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Letter: Fix up school bathrooms

By Chase Lemmon, Vancouver
Published: May 9, 2019, 6:00am

I attend Skyview High School and am concerned about the cleanliness of the boys’ school bathrooms.

Let me run you through the experience of going to the boys’ bathroom: you walk in, and the ground is instantly extremely sticky. Next, you walk over to the urinals and stalls, where both of the urinals are clogged with something: I’ve seen homework, I’ve seen shirts, and if it’s not clogged, it probably won’t flush anyway.

Next, the stalls. Most guys don’t bother to flush after using them, often resulting in the toilets being filled with many different people’s waste. There is often fresh urine literally everywhere in a stall except the toilet, and if you can find an OK-looking toilet, it probably won’t flush.

Next, if you are not a gross person, you go to wash your hands; three out of four of the soap dispensers have been ripped off the wall by students, and the hand dryer is as useful as someone breathing on your hand.

I’ve never seen a janitor even near a bathroom, and I’d understand why. The schools should be paying more attention to the student bathrooms. They need to be cleaned and have the broken things fixed.

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