I taught the book Stone Fox to my class. We decided to grow potatoes to understand the story. We finished before Pesach and in all of the prePesach school assemblies, cleaning and preparation I forgot all about the potatoes. When we returned to school the entire building smelled like rotten potatoes. The teachers were called in for a meeting to help discover the culprit of this alleged prank. I realized immediately that this was our class project gone sour and in front of the staff had to admit what happened. Mortified does not quite define the emotion I felt. When the staff realized the hilarious irony of this being caused by a fellow staff member they couldn’t stop laughing. Even the principal was cracking up. It took the janitor several weeks before he would forgive me-he had discovered and removed the bulk of the project…….
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