Lipstick
We've been told that a secondary school was faced with a problem.
A significant 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 had put on their lipstick, 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.
Eventually, the Head Teacher decided 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 problem to the maintenance man, who had to clean the mirrors every night.
To demonstrate how difficult it has 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!