According to a news report, a certain private
> school in Washington
> was recently faced with a unique problem. A number
> of 12-year-old girls
> were beginning to use lipstick and would put it on
> in the bathroom.
> That was
> fine, but after they put on their lip stick, they
> would press their
> lips to
> the mirror leaving dozens of little lip prints.
>
> Every night the maintenance man would remove them,
> and the next day
> the girls would put them back.
>
> Finally the principal decided that something had to
> be done. She
> called all the girls to the bathroom and met them
> there with the
> maintenance
> man. She explained that all these lip prints were
> causing a major
> problem
> for the custodian who had to clean the mirrors
> every night (you can just
> imagine the yawns from the little princesses).
>
> To demonstrate how difficult it had been to clean
> the mirrors, she
> asked the maintenance man to show the girls how
> much effort was
> required.
>
> He took out a long-handled squeegee, dipped it in
> the toilet, and
> cleaned the mirror with it. Since then, there have
> been no lip prints on
> the mirror.
>
> There are teachers ... and then there are educators
> school in Washington
> was recently faced with a unique problem. A number
> of 12-year-old girls
> were beginning to use lipstick and would put it on
> in the bathroom.
> That was
> fine, but after they put on their lip stick, they
> would press their
> lips to
> the mirror leaving dozens of little lip prints.
>
> Every night the maintenance man would remove them,
> and the next day
> the girls would put them back.
>
> Finally the principal decided that something had to
> be done. She
> called all the girls to the bathroom and met them
> there with the
> maintenance
> man. She explained that all these lip prints were
> causing a major
> problem
> for the custodian who had to clean the mirrors
> every night (you can just
> imagine the yawns from the little princesses).
>
> To demonstrate how difficult it had been to clean
> the mirrors, she
> asked the maintenance man to show the girls how
> much effort was
> required.
>
> He took out a long-handled squeegee, dipped it in
> the toilet, and
> cleaned the mirror with it. Since then, there have
> been no lip prints on
> the mirror.
>
> There are teachers ... and then there are educators
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. Good one.
