Based on what I've been told by relatives who grew up in Japan, students are also required to help clean the classrooms and other school facilities from grade s

Based on what I've been told by relatives who grew up in Japan, students are also required to help clean the classrooms and other school facilities from grade school through high school. This is probably wishful thinking, but if we had this in the U.S., we may have fewer adults who think they can act like pigs in shared spaces. I remember a kid in middle school who dropped his lunch tray, spilling food all over a table and the floor. He got up and went back to the line to get more food. I asked him why he didn't try to clean it up or at least tell someone. He told me "That is what the janitors are for". For some reason this really stuck with me, and I think about it whenever I see someone purposely littering.