According to a news report, a certain private school in Washington state

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.

To demonstrate how difficult it had been to clean the mirrors, she asked

the maintenance man 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.