Weeks into a new school year, a Montgomery County, Maryland, high school moved some bathroom mirrors from inside the restrooms to near the restroom entrance, a step aimed at discouraging student gatherings during the day.
Montgomery Blair High School Principal Damon Monteleone first alerted students to the change through a community message, writing that school staff had been finding groups of five to eight students gathered around bathroom mirrors after the late bell, resulting in tardiness.
Separately, Monteleone wrote, bathrooms had been used to “share or sell substances, roll dice, conduct transactions, and occasionally fight. We have also recovered vapes and other smoking paraphernalia flushed down toilets, which has damaged plumbing and caused leaks into the classrooms below.”…