Principal resigns after telling senior class to ‘bring it’ for their senior prank and it ends up causing thousands of dollars in damages: ‘It's my time to bow out’

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    "They were told to bring it'..."
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    Senior prank went to far... Teacher Support &/or Advice I teach in a small rural district currently and am floored at how this is being handled, so I am looking for some perspective. Essentially, in a nutshell, the High School principal told the seniors to "bring it" with their prank this year. The president of the school board gave the kids keys to the building for them to get inside when nobody was there. Essentially, they destroyed the place. Perhaps destroyed is a bit too strong of a word bu
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    Examples of what was done include, pouring sand and glitter everywhere including computers and robotic equipment. Took shrimp and minnows and placed them in the ceiling tiles and in teachers desks/areas, poured the juices into chairs and keyboards. Got into desks (where 504's and IEP's were kept) and removed personal teacher items, which still have not been returned. Thousands of dollars of technology may be now useless. The principal (who for the record, is a really good guy) resigned Monday mo
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    The principal (who for the record, is a really good guy) resigned Monday morning. Because the students covered the cameras, admin cannot identify who is directly responsible and so they didn't even clean up all of the mess they created. Admin had maintenance do it. My position is that although they had adult permission to "bring it", they should still be held accountable for their actions. They are seniors and they are old enough to own their actions. It's just another sign from the universe tha
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    Mic98125 15h ago So basically maintenance and janitorial gets treated like garbage by the students, the principal, and the school board president. Not great! → 1.5K ⇓ Reply ↑ Share CPA Lady 14h ago And the taxpayers pay for the damage 437 Reply ↑ Share TheOtherOneK • 11h ago And the IT people/department. 173 Reply ↑ Share
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    Leading-Layer4708 • 4h ago As someone who is a janitor. This is all I could think about. We should just be called maids at this point. Because I'm cleaning up after people more than I'm cleaning the building itself. ㅇ 수 315 Reply ↑ Share Patient-Evening-8226 • 3h ago As a former public school district IT technician, I am thankful to janitors like you at the schools. The custodial staff I worked with at the district I was employed at were some of the best and kindest people I had ever met in my l
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    TheRealRollestonian • 15h ago High School | Math | Florida There are three rules to pranks: Don't cause any damage. Don't leave something for a custodian to fix or clean up. Don't touch teachers' stuff. That leaves plenty of space for creativity. 253 Reply ↑ Share
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    BillfredL 5h ago Exactly. I was at an event at one high school where the senior class commissioned 10,000 business cards that said "Good luck getting rid of us!" and hid them in books and signs and displays. Nice slow burn payoff that's trivial to clean up when you find one. ㅇ 수 945 ☐ Reply ↑ Share Dry Customer967 • 38m ago I remember our seniors reconstructed a mini cooper inside a building overnight, loads of stories of great senior pranks at my school. Unfortunately the year above ours ruined
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    baked_seasaltcracker • 4h ago Yeah this is actually awful. My senior prank our teachers begged us to to not do anything awful - for reference, in previous years students had snuck in after hours and put wheelie bins on top of buildings that our singular janitor had to get down, and made glad wrap walls in hallways that we had to crawl underneath to get past. another year one class had sprinkled glitter everywhere, put food dye in soap dispensers and filled the staff room with styrofoam bean bag
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    brooksie42 OP. 16h ago He sent an email stating personal reasons. It's my understanding that he was livid that there would be no consequences for the kids and resigned. You've made some valid points, and I appreciate it. 477 Reply ↑ Share Phantereal 13h ago I mean, what consequences could they have given the kids if they covered the cameras and there was no other way to tell who did it? The only consequence I can think of would be to cancel graduation and/or any post-graduation celebration until
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    Right-Independence33 • 16h ago Your principal might be "a really good guy," but he's also a really dumb guy as is the president of the school board. This may be the most reckless, irresponsible thing I've ever heard of from an administrator and that's saying a lot. It's the equivalent of opening all of the prison cell doors, tell the guards to go home, and expect for the inmates to behave themselves. This is the height of stupidity. 885 Reply ↑ Share • a_person1852.14h ago Edited 13h ago So fool
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    ConcentrateNo364 • 17h ago This is vandalism, not a prank. Kids have no sense of a good prank nowadays, seen nothing funny, or unique on these prank days for like 8 years now. Kids should be arrested too. 1.8K Reply ↑ Share Thisshucksq 16h ago • In all honesty this is on the school board president. > ↑ 785 ⇓ Reply ↑ Share Funwithfun14 • 15h ago Any decent lawyer will get the kids off. Board and Principal are really responsible. It's like me telling my 6yo to go nuts in the candy store. 388 Reply
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    Paracheirodon ssp. 13h ago Somewhat related, but this got me thinkin' about how half the student body ought to have been arrested that that devious lick trend was going around. When my entire classroom was trashed and the majority of my science equipment stolen or broken I had admin telling me "kids being kids" and "it's just a tiktok thing" and students telling me "it's just a meme" and "chill out, it's just a prank". ☺ ↑ 66 ⇓ ☐ Reply ↑ Share PoorScienceTeacher ⚫ 10h ago It stopped it real fast
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    Right-Independence33 • 16h ago This incident reminds me of one of my favorite quotes from an X-files scene: "Did you really think you could call up the Devil and ask him to behave?" 149 Reply ↑ Share OrneryError1 ⚫8h ago That episode is about a high school too 23 Reply ↑ Share Redqueenhypo⚫ 5h ago That episode is great, partly bc when they pray to the devil in German they use the formal sie ↑ 8 ⇓ Reply ↑ Share
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    Camsmuscle 15h ago So I'm sure the principal assumed by saying "bring it" that they'd come up with a good prank. His resignation is appropriate given that he should have known better. The president of the school board should also resign. He gave the kids the keys to the building without any thought to the consequences. Did he/she even bother to consider what could happen? The principal may have encouraged them, but the board president gave them access and essentially provided permission to destr
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    CocoValentino • 13h ago Hey OP, if this is JHS, I agree with you. These kids caused felony level damage to the school. I'm an attorney and our state law does not permit anyone to authorize another person to comit unlawful acts. These 17-19 year olds are guilty of criminal mischief by destroying property not belonging to them. These students could not have reasonably believed they were authorized to destroy property to the extent that they did. Their actions crossed into criminal behavior. Our st
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