Most of us probably have at least one horror story from high school.

But in this story, a teacher, not a student, deals with a dumb reprimand.

The teacher enlisted students to help solve a big problem, but a maintenance guy stopped them.

It really backfired.

Let’s gush about it.

Water main burst, maintenance guy told me to stop dumping water out the window

I’m a high school science teacher and a few years back a water main burst in my classroom.

I saw the drain was clogged so I sent the majority of the class to the library and grabbed some students I knew could handle themselves from coaching wrestling and football.

Will the wrestling team be able to wrestle this water into submission?

I had them help carry water to the window in trash cans while I called Building and Grounds.

A few minutes later a maintenance guy came in and yelled at me, told everyone to leave and that we should let the water fill the class until the pressure cleared the blockage in the drain.

Sounds like no one can. Will OP go down with this ship?

The water pressure did not clear the blockage in the drain.

The whole hallway on both sides flooded, as did the hallway beneath it, mold grew and we had to shut down over 40 classrooms for over a year.

Yikes! This is a titanic disaster. But where’s the MC?

There wasn’t enough classroom space and we had to split the student body in half and have one group come in from 5 am to 11 and the other come in from 11-5 pm.

The repair cost the district over $15 million.

I guess that’s a kind of revenge.

All spring sports were cancelled for the year, the next year’s fall sports were cancelled too and in a lot of ways the district never recovered.

I got a load of crap from my supervisor, a VP and the school principal in the immediate aftermath and wasn’t brought back the next year.

I got offered my old job back when they realized how much damage I was trying to prevent but I had already moved on to greener pastures.

But I guess he gets the last laugh.

What do the comments on Reddit say?

Lotta logistical questions on this one. Like this…

And this…

And this question about the color of the mold…

Someone else says this was a uh, bad break.

And this person is like, never trust a maintenance guy who doesn’t maintain.

When it rains, it pours… in science class.

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