Littering: The schools' job to fix the problem??

The Straits Times today reported that young humans here don't think it is a big deal that they are litterbugs. They give the excuse that the trash bins are too far away, and airily say that someone will come along and clean up after them anyway.

This fairly bothers me. What kind of upbringing have they had if they think that it's all right for them and everyone else to litter? Do they even stop to think what this place would be like if they all did as they pleased?

To top it off, the newspaper quoted some official as having said that a change to people's way of thinking was called for, and that the schools should find some way to do this.

Why, pray tell, is this the job of the schools? Where are this nation's parents if they aren't smacking their kids into picking up after themselves?

I seriously do think Singapore is bringing up a generation of spoilt brats who think there will always be someone who will clean up their messes. I guess they take their cue from their (lousy) parents who, just because they pay poor people who come here from foreign lands to be their maids, their precious darlings don't EVER have to learn to pick up after themselves.