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'Graduation Crashers' screenplay used as evidence against teacher

By Kristen Butler, UPI.com
Exeter High School in New Hampshire. (CC/Austin Blake Grant)
Exeter High School in New Hampshire. (CC/Austin Blake Grant)

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Three social studies teachers at Exeter High School in New Hampshire wrote a screenplay called "Graduation Crashers," in which teachers drink, do drugs, harass students and have sex with "hot" moms.

Now the script is being used as evidence against Robert M. Batchelder Jr., who resigned earlier this year in response to sexual assault allegations.

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The screenplay, written by Batchelder, Mark Forbes and Tod Grossmith, centers around fictitious Biltmore High School and features teachers named after themselves crashing the graduation parties of students they hate, and finding ways to embarrass them.

The teachers are accompanied by a scotch-drinking dog they stole from one of their students.

The script is laced with profanity and illegal activity with students including drinking and smoking a "joint," though the teachers in "Graduation Crashers" do not engage in any sexual activity with students. The teachers in the screenplay do, however, have encounters students' mothers and with college-aged young women.

The screenplay continually mocks the principal character, who is bent on firing the teachers.

When asked if he believed the characters in the screenplay were based on actual people, Superintendent Michael Morgan said, "we have our own suspicions and are drawing our own conclusions."

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No formal charges have been filed against Batchelder. Police found the "original screenplay" while investigating a complaint of sexual assault against a female student in 2009.

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