Teacher thought he’d never be caught until then gets discovered richard julian was a history teacher aged 47 he had worked at a high school in minnesota for the last two years he was well liked and appreciated by the rest of the staff and by his students but he was known to also be a man of strange habits one day those habits would raise
Suspicions among his peers he was a bit of a reclusive man who had never invited any of his colleagues to his place also he rarely talked about his personal life some said he had a strange aura around him one that made him come across as someone different to everyone else some would even say that his aura was uncanny but were they justified in saying so
The truth is that nothing seemed to support those suspicions at face value talking to julian he came across as a nice mild-mannered guy although he always seemed a bit distant and impersonal maybe his politeness and discretion made some people think that this was some kind of front maybe he was hiding something behind his behavior however as it’s been said before everything about him seemed
Irreproachable he was never late to work his students consistently passed and were motivated about his subject he never had a problem with any member of the staff of course it’s hard to have any issue with a man who mainly keeps to himself and walks around trying to be unnoticed like julian did but perhaps that was just a deliberate act after a while of knowing julian the
Thought that he might be trying to keep something secret was something that naturally popped into one’s head the man was absolutely private and agreeable and he seemed to be deliberately trying to be as easygoing as possible at work he conducted himself with such perfect discreetness that one could only think that it was a voluntary and calculated move but julian was never caught in anything
Suspicious he had been working in the same high school for seven years and no one had anything on him but one day something happened that would change everything it was a heavy winter that year in minnesota for most of february snow was covering the roads fairly often some days were worse than others but school was still open
And of course julian was still giving his classes but his behavior started to change every day he started staying around the school after the day was finished the explanation he gave was that he wanted to grade some exams and would rather do it at his workplace than at home at first that didn’t seem like anything too weird but it was a change in the habits of an
Otherwise very structured and organized person that alone was enough to make some of the members of the staff iffy soon the principal became aware that he stayed there even after the maintenance staff had left which was very late in the evening now that did sound a little weird and suspicious which is why the principal decided to install a camera in julian’s classroom
To see what was going on when he took a look at the tapes what he saw was puzzling richard julian was staying in his classroom all day he would sleep there after the maintenance staff was gone and then early in the morning he would go to the gym’s locker rooms to take a shower and shave the history teacher had just started to live in the school 24 hours a day
But what could be the reasons for this by the time the principal had set up the camera some of julian’s students were already suspecting something as well they had noticed julian staying in the classroom until late and were also wondering why one day in march when the weather was getting a little bit better they noticed julian had started leaving the workplace after class just like before and they decided to follow him
What they saw then was astonishing after his shift richard julian didn’t go to his house instead he went to a van the students waited in the cold to see what julian was doing inside the van but their teacher wasn’t coming out they decided to get closer and look through the windows at that moment julian saw them and came out julian was surprised and asked them what
They were doing there when he noticed the kids weren’t able to articulate an answer he knew it they had followed him and were curious about what he was up to he had been living in that van for months now he had lost his house behind his peaceful character in his mild manners julian had a crippling gambling habit that had turned his life into hell
He had a lot of debts was absolutely bankrupt and he had to rent the van to live in but during the winter it was too cold on top of that the roads were too covered in snow to drive the van to work that’s why he had been spending the nights at school the van wasn’t even his he felt like his job and his classroom were all he truly had the students told the principal about it
And he decided to take some measures he raised julian’s salary and loaned him some money to pay his debts and enable him to get back on his feet also julian’s students joined to collect some money from their own pockets in order to help their teacher out they gifted him one thousand two hundred dollar in the middle of a class teary-eyed the teacher embraced all his students and thanked them for their gesture you.