(lives here with the students) - Parents of students in elementary schools in Haifa, say that the cleaners in the schools only come to work at 12 noon (At the behest of their supervisors, of course, we will emphasize that there is no complaint here against the cleaners themselves), this while the children spend time in the schools starting at 7:30 in the morning. According to many parents, by 12 o'clock the schools are no longer clean, to say the least, and what is particularly disturbing is the condition of the toilets that the children are supposed to use.
"The children go between the floors to find a clean toilet"
Councilwoman from the Green faction, Yael Shanar, submitted a query to the mayor regarding the cleanliness of the toilets in the city's schools:
"Recently, I received a number of complaints from parents of children in elementary schools in Haifa, whose children refrain from going to the bathroom to the point of constipation, 6th graders who avoid coming to school during their periods, children in 1st grade (!) who during the break go between the toilets on the different floors, until they find A clean utility house," Shanar writes in the query.
"Maslow's theory of needs explains that when children (and adults too) cannot relieve themselves properly, they are not free for development, and in the case of school children - for learning and play. Going to the bathroom is a basic physiological need, woe betide us if the educational frameworks we provide for our children lack basic cleanliness in the rooms the services".
"Dozens of tender children who suffer"
Shanar continues: "From the investigation I conducted, it turns out that in many schools in Haifa, cleaning is done once a day, towards the end - starting at 12:00 noon. The schools open for children starting at 7:30 in the morning, which means that there are 4.5 hours in which the public toilets that are used by dozens of soft children, the youngest of whom are 6 years old, do not undergo any cleaning.
I asked school principals in other big cities what was going on with them on the issue, and that's how I found out that in the cities of Netanya and Beer Sheva, for example, the children's toilets in the elementary schools are cleaned twice - the first time after the tenth break, and the second time at the end of the school day.
It should be noted that the cities of Netanya and Be'er Sheva are both in a lower socio-economic section than Haifa, and still manage to provide their students with cleaner services.
Even if the school principals want to purchase cleaning hours at the expense of the school's self-management funds, they are obligated to work with the municipality's pool of cleaners, and there is no one available to work at earlier hours.
My question is - what is the municipality doing to increase the working hours of the cleaners in the schools?".
This is a problem for many schools
One of the mothers we spoke with emphasized that the important thing to understand is that this is not one school where there is a cleanliness problem. "We must understand that all the schools need to be taken care of, so that the cleaners arrive sooner and there will be no problem with the toilets. I talked to parents of students from different schools in the city, and it became clear to me that this problem exists in other schools. I hope that a solution to this problem will be found as soon as possible."
"The boys' bathroom is always dirty"
A student at one of the schools says that the school administration regularly enters the classrooms to talk about the state of the boys' toilets. According to her, regularly there are boys who push entire rolls of toilet paper into the toilet and clog the toilets. The head of the house and the cleaners are forced to open the clogs again and again, all the time. In addition, the cleaners claim that the boys' toilets look appalling, with toilet paper scattered in every corner. Several times the school management closed the boys' bathroom on the floor, and the boys were told to go to the bathroom on the floor above.
"The children need a strong stomach to go to the bathroom"
In one of the elementary schools in the estate, parents claim that their children report very difficult scenes in the toilets. "My daughter tells me that the toilets at school are always dirty. She says that she comes to the toilets and there is always urine on the toilet and on the floor. Sometimes there is also faeces smeared around. Me too, every time I come to school, I feel a very unpleasant smell in the toilets, really It's not clean there. It would be great if the cleaners started arriving in the mornings, to be honest, it's really necessary."
"The girls hold back for days"
A mother from another elementary school in Carmel says that her daughter and her friends try in every way not to enter the school bathroom during the school day, because according to them 'it's disgusting there, always dirty', and they prefer to hold back for whole days, just to not use the bathroom. "My daughter in the third grade tells me many times that her stomach hurt at school. When I try to find out with her, it always turns out that she refrained from going to the bathroom because it is always dirty, or as she says - 'repulsive there'. Does it make sense to anyone that young children should not be able to use the bathroom every day for hours, to the point of a stomach ache?"
Next to the dirt - the problem of vandalism
Many schools also face the problem of vandalism in the toilets. Several years ago, in one of the elementary schools in the city, the school management decided to remove the entrance doors to the toilets, because the children used to deliberately and excessively dirty the toilets. The parents then resented what they saw as an invasion of the students' privacy. But there are also cases in which the students take the vandalism one step further, and are not satisfied with throwing entire rolls of toilet paper into the toilet, but actually break and damage the school's property - the toilets and sinks. The difficulty is in the supervision of these operations, since, naturally, it is not possible to use cameras on site, or to remove the doors of the cells that preserve the privacy of the users.
Either way, it is clear that the issue, although it may not be talked about enough, is troubling many of the parents and children in the city's schools.
Parents do not educate the children.
School teachers do not educate the children.
A jungle generation raises jungle children.
There are no clean toilets because there are no sidewalks free of blocking vehicles, no restaurant kitchens free of mold, rust and rodents, and no city gardens free of wild boar droppings and dog droppings.
When a culture lives in dirt then everything is dirty. When a culture enshrines liberalism and progressivism where everything is allowed and everything should be included, and education is 'everything is allowed honey' instead of punishments, gifts are bought and chaos is encouraged, roadblocks and interference with the police, then is it any wonder that instead of being a restraining factor that educates and leads change, they have become babysitters for a few hours. There is no uniform. There is no respect for teachers. There is no education for politeness and listening. So they go out and destroy slides, or toilets, or bus stops. The no education system meets the no parenting system combined with the no legal deterrence system and the no policing system.
Is it dirty toilets?
It's a toilet where barbarian children throw paper on the floor.
A little education wouldn't hurt.
In the dream state, they put a cleaner in every cell.
Where is the parental council? A container of bleach cost NIS 8.
It is true that everything is from home in education. Those who were brought up to maintain cleanliness, but there are those who were not brought up and he makes more dirt than he was who sweeps the floor papers instead of urinating in the toilet. Now what you suggested in a chlorine bath costs a total of NIS 8. Not absolute, it is forbidden for the children's pranks to come, dangerous, they will go wild with it and dangerous! There is a cleaning worker, but the most important thing is to take care of it. Oh, and the bleach, leave it for the children to use the bleach for their friends.
Education for cleanliness begins at school.
We need to put a cleaning worker in every school who will work from morning until graduation. After the end of the school day, cleaning workers arrive and will continue to clean the classrooms and toilets so that they remain clean.
And the next morning, a new and important day, a cleaning worker cleans the toilets so that the children can enter clean toilets and not hold back for hours. Disgusting and smelly toilets until I vomit!
Live system here
How do you allow surfers to come up with statements and words like in the first comment?
Objective criticism and freedom of expression are one thing.
Humiliating a person with such language and verbal sub-level is another thing.
A response in such language should have been cut in the edit. It does not respect you and certainly not us as surfers.
It's nice that you pay more attention to what is said than to the terminology,
There are articles here in polite language whose message is humiliating, humiliating and gagging.
If the word "dirty" makes your knees shake, you will find a comfortable armchair
Haifa, a third world city. shame.
* Failure of the education system, the administrators and teachers who fail to educate the children to maintain public property and cleanliness. It would be possible and better for child-adult citizens in the future to learn proper rules of conduct
at the expense of educational material. For the benefit of the company in the present and in the future.
* A continuous failure of the municipality that cuts budgets in the wrong places and neglects the health and quality of life in schools and throughout the city.
* Also public toilets in all kinds of sites in the city, including in places visited by many tourists, look like villages in Africa. Time to wake up!
* Failure of the parents who do not educate their children to maintain public property and cleanliness.
A neglected and dirty place does not invite consideration and maintenance of cleanliness, but the opposite.
As strange as it may sound to you, in schools in Japan the toilets and yards are always clean and polished. It doesn't happen because the students there refrain from going to the bathroom... it happens because there is a different education there: the students in Japan, already in kindergarten, who participate in cleaning the bathrooms and yards. It is quite clear that a child who participates in this task will inevitably maintain cleanliness and behave exactly the opposite of what is described in the article about the situation here. By the way, such a child will maintain the cleanliness of the public domain throughout his life even when he becomes an adult citizen. Indeed in Japan and South Korea where there is a similar education, you will not find dirt on the streets, even in huge cities like Tokyo and Seoul. Most of the people who throw dirt on the street in those cities are foreign tourists (including Israelis). And so on this issue as well, the gaps between us and these countries are huge and this only works to our detriment.
Dear Yael! tell me you How were the toilets in schools not filthy? That you have a mayor who is filthy in her own right. Have you ever heard the saying: "Your swords and your destroyers come out of you". This is your mayor. Including the duty of the school janitor to take care of the cleanliness of the toilets. and give an unequivocal instruction. The school cleaners take care of cleaning the toilets. And for the worried parents, I understand your heart and concern, go out and strike in front of the city hall. And specialize in your concern for cleaning the toilets in the school, go out and do not be afraid, because as long as you follow this path, you have nothing to fear.