got this forwarded email today. seems clever and benign to the palin teabaggers who are sharing it, but what it is really saying is the same tired bullshit argument -- teachers are worthless and our schools are failing, and our poor children will never realize the dream whitney houston had for them. after dealing with parents who exceed stupidity limits for 10 years, i can tell you, it's not the teachers. it's the unprepared, unskilled parents who are fucked, and who are destroying our future.
it seems like good old-fashioned "i made kids suck on a toilet brush" wisdom, but the punch line pokes the screwdriver in my ribs. janitors are the real saviors of our precious children; the rest are called teachers...
Subject: Teachers vs Educators
>
> **
> According to a news report, a certain private school in Brisbane 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 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**
