Where in the World Isn't Bob Saget?

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Songbird76 said:
Our custodians were pretty good. I worked as a school custodian one summer when I was 15, and then I was a custodian in the dorms one summer of college. It's NOT a fun job and people really do take what you do for granted. The prevailing attitude of most kids is "That's what the janitor is for." Like...."I don't need to throw this in the trash....that's what the janitor is for." I remember in 6th grade, the custodians got so tired of the messy classrooms that they implemented a sort of star chart type thing. There was a bear cutout that they would hang up if the classroom was in decent shape when they came in to clean. If you didn't get a bear, the next day, you had to clean the classroom yourself. Teachers would get really anxious if it wasn't clean because they didn't want to have to clean it themselves and they couldn't keep kids after because so many of them rode the bus and the bus wouldn't wait....it wasn't fair to the other kids who would always be the ones who had to stay late because the bus kids couldn't.
Here, we don't have custodians at the school during the day. They come in for like an hour or 2 when the kids go home, they empty the trashes and they clean the bathrooms. That's it. They don't wipe down desks or clean floors. The kids have "classroom duty" in pairs. Two kids are assigned each week to sweep the floors, put materials away, put the chairs on the desks, etc. So the janitors here have it pretty easy.
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Our day custodian is responsible for doing any repairs in the school, whether it's a table is wobbly, a closet door came off, etc. He's supposed to check the bathrooms during the day for soap and paper towel replacements, but he never does unless someone brings it to his attention. He's also supposed to clean up the floors after recess because with the snow our hallways get very sloppy and messy near the recess doors. He doesn't do that, either.

Night custodians go through and sweep the classrooms (although they miss most of the things on the floor), mop the bathrooms (at least they're supposed to, but that usually doesn't get done), and they have a weekly rotation of which classrooms they need to vacuum carpets in. The teachers empty all of their garbage cans into one, then set that one in the hallway for the custodian to grab.

Teachers are responsible for everything else. Wiping down tables, cleaning the sinks out, etc.
 

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