Photo Credit: CHEYENNE PINO
BY SABRINA VICTOR
Walking into the bathrooms at our school leads to some atrocious sights. Sadly, the condition some students keep them in is disgusting as well as unhygienic. I am appalled by the fact that kids at our school can be so ungrateful that they don’t appreciate having a restroom to utilize or resources like toilet paper. Instead of acting out of pure stupidity, students should keep our facilities as hygienic as possible in respect for those who have to use or clean them.
The mess people leave in the bathroom is absolutely outrageous. The boys defecate in the urinals, while the girls leave bloodstains all over the place instead of cleaning up after themselves. To make matters worse, people purposely clog the toilets using toilet paper and tampons and waste entire rolls of the stuff to hang all over the stalls. When students leave the restrooms like this, the custodial staff is forced to close them, both for our health and due to the fact that they can’t continuously clean them at a moments notice. This makes it inconvenient for everybody else, because students have to walk to another floor or building to find a clean bathroom. Not only is it inconvenient, but it also wastes time that should be spent in the classroom. In order to enable everyone a short trip to the restroom, we must all work towards keeping them as sanitary as possible.
The sickening way the restrooms are treated shows how unappreciative CCHS students are. They vandalize bathrooms walls, toilet seats, floors, dryers, and toilet paper dispensers by writing offensive, derogative, and negative statements about others. Everyone needs to realize they are fortunate to go to a privileged school instead of the shacks kids in third world countries have to attend. I bet if those kids ever got the chance to go to Cooper, they would do their best to take care of it. But, sadly we take everything for granted and don’t appreciate how lucky we are to go to Cooper City High School.
Students at CCHS need to start cleaning up after themselves and respecting school property. In life, we won’t always have people to clean up after us, which is the reason why the custodial staff shouldn’t have the obligation to clean up after our lack of maturity.
