Dear editor,
I am writing to express my views on the playground vandalism near my housing estate. The housing estate where I live in in the New Territories has many excellent facilities. While most people treat them properly, there are some people destroy all these valuable public resources. The playground equipment is heavily damaged. Some facilities are burned and broken. The graffiti are completely covered all over the place. Some of the graffiti even includes bad language. It’s adversely influence the children safety and our precious public resources.
The reason of this vandalism is mainly related to the people who are out of boredom and the shortage of security. Nowadays, most teenagers like to spend their time through hanging out with friends. When they have nothing to play or any recreational activities, the playground may be targeted as an amusement for spending their time. Due to teenagers are now in the process of building self-worth and self-esteem, they will try to do something over in order to get the peer recognition. For instant, the teenagers pretend to be a leader through destroying the facilities. In these recent years, these selfish and irresponsible behaviors under the fabricating, exaggerating from social media, started becoming rationalized. That’s why the playground vandalism happens. Secondly, it is because of the shortage of security guards. If there is security guard checking the playground regularly, to deter any vandalism promptly, this phenomenon will not happen.
To solve the problem, establishing a youth centre and forming a management committee are the best ways to solve the problem. Since Teenagers are having more free time, their needs of recreational activity are relatively elevated. Therefore, if there’s any activity or place to let them spend their free time, they will naturally lose interest in the destruction of the park, so as to protect the playground’s facilities and relieve the serious vandalism efficaciously. Establishing a youth centre is the best way to let the teenagers getting the community involved and spends their free time. In the youth centre, it will be provided some sporting equipment, chess game for them to play. Also, the youth centre will organize some activities for teenagers to enrich their life and help them to build up self-esteem, responsibility and self-worth. Let them can get into the community involved in the future easily.
Second, it’s about the security. Due to the shortage of security guard, the teenagers can go to destroy the park whenever they want. Nobody cares about it and looks after the place. It’s conceivable that the vandalism will continuously happen if there isn't any security guard. In contrast, if there is a management committee to supervise the playground, patrol it regularly, teenagers will behave more appropriate if they know that someone is watching them, so as to protect our facilities.
The situation now needs urgent attention! The existing playground is broken and dangerous for young children to play in. It’s not just vandalism, is a danger bomb in the society! If the problem cannot be solved promptly, it will become a vicious cycle, fully threaten our children safety and our daily life. Therefore, I earnestly urge the relevant departments to face and solve this problem immediately, so as to protect our children and facilities.
Yours faithfully,
Chris Wong
亲爱的编辑：
我写信是为了表达我对附近的房地产破坏游乐场的意见。房地产位于新界我们住的地方，它有许多优良的设施。虽然大多数人正确地对待他们，但还有一些人毁灭了所有这些宝贵的公共资源。游乐场设备严重受损。一些设备被烧断。涂鸦完全覆盖了所有的地方。一些涂鸦甚至包括脏话。它不利影响着孩子的安全和我们的宝贵的公共资源。
这种破坏的原因主要是出于无聊和且没安全感的人。如今，大多数青少年喜欢把时间花在和朋友闲逛上。当他们没有任何娱乐活动时，游乐场上便可能是他们的一个娱乐花费的地方。由于青少年现在在构建自我价值感和自尊的过程中，他们会尝试做一些事情是为了得到同行的认可。例如，青少年们假装通过破坏的设施来表明自己是一个领导者。在最近这些年来，在制造这些自私和不负责任的行为下，从最初的社会媒体的夸大，现在开始变得合理化。这就是为什么游乐场会发生破坏的行为了。其次，这是因为保安人员的疏忽。如果保安定期检查游乐场的话，及时阻止任何破坏的话，这种现象就不会发生。
为了解决这个问题，应建立一个青年中心，形成一个管理委员会才是解决问题的最佳途径。因为青少年有更多自由的时间，他们的娱乐活动的需求比较高。因此，如果有任何活动或地方让他们度过他们的空闲时间，他们自然会失去在游乐场破坏的兴趣，从而保护游乐场的设施和缓解严重破坏的有效性。建立一个青年中心是让青少年获得社区参与的最好方式，花费他们的空闲时间。在青年中心，它将提供一些运动器材，他们玩棋牌游戏。同时，青年中心会组织一些活动，为青少年丰富他们的生活，帮助他们建立自尊和自我价值感，责任。让他们可以很容易地进入社区参与未来。
第二，它是安全的。由于安全防范不足，每当他们想要，他们就可以去破坏游乐场，如果没有人关心和照顾游乐场，如果没有保安的话，这可以想象破坏将会继续进行。如果有一个管理委员会来监督游乐场，他们定期巡逻，青少年便会知道有人看着他们，以保护我们的设施。
现在的形势迫切需要注意！现有的游乐场是破坏的，年轻的孩子玩耍很危险。这不只是破坏，是人类社会的一种危险的炸弹！如果问题不能及时解决，它将成为一个恶性循环，完全威胁我们的孩子们的安全和我们的日常生活。因此，我恳请相关部门立刻解决这个问题，以保护我们的孩子和设施。
你的忠实的，
黄凯芹
