Saturday, August 08, 2009

Vampires Amongst Us


At a high-school faculty meeting midway through the school year, the principal had presented an agonizing list of our sins, failures, flaws and transgressions, and we were all feeling rather tense. Then the principal announced that the science-club project would be a blood drive, and that in order to promote faculty participation he would donate the first pint of blood. The meeting burst into laughter when a voice from the back of the room demanded anxiously, "Whose?"

2 comments:

endmayoralcontrol said...

I think I work in that school.

Anonymous said...

That has to be the funniest response to a principal declaration I ever heard.

Love it when any principal looks to the teachers to blame when the failure is really on them to stop pushing students into classes they are not ready for, not getting the backing of parents, and pushing test prep over learning.

Schoolgal