Reply #7: Wrong is sooo many ways.... [View All]

[Bigmack]

Race question aside.. any teacher who doesn't respect the people who keep their school from looking and smelling like a pig barn is beyond stupid.

When I taught HS, the janitor(s) were also our first line of defense in keeping a handle on what was going on. We were so busy that we didn't exactly have time to wander around the school looking. The custodians were all over the place. I had a walkie-talkie, and the custodians gave me a shout-out about once a week about how something was brewing.

Our head custodian was also an autodidact. For fun, I'd send kids to him with a question. He never let me down and he never failed to knock the kids out.