Does your school have a vaping outbreak? Are you not able to relieve yourself when necessary due to full stalls? These questions can be answered by high school students all over the US with a yes!
Schools all over the nation have tried many methods, including vape directors, anonymous vape drop-off, and vape counseling. Vaping students clog up the bathroom during breaks, leaving people with full bladders and needing to poop. So instead of trying to suppress vapists, why don’t we give them an area so they don’t clog up the bathroom traffic?
This lounge area can encourage vapists to be more considerate of their peers at school. The lounge will also open up the big stall, which is supposed to be available for those who need it instead of being occupied by the vapists. Only people who need that stall should be vaping in there; it is their human right.
Our school has 10 designated bathrooms for men and women, and the gender neutral bathrooms make it harder for faculty to catch you. Both genders report stalls being taken up by vapistis.
Tori Greenfeild, a student at Arcata High, reported, “I also soiled my britches when waiting for a stall in the women’s bathroom by the French room.” Also, an anonymous vapist said, “It would be way nicer to have a place to sit besides the toilet seat where germs and bacteria grow. I’m kinda a germaphobe, so being in the stall really grosses me out, and I don’t feel safe out in the open where I can be caught.”
Many students find it inconceivable to have to search for an open bathroom because staff need to lock the bathroom to reduce the number of vapisits, which also leads to fewer open stalls for use. Leon Jordan claimed, “I walked from the upstairs bathroom to the single-use bathroom, which was all being used, so I tried to go to the gym, but nobody was there. Thank god I found a bathroom in the office to use.”
Another addition that could benefit the school, students, and our lovely planet Earth is a recycling box for used vapes that are out of juice. Most teens throw vapes in the garbage, which is bad because they contain lithium batteries that can cause fires, and nobody wants to deal with a fire. What if the school caught fire and the school got shut down, all because of 1 vape a kid didn’t recycle?
