Thursday, April 25, 2013

V is for Very Sad

Very sad. Actually, this is disturbing. Can you tell what the picture is? It's a magnet advertising the Jason Foundation, which is great.

Can you guess what it's on? It's on a paper towel dispenser like you find in public bathrooms. Which is great, too.

Can you guess where it is? Over the sink in the teacher's lounge of a high school. Maybe not so great?

Why is this disturbing? Because it's the ONLY such thing that I found on the entire campus. Definitely not great. Not even good.

The campus has lots of "no place for hate" and "click it or ticket" posters. Up and down every hall are posters warning against drunk driving and drug use. Of course, examples of student work are posted inside and outside classrooms. Giant strips of colored paper are painted with yearbook ads, prom announcements, and welcomes to the campus. Flyers are taped and stapled all over the place announcing theater try-outs, etc. It's all the usual high school stuff, except the occasional suicide hotline poster or flyer.

A single magnet, the size of a business card, on a towel dispenser in the teacher workroom is just wrong, maybe even irresponsible.

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