Posted on 05/25/2023 1:03:43 AM PDT by Morgana
A North Carolina principal is under fire after handing over keys to the school to let students pull off a 'senior prank' that created mass chaos and left teachers 'in tears.'
Burns High Principal Jennifer Aberly thought a few students were going to put up streamers and balloons on Thursday last week - but arrived the next morning to find significant damage in the hallways and classrooms.
Students greased floors and door handles, put potted plants in toilets, stacked desks, and scattered teachers' personal belongings while inside unsupervised.
'When I first saw that, I was very upset,' school board member Danny Blanton told the Charlotte Observer. 'That should not have happened, especially a principal giving kids authorization and then not being there supervising that.'
The incident is the latest in a series of so-called 'senior pranks' across the country where major destruction is carried out with little regard for school property.
Parents, teachers, and board members at the Lawndale, North Carolina school are now expressing their outrage over Aberly's actions.
Photos of the destruction inside the school shows the extent of the damage done by the group of teenagers.
Students used 'globs of vaseline' to cover door handles and slathered baby oil on hallway floors to make the surfaces slippery when walking, Blanton said.
One photo shows a potted plant placed directly inside a toilet bowl in one of the school's bathrooms.
The board member also said a microwave was dropped into the water.
Another picture is of chairs and desks that were pulled out of classrooms and stacked on top of each other in the corridors.
In arguably the most concerning image shared by the board member, ceiling tiles appear to have been pulled down while items are littered around one room.
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As I rode away on the bus I often would wonder how they cleaned that all up, then I figured they had leaf blowers back then.
Lord of the Flies.
Back in college they would do the senior prank thing. It ended when I was a sophomore. The seniors broke into the science lab building, plugged all of the sinks and drains on the ground floor and turned all of the water on. I don’t recall if it was for all night or the weekend, but millions of dollars of damage to the building and equipment.
And this was 40 years ago at a top-notch engineering school.
They put a stop to any type of those “prank” days after that.
The engineering school I went to? We would rappel down the side of the coed dorm, that is until campus security came by and made us stop.
Early 1970’s graduate, no pranks.
Do I need to look?
No need to look the usual suspects of course!!!
All Amish kids
Easy solution: Prosecute the students (since it is known who was given the keys to the school) and fire the principal who let them go in after hours without supervision.
Um, unless the perps and the principal are from a protected race (which the kids appear to be), so never mind….
Charges should be filed against the students - who cares if it impacts their college futures.
Also, fire that stupid, inbred looking, poor excuse of a Principal.
Like letting farm animals loose and not expecting them to defecate on everything.
NO security cams?
Pranks used to reflect ingenuity and intelligence. Putting a cow on the roof or something. This is just vandalism reflecting their level of intellect. Hell they couldn’t even do it without a principal assisting them.
Weak.
The goal used to be for the prank to be discovered and leave people wondering how the hell they did that. Not be given a key from the principal and just do destruction. Fools.
In high school we turned a teachers Volkswagen Bug sideways in it’s parking spot & ran a couple of pair of panties up the flag pole.
I have seen some senior pranks that were clever without being destructive such as hiring a mariachi band to follow the principal around all day, or buying an old car cutting a slot in it and slide it around the flag pole.
These students are (most likely) 18 and are adults. They will soon learn what they did was not a “prank” but vandalism, a crime. Unfortunately a lot of the “pranks” posted on youtube are vandalism, and with all the cameras on school property (and recording themselves do it) they are caught and face real world consequences. At most a criminal record and jail time at least having to pay to fix everything they broke.
The sad thing is they are allowed to vote!
Early 80’s graduate, our worse offenses: we drove in a circle for 5 minutes at the high school drop off the last day of school. One guy decided to drive through the grass, big mistake, he was pulled over by the cops and cited. He was not allowed to walk in graduation and his parents had to pay for damages. Our other worse offense, the guys sung the Do Wah Diddy Diddy tune as we were marching through the hallway into the gym to graduate with the teachers having a meltdown.
The best senior prank I heard of was at my old high school Southwest High School in Kansas City, Missouri on Wornall Road, home of the Indians, also derisively known as “the cake eaters” because we grew up in middle class and upper middle class families who valued education and decent behavior—the seniors dismantled a VW bug and reassembled it on the fourth floor.
Pretty damn clever. Southwest High School had a 95% rate of its graduates attending college.
What could possibly go wrong?
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