Teachers terrified of freshman unruliness and werewolf-ism

With Halloween around the corner three teachers found themselves with an issue. Mrs. Julie Chappetto, Mr. Jamel Williams, and Mr. Jack Mulay faced the disorganization of both the art room and the drum line's cage room and the mess of foodstuffs in the back most part of the science classroom respectively. All these problems had a common culprit: the current freshman class. 

“I thought I was the only one going through the freshman class’ extreme unruliness,” said Mrs. Chappetto, “but today when I stopped by the teacher’s lounge I saw Mr. Mulay with frizzled hair, chocolate stains on his pants, and a candy wrapper stuck to his shoe sitting with a bewildered looking Mr. Williams. Mr. Williams was shaken because he swore the lights in his room flickered and the freshman in his class began to growl very maniacally. He says that one even chewed a hole in his desk.” 

The three teachers agreed to convene after school to come forward with their horrors to the school administration and share with the Mount Carmel community. 

The teachers each faced the increasingly rabid freshman in quick succession. First was Mrs. Chappetto, who on Monday October 16th was expecting to walk into a well-organized art room that very morning but instead to her horror found every drawer and box emptied out, all the art supplies in disarray, and, worst of all, her stash of Lay’s chips and Dove chocolates meant for headaches completely pilfered. 

“I had just organized all my art things from the mess the summer camp had made!” she lamented. “And they took all my headache snacks! When I find out which freshmen did this they are in so much trouble. Especially after what they did to Mr. Mulay and Mr. Williams, too.” 

After Ms. Chappetto’s testimony, Mr. Mulay  described what happened in his classroom.

“I turned away to wipe the whiteboard down,” he said between shaking sobs, “and then I heard the sound of a cabinet knocking over. Then I felt my heart in my throat. My  biology class had gotten into my definitely tournament-legal chocolate flavored wrestling supplements and were hunched over the open supplements and beginning to shake with tremendous energy. Then they all eerily turned towards me noses up and smelled the candy in my backpack and pockets, and then charged at me. I barely made it out of that room.” 

During this meeting with the community several items were brought forth for all to see: the chewed desk, seven pairs of broken drumsticks, four art canvases torn in the center, ruined artwork, and pictures of the damage done to all of Mr. Mulay’s cabinets. From the descriptions of the freshmen and the marks left on the items, the MC administration announced to the horror of freshmen parents that there seemed to be a heavy case of lycanthropy, also known as werewolf-ism, going through the school, likely due to the Hunter’s Moon, which was nearly upon them. That day was October 28, so on that day no freshmen were to be allowed onto the school premises, and in order to keep MC families safe the school handed to each parent a silver brooch and wolfsbane sapling. 

“We can’t keep them in our houses. They’ll level them to the ground and then they will be loose among our neighbor’s houses," said Mrs. Mcquillan. 

“Yeah. I just finished paying my mortgage. I don’t want my house getting ravaged by my own son," said Ms. Irma Bautista, mother of Brandon Bautista.

However, their complaints seemingly fell on hard ears as Mount Carmel stayed with its decision to at least have freshmen in class up until October 27.

In light of this many teachers and faculty were asking to have days off for the safety of their own homes, but some students like Jack Breakey had other thoughts.

“We should put all the freshmen in the Alumni Gym and have them fight in a free-for-all to see who is the toughest of them all,” said the MC senior, a U.S military/war enthusiast. “This could be a huge fundraiser for the school. Like, Fight Night’s cool and all, but  a hundred something werewolf freshmen all wolfing out at the same time, we would sell more than the Bears do in a whole year and this would be more exciting than all of Chicago’s other sports. With this the city could actually be good at some kind of sport.”

With the Hunter’s Moon rapidly approaching and many likely soon to be homeless parents and teachers trembling, and the threat of an illegal werewolf underground fight ring arising, MC administration decided to send all freshmen on a retreat on October 28 to spend a day at St. Ignatius High School, since they are the Wolfpack.

“It's a really big problem,” said Mr. Tabernacki, school principal, “but we won’t let it be our big problem."