High school teacher refuses to clean up after students' senior prank, then learns the principal encouraged their behavior: 'The only acceptable scenario here is him resigning immediately'

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• "Seniors ransacked my wife’s school as part of a prank that the principal encouraged.

  My wife and I are both teachers at different schools, hers private and mine public. When she and her coworkers came into work yesterday morning, multiple classrooms, including hers, were completely torn apart with items missing or broken, foodstuffs like peanut butter and vinegar spread all over the place, desks thrown across the room, and trash and toilet paper piled up everywhere. 

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• Hallways were cluttered with garbage and chairs that were stolen from classrooms, but the part that has me seeing RED is that the school’s social media person was there at the entrance with her phone to film the reactions of the distraught teachers coming in. Like it was literally “tee hee, your room is destroyed. Let’s get your candid reaction on film so we can have a laugh!” So based on that, it’s 100% unquestionable that admin allowed or even egged this on.

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• But if that wasn’t all, the principal of the school sent out a school-wide message telling all staff how funny of a prank it was that at least the seniors aren’t like kids “at other schools” who would egg his house and that staff needs to appreciate the seniors while they’re still here. He then gave no further guidance or instructions and left the individual victims of the pranks to clean up their ransacked workspaces on top of their Monday morning responsibilities.

  
   

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• My wife is clearly applying for other jobs, and two of her coworkers walked out on the spot. There were no broken windows or signs of forced entry, so that, combined with the social media director being there with her camera out, it’s clear that these students were given a keycard over the weekend by the principal himself, or at least with his blessing. Am I overreacting for thinking that this is an act of criminal-level negligence and that the only acceptable scenario here is him resigning immediately? I’m just absolutely dumbfounded that this man not only allowed something so outrageously unsafe and disrespectful to his staff, but to then have the utter temerity to send them a message taunting them about it and forcing them to clean it up themselves?? Yeah….I think his immediate resignation is the only acceptable response here."

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• It makes 100% sense to us why two of the wife's coworkers already quit on the spot. This isn't a teacher's job! It shouldn't be the janitor's job either. If you damage property as part of a prank, you'd better be prepared to pay the price. That's a real lesson these students could have learned here. Instead, their own principal knew of their plans and allowed them to happen without giving his own faculty and staff a fair warning of what would transpire. I smell a letter of resignation in the near future!

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