Students cause restrooms on our campus to have dirty mirrors, writings on the walls, unflushed toilets, malfunctioning sinks, misuse of menstruation products, and lack of menstruation products. The girls restrooms specifically should be better kept and cleaner because students deserve to be able to walk into a clean environment to take care of their business.
When I walk into a restroom the first thing I see are the mirrors. Specifically the B and D building girls restrooms have writings or scratches on the mirrors. Students should be more respectful of the mirrors because they aren’t meant to be taken as canvases to write and draw on.
Additionally, the bathroom stalls walls are disrespectful to our community. The girls B and D building bathrooms have writing on the bathroom stalls either with pencil or sharpie. In the second stall of D building’s bathroom stall there is profanity written on the door with a sharpie. This should especially not be happening because in our 2024-2025 school year planner it informs us that, “Permanent markers may not be brought to school.”
Other ways in which the school bathrooms lack cleanliness is because students leave toilets unflushed which causes an unpleasant scent. Students need to learn how to clean up after themselves as it is a respectful mannerism. Just because one student doesn’t flush doesn’t mean that the rest of us should have to deal with the smell and flush it for them.
Our bathroom sinks malfunction sometimes. I believe the school should fix this issue because in the B building bathroom the sinks have stopped working causing students to walk around campus with dirty hands, or go to another restroom to be able to wash their hands. Sometimes even the sensors of the sink don’t work so students have to press a button that’s under the sink so that the water runs, which is inconvenient.
Furthermore, students misuse menstruation products. When I walk into A and B building restrooms there are lots of opened, unused pads and tampons. Sometimes some are stuck on the walls or even on the ceiling! This disappoints me a lot because we have a privilege to have these necessary products and many students take them for granted. Students should think before they waste these products. Students misusing them leads to none of us having pads and tampons. The containers aren’t resupplied for days or even weeks sometimes. It is not fair to take them away from others that actually respect and use these products.
Some students may think it’s okay to have one or two clean bathrooms and think that it’s fine to not have menstruation products. However, this is settling for less when we students can have more. If students made better decisions in the restrooms we wouldn’t have dirty restrooms, lack of menstruation products, and stinky restrooms.
Students, please make better decisions.
