A glob of oozing green goop slid off Stacy Cook’s forehead, traveled down her nose and clung to her upper lip.

As fistfuls of confetti flew her way and stuck to the glop, the crowd of students at West Limestone High School gymnasium cheered. Cook smiled — or grimaced — revealing a single dot of confetti that had stuck to her front tooth.

Eighth-grader Logan Laxon had just doused the seventh-grade language and literature teacher with a bucket of slime while standing on a ladder. He won the honor by having his name drawn.

The sliming was a reward to K-12 students and the Junior Beta Club for raising $1,500 and $300 in paper and cleaning supplies for Children’s Harbor, a Birmingham group that provides counseling, social work, education, and support services to children with long-term serious illnesses and their families.  

“It was awesome,” said fifth-grader Reagan Morris of the sliming of Cook and eighth-grade language teacher Andria Mucci.

The two teachers were among other teachers who had volunteered to be slimed if the students could raise money for Children’s Harbor, said Junior Beta Club sponsor and eighth-grade literature teacher Laine Morris.

“The students then voted on which of the teachers they wanted to slime, and they chose Stacy and Andria.”

Mucci, the first to be slimed, missed the brunt of it by donning a clear, hooded rain poncho. The students thought this was unfair. So, when Cook tried the same, a few students pulled off her hood so she could feel the slime full force.

The teachers weren’t being poor sports. Morris, who had already learned the hard way, had told the two teachers earlier that Clorox seemed to be the only way to remove the slime. Cook and Mucci were simply trying to avoid green skin or, worse, a loss of skin.