Overview

• Exterior entrance doors were taken off most multi-stall restrooms at the start of the school year, while stall doors remain and single-stall gender-neutral bathrooms keep exterior doors.
• Officials say doors were removed only where there is no direct line of sight to stalls or urinals, describing entrances similar to those in airports and other public facilities.
• Campus Safety staff report early declines in students congregating in bathrooms during the third week of classes, though long-term effects are not yet known.
• Junior Laila Rosenthal’s Change.org petition to restore the doors has topped 400 signatures, with a goal of 500 before presenting it to school leaders.
• Students raised privacy and safety concerns and suggested alternatives like vape or smoke detectors, while others say the change reduced vaping or simply shifted it to locker rooms.