BY CALEB KEYES

“I don’t know if they can move it to another wall or what but…” Mr. Wainscott is suddenly interrupted by bangs through the wall.

In the boys bathroom near C-20, one can find two hand dryers: one broken, one working, both thunder from the banging of frustrated hands through the wall that separates it from Wainscott’s room.

A regular occurrence for the statistics, geometry, and algebra teacher, he has become accustomed to the interruption.

“It happens about four to five times a day, probably, about once a bell somebody goes in there and thinks it’s the funniest thing in the world.”

The left hand dryer has been broken for over two years now, but the disruption has increased in the past year.

“It wasn’t an issue back then,” said senior Micaela Duever, who sat in Wainscott’s classroom two years ago.

In contrast, Maddie Timmers, a senior and current statistics student, believes the issue is as present as ever and it’s beneficial.

“It probably should be fixed because it does disrupt but the banging gives us an escape from class… I think it’s a good thing” Timmers said.

Wainscott was unaware of the disrepair of the dryers.  He assumed the noise was meddling kids trying to get a rise out of him.

“I didn’t realize that there are two of them and one isn’t working, so it might be that they’re trying to get it to work.  But I think it’s people just banging on it to get a rise out of the class.”

Madison Lemay, another senior presently in Statistics, has experienced another class where the hand dryers are not overused.

“It’s the same thing in Mrs. Vore’s room with the girl’s bathroom,”  Lemay says.  She says that people don’t abuse the sound.

“It works, so people get it on the first try,” said Lemay.

Wainscott plans to bring awareness to the issue as the year progresses to solve it.

“Something needs to be done,” Wainscott says, “It truly is a disruption, and they should know not to do it.”

Current Senior and Statistics student Mark Hamlin feels differently.

“I don’t think it should be fixed,” Hamilin says, “I don’t think it would change anything.”

Hamlet believes the issue goes beyond Wainscott’s room.

“I think it is a larger conspiracy to undermine the school itself,” Hamlin says. “For some reason [Wainscott] thinks it’s his own students… It’s not his own students.”

If the administration comes to the conclusion that a new dryer is necessary, a similar model from the same company (Bobrick) could cost between $300-500.