Principal Kisses Pig to Promote Reading

Principal Kisses Pig to Promote Reading

source: Associated Press Strange News

Students at Tobin Elementary School in Cambridge got to see something that doesn’t happen every day – their principal kissing a pig.

Principal Donald Watson of Tobin Elementary School was honoring a bet that was won by the school’s 410 students after they read – or had read to them – more than 2,003 books in a year. The event Monday coincided with the National Education Association’s Read-Across-America Day.

Receiving the kiss was Daisy, an eight-year-old pot-bellied pig brought to the stage in the school auditorium in a modified baby carriage.

Daisy and owner, Paul Minor of Bristol, Conn., travel throughout the country to promote reading among school children. Their stops included Washington, D.C., and resulted in a thank-you letter from first lady Laura Bush, Minor said.

Tobin includes kindergarten through eighth grade.

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