Reply #98: I teach in a large high school of more than 3500 enrollment. You think

[plumbob]

some kids are ridiculed now?

Can't wait to see the "classy" kids pour out their drink on the floor, and say, "Hey, janitor-boy? Clean that UP before you get fired!"

High school is not cruel enough already for those without proper clothes, the neat accessories, a phone of latest design, clear complexion, expensive haircut?

In addition, 85% of the students here qualify for free or reduced lunch, and there are 4 janitors to clean five buildings scattered across 6 city blocks. 3 of those janitors don't deserve to keep their jobs to support their families in this lousy economy?

Paper routes and mowing lawns have a couple of things in common - they can be begun or quit at leisure, and neither is performed in the company and service of other kids.


One last thought - which will have priority - mopping somebody's puke right now or going to science lab?