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MORE EFFICIENT THAN A ‘KICK ME’ SIGN

January 04, 2006 1 min read
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Pigs shares what has to be the least morale-boosting activity ever: an activity booth where students pay money to kick soccer balls at teachers’ faces.

Just how much disrespect do you have for your teachers when you allow a parent to construct a booth with teacher's pictures whose sole purpose is to be a target for a soccer ball kicked by children? Just what level of disrespect is that?

To be fair, Pigs says, school administrators changed the name of the activity booth from “Kick ThatTeacher” to “Pick That Teacher.” Um... much better then. Never mind the fact that, as Pigs points out, “the kids were still kicking soccer balls at our faces. How this is a token of appreciation for their favorite teacher, I cannot tell you.”

(From The Pig’s Tales.)

A version of this news article first appeared in the Blogboard blog.

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