Tallinn - In an effort to test his staff's vigilance, a school principal in the Baltic country of Estonia demanded that teachers request three sheep for each child given a place in the first grade at his school, Estonian media reported. Toomas Takkis, a principal in the town of Kuressaare on the Baltic Sea island of Saaremaa issued a memo in which, as a joke, he instructed his staff to accept only those students whose parents donated three sheep to the school.
It was his way of trying to see whether his staff members really read his memos to the end.
At the same time, government officials on the Estonian island asked schools to submit creative ways on how to enroll new students to the first grade next school year.
"Overall, the Kuressaare's plan was convincing, if you don't count that sheep business," the government official Argo Kirs said.
