Students are unable to use the bathrooms on campus due to broken toilets and missing toilet paper.
“Sometimes when I go to the bathroom, I must wait to use the stall because most of the toilets are out of order and the ones that are working are being used by another student. This is a problem because sometimes I really need to use it.”
This seems to not be the only problem regarding the bathrooms at the school. Several students at the school mentioned that the bathrooms are missing toilet paper.
“When I go to the bathroom, I must make sure that there is toilet paper in the stall that I am going to use. There have been times where I would be in a rush to use the bathroom and I do not realize that there is no toilet paper in the stall, so I must ask my friend to get some from another stall and pass it to me.”
“There is a lack of soap. When I go to wash my hands there is a soap bottle with 5% soap and 95% water. The custodians fill the bottle with water instead of getting a new bottle of soap. It makes me feel dirty.”
Students claim that the bathrooms should be bigger and that it lacks sanitation.
“Most of the time the bathrooms are nasty. There are only two bathrooms that I think are clean. I use the bathroom twice a day, so it makes me feel uncomfortable.”
“I avoid using the bathroom because they smell strange. The bathroom stalls are also ridiculously small. It can be claustrophobic for tall people like me and heavy students.”
“The other day I went to the bathroom, and I was greeted will an awful smell. There are 4-5 stalls in a bathroom and 3 of them were out of order and the other one did not have toilet paper, so I had to use the stall that was on the far left. As I entered the stall the awful smell got stronger, and I saw urine all over the floor. It appeared as if it had been there for hours or days. I had to take off my skirt and hang it on the door so it would not touch the urine. After that day, I try to avoid using that bathroom.”
Custodians say that students are also to blame for the lack of sanitation in the bathrooms.
“Not all custodians do their job correctly, but the dirty bathrooms are partially the student's fault because they are the ones who are using them and making the mess. Some students can be nasty and spiteful. We are also short staffed now, so it is hard to keep up and maintain the whole school.”