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Teacher scrubs student's face with cleaner
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Teacher scrubs student's face with cleaner

http://www.wfsb.com/story/25529289/magic...teens-skin

"A bad dye job for one teen in Milford turned into a trip to the emergency room.

The 14-year-old Melissa Welch said she got some of the product on her face and neck and claims when she went to school, her teacher tried to get it off using a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser."
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RE: Teacher scrubs student's face with cleaner

Quote:Magic Eraser pads typically have chemicals in them.
Cue Hank Green. "Everything is chemicals!"

Hello, traveler.

This is an ancient account I have not used in a long time. My views have changed much in the intervening months and years.

Nonetheless, I refuse to clean it up. Pretending that I've held my current views since the beginning of time is what we in the industry call a lie. Asking people to do so contributes to moralistic self-loathing. "See, those people have nothing damning! I do! I'm truly vile!"

Because you can never be a good person with a single blemish on the moral record, I thought that simply entertaining some thoughts made me irredeemable. Though I don't care for his writing style, William Faulkner presents a good counterexample. He went from being a typical Southern racist to supporting the civil rights movement. These days we'd yell at him for that, probably.

People are allowed to change their views.

Nevertheless, this period of my life has informed some of how I am today. In good ways and bad ways. To purge it would be to do a disservice to history. Perhaps it will not make anyone sympathetic, but it may help someone understand.

If, after reading all this, you still decide to use the post above as evidence that I am evil today, ask yourself if you have never disagreed with the moral code you now follow. In all likelihood you did, at some point. If some questions are verboten, and the answer is "how dare you ask that," don't expect your ideological opponents to ever change their minds.
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RE: Teacher scrubs student's face with cleaner

(05-17-2014 06:36 AM)no Wrote:  
Quote:Magic Eraser pads typically have chemicals in them.
Cue Hank Green. "Everything is chemicals!"

Exactly. And your Hank Green reference is much appreciated.
05-18-2014 12:53 AM
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I didn't realize teachers were also into body cleaning.

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Wow.

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