Georgia high school students prank principal with fake fight

Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 11 Oct, 18:13 · Archive

Georgia high school students staged a fake fight to trick their principal into breaking it up, then surprised him with a birthday song.

Students at Lakeview Fort Oglethorpe High School in Georgia staged a fake fight on their principal's birthday to trick him into breaking it up. When Principal Bobby Davis arrived and tried to separate the students, he realised it was a prank as he saw faculty and students gathered with cameras. The video shows Davis joyfully jumping into the students' arms as they sang him 'Happy Birthday', with the two students eventually hoisting him up during the song.

De'Zayviun Watkins, who devised the prank, wrote that Davis had 'single handedly changed me for the better'. The idea sparked widespread affection online, with the video accumulating 5.7 million views on Facebook. It is Davis' first year as principal at the school, though he has prior connections to it: he graduated in 1994, taught English there in 1999, coached until 2005, and returned in 2023 as assistant principal. Davis has three children.

How it is being reported

• Hilarious moment schoolkids stage a fight to bait their principal into breaking it up... before singing happy birthday to himGeorgia high school students staged a fight to trick their principal into rushing down there, just to sing him happy birthday.Daily Mail · 11 Oct, 17:58
• Students prank principal by pretending to have a fight on his birthday in viral videoStudents at a Georgia high school pranked their principal on his birthday by pretending to have a fight, so he would come break it up and they could sing to him.New York Post · 10 Oct, 22:53

In this story: Bobby Davis · De'Zayviun Watkins · Lakeview Fort Oglethorpe High School · Georgia

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