Good one!
On 12/08/13, Yes. wrote:
> There is a secret file kept in the Department of Education in
> Washington, D.C, called the Blacklist File. When an
> administrator does not want a teacher to get hired for another
> job, he logs in to the secret website (only administrators are
> allowed to know the url) and enter the name and social
> security number of the teacher in question. From that day on,
> the teacher will never be hired anywhere in the entire world.
> Administrators are warned to never speak directly of this
> secret file or website, but only to hint of its existence with
> such phrases as "heads will roll" and "will be dangerous to
> your career". Once entered, a name can never be removed from
> the dreaded Blacklist. A movement is currently afoot, however,
> to change the name of the list because some are concerned that
> its current name infers racial bias. Other colors were
> considered, and the most popular of the choices for a new
> title seems to be the Purple List. There is some concern that
> a small tribe in Northern Siberia has used the color purple as
> its tribal color, though, and the use of the word "purple" to
> refer to persons who are outcasts from the teaching profession
> might have a negative effect on the public relations of this
> tribe of nomatic hermits as they move further northward into
> the more isolated regions of Siberia.
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