An assistant teacher at a South Carolina high school was arrested last week on charges he secretly sprayed the school with a substance designed to smell like fecal matter.

Police say Alexander Paul Robertson Lewis, 32, sprayed the substance — which he bought online — in West Florence High School in Florence, South Carolina, between Aug. 25 and Sept. 19.

Police said the spray resulted in disruptions at the school. Several students complained of experiencing nausea, dizziness and headaches due to the odor, WPDE reported.

“Personally, as a student, every time I go to my second block class, I walk up the stairwell and immediately, teachers are covering their noses and their mouths, coughing because of the smell,” a student told the news outlet. “I got physically sick the other day because

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