Walter Johnson’s bathrooms are a truly unique experience. For some, they are places of necessity, places where one does their business and then leaves, never fully immersed in the environment. For others, they are places of comfort, privacy, shelter and commerce. Because of this discrepancy, many are unaware of the best and worst places to escape the harsh realities of public education. That is why I would like to educate the good men of Walter Johnson on the standings of all the restrooms we have available to us. The ranks are based on both the quality of the facilities and the level of accessibility. All the pictures were taken when the bathrooms were vacant (I double checked) and I also included the gender neutral bathrooms to include all the options we as boys would have access to.
Boys and gender neutral bathrooms ranked
Location: 100’s Wing Gym
Rank: #1
This bathroom has gone through a character arc. I still remember using it in my freshman year wondering as if I had just stumbled into the Ward 8 of high school restrooms. The lighting was off, the sinks were not working properly, and the soap dispensers were empty and far past their prime. However when I came back two years later I was astounded by the development that this bathroom had. It had been reformed into a respectable and usable bathroom, surpassing many of its peers. I truly believed that this bathroom was never going to amount to anything but here I was, in awe of its transformation.
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Elijah Carpenter • Nov 3, 2022 at 4:19 pm
I am that “future bathroom engineer” that you were talking about. I have been helping out the building service manager with fixing various things around the building (mainly in the restrooms) during my free time at school for about a year now. I also have the answers to some of the questions that you had about the restrooms. The gender neutral restroom next to 192 used to be a staff restroom and most of the staff restrooms have a desk in them for storing items like magazines, air freshening spray, spare toilet paper rolls, and a bin of paper towels. They were using that desk to hold a bin of paper towels but they now store that bin on top of the paper towel dispenser. As for the broken urinal, it is clogged and has been clogged since the beginning of this year. As for how it got clogged, students tend to spit out gum in the urinals as well as flush other objects such as food wrappers, vapes, and toilet paper which are objects that urinals are not designed to flush. I can probably answer other questions that you have about the restrooms, or the architectural elements of the school building in general if you have any.