Several teachers at Seton Catholic College Prep were locked up Friday by uniformed sheriff’s command staff. But, despite an alarmed call to The Columbian, parents shouldn’t worry: it was all in good fun and for a good cause.
For the past week, students have been raising money for Doernbecher Children’s Hospital, as part of an annual fundraiser, by paying for their teachers to go to “jail,” Principal Ed Little said in a phone interview.
The fundraiser, similar to a jail-and-bail event involving a mock jail set up, apparently caused some alarm, however.
The Columbian received a phone call Friday afternoon from a concerned parent who had heard rumors that a Seton teacher had been arrested.
When contacted by the paper, Little began to chuckle and explained the “arrest.”
During Doernbecher Week, whole classrooms pulled together $75 to pay to have their teachers thrown into “jail” for a period, which in turn gave them a free pass.
Little said many students elected to have their teachers locked up to avoid taking scheduled quizzes. There’s no Get Out of Jail Free card, though: The quizzes will happen next week, Little said.
Some Seton students even raised enough money to hang out in Little’s office, he said, where they watched TV and ate snacks.
Clark County Undersheriff Mike Cooke and Chief Criminal Deputy John Chapman made the arrests, photos of which are posted on the school’s Facebook page.
So far, the school has raised a little more than $2,000 for Doernbecher Children’s Hospital.
“We have awesome kids, and they really believe in Doernbecher,” he said.
