Teacher,
or Educator?
According
to a news report, a certain private school in Washington
recently faced a unique problem. A number of 12-year-old girls
were beginning to use lipstick, and put it on in the bathroom.
That was fine, but after they 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.
Finally, the principal decided to do something. 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.
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...
