Lines forming outside bathroom stalls. Groups of students loitering by the mirrors. Some students even eating their lunches. Such sights used to be common in the cafeteria bathrooms, but those days are gone. With this new school year comes new bathroom procedures, and safety officers now monitor bathroom usage.
Requiring students to present their ID’s upon entrance and only letting in a maximum of five students at a time not only breaks up the crowds but improves the safety and well being of students.
Administrator Mr. Hughes stated that changes were in hopes of “… making sure everyone feels safe. With more kids in a crowded bathroom there can be more fights and chances of doing silly things.”
Prior to the 2024-25 update procedures, students would congregate in the bathroom, occupying stalls for long periods of time. Additionally, students escaping class often retreated to the bathrooms, making it harder for others to use them for their intended purposes.
The addition of these bathroom protocols not only eliminated student gatherings in the cafeteria bathrooms, but it also made the faculty aware of the fact that the relaxed approach of years past caused disorder, fights, and bad student conduct. We can now understand that by implementing these rules, our school transitioned from a disorganized system to a drastically improved organization.
Our school is working each day to better our student’s security and one of their moves for this is improving the school cafeteria bathroom procedures
At first, changes frustrated students who left the cafeteria to use the bathroom.
“There was a pushback from the kids initially,” Mr. Hughes said “There were a couple questions like ‘why do I have to have my ID to go to the bathroom?’”
Students quickly came to terms with the changes and seem to understand the necessity of new rules.
“It’s the fact that I really had to go to the bathroom and I had to wait, but now that we are more adjusted to the change it’s been really organized”, said junior Maesha Adnan.
The school ensures that by making these changes there is a greater sense of order and fewer students getting into trouble or danger. Regardless of the rough beginning, students are now accustomed to the new protocols which benefit the student body at the end of the day.