Students at Pearl Buck Elementary School in Middletown put a few school staff members in a sticky situation Friday with the school’s first “Duct Tape Challenge.”
The school-wide challenge worked to reward students who read a certain amount over a six week period. For every reading log sheet a student filled out, they received one piece of tape to stick Brian Kern, the principal of the school, and first-grade teacher Randy Nesbitt to the wall of a hallway.
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“It was a fun challenge for the kids,” Nesbitt said.
The promise of getting to tape teachers to the wall was a big motivational factor, Nesbitt added.
The challenge also acted as a way to show students that reading can be fun.
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“It is one thing to encourage them right now, but the memory will stick with them,” said Kern.
The memory of taping their teachers to the wall will hopefully leave the students with a warm feeling with reading in the kids’ hearts.
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Leading up to the date of the challenge, students at the school were excited, Kern said.
