Currently, the school is a state of disarray, with the graffiti in the bathrooms, pride flags being torn down, and the locker rooms being an utter slum. The fault falls solely on us, due to our nature of not caring for the school.

The bathrooms have always contained a large mess, with the graffiti, noticeably done by a select few, paper towels on the the walls, and missing paper towel dispensers. Head custodian Joe Rivera, who has worked here for 32 years, has said that he has to “replace a paper towel at least once a month”. Other times the toilets get clogged up with toilet paper, others a tennis ball.

Administration has tried their best to keep the bathrooms open, unlike last year, but it is annoying to allow the certain few in to vandalize the bathroom.

In December, the school installed Pride flags throughout the main campus, costing the school around $7,000, according to Activities Director Meghann Lukach. Two of the pride flags were torn, costing the school around $200 each, costing a “pretty penny.”

And some on school staff are disturbed by it as well. Assistant Principal Gina Aguilar expressed her opinion in it, saying she is “really disappointed in it” and that she has “so much pride for the school, and I’m hoping to have others as well.”

“Little to big,” the size of the case doesn’t matter to Aguilar.

Agreeably, Lukach believes that students should have pride in their school. “The majority of students time is spent here, and so they should have pride in it, their second home”.

As the student body, we should do our best to keep the campus clean ourselves by taking care of our own messes we leave after lunch, instead of having the “custodians are here to pick it up” mentality. Additionally, we could help participate in the Aztec Pride Days like the one on April 22. Plus students can get volunteer hours as we clean the school.

In other cases, we could also help in telling people not to leave their trash around, to clean up after themselves. And in other cases, help report it to the school, as Aguilar wishes to have everyone hold each other accountable.