Teachers at Redwood High School share their creative bathroom passes.

By: Emma Chavez 

At Redwood High School, students heading to the bathroom might leave class carrying a walking cane, a mini baseball bat, or even a plunger as teachers express themselves through their silly, creative bathroom passes.

A couple of years ago, English teacher Mr. Cain was walking around campus and found this wooden walking cane in the middle of the intersection on Conyer and Main. 

English Teacher Mr. Cain.
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Mr. Cain says that it was like seeing heaven open up and a glorious beacon of light, and now he has it as a bathroom pass.

Mr. Cain says, “As an English teacher, it’s based on my last name.”

Mr Roebuck, a teacher for advanced weight training, says, “When everyone else had kind of big fun passes, we figured we’d do one in the weight room too.”

Roebuck said since it’s the weight room, kids are used to lifting, so when they leave to use the bathroom, they are still lifting to the bathroom.  

Advanced Weight Room
Teacher Mr. Roebuck
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Mr. Hydash, the head baseball coach who also teaches English and economics, says he thought that a mini baseball bat would be a great bathroom pass for his class. 

Hydash says, “I figured if they saw a student between classes or during class walking around with a mini baseball bat, they would associate that with me and know they are my student.”

Head Baseball Coach and
English and Economics Teacher
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Associated student body (ASB) teacher Mr. Siqueiros says, “Our bathroom pass is inspired by Mr. and Mrs. Ranger Week. I walked into the ASB room for the first time, and I was like, ‘why is there a mannequin head on a plunger?’ Then [students] gave me the story of it, and now there’s some leftover plungers from a game that they played last year at a battle rally.”

Siquerios now has three bathroom passes, but uses the two main bathroom passes, one pink and one blue, meant for each gender. 

ASB Teacher Mr. Siqueiros (left)
and Adrian Lopez Guzman, ’27, (right)
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Mr Arruda, who teaches Chemistry, said, “I inherited it from the teacher who was in this room before me, which used to be a biology classroom. On the inside, it says ‘I should be in biology, but I have to tinkle.”

Arruda said that he doesn’t let kids take it to the bathroom because it’s part of the chemistry room now.

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