Truant skates when principal’s
interrogation ends with a preposition
Normally, hearing your principal’s voice as you cut across the schoolyard to go to McDonald’s wouldn’t be a good thing, but to Washington High School junior Matt MacIlvane, it was like hearing The Fratellis coming out of his iPod.
In a risque search for a bite to eat Friday morning, MacIlvane traversed the closed campus in search of a Sausage McMuffin with Egg on the other side of Main Street. But he didn’t get that far, as longtime schoolmaster Tim Johnson busted him walking across the main lawn.
“Mr. MacIlvane, where are you heading off to!?” Johnson bellowed.
When MacIlvane mentioned that the principal should have said “to where are you heading,” Johnson made the student a deal: No in-school suspension, but no McDonald’s, either.
“Clearly, I got away with one,” MacIlvane said. “Now I need to apply my quick-thinking skills to finding another route to nearby restaurants that doesn’t attract as many eyeballs.”
Said Johnson: “He got off fair and square. What can I say? He’s absolutely right and, may I add, a real student of grammar. It’s the beginning of the school year and I’m not in spring-semester form yet. I blew it.”