When I was in grade school, students took turns cleaning and maintaining the school. It was also a lesson in democracy, since we had a meeting every month, run

When I was in grade school, students took turns cleaning and maintaining the school. It was also a lesson in democracy, since we had a meeting every month, run according to regular procedure, where students were elected to the various jobs such as sweeping the floor, washing the blackboards, cleaning the erasers, emptying the wastebaskets and burning trash, maintaining the outhouses, and pumping and bringing in drinking water. Alas, this is one of the American values we have lost.