On a Tuesday morning following the three-day weekend, Career Education teacher, Kevin Grayson walks to his classroom, TB04, a temporary bungalow. He approaches his room and discovers its damaged lock, but the surprise is only just beginning for Grayson as he walks into the room. A wide gaping hole was made in his classroom wall, his desk was smashed, and so was his podium.

Administrators believe the damage was made by a sledgehammer.

“They had to have something pretty strong to tear down a wall,” said Grayson. “I’m very disappointed and hurt. I would think it would be a student of mine, somebody who I know.”

“Grayson’s bungalow has been targeted- there’s no question about it, his bungalow has sustained the most serious damage. Clearly, somebody had it in for him,” said Dean, Joel Balzer. “This is weird because he’s popular with kids, he’s not the kind of teacher who you can imagine being the target of a vendetta. You would think we would be able to identify an incident where he offended somebody, but we can’t.”

This type of vandalism and break-in has been one many incidents on the Lincoln campus in the past three consecutive weekends. Property has been damaged, abused, and even stolen. Over 5000 dollars has been spent on damages to the bungalows so far, not including the money teachers spent buying back their own personal property. Recently, Paul Cameli’s guitar has been stolen from his own classroom.

“I was very depressed to discover these things because there was an incredible amount of damage done. These sorts of incidents have a psychological impact on teachers,” said Balzer. “They are working at 100 percent capacity- especially at grading time. A lot of teachers spend their entire weekends to get grades done, and give out fair and conscientious grades. To come in and have the entire class destroyed so that they can’t even hold class in their room- that’s just incredibly demoralizing, and it accomplishes nothing.”

Some believe the vandalized property to be taken on a more personal level against the teacher.

“If my bungalow was broken into, I would feel like it was a personal attack,” said Andre Jordan, whose classroom is also a temporary bungalow.

Along with the serious damage, messages were left on other bungalows, such as “F*** CT,” which is presumed to mean Chinatown, and tags were also a common sight. “By any means necessary,” a famous Malcolm X quote was written on the white board in a vandalized bungalow.

“I think they’re saying that they will get into the room no matter what- in their minds, it was appropriate to quote Malcolm X,” said Grayson. “They’re saying ‘you can’t stop us’”

However, the Malcolm X quote appears to be very ironic.

“Why you would want to damage an African American teacher’s bungalow and use that quote doesn’t make a lot of sense to me,” said Balzer.

There have been attempts made by the police to collect fingerprints from the vandalized sites hoping it would be a step closer to finding the suspects.

“There is an ongoing police investigation. Inspectors have come several different times and there have been three separate incidents in the last month (Jan/Feb). There was also another similar incident last year committed by what we believe, are the same people,” said Balzer. “In one weekend, ten different rooms were broken into, with damage to the locks, eight of them were bungalows and two of them were offices.”

These incidents also create a financial dent in the school’s budget.

“The money that’s going to be spent fixing up these bungalows is the money that would otherwise pay for graduation, which we would have to find another 5000 dollars to pay for,” said Balzer.

Though no vandals have been caught, investigation is still underway and administrators are determined to find the perpetrator.

“We are going to use all the resources we have to discover who is doing this heinous crime against our whole community,” said Barnaby Payne.