20: The Hospital of Broken Things
There is no such thing as "away." When we throw anything away, it must go somewhere. -Annie Leonard In the Kindergarten 2 classroom, a remarkable transformation is taking place—a little corner has blossomed into a bustling hospital, not for the mending of bones, but for the restoration of broken treasures. In our society, disposable things are everywhere, used daily, sometimes not mindfully. This week, our kindergarten doctors took it upon themselves to embark on a sustainable mission: to breathe new life into the worn-out and almost discarded things that we once (or perhaps still) loved. Welcome to The Hospital of Broken Things. This week, our doctors sought out broken items around the school to admit to our hospital. Armed with prescriptions for "medication" and a makeshift hospital bed, the kindergarteners approached their schoolmates and teachers to offer a simple yet powerful solution to our problem of waste: repair instead of replace. With each broken toy,