Why Outdated School Restrooms Affect Student Health & Hygiene
While many picture classrooms, libraries, and gyms as learning environments in schools, one aspect which is overlooked as a learning environment is the restroom. Restrooms which lack modern facilities or where sanitary maintenance is not regularly enforced provide challenges, if not barriers, to the health, hygiene, and overall wellness of a student. Schools and colleges may not be concerned about possible absenteeism, illness, and anxiety caused by outdated restrooms and lack of appropriate facilities, but students, parents, and custodial staff are concerned about the inadequacies of outdated facilities as they align with professional restroom solutions. This blog will examine the implications of not updating, not equipping with modern facilities for gendered use, outdated restroom facilities, as well as some health challenges associated with outdated or poorly maintained restrooms, and lastly the advantages of allocating funds to modernizing existing restroom facilities in planning as a benefit to students for health, wellness, […]