Once, in her freshman year, US Social Studies Department Chair & GSI Director Kayla Brazee wore shorts. While shorts were within her dress code, they couldn’t be excessively short. It’ll be fine, Brazee thought to herself. Spoiler alert: it wasn’t fine. One hour into the school day, she was dress-coded. The punishment was to wear a pair of large gray, baggy sweatpants. Back then, sweatpants and loungewear weren’t in style. According to Brazee, if you wore sweatpants, “people would be like, ‘Did they crawl out of a dumpster?’” Handling the situation with all the grace and class of a typical freshman, Brazee spent the whole day in the bathroom crying. “I was so embarrassed that I had to wear those,” she said. “I had a cute top, cute sandals, and then huge sweatpants.” It was her worst nightmare come true.

      Ladies and gentlemen, if one has a pigeon problem, take note of Hart’s high school history teacher’s solution. This teacher had an air conditioning unit right outside his room, on the other side of a window. Being a school where classes lead to the outdoors, this became slightly problematic. This teacher had the issue of pigeons. Harmless little birds, right? They just wanted to hang out by the air conditioning. Unfortunately, they often broke the unit. This teacher was equipped, however, with a rifle-style BB gun in his cabinet. During class, the teacher would spot the airborne nuisance, open a window, and then, boom—the pigeons were shot with a BB gun. “It wasn’t that it was allowed. It’s that it was not completely unusual behavior,” said Dr. Hart. 

     One day, after school had finished, US Spanish Teacher Pedro Legra Alonso and his girlfriend snuck onto the roof of their school. The janitor, doing his rounds after school, saw them, unbeknownst to Alonso and his girl. The janitor went to the administrators, who—confused about what he meant—assumed there were thieves on the roof. Panicked, they called security and rushed up to the roof, all to find Alonso and his girlfriend. Their parents were called, and he wasn’t allowed to hang out with her outside of school again. “It was very embarrassing, very embarrassing, very embarrassing.”

     An unfortunate incident happened in Battle’s freshman year. It started with Battle and his friend piling into a minivan, ready to go on a little trip. Spirits were high. To the entire car’s delight, a junior girl they all had a crush on came over to talk to them. Sitting in the front seat, Battle closed the door to the minivan. However, he didn’t realize that she’d been standing at the open door, hand on the door frame. “At first she was like, ‘You slammed my hand in the car door,’” said Battle. “She said it all calm. I thought she was kidding.” Then, all of a sudden, she started screaming. It was a mess—the car filled with panic. Eventually, they got her hand out, and, though bruised and battered, her hand was okay. “We were still friends [after], but nothing more,” said Battle, shaking his head.