Teacher Fired For Stuffing Eleven Kids in Car On Search for Snacks
An Oklahoma middle school teacher was fired last week for doing something you might do with your punkass cousins but probably shouldn't do if you're certified to teach minors: she put eleven kids in her Honda Accord and locked two of them in the trunk on a mission to find snacks. Snacks are important but they aren't that important, man.
Heather Cagle had been teaching at a middle school in Catoosa, Oklahoma for ten years when she decided to take her yearbook group to Walmart a quarter of a mile away. Not only was she not allowed to take students off campus without permission from their parents, but it was additionally ill-advised to stuff several twelve-year-olds into a car, trunk included. Even if it's just for some Goldfish crackers.
Cagle was let go after surveillance cameras caught the whole thing on video. Via New York Daily News:
"This was a terrible mistake," Cagle cried as she spoke to the school board, KJRH reported. "I didn't want to hurt anyone. I just wanted to do something nice."
It took five minutes for the students, members of the school's yearbook, to cram into the teacher's Honda Accord, a road trip fail caught on school surveillance video. Two 12-year-old girls made the journey locked in the car's trunk while seven more created a human pyramid in the back seat, the school said.
Kids need snacks but kids don't need to build a human pyramid in order to acquire those snacks.