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It’s graduation season, and teachers are trying to come up with ever more creative ways to send off their students. One science teacher at Tsoying Senior High School in Kaohsiung dressed up as a Taoist priest to stage a mock funeral, offering “brains” and test papers to bless the graduates with intelligence and perfect scores. The students were duly impressed, saying he should get the MVP award.

A Taoist priest stands front and center, his expression solemn as he begins leading a funeral.

- We are gathered here today to send our third-years at Tsoying High off to the West... to college in the West.

The priest remains perfectly stoic as his fellow teachers in lab coats crack up. What comes next was even more dramatic.

-We offer a brain, in the hopes that everyone will grow a large brain.
-We offer a Newton’s cradle, in the hopes that everyone will become the next Sir Issac Newton.
-We offer a test paper, in the hopes that everyone will get perfect scores.

This ceremony was actually a special graduation message for the seniors of Kaoshiung’s Tsoying Senior High from the natural sciences faculty.

Back at the school, the teachers said that everything they used was improvised. The priest robes were made from a cheap plastic raincoat, and the headwear was also homemade.

-How long did it take you to make?
-Five minutes.
-That fast?

Hsu Ching-sung
Science teacher
It can be rough being a teacher, so I’m studying a few other skillsets. My colleagues suggested dressing up like a Taoist priest.

Student
Finds it funny
It was ridiculous, but I guess people who study science tend to be young at heart.

For this year’s graduation ceremony, other teachers also unleashed their creativity to varying degrees of comedic effect. Even the principal acted like an online influencer, giving his “followers” a tour of the campus.

Lin Pai-hung
Principal
The teachers here are all very down-to-earth and more than willing to work with the students to make engaging and entertaining videos.

By breaking away from rigid tradition, the faculty at Tsoying Senior High is making sure that their seniors are heading off to college with some unforgettable memories.

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