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Mesnier Primary Students Say Goodbye With Pie
As a prize for completing more than 300,000 minutes of reading, students threw pies at Principal Steve Brotherton.
With Principal Steve Brotherton as superintendent, l knew they wanted to say goodbye in a special way.
"Dr. Bortherton wouldn't kiss a pig or shave his head or wear a costume or go on the roof. Eventually we landed on this," said Mesnier librarian Laverene Sebben, who oversaw the pie-in-the-face planning.
Sebben said that it's difficult to get students excited about reading in the last month of school, and they wanted to offer a great incentive for the students. It was decided that the class who read for the most minutes between April 31 and May 31 would get to throw pies at Brotherton.
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Pam Hogan's second-grade class read for more than 17,000 minutes that month, and as an extra incentive, Mrs. Hogan agreed to allow her top six readers to throw a pie at her as well.
"We had lots of incentives as a class," said Hogan. "Some people call incentives bribing, but I don't consider incentives bad at all when it comes to reading."