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Teachers Gone Wild: Craig Faculty Music Video

The faculty and staff at the elementary school in Creve Coeur "got a feeling" it could inspire success in planned standardized tests.

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You know how kids love watching grown-ups trying to act hipper than they really are, and "down with pop culture"? Well, this is a great look at the faculty and staff at Craig Elementary in Creve Coeur, who put together an adorable music video to the tune of the Black Eyed Peas' "I Gotta Feeling."

The goal, according to an item in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch? Inspire the students to perform well on the standardized Missouri Assessment Program tests that began on Tuesday at Craig.

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"Parents were saying, 'You know my kids are really not looking forward to this test,'" Craig Principal Bill Senti told the newspaper. "We knew we had to do something different."

How do you like the video? Let us know in the comments. Do you wish your teachers were cool enough to try this?

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