Showing posts with label School. Show all posts
Showing posts with label School. Show all posts

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Lipstick in School

(Priceless!)


According 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 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. 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 (you can just imagine the yawns from the little princesses).

To demonstrate how difficult it had been to clean the mirrors, she asked the maintenance man to show t he 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!

Monday, November 17, 2008

Revere’s full-day ‘K’ may face ax


REVERE - Parents of 500 kindergartners may see the time their kids spend in school reduced if the state cuts back school spending over the next year.

Eliminating full-day kindergarten is one of the cuts School Superintendent Paul Dakin last week said he may recommend to the School Committee as early as December.

Dakin has warned for months that the schools need $6 million to $7 million in additional state money to continue operating existing programs. Expectations of receiving the money have all but vanished with legislators and municipal officials’ warnings of state aid cuts next July, perhaps sooner.

(Lynn Daily Item - Full Story)

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Student dies after shooting at Fla. high school


FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—A 15-year-old student died after a shooting at a Fort Lauderdale high school Wednesday, and police were questioning another student believed to be responsible.

Sophomore Amanda Collette was confirmed dead after being discovered on a hallway floor by a school resource officer at Dillard High School around 11 a.m. Another 15-year-old girl was being held and questioned by police in the death.

"This is a situation where we are more than heartbroken," said Jim Notter, the superintendent of schools for Broward County.

(Boston Globe-Full Story)