STUDENTS SURPRISE TEACHER WITH A NEW PUPPY

Troy Rogers, a history teacher at Clements High School in Athens, Georgia, had mentioned to his students that his beloved golden retriever, Chip, had disappeared from his family’s home. As a surprise, the school’s senior class, around 90 students, raised nearly $700 through donations from themselves and Rogers’ fellow teachers to buy him a new puppy. Said Haleigh Moss, one of the students who organized the donations: “He treats us like we’re his own children and he does so much for us. We just wanted to do something great for him in return.” Rogers said he and his wife had made plans to adopt a new dog next summer when it became clear Chip, who had recently gone blind, was not likely to return. Those plans changed when a fellow teacher asked Rogers to come to her classroom. When he walked into the room, his wife was there crying and the classroom was full of students, who presented him with the new puppy. Rogers and his wife told the students they should be the ones to name the puppy. They decided to name her Clementine, after the school mascot. Rogers, a 20-year teaching veteran, said he plans to make a donation to the senior class fund equal to what they spent on Clementine to repay the students for their generosity.
* Everybody gets an A!
* That’s one way to have no homework assignments for a month.
* Actually, The Hallmark Channel was offered a script like this, but they turned it down ’cause it was too sappy.
* Later, the students discovered that Clementine had left a gift for them, too.
* How’d this story get into the news? Where’s the sex assault angle?