From: Deborah Hunt (dhunt@exploratorium.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 26 2001 - 10:52:32 PDT
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 10:52:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Deborah Hunt <dhunt@exploratorium.edu> Subject: teachers v. educators Message-ID: <Pine.GSU.4.10.10110261051210.25348-100000@isaac>
This is very cute and I thought Pinholers might get a chuckle out of it.
Deb
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> > > According to a radio report, a middle school in Oregon was faced with
a
> > > unique problem. A number of 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.
> > > 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.
> > > To demonstrate how difficult it was to clean the mirrors, she
> > > asked the maintenance man to clean the mirrors. 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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Deborah Hunt
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