Not Gonna Hold Your Hand Here (At Least Until You Wash It)

The high school I go to has recently been extensively renovated. One of the main changes was getting rid of the traditional multi-stall bathrooms and building rows of single-stall, genderless bathrooms instead. The toilets are in small closets, about ten in a row, off the main hallways, with sinks on the wall outside the closets.

One day, about two weeks into the school year when everyone is getting used to the new bathrooms, the principal calls the entire school into the auditorium for an unplanned assembly.

Principal: “As you’ve seen, the new bathrooms don’t have sinks in the same room as the toilets. The sinks are in the hallway outside the bathroom, and I can’t believe I need to say this to high school kids, but… we know when you don’t wash your hands after using the bathroom. That’s gross. Just… gross. So, from now on, anyone caught not washing their hands after using the bathroom will be given lunch detention, and continued refusal to wash their hands will result in additional punishments for willfully spreading biological hazards by not washing their hands after going to the bathroom.”

It took a few kids getting suspended from school for their terrible hygiene practices, but I personally haven’t seen anyone coming out of the bathroom without washing their hands for a while, so I hope it’s working.