Dr. Laura told a story about a woman who went to a PTA meeting. It got pretty Liberal when they spoke about the Sex Ed. and she kind of got laughed off when she spoke of Abstinance. During the break she stayed behind. All the others went out for coffee in the cafeteria. When they returned to the class room, the teacher’s rep dropped her cleverness on them by saying that everyone who shook hands with the people with a circle on the their hands had “contracted” a STD and since everyone had shaken hands with them, they ALL had it. The woman raised her hand and said she didn’t have it, because “she abstained”. Well that was the last time she went to her kid’s school.
Illustrations of that kind get the attention of young people more than adults, I think. We talk about teenagers’ thinking they’re invincible, but there are many adults who think being over 21 confers immunity from the consequences of foolish behavior.
We sometimes use the handshake activity in Girl Scouts and even Sunday School in the late fall, to illustrate the spread of colds, flu, and that nasty digestive crud.
Well that was the last time she went to her kid’s school.
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I hope that woman had the good sense to remove her child immediately from that school.