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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thinking about my high school days which were when the legal age to buy cigarettes changed from 16 to 18 which meant the system got rid of the smoking courtyard at my high school. Then kids just started smoking right off campus on non-MCPS property and occasionally in bathrooms. I ended up transferring to a newer high school that had never had a smoking section and had nicer bathrooms and kids smoked occasionally but nobody was vandalizing them other than maybe a little bit of graffitti here and there.

One thing that I think isn't talked about enough is that the bathrooms are gross even when they are technically clean. I went to an event at an up county high school and used the bathroom. There was mismatched paint on the walls, non-functional things like hand dryers on the walls that just looked like clutter. The toilet seats seemed to be sanitized but looked terrible - cracked, stained, and just icky. The doors either didn't shut or had wonky locks. It was just a truly unpleasant atmosphere and clearly the building services either don't care or don't have the resources to keep them looking like the condition matters. I can't help but think that maybe if the bathrooms weren't gross, kids wouldn't destroy them as much.[/quote]

That may have been true in the past, but at Wheaton the bathrooms are being damaged on a daily basis. It is no longer possible to keep up with the frequency of the destruction.  Teens roaming from high school to high school during the day don't help to keep control over high schools. Free bus service is not helpful during school hours.[/quote]

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