It's definitely not news. It must be fark.

TFA: They had promised to send one teacher for every $600 earned

Tandem skydives normally cost $200+, so this would eat into the fundraising pretty quickly, unless the DZ donated the jumps.

"First time I had peace and quiet all day," he said.

This made me seriously LOL.

AntiNorm: TFA: They had promised to send one teacher for every $600 earned

Tandem skydives normally cost $200+, so this would eat into the fundraising pretty quickly, unless the DZ donated the jumps.

I assumed that the teachers paid for their jumps.

I would imagine the skydiving trip was donated, the massive positive publicity is pretty obvious.

On another note, I never had a principal that cool when I was in school.

The principal must've been in a fraternity.

I think this headline is missing a "moooooooo"

my principal, a late 60 year old skinny lady, in intermediate school did 'cool' stuff when we raised money. Like rolled forward around the school on mats, and sat in the basketball hoop and read stories to us. Back then that was pretty cool, but seeing what kids get these days, I am feeling quite ripped off.

But I guess kids have to put up with much stricter principals these days.

AntiNorm: Tandem skydives normally cost $200+, so this would eat into the fundraising pretty quickly, unless the DZ donated the jumps.


Not to mention video, which (if they get it) is $70-$80 more.

_{/video of a formation jump i was on last weekend: link, pops. i'm in the yellow helmet}

TTIWWP?

lordargent: I think this headline is missing a "moooooooo"

Or rather a MOOOOOOooooooooo...

Close call subby. I would have went with the cool tag. Never-the-less, always nice to see a 'feelgood' story on fark.

/wonders how fark can spin this into something negative.

AntiNorm

Ah, that's awesome. I'm jealous; that's something I've always wanted to do but will probably never get the chance.

How do you guys control you fall in the air to make the formations? And how do you know when you are far away enough from each other to release your parachutes?

That is the way a school should be run. I've worked at too many places where the teachers are more like bean counters and the principal is basically unknown to the students.

I've never been a school administrator, but from as far as I can tell, the principal's job is to raise funds and maintain the survival of the school while the vice-principal's job is to look after the student population. I've always thought that those two roles should be reversed, so that the inspiration (the REAL job of a teacher, especially for junior-high kids) came from the top.

Well done, sir.

/moo

zenarche: How do you guys control you fall in the air to make the formations?

It's part of the training you get as a student skydiver. It takes practice, sure, but it's not terribly difficult.

zenarche: And how do you know when you are far away enough from each other to release your parachutes?

The group decides on a "break-off" altitude before the jump (typically 4000 or so). When you hit that altitude, you turn 180 degrees away from the formation, "track" away for a few seconds, and then pull.

TFA mentions that one of the teachers works at the Sky Diving place, probably free or at a good discount.

Can be the best advertising ever but I am not jumping out of a perfectly good aircraft.

Subby here.
The "jumps" were donated, so all the money collected went to charity.

Hero tag playing hooky.

Wow. Just plain wow.

this story is way too late,, i did this back in 2001 when i was in Japan, and did it myself sure it cost me nothing but I did it in Townsville, AUS when we reach over one thousand request for breast cancer day,, it was fun,,, after way t many of my peeps ask me "why could i join?"

No cow outfit is complete unless it is a Cowthulhu costume.

Very, very cool

I'd be more impressed if the principal did it for meeting academic goals rather than fund raising goals.

Impressed enough to read the article.

There needs to be a lot more administrators like this man. Hell, screw that, IMHO this guy should be first in line for mass cloning!

Okay, *that's* seriously boss.

Ah, I love the headlines that give the whole story. It keeps me from having to move my mouse all the way over and clicking the link.

If they looked closely, the crowd could see the udders of Principal Brian Baddick's cow suit

No one's mentioned the name yet?

/and the "that wasn't an udder" joke practically tells itself

Article is useless without pics...

Article is useless without pictures.

And he's lucky the chute worked. Or else he'd be ground beef

Article is useless without photos.

Chock full of awesome! Can I go to skool there? Oh, wait, too old.

/real cool to do, go principal and teachers in on the stunt, you all rawk!

full of teh awesome this thread is. Dinjiin now I must wander off to yonder game store and pick up an expansion pack...

On the scene.

trfnumberone
nothing that you said made any sense at all

Epiphany He's trying to tell us he has "mad cow" disease.

Principals like this are pure gold. Our elementary principal told the kids if they read 100,000 minutes he would live on the school roof for 3 days. They did. He did. Bathroom breaks only. He was the best principal my kids ever had.

stupid teachers and principals wasting kids's hard earned money and setting a dangerous example. they should all be fired.

This story mooved me to new heights but I wwas left low.

My elementary school principle promised to dress up like superman and spend the whole day on the school roof. He did, too. It was springtime and he had a lawnchair and a stack of magazines, so it probably was a better day for him than for us, but we still got a kick out of it.