Students get ‘revenge’ on administrators after fundraiser

Ashley Livingston

Students who sold 10 or more magazine subscriptions for a fundraiser at Jack Lund Schofield Middle School were invited to pelt deans Debbie Berk and Bryan Hennagan with plates of shaving cream during an Oct. 30 assembly.

By Ashley Livingston (contact)

Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008 | midnight

Ashley Livingston

Jack Lund Schofield Middle School Principal A.J. Adams gets covered in ketchup, mustard and relish as students of all grade levels who sold 10 or more magazine subscriptions fling it from spoons during an end-of-the-day assembly Oct. 30 celebrating the fundraiser's success.

Ashley Livingston

Jack Lund Schofield Middle School seventh-graders Faith Reiff, front, and Madison Vincent participate in the "YMCA" during an end-of-the-day assembly Oct. 30 celebrating the success of the school's magazine subscriptions fundraiser.

The living dead, bugs, superheroes and disco dancers loaded their plastic spoons with ketchup, mustard and relish and prepared to fling on the count of three.

As a reward for participating in a magazine fundraiser, a number of Jack Lund Schofield Middle School students got to attend an end-of-the-day assembly Thursday where the teachers did the entertaining and the students took some fun "revenge" on the school administration.

Many of the student attendees were dressed in their Halloween finest a day early as there was no school Friday in observance of Nevada Day.

The squirming target of the condiment flinging was school principal A.J. Adams.

Seventh grader Brandon Moss had a good time taking his aim at Adams.

"It was fun; it was payback for him giving me detention and suspension," he said with a laugh after helping to turn his principal into a giant hot dog.

Also targeted by students' aim were the school deans Debbie Berg and Bryan Hennagan.

Berg removed a couple pieces of her "Wizard of Oz" Dorothy costume and donned a large trash bag and goggles while Hennagan put on his own goggles and threw a large bag over his scarecrow costume.

With straw peeking out from under his plastic shield, Hennagan stood with Berg in front of a large piece of tarp and waited for the commencement of the throwing of enough paper plates full of shaving cream to fill a large table.

The 50 or so students who had sold 10 or more magazine subscriptions during the fundraiser were able to participate in both the condiment flinging and the throwing of the Barbasol cream pies.

Adams said despite the current economic troubles, the magazine fundraiser raised $15,000 more than last year for a total of $34,000.

In the current climate of budget chopping, Adams said the money will come in handy and that it will be used for important extras like rewarding students for good grades and citizenship and funding clubs and activities.

Aside from seeing their administration covered in various things, all of the students who helped raise the money got to watch their teachers do karaoke to "YMCA" and "I Will Survive," conduct a "mad" science experiment in which they made snow and made soda explode out of a bottle and participate in a wacky relay race.

While their teammates spun around over a bat, costume-clad teachers rode tiny bikes made for small children to one end of the race area where they tagged their dizzy teammate who stumbled and tripped back to the other side where they tagged the last team member who had to Hula-Hoop across the finish line.

Adams said that while studying and academics are of course important, it's also important that the students find their environment to be fun and welcoming.

"Provide a good mix of this type of thing and academics and they'll want to come to school," he said.

Ashley Livingston can be reached at 990-8925 or ashley.livingston@hbcpub.com.