Schoolhouse

This one-room schoolhouse provides education for 23 children, aged 7 to 16, and ruled over by the schoolmistress, Maud Saxe, who feels it is her duty to teach her students in the four Rs: reading, 'writing, 'rithmetic, and 'rath o' God. She mixes in strongly worded Christian sermons along with the more secular content, spoken with the smooth and calm conviction of a witness to the crucifixion and resurrection herself.
While humble in size, the school has received generous donations from some of the biggest businesses in town to ensure that the children of Munson get the highest quality education possible, with the most updated books and supplies available, including a new map of the United States every year, marking out the newest territories and updated with the latest geographic discoveries.
The students love Ms. Saxe, but there is at least one prankster among them who delights in rearranging the classroom and hiding things Ms. Saxe needs to run a smooth lesson. The scamp stacks chairs in impossible towers that defy gravity and come crashing down at the slightest touch, or replaces the chalk with nails, or removes all the screws in Ms. Saxe's seat so she goes crashing to the ground when she sits. The schoolhouse is locked up tight each night, so no one knows how the mischievous student gains access. One thing's for certain, and that's Maud Saxe is more than out of patience.

Uncanny Occurrence

During the course of a school day, there isn't even a hint of anything peculiar. In fact the children would be delighted to see their daily grind disrupted in some way, but each day passes much like the rest, except for one crucial detail: the weekly prank. Sometimes it's more than one prank a week, and other times it's one prank every other week, but it's what brings some of the children to school each day, hoping to see what new trick has been cooked up.
Sometimes the chairs are stacked into impossible pyramids, or all of the books stacked into a tower wedged against the ceiling so tightly they can hardly budge. Sometimes all the drawers in Ms. Saxe's desk are locked and the key is later found inside. Other times all the screws from her chair have been removed. Once, arcane and cryptic shapes had been immaculately chiseled into the window panes. All of this happens over night and greets Ms. Saxe and the children on a random weekday morning. Ms. Saxe has vowed revenge and has punished her most likely suspects with grueling chores, yet she still has no leads--and she senses that the pranks have been escalating and someone might soon get hurt. Quite possibly her.