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GRASS VALLEY (CBS13) — Portable toilets are the newest summation to Nevada Union High School’s field aft a viral TikTok situation near immoderate of the school’s bathrooms unusable.
Four porta potties beryllium adjacent the halfway of campus, bolted to the ground, aft 2 restrooms were closed done January for construction.
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The harm to the restrooms, according to NUHS Principal Kelly Rhoden, resulted from a TikTok inclination that includes the hashtag #deviouslick oregon #deviouslicks. As portion of the video, students harm and bargain schoolhouse property, grounds it, and station it to societal media.
TikTok told NPR successful a connection successful September, it is removing contented with the hashtag and redirecting the hunt results to its assemblage standards.
Now, months aft the inclination archetypal gained attraction connected societal media, the consequences are seen successful 4 porta potties connected the NUHS campus. The schoolhouse of 1,500 students and 200 unit required much bathrooms erstwhile 2 closed for construction.
“It’s wealth we could’ve been spending connected different things to enactment students successful antithetic ways,” said Rhoden.
She said the harm was caused by a “small number” of students, not the majority, but that the consequences interaction everyone. A 3rd bath was damaged but was capable to beryllium fixed and reopened quickly. The grade of the harm successful the remaining bathrooms, successful summation to a staffing shortage, has caused operation to instrumentality much time.
“This has each been ace hard to wrapper my caput astir due to the fact that we bash person truthful galore astonishing students,” said Rhoden.
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Damages astatine NUHS included toilet insubstantial shoved down toliets, insubstantial towel dispensers and mirrors ripped disconnected walls and past broken. Offenses, that Rhoden said, see transgression and ineligible consequences.
“Our archetypal means of involution is to conscionable fig retired wherefore and what we tin bash to assistance them,” said Rhoden.
Rhoden said a speech is astir important, but fines, household meetings, instrumentality enforcement involvement, and potentially, tribunal proceedings are connected the array for students committing the vandalism.
Nevada County District Attorney Jesse Wilson said the eventual extremity is to support juveniles retired of the transgression justness system, and instead, reevaluate short-term choices for semipermanent success.
“The interaction that it has connected others, the interaction connected the community, much importantly, changing this decision-making perspective, what benignant of idiosyncratic they privation to beryllium moving forward,” said Wilson.
Rhoden said Nevada Joint Union High School District reported restroom restoration costs could outgo up to $100,000 district-wide.
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The 2 bathrooms nether operation are acceptable to beryllium reopened aft the vacation interruption successful January.
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