Being a spoiled Westerner, and used to toilet paper IN the bathroom stall, locks on doors, hand soap and paper towels I was very disappointed with the bathroom situation at my second school.
Especially since it is only 3 years old but it looks about 10 years old on the inside.
WHY?
Because students "clean" the school. They clean the floors, they clean the bathrooms, they pick up garbage outside etc etc.
I'm sure we all remember what our work ethic was, or still is, when we were 12-16 years old and this is where the problem lies.
To clean the bathrooms the kids run water in the sinks and proceed to throw water on the floor and on the toilets. No smelly, disinfecting bathroom cleaner here. Nope. Who needs it! Isn't water good enough!!
So they just throw it all around and don't really wipe anything down or scrub any toilets.
Soooooo, the toilets themselves are absolutley disgusting. They are grey, no longer white.
Students throw their toilet paper and "other things" in the waste basket instead of the toilet like us whities do thus sometimes leaving the next person to use the bathroom to see what you have left in the waste basket. yum.
The doors MIGHT have a lock on it if you're lucky. Last week I was just undoing my pants as this boy kicked open the door to start his bathroom cleaning duty and there I was. Almost in my underwear.
I was just thankful that I wasn't already in action on the toilet!
That would have been a story for the good old Seventeen magazine most embarresing moments page.
What was it called again?
anyway. They are disgusting and sometimes I walk over to E-Mart and go to the bathroom instead. It is heavenly there. It's clean, paper towels and soap and TP in the stall. Ahhhhhhhh
Everything you need for your bathroom enjoyment.
One more thing that I think is funny.
Most of the bathrooms don't have doors on them so you can obviously see right in.
It's SO nice to walk down the hall and just turn your head at the right moment only to see your boy students standing at the urinal. Right there! I can SEE YOU!!!! And this doesn't bother you!?!?
It bothers me!!!!!
One of my favorite stories is from a friend of mine who works at an Elementary school and said that when he walks by the boys bathroom and of course everyone can see everyone else, that the kids release one hand and wave to him, "HI TEACHER" and then go back to peeing.
Hahhhahahaa!
That's my bathroom rant.
I know, it could be SO much worse, I'm just being a whiny Westerner.
At least it's not a hole in the ground with bugs coming out of it!
That was China!
happy bathrooming!
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Yes, it kills me to watch them mop. THey just take the dirty old mop out of the dirty old sink and wipe the floor with it. No water or anything. And of course the mop for the bathroom is the same one used for the halls. A few times I've brought a spray bottle into work and just sprayed down the bathrooms. Hopefully kill some germs and some smell. And I also thoroughly clean the English office from time to time. The kids don't do much of anything.
The thing that gets me is that a lot of the bathrooms have windows right there. So, I'm standing at the urinal looking out onto the playground or onto the parking lot, or onto the hallway. At my one school the hall the urinals overlook a couple of 2nd grade classrooms, so it's either stand there and hope they don't see me, or use the other one and have everyone in the hall see me.
Thanks for sharing your bathroom story Brian!! I love 'em!
Good on you for bringing in some cleaner!!
I was once standing at a urinal doing my business when a Korean guy (not kid, but full grown adult) walked straight past the 5 open urinals to use the one right next to me... then once he had started, stuck out his hand (wanting to shake mine) saying "Hi, nice to meet you..."
You've got to be kidding me mate?!? No bloody way am I gonna be shaking your hand!
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