Idiot High School Teachers Give Students Permission for Senior Prank, Unlock Doors to School Overnight, Students End Up Destroying the Place
SPRING HILL, Tenn. (WTVF) — A senior prank gone wrong — that’s what one Spring Hill High student says led to classes being canceled on Friday.
Maury County Public Schools and law enforcement say the school was vandalized overnight.
"Pranks are supposed to be funny. It wasn’t really funny. They ruined a lot of things for a lot of people," senior Blair Schneider said.
"There was spray paint. The desks were flipped over, textbooks with pages ripped out, which is a lot of money. There was Sun Drop sprayed all over the floor, which everyone thought was pee. It wasn’t. We found out it was Sun Drop, which is a little better." Schneider said.
The school was closed on Friday to clean up the mess.
"All the doors were left unlocked and some of them were propped up, so people were freely allowed to go in and do whatever they wanted, last night. A lot of them were juniors and a lot of people that didn’t attend that school were there, which is what is scary because anyone could’ve walked in," Schneider said.
What happened to the classic prank of, "have your school's token farm boy bring three pigs to school, number the pigs 1, 2 and 4, than release them in the halls so the teachers look endlessly for a pig #3 that doesn't exist."
That's a good ol' fashioned senior prank. It's funny, harmless, and at the end of the day you get to roast the pigs over a fire Hawaiian luau style. It's a win-win for everyone. Even the pigs. Especially the pigs. It was only a matter of time before they were turned into bacon. Better to go out a hero as the centerpiece of a legendary prank than in line with 30 other pigs on a slaughterhouse conveyor belt that dumps them into a woodchipper.
I'm not sure what the folks in charge at Spring Hill High School expected to happen here. To open up your doors overnight and tell students to go crazy is an awful idea on every level. For one, the fun of senior pranking is being able to pull one over on the teachers. To give students permission to prank is cutting the legs out from underneath them entirely. You can't have teachers walking into school the next morning thinking, "Oh boy I wonder what these rascals have planned for me today." Half of what makes a prank great is the element of surprise. Eliminating the surprise factor almost makes the prank not a prank at all.
Secondly, you can't expect an entire class of seniors to come together as one and pull off a proper prank. That's too many cooks in the kitchen. Even if there is a group of students with a halfway decent idea, there's going to be way more students with terrible ones. Inevitably those students will feel left out and the idiots who's idea of a prank is "shitting on the principals desk and painting slurs on the lockers" are going to break off on their own and do exactly that. Come tomorrow, the alarm clocks hidden in the ceiling set to go off at various times of day will be overshowed by the litany of felonies committed across the property.
To be fair, this school didn't end up getting vandalized too terribly bad. But if you announce to the world that the doors of your high school will be left open over night and tell people to go crazy, you have to expect something like this to happen. I know the school didn't word it that way, but you're a moron if you don't think that's how people are going to take it.
What the kids really should have done is nothing. If your "cool teachers" are going to give you permission to prank, the best prank is to do nothing at all. The teachers want you to prank them. Don't give them the satisfaction. The night before when the doors are unlocked, have the entire senior class should show up to the school and do absolutely nothing. Stay there all night, drink liquor out of Gatorade bottles, smoke a little weed out back of the school, and have a good time with your pals. Make the teacher think you're planning something huge. But at the end of the night, leave the school prank-fee. Make the teachers sit around nervous all day waiting for a ball that's never going to drop.
That being said... it is pretty fun to destroy things. I can't say with 100% certainty that high school me wouldn't have joined in on the fun. Sure, there's a risk of getting in trouble. But in the end you simply play the "It was just a prank! I thought it was Prank Day!" card, and you'll receive nothing more than a slap on the wrist. In this case, it sounds like the students got off scot-free.
Several parents, including Allen, said they received calls Monday saying students who took part in the senior prank day were told they would have to pay a $50 restitution fee and work two hours of community service.
“I was fine with it. I think consequences come with actions. Although she was told it was approved, she was still there. She was fine; she was going to pay the fee with her own money and do the service like they were requiring,” Allen explained.
On Tuesday afternoon, however, Allen received a second message from the school saying upon further video review, her child wouldn’t be required to pay or work community service after all.
If the teachers give you free pass to turn your high school into a rage room, it's hard not to take advantage. But in the future, if you're a teacher, don't try to control school pranks. If it happens, it happens. You don't need student's claiming that you're the one who gave the permission to fill the school toilets with cement.
Teacher Approved Prank Day is never going to work out. It's a concept that should be permanently retired. The pranks are either going to suck, or people will take things way too far.