Students required to bring brooms at start of class

OMG, I can so relate to this! I spent my grade school for 6 years in a public school and our class adviser will ask all of us to bring our own rag, floor wax. And we are supposed to keep the very space where we sit to be clean and shiny and neat. I remember that we do have one janitor for the maintenance and cleaning the school grounds, but when it comes to individual classrooms, teachers have their own way of keeping it clean. I remember always getting reprimanded because I always voice out that my mom can't make me clean my bedroom yet I have to clean our classroom this way. I always get in trouble, suffice to say I was the least favorite lol! I entered a private highschool so the cleaning stopped. I was also there on scholarship but at least, no more staying after class to clean :)

I can relly realte to this one. Not only before the start of the class but before the school year ends, we are also required to bring brooms as donation for the following school year. We also have the same system regarding the cleaners in the room. However, what we have is a group will be assigned for the whole week. This will give all the chances to floorwax the room every week usually every fridays. You are right, this is one of the task I hated during my elementary days but I got no choice. I am in a public elementary school that day.

I attended a public elementary and high school, so bringing cleaning materials and cleaning the classroom (as well as other parts of the school) is something that I went through year after year. It was not particularly taxing for me, and I guess it did me good to learn chores----I can wax floors and scrub them to a perfect shine with a "bunot." What we also did at the end of the school year was to varnish or paint our armchairs so they would all look brand new to the next batch who will use them the next school year.

When I was young we had some chores in the classroom and the teacher gave it week to week but they were nothing like you are telling us. We had to clean the blackboard, pick up papers lying about and place them in a waste basket and put in a special place any left pencial or eraser we found on the floor. That was all. There were grown ups in charge of cleaning and waxing the floor after we left school.

dear thats actally a really good thing.For one thing it teaches children how to clean and everything so tehy will have the skills they need when they grow older. I love to hear about the lifestyle of differant people i mean i grew up in a average private school.Its not really odd to me i mean in my grade school we had differant jobs too but they were a little differant.In my earlier years we would have to water the plants and take attendence. But nothing like the jobs you were talking about.

I never had to do that in school, i think it would have taught some people responsibility though. I know some kids never had chores at home and could do basically anything they wanted. I think having to learn to clean at young age would be good because, there are so many people that when there young they have to teach themselves how to really clean and many people don't have clean homes.

Hi Jurea, I had the same story as you. When we went to school at the beginning of a new year, we were divided into five groups and each group was given a day from the week. so the whole year monday group had to sweep, mop and dust the whole room, and like wise the tuesday group till friday. Plus we were supposed to bring own brooms and rags for cleaning. This was just the classroom duty. we had compound duty as well. Here we were divided into sections. This was different sections of the school compound. So early in the morning we had to clean the compound and then start classes. yeah i dint like it as well but had to follow it. it was rule, if not followed then there was punishment that followed. so, to avoid getting punished, everyone followed the rules. This reminded me al my school days. thanks for sharing.