Teacher promises students he'll shake off final exam if Taylor Swift calls 
 
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 Students at one Billings, Montana school are hoping a teacher's promise to them isn't something Taylor Swift will just shake off. 
 
 World history teacher Colter Pierce, who teaches at Skyview High School, promised student Ike Stoner that he wouldn't administer finals if Stoner got Taylor Swift to give Pierce a call. Colter signed the agreement on a whiteboard and shook hands with Stoner on it, and the photo went up on Twitter May 20. 
 
 From there it just took off. "It got out of hand fast," Pierce told KTVQ. "It escalated quickly ... at last check, 107,000 [Facebook shares]." (It's now over 267,000.) 
 
 "It was kind of a joke, really. I just wanted to see if I could get more followers on Twitter," said Stoner. 
 
 So far, no call from Swift and no acknowledgement of the "joke" on her Twitter feed has emerged (and since she is on tour, she may have other things keeping her busy). 
 
 This isn't the first Swift connection to final exams; back in 2012 the Lins brothers made a funny video about how they incorporated the pop princess' music into their studying routine. 
 
 Meanwhile, Stoner lives in hope: "Come on, Taylor," he said. "Please call for us." 
 
 She has just under two weeks to make good; either way there'll hopefully be no bad blood between her and the students. 
 
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 All you had to do was stay call! 
 
 Students at Skyview High School in Billings, Mont., are crossing their fingers this week that one famous celebrity will be calling their teacher sooner rather than later. 
 
 To get you caught up, world history professor Colter Pierce promised his class that he wouldn't administer finals if student Ike Stoner could get Taylor Swift to call him. The bet turned into an agreement displayed crystal clear on the classroom's whiteboard. 
 
 "If Taylor Swift calls me, my students don't have to take their finals," the note read. 

 The shares have greatly increased since this photo was taken on Friday afternoon. 
 
 A call from pop star Taylor Swift would nix a formal final in the history class. 
 
 Since posted on Wednesday, these photos have gone viral, being shared more than 100 times a minute. 
 
 With school finals just around the corner, students might think of any way to get out of a test. 
 
 A Skyview High School history teacher and his students are gaining national attention for a simple request to a pop culture icon to help "Shake It Off." 
 
 Step into Colter Pierce's classroom and you'll learn world history. 
 
 Take a look online and you'll find Pierce shaking the hand of student Ike Stoner, who came up with a simple pact that asks one woman to make what students in the class feel is a very important call. 
 
 "Pretty much all semester, I've been talking about Taylor Swift," Pierce conceded when asked why she was picked as the celebrity. He admitted to having a celebrity crush on the singer. 
 
 When it was posted on social media on Wednesday following Stoner's idea, it wasn't met with high expectations. 
 
 "It was kind of a joke really," Stoner said. "I just wanted to see if I could get more followers on Twitter." 
 
 Stoner posted the 13 word message on Twitter. Fellow student Ashton Goodell helped the cause by sharing the photo of the agreement on Facebook. 
 
 "It got out of hand fast. It escalated quickly," Pierce said. 
 
 And maybe the punchline of what started out as a joke is people aren't kidding about their support. 
 
 Shares on the Facebook post climbed rapidly. 
 
 "Twenty-two thousand. 40,000. 45,000, 49. Then when I went to bed last night 55,000. When I got here this morning 83,000. And last check was 107,000," Pierce laughed. "According to our math, it's about 100 a minute." 
 
 Even if the call from Swift does happen, Pierce will administer some sort of exam to test the knowledge of students, but it will be much easier so he can honor the contract which school officials agreed to. 
 
 It shows history is happening in this history class with students experiencing the age of social media. 
 
 "I think if Taylor Swift called, everyone's going to go and try to get a celebrity's attention," Goodell said. "Everybody wants to meet a celebrity. Taylor Swift? That'd be pretty crazy." 
 
 Pierce said he's been impressed with his student's excitement on it, but also said it's not a distraction from learning in the classroom. 
 
 "It's not so much trying to get these kids out of their final as it is seeing that celebrities are still normal, down to earth people," he said. "And I think that's the biggest driving force behind it." 
 
 So, Taylor Swift, are you listening? 
 
 "Come on Taylor," Stoner said. "Please call for us." 
 
 As of Friday, Swift has not called but finals does not start for another two weeks giving her more time. 
 
 The post had been shared more than 134,000 times as of Friday afternoon.
– Does world history teacher Colter Pierce at Skyview High School set a tough final exam? This year's students will never have to find out if Taylor Swift gives the Billings, Mont., teacher a call. He has promised the exam will be canceled if the star calls him, and a Facebook post with a copy of the promise has now been shared more than 276,000 times and even mentioned on Today, E! Online reports. School officials somehow agreed to the deal thought up last week by student Ike Stoner, though some kind of test, presumably an easier one, will still have to be given if the singer grants Pierce's wish, reports KTVQ. Why Taylor Swift? Pierce tells KTVQ that he has a "celebrity crush" on her and admits he has been talking about her "pretty much all semester." Despite her record-breaking 20 Billboard Music Award wins, Swift's place in world history will have to be determined by future historians, but Pierce says students are still learning from the experience—perhaps about social media's place in history. But "it's not so much trying to get these kids out of their final as it is seeing that celebrities are still normal, down-to-earth people," he adds. "And I think that's the biggest driving force behind it." (Earlier this year, Swift tangled with the Princeton Review over grammar.)