Principal's office

The Principal's office is one of the Schoolhouse and Super Schoolhouse's rooms. It is an office room owned by Principal of the Thing.
== Description ==
This room consists of blue carpet flooring and white brick walls with green molding. The office contains several posters on walls which showcase the characters in the Schoolhouse and Super Schoolhouse. They briefly describe each character's main abilities and functions. The room is also filled with an assortment of desks with yellowish globes resting on some of them. On one of the desks, there is a tape player that can be used to play the annoying noise from Baldi's Least Favorite Tape.
== Overview ==
=== Hide-and-Seek/Explorer Mode ===
Principal of the Thing will instantly teleport the player here if caught after being scolded by breaking one of the school rules: 
* "No running" - Running in any location except the playground and this room.
* "No entering faculty only rooms" - Entering, exiting, or being inside faculty rooms.
* "No drinking" - Using a BSODA.
* "No escaping detention" - Being outside his office before detention time is up.
The following are not listed as school rules, but Principal of the Thing will still scold the player regardless: 
* Opening, closing, entering or exiting lockers.
* Being in school after-hours. This only applies to Stealthy Challenge.
During detention, the text "" will appear on the screen and the player will be unable to open any door until a given amount of time has elapsed. However, there are a few ways to escape detention:
* Getting sucked up in a whirlpool in the office to teleport to a random location. However, the whirlpool may teleport the player to the same location.
* Using the Principal's Keys to unlock the door.
* Placing a Portal Poster on one of the office's walls.
* Teleporting by Arts and Crafters.
* Using a Dangerous Teleporter. However, there may be a chance that the player will teleport to the same location.
* Passing through a broken window.
* Exiting the office after Baldi or Mrs. Pomp opens the locked standard door.
When Principal of the Thing sends the player to this room, Baldi will hear the Principal's voice lines and he will be attracted to the center of this location, unless the tape player or pay phone is making noise.
Detention can last from 15 to 99 seconds. The timer increases by five seconds for each offense until the timer reaches 60 seconds, from which any further detentions will last for 99 seconds.
It's a Bully is also sent here for violating the "No bullying" rule (blocking the path unless the player gives them an item), though he will disappear from the office almost instantly.
This is also a place where the party event will be occasionally held in this place, giving the player an opportunity to either get to the office to get the special item or use the event as a chance to get a notebook easily and quickly while some of the characters are distracted.
=== Endless Mode - Medium ===
The Principal's office contains a button for the lockdown door and the Principal's Keys on one of the tables.
=== Challenges ===
* In the Speedy Challenge, the Principal's office is absent.
* In the Stealthy Challenge, the Principal's office is where Baldi will spawn. All five character posters are only about Principal of the Thing. Furthermore, there is no door to the office. The player will only receive detention if one of the Principal clones sees and catches them.
* In the Grapple Challenge, the Principal's office is present despite Principal of the Thing himself being absent in this challenge.
=== Other appearances ===
* In Baldi's Basics Classic, Baldi's Basics Birthday Bash and Classic Remastered, the Principal's office has regular white brick walls. Principal of the Thing will spawn in this room after the player gets a problem wrong in the You Can Think Pad or Baldi's Math Machine.
* In Baldi's Basics Classic and Baldi's Basics Birthday Bash, the detention text is bigger and it reads: "". The second word in the first sentence is "have" instead of "get", and the punctuation mark on the second sentence is an exclamation mark (!) instead of a period (.). The timer increases by 15 seconds every time the player gets detention.
* In Baldi's Basics Full Game Early Demo, the Principal's office has gray tile floors, red lockers, and two chairs.
== Trivia ==
=== General ===
* It appears that the Principal put up all of the character posters, as the Principal's poster is the only poster written in first-person.
** However, this may not be the case, as it uses quotation marks.
=== Baldi's Basics Plus === 
* There can be two windows connecting to different rooms in the Principal's office.
* It is possible to have ten or more windows in the Principal's office.
* Two doors close together is rare in the Principal's office among other rooms.
* During detention, if the player escapes the Principal's office and enters the playground, Principal of the Thing will not scold the player for escaping detention. However, if the player re-enters the Principal's office, then gets out of this location, he will scold them for escaping detention.
* Principal's office is the room that is first generated during level generation.
* Prior to V0.4, there were only up to five posters for characters who spawn in the current floor."One report that I keep seeing, which isn't actually a bug, is that not all character posters appear in the Principal's Office. This is intentional, only a handful of current NPCs get a poster in each level." - Baldi's Basics Plus Steam Community Hub
* Prior to V0.4, if any character opened the door right before getting detention, the door to the Principal's office would still be open even after being locked, allowing the player to escape through it. Since this version, the door will immediately be closed and locked after the player gets detention.
** It also remained open during the flood event, if the door was open by this event before it was locked.
* Prior to V0.4, the map color was gray.
=== Baldi's Basics Classic/Birthday Bash === 
* The player can avoid detention by entering the Principal's office themselves then waiting to walk through the door. However, if the player gets out of this location, he will send them to detention immediately.
=== Baldi's Basics Classic ===
* In a drawing of the original layout of the Schoolhouse, the Principal's office was originally planned to be located on the top right corner next to the playground, as marked in purple."One of the first things I did when working on the original version of #BaldisBasics was draw up the layout of the school. Here's the original drawing! While it's mostly the same, it has a few notable differences, like a playground area that never made it into the game." - mystman12. March 20, 2019. Twitter In the game, it is located in the middle of the Schoolhouse.
* In V1.0, there were large globes instead of tables in the room. The large globes could be used to hide from Baldi.
* Prior to V1.3, the player could get detention for eating an Energy Flavored Zesty Bar because "No eating" was part of the school rules.
== Glitches ==
=== Baldi's Basics Plus ===
* There is a chance that the office door will be left permanently open when an NPC opens it.
* Since V0.4, the door to the Principal's office is same as the classroom's in pre-generated levels like Endless Mode - Medium and Grapple Challenge.
* In V0.1.5, all posters were oddly missing in the office.
== References ==
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