WJPS has custodians and teachers cleaning classrooms, however some students and others don’t care about how our school is just getting dirtier and not improving.

Heaters in classrooms have enormous amounts of crumbs and wrappers under them, while desks have wrappers and gum stuffed inside them.

Students will continue to throw trash in the hallways and eat in class, as they don’t live in the school building, so they don’t care enough to truly respect it.

WJPS 11th grader Sophia Dittenhoefer said, “If I’m gonna be honest, I feel like our school is not clean because the floors are dirty, bathrooms are messy and with our school being so small and crowded, it’s hard for custodians to keep up. It doesn’t help our school because kids will mess up the school no matter what.”

Custodians don’t clean every inch of a classroom and it’s not their job to deep clean the classroom on a daily basis. 

It’s our unspoken responsibility to keep it clean and to put in an effort.

WJPS 12th grader Anika Narula said, “I feel like in the classrooms there can be a lot more daily measures to ensure cleanliness in terms of the equipment we use and the general classroom environment.”

There’s no perfect solution to this continuous problem, but there are ways to decrease the amount of people who litter in our school.

WJPS can try and implement more ways for students and teachers to keep our school clean like holding occasional assemblies to show the effects of littering their trash across the school.

The Green Team can also clean where the janitors don’t, but it shouldn’t be their job to do what the custodians are already doing.

The bottom line is that our school building shouldn’t be treated like trash.