Math teacher Robin Midiri’s window was found shattered on the weekend before finals, between January 17 and 19. The front window of i-1 had exterior pane damage, but the interior pane had none.

Local glass manufacturer Lucky’s Glass, Inc. had to special-order the window, as the pane is very large and unique. The repair will cost the school $2880, and the new glass window was installed on Feb. 12.

While foul play was initially suspected, Principal Kevin Buchanan said — with evidence from security cameras — that he “saw nobody tampering or attempting to break the window.”

Midiri arrived at OPHS on Jan. 19 to administer tests for Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA). She said she “didn’t even notice that the window had been broken at first,” but then students there notified her that the window was shattered. She immediately ruled out foul play as she noticed that the window did not have a true point of origin for the cracks.

Buchanan noted that the cracks appear to have started from the bottom of the window, which would be very unusual for someone deliberately trying to smash the window, an act that usually would have been done to the top or middle portion of the window.

“It might have been some settling of the building or that the installation might have been done in such a way that the window was susceptible to cracking under some minor motion or stress,” Buchanan said.