It amazes me that principals make these strange deals with students to get them to read, study for tests, etc. As my grandson said the other day, "Principals do some crazy things."
Kissing a Burmese python has to be one of the craziest. When I saw this picture, my first thought was germs. I don't know much about snakes, but I would be afraid I would get some exotic disease that would mystify even the best doctors. My next thought was bad dreams. My five year old grandson showed me a lizard he caught, and that night I dreamed that there were lizards the size of dogs running around my house. In the dream, my husband refused to do anything about them. I was mad at him the next morning.
The students might be impressed, but for me, not so much.
In past years, Spickler said she has been on the roof of the school in her pajamas in cold weather and been decorated by students to look like "a cross between a turkey and a clown" - all in the name of encouraging the students to accomplish goals.