'Pie in the Face' for Glover Park Teacher (Video)

Steve Dingledine, a fifth-grade teacher at Stoddert Elementary, got creamed — chocolate cream to be precise — Thursday afternoon on the school playground. It was the fourth annual Pie in the Face day event. 

Two sisters baked their own pies — one chocolate and one cherry pie — and promptly shoved them in Dingledine's face to the delight of their schoolmates.

Dingledine participates in this sweet and sticky tradition each year as part of a "thank you" to students who have just finished days of standardized testing under the District of Columbia Comprehensive assessment System. The honor of throwing a pie in his face is a prize auctioned each year at the PTA's annual Big Chili fundraiser. 

Fellow fifth-grade teacher Craig Duff led students in a round of chants of "Pie in the Face!"

Check out the video to the right to see the event in action.

Once Dingledine was properly covered in pie, his students and Duff got their just desserts too—pie in the hair, pie on the shirt, pie in the face.

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