Last Thursday Community Council posed a school wide vote (staff included) to inform council about how each student felt about the Gender Neutral Bathroom Proposal.  This vote was not to decide whether or not the bathrooms would be put in place, but to simply poll the population of Souhegan.

The vote was during 5th and 6th period, the students’ advisory and lunch time.  The ballot  stated the full proposal, a check box with “I am in favor”/”I am not in favor”, and a section for comments.

On Friday, Executive Council counted up all of the votes and categorized all the comments. Here are the results.

Results
Group	Yes	No	% Y	% N	% Voted	Size	Number Voted
Freshmen	74	51	59%	41%	64%	187	125
Sophomore	61	70	47%	53%	72%	182	131
Juniors	65	90	42%	58%	65%	238	155
Seniors	109	51	68%	32%	70%	225	160
Students	309	262	54%	46%	69%	832	571
Staff	56	0	100%	0%	34%	164	56
School	365	262	58%	42%	63%	996	627

 

Both the Freshmen and Senior class had a high majority or students in favor of the proposal. The Junior class had the most amount of votes against the proposal with 58% opposed.  Lastly the Sophomore class was a close race with 9 opposed students winning over the vote.

The school had a 63% voter turn out, with 58% voting in favor of the proposal.

This proposal has been in the works since the last school year.  The original proposal was brought to Council by Senior Emery Colburn, he received support from his friends and members of the GSA.