… our school just like all others, has a problem with grafitti. Yesterday I went to the restroom during my first hour and notice that in addition to the gang sign on the door (that has been there for a wee) that someone added some beautiful swear words.
I finally decided that I had had enough. I know that the custodians go through those same doors, several times a day. I emailed the principals assistant and told her what I had seen.
When I went back to the bathroom at lunch, someone had painted over the graffiti. I know that sometimes this needs to happen, you can’t always wash the graffiti off the walls. They didn’t even try to wsh the graffiti off, instead it looks like someone took a brush, soaked it in paint, and pressed it against the door. There was no attempt made to even it out, make it look like it had never happened.
The fact that our custodians can’t paint isn’t anything new, a few years ago they painted the hallways with flat paint, which is no big deal accept they were covering gloss paint and decided to only paint halfway up the wall! The painting bugs me something awful but I can get over it.
The thing I can’t get over is the fact that the gang sign was written in pencil. Rather then try to clean something, they just slap paint up on the walls. They do the same thing in the bathroom stalls where the walls are non-porous so they wash off pretty easily. They just slap up the paint, which then the students carve off their messages in (paint doesn’t stick well to plastic, duh!)
Our cleaning people just don’t clean, and then people wonder why the buildings have mice and roaches and isn’t that against some law to have vermin in a school? My portable doesn’t have these things and I believe it is because I keep it clean.I clean my desks, I pick up the floor (and I would vacuum but they take the dirt cans out of the vacuums that they leave in the classrooms so we don’t vacuum).
The man who cleans my room takes the trash bag out of the can, ties it up and then sets it in a desk chair where it leaks all of the goo from the kids drink cups! So daily I have a student that has to come to me and get a wipe-y so they don’t get glued to their chair.
If your job is to clean things, then by gosh, CLEAN SOMETHING! Get a glove, a bucket of water, and a rag an WOW would you be shocked at what you can do. Imagine what might happen if you put a cleaning agent in that bucket with your water!
