This week, seven of WJ’s bathrooms were locked – the boy’s bathroom on the G level next to the child development room, the gender-neutral bathroom on the G level during lunch, the boy’s and girl’s bathrooms on the G level near the portables during lunch and 5th period, the boy’s and girl’s bathroom on the first floor near the main gym and the boy’s bathroom next to the cafeteria.
An email sent out to teachers detailed multiple reasons for individual bathrooms being locked. For example, the boy’s G-level bathroom is detailed as being currently out of order. However, the biggest reasons that were cited were students loitering during the school day as well as high student traffic, making it hard for security to cover and closely monitor those bathrooms.
The list of locked bathrooms is subject to change week-to-week and even throughout the school day as security attempts to cover all the bathrooms. This shift in policy comes during a significant uptick in the usage and overdoses of fentanyl and other dangerous and illicit substances in the school building...
So the students who truly need to use the restroom have no bathrooms? There must be a better way to assure that overdoses do not occur without closing restrooms. Some students may have medical conditions that require access to bathrooms.
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