Students Get Revenge, And The School Raises Funds
By DW Davis
@DWDavis (25812)
Pikeville, North Carolina
May 4, 2017 5:09pm CST
On Monday of this week my school had our Slime Time day outside on the soccer field. All the students who raised at least $50 toward the fund raiser were allowed to spend the day out on the soccer field taking part in several activities.
One of the favorite activities was getting to slime some of us teachers. Some of the teachers were volunteers and some of us were voluntold to take part.
The students who raised at least $100 were allowed to dump two buckets of slime. Students who raised more than $50 but less than $100 were allowed to buy a bucket of slime for $5. The buckets held about a quart/2 liters of slime each. The slime was made of banana pudding, a bit of water, and food coloring.
I was slimed 9 times. One of my colleagues received 38 buckets of slime. She is a favorite target because she is very strict and speaks her mind to the kids without much of a filter.
Some of the other activities were a dunk tank, sack races, water soak relay races, beach volleyball, or just finding a shady spot to hang out with friends.
Having forgotten my sunscreen, I tried to stay to the shade as much as possible. Despite doing so, I wound up with a bit of sunburn.
The students had a great time. The fund raiser was a big success. I got slimed, much to my students enjoyment, and I got a great picture to share with all of you.
Have you ever willingly suffered public embarrassment in a good cause?
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22 responses
@moffittjc (118435)
• Gainesville, Florida
5 May 17
Every year at work we do a fundraiser for a local charity, and we give the staff an opportunity to hit a boss in the face with a pie. Each pie is $5, and the workers have no problems lining up to hit us managers with pie after pie after pie! Every year when I get done with the event, I have pie in places pie has no business being! But it's all in good fun! haha
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@moffittjc (118435)
• Gainesville, Florida
5 May 17
@DWDavis We haven't had anybody get carried away like that and aggressively smash a pie into someone's face, but some of our employees do tend to mash it pretty hard in some bosses' faces.
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@TiarasOceanView (70035)
• United States
5 May 17
Aw poor you DW. lol
Very brave of you all to do this.
And that other strict teacher oh my
Very brave of you all to do this.
And that other strict teacher oh my1 person likes this
@TiarasOceanView (70035)
• United States
5 May 17
@DWDavis She might be strict, but probably her hearts in the right place then.
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@DWDavis (25812)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
5 May 17
@TiarasOceanView She has a huge heart, and she truly loves the kids. The problem is much more with them and their sense of entitlement and their feral nature, many of them never having had boundaries set at home or in elementary school.
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@JohnRoberts (109857)
• Los Angeles, California
5 May 17
I guess only "being" slimed 9 times means they like you?
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@Happy2BeMe (99399)
• Canada
5 May 17
Sounds like a fun day for a great cause. You are a good sport.
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@DWDavis (25812)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
6 May 17
@Happy2BeMe One student actually apologized as she poured the slime on me. I don't know that I'll be asked to be slimed next year. I'm not a big draw.
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@Happy2BeMe (99399)
• Canada
5 May 17
@DWDavis That is awesome and I am sure the student took great pleasure in slimeing you!! lol
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@Shellyann36 (11385)
• United States
8 May 17
Now that must have been so much fun for the kids! We never got to do fun stuff back when I was in school. I am grateful my kids get to do this kind of fun stuff now.
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@allknowing (130066)
• India
5 May 17
No fund raising but during Holi here in India whoever takes part gets bathed in coloured powder and coloured water.
Your photo shows that you enjoyed it (lol)
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@allknowing (130066)
• India
14 May 17
@DWDavis Not everyone knows how to enjoy life in such circumstances.
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@LovingMyBabies (85127)
• Valdosta, Georgia
5 May 17
I bet they had a great time! I'm glad it was a success too. Sorry you had to get slimed. Lol.
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@LovingMyBabies (85127)
• Valdosta, Georgia
6 May 17
@DWDavis Oh my gosh I can imagine it would be! Lol
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@LeaPea2417 (36438)
• Toccoa, Georgia
6 May 17
That sounds fun. No, I never suffered public embarrassment for a good cause. I do remember field days from when I was in Elementary school.
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@LeaPea2417 (36438)
• Toccoa, Georgia
7 May 17
@DWDavis It is like what my Mom use to say when she taught school, when they would have faculty meetings, the district heads would tell them all these ways to teach but they had not been in the classroom and they didn't really know what the teachers went through.
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@DWDavis (25812)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
7 May 17
When I started teaching we would have field days after EOG testing was over. Now the district won't let us. They insist we continue to teach the curriculum up to the last day. We've invited them to come to the middle school and try to teach curriculum to a bunch of tweens and teens after they've taken their final exams. No one from Central Office has showed up to do so yet.
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@teamfreak16 (43421)
• Denver, Colorado
8 May 17
We didn't have anything like this when I was in school. Sounds like fun.
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@DWDavis (25812)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
13 May 17
When I was in school it seems like things were more serious. You went to school, you went to class, you did your work, and the only two things outside of that were going to games or dances. Field days and such were unheard of.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
5 May 17
Very colourful, we don't have that here.But the students got the chance to put colours on their teachers during Holi.Good for you
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@DWDavis (25812)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
14 May 17
@responsiveme I love the photo. Holi sounds like a fun, and messy, way to welcome spring.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
14 May 17
@DWDavis Holi is a festival that celebrates the coming of spring...people put coloured powder and throw
coloured water on each other.
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@CaseyRoss9966 (4056)
• United States
5 May 17
The schools around my town do something similar to this but it is more of a fundraiser thing. The students get to buy a piece of tape or something like that and tape their favorite teacher or the principle to the wall.
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@CaseyRoss9966 (4056)
• United States
5 May 17
@DWDavis Our teachers never seem to mind it but then again it is just the teachers that volunteer.
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@Poppylicious (11133)
•
5 May 17
What a brilliant way to raise money. Where I work we just sell homemade cakes to make money for charity. They would love a day where they could cause a bit of mischief like that!
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@shivamani10 (11038)
• Hyderabad, India
5 May 17
It is really a blast for the students.
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@andriaperry (116860)
• Anniston, Alabama
5 May 17
Nope.
But you look good in green
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@thislittlepennyearns (58134)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
4 May 17
That's pretty great. Glad you guys earned money for the school, and had fun. Great picture.
We used to use the dunk tank as a way to raise money.
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@DWDavis (25812)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
4 May 17
This was the third stage of a three-part event. Part I consisted of glow-in-the-dark dodgeball and face painting during the day last Friday. Friday night we had a laser light/glow party. Then the Slime Time party on Monday.
I only wish the funds could be used for new and exciting things, rather than basic supplies the state and county will no longer pay for, like toilet paper for the kids bathrooms and copier paper.
