Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
Illustration★★★★According to a news report, a certain school in a Midwestern city was recently faced with a unique problem. A number of 12-year-old girls were beginning to use lipstick and would put it on I the washroom [at their school].
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 that something had to be done. He called all the girls to the washroom and met them there with the maintenance man. He 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, he asked the maintenance man to show the girls how much effort was required.
The custodian took out a long-handled squeegee, dipped it into the toilet, and cleaned the mirror with it.
Since then, there have been no lip prints on the mirror.
The moral of the story? There are teacher, and then there are EDUCATORRS!
Tom Stockon, Indianapolis, Indian, "Post Scripts" Saturday Evening Post, March/April 2010, 56.
The point
Principal teaches girls the consequences of careless behavior by using a disgusting method to clean mirrors, turning their thoughtless act into an unforgettable lesson.