School circus performers abandon the big tent
Ft. Worth TX (TWP)
The Greater Ft Worth Public School Circus was temporarily shut-down when a renegade elephant refused to prance at the ringmaster’s whip-call. The elephant, otherwise known as Mrs. Sharpe, the middle school math teacher, trumpeted and trotted out of the ring and crashed through the pavilion doors.
A few students hitched a ride on her back, and no one was injured in the incident, though the Board of Education building had to go to lockdown when piles of elephant poo threatened to destroy the pristine tile hallways.
“I just couldn’t take the commands anymore, the continual barking and whistling, the demands made upon me to perform in asinine and non-productive ways,” said Mrs. Sharpe, as she ate a restorative bowl of peanuts beside the TWP news van.
Biology teacher clown Jethro Higgins, in white-face with a polka-dot purple bow tie and a Charlie Chaplin outfit,