Silver Chips: Upstairs bathrooms reopened during lunches

Blair Principal confirms that locking bathrooms at Blair High School is not an unusual occurrence. Clearly, the practice is acceptable to Superintendent Jerry Weast.

Upstairs bathrooms reopened during lunches
Students punished for vandalizing restrooms

Lauren Kestner, Online News and Copy Editor and Mandy Xu, Staff Writer

The Blair administration and security team reopened bathrooms on the second and third floors during 5A and 5B lunches last week, according to Principal Darryl Williams. Security team leader Cedric Boatman instructed custodians to stop closing the bathrooms after building service workers completed maintenance projects to restore damaged property and the administration identified students responsible for vandalism in the restrooms.


Boatman insisted that he did not close the upstairs bathrooms to resolve security shortages as security guard Adrian Kelly said in a Dec. 1 Silver Chips Online article. "That has no bearing on the situation here," he said...

...Williams maintained that the temporary bathroom closures did not constitute a broad policy shift, citing past security decisions to close bathrooms when necessary. "We have closed restrooms a couple times since I've been here," he said...