When students decide to pull a prank--a letter to Miss Laugherty

Dear Miss Laugherty,

Today something happened that you should be aware of (for next year of course). We will simply call it the sushi in the shoe incident of 2011. Today, our Korean student brought sushi to school for snack. Since trading food seems to be the thing to do, our PK ended up with a whole roll of sushi that she decided to save for lunch. The sushi wasn't wrapped well and some ended up on the floor. This event in and of itself is not a big deal but is crucial to false accusations that will come later...

Moving on, when going down to lunch (it was my day for duty naturally) our British American came up to me and said, "Miss Townley I think someone put sushi in my shoe!" I promptly went inside the classroom and found the recently squished piece of sushi on our favorite Serbians desk. I kinda laughed (wouldn't you?) and told him it was okay and pushed him out the door because we were late to lunch. Problem solved....I thought.

During lunch I was doing what I always did--serving drinks--when I came across a group of girls consoling a sobbing PK. Through her tears she told her story of our British American declaring that they would no longer be friends if he found out she was the one who put the sushi in his shoe. By her reaction (tears, really?) I thought it was safe to assume she was not in fact the sushi offender.

From our trustworthy student from India I quickly found out that it was not our PK who put the sushi in the shoe. It was in fact, our Korean and Czech American student who did it as a joke. Trying to suppress a laugh (because, does this really happen?) I told them that it was not nice, they must apologize, and they would lose recess. They did apologize, and will lose recess-if I can remember-but did not seem very remorseful. But, if you put sushi in a shoe would you be remorseful? I didn't think so...

All this to say, Miss Laugherty watch out next year when you see a roll of sushi come into the classroom. It could mean there is another sushi in the shoe incident coming your way.

With Love,

Miss Townley