So Cute... A Good Principal!

THIS IS MY AUNT AND A CLIPPING FROM THE LEXINGTON HERALD LEADER ABOUT HER REWARD FOR STUDENTS WHO DID WELL WITH THEIR ACCELERATED READING POINTS! THIS CRACKED ME UP! I LOVE HER. (SHE'S THE ONE IN THE CHICKEN SUIT... SANDRA ADAMS! click on her name to read about her and her school.)

For reading excellence

Julius Marks principal rewards students with 'Chicken Dance'

Charles Bertram | Staff

From left, staff assistant Regina Dawson, Principal Sandra Adams and school administrative manager Cheryl Young danced Monday for students during an assembly at Julius Marks Elementary School on Pepperhill Road. Photo by Charles Bertram | Staff

The chicken suit arrived just in the nick of time Monday, transforming Julius Marks Elementary School Principal Sandra Adams into peppy poultry.

During an afternoon assembly to celebrate reading success, Adams, wearing a costume the school bought for this occasion, jived to the Chicken Dance.

Julius Marks students surpassed a goal of 4,000 points during the Accelerated Reader program with a total of 5,632 points.

"That's unbelievable," Adams said.

The reading program requires students to independently read books and take computerized tests, which are monitored by a librarian, to accumulate points.

The school's 634 students collected about 1,400 points in the first quarter of the school year, quadrupling that number in the second quarter. The principal promised students the Chicken Dance this period as a reward for passing 4,000 points.

The suit arrived Monday about 20 minutes before the assembly, Adams said, and the students went wild.

"You could not hold them still," she said.