Mr. Adams

Have you ever had a Vice Principal that let you pull pranks on your teachers?  Well, I have and his name is Mr. Adams.  He was the coolest and most caring VP that I have ever had.  He worked at All Saints Catholic School as the Vice Principal during my seventh and eighth grade years.
Mr. Adams was the coolest Vice Principal someone could ever have.  For example, the eighth grade had a fundraiser, and one of my friends raised the most money. Therefore, my friend was able to pick a group of people to go to Seasons pizza with Mr. Adams during lunch time.  It was really fun to hang out with my friends and our VP at a restaurant while the rest of our classmates were stuck in their boring classes.  One other really fun thing that a couple of friends and I were able to do was prank a few of our teachers at the end of the year.  The only way we were able to pull these pranks off, and not get into trouble, was because Mr. Adams helped us coordinate them.  We ended up doing three pranks, first, my friend and I arrived at school really early to meet Mr. Adams so he could open the school’s doors, and we wrapped everything that we could in one of our teacher’s classrooms in tinfoil.  Then, the second prank we pulled was bringing in bluetooth speakers and hiding them in our classroom.  During class we played cricket and crying baby noises.  The third prank was completely covering, two of our teacher’s cars, in sticky notes.  Even though we could always have fun with him, Mr. Adams was the kind of person that could get down to business and be serious when he needed to.
Mr. Adams was like a counselor in some ways.  He would talk to students if they were upset, and he always did what he could to help us out.  He always gave good advice and knew how to encourage us to do the right thing.  For example, some teachers in school could be quite mean and unfair.  A lot of times they would call students out and really embarrass them for no reason.  This was something that other students and I felt comfortable talking to Mr. Adams about.  And what made him different from other teachers was that he would actually do something to help out the students.
Mr. Adams was like a friend to me and all of the other students.  He would always listen if we had something to say, and he always took our advice.  He was the kind of person that would always hear the students out if we had ideas about activities in school, or just about school in general.  Mr. Adams also had a great sense of humor; he would allow us to joke with him, and he’d mess around with us too.  This made him a really easy person to talk to, and it allowed the students to get to know him as a person.
Mr. Adams helped make my last couple of years in middle school way more fun and meaningful than I ever thought they would be.  He is one of those teachers/Vice Principals that I will never forget, and that I will look up to for the rest of my life.  This is why he is my nomination for Teen Ink’s Educator of the Year.