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By Dr. Harry Tennant
Monday, March 21, 2011 Discipline: Who Could It Be Writing On My Door....Go Away, Don't Come Around Here No More! I have been an administrator in struggling schools....as well as in one of the most prestigious schools in our nation. Regardless of the school or student population, graffiti of one sort or another will appear on the walls of schools! What I have always found most effective as a school administrator reacting to graffiti incidents is to accept that it will happen, but remove it before few people but the "tagger" ever get a chance to see it. In other words, as we removed the graffiti just about as fast as it was created.....eventually the problem resolved itself or moved elsewhere. They lost interest...or went for a "softer" target. Well, the principal in the article featured below responded in a way that created a problem for himself. I'll admit, most of us principals would at least consider his response as a potentially viable action to a chronic issue of graffiti in the bathrooms of our campus. I---personally---would ultimately be inclined to address the issue in a different manner. Nonetheless, I'm familiar with schools (and even malls) that do not put doors on the stalls in their restrooms for fear of what some person behind a locked stall door will write on the wall of that bathroom. This is so unfortunate. I would personally want to go to a school or mall with doors on restroom stalls. Is there ever a case where removing the doors on school bathroom stalls is advisable? How should a bathroom (or any) graffiti problem best be handled? Your input would be appreciated! To read the full story, click the image below!
 Posted at 1:09 AM Keywords: Discipline , Graffiti 3 Comments |
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Disgusted said... I live in Polson, MT, which is 65 miles from this school. Our middle school principal recently removed the stall doors from the 5th & 6th grade girls bathroom due to graffiti. I personally find it to be an invasion of the girls' privacy. If we are to teach our children to respect others' privacy and treat one another with dignity, we should model those behaviors. I believe this authoritarian punishment does nothing more than teach our kids to obey out of fear and is a rather lazy solution for the administrators. Needless to say, this act has infuriated parents and the doors at our school are being put back on the stalls. Thursday, March 31, 2011 8:25 PM |
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Dan Martin said... Thank you for your comment. One reason I never entered the military is the loss of privacy on the privy it would have required! As a young student, I went to more than one school without doors on the stalls. I don't believe, however, that I ever sat on one of those toilets! It seems clear that kids shouldn't have to hold it until they get home from school. Without stall doors...some are. How long has your school been experiencing this problem in the bathroom? Is it a problem on other parts of the campus? Do you know how the problem is being addressed now that the doors are back on? Thursday, March 31, 2011 10:56 PM |