Nearly everyday I walk into the girls’ bathroom and am disgusted by the sight of the mess as I search for a stall that is bearable. As I make my way down the row of stalls, I wonder how girls manage to urinate on the toilet seats (I thought that was a guy thing), but then I realize that this probably occurs because many girls have to squat over the toilet seats because there are rarely any toilet-seat covers. This brings me to my biggest complaint, which is the lack of supplies in the bathrooms.  I believe that most girls will agree that toilet paper is a necessity, since it is not fun to drip dry. When I can’t find a stall with any toilet paper, I begin to wonder why students don’t stop using all of it for flooring, but leave some of the toilet paper in the dispensers!

            I am a fan of the new bathrooms in the main building with their environment-friendly hand dryers and their toilets with the sensors in them. The girls’ bathroom in the main building is quite nice, but it would be a true luxury if there was actually soap and toilet paper. I don’t care how pretty and technologically advanced bathrooms are if they don’t have the necessities. The worst bathroom is the girls science building bathroom. The doors don’t even close, and soap is a rarity, you are lucky if you get a couple crumbs of the useless powder “soap.” Yet it’s not too terrible because the girls’ gym bathroom doesn’t even have the powder “soap.” I am told that the boys’ bathrooms aren’t any better.

            Sometimes I am just a picky girl who complains over silly things, so to assure myself, I decided to do a little biological expose on the bathrooms here at ESHS. Mr. Boitano and Mrs. Richard’s biology classes were so kind as to lend me their petri dishes from the lab in which they tested different areas for bacteria concentration. I also did a little experimental swabbing of my own, and from the results of the petri dishes, the girls’ main building bathroom was the cleanest, and the science building bathrooms were the most prominent with dark lawns of bacteria. Although there were patches of what Mrs. Richards believed to be staphylococcus and streptococcus, which cause staph infections and strep throat.

Because it is my resolution not to complain and whine without offering some sort of solution, I would like to propose hiring more janitors, or administrators can check the bathrooms occasionally throughout the day to make sure there are supplies. And to the students, don’t be dirty. Throw your trash away, flush the toilets, and please, wash your hands! It would be nice if we didn’t catch any weird diseases while using the bathrooms!

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