Snakes and mice fall from the roof of a school in America

 Henry Clay High School English teacher Nathan Spalding posted a picture on Facebook of a snake wrapped around his phone, commenting that this picture is just one example of how rodents, reptiles and various insects have invaded his high school building.

Nathan was logging into his classroom computer on Wednesday morning when he "noticed what looked like a piece of hair on the phone" and said, "I approached and realized it was a snake." Indeed, the hair turned out to be nothing but a small snake coiled on the handset.

 Spalding said that Henry Clay High School in Lexington (USA) has been witnessing an outbreak of these creatures in a school for nearly months, which includes mice, cockroaches and spiders.

A rat fell from the ceiling in a different classroom while a colleague was studying, Spalding told the Herald Leader on Thursday.

"It landed on a student's desk and caused quite a commotion," he said.

Another female co-worker had three rats fall from her ceiling this school year, but luckily the class was empty.

"Our school is full of crickets, spiders, and mice," Spalding wrote on Facebook, and "it looks like our school now also has a nest of snakes living in the ceiling."

According to the Herald, the school's principal sent a letter to the students' families saying that the administration and the maintenance staff were tackling this problem, and that pest exterminators had come to treat the building, which opened in the 1970s and does not have air conditioning.

Spalding said the incident was the first he had heard of a rat falling from the ceiling with students in class.

He also added that "a rat was seen running in the cafeteria during the back-to-school faculty meeting."

 Teacher Jenny Ward said mice had entered her classroom previously, and she said, "I feel like when snakes and mice fall off your roof, it's an emergency."

Bordet Spalding commented, "Most people seem shocked by the working conditions that teachers in public education are forced to put up with, but I don't feel most teachers are surprised."

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