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No More Lip Prints
From totallyofftherecord.com

Totally off the record...

Our 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 into 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 one of the mirrors. He took out a long-handled squeegee, dipped it into the toilet and then cleaned the mirror.

Since then there have been no lip prints on the mirror. There are teachers and then there are TEACHERS.

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Georgia's NCLB Head-Tricks  

© Georgia Hedrick  

YENDOR'S TOP TEN REJECTED STICKERS TO PUT ON STUDENT PAPERS
by YENDOR (yendor@teachers.net)

10.	Your mom must be so ashamed.
9.	Your brother was MUCH smarter.
8.	Wow! A 25! You must have studied last night!
7.	McDonald's has a great job waiting for you.
6.	Not only are you dumb, but you are ugly and smell bad.
5.	Cheating could help!
4.	It would be easier to teach a monkey.
3.	Why not just take a few days off?
2.	You could your roll your brain into a ball and stick it into a flea's navel.
And the number 1 REJECTED STICKER...
Were you born an idiot, or have you just practiced your whole life?