A school's Ofsted inspection almost turned into a pig's ear when students smuggled in a live piglet as a prank. The incident involved three teenaged pupils from Old Buckenham High School, near Attleborough, who decided to celebrate their 'last day at school' by letting the piglet loose in the playground, on Thursday . But the school took a dim view of the caper, and the young culprits are now the focus of an investigation involving the police and the RSPCA officials.
Have teachers lost the sense of humour? What did you do at last day of school?
I'm guilty of removing school bell from outside headmasters office, and hanging it from the weather vane on the roof.
Not many people know how I did it.
I agree Richard. No wonder the kids were celebrating leaving school if the head shows such a joyless po faced attitude to everything else that goes on in the establishment. As for involving the police and the RSPCA..yet another institution toeing the authoritarian interfering jobsworth line that this Labour Government has established instead of using a bit of common sense to placate and if necessary reprimand all parties concerned. As for involving those notorious non experts in animal welfare the RSPCA, well it was a piglet having a day out and a trot round a playground ...good grief they used to have catch the greased pig competitions at village fetes!.
We stamp on this sort of virtually harmless youthful prank when we should be worrying about the sullen aggression lurking in the hearts of the sort of kids convicted of murder yesterday.
My last day at school was a bit of a wash out, but there were those who polished a certain statue's extremities and I did hear of an incident involving weedkiller and a cricket wicket beloved by a certain headmaster.
A one off joke should be treated as so, as long as nobody suffers as a result...... also the teachers should well expect this type of action may happen on the last day of school and take it in good spirit.
Life at times is far too serious.......
I have no problem with having a laugh on the last day of school.
But it was not good to use a live animal, which might have been very frightened indeed, perhaps that was what they didnt like.
There are better ways as you demonstrated, Robert.
Amy Soyka wrote:Rumor has it at Cromer High School years ago one of the students got hold of the Head of English's bike and tied it to the flagpole on the roof.If somebody did this today - no doubt they would get done for criminal activity...
Hmmm ... When I was at school, some departing students put a teacher's mini on top of the gym roof. (flat roof, about 20 ft above the ground, with a 2ft high parapet around it.)
No prosecution, no 'hissy fit'. - It was treated as a harmless 'high spirited' prank. It took a while for the staff to work out how to get it down ... It was fascinating watching them do so - But they could hardly admit that they'd been outwitted by a bunch of sixth formers.
i agree, reminds me of when I left school
somehow, the headteacher's car ended up on the football pitch, filled with cans and on it's side
Not the same thing at all.
The car on its side was just vandalism, no doubt all the oil drained out and made an environmental mess for a astart.
Turning a car on its side takes no inteligence whatsoever and neither does filling it with cans.
Oh such a sad modern education system, do they actualy teach anything?
Dream on
keithgerrard@gerrard24.freeserve.co.uk
Judging by the lower case personal pronoun and the aberrant apostrophe - not a great deal.
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