Maryville Principal Eats Worms
(AP) - A northwest Missouri school principal with a knack for getting children to read has done it again, this time with a stunt involving an earthworm. Susan Martin promised her kindergarten through fourth-grade students at St. Gregory's School a reward for each 10,000 minutes they spent reading on their own time this year. The children ran up 168,000 minutes, and on Friday Martin rinsed an earthworm in a glass of water, then held the creepy crawler in her mouth for 17 seconds - one for each 10,000 minutes the children had spent reading.
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