Bathroom Blues

School restrooms are often dirty, dank, and depressing. But a lone crusader is proving that they don't have to be.

By Catherine Gewertz
Portales, N.M.

Tom Keating's at it again. He's talkin' trash. And toilets. And sinks and urinals.

He's leading a brisk tour of an American high school's typically dirty bathrooms, and no disgusting detail escapes his attention.

"Look at this," he says, pointing at a men's room stall with no door. "A place for an intimate moment, and no privacy." Ditto on the row of stained urinals with...

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