Why does it seem like every time I walk into the bathroom, I’m entering the set of ‘SAW 3’? Is it the custodial staff? Or is it the immaturity of my peers? Our school is in a constant struggle trying to keep our bathrooms clean. But who is to blame?

Students say that it’s our school’s custodial staff that never cleans the bathrooms. I beg to differ; I’ve witnessed students vandalizing the bathroom, for example when I found urine all over the wall. Maybe the custodial staff isn’t to blame, but the immaturity of some students who ruin it for the rest of us. I believe that we should all take some initiative and keep our bathrooms clean. After all, it’s basic common courtesy. I find it very immature that people can’t do a simple task such as flushing.

Seeing the way people treat the bathrooms make me question how much we evolved from monkeys. It’s really sad how people can’t press a lever, but then again I don’t blame them for not wanting to touch it. Maybe if we had actual soap and paper towels in the bathroom, people would be influenced to be more humane. Even the blow dryers in the concreteables are out of order. The men’s bathroom in concreteable A is even missing dividers between urinals.

Maybe the condition of the bathrooms, is contributing to the way the students are treating them. If students had better toiletries, they would be more sensitive to the bathrooms. Due to lack of funding, our custodial staff is forced to buy low grade bathroom supplies. That makes our bathrooms unappealing, and makes our students not care about the condition that they’re in.

It’s clear the bathrooms don’t seem to be a priority when it comes up to dividing the school budget. Even though our custodial staff works hard on keeping our bathrooms clean, it’s hard for them to work with kids that don’t respect the bathrooms. It’s also hard for kids to respect the bathroom if no money is put into them; and due to a restricted budget no money can be put into it. It’s just a revolving door of mayhem and contradictions that seems to never end.

But there is hope, people can start making changes. Just because we are not provided with high class toiletries doesn’t mean we can act like it. I believe if we changed our habits we can make this fine institution a better place.