by Hatt-Me Kim
Henry Adams once said, “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” Well, one uniquely dedicated San Francisco teacher is proving that he is at least aware of one of his influential pit-stops for his students, and it’s squared directly on his newly-inked left calf.
In order to motivate them to get higher standardized test scores, science teacher Stanley Richards promised the graduating class of City Arts and Technology High School that he would get a tattoo of vice principal Paul Koh if they succeeded in doing so, according to The Bay Citizen.
The radical idea was conceived during a 2008 brainstorming meeting to decide cost-effective but innovative incentives to help relive the pressure on teachers to raise students’ scores. Koh recalled one teacher’s idea to offer “dollar-off coupons at the corner store.”
Richards upped the ante by coming up with the interesting tattoo design of, “Koh as a sumo wrestler, holding a medallion of test numbers and slaying a dragon that represents the standardized test.” 
With students expected to increase their scores by a mere seven points on California’s Academic Performance Index, Richards laid down the gauntlet for them to try to boost it up to 50 points. However, he laughingly said, “[I was] 99 percent sure that it wouldn’t happen.”
The tattoo holds extra-special meaning for Richards as he is leaving the school this year, after having worked there as a “founding faculty member for the past seven years.” Koh recently ended his duties as well.
And the now memorialized tattoo continues to amusingly bewilder the person embodied in the impressive image.
“Stanley asked me – can you send me a picture of a really angry face – and I took it in the middle of the work day.” Koh said. “It’s weird that my angry face is now on his calf forever.”
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