High School Prank Suspends Half of Senior Class

[jdb in AZ]

The parents knew about it. The Valedictorian and Salutatorian (and other top 10% students) participated. It's not like they did major damage.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/h...duating-class-suspended/ar-AAKn4OD?li=BBnbfcL

 

[DLgal]

What the fork?

 

[AndreaA]

Pffft... it’s in-school suspension, and with that many kids, clearly they will not be isolated. Some of the kids apparently view the “punishment” as a prank on the kids themselves.

 

[Cheburashka]

Sounds like a reasonable consequence for the infraction. It was a show of disrespect to their school. If there is no consequence, then the next year's class will probably try to one-up it with a bigger prank, knowing there will be no significant consequence.

So tired of parents whining about their misbehaving children getting any kind of consequence. That is one reason why our society has so many problems- children aren't being taught to take responsibility for their actions.

 

[brockash]

The parents knew about it. The Valedictorian and Salutatorian (and other top 10% students) participated. It's not like they did major damage.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/h...duating-class-suspended/ar-AAKn4OD?li=BBnbfcL

As long as they would've cleaned it up; I'd say no harm done; however they would've needed to clean it up.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Half the senior class is 40 people. We had 350 total in mine. But it sounds more shocking to say half the senior class (even if factually correct). Although that is quite the collaboration to have 40 people all in on the same prank.

IDK at my high school senior pranks did mean you didn't walk on graduation and could face suspension. There was indeed a few that did not walk on graduation though I don't know if they were suspended.

In this situation schools shouldn't really have to figure out what prank is fine and what isn't. Best, in this case, to treat it all the same or not care at all about the pranks. Then you'd have an endless stream of complaints over why one prank wasn't a big deal.

Using the status of the students is not a good look. Are they trying to say if the kid was just an average student then the punishment is okay but because it was the Honor kids it's not? Plus is the lesson you want to pass on that if you're an Honor student you shouldn't have to have any consequences?

Do I think the prank was bad? Nah it's pretty minor. But this whole thing could have been done off school property and I'm betting the town wouldn't have had an issue with it. Maybe not a senior prank in the traditional sense but still.

 

[RamblingMad]

Don’t mess with football in TX. And this was done by the smart kids.

 

[John VN]

May the FORKS be with y'all.

 

[TipsyTraveler]

Well, back in my day... My school made it clear that anyone who participated in a senior prank would not walk at graduation, so an in-school suspension seems mild by comparison. Did the students know this would bring consequences? Had a precedent been set in prior years? If they knew the school didn’t allow this kind of thing then I have no sympathy for them. I also have no sympathy for the father in the article bemoaning the fact that the “good kids” are being punished for participating, as though the rules shouldn’t apply to them.

 

[Disneefun]

They need to hire Forky as their lawyer!

 

[usnuzuloose]

Choose the behavior, you choose the consequince

 

[Cheburashka]

Using the status of the students is not a good look. Are they trying to say if the kid was just an average student then the punishment is okay but because it was the Honor kids it's not? Plus is the lesson you want to pass on that if you're an Honor student you shouldn't have to have any consequences?

This. That was the quoted parent's attitude. My child is an honor student, so how dare the school give him a consequence? Consequences are for the unwashed masses who struggle academically. Yuck.

 

[RedAngie]

That school looks like a former cattle barn or pigsty.

 

[NotUrsula]

It appears that the issue is that the school is taking the B&E aspect of the prank ("criminal trespass" as it is known in Texas) seriously , so presumably the school was supposed to be locked and unoccupied at the time. Looks like if they had stopped with just the forked field it would not have been such a big deal. (Law and order Texas, after all.)

Standard penalty for a Class B misdemeanor like this one is between $500-$2000 fine, and up to 180 days in jail, so I'm sure that the administration see themselves as letting the kids off easy.
(If they had stopped at just the field it would have been a Class A misdemeanor, max. fine of $500 and no jail time.)

 

[ronandannette]

Well, back in my day... My school made it clear that anyone who participated in a senior prank would not walk at graduation, so an in-school suspension seems mild by comparison. Did the students know this would bring consequences? Had a precedent been set in prior years? If they knew the school didn’t allow this kind of thing then I have no sympathy for them. I also have no sympathy for the father in the article bemoaning the fact that the “good kids” are being punished for participating, as though the rules shouldn’t apply to them.

Several years ago the son of a friend and some of his grade 12 classmates pulled a jack-assed stunt. The ripped through the hallways of their school on mini motor cycles (the kind you win at the county fair) releasing 100 feeder mice in every direction. All the boys involved were barred from grad ceremonies. My friend was heart-broken; she literally wept until she threw up on the day of grad but knew her kid had brought it all on himself and wouldn't have dreamed of arguing the punishment. And the dumbest part of all? Here most schools hold their grad ceremonies several weeks before finals so kids won't be distracted. All they would have had to do was waited until the actual end of the school year...

 

[neverlandsky]

Haha. This year’s Senior prank was 2 chickens in the school’s cafeteria during school hours. No one got in trouble. Basically if it wasn’t over the top, during school hours, and it was safe, it was allowed. Also Seniors took turns doing PA’s of people parking in their spots that they claimed with sidewalk chalk.

 

[kymom99]

Pffft... it’s in-school suspension, and with that many kids, clearly they will not be isolated. Some of the kids apparently view the “punishment” as a prank on the kids themselves.

It says they can’t participate in any senior activities.

 

[MamaMermaid]

Did the school overreact? Yes. Should the kids know that there could be consequences for their actions - no matter how silly and harmless? Yes. Is the dad quoted in the article annoying? Yes.

 

[Kellykins1218]

They're in Texas and messed with a football field? Seriously? For "honor students," they're not that bright. Not all senior pranks have been harmless and there's a reason schools have taken a hard stance against them. Pranks are stupid anyway. I have no sympathy for these kids.

 

[slo]

My DDs forked our yard for my DH’s 50th birthday this past December - totally harmless. Suspending kids for destroying property or harming people is understandable, but for something like this is ridiculous. When my DD22 was a senior they dropped 100s of ping pong balls down on this large area, during passing period, from an upstairs balcony. Everyone thought it was funny and they did pick up the balls. Senior pranks is a part of high school - as long as they are harmless, then let the kids make fun memories for themselves - IMO