Speaking of Piss: The Skankiest Public School Potty Award Goes To....

P.S. 58 (aka The Carroll School) in the economically deprived neighboring hood of Carroll Gardens. 

Yes, per a few (dare we say it) pissed-off parents, the fancily nicknamed Carroll School cannot seem to supply students with soap or paper towels and also, uh, running water. Ick.

This despite "tony restaurants, boutiques catering to your every whim, moms clogging the streets while pushing $700 Bugaboo strollers and stomping around in $100 Hunter rain boots" 

I think kids should have the option of washing their hands immediately after urinating or defecating. What if there's no paper and you're forced to recover from the dreaded drip dry scenario? What if you had a poop-cident and are forced into emergency damage control? We ARE talking about young 'uns here. Right? Right. I say get the money. Fix the shit. Stock 'em up. Let 'em wash. 

So, do we really give a shit? Btw, I say NO, although I did like the commenter who offered to do a Costco run.

But, according to a 2004 article in the Gotham Gazette, ain't nothing new under the sun.

Is there or is there not enough toilet paper, paper towels, and soap in the city's school bathrooms?

“The evidence is parents and teachers are requesting toilet paper,” said Eva Moskowitz, chair of the City Council's education committee said at a hearing earlier this year, as she waved copies of requests from teachers for toilet paper, paper towels, and soap.

Cathleen Grim (ED NOTE: THE SAME BEYOTCH WHO BANNED SCHOOL BAKE SALES LAST YEAR), deputy chancellor for finance and administration disagreed: "All the schools have stock [toilet paper, soap, and paper towels], that's not the problem." Rather, she said, "Principals will often instruct the custodian not to stock the bathroom with toilet paper." To prevent unruly students from wasting supplies, the items are sometimes placed in classrooms under teacher supervision.

Parents agree school bathrooms are not what they should be. Melvin Meer, parent of a five-year-old at PS 41 in Queens said many toilet paper dispensers are too high for kindergarteners to reach, and when the rolls are in reach the paper can’t be pulled down.

Parent Natalie Nicosia, said her two children who attend PS 130 in Manhattan, often report no soap in their school bathrooms. “My children no longer consistently wash their hands,” said Nicosia. Other parents mentioned missing door locks, broken toilet paper dispensers, and bathroom fixtures from 1925 that cause consistent flooding.

Inside Schools asked readers what the condition was of bathrooms at their children’s schools. Although the poll is not scientific, it consistently shows poor hygiene in New York City public school bathrooms. Of the 355 people who answered the poll, 59 percent say bathroom supplies are "always" missing, and 27 percent say "sometimes." The majority of responses, 35 percent, say soap is most often missing, followed by paper towels with 23 percent.