Graftoneishe Bowers
Our Bathrooms Are Gross. Have you ever walked in the East High bathrooms and it smelled like a sewer or there was toilet paper or water all over the floor? Well this is an issue that all East High School students have to deal with on a daily basis. Not only is the bathrooms nasty and stink, there is a lot of derogatory writing on the bathroom stalls, which have been the cause of alot of drama in the school. Nobody wants to use a filthy bathroom.Nobody should have to. This isn't just happening at East high School. I have been to other schools in Rochester because of basketball and I was enrolled at other schools and some of the bathrooms have been just as bad, not all. We can address this issue by actually listening to the kids that are speaking out and saying something. Also students need to take responsibility for the way the bathroom looks also, we are just as responsible as the adults. This is an issue everybody should care about, especially students and parents. I will try to interview the janitors and some students about their opinion on why the bathrooms are so dirty. Are there other factors to consider? What can we as students do to make it better? East high school students have a lot of opinions on the bathrooms and why they are the way they are. A student, Geo, said that he thinks that the reason why their bathrooms are dirty is because “people are slack”. Meaning that he thinks that some students dirty the bathrooms themselves. Multiple other students I interviewed agreed with Geo, that there are students who do not respect the bathrooms. Another student, Eugene, also agreed with Geo but added that the restrooms do not get cleaned as often as they should be getting cleaned. Faculty have the same issues as students. I interviewed A teacher, Ms. Conroy, and she said, “yea faculty bathrooms are also pretty gnarly”. She went on to say that there was an attempt to keep their bathrooms clean and smelling fresh but overall it didn't work.Another teacher, Ms. Nicholas said that she is the one who attempted to keep the bathrooms clean but they ripped down the paper she put up.She also went on to say that she thinks the janitors don't always come in and keep the bathrooms clean and stocked up . The cleanliness of school bathrooms isn't just a concern at East High school. Students from a school in Westfield, New Jersey also wrote an article about their school bathrooms(Edison Insider).The students expressed that the bathrooms have been going downhill for some time. The writers also interviewed students about what they think and those students voiced that they wished they had more space. Some of their concerns are consistent with the same problems we face everyday. At the times when the bathrooms were the worst it was a thing on tik tok called the “devious lick” , where students literally all over the world would go into their school bathrooms and vandalize it. This is why many students including myself think that some of the students purposely mess up the bathrooms and the janitors are doing the best that they can seeing as this happens everyday. I have personally heard janitors complain about the way the bathrooms are always extremely dirty. While others think that the janitors here at East High are doing their best, others feel like the janitors are not cleaning the bathrooms as often, or as good. Eugene and a couple other students said that they only see the difference when the bathrooms are cleaned at night and when they’re not. I spoke to a janitor that I know that doesnt clean East high bathrooms and she said that “I want to clean the bathrooms better, but we can't use bleach or other cleaning supplies that I would use at home. We could get fired. She continued to say that they only can clean the bathroom once a day and she feels that is a problem because there are a lot of students and staff that use the bathrooms. The broken window theory. This is where a problem occurs and people sees it and they basically add on to the problem because they figure it isn't a big deal.
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Snyder
4/28/2023 08:41:03 am
This was an interesting topic to address. Despite how nasty students may think the bathrooms are I frequently see students congregating in the bathroom. I agree with the students that it is a combined issue of students making a mess, environmental service providers not being able to get in as frequently as necessary, and the lack of ability to use stronger cleaning projects. Thank you for sharing.
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