What takes place at around 2 p.m. every weekday afternoon is swarms of high school kids using the lawn at the Hervey/Point Loma Branch Library for wrestling, yelling, jumping, running, kissing, lying about, eating, drinking and not studying. What stays after their parents pick them up at about 5 p.m. are bits of paper, plastic salsa cups, pizza boxes, food containers, various candy wrappers and more.  There are two trash cans to be used, but they are not used.  What gives these students the right to come to their library and absolutely trash it before leaving? Why don’t the parents make sure the library is left as it was found? Why has our library become a baby-sitting place for working parents?  Why do these children believe it is their right to make our library look like a slum after they leave? What happens at our lovely library after-hours also stays there. I guess it is a meeting place for the transients and homeless in the area.  In the morning, you can see broken bottles, brown paper bags with king-size beer cans inside and cigarette butts ground into the sidewalk, ground into the trees, into the ground, onto the benches — all left for someone else to pick up.  Maybe the people of our community would have a little more sympathy for the transient group if they [transients] didn’t leave mounds of trash in their wake, never bothering to help the community in which he/she has selected to reside in.