khaimera said:
I'm with you OP. The police and parents should have been called.
The girls have bigger issues than the aftermath of a bad reputation. I disagree with all of the sympathizers in this thead
This.
Anyway, this story reminds me a bit of my own small school's problems (400 or so students in an old windowless Macy's warehouse) that happened while I was there (at least that I remember):
When I was in tenth grade i think it was, one of the teachers who everyone loved and got along great with was fired because he was having sex with two or three different students and I think he was dealing pot to these kids. (that's the fat skinny of it anyway)
During my senior year, my old science teacher (very nice & religious guy) was fired under mysterious and largely unknown reasons. The principal refused to say anything and a few days afterwords made an announcement that if we were to talk about and/or ask about it, he would find out, the police would get involved and we would be suspended. The way he was going on, a lot of people thought that the teacher was fired because the principal had a vendetta against him due to the fact he made a fool out of him (but then again, everyone has made a fool out of this man, esp. the students). What caused the huge rift between the two was the teacher's forensics class when I was in 11th grade.
The principal didn't approve that the teacher was teaching about 9/11 in the class, believing that there was no forensics to be involved. The entire class then proved him wrong by saying something forensics was involved in for that. The principal got pissed that an entire class was able to prove him wrong and left. Maybe a month or so after that, the teacher finds out that the principal cut his class from the school's budget.
The other reason the teacher may have been removed was due to his ninth grade class. Shortly before the teacher was removed, the school had the guidance councilors go to every class and explain sexual harassment (or something along the lines of that, I wasn't paying a terrible amount of attention). After the teacher was gone, the ninth graders were seen celebrating, leading many seniors to believe that they got the idea to falsely accuse him of sexual harassment.
Many seniors after this wanted to cause a large amount of harm to both the principal and the ninth graders.
(sorry for the wall o' text for that one, it still pisses me off to this day)