“The athletics coordinator was fudging documents on kids’ addresses so they would be able to go to our school instead of others in the district. We won, like, five state championships that year.”

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"For the record, he got some consensual head in the auditorium dressing room. He got in trouble one time in his entire life, and the students at our high school still talk about it, year after year. When I told my brother my now-husband was 'that guy,' he said, 'Oh shit! That dude's a legend!!!' Not exactly the response I expected from my overprotective brother, but one that I will never forget."

"Turns out, when he was younger, he had run several flights of pot into the country and made a bunch of money, and then got out (so, that part was true) and became a teacher. Turns out he was involved in all kinds of mail and wire fraud to sustain his lifestyle. Last I heard, he had gotten out of prison after 15 or so years, and then, the rumor is he had murdered someone, and was back in prison for life."

"Turns out, it was true. My parents were teaching in the same district when it happened, and they said the school argued left and right that the teacher had died by suicide, despite all the signs pointing to the body being staged. Despite their official statement, they later made it a district policy for teachers not to stay on campus past 6 p.m., and that students couldn't be on campus unless for clubs or tutoring, which you had to have a pass for.

I remember my mom always hauling ass when she had to work late, telling me to book it when 5:50 p.m. rolled around. I always thought it was just because she was mean. I didn't find out about the story until I asked her about the rumor. Turns out, she'd learned about the story during her first few years of teaching, and it had scared the shit out of her, especially since she was a rough teacher herself."

"Their excuse was they were second cousins, not first."

"She pulled up a Facebook page, and there they were, with different names and a picture with their kid."

"She had access to the accounts that kids put money into; any frequent buyers would suddenly lose money, but because it was kids complaining, no one believed them."

"The door was similar to a rotating glass door, but made entirely of black plastic so it wouldn't bleed any light into the dark room and ruin any pictures. We basically inched it slowly around till we could see through a crack in it.

We told the faculty in the office, and they told us we must be mistaken. We told other teachers, and they brushed us off. Then, a year later, he was administering some kind of test, and while the students were sitting down, he fired up his computer to watch teen porn, completely forgetting his computer was still hooked up to the new digital projector in his class. I wasn't there, but from the stories, everyone froze in uncomfortable awkwardness till one kid whipped his phone out, took a picture, and absolutely sprinted to the office.

The teacher dipped and wasn't found, the police showed up, kids were interviewed, and I was given a hefty apology by the faculty that hadn't believed me."

"After I came back as a junior from summer break, the entire school found out that they'd gotten married and were expecting their first child together. He was married with children from a previous marriage (which ended after the girl graduated from high school).

They got married in '98. My youngest sister graduated there in 2016, and I remember seeing him as the principal, but I didn’t see her. I don’t know if they’re still together or not."

"She had one set of twins at the age of 13. Then, at 14, she was trying to be a mother of two and finish ninth grade, but she got pregnant again and dropped out. I realize now that the entire situation was very concerning. I hope she got some guidance."

"The janitor wanted to keep the baby and announced it to me and my younger sister, and it spread pretty quickly throughout the school."

"A couple of years after he was let go from the school, there was a huge story on the news about a group of police officers, I think three or four, who were arresting people who were unhoused, mostly of Native descent, and bringing them just outside of the city and beating the piss out of them, leaving them lying there, then driving away. Guess whose picture was first on the news article? Karma finally caught up with him, and he was obviously arrested.

Last I heard, he was going to be doing some time...I imagine and genuinely hope he is not enjoying his sentence."

"Here's a bit of a story about the background on the financing. I graduated in 1986, so I never saw any of the reforms. We did not have books for English class. English class. I had 48 absences in one year with no repercussions. The school in the wealthy neighborhood had an Olympic swimming pool AND a diving pool. We had temporary buildings and barbed wire.

I should note that at my old school *I think* it's a lot better now. They became a computer science magnet school, and the graduation numbers look a lot better. Heavy caveat that this school once faked numbers about dropouts to support the lie about the 'Texas miracle' that eventually became 'No Child Left Behind.'"

"He got caught because he robbed the same one back-to-back nights, and the next night, they were more prepared! The mugshot was the icing on the cake because the dude was clean cut and sharp every day at school… Not so much that night."

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