Senior Pranks: The Good, Bad, and Ugly

<p>At our school, the senior prank was playing the song “Never Gonna Give you Up” by Rick Astley on the school intercom, so everybody heard it. It was pretty funny.</p>

<p>I had a student about 10 years ago pull a great, harmless prank. (Would be tough to do now days with cameras everywhere.) </p>

<p>He owed something like $10 for overdue books to the library. So he got 1000 pennies. He then seperated them into groups of 100. He put them in ziplock bags and taped them to plastic alarm clocks. He then got into his current teachers (and the principal and AD’s offices) classrooms and placed the clocks and pennies in hard to find places and set the clocks. He set the clocks to go off 2 minutes before the end of the period for each class. When they went off the teachers had to find the annoying noise (if they couldn’t find it they had to wait til the next day when it went off again, and again and again). When you found the clock (mine was in the ceiling of my room (took me about 30 seconds to find it) the pennies were attached with a note asking you to turn in to the librarian with a copy of his fine. I thought it was a clever, harmless joke, he owned up to it and no harm or damage to the school and no hazing to underclassman.</p>

<p>(By the way nothing happened to him besides a talk with the principal.)</p>

<p>We were going to have a water fight but the administration found out and rather than canceling it, they let us skip last period and have a water fight! It was awesome but I’m not sure if that can be considered a prank anymore!?</p>

<p>This year’s seniors threw water and soap all along the hallway to form a water slide. Administration kept all the students in class so our end-of-year parties were almost cancelled and everyone was pretty upset. All the seniors got to walk but they didn’t actually get their diploma. In order to get it they have to do 10 hours of community service which isn’t that bad actually.</p>

<p>That’s funny. This year, our seniors also had a beach party in the courtyard. There was a large pool (16 feet in diameter, I think?) filled with water two or three feet deep. They also got a bunch of sand from various beaches everywhere. Apparrently, they started preparations at 1:00 to 2:00 AM. </p>

<p>The administration seemed to love it compared to last year’s comparatively lame prank (post-its on all the windows in the school). The principal even came on the intercom and said that he liked the creativity. They even let the students (mostly seniors) play in it during lunch. I think Security started draining the pool during lunch, but its still almost completely full of water and when I left, there were a bunch of students still playing in it.</p>

<p>So, a very supportive administration here…</p>

<p>Around 4 or 5 years ago, the senior class did a prank where they brought 2 goats to school before school and painted the numbers 1 and 3 on each of them. They then set the goats loose around the school. The two goats were rounded up but apparently the administration spent 2 or 3 days looking for the nonexistent goat #2.</p>

<p>Our senior prank sucked. The class of 2012 seniors just spread glitter on the floor of the whole school, and it wasn’t very much. It was really annoying more than anything else.</p>

<p>Not in my school, but the funniest prank I ever heard of was done in my friend’s school, where they set three chickens free, and each was labeled Chicken One, Chicken Two or Chicken Four. They spent three hours looking for Chicken Three!
But in my school they turned all of the chairs in the auditorium so they were facing backwards, put ketchup in the soap dispensers, put food coloring in the toilet bowls, toilet-papered every single item on the secretary’s desk, and papered the principal’s office with pictures of her doing the Chicken Dance. (Don’t even ask.)</p>

<p>The 12th graders at my school were going to make a tent city behind the school and spend the night there (Occupy High School), but the administration found out and told them they couldn’t do that. :(</p>

<p>I don’t think there was a prank this year (if there was they did a really bad job) but, last year’s was pretty cool. At my school they have this place called the Oval. It’s really just a giant patch of grass in the shape of an oval in the middle of the driveway. Last year the Seniors set up a Slip n’ Slide there and on the football field which is right behind our school and started blasting music during their field day while everyone else was still in school. Our dean and principal thought it was hilarious and probably would have left them alone but, they had to stop because the math teachers complained (ONLY the math teachers. The English department is right next to them and they didn’t say ANYTHING) about them being too loud since most of their rooms are right across from the football field. They let them keep it in the Oval though. ^_^.</p>

<p>Zip Tieing every desk and chair together in random formations, then taking all of the scissors from every room. It would have been more funny if my teacher didn’t have a wire cutter with her and had her room set up by 1st hour. The toughest teacher at the school yelled at the seniors and made them clean her room. One of the math teachers sent her kid home to get scissors, it was hilarious. The principal was so mad we had to have an impromptu assembly at the beginning of the day.</p>

<p>My freshman year the seniors brought in a (root beer) keg.
Sophomore year the seniors placed hundreds of red SOLO cups in every corner of the hallway. Basically this hallway is a giant rectangle, so anyone caught in between the four corners couldn’t go anywhere without stepping over these cups filled with water. But people didn’t really care and the seniors cleaned up the puddles. Kind of lame.
My junior year, all the seniors got to school hours early and parked in the teachers’ lot. My alma mater is in the city so parking is difficult. The teachers were pretty mad. I thought they overreacted a little bit, but at the same time the seniors should have been more considerate of the older teachers and the pregnant teacher, too. Just let them have their parking spot when they arrived or something.
And finally, my class flipped over every piece of furniture in the school. It took some time for everyone to flip the furniture back. We tried to be safe and funny.</p>

<p>my step-dad’s class and the one before him were both funny…</p>

<p>The year before him, the class took the principal’s car and pushed it do the hill not the edge of campus. They dug a hole in the side of the hill and pushed the car in, then filled in the hole so that half the car was sticking up out of the side of the hill.</p>

<p>His senior class had a really good mechanic. The guy disassembled the principal’s car, and reassembled it on the roof of the school!</p>

<p>Both were pretty bad, but funny</p>

<p>At my son’s school the seniors got in overnight and filled the main hall with thousands of water filled dixie cups. It was harmless but took forever to clean up because they had to be picked up and dumped individually.</p>

<p>My other son’s school allows a senior water fight and had a prank that was mainly TPing the school.</p>

<p>The class of 2010 at my school decided to glue a bunch of 2010 pennies on all of the door locks. Apparently it was costly to remove and the administration was angry. The class of 2011 set up a moon-bounce (is that what those are called?) in the courtyard which was pretty harmless, except for the fact that the first groups of students that got in on the fun got itching powder on themselves!</p>

<p>Last year, they Saran wrapped everything in the principal’s office. They taped everything to her desk, Saran wrapped the whole thing with ten layers so it would be really hard to get off, and then Saran wrapped everything else in the office individually.
They also covere’s the secretary’s desk with copies of her picture.
This year the seniors brought their kid sibs to school- after they realized there was no place to put them and that all the students were tripping over them (true story- a kid went to the emergency room), they sent them home.
Last year, of course, they also spiked the Diet Coke at school lock-in with vodka, when there was at least one nursing teacher and another couple on meds. They got suspended for a week- I thought they should be expelled. The entire school walked out of there half drunk.</p>

<p>Last year our senior’s prank was ridiculously lame; they skipped school for one day.</p>

<p>One whole day?! The seniors at your school are some real rebels! Our senior skip days are whenever we have three day weekends or whenever there’s a test.</p>

<p>^Normally it might be somewhat of a big deal.
I remember hearing from someone that the seniors at their school skipped class (not on the standard senior ditch day) costing their school to lose so much money from attendance that two APs that were slated for the next year were cut.
However, at my school, only around 20-30 people actually participated so it didn’t mean anything.</p>

<p>At my school, the prank has to be approved by administration which takes out all of the fun.
Class of 2011 just took out all of the chairs in the cafeteria and had a beach party outside. It was pretty lame.
Class of 2012 filled the foyer (main entrance) with cups of water spelling “2012”. All of the underclassmen had to go around to another entrance. That was a lot better. The seniors even cleaned it up themselves, which was good of them. And then an art teacher recycled the cups for art projects.
Of course, other little things happened throughout the day. Someone let crickets loose in the library. I saw ketchup smeared all over a stairwell.
Then at the end of the day, the seniors are let out like 30 min early (for the safety of underclassmen) and they do a victory lap around the school and are running and screaming and disrupting classes and it’s a fun tradition.</p>

<p>Police have been called in the past to get the seniors to class. This is the first year that we actually have a resource officer at our school so that might ruin some fun</p>