IT'S ALL GOOD

When schoolkids pull pranks, there’s usually hell to pay. But not so for the one students at Hingham Middle School in Massachusetts pulled last week on their retiring principal, Roger Boddie. The kids tricked Boddie into climbing to the school’s roof under the pretense of making a video about its new construction program. When he got there, he saw hundreds of students and teachers in the playground below, performing a “flash mob”–style dance and holding up signs saying, “Thank You for Believing in Us.” Boddie joked, “These kids will do anything to get out of class.”