SF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS SEEK TOILET SEAT COVERS 05/25/05 9:35 PDT SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) San Francisco students fed up with dirty school bathrooms convened today outside a local high school to demand the installation of toilet-seat covers in all high school restrooms, a spokesman for a group that launched a bathroom-improvement campaign reported. The fed-up students made their demands outside Thurgood Marshall Academic High School in the city's Bayview-Hunter's Point neighborhood. In a recent survey conducted by the group, Youth Making a Change, San Francisco high school students indicated that messy, unsanitary and under-stocked bathrooms were a major concern. Some bathrooms at San Francisco Unified School District high schools are reportedly so bad that students are ditching class and going off campus to use the toilet, according to the youth group. A coordinator for the group, Jose Luis Pavon, said the district agreed to have toilet-seat covers placed in all high schools by February 2005 but instead, launched a pilot program that put toilet seat covers in just four high schools, Pavon said. "At this point, we have no concrete commitment. We are in hot pursuit,'' Pavon said. A spokeswoman for the school district said today that the effort to cleanup school bathrooms has been collaborative. "We look forward to having seat covers in all of the bathrooms," district spokeswoman Lorna Ho said today. The district held a news conference today to express support for the effort but also to explain the challenges it is facing given the $23 million budget deficit it faces, Ho said. The district plans to shut down four schools next fall and has laid off 10 custodians, Ho said. Installing seat covers in every high school bathroom could cost the district $81,000 or more so school officials wanted to see how things went with the seat covers before putting them into more school bathrooms, Ho said. Ho also said the district is waiting for students from the youth group to submit a plan they have agreed to develop that would encourage students to taking ownership of the cleanliness in their own bathrooms, Ho said. "We appreciate their intention and desire and we would respectfully request that students encourage their peers to help in keeping restrooms clean and functioning for each other throughout the day. Given the budget crisis, we don't have as many custodians as we would need to clean them every hour.''
I refuse to use school (and most public) restrooms because of how filthy they are, especially the womens bathrooms.
Um, well I dont want to be gross but I think women leaving used sanitary products on the floors and sticking them other places is pretty damn nasty.
They actually DO that where you are? Damn. Never seen that one... There are definitely some restrooms I will go out of my way to use & some I will go out of my way to avoid on campus. The ones in the general classrooms buildings tend to be nasty. On the other hand, in the buildings that are mostly filled with professor and grad student offices, they're not so bad. In the department I majored in, everyone was really good about keeping things clean -- not just because they wanted to keep it nice for themselves but because we all knew the janitor & didn't want to leave any unnecessary mess for him...
Yeah they do it, and they dont care. I mean these are high school girls, you think they would have some sense of decency and respect for others but I guess not. It's disgusting.
I guess you can determine the overall condition of a school system by the condition of it's restrooms. If this school's restrooms are in bad enough condition to cause a protest then everything else must be bad at this school. I wouldn't eat the food there.
Oh yeah, we've had cockroaches in our school, the teachers think its funny and last year a guy found a fly baked into his pizza 0_o ewww. The only school food I eat is when they get pizza from the delivery place next door, that way I know they didnt cook it themselves lol
Wow... I sure am glad my school's bathrooms are clean. Then again, they better be since we have security cameras up to stop graffiti. You know your school is wasting money when they put up cameras for the sole purpose of stopping graffiti.
I have never seen toilet seat covers in any school (but I haven't been in school since 1979). I can't believe hippie kids are so soft that they must have seat covers (you mean the paper ones right?). As to the restrooms being clean, well, dirty toilets are unhealthy to say the least. Do you have a student government? They may be able to help with your complaint.
Security cameras for stopping vandalism is not really a waste of money, but it is sad that they have to do that because people dont know how to act. My freshman year in high school some latino kids lit the garbage can in the boys bathroom on fire and sprayed "LATIN KINGS" across the wall next to it. A teacher ended up walking in and seeing the fire, lucky it wasnt out of control, he picked up the can and put it under the sink and put it out and they never caught the students.
Well.. if there was actually any vandalism then it wouldn't be a waste of money, but we have absolutely none. The worst it gets is people scratch things like L.K <3 R.H. on the doors of the bathroom. We don't have gangs, unless you count the prissy cheerleader cliques gangs because they go and steal makeup from Target in a group. My school is so goody-two-shoes that it's not even funny... but that's good because I'd rather that than there be gang fights in the halls.
yeah we have too much violence. Usually it starts when two guys start "ranking" on each other as a fun thing and one ends up taking the other too seriously then they argue and get into the whole "Wha'chu gonna do about it [insert non-creative swear word here]!?" then the one has to get all his "homies" to jump the other guy, and yeah, its stupid
what a stupid thing to do: latino guys vandalize and then right latino kingz. why didnt they just go ahead and write there names and the number of there parents tss.
