Lunch Teacher Sends Students to Pee, Faces Discipline (I KID YOU NOT!)

The Lunch Teacher is about to become the "Bathroom Teacher, or the "Water Fountain
Teacher," or the "Shat Upon Teacher. "But for continuity, we shall still refer to her as the Lunch Teacher.

Remember, this shit can't be made up!

The Lunch Teacher had a bit of good news a couple of weeks ago. Apparently (and we here at SBSB always wait until the action occurs to make a definitive affirmation), the Lunch Teacher won a step 2 grievance. Sadly, it should have ended there but, it didn't.

The Lunch Teacher was summoned to meet with her principal because two of her male students had to go pee. And then decided to drink some water after the aforementioned urination.

Now mind you, there is no place for the students in question to do their business on the floor in which their classroom is. The students were faced with a Hobson's Choice. Do they go up a flight of stairs to pee, or down a flight of stairs to go pee? They chose the latter. I would have made that choice as well. It is better for the bladder to go down a flight than up a flight.

The boys (5th graders. Approximately 10-11 years old) sadly were seen by the principal. The principal was dressed to impress due to escorting really, really, big shots around the school. Now mind you, the bathroom happened to be right next to the cafeteria, a place where there are adults. But that is neither here nor there. Worse, these students dared to drink water after they had peed.

One problem is that the students were not carrying bathroom passes. Yes, all the teachers were made to sign for passes in October, but there is nothing in writing as whether or not it is mandatory for students to be with a pass when using the facilities. Nor are there any regulations on which bathrooms the students are to use. 

The principal was not pleased. She was in a foul mood and wanted to meet with the Lunch Teacher "informally."

The meeting took place this past Monday, April 1. The principal wanted to be so so helpful. She wanted help clarifying anything (of course the principal was as patronizing and condescending as possible) the Lunch Teacher was "confused" about.

But the Lunch Teacher held her ground as if she knew this meeting were a set up. The principal tried to get her to sign something acknowledging the concerns of the principal. In fact, without barely mentioning a word the Lunch Teacher was already being accused of insubordination.

But the Lunch Teacher held fast. She refused to sign anything right then and there. She requested time to read the letter and bring it back signed. At this time, there was no disciplinary letter.

But all hell broke lose the moment the Lunch Teacher contradicted the principal on a conversation on proper bathrooms to use in September. The principal claimed the Lunch Lady was being belligerent. The meeting ended. The Lunch Teacher was told that the next meeting she will need a UFT rep.

The Lunch Lady got a letter on Thursday, April 4 to meet THAT afternoon after school ended at 3 PM. That wasn't going to happen.

I smell a rat. The first rat I smell is the principal. But out of desperation people get stupid. So this might be a good thing. The other rat is the CL in that school. The CL lives in the principal's colon. 

What's bothering me is why matters which floor the students use the bathroom on? The floor above or the floor below? Either way the bathroom is equidistant from the classroom. Either way a flight of stairs must be used. An argument can be made if the students were up on the top floor. But they weren't.

If the principal is claiming that the students were unsupervised, well, we call bullocks! Even if the students went to the bathroom upstairs, would they not be unsupervised walking up the stairs? Would they not be unsupervised walking through the hall to the bathroom? Aren't the students unsupervised in the bathrooms?

This is nothing more than workplace harassment and piling on the Lunch Teacher.
The principal has created a hostile work environment for the Lunch Teacher.

Sadly this what is happening with the Lunch Teacher is not occurring within a vacuum. This is systemic across the DOE and enabled and condoned at the upper reaches of Tweed. This "bounty hunting" on teachers must end now!