It was a typical morning at Quarry Lane School, so it seemed. At 8:00 am, the cars lined up at the carline to drop off the kids with the help of the teachers. But not today. There was no teacher in sight. And the carline got longer and longer.

    Parents began getting out of their cars. They looked around. With still no teachers in sight, they helped their children out of the cars and directed them into the gate.

    The kids walked through the playground. They looked at one another, seeing on each others' faces that something seemed weird.

    They entered the school building. Usually, they passed Miss Adriana, who greeted them at her desk as she worked diligently on her computer.

    But not today.

    Miss Adriana's foot was propped up on the table as she squealed at her Nintendo Switch. "Woohoo!"

    "Uh, hi, Miss Adriana," said Ishaan, one of the first graders.

    "Are you playing video games?" asked Lucas, another first grader. "Shouldn't you be working...or opening the front door?"

    Parents on the other side of the hall were knocking on the glass door, waiting to bring in their preschoolers.

    "Sure..." she muttered. "Oh man!" she said as she pressed hard on her video game.

    Max, another student, was walking by and saw the parents piling up at the front door. He went to the director's office.

    He knocked at Ms. Smith's door. "Excuse me?" he said as he slowly pushed her door open. "There's a lot of people at the..."

    He couldn't believe his eyes. Ms. Smith was sleeping on the floor with a blanket and pillow!

    "Oh, hi, Max. I'm really tired. Can you lower the lights? And tell the people to turn down all the ruckus."

    Max just stared at Ms. Smith with his mouth opened.

    As Raya passed by Ms. Ross's classroom, she popped in her head to say hello to her old junior kindergarten teacher.

    But instead of "hello" she gasped!

    "What are you wearing?" Raya asked. "I think you forgot to get dressed this morning."

    Ms. Ross smiled down at her robe and patted the curlers in her hair. "Nah. I thought it would be a great idea to be comfortable today."

    "Don't the teachers have a dress code like the students?" Raya asked.

    Ms. Ross just smiled.

    Another first grader, Tatum, entered his homeroom and saw that there wasn't anyone there yet.

    "That's strange," he said aloud. "Where's Miss Johnson? Class is going to start soon." He scratched his head. "Well, I'll just go to the bathroom."

    When he walked into the boys' bathroom, Ms. Asari came out of a stall.

    "What are you doing in here?" Tatum asked. "This is the boys' bathroom!"

    Ms. Asari shrugged, washed her hands, and left.

    As Tatum was leaving the bathroom, Cameron and Aneesh ran into Miss Johnson's classroom.

    "You won't believe what we saw!" Cameron said to Tatum.

    "Our teachers have lost their minds!" Aneesh said to a confused-looking Tatum. "Coach M, Ms. Chen, and Ms. Isabel have taken over the playground!"

    "Come with us!" Cameron said to Tatum, and the three boys ran out of the room.

    At the playground, Coach M was riding a bike. Ms. Chen was hanging off a bar with one hand. And Ms. Isabel was dancing and singing on a table.

    What was going on at Quarry Lane?

    Students roamed the school, looking like confused zombies. Why were the adults acting so strangely?

    A student, Aaron, slapped his head when he saw what the Spanish and art teachers were doing in the lobby. They were making funny noises from their armpits as they laughed.

    This really wasn't like Ms. Arana and Ms. Shin to act so childishly.

   "Watch out!" Aadhvik yelled at Aaron.

    Aaron ducked just in time as a frisbee went flying by his head. His friends, Aadhvik and Nidhi, came running up to him.

    "Ms. Bhandari! Ms. Rodriguez! Ms. Britt! Don't you know you're not allowed to play with a frisbee in the building!" Nidhi yelled at her teachers down the hall.

    Tatum, Cameron, and Aneesh ran back into the building from the playground. They joined

Aaron, Aadhvik, and Nidhi.

    "Our teachers have lost their minds!" Aneesh repeated his words to his friends.

    "Maybe we should just get to class," Tatum said. "Maybe Miss Johnson is in the classroom now."

    The six of them ran to their homeroom. When they got there, she wasn't doing what they usually saw her do first thing in the mornings.

    She was throwing something up in the air and catching it in her mouth. A classmate, Mayan, was shaking his hands up in the air as he yelled, "You can't be eating peanuts! We're a nut-free school! There are kids allergic to nuts!"

   Emilia entered the room with a garbage bag and a mask. "Put the nuts in here, please," she instructed her teacher.

    Miss Johnson had a frown on her face. She hesitantly threw her snack in the bag Emilia was holding, and took a sip of water.

    "I didn't know my students were such rule-followers," she muttered.

    Nidhi's jaw dropped.

    What was going on with the teachers!

    A bunch of running feet skidded at the door. Raya, Max, Ishaan, and Lucas fled into the room.

   "You won't believe what's happening in Ms. Cabrera's classroom!" Raya shouted.

    "It's a disaster!" Max said. He waved his hands at his friends to follow him.

    Max motioned his friends into the STEM room. The kids gasped! Nidhi's jaw dropped again.

    The STEM teacher, Ms. Cabrera, was stacking blocks. Ms. Iglesias threw a baseball at it. When the blocks fell, they high-fived each other.

    There was shaving cream all over the tables and supplies from the cabinets like rulers, flasks, and

test tubes, stuck out of the white, fluffy mess.

    Sanmita was in the room cleaning the tables with paper towels. "Ms. Cabrera, Ms. Iglesias, you shouldn't be vandalizing the classroom," she pleaded.

    Will was also in the room, both his hands pulling at his hair. "Someone can get hurt," he said to Ms. Iglesias, picking up the ball.

    "But it's so fun!" the first grade teacher replied.

    "Do you want to paint on the walls with me?" Ms. Cabrera asked Mayan.

    Aaron slapped his forehead, then shook his head.