Not every school is off to a chill start to the new year.
Outside of Chicago, Oak Park and River Forest High School has removed all of their restrooms' exterior doors. So stall doors are still there but the main doors are not.
Despite the district saying they have a reason behind removing the doors, not all students are thrilled about it. OPRF junior Laila Rosenthal started a Change.org petition to get the bathroom doors back. Her classmate, junior Gia Fredrisdorf, told CBS Chicago :
I think that they could have done things like vape detectors or smoke detectors, because those do exist. If you're in the bathroom, you have to hide in the bathroom from like a school shooter or something. If there's no doors in the bathroom, that's another risk.
The district sent a release to CBS Chicag