Evening Press Reader

I have thought for some time how best to tackle the problem of litter around schools.

I didn't realise it was inside as well (Schools Blitz On Untidy Pupils, December 10).

How about the head teacher introducing a litter patrol whereby each child takes a turn going round picking up other classmates' litter?

They would soon resent having to pick up other people's rubbish. As so many of them belong nowadays to the "someone-else-will-do-it brigade" they will become the "someone else", and might think twice about dropping litter anywhere, and as the classrooms become tidier, less time will have to be spent on it.

E Sotheran,

Keith Avenue,

Huntington, York.

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