High school seniors playing pranks on the last day of school

[guywithashovel]

I must have went to a really boring, high-moral high school, because I don't think anyone did any "senior pranks." Sure, they were talked about, but to my knowledge, no one ever did anything ... nothing really big, that is.

My high school's name was Jackson High School. I think someone who graduated a few years before I did stole a few of the letters in the sign so that it read "Jack on High School."

When I was in high school, every year on the seniors' last day of class they had a "Senior Assembly." It was a concert put on by the senior class. Seniors who could sing, play instruments, etc. could audition to perform during the assembly. The rule was that you could cheer and shout as loud as you wanted to, but you had to remain seated so as to not block anyone's view. During the senior assembly of 1999 (the year before I graduated), a member of the senior class stood up during the assembly and encouraged everyone else to stand up, too. Consequently, the principal would not let him walk across the stage during commencement. He still got his diploma, but he just wasn't allowed to participate in the ceremony because of what he did during the assembly.

Other than that, I don't think anyone at my school pulled anything. If they did, it escaped my attention and my memory.

[tabbyblack13]

I really couldn't have a senior prank in my high school. The previous years got out of control. This caused for anyone caught or rumored doing a prank to be suspended, expelled, or arrested. It didn't stop the seniors from using some sort of chemical to burn 01 in the grass above the student parking lot. It was still there two years later (the last time I looked for it) because the grass just wouldn't grow back. No one was caught.

If it is done in good fun such as wrapping a teachers car, for sale signs on the school lawn, and other small things. Throwing water balloons may be too far. There is a potential that people can get hurt. If a person has a potential to get hurt then the prank shouldn't be done. Just remember that teenagers don't seem to understand the concept of future or the potential of harming someone. Of course I can say that about some "adults" too.

[JuniorMintz]

What I want to know is, why the frick do seniors get an entire two weeks of nothing to do?

I might be missing some details, but that seems like an incredible waste of time and money, (either from taxpayers or private funds). A day or two to sign yearbooks and say goodbye, fine. But TWO WEEKS?!?

Seems like time that could have been spent having a job fair, doing charity work, etc...

That said, I think in a school that small, to be playing pranks on kids who could be as young as sixth grade is just plain cruel. I don't care if it's something as silly as water balloons, it's not exactly a level playing field, is it?

[Ferreter]

I've got kind of a split mind about this. My high school pretty much expects senior pranks the last few days: it acts all strict, but they do nothing about it. And usually, it's things that are harmless (like pouring buckets of liquid nitrogen down the halls when the bells ring to scare people- but it always evaporates before it touches anything).

But really, they shouldn't be allowed. There is just too much potential for stupid stuff that would get people hurt or damage objects. The last two years have been a perfect example- one year, they used house paint on cars and had to pay everybody to get it removed and repainted. This year they released live baby chicks, and two got killed.

Even when its just water balloons- how do they know if someone has a book, or an iPod touch or something? I know I'd probably kick someones ass if I had just spent 75$ dying my hair and it got ruined. Like some of you have said, there's just too much liability involved.

[Gravekeeper]

We had the Grad Auction >.>

Where the rest of the school could bid on a grad ( Who would be on stage performing a horrific dance routine ). If someone won you, than you were their slave for the following day.

Bit of incentive to not pick on your underclassman.

Typically, a lot of crossdressing was involved the following day.

[MaggieTheCat]

What I want to know is, why the frick do seniors get an entire two weeks of nothing to do?

I might be missing some details, but that seems like an incredible waste of time and money, (either from taxpayers or private funds). A day or two to sign yearbooks and say goodbye, fine. But TWO WEEKS?!?

Seems like time that could have been spent having a job fair, doing charity work, etc...

That said, I think in a school that small, to be playing pranks on kids who could be as young as sixth grade is just plain cruel. I don't care if it's something as silly as water balloons, it's not exactly a level playing field, is it?

It's not like they're actually in school during the last 2 weeks, doing nothing. They're gone, and I know at least one of them (not one of the two who pulled the prank) had a job lined up right away.

[AdminAssistant]

It's not like they're actually in school during the last 2 weeks, doing nothing. They're gone, and I know at least one of them (not one of the two who pulled the prank) had a job lined up right away.

And a lot of folks take the time to go on 'senior trips' or the like.

[Sylvia727]

When I was in 11th grade, some seniors pulled a prank by trying to cancel school. Sunday night they told everyone that school was cancelled due to a broken water pipe and please make sure to pass on the message to everyone you can. I got three or four different texts telling me school was canceled, and a couple more asking me if I knew anything else. There wasn't anything on the school's website, so I drove down to the school bus stop and waited. It came, I went to school. I'm not sure how many kids skipped, depending on which class there were anywhere from no one to a third of the class missing, but all of the ones who did claimed they thought school was cancelled. The idea was that if the prank had worked, all the teachers would have shown up to an empty school. The teachers were pissed; they couldn't issue detentions, but some of them wouldn't allow make up work for the classes missed.

We also had "Senior Skip Days"; on random Fridays, a group of seniors would declare a skip day and none of us were supposed to show up. The teachers hated it and always declared that no make up work would be given, but again depending on the class they might have twenty out of twenty five be absent. They couldn't really let that ruin that many grades. I always showed. One, school didn't bother me that much. If I hated the class I sat in the back and doodled for an hour. Big whoop. Two, it was always the "popular" kids declaring Senior Skip Days, and why would I lend weight to their laziness? Three, I didn't love school so much that I was willing to jeopardize my chances of getting that diploma and getting out of there.

I didn't participate in any senior pranks. Now, after graduating from middle school, we held a ceremony where we ritualistically burned our uniform cross ties. We hated those bloody cross ties. We would have burned our whole uniforms since the high school had a different set, but the mothers held an end-of-the-year secondhand uniform sale and those outfits were expensive. The cross ties were relatively cheap ($14 new) and were one of the focal points for how much the uniform sucked. Ergo, a nice compromise.

[Skunkle]

Ehh, Greenday, I challenge you for stupidest, shallowest student body. At my high school, senior pranks were usually destructive or disgusting and (mind you, I enjoy well-exectuted, bizarre pranks) NOT funny. One year, the metal shop Seniors cut apart all the stalls in the shop building's mens' restroom, leaving two toilets sitting along the bare walls. Like the missing stall doors in many restrooms (which were done intentionally by locking the door, crawling out under, then kicking it, and were done throughout the year) these were not replaced. Another year, a few seniors filled a large jar with various yellow and brown bodily fluids and did a drive-by, launching it through an open door into a hallway. The whole school stunk. And bad pranks weren't just for seniors after graduation - on two occasions, a hallway was filled with pepper spray (I encountered both). The culprits of those two were not caught.

The only semi-creative prank I saw was when the only driveway into the main parking lot (the one for teachers and all students except Freshmen) had its gate locked shut in the middle of the day with a padlock (stolen by a student of our school) from a rival high school.

I can think of many ideas for high school appropriate pranks that would be actually funny. One that might be considered vandalism involves writing a message - please, Seniors, if you're reading this, keep it G-rated, you want something they won't rip up the field overnight to get rid of - in the football or soccer field using undiluted or underdiluted fertilizer concentrate. You want the grass in those areas to want to grow like mad, so don't use anything that'll kill it if undiluted. Unless they rip out the sod and soil, you'll have a lush, dark green message for a long, long time.

The best pranks, I think (barring a few like that one) are subtle. It takes the viewer a moment to scratch his head and go "Gawrsh... Somethin' wrong here..." before it hits them. And these should make a person - an average person, at least chuckle or go "Wait, WTF?" The latter is often called reality-cracking - you put some incongruous element in somewhere, and it takes a few minutes for people to realize that something is wrong; and when they do, it should be comical.

At my high school, the gym had a big wall above the bleachers which had the Alma Mater and Fight Song flanking the school crest. Painting this on big sheets of paper and making small, bizarre changes, or hanging them upside-down, would have been funny. Instead, a few students smashed holes in the wall with sledgehammers. They DID get caught, and paid for the repairs. The line between prank and damage isn't always fine - sometimes it's too long a stretch to have jumped by accident.

[violetyoshi]

This is what happened at my school:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenbro...azing_incident

None of the teachers got fired for not preventing it, in fact most of theme were aware of kids wearing the Powderpuff Uniforms in school, and said nothing about it.

No wonder my high school was horrible, they worshiped the popular kids, and let them go wild. This is probably now why schools are more concerned about allowing pranks.

[Hawaiian Eskimo]

The senior prank at our school wasn't that bad (it was a small charter school). As I recall they TPed the hallway, filled the office windows in with packing peanuts, put "you are being monitored by CCTV" signs in the toilet stalls, replaced Vista on the computers with DOS (it was a geeky school ), and some other harmless things. The seniors showed back up around lunch and cleaned up the halls, but they left the rest alone.

I did hear second hand from one of the larger high schools that one kid decided to pour mercury (probably stolen) in the entrance hall and in some of the hallways, they ended up canceling school there and having HAZMAT clean it up (I drove past there later after school ended, and hazmat was cleaning something up)

[lordlundar]

replaced Vista on the computers with DOS (it was a geeky school )

They weren't pulling a prank, they were improving the systems!

[violetyoshi]

The senior prank at our school wasn't that bad (it was a small charter school). As I recall they TPed the hallway, filled the office windows in with packing peanuts, put "you are being monitored by CCTV" signs in the toilet stalls, replaced Vista on the computers with DOS (it was a geeky school ), and some other harmless things. The seniors showed back up around lunch and cleaned up the halls, but they left the rest alone.

I did hear second hand from one of the larger high schools that one kid decided to pour mercury (probably stolen) in the entrance hall and in some of the hallways, they ended up canceling school there and having HAZMAT clean it up (I drove past there later after school ended, and hazmat was cleaning something up)

Yay geeks! I'm a nerd, if that. I play video games, and spend a lot of time on the computer, but don't know a spot about programming.