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Archive Home > 2004 > December > 12 > Cleaning up for class

Cleaning up for class

Short of custodians, schools turn to students for help

By Julia Lyon / The Bulletin
December 12, 2004

SUNRIVER - T.J. Christensen squeezed the pink sponge dry as he held it over the Three Rivers School sink. He'd been working throughout the day, taking out trash, shoveling snow and wiping a classroom mirror clean.

T.J. is not the school custodian. He's in the third grade.

Like other students at....

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