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In reply to the discussion: Teachers Fight Special Needs Accommodation [View all]greatlaurel
(2,004 posts)33. An unaccompanied adult cannot go into a restroom when a child is in the restroom alone.
Last edited Fri Mar 27, 2015, 02:19 AM - Edit history (1)
You obviously have not had the most recent training in child abuse prevention. If the child is using the restroom, a teacher would need to have another teacher go in with them to make sure the child is not alone with an adult.
So if the teacher needs to use the restroom, they have to track down another person to go with them in case the child with the disability is in the restroom by themselves. The situation will make it so time consuming the teachers basically have no time to take a quick bathroom break.
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This may be a union issue. Union agreements for teachers have things like employee restrooms
Wella
Mar 2015
#3
The worst of this is that you have to file lawsuits to get people to follow the damned law.
Wella
Mar 2015
#53
Are you one of those teachers? It is always interesting to find DUers with personal connections to
uppityperson
Mar 2015
#13
No, but I believe they know the deeper legal issues involved. So I agree...
madfloridian
Mar 2015
#14
of course, all students will have a bathroom on the first floor if the teachers win this fight
CreekDog
Mar 2015
#34
The fist issue is protecting the student and teachers from possible abuse accusations.
greatlaurel
Mar 2015
#15
An unaccompanied adult cannot go into a restroom when a child is in the restroom alone.
greatlaurel
Mar 2015
#33
A grievance like this is not "the only way the teachers have to address this problem."
thucythucy
Mar 2015
#49
Hey, you need to read up on what Arne Duncan and Obama are doing to special ed students.
madfloridian
Mar 2015
#56
The teachers are doing the right thing. The school needs to build an accessible student bathroom,
LeftyMom
Mar 2015
#18
All well and good... but UNTIL that bathroom is built? Let the damn kid use the one restroom they
cherokeeprogressive
Mar 2015
#20
That may well be part of the agreement with the teachers. But the school has to agree to build one.
LeftyMom
Mar 2015
#22
If you don't want people to know you're entitled you shouldn't post pics of your tacky gated spread.
LeftyMom
Mar 2015
#30
I was a Voc Ed/ROP teacher for ten years thank you. I'll call selfish people selfish all day long.
cherokeeprogressive
Mar 2015
#29
The teachers have to file the grievance to force the construction of the accessible bathroom.
LeftyMom
Mar 2015
#37
a conflict between two progressive principles - it does happen sometimes - no sense denying that it
Douglas Carpenter
Mar 2015
#44
There is no conflict. The school is refusing to accomodate the student and blaming the teachers.
greatlaurel
Mar 2015
#55
How on earth could you have a publc building without a public restroom on the first (entry level)
dsc
Mar 2015
#63
Turns out the spec ed classroom had a student restroom that was removed recently.
greatlaurel
Mar 2015
#64