Natasha Halfkenny, the principal, and Coreen Miranda, the assistant principal, admitted to using the tickets that were gifted to the Tobin School for “use by its students and their chaperones” for themselves and their sons, who were not students at the school, according to the State Ethics Commission.

Some of the tickets donated for students were instead used by school administrators to bring their children to the show, state ethics officials said.

This case is a reminder that public employees must not use their official positions to get themselves or others special, valuable privileges to which they are not entitled, and that there are legal consequences for doing so,