I experienced something interesting today that I thought I'd share with all of you. It was my first day of work study with America Reads, a tutoring program designed by Bill Clinton, and I'm assigned to work with a kindergarten class in Brooklyn. Anyways, during recess time I was sitting on the bench watching the kids when I happened to overhear one of my students say to another, "Hey, let's play Garbage!" My ears perked up a bit as I have now been trained to seek out trash related subjects, as I'm sure the rest of you have, so I asked him, "How do you play Garbage?" The student replied to me, "All you have to do is go around the playground and find wrappers or leaves or anything that doesn't belong on the ground and you stick it in the trash." He said this with such a tone as if, "Duh, isn't it obvious?" So I said to him, "Wow, that's very responsible of you. So you like to pretend you work for the Sanitation Department?" He replied enthusiastically, "Yeah! I love it, we have so much fun trying to find trash!" And as he said this he grabbed his friend and screamed, "Come on! Let's go look over there!" I couldn't help but chuckle to myself as I saw him and the other student running around the playground, making it a bit cleaner for everyone around them. Any thoughts on the innocence of these kids and the way they view trash and/or sanitation workers?