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Without Janitors, Students Are in Charge of Keeping School Shipshape

Source: NPREd

Parents try to teach children to clean up after themselves. Now some schools are assigning sweeping, mopping, trash removal, and other cleaning work to students.

This entry was posted in The Value of Work and tagged Culture & Society, Current Events, Health & Medicine, People on December 1, 2020 by Marianne Rafter.

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