To Kiss a Pig
@GardenGerty (157546)
United States
May 19, 2017 8:03pm CST
As part of National Children's Book Week our librarian made a promise to the kids. If the entire school could read 23,000 minutes this week, our principal would kiss a pig.
I have included a Pixabay free image of piglets that resemble the one he kissed.
Yes, that is right, the kids did it. They read lots of minutes.
In addition, as a surprise, the teacher whose students read the most minutes ALSO got to kiss the pig. She came out, put on lip gloss and held the baby and kissed him.
I am sure the principal knew this was going on, but the kids and staff made a great show of keeping it a secret.
Just one more out of the ordinary thing on the last day of school this year.
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16 responses
@GardenGerty (157546)
• United States
20 May 17
I know!! That is why I had to find an image. These are a lot like the one he kissed. I was expecting a pink piglet or maybe a white with black spots.
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@nonersays (3329)
• United States
20 May 17
Oh, how fun for the kids and a great way to get them to read. I'd not mind kissing a cute little piglet.
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@GardenGerty (157546)
• United States
20 May 17
He was cute, all wrapped up in a blanket. Boy, he squealed when the principal handed him over to the teacher. He looked about the size of a human baby. Last month the speech teacher brought a baby lamb to school. Rural Kansas, gotta love it.
@changjiangzhibin89 (16531)
• China
20 May 17
I have never seen such kind of piglet.Funny thing ,they rewarded the winners with kissing a pig.
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@GardenGerty (157546)
• United States
20 May 17
This image said these are wild piglets, but the pig we had had the dark hair with light stripes, so I chose this image. The kids got the reward of seeing the principal and teacher kiss a pig. When I first started the school for some reason the kids won the privilege of seeing the principal duct taped to a wall!!
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@changjiangzhibin89 (16531)
• China
21 May 17
@GardenGerty "duct taped to a wall"! Didn't they play a trick on the principal ?
@GardenGerty (157546)
• United States
20 May 17
I agree, as babies they are cute and I think I could kiss one.
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@LadyDuck (457918)
• Switzerland
21 May 17
@GardenGerty One of my uncle had a pig farm, I loved to go to look at the new born piglets, they were cute.
@responsiveme (22926)
• India
20 May 17
for the kids out there....Your ordinary as you call it things are fun2 people like this
@GardenGerty (157546)
• United States
20 May 17
It makes life a lot more interesting.
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@GardenGerty (157546)
• United States
21 May 17
Baby animals are adorable. i think this was a fun event.
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@GardenGerty (157546)
• United States
20 May 17
They love making their principal and teachers do things.
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@Shavkat (137201)
• Philippines
20 May 17
@GardenGerty I think it is a good way to see the principal and teacher be sporty in this activity.
@GardenGerty (157546)
• United States
20 May 17
The ones in the image from pixabay are supposed to be wild. The coloring is similar to the one that came to school and that is why I chose this image.. Unfortunately they did not tell us what the breed was. I will have to go research, I suppose.
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@valmnz (17099)
• New Zealand
20 May 17
@GardenGerty don't worry :-) but they looked unusual with their stripes. Even our wild pigs don't have stripes.
@sueznewz2 (10409)
• Alicante, Spain
20 May 17
it's a fun way to get the kids to read... and for the adults too..lol
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@GardenGerty (157546)
• United States
20 May 17
Yes, this is a free image, but the one we had at school looked similar. I never thought of pigs as having protective coloring.
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@JudyEv (325594)
• Rockingham, Australia
21 May 17
@GardenGerty These look like wild pigs but they may not be.
@chrissbergstrom (10767)
• Banks, Oregon
20 May 17
Oh how funny, and how nice of the principal to do something embarrassing as reward for the students reading.
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@GardenGerty (157546)
• United States
20 May 17
Last fall they duct taped him to a wall for some kind of incentive. It was like my first week working because I started late.
@Elisa1234 (7607)
• Philippines
20 May 17
Is that a pig?
I've never seen a pig like that 
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@GardenGerty (157546)
• United States
20 May 17
These are wild pigs, but they look a lot like the one that came to school.
@GardenGerty (157546)
• United States
20 May 17
I think it was good to see how all could participate at their own level and reach a goal and have fun reading.
