by Erin Parker

                As you walk into the girls’ bathroom before the start of school, the bathroom can be seen in its natural form of cleanliness. However, as the day wears by, one is shocked to see the destruction that plows through the bathroom as if a hurricane just came through. Toilet paper on the ground, toilets clogged with toilet paper, seats completely missing from the toilet all together. The entire image can be a bit shocking when compared to how clean the bathrooms start out each day.

How is it that the bathrooms can start out so beautifully only to look like a complete mess by the end of the day?  A student’s initial thought is that it has to be the janitorial service. However students are sadly mistaken.

Throughout the day, students rush around the campus and allow themselves to be destructive in many things they do. Bathrooms are treated like pigsties, and the hallways like one gigantic recycling bin. During breaks and lunches, often students can be seen leaving their trash on the ground, in planters, or on the tables. Often, it is the students who are in detention that end up cleaning up the mess left by students during the lunch hour. “There actually is a lot of trash left behind,” stated an anonymous detention attendee. “Everything from bagel wrappers to iced tea cans can be found lying around from a student not throwing it away.”

Students of Valley Christian, this is a problem. Students must realize that if things are expected to look nice when they are to be used, then they must be treated nicely. No one wants to walk into a bathroom to find a line because only one stall is available. And by leaving trash around it gives the school an image of being disorderly and unclean.

If all of the students take responsibility for their own trash and their use of the schools facilities, the campus would be much nicer environment for the student body.

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