I am going to tell you something shocking.
When I was in secondary school, I washed the school toilets. It was not part of detention class (how dare you, I am a good girl okay). It was part of our regular, daily classroom cleaning routine. You see, at the end of each classroom block was the toilet, which had one cubicle for each classroom. So every day at recess, 2 of us would have to wash the cubicle assigned to our class.
It actually only took 5 minutes and mostly involved us throwing bucketfuls of water at the floor. The cubicle was very small so there wasn’t much to wash. Also, thank goodness I was in a girls’ school, because girls are generally cleaner than guys. But the toilet-cleaning routine was very important in determining the school culture.
It didn’t matter if your dad was a millionaire or if he was the millionaire’s chauffeur. You still had to clean the toilet. It was really quite fair, even though some girls (and their parents) complained that they didn’t even wash their own house toilets, and you expected them to wash the school toilets? Yes. We expected them to. The rule was simple. You use it, you clean it.
Okay lar maybe it’s just that my school was cheapskate and didn’t want to hire cleaners. I still look back fondly at those days, because they taught us all humility, no matter what your station in life. Maybe Singapore schools should make their students take turns at washing the toilet so that they can develop some humility and become more gracious citizens. And I think the elite schools should lead the way. 
30/03/2010 at 1:35 am Permalink
thats why i always clean the office toilet because it reconnects me to my humility…
just joking… i never really think much… its rather happy to see a clean and nice toilet i can use and others can too… enjoy the most wonderful moment of release in the CLEAN TOILET! 