After a series of boys’ bathroom incidents, such as stuffing paper towels into toilets and leaving unsanitary messes, the boys bathroom in building three is being closely monitored by Vice Principal Sarah Perry. Additionally, paper towels have been removed from all boys’ bathrooms.
“The actions of one or a couple people, unfortunately, in this case, are impacting the whole school,” Perry said.
Students had mixed reactions to the removal of paper towels from the boys’ bathrooms.
“I can’t dry my hands when I’m in the bathroom,” freshman Preston Caswell said. “That’s kind of a big thing that happens in the bathroom that you need to do.”
Freshman Henry Baker agreed.
“It’s just a horrible thing to not have paper towels,” Baker said. “What are we supposed to dry our hands with? Toilet paper?”
While many expressed their dissatisfaction with the new changes, others were indifferent.
“In my opinion, I don’t really care that there aren’t paper towels,” freshman Sawyer Lewis said. “I just kind of let my hands dry and wipe them off on my shorts.”
As for Ms. Perry monitoring the bathrooms by sitting outside with a sign-in sheet, reactions were mostly neutral.
“It’s kind of not that necessary because the energy could be used somewhere else,” Caswell Lewis said. “It’s neutral. I don’t think it’s really doing anything.”
While the changes will remain in place until the situation is resolved, Caswell Lewis offered alternative ideas to prevent bathroom incidents.
“At some schools, they have an online sign-out so they know who’s in the bathroom at what time,” he said. “We could do that.”
One even suggested more radical changes in the school’s structure.
“I think we should just make this school a high school so we don’t have middle schoolers in our bathrooms,” Sawyer Lewis said, “I feel like they’re the most immature out of the six grades.”
Despite the varying opinions, one thing was clear: students want to see one specific aspect of the bathrooms back.
“Put paper towels back in the bathrooms,” Baker said. “That’s it.”
By Santiago De Jesus-Centeno
