time. My dc has to go back and forth between the third floor of the main building and the portables multiple times per day.

Hopefully the enforcement of these policies will become lax very quickly.[/quote]

Journalists time to do another story 
Parents it's past time to sue
Report to MSDE
Report issue to Dept of Ed [/quote]

Some of ya'll need to home school.  JFC a news story.  That's part of the problem as it is that ya'll are constantly trying to get a new story written about the district.  If your MS/HS kid can't manage their bladder, 98% of the time that's a them or you issue, not a medical one.  Go before school, at lunch, after school, or plan to wait 10 min into class.  Your snowflake kid is not the only person in the building.  These policies didn't come about because everything was going swimmingly.  There are 2000+ kids in these buildings.  If you can do better,  go up to the school and let them know you'd like an opportunity to take a crack at falling on your face.[/quote]
My kids can manage their bladders, bowels, and uteruses just fine, thanks. What they can’t manage is balancing their owns needs with those of 2,000 other kids’, all of whom have to follow these ludicrously strict rules.

No one can use the restroom the first or last 10 minutes of a class. You can’t be late to class. Your pass is limited to 10 minutes even if your class is in a portable and it’s a hike to the nearest bathroom. Only one student in a class can use a pass at a time. To obtain the electronic hall pass, you have to request a specific bathroom, the teacher has to check whether that particular bathroom is already at the pre-set capacity threshold, and then they have to approve your pass electronically. How are 2,000 people supposed to navigate this system that depends so heavily on the actions of other people, over which they have no control?[/quote]
I forgot to mention that they also limit the total number of times you can use the restroom per semester.

Imagine having to ask your boss to sign off on permission for you to use the restroom and your boss responds that you’ve already used up your allotted bathroom breaks.[/quote]

That’s exactly how teachers live. We don’t even get to go in between classes like your child.[/quote]

Kids don't go either.  Mine rush to the bathroom as soon as they get in barely saying hi.  Many of the bathrooms are still locked.  They cannot find an open one in the few minutes between classes.[/quote]

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