Last week's blog focused on students' view of janitor's responsibilities and the critical roll they play in keeping schools clean and safe. This week I'd like to keep the focus on students, high school students more specifically. As most of you have probably read in recent articles, high school students have reportedly been consuming alcohol based hand sanitizer to get drunk! This is absolutely absurd! The very thought of swallowing an ounce of hand sanitizer is enough to make a person sick!

Last week's blog post included different opinions regarding Newt Gringich's proposal to leave school janitorial duties in the hands of the students. Since I found this topic really interesting, I decided to do a bit more investigation on the issue. After reading an article on ISSA.com, which focused on measuring cleanliness in schools, I've decided that janitorial responsibilities seem to be a bit misunderstood.

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gringich argued at an address at Harvard University last week that American school systems should fire their unionized janitors and let underprivileged children do the work instead. He insists this approach will allow kids to learn life skills, and taxpayers would save money... Although this proposal has received many arguments against kids working as janitors, there have also been considerable responses saying that Gringich's idea isn't that crazy.