Anonymous wrote:If the principal can’t delegate appropriately to get kids from misbehaving in a bathroom and then, her initial response is to illegally bar them from using it, maybe she shouldn’t be running a school.

What else has she mismanaged?

It's not illegal to close a bathroom. They can walk to a bathroom. There is no law that says a specific bathroom must be open.

Anonymous wrote:The kids should start peeing in the hallways or classrooms. You don't deny kids bathroom access.

They aren't denied access. There are other bathrooms available. They are denied the opportunity to continue vandalizing.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid did and was told that kids should figure out who is messing them up and tell her. That isn’t my kid’s job.

It's actually awesome. F those kids. If they keep ruining a priviledge - take it away.

Bathrooms aren’t a privilege. They are a right. Do you have to walk for 10 minutes at work to find somewhere to pee that might not have toilet paper or soap when you get there?

I mean we allow this to happen to unhoused people.

If the principal can’t delegate appropriately to get kids from misbehaving in a bathroom and then, her initial response is to illegally bar them from using it, maybe she shouldn’t be running a school.

What else has she mismanaged?

This is insane. My child needs to use the bathroom regularly due to a medical issue.
You don't take away bathroom privileges. I am escalating this. I am so over Deal.

Restorative Justice in play.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid did and was told that kids should figure out who is messing them up and tell her. That isn’t my kid’s job.

It's actually awesome. F those kids. If they keep ruining a priviledge - take it away.

Bathrooms aren’t a privilege. They are a right. Do you have to walk for 10 minutes at work to find somewhere to pee that might not have toilet paper or soap when you get there?

There is no reason to post an adult. They should walk to the open bathroom. I'm sure the administrators let a lot of things build up before they had to make such a drastic decision. Why don't you have a conversation with your child and ask them to behave?

Anonymous wrote:My kid did and was told that kids should figure out who is messing them up and tell her. That isn’t my kid’s job.

It's actually awesome. F those kids. If they keep ruining a priviledge - take it away.

The kids should start peeing in the hallways or classrooms. You don't deny kids bathroom access.

Anonymous wrote:This is all due to central office crap. Schools can barely use suspensions any more. You cannot expell the kids. Principals cannot do much about misbehavior.
Thank you David Grosso for creating this mess

Confirmed.

Anonymous wrote:This is all due to central office crap. Schools can barely use suspensions any more. You cannot expell the kids. Principals cannot do much about misbehavior.
Thank you David Grosso for creating this mess

I agree with a lot of this, but
1) don’t blame it on the kids who follow the rules and try to get them to snitch on each other. They’re scared of the ones doing the vandalizing. Does Principal Neal actually think this is healthy behavior for middle schoolers?
2) Keep them open anyways and fix as needed. It’s illegal or should be to deny restroom access to kids.

This is all due to central office crap. Schools can barely use suspensions any more. You cannot expell the kids. Principals cannot do much about misbehavior.
Thank you David Grosso for creating this mess

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Anonymous wrote:It's nuts. My kid is an 8th grader and won't even use the bathroom because of kids being in there harassing others. There doesn't seem to be any discipline at the school.

Locking the bathroom seems to be a type of discipline. I'm not really sure what you want the adults to do other than be stationed in a bathroom all day

I want an adult in a bathroom all day if that means that kids can go to the bathroom.

Uhhhh. Maybe you should volunteer? I know ZERO people who will take a job with the requirements of standing in a middle school bathroom all day.

I would but it would never fly so not worth spending time here debating it.

The school needs to step up and at least provide something so basic as safe bathrooms. My student says there’s been no soap all year.

There is rarely any soap in DCPS bathrooms. This is not new to Deal and this is not new this year.

That it is not new makes it worse.

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Anonymous wrote:It's nuts. My kid is an 8th grader and won't even use the bathroom because of kids being in there harassing others. There doesn't seem to be any discipline at the school.

Locking the bathroom seems to be a type of discipline. I'm not really sure what you want the adults to do other than be stationed in a bathroom all day

I want an adult in a bathroom all day if that means that kids can go to the bathroom.

Uhhhh. Maybe you should volunteer? I know ZERO people who will take a job with the requirements of standing in a middle school bathroom all day.

I would but it would never fly so not worth spending time here debating it.

The school needs to step up and at least provide something so basic as safe bathrooms. My student says there’s been no soap all year.

There is rarely any soap in DCPS bathrooms. This is not new to Deal and this is not new this year.