>>8975093
>gimmick sounds awful
I think having the arms wall was a cool idea, just horribly executed in that you had to make contact with them to get through, it was unavoidable. If it was just a display that was out of reach that would be a really cool effect.
>why didn't the teachers think it was going to be a bad idea?
It was the late 90s, it was a public school, the teachers weren't exactly the brightest bunch, but there were a lot of contributing factors.
The class who was setting it up were given a lot of leeway to do the haunted decorating thing, it was one of 6 different haunted areas different groups of people worked on that connected to each other, so I imagine just as long as they were being productive the teachers didn't care too much and they likely didn't realize what the full idea was before it was done or didn't think it through.
Really stretching my memory but I seem to remember the teacher supervising them ended up being absent the last few days and they didn't get a supply teacher, thinking the other teachers in the gym would keep an eye on them.
I'm not even sure if it was intended that the entire arm would stick out or if maybe the idea was just to only stick out hands but then some people took it further.
And of course nobody misbehaved when the teachers were present, the shenanigans were opportunistic and executed when nobody in authority could directly see. At one point some of the people that went through the area went into the back being the curtain so they could play as the arms in the wall, which further added to the problem.
Idk it all got swept under the rug though, teachers protect each other, parents weren't informed about what happened.
There were a couple weird teachers at that school, like the gym coach treated girls like princesses and played up being the alpha while treating the boys like a military instructor. And girls always complained the french teacher kept looking down their shirts.
