School Restrooms

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Thomas Hoerr wrote an interesting article about school restrooms and the images they portray. Restrooms are not considered safe places in some schools. They are the least supervised locations in the building. Additionally, some school restrooms are plagued with rusted pipes, chipped paint, and doors to stalls unhinged. If administrators invested time in edifying bathrooms through fresh paint, student paintings, proper illumination maybe positive changes will occur. Faculty will be more likely to supervise this normally unsupervised area and deter negative student behavior. Just a thought.

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  1. Giles November 29, 2015 at 6:00 PM

    There should be more monitoring in restrooms. In middle grades students have gone to the restroom to do everything besides use the restroom. I have seen teachers spend 10 minutes of their class period taking a "restroom" break. The leaders in the school building have to be the ones to provide rules and expectations regarding the restrooms so that everyone can be held accountable school-wide. So that from teacher to teacher and across grade levels the rules are all the same.

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  2. HollyEliseDecember 1, 2015 at 4:10 AM

    Restrooms are the pits! I walk past them multiple times a day and they smell of urine. It's not because the custodial staff does not take care of them, it's because they are supervision and some of our student go in there and disobey school rules. Trouble always seems to find itself in the restrooms. I like the idea of better lighting and student work displayed in the restroom. I think a more welcoming school environment, one that isn't so cold and blank, would change school environments, and like you said, deter negative student behavior.

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  3. UnknownDecember 1, 2015 at 6:58 PM

    I am currently the "Bathroom Nazi" on the 8th grade hall at my school. I have the pleasure of harassing students during homeroom asking them to SEE their color coded pass to use the bathroom. Yaaaa Me! At my school there are young men who are hustling (GET THIS) gym shoes. Yes you read correctly. The boys are going in the bathroom to make an "exchange." I guess they said forget EBay let's just sell in the stinking gross restroom. Now there are teachers who feel it's a cover for selling drugs. It may very well be but what gets me is we would inconvenience 250 students for the actions of 4. WOW! By the way I so dislike the fact of harassing students because a few students used poor judgment.

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