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Deteriorating conditions
When sophomore Holden Clark walks into the school bathrooms he finds them littered and in deteriorating conditions
“They (the bathrooms) are disgusting. Every time I use them, they are always a mess; paper towels are all over, water on the floor and toilets are unflushed in every bathroom,” Clark said.
Clark believes that the school is near the bottom of the chain for cleanliness across the district.
“I’ve been to Roosevelt’s before and those are clean. East’s are a little bit better. Dowling’s are just better than ours,” Clark said.
Senior Sydney Johnson also finds the bathrooms’ cleanliness different from her part time school Central Academy.
“They’re gross. At Central, I could leave my stuff outside the stall but at Hoover I would never do that,” Johnson said.
Overall Johnson thinks that the floors are nasty and the stalls are just as bad.
“They just need to fix the doors and put in general maintenance,” Johnson said.
Graffiti in the bathrooms is also an issue according to these students. Both Clark and Johnson agree that it is just the immaturity of the students.
“They feel like they’re breaking the rules by writing on the bathroom stalls,” Johnson said.
Head of operations Jason Kono has no idea why students would want to graffiti the walls.
“I really don’t know why they have no respect. I’m sure they wouldn’t act that way at home. I think they just have no respect for the school,” Kono said.
Kono does disagree with Clark and Johnson in that the school is no different from others in Des Moines.
“They’re probably about the same. I’m saying there’s graffiti everywhere in the district. It’s just not isolated here at Hoover High School. It’s at Lincoln, East, Roosevelt and middle schools as well. It’s just not Hoover students,” Kono said.
