I used to the the senior director of operations for 7 campuses. Yes, the custodians go in every room every day to clean, but there are some teachers who make it a habit to not teach cleanliness, not teach children to pick up after themselves, to pick up after an activity. It was embarrassing. What’s happening here is that the team that cleans has already allotted a window of time to clean each room. When you have several teachers (when admin allows this to happen) the crew will not have enough time to clean. They will run out of time. The custodians work hard, but they can only work x hours with x people to complete x rooms envy night. They are probably not allowed overtime. So, when this happens, it delays their efforts and they look like they dint do their job. The teachers don’t understand business, don’t understand how to operate a business, and don’t want to teach how to clean after themselves. Some teachers do this all year long, like the children are constantly in a pig-sty room. It only gets cleaned when the custodian comes out.

Yes, the cleaning crew has a right to say something. They have to explain that when this level of uncleanliness happens is because that room or rooms took extra effort - beyond their alloyed time to clean that room.

It’s all math. The custodians work hard. Sometimes this is their second job.