On April 10, 2026, Clover Hill High School’s administration closed the upstairs main hallway bathroom during the third period, without giving any reasoning. Now, both the downstairs and upstairs main hallway bathrooms will be closed for third block. This blocks off 33% of all pod bathrooms in the school. 

Sophomore Mekhian Jones describes the situation that the bathroom closure has put on him and his fellow students.

“It’s kind of inconvenient… if you’re on the way to class, you can’t just stop in right there. So I feel like it’s kind of pointless,” Jones said. 

An anonymous student mentions that walking further to a different bathroom could cost them academic time.

“Now I have to walk across the school and use the bathroom,” the student said. “That also means you’re missing more class.”

Freshman Andrew Harrington describes some of the things he has witnessed in the bathroom and what he believes caused the bathroom closure.

“I walked in there one day and there’s two kids and they’re like pulling the sink off. I was like, ‘Whoa, I can’t believe kids would do this, what this school has come to,'” Harrington said.

Science teacher Pamela Hughes teaches in the upstairs main hallway and has the job of setting up and taking down the bathroom gates during third block. She speaks on the reason for closing the bathroom. 

“Regretfully, there are kids who go in there and just—they just want to watch the world burn. They just want to tear up the sinks… the sinks are really expensive,” Hughes said.

Hughes talks about the administration’s decision.

“I think it was a necessary step on the part of the admin because we have no teacher coverage in front of the bathrooms [during third period],” Hughes said. 

Hughes sides with the students about the solution not being the best, but acknowledges the lack of supervision.

“It’s not a good solution. I mean, bathrooms need to be open for kids to use them, but we just don’t have a teacher in this area who doesn’t have a class third period,” Hughes said

Some students have proposed a solution to the issues with the bathrooms. 

“Probably just give an announcement and just talk about it instead of just closing it down,” Harrington said. “Just ask nicely to stop.”