What We Can Learn From Captain Underpants By: John Debono

As a child of the 90s, I am a big fan of superheroes. They serve an importance by providing children a role model to inspire to be like. With the WIP program, I think we can learn quite a bit from one particular hero… Captain Underpants.  In particular, in Attack of the Talking Toilets we see what happens when we do not expect the institution to hold an audit. We go through the years without ever really considering that there are issues with our bathroom, then one day the toilets come alive and start eating people. In the ultimate form of inaccessibility, it takes brave and committed students/heroes such as yourself to stop this from happening. Whether you know it or not, inaccessible bathrooms effects everyone in their own unique ways. People learn from interacting with one another and address the problems that we see. If there is not a forum to address this, there is a ripple effect from students not feeling as though their opinions are valued. If we cannot provide an easy to access map for bathrooms, how can students feel valued amongst their professors and peers? We as a community miss out on some great ideas that students can provide. For all you know, it could be one of these students that rally against talking toilets and that saves millions of lives. So when you consider taking part in helping as map it out, we must consider the long-term influence of our decisions. Think about students within the different groups now, in the future, and the larger community. Let’s look back at our heroes as a child, think about what they would do and I think the decision should be fairly obvious.

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