An entire student body of 634 students at the Science Skills Center High School were forced to share a single toilet for a month and put up with long waits, horrible smells and filthy conditions, reports NY Daily News. But the problem wasn’t a lack of restrooms. School administration kept the other four fully functional toilets locked up to prevent students from misbehaving in them after several fires broke out in the boys’ room the previous year.
“It was awful – and not just the smell or the line. It was the pee all over the place and the terrible plumbing,” one student told the News.
After the News inquired about the bathroom situation yesterday, school administrators opened up two other bathrooms.
An Education Department spokeswoman said the single bathroom situation went on for only one day but that runs contrary to statements from two dozen students and two school employees. Students said they were allowed to use a second bathroom at the start of the school year but it was locked after an aide in charge of guarding it left the school.
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