Since school officials didn’t see them in action, how do they know that it was done unsafely? And, BTW - Do they punish all creativity at this school?
LOL
Vandalism is in the eye of the beholder......
Take your girl on a date and avoid the whole “drunken teen dies in prom night accident” gig.
Sounds like the future plotline to Footloose III.
I wonder if the kid has sold his movie rights?
"Did you really think we want those laws observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them to be broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against... We're after power and we mean it... There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.Well, when there aren't enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Reardon, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with." (Atlas Shrugged 1957)
That's usually reserved for after-prom activities.
Y’know school administrators could construe just about anything as a “safety risk” nowadays.
This is ridiculous.
Does this kid think rules do not apply to him? For future reference, if it is after hours and the gate is locked, maybe you shouldn’t go tape letters on the side of the building.
Geez.
A generation ago, nothing would have become of this.
He would have been required to clean up his mess and that was that.
I wonder what would happen if they showed up anyway ... I guess they’d likely be expelled. What a brain dead world we live in.
I can see some punishment being meted out - detention, service, etc. as the kid suggested. What a bunch of humorless tyrants.
Maybe they should stage a counter-prom.
Looking at this, I am pretty sure this is a case of her thinking “we’re just friends, he’s nice...but...” and him thinking “I am SO in love with her and if I could just...”
Ok, it has to be said - if he’d asked another boy to the prom, no one would have been suspended from the prom.
Decisions like this are what is giving public schools a bad name. Ok, sure, if he’d fallen and was injured his parents would have sued the school for everything they had. Is there a law stating that school grounds are off limits past X hour? There can’t be what with kids coming in at all hours of the day and night from out of town activities. It’s a public school so I can’t see where he’d be tresspassing. The only thing he did wrong was behaving like a dumb kid. With his parents’ strong community ties, the principal may be wishing she’d not gone so overboard when her contract isn’t renewed.
The other girls boyfriend found me and tossed me and my rented tuxedo through a plate glass window in the square. I got away becaue my cousin punched him out.
Later, after the prom, and my girl disappeared, one of my friends smashed out a motel room door, and shot everyone with a fire extinguisher. Another friend was throwing bud tall (bottles) through the windows.
As I was discreetly leaving the scene of these crimes, the guy who threw my butt through the window earlier caught me in the parking lot and kicked the crap out of me. Then he tossed me down a hill.
I paid for the Tuxedo, Harvard paid for the stitches.
We got screwed out of our senior activities week because someone spray painted on the gym door, and it wasn’t even a senior. Teachers are sad cases that exercise power trips in their little fishbowls every time they get a chance. Small towns are the worst.
Safety and Enviromentalism will be the death of freedom.
FOXWOODS Casino nearby should give them a dinner at their best restaurant, tickets for a show, and send a Limo for them...great publicity for the casino..
Our country is going to hell. Creativity and initiative is surpressed and we are being forced in to lockstep servitude.