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What is the deal with school administrators? I've never interacted with a profession that incompetent and self-important. Some, I assume, are good people. > Fr
by mjhay 3y ago
What is the deal with school administrators? I've never interacted with a profession that incompetent and self-important. Some, I assume, are good people.
> Fresno High is the latest school in the district to roll out the 5 Star Students app to regulate student trips outside classrooms during instructional periods. Students are limited to two seven-minute bathroom breaks during the day, and the app keeps track of the time they spend outside of classrooms.
I'd sure hate to be a student with IBS having to deal with this system.
> “Today, you know, it’s girls’ menstrual cycles, I went to the bathroom and I came back two minutes late,” she said. “Some teachers are more strict. For example, my math teacher, if we go past a certain amount of time then we just can’t go for the rest of the month.”
Or female. I wonder how much the school district is paying for this app.
- treyd 3y agoYeah if one wealthy family threatens to sue the school district over emotional distress because their kid has an accident that would have easily been avoided if they could have gone to the bathroom for a third time that day this is going to be all over. And that's good thing, this is insane helicoptering.
- kayodelycaon 3y agoThere are have been lawsuits and schools have lost. And people have protested to the school board. People have been fired. School board members have been removed. These events show up every once in a while in the media. Yet, these policies are nearly universal. These schools will go right back to doing the same thing after the attention dies down.
- antisthenes 3y agoYeah. Not only that, but it just blows my mind how many people in this thread are defending this gestapo-like behavior of controlling and tracking kids bodily functions. I have a personal anecdote from middle school where we had 4(!!!) minute breaks between classes. A teacher actually refused my entry into class after I was late coming from a PE class on the other side of the school complex. So you had 4 minutes to use the restroom, change, and walk across the entire school. Some teachers/admins just need a good ole smack to their head.