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Julius Wants Moore From Mr. Brent

9/22/2023

**BREAKING NEWS**

Former Classen SAS Middle Schooler Julius Moore has been rightfully accused of blackmailing Brent Pederson, Drama Teacher of Classen SAS Middle School. 

If you haven't noticed, Mr. Brent has been mysteriously disappearing for extended periods of time, with little to no explanation. We have recently found, with explicit evidence, that this is because of something taxing, or someone. A former student of Mr. Brent, Julius Moore, has been giving demands and instructions to Mr.Brent. Mr. Brent has been complying with these directions because he was under blackmail and hostage by Mr. Moore. We have only now been able to produce this story because he has affirmed the exposition of his secret used against himself. 

The material for Mr. Brent's blackmail was that he had been paying off the prop providers for his productions at CSAS to keep his mistake of counterfeiting fraud 4 years ago undisclosed. He had mistakenly used counterfeit money as payment for his props on the set of Leading Ladies. He was given this money by a young cashier at the local grocer. She of course was unknowing of the mishap until we reached out to her earlier in the week of this discovery. When the Prop Providers discovered the bills were fake they discussed their plans to press charges with Mr. Brent. He promised to pay them for the props properly and more until they thought it was enough, as long as they kept it low. They agreed as the income from prop delivery is not exactly grand. 

Jessie, a current student of Mr. Brent and friend of Julius Moore,  during the On Brodway show conducted by Mr.Brent

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Julius Moore (in the front) being held by his friend Tory.

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Mr. Moore found this out when he saw Mr. Brent paying an extreme amount to the prop deliverers, far more than Julius knew they were worth. Mr. Moore informed Mr. Brent he was overpaying in front of a large class and to not have his secret accidentally exposed, he disclosed the information to  Mr. Moore, assuming he would give some sympathy. If you know Julius you would know that is unlike him. At that very moment, Mr. Moore threatened to tell everyone in the school about this happening, embarrassing Mr. Brent, unless he would do the bidding of Julius. 

A few examples of the demands of Mr. Moore included the hiring of stage makeup and costuming designers specifically for Mr. Moore, special and sometimes expensive pre-show snacks from anywhere of his pleasing, homework help and sometimes completion, a say in the next musical, and most importantly holding him hostage do supply his bidding. Mr. Moore thrived with inner pride in his employed servitude. This continued until Julius left middle school due to graduation from high school. it has now been outed because of Mr. Brents's decline of further toleration of the snarky remarks of Mr. Moore when visiting the MS. He retreated from the dying factor of blackmail, becoming careless of Mr. Moore's threats. 


Headshot of Mr.Brent

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How could anyone be so cold? Was there further reasoning against Mr.Brent? Is there more sufficient evidence to prove this? Possibly more background? If you have an opinion on whether we should continue the search for answers please text the number 111-BRENT about your thoughts.

About the Contributor

Scout Howell-Dowd

Orbit Online- Assistant Web Editor-in-Chief/ Opinion Editor/ Satire

I  am in 8th grade and love being a part of Orbit. I hope you like my work.