The Darkroom of Terror

I was very excited to learn that the high school teacher I am working with does teach photography classes, but my spirit was considerably dampened after seeing the darkroom. I have seen some dirty darkrooms in my day, but this one takes the cake. The equipment itself seems to be in good shape, but the place is one giant fixer stain. When the teacher picked up a print that was in the "wash" tray to show me, there was a large amount of some sort of YELLOW POWDER that started swishing around. In the wash tray?! Ack! I guess we'll see how it goes in November.