How comforting is it to walk into the bathroom and find a mysterious pool of water sitting in the sink? Better yet, how exciting is it to find this same pool of water sitting in that same state, collecting grime and paint, for the remainder of that month?  Some students at Bob Jones feel the bathrooms need to be cleaned and stocked with supplies more often.

The locker rooms, for example, have earned the reputation of being areas of caution long before they were put under construction. Volleyball player Cassidy Wilson claimed that “the one time [she] tried to take a shower, there was a spider.” Lauren Rathbun, who experienced a similar thing, stated that “the water [in the showers] wakes up the spiders and makes them crawl out from the corners and the cracks in the floor.”

Football players Jarek Taylor and Kevon Davis agree in regard to the field house restrooms, saying that they “never have toilet paper” and that the facilities “aren’t cleaned as often as they should be.”

Athletes are not the only students who wish to see a change in bathroom maintenance.  The bathrooms behind the stage in the auditorium are even more of an upset. As pictured, the sink in the girl’s dressing room facility has not been usable for hand washing for some time. When asked her opinion of the conditions, techie Krissy Decker cringed and stated that “[the backstage bathrooms] are absolutely disgusting. I don’t like going in there, much less going to use it.”

More publicly used -and abused- are the stall restrooms stationed around the school. Kiara Gunn, a student at Bob Jones, had a few things to say on the matter: “One of the stalls has a huge crack in it. People can see right in when you are trying to use the bathroom.” She also expressed her opinion on the lock system, or lack there of, on the stall doors saying that “there aren’t locks on almost all of the bathroom stalls. You have to use your leg to hold the door closed while you are trying to pee.”

Mr. Quick, who is an administer at Bob Jones, stated that “we have a twofold issue: one is that we have to educate both our students and our custodians on what the expectations and the responsibilities are.” He expounded upon this saying that, after renovations, “every bathroom stall will have a lock, every stall will be fully supplied, the sinks will have soap dispensers and the hand dryers will be operable. The best expectation is to have–the best expectation that I will have– is that students will do their best to take care of the new facility.”

Perhaps the best scenario does indeed involve students doing their part to keep the areas in which they spend the most time clean.