Ryan Hennigan
“PHS is sexist,” were the first words that escaped freshman Matt Glancy’s mouth following the announcement on Wednesday, April 11 concerning the closing of numerous male restrooms. Glancy had been waiting patiently in study for his turn to go to the bathroom, but upon hearing the message he decided to wait as to not be falsely accused of “bathroom misconduct.”
As disgusting and serious as the incident is, one can not help to hold back a chuckle or two when thinking about it. The rumors created by students (some disturbingly may be true) range from feces smeared on the wall by hand to them being found in the urinals and the sinks to the culprit creating a paper-towel-and-toilet-paper nest in the middle of the restroom and defecating into the middle of it.
Although some of these possible occurrences may have been forged by the use of one’s imagination, it is also difficult to not imagine the perspective of the janitor or authoritative figure when they first entered the bathroom. The very thought makes one feel sick, however, there are even grosser perspectives to imagine. What if someone, presumably a student, had walked in on the culprit smearing feces on the walls with his hands or crouching down to deliver the deed into the paper nest?
…Enough with the nightmares for a minute, as long as low IQs and rebellious natures exist there will always be disturbed derelicts that want to stick it to the man…with poop. On a more serious note, the questionable matter at hand is how the school handled the incident. They closed every boys bathroom except for one, announced to male students that they could not go to the bathroom without first using a sign out sheet, and took all the male student suspects for interviews with the principals.
The first of several flaws with these actions is that the culprit could have been any disturbing male teacher or janitor or any adult looking to create chaos. If nobody saw the event taking place (which is rather odd seeing as how it is common to have up to four boys in the bathroom at once), this could even mean that girls are not exempt from being suspects. With the bathrooms usually being visited every several minutes by a different student, the chance of the guilty person having enough time to do his dead and leave without being caught is very low. Therefore, since the scene was discovered early in the morning, it could have been done the night before or before school started. Also, if it was performed when school was in session, there could have been an intricate plan with possibly more than one student involved.
Another problem with the actions taken by the heads of the building was the closing of all the boys bathrooms except for one. His clearly does not help the problem; rather it just increases the chance of innocent students wetting their pants in class. It is not like there were feces discovered in the other closed bathrroms or that the feces problem had been a reoccurring one. The action is all the more ridiculous with the fact that girls are allowed to go to any girls bathroom at any moment of the day without signing first.
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You have started to address a very relevant and timely event, but you haven't finished your thought. Readers are still waiting for suggestions for improvement or solutions to this weird problem. If you want to tackle something this disturbing, don't quit halfway through your commentary.
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