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.