At Kealakehe Elementary School on the Big Island, functioning bathrooms are hard to find.
Students travel across campus to reach working toilets — sometimes resulting in embarrassing accidents — and poor plumbing has led to sewage leaking through classroom ceilings, according to more than a dozen pages of testimony from parents and teachers at a recent Board of Education meeting.
“My second-grade child now feels anxious every day at school — not because of tests or social pressures, but because they worry about having an accident due to the long walk to the only available restroom,” parent Linsi Nuzum wrote to the board…