These cleaners discussed how tough cleaning in schools can be. Soap dispensers in the toilets are often smashed to pieces, causing soap suds to be sprayed all over the ground, making it sticky and very difficult to clean. Sometimes, the kids will even throw toilet paper rolls into the toilet bowls, clogging the plumbing, and then defecate and urinate on top of it, creating an extremely challenging task.

To ensure that classrooms are clean, these cleaners talked about the efforts required to manoeuvre themselves to reach heights and retrieve rotten fruit that has been thrown onto the ceiling or into high places in the classrooms. The changing rooms are even worse; often, massive amounts of mud are brought in from rugby games on the weekends, and it frequently ends up being thrown and sticking to the walls.

Given the nature of schools, it is undeniable that they present a formidable cleaning challenge. This is why the efforts of these cleaners should be recognised with a living wage, considering the significant contribution they make to creating a healthy learning environment for students.