Who cleans your school?
By Denise
@petatonicsca (7070)
Japan
June 10, 2019 4:21am CST
This might be answered very differently depending on your culture.
Japanese people who send their kids to Japanese school say, "The students, of course." They have a short period after lunch and the entire student body has assigned cleaning jobs.
Americans would say, "The custodian, of course." Children just need to clean their desks.
Our international school in Japan does a little of both. We have hired cleaning staff that clean very well every day, but today was the year-end cleanout of everything. The funny thing about cleanup day is that things come back to you that you had forgotten about. For example, one sixth grader showed up at my door with a Bible costume. "I borrowed this in fifth grade, sorry to be late returning it." I myself found music that we had done last year that I hadn't filed yet!
So, who cleans the schools where you are from?
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4 responses
@much2say (57760)
• Los Angeles, California
10 Jun 19
There are custodians to do the bulk of the cleaning, supposedly, but I don't know how well they actually clean. Teachers end up having to do some of it at the end of the day. And some of us parent volunteers will come in to help with that too. The kids should be responsible for their own areas (desks, eating area) but I do think that needs to be enforced better here . . . I think part of it also means enforcing it better at home.
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@Torunn (8606)
• Norway
10 Jun 19
We have hired cleaning staff at both the school where I work and at university. At school, we try to make the children clean after themselves. It's not even as their children anymore, they're 16 to 19 and should be able to pick up the trash, not just leave it around as many of them do.
Some classrooms have been an absolute mess this year the cleaning staff says, but noone tells the teaching in those classrooms.
@petatonicsca (7070)
• Japan
11 Jun 19
Younger children seem to do better than the older ones do!
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@Torunn (8606)
• Norway
11 Jun 19
@petatonicsca Yes, I think something happens when they become teenagers, something that never really goes away for some ;-)
