The neighborhood around my school doesn't have a playground so the school's open space doubles as the neighborhood park. This is good and bad.
Good: Cute to see families with their kids coming to play and the elderly hanging out under the Cherry Blossom trees.
Bad: High school students. Especially the ones who decide its OK to smoke when there's still kiddies roaming around!!! The first few times I saw this. I (regretfully) just turned a blind eye. But today, (when there was about a group of 10 boys) I decided to take action.
I yelled at them.
In English.
Fortunately there were 2 of them who understood what I was saying. They looked not ashamed but slightly embarrassed. I'm sure they stayed there but hopefully they won't come back.
Maybe next time I'll just take the cigarettes from them.
Just needed to get that off my chest...
3 comments:
Wow. I would be sort of pissed off too, so I completely understand. I hope they don't come back (and if they do, it's without cigarettes)... but if they do, I hope think you should get your elementary school children (like 50 of them) to scold them all at the same time. Not that it's all that feasible, but what better way to give the elementary school kids a start at combating that peer pressure to smoke (which is huge in Korea) and also give the high school kids a particular sense of being ashamed for smoking in front of the little ones.
Nice one! Go Janet!
@ Gloria - Ha. That would be perfect but getting that many kids would take some planning.
The school needs to remove that unused water fountain (they shut off the water to it). Which has just turned to a bench for the high schoolers.
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