Portfolio Essay: Tustodians In High School

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Portfolio essay At the end of a long school day you walk through the halls and you never thought about this before but you wonder why so much trash is on the floor. So tell yourself next thing in the morning you want to see if the floor is still dirty or not, so the next day when you arrive at school you enter and scan the floor and you notice that all of the trash and dirt was picked up and the floor was clean. This situation was the same as the one I had while looking for a topic for this essay. And this got me thinking about the custodians at school and what they deal with on a day-to-day basis, I thought who else to interview better than my own Mom who is a custodian at Vista West Continuation School. I thought that it would be interesting …show more content…

There is a lot of pressure and responsibility that comes with the job, which is to be expected for cleaning and keeping the campus and classrooms clean. Also having your coworkers and higher ups be on your case 24/7, my mom explained, “They(her coworkers and manager) are always on my case asking if I did this or that when I've been working there for years” (Gomez 9:13-9:26). From what I have heard mostly that some custodians are unfairly treated by staff and coworkers, for example, I was told that for a time my mom and one other custodian for a period of time were responsible for keeping the entire campus clean. I remember the days when she was told to do overtime, She came home late and tired and even after that the next day she was harassed because she didn’t do a special request for one of the teachers“One of the teachers wanted me to move a big desk to the other room but we would be there all day because of how big it was and my supervisor said I didn’t have to do it so I didn’t and the next day the teacher wound up confronting me as if I did something wrong or it was my job. which it …show more content…

And so even mentally, the job is staining and tough to handle and a constant reminder of how unfair and a really mental and physical toll it has on someone. My personal thought is that these custodians need to be more recognized for their actions and be treated like actual staff like teachers and office workers, not forgotten or not considered because lots of kids respect the teacher’s classroom when it comes to trash. But a lot of people I’ve known don’t consider the custodians so they leave their trays and trash at the lunch table so me and another friend would be picking it up because first my mom is a custodian and so I understand how trash can make their job worse and if my mom works at my school I wouldn’t want her to pick anything up and would try to be as clean as possible for her if she were to work at my school. And second, it’s just being kind and thoughtful to pick up after yourself. And also it is really unfair how women are treated in the

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