Fashionably Late

There are tons of things I'd change about the schools. Some of them are trivial, but I see two major ones.

1. The hallways- I can duck and weave to avoid massive strings of people talking about who banged who last weekend or what the latest hip-haps are on the weed market, but sometimes, there is just a complete blockage. The hallways, the veins of Henry Clay, need to run smoothly, which would prevent people who actually care about education from being late (which happens when common classes aren't grouped together (math and social studies aren't within the same hallway). It's a terrible system and I expect no teacher wants to watch knots of horny teens with weed-whacked and dyed hair make out with each other, let alone break up clogs of confrontational people. So we never get a hall monitor and are left to our own devices. Can we just break right through them? NO, that would be RUDE. Complete double standards like that should be fixed.

2. The Bathrooms- I could go on forever about these. I pity the poor janitors who have to go into the boys bathroom with its mighty stench to clean each and every toilet (one of which has been clogged by a viscous blue material that could only be the result of cafeteria food). I also pity myself for having to go in a bathroom nearly every day, experiencing the godawful reek of cigarette smoke (how do these stupid kids get hooked on that anyways?). People I've talked to have seen fixtures, blood, drugs, and cigarettes in the toilets. They've seen people assaulting others in the bathroom. It might be a bit drastic, but until we can control ourselves, I think it's necessary to have a bathroom monitor.