Delighted students at Sparks Elementary School in La Puente prepare for Principal Gregory O’Brien to have his head shaved. O’Brien was making good on his promise to sport a bald pate if the school attained a score of 855 on the state Academic Performance Index. The campus went one better and scored 856. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
With students taking photos of the hairy-to-hairless transformation, teacher Claudia Perez starts clipping away O’Brien’s dark locks. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
O’Brien receives the professional touch as barber Juan Monterroso gets close to the skull with an electric razor. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
Monterroso employs a straight-edge razor on O’Brien’s newly shorn pate. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
Student Karla Rios, 13, feels O’Brien’s smooth noggin. A hairy experience, indeed. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
