Disruptive Art
At the start of the school year, we began our conversation about environmental stewardship by noticing that our school community, including us, was not taking care of our playgrounds. Every time we went outside to play or to go for a walk, we discovered lots of trash. We felt called to action. We had many discussions about this and about what we might do to change it. “The playground should be green and brown and stuff, not papers.” “Stewardship is important. It’s because this is our school.” “It’s a Quaker school.” “It’s also because this is our beautiful world.” “Yeah and we need to take care of it too. And my yard.” Teacher:“What might be some ways we can solve this problem?” “We can pick it all up.” “Except for glass at the playground at Giant.” “We should show everyone at school what we find! That’ll make them so shocked!” We began to pick up the trash we found on the playground. In order to see how much of a problem we really had, we decided to collect th
