"Mr. Bitters is a bit… bias to his students."
- ―Elena on Gilbert
Gilbert Bitters is the principal of North Central high School who influences students to go ahead and mistreat those below them to how they please. He was fired however by the Superintendent Ted Turner when he was found out showing records of bullying that Gilbert kept hidden and failed to report along with using an unauthorized procedure policy, favoritism and using the money mostly for himself.
He is portrayed by Alec Baldwin.
Biography
Early life
Gilbert Bitters was once a popular student at his school where he is the big man on campus mistreating other students below him. He soon becomes principal of North Central High School where he is reliving those times by influencing students to mistreat those below them to how they pleased. He’s also been accepting huge money from the rich that pay for the school mostly from Orion Stern’s family since they own the internationals. Gilbert only uses the money on “important” activities and events such as football and men’s basketball and the rest for himself.
Have A Purpose
Gilbert first appears when Orion was down after fighting with Jalen Long. Even though Jalen didn’t do anything when Orion started it when he saw the whole thing, Gilbert sends Jalen to his office and was about to punish him until E.D. Pennington stops him reminding that her husband Asher Pennington will make matters into his own hands if Gilbert punishes Jalen thus making Gilbert let Jalen leave with a warning.
He was later seen at the big basketball where they win against their big rivals but not by Orion and instead Bryce Summers who gets put down for being homeschooled until now. Bryce and Orion later get into a fight and Gilbert was about to punish Bryce not caring that Orion punched Lucina Stewart but the whole school were against him and Orion was kick off the team.
Gilbert appears again where The Big Five and the Cullens were having an argument and he sides with The Big Five even though they were harassing the Cullens, and were about to give the Cullens detention when Bryce used his charm to persuade the principal out of trouble.
He attends prom as a chaperone where he sits back and watches when Orion summons the police force arresting the Cullens who are in league of Jalen’s crime and suspecting them to be different seeing that they have graduated numerous times. However, E.D. and her husband steps in and she revealed herself to be Elena, Jalen’s foster sister who everyone believed Jalen tried to rape when really it was their foster dad who tried to rape Elena and Jalen beat him to save her but ran away when their foster mom called the cops on him. Because of it, Elena proved Jalen’s innocence while also exposing Orion that he blackmailed Jalen to break up Bryce and Lucina’s relationship so that he may go to prom with her causing Bryce to punch Orion and Gilbert steps and expels Bryce, Jalen and the Cullens only the superintendent Ted Turner was called for the commotion also is furious with Gilbert with student reports that Gilbert fails to take action and Gilbert was escorted out of prom by the police.
Gilbert was then fired not only for showing favoritism but for using an unauthorized procedure policy where teachers have to report the incident to Gilbert where he and only he can make the decision therefore letting students get away with mistreatment. Gilbert is also given a huge fine for it thus selling everything he use the money for and giving up his home ending him broke where he moved in with his mother and couldn’t get a job because of his behavior.
Physical appearance
Gilbert has light brown hair and is in his fifties where he is described to look like Donald Trump.
Personality and traits
Gilbert goes for the status quo and is a bad influence telling students to mistreat those below them to how they please. He always sides with the popular student or those who donate a lot of money to the school. He is also greedy as he only spends on “important events” and keeps the rest for himself.