Yesterday we got a gigantic mystery box in the mail at our school. Inside, we found hundreds of "Puberty Packs"; pink ones for girls, blue ones for boys, some in Spanish, some in English. Apparently, these are meant to be distributed to our students. I see a few problems with this.
1. Our students range between the ages of 14-21. Hopefully they've gone through puberty already and don't need a free deoderant promotion to help them through this troubling time.
2. Passing anything out to our students en masse means the teachers have to be prepared to clean whatever it is off the bathroom walls. Granted, this was just free samples of deoderant (which many of our students could use), but they'll write gang signs in deoderant, if that's all they have.
3. If the teachers can't get through the included pamphlet on puberty entitled (I kid you not) "My Body's All Changing and Stuff" without fits of giggles, the kids would run that joke into the ground for weeks.
Now we don't know what to do with an entire case of Puberty Packs. Any ideas?
1. Our students range between the ages of 14-21. Hopefully they've gone through puberty already and don't need a free deoderant promotion to help them through this troubling time.
2. Passing anything out to our students en masse means the teachers have to be prepared to clean whatever it is off the bathroom walls. Granted, this was just free samples of deoderant (which many of our students could use), but they'll write gang signs in deoderant, if that's all they have.
3. If the teachers can't get through the included pamphlet on puberty entitled (I kid you not) "My Body's All Changing and Stuff" without fits of giggles, the kids would run that joke into the ground for weeks.
Now we don't know what to do with an entire case of Puberty Packs. Any ideas?
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One of my college groups used to do preview screenings of bad upcoming films in partnership with some PR firm, and part of the contract was handing out tons of promo stuff from other third parties. We had a few cases of some new ultra-slim junior tampon for a few screenings to give to a bunch of college and grad school women. Not so popular for most of them.