Students Can Do Their Part
I gazed with total disgust at the picture showing the garbage spread about the Palmdale High School yard.
Who dirtied up the schoolyard? Trustee Wilda N. Andrejcik put her finger on the problem when she placed the onus on the students, but then she cops out by saying: “Of course we are probably not getting the classrooms cleaned on a daily basis, but how many of us clean our own homes thoroughly every day?”
That really doesn’t have anything to do with it. We don’t have to justify not cleaning our homes every day to have the students made responsible for depositing their litter in a trash barrel. That goes for classrooms, schoolyards and restrooms. Your mother and mine never allowed us to throw our garbage around the house we lived in, whether or not that house got a complete dusting and vacuuming every day.
Is there no pride, no self-respect, no responsibility out there? Or only a loud complaint about budget cuts?
No one should be paid to pick up the garbage after these kids.
BRUCE H. NEFF
Woodland Hills
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