Issues in the Restrooms

Recently, Talawanda’s restrooms have come to the point of utter messiness. Although it is mainly the men’s restrooms that have proven the boys of THS can’t be trusted alone, what the custodians are cleaning up should not have to be dealt with in any place, according to principal Tom York.

Since last year, the men’s restrooms have been filled with chewing tobacco, used tissue paper, and potato chip bags with urine in them. The issue has been going on since last year, but things have really gone downhill in the past three weeks.

York said his main concern is the fact that students are unsupervised after school hours, when the perpetrators trash the restrooms. “If anything, students should come to the cafeteria and wait until their event starts,” said York. “If students are left unsupervised in the building and leave their trash everywhere, it makes the place look messy to visitors.”

York said he has no idea of who the perpetrators might be, but if he were to catch them, “it could be anything from a warning to being suspended from school.”

THS Custodian Cody Saylor is serving his second year as the school’s janitor. “The restrooms were not this bad last year,” he said. “Now the problems happen everyday.”

According to both York and Saylor, it’s not just the men’s room that is having issues. “The women’s restroom isn’t as bad as the men’s, there’s just paper towels everywhere and makeup on the mirrors,” said Saylor.

When asked what he would say to the people who were causing the issues to arise, Saylor said, “I’m not much of a talker, but I would probably just guide them and make them clean up the mess themselves.”

“Chewing tobacco and litter are the main problems,” said York, to which Saylor agreed.

From now on there will be more supervision after school to try and prevent more issues from occurring, with the hope that with more eyes watching after hours this will be more effective than giving warnings or or even worse, suspensions.