Mani
03-28-2014, 05:28 AM
Reading about so many stories of kids in HS getting busted and sent to prison or having felonies on their record for the most benign reasons.
I don't recognize HS in America at all anymore.
When I was in HS there were traditions that seemed like everyone in the surrounding neighborhood schools participated in...like Senior Skip Day...Senior Pranks, etc. I grew up in a quiet midwestern suburb.
I'm wondering if it's even possible to have senior pranks anymore? Has that tradition been squashed because now that kind of hijinx will land you in prison? Ruin your chances of getting a job? Lose out on a scholarship? Lose acceptance into a University?
Our Senior prank was before the days of email and the internet, the teachers posted the FINAL EXAM schedule on the front of each door in the classroom. Day 1 Period 4,5,6, Day 2: 1,2,3 etc.
This was also the days before Word, excel, or word processing software, so it was a somewhat more challenging task, for a student to create an exact replica with a DIFFERENT SCHEDULE. (People didn't have PCs in their home, let alone printers, it sounds like a simple prank today, but it wasn't so easy back then). One of our computer experts was able to figure out how to do it, would sneak into the classrooms and posted the new schedule all over school. It caused massive chaos and was brilliant.
The principal of the school during Graduation, actually said it was one of the best senior pranks in years. He wanted to congratulate the student and asked if anybody wanted to take credit for it (and said there's no repercussions) and the student stood up, got a loud round of applause and the principal congratulated him and it was a good laugh.
I wonder if today, that kid would be hauled off to jail, or suspended or expelled from school for the amount of chaos and frustration he caused the school?
And the previous year the senior prank was to create chalk marks of disabled people all over the ground. So all the kids showed up to school that day and all over the ground there were body chalk lines everywhere on the sidewalk and parking lot, etc. I think some were disabled but not all. (Like body chalk marks with wheelchairs and/or crutches, and other random stuff).
I wonder if today that would be defacing school property and those kids would be again, arrested and detained and sent away in handcuffs.
I was told in previous years, much before my time, students one year disassembled a car, snuk into the school cafeteria or gym, and reassembled it before morning. Something like that. Those kids would have probably been shot onsite for sneaking into the school today.
I've been out of high school for so long, all these stories today don't even sound like school at all. Just some bizarre sociology experiment gone bad. Or some strange backass foreign country.
Did any of you older posters have harmless senior pranks that were funny memories, but today would be sending kids off to prison?
I don't recognize HS in America at all anymore.
When I was in HS there were traditions that seemed like everyone in the surrounding neighborhood schools participated in...like Senior Skip Day...Senior Pranks, etc. I grew up in a quiet midwestern suburb.
I'm wondering if it's even possible to have senior pranks anymore? Has that tradition been squashed because now that kind of hijinx will land you in prison? Ruin your chances of getting a job? Lose out on a scholarship? Lose acceptance into a University?
Our Senior prank was before the days of email and the internet, the teachers posted the FINAL EXAM schedule on the front of each door in the classroom. Day 1 Period 4,5,6, Day 2: 1,2,3 etc.
This was also the days before Word, excel, or word processing software, so it was a somewhat more challenging task, for a student to create an exact replica with a DIFFERENT SCHEDULE. (People didn't have PCs in their home, let alone printers, it sounds like a simple prank today, but it wasn't so easy back then). One of our computer experts was able to figure out how to do it, would sneak into the classrooms and posted the new schedule all over school. It caused massive chaos and was brilliant.
The principal of the school during Graduation, actually said it was one of the best senior pranks in years. He wanted to congratulate the student and asked if anybody wanted to take credit for it (and said there's no repercussions) and the student stood up, got a loud round of applause and the principal congratulated him and it was a good laugh.
I wonder if today, that kid would be hauled off to jail, or suspended or expelled from school for the amount of chaos and frustration he caused the school?
And the previous year the senior prank was to create chalk marks of disabled people all over the ground. So all the kids showed up to school that day and all over the ground there were body chalk lines everywhere on the sidewalk and parking lot, etc. I think some were disabled but not all. (Like body chalk marks with wheelchairs and/or crutches, and other random stuff).
I wonder if today that would be defacing school property and those kids would be again, arrested and detained and sent away in handcuffs.
I was told in previous years, much before my time, students one year disassembled a car, snuk into the school cafeteria or gym, and reassembled it before morning. Something like that. Those kids would have probably been shot onsite for sneaking into the school today.
I've been out of high school for so long, all these stories today don't even sound like school at all. Just some bizarre sociology experiment gone bad. Or some strange backass foreign country.
Did any of you older posters have harmless senior pranks that were funny memories, but today would be sending kids off to prison?