Schools
Splat! Johnston Principal Volunteers to Get Pies Smashed in His Face
Beaver Creek Elementary School Principal Eric Toot volunteered Friday to have kids throw pies at his face. And they did. Over, and over, and over again, to benefit juvenile diabetes research.
They screamed, they cheered, they laughed, they chanted: "Mis-Ter Toot. Mis-Ter Toot."
Students at Beaver Creek Elementary School in Johnston assembled in the gym Friday afternoon to watch Principal Eric Toot take more than a dozen cream pies smack in the face.
After a week of raising money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Beaver Creek students brought in more than $5,050 for the charity.
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As a reward for their hard work, Toot donned protective plastic sheeting, a swim cap and goggles as kids -- and Johnston Schools Superintendent Clay Guthmiller -- lined up to pelt him with pies.
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