Posted on 02/15/2007 5:52:31 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
I think that teachers are reinforcing what parents have taught. Or that's what should be the case. Our children have been taught to wash after toileting. With my boys, I cannot guarantee that they follow the same practices at school.
When I was in school, I refused to use the restrooms until I was in high school. I remember first grade teachers teaching hygiene.
""Her children" that she doesn't want using cheap soap in the school bathrooms are strictly hypothetical."
Not really, all of the children in her district are "her children." Parents are meaningless to the elites, the state is all powerful and assumes the rule of parenting.
When are the gubmint schools going to add the 3 R's to the brainwashing?
I don't understand two things about this story. I'm not being sarcastic, I just don't get it. 1) When did schools become incapable of maintaining clean bathrooms? This wasn't a problem when I was in school. Kids were required to throw paper towels and such in the trash. Janitors went in several times a day and cleaned them. 2) When did parents quit teaching their children to wash their hands before they eat? I had been taught to do that before I ever started school. Do a majority of parents now neglect to teach their children to wash their hands after they go to the bathroom, and before they eat?
A friend and I were discussing this the other day about airport restrooms. What kind of mentality or disorder is it that makes people urinate all over a toilet seat and the floor and walls in a stall? You can't even put your items on the floor. What's so funny about not flushing and leaving used toilet paper everywhere?
Will it take bathroom security to check the stalls before and after people use them to hold them accountable? One of the great mysteries of "modern" society. How prevalent was this phenomenon in the 30's, 40's and 50's in America?
DING DING DING!!! We have a winner!
If you want to take advantage of government programs and facilities like public schools, you have to follow certain rules. Many of those mandate certain actions to increase safety or public health -- vaccinations in schools, seatbelts on public roads, etc. An increased emphasis on cleanliness -- and perhaps some hand sanitizer dispensers in the lunch lines -- might serve as an inexpensive prophylactic for all those school germs.
the grammar school my kids went to, hadn't been repaired or upgraded since the 40's. The boys bathrooms had no doors on the toilets
The little boy I watched after he got out of school and my son would come in and sit on the toilet for quite some time every day.
One of them got hemmoroids. I considered this a form of child abuse. I went to Social services to report it, and they scoffed at me saying the schools had no money to fix it.
If I had a bathroom at home in that condition, the same Social services would have no problem with removing my chidren from my home.
I'll bet there were doors on the bathrooms the teachers used, thought.
I wouldn't use the bathroom in school all day because of the smoking and drug use. To this day, I drive my family crazy because I never want to stop when we're driving somewhere!
***....The new Gibbs cost $58-million, the most expensive school ever built in Pinellas County. It has everything. It has 2,300 students. Four in 10 are poor. Four in 10 won't graduate. An anonymous letter went to the superintendent on Dec. 15. The authors claimed to be "very disgusted teachers."
They wrote: "Here is a list of some of the outrageous things going on: Students defecating on the floors and in the sinks in the bathroom. Students having such terrible fights everywhere that their food was taken away. Students setting aerosol cans on fire. . . . Every other word is f---, s---."...*** http://www.sptimes.com/2007/02/11/Floridian/Class_dismissed.shtml
For the same reason that we mandate things like immunizations. People who don't wash their hands are carriers for diseases that can infect the rest of society.
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