(Video above: West Morgan High School’s teacher dance prank)
It’s almost the end of the school year, which typically means senior classes across the country are planning senior pranks. But teachers at one Alabama high school have turned the tables on their seniors and pulled of an epic prank themselves.
Seniors at West Morgan High School in Trinity, Alabama, were asked to share some of their favorite high school memories on camera. Little did they know that their teachers came into frame behind them to show off their best dance moves.
Most of the students in the video didn’t know their teachers were busting moves behind them until the video was shown during a school assembly.
The idea came from one of West Morgan’s counselors, who had seen a video from a school in Ohio pull off a similar prank. She brought the idea to Shanon Clinton, West Morgan’s media specialist.
“I knew our kids would participate and our teachers are good to say yes,” Clinton said. “The teachers love to watch the kids laugh… at them.”
Diona Fowler, another of the school’s media specialists, filmed the video. The hardest part for her was just trying to keep a straight face as she watched the teachers dance.
“I tried to stay focused on the students’ eyes and what they were saying,” she explained. “I wanted them not to think about what was going on behind them… I would nod and act like I was really listening. It was amazing to me that some of the kids absolutely had no clue.”
This isn’t the first viral video West Morgan has produced. In 2014, the school made a video set to Sister Sledge’s “We Are Family” that featured the entire student body in an impressive 3-minute long single take.
The prank video was originally posted on West Morgan’s Facebook page on Friday and has already accumulated over 70,000 views. The video has also been picked up by news sites as far away as WPXI in Pittsburgh and the Daily Mail in London.
(h/t whnt)
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