Educating teenagers
Posted in Friday fillers on 08/15/2008 10:00 am by GraceAccording 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 lipstick they would press their lips to the mirror leaving dozens of little lip prints. Every night the cleaner would remove them and the next day the girls would put them back.
Finally the headmistress decided that something had to be done. She called all the girls to the bathroom and met them there with the cleaner. She explained that all these lip prints were causing a major problem for the cleaner who had to clean the mirrors every night.
To demonstrate how difficult it had been to clean the mirrors, she asked the cleaner 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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August 15th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
What a great lesson learned!
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August 15th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Ooh!I love it, that is the best…I have teenagers. lol
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August 15th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
There is nothing like real life experience. They have to see it with their own eyes. Priceless! I love it!
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August 17th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
lol!!! That’s a GREAT way to teach them!
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August 18th, 2008 at 5:10 am
Great lesson there - it would be interesting to see how receptive they were to this lesson at first. The story makes it sound like a bunch of eager students around their master, but of course it probably wasn’t like that with the the threat os suspension hanging over them@!
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August 18th, 2008 at 9:45 am
Better make sure you have a good hosting provider though.
August 21st, 2008 at 8:29 am
Had me going there. I was all for making the girls clean it themselves, but I like this idea better LOL
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August 22nd, 2008 at 1:07 am
Haha. That is one way to teach em. Very funny.
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