Senior Prank - what do you think

[PebblesMom]

This happened in our county. My boys know many people who go there through soccer, but do not go to school there themselves, so I couldn't help with the handbook. We have heard that the principal is newer and the superintendent is, well, pretty heavy handed (this coming from a different principal and teacher in that district who we know)



We have to be neighbors! It's been the talk of Hendricks County, yes?

Oh yes I think everyone is talking about it!

Here is an opinion piece from the Indianapolis paper today...
http://www.indystar.com/article/201...ntendent-must-REALLY-need-his-summer-vacation

 

[joviroxx]

Much ado about nothing. With so many of these pranks going bad, this one was harmless.... School needs to lighten up!

 

[NaLisa]

Oh yes I think everyone is talking about it!

Here is an opinion piece from the Indianapolis paper today...
http://www.indystar.com/article/201...ntendent-must-REALLY-need-his-summer-vacation

Love it. The writer had fun with this piece.

There must be some explanation for what we can officially declare to be The Overreaction of the Year: the temporary decision by a local schools superintendent to suspend a group of students for perhaps the most harmless prank in the history of harmless senior class pranks.

I think that accurately sums it up.

 

[kamik86]

I wish our school did a senior prank we could have done some pretty awesome but harmless stuff, espeically if one or two teachers got in on it.

There were some teachers that would have because they hated in stick in the mud teachers... Like the time that one of our teachers did a net send over the computer network to everyone so everyone got a pop up saying "<teachers user name> at <teachers computers name> says Hello" We got a ton of calls from teachers (we were the IT shop so we fix many computer issues) saying there was a virus or something on the computers... what was hilarious is the teachers user name is first intial and last name... so if you looked it was kind of obvious who did it.

Meanwhile the students in our shop not there at the time (juniors and sophmores were in shop, so the seniors were in class) sent messages via the printer (because if you know the computer attached to the printer you could print remotely) to tell us what was going on in the class they were sitting in... it was great.

Getting a few shops involved we could do something to the computers or maybe even the lights (the electricity shop managed all the lights so they could probably do something with the power...)... Oh or get us AV kids to make all the school TVs start showing something... unfruntatly that would have required turning on all the TVs which would be harder to do...

Animals would almost be boring where I was from, just because we lived in an area with so many naturally and it would be obvious it was a prank... where the one above most didn't even get it.

Oh there was also the time were another class took our computer lab for the afternoons for a while... which was stupid and they could barely use the computers (cosmetology post grads) So we had a bit of fun with them and before we left some of us unplugged something from the back of the computer (keyboard, mouse, Ethernet cable) or changed the printer to settings to default to printing a PDF and not to the real printer.

So when they got there they thought 1 computer was not recognizing the log in (ctrl alt delete did nothing), 1 had a broken mouse, 2 wouldn't allow you online (Ethernet unplugged), and a few wouldn't print right... Then a few of us stayed in a nearby classroom during lunch (as we normally did) so we were close enough to be aware of them getting REALLY confused.

 

[kamik86]

For those saying you must punish even if nothing goes wrong because it could have... REally our real justice system even gives diminished sentences based on what actually happens.

For example attempted murder has less of a sentence then murder... So if you try to kill someone and your just not good enough to manage (but not for lack of trying) your less bad and get less of a punishment... same with attempted robbery.

If your drunk and cause an accident that kills someone your charged with manslaughter, if you just hit property the crime is much less, if the cop catches you before you hit something then your just charged with a DWI...

So why would we punish kids for what might have happened but didn't when they weren't even trying to make something bad happen if we dont punish adults that way in the rest of the world.

 

[akhenaten]

Love it. The writer had fun with this piece.

There must be some explanation for what we can officially declare to be The Overreaction of the Year: the temporary decision by a local schools superintendent to suspend a group of students for perhaps the most harmless prank in the history of harmless senior class pranks.

I think that accurately sums it up.

LOL from the same article:

But according to news reports, Spray grew dramatic and insisted: "We're fortunate that nothing got damaged and no one got hurt."

What's he worried about? Paper cuts?

 

[I Love Pluto]

This is absolutely ridiculous!

All are obviously good people, the kids and adults alike. They did NO harm to the school building nor to any person.

What should be punished? Nothing!

We live next to Philadelphia. We have seen a lot! We have seen damage to property, harm to people, & complete disrespect for the law.

Post-it notes are punishable? Really?????!!!!!

 

[BeachGirlFLA]

I don't think the punishment fits the "crime" at all.

 

[GameDevLovesDisney]

The punishment for the OP prank is pretty weak, especially considering that no property was damaged in the process. People are way too uptight nowadays...

The prank that took place during my senior year was much more entertaining. Our school's front door was 2 layers...open a set, then there's a 5 foot foyer, followed by a second set of doors. In the middle of the night, the first set was opened, the alarm shut off, and the ceiling and walls were all covered with industrial plastic wrap. Then the entire 18'x5'x8' space was filled with shaving cream, floor to ceiling, wall to wall, and very lightly pressurized before turning the alarm back on.

So yeah....post-its? Deserving suspensions and resignations? I think not!

 

[Albort]

yeah, OP's prank is weak. kinda lame they are being punished for it.

One year, my school had cows on the 2nd floors/roofs of the building. Dont ask me where they got the cow or how they got them upstairs/roof. So school shut down for a day while they try to get the cows down from the roof and 2nd floor.

another year, they got into the principal's office, carried all the furniture out to the football field and placed all his stuff in the field exactly the way it was in the office.

my year, they tagged the school. that was bad and 3 of the seniors were arrested.

 

[Tink9721]

This prank was harmless. If they thought this was bad, they should've been at my school a couple years ago. I was in the class of 2011, and our senior prank day almost got shut down because of the stupid things that the class of 2010 did. Some kids did the harmless sticky notes. Some of them put plastic flamingos in front of the school and on the principal's lawn, which everyone, including the principal, thought was awesome. But then a group of stupid kids basically vandalized the school and ended up causing somewhere around $3,000 in damage I have no idea if the kids who caused the damage actually got caught or got in trouble, but the entire class of 2010 got a bad reputation because of something a small group of students did

Then at the start of my senior year, they had installed security cameras, and had all sorts of new rules. It was crazy. Our senior prank day was pretty calm, nothing really out of control. Except I heard there was a chicken roaming around at some point, but I'm not sure if that's true And a couple kids managed to get a piglet into the school earlier in the week, not on senior prank day. But most of the pranks were harmless.

One parent posted a blog ranting about how out of control our class was and he compared the pranks to terrorism His daughter was in my class. But of course she was innocent and the rest of the class was horrible He totally flipped out and wrote several blogs about it saying that these pranks will scar kids for life A bunch of students commented on the blog, and they made much more sense than anything he wrote. He responded to all of them by saying "You're just a kid, you'll understand when you're older." I may be a teenager but I know that if you're that traumatized by getting hit with silly string or something, you have bigger problems. A bunch of parents commented on it too and said he was seriously over reacting. His blog caused more drama than the pranks did

 

[Albort]

speaking of over dramatic...

WALKER, MI – Sabrena Hall and more than 60 other Kenowa Hills High School seniors are upset that a bike ride to school this morning got them suspended on the last day of school, and banned from the traditional senior walk.

Students say more than 100 classmates participated in a 3-mile bike ride to school that included escorts by a Walker Police cruiser and the mayor. It was supposed to be a fun twist on the types of things that typically happen on senior prank day.

But Principal Katie Pennington was not consulted and not happy about the organized event, suspending 64 of the students for the day. There are about 300 students in Kenowa's senior class.

“She was very upset,” said Hall, 17. “We did not consider this a prank at all, but an opportunity to celebrate our last day at school. We were singing the school fight song (while biking).

dl;dr - rode our bikes to school, got suspended cuz principal didnt like it.

 

[Tink9721]

speaking of over dramatic...



dl;dr - rode our bikes to school, got suspended cuz principal didnt like it.

Why on earth would the principal be so upset about that?

 

[KingK12]

I thought it was kids being kids! Suck it up GGGGGGGGGG'S!

 

[disney1990]

No Big Deal - they should help clean up -- that's it!