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Recently, in my second grade classroom, I had an occasion to view actions that reflected a practice common in the larger community. It was nearly the end of the school day and it was time to pick up scraps of paper and debris from under and around desks. This is what I saw: several children had taken the cardboard lids from their large flat crayon boxes and were fanning them about under their desks to blow their trash into someone else’s space. At that point more lids came out and it was a dusty mess as trash blew about from one space to another. I was astonished and admonished them to pick up their own trash and stop trying to blow it elsewhere. I felt sad for the kids who had picked up their trash and were now picking up that of their classmates. After school when I had a few moments to reflect, I realized that they were only doing what they had seen adults do on a regular basis: blow debris from their yards and walkways into the street or even worse, into someone...
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