Teacher's Lounge

*Not to be confused with Teachers' Lounge.*

After noting that Rigalli's greeting to Greta was entirely out-of-context and her remarking with "[it's] the big day," Rus questioned what they meant but not before the boys could enter. C.J., Vance, and Mickey had all made special efforts with their grooming. Rus continued to question Rigalli on what the boys had apparently remembered, until C.J. told Rus that today was the day that the teachers hand-in their annual budget requests and that one of the students had to deliver the requests to room 51 - the teachers' lounge - in person. After Rus stating that no kid in any school he is been in has ever seen the inside of the teachers' lounge, Rigalli says that it was the same story at 98th Street - and that the opportunity would not be blown, again. Vance then tells his story of how he had the chance to see inside the teachers' lounge in the second grade, leading to a flashback of him and the rest of the gang at a young age. He recalls how he knocked on the door, only for a reluctant Mr. Kamahira; he yanked the papers from Vance's hands from an opening he made in the doorway, not letting Vance take a peek inside the teachers' lounge.

During class, the whole of Miss Ropey's fourth grade class is trying to flatter Miss Ropey into being chosen to look inside the teachers' lounge. After which, she realizes that she needs to chose a student to deliver the budget request; Miss Orange interrupts, when Miss Ropey answers her call she asks for "them budget requests." Miss Ropey states that usually she would send them down with a student, to which Orange replies that Principal Prickly wanted her to assemble them, "personal like." Trying to digest the news that they will never see inside the teachers' lounge, the gang takes turns to paint a mental picture on what the interior of teachers' lounge would look like - before coming to the conclusion that they needed to break-into there. After wanting to get pass Mr Boyd, they attempt to employ The Cryer Kid's services. He offers the full service priced at two dollars, to which they reach a compromise of ninety-eight cents (the gang's total financial assets) and two of Mickey's milker dingers.

After the Cryer Kid starts sobbing, Mr Boyd rushes to his aid - leaving the entrance to the school unwatched. After they proceed down the hallway, Rigalli uses one of her hairpins on the door's lock mechanism. Unwittingly, they alert Mr. Kamahira, who is in the lounge (and, according to Greta, must about just live in the teachers' lounge). C.J. tells enquires on Miss Ropey's location, stating that her dark-green convertible's on fire in the parking lot. To which, Kamahira replies that she does not drive one of those cars... he does.

After Kamahira stormed out the lounge and down the hallway, the gang take that well-awaited look into the teachers' lounge. They were disappointed: it was barren; it looked unkempt; and the view from where they were standing was uninspiring to say the least. They were very distraught and left soon after. Immediately, Kamahira returns and curses the "pranksters" who said his car was on fire. He goes over to the coffee machine to activate a hidden room, revealing it to be one of luxury where the teachers are present.