A girl walks in to the bathroom, looks into a stall and turns her face up in complete disgust. There is nothing worse than coming into a dirty bathroom and seeing that someone forgot to flush the toilet. It isn’t any reason as to why the bathroom should look this repulsive.

Dan Metz, the school engineer said, “Both boys and girls bathrooms are nasty at the end of the day.”

According to Chuck Gerba, PhD, a professor of environmental microbiology at the University of Arizona, “There are 3.2 million microbes (bacterium that causes disease) per square inch in the average toilet bowl.”

It is safe to say that most of the microbes are congregated in the first floor bathrooms. Metz said, “Since the first floor bathroom is used all day long by all three schools, it is the dirtiest at the end of the day.”

When you walk into a bathroom that has candy wrappers in the sink, urine on the toilet seats, and clogged toilets; you can’t help but wonder how people could do such things.He finds writing on the walls, and toilets that have not been flushed. “They don’t treat the school as if it were their home; they treat it like it is a dump.” He said. Metz is not the only individual who has disdainful thoughts about the bathrooms.

Alissia Simons, a freshman at CHS said, “It doesn’t make any sense how nasty the bathrooms get sometimes, that is why I stopped using them.”

Some students wait until they go home to use the bathroom just to avoid using the ones here at the school. “They just do not care about the cleanliness of the school.” Metz said.

If this problem continues there would be more student complaints, and the bathrooms would be off limits for everyone. If students do not want this to happen then they need to start being responsible for them selves and the messes they make.

This issue is not a matter of cleanliness it is a matter of respect. When kids do things like not flushing the toilets, or leaving paper in the sinks, it shows that you have no respect for other people who use the restroom or the
property of the school. It is not hard to flush the toilet when you are done using the bathroom. It is not difficult to find a garbage can to put trash in.

“Maybe if there was a trashcan in the bathroom, they would not put paper in the sinks,” Simons said. Whether or not there is a trashcan in the restroom is irrelevant because students need to become more responsible for the cleanliness of the bathroom, and any other areas of the school.

On the week of December 4, it had just snowed outside and Metz was two cleaners short leaving more work for the rest of the janitors.

“We are two cleaners short so that means that there is more for us to clean.” Metz said.

When students leave the bathrooms as dirty as they are, they leave more work for the janitors to do.

You have to remember that the bathrooms aren’t the only places they have to clean; the rest of the school needs to be cleaned too. To make the janitors’ job slightly easier, just clean up after yourself.

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