u/Bighoodies425

Advice for messy teachers?

I'm a custodian at a high school and have been for a few years. Most of my teachers are completely fine, but 2 of my art teachers and one of my science teachers have gotten so bad over the time I've worked here that I'm at the point where I'm staying late at least once a week because I have a huge section and their rooms take so long. They don't control their students at all; these are young adults but every day they dump pencil sharpeners and paint in the sinks, leave their project materials all over the floor, throw clay balls at the windows, dump glue all over the tables and floors (they do paper mache projects and she gives them a bowl with glue and a paintbrush and it ends up everywhere), and they dump paint on the floor that I couldn't even get off with our strongest chemicals and a scrubber on a drill. I'm starting to despise my job because of this.

I don't want to lose my job or start anything, but is there any way i can get these teachers to do their jobs and not let the kids do whatever they want? They've been messy since I started but nowhere near this bad, and I'm at my wits end now. Only bringing this up because it feels relevant here, but I'm autistic and therefore I struggle to not only know what I should and shouldn't communicate but I also tend to not know what is trying too hard with this job, so I'm afraid to skip something I feel like isn't my responsibility to save time and get into any trouble. If this is something I really don't have the power to change I understand, but any advice is appreciated. Sorry for the text wall

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u/Bighoodies425 — 1 day ago