Throughout the years movies have created many different perceptions of Custodians working in high schools. In The Breakfast Club The janitor reveals himself as “the eyes and ears of this institution” and in the movie Good Will Hunting the janitor of the university solves one of the most advanced mathematical equations in less than five minutes.
Scott Moller, the maintenance and custodial supervisor at Fremont High School Moller has been working at FHS for 13 years. Moller may not be a mathematical genius and may not be lurking the halls listening to the latest gossip but he is definitely one of many unsung hero's of Fremont High.
Moller originally went to college to be a Social Studies teacher. After he finished school, realized there was
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Moller receives emergency calls in the middle of the night that he has to attend to, this includes broken sprinkler heads or turning off busted fire alarms. Emergency calls are just one of many things Moller has to tend to.
A normal day for Moller starts at 6 am and sometimes even before, if he is up and ready. He arrives at school and does a walk through of the school, checking each hall making sure the night crew does their job correctly. As he walks he turns on all the lights and makes sure all the electrical and plumbing are up and running. As the day goes on and the halls are filled with students, his time is dedicated to mowing and dealing with tasks as they come.
“There's always something funny going on,” says Moller, “either something breaks or something spills and we just have to wait for it to happen.”
Even though playing the role of custodian requires playing a little bit of a waiting game, that doesn't seem to delude any of the excitement, especially during the