Solving The Problem...

Step #1:
          OHS should put an effort into informing students about health problems at school caused by poor sanitation. This will allow students to respect school property and clean up after themselves. Janitors at OHS believe that the poor sanitation problem lies among the students. This is understandable therefore to solve the problem confronting the students is needed.

Step #2:
          OHS could either hire more janitors to keep the school clean or allow students to stay after school and clean as a form of punishment.

Step #3:
          Through community fundraisers money can be raised to supply the school with cleaning equipment and new water fountains. The raised money could also be put towards a new water system for the entire city of Orange.

Orange High School's Janitors Interview

Research Sources

 “Custodians to rally against D60” By: Perez, Gayle
       Teachers, students, and community members of Pueblo City gathered at the school board meeting to solve the issue of outsourcing night custodian positions. The meeting discussed keeping the “safety and cleanliness of the schools” and how the board would solve their custodian issue.
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=n5h&AN=2W64238807116&site=src-live

“WITH one billion people living without access to safe” Manning River Times
       WaterAid Australia is working to provide all Australian communities with safe drinking water to prevent poverty and disease in Australia. Communities need to join together and be a part of the solution to bringing safe drinking water.
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=n5h&AN=SYD-68T4B3AROPSA8CDR4AG&site=src-live
 

“2 schools have served meat possibly tainted” By: Bernardo, Rosemarie           
        Lunalilo Elementary School in McCully and Kipapa Elementary School in Mililani served students recalled ground beef.
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=n5h&AN=2W62619488356&site=src-live

Faculty Interview

Counterargument

Orange High School is not the only school that suffers with poor sanitation. There are many schools and even school districts around the world that undergo sanitation complications. According to WHO, the United States is only one out of a handful of countries that has less than five percent of its population accessible to quality sanitation. More than 50 countries around the world have fifty percent of their populations with no access to quality sanitation. These statics may make it seem that the schools in the U.S. don't really need help with sanitation improvements, but how will we be able to help other schools around the world if we can’t help ourselves first? Moreover, a worldwide sanitation improvement in schools begins with each school having the desire and determination to improve their own school sanitation. OHS members need to increase their desire and determination to improve the school's sanitation in order to see a difference.

Thesis

When you have experienced using a filthy bathroom, students unmannerly using bathrooms, water fountains, classrooms, the cafeteria, etc., and when you have recognized the lack of janitors in your school, then you will agree that Orange High School needs to improve their sanitation. 

Logos, Ethos, and Pathos

Consider having to sit on a toilet seat that has not been cleaned in a while or washing your hands in a sink that has tiny particles such as hair, or even looking at your own reflection in a dirty cracked mirror. Would you feel comfortable using a bathroom under those conditions? Neither would I. The sanitation problem doesn't just lie in the bathrooms. Water fountains, classrooms, the school's floors, the cafeteria, and the cafeteria kitchen, all need sanitation improvement. Over the school years Orange High has developed an unsanitary environment. An environment that has quickly earned the disgust of students and faculty. We, as members of the school, can all agree that the school needs an upgrade in its sanitation.

According to Water Aid and Tearfund, a British relief and development agency, “lack of sanitation now affects about 40 percent (2.4 billion) of the world’s population and is expected to rise to 50 percent by 2025”. An unhealthy school environment can lead to many negative effects. Some diseases resulting from poor sanitation include dysentery, cholera, typhus fever, typhoid, schistosomiasis and trachoma. Diarrhea kills 4,000 children every day; that’s more than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined. Four hundred and forty three million school days are lost every year due to water and sanitation diseases. A student can catch a disease or illness ending up missing several days or even weeks of school. That student then falls behind on their education and is forced to repeat a grade level; all because of a careless sanitation mistake. Would you want that student to be you? That can all be prevented with small steps in bettering school sanitation.