worms....pie...kissing pigs....all good clean fun but ya know, sometimes you just have to have your life sprinkled with people that think these things are not funny and Rosanne Barr has a good singing voice.
Me? I think pigs are cute eating worms with pie on their faces!!! [img]smile.gif[/img] [img]smile.gif[/img] [img]smile.gif[/img]
I don't know Kathie-A PIE in the face can be a great parent booster if you do it right. The year we did it we had the theme PIE(parent involvement in education). Everything we did that year had the PiE theme, our principal was taking the pie as a wager for the staff/parent volleyball game. We served pizza pie afterwards. The parents caught onto the theme real quick! I think it's important that parents and kids see the principal let their guard down a little, it shows that they are part human as well. It's like when a child sees thier principal in the local store, they arent just that mean person/ Truthfully I respected her more for doing it!
"When you stop learning you stop growing."
I agree with dlf, I think it's a matter of respect. Gummy worms sound fine but not half as nice as lunch with the Principal or a pizza lunch or a make-your-own sunday for the top ten readers. I think a pie in the face is not particularly funny, I think it's kind of humiliating. I would go back to the Principal with a few other suggestions and see what sounds good to her. I'd definately not go to the Superintendant.
Our principal will only work according to his own agenda. He tells us no for something but goes to a meeting 6 months later and decides that it's his next big thing. Recently our local paper had an issue with teachers taking a pie in the face to get kids motivated for something and the teachers, parents, and students have all supported it in the fallout. I think you might want to ask for suggestions from the principal since he didn't like yours or maybe see if the Asst Principal would be willing to back your group by doing something equally exciting.
The irony of commitment is that it’s deeply liberating-in work, in play, in love. The act frees you from the tyranny of your internal critic, from the fear that likes to dress itself up and parade around as rational hesitation. To commit is to remove your head as the barrier to your life. --Anne Morris
