If you have classes in the C and D wings, you’ve probably noticed the change in a moment of hurried panic: the bathrooms are locked.

You run from your location by the locker rooms to find the bathroom near the performing arts hallway—but it’s locked too. Now you’re five minutes late, and you haven’t even used the bathroom. It almost seems like a stress-induced nightmare, but, assuredly, it’s real.

No student can be completely confident in the reasoning behind it, but there is one main theory—to stop students from vaping in bathrooms and engaging in inappropriate activities.

Assistant principal Vince Schlueter, however, seemed reluctant to confirm these rumors. Instead, he emphasized that the doors were locked to deter bad behaviors in general.

“We are just trying to monitor behaviors in the bathrooms,” Schlueter said.

As officer John Arendell pointed out: monitors can’t monitor it all. These measures are, in the school’s eyes, necessary.

But whether these behaviors are vape-related or not, students don’t seem totally convinced that locking is the best way to go.

“I really don’t think it’ll stop much,” senior Dylan Triplett, a member of the spring musical cast who is constantly in the area, said. “If they can’t do it in there, it’ll be somewhere else.”

And even if these measures do their job and stop questionable “behaviors” at school, it hinders something else; the use of the bathrooms. For those involved with the spring musical, like Triplett and senior Sarah Pfile, there’s a bathroom available in room B116.

But for students who only have classes in that area, it’s solely a nuisance.

“(It’s) a huge inconvenience. The nearest bathroom besides that one (B116) is in the commons, and that’s a long walk,” Pfile said. “Teachers get angry when you’re gone too long from class. Why have bathrooms there if they’re going to be locked?”