Banned from grad for senior prank

[buttercup132]

That's stupid for just gluing trays together . Maybe a detention or something but I think even suspention is too much for doing something little like that. I know at my school you would probly just get told off by the teacher. But the same thing happened to one of my friends last year for a prank he did.
As for the swearing, I think it's stupid to get suspended for that to at least at my school it would be because the teachers swear at us too, so honestly what do they expect when they give the kids no respect and are setting that example.

He cannot expect a teen to keep his voice under control when he as an adult cannot do the same.

Wow I wish my mother would understand this..

[Edwina's Secretary]

As for the swearing, I think it's stupid to get suspended for that to at least at my school it would be because the teachers swear at us too, so honestly what do they expect when they give the kids no respect and are setting that example.[/color][/b]

Wow I wish my mother would understand this..

I must say I do not believe you. I do not believe teachers call students M*&^&*^F)(*()*ers. If they do, they should be fired.

They certainly need to spend more time teaching writing skills.

What prank would you consider sufficient for disciplinary action? Someone physically hurt? An animal hurt? The amount of money it cost to clean up after the prank?

A prank is a prank. Someone has to clean up after the mess. The school has to buy new trays.

[crow_noir]

So why not just make the kid that did it pay for the new trays?

You learn a lot of respect for the things you have to pay for.

Even if i accidentally broke a toy i never got a replacement. That was that.

People in this thread keep talking about "The Real World." In the real world the phrase goes "You broke it, you bought it."

I must say I do not believe you. I do not believe teachers call students M*&^&*^F)(*()*ers. If they do, they should be fired.

They certainly need to spend more time teaching writing skills.

What prank would you consider sufficient for disciplinary action? Someone physically hurt? An animal hurt? The amount of money it cost to clean up after the prank?

A prank is a prank. Someone has to clean up after the mess. The school has to buy new trays.

[buttercup132]

So why not just make the kid that did it pay for the new trays?

You learn a lot of respect for the things you have to pay for.

Even if i accidentally broke a toy i never got a replacement. That was that.

People in this thread keep talking about "The Real World." In the real world the phrase goes "You broke it, you bought it."

That kind of punishment would be better IMO.

And yes the teachers say that and no they aren't fired. Nobody cares enough to go and report them.

One of my teachers is sexist and makes fun of guys who do "sissy" sports, in every class he teaches. Last year he made fun of my friend for getting stabbed all because he's 20 and still bmx's. My friends obviously were mad, they were graduating so for the prank they egged his car. They got in trouble the teacher still never has.

[Edwina's Secretary]

Because mommy would pay for it...teaching nothing...

[sparks19]

Because mommy would pay for it...teaching nothing...

well then that's a whole different issue. In my house.... If I damaged something.... I had to pay for it. Hence, my strong resistance to driving.... you get a whole new respect for cars when you have to pay to have the dents and scratches fixed in your mothers car lol. At 17 or 18 years old he should at least have a part time job I would hope....

But I have still been unsuccessful in finding the news story about this particular case.... I didn't actually hear it on the news... it was on a talk radio show and they were discussing it with the mother... and then some other people (I don't know who they were)

[buttercup132]

Because mommy would pay for it...teaching nothing...

Why do you assume that? Nice way to view teenagers I know my mom sure as heck wouldn't pay for it. It's stupid remarks like that, that make younger people disrespect their elders..

[lizbud]

Why do you assume that? Nice way to view teenagers I know my mom sure as heck wouldn't pay for it. It's stupid remarks like that, that make younger people disrespect their elders..

It's clear you don't understand respect. It is earned with wise choices
in the adult world. The world owes you nothing but a chance to earn respect
for yourself.

[Edwina's Secretary]

Why do you assume that? Nice way to view teenagers I know my mom sure as heck wouldn't pay for it. It's stupid remarks like that, that make younger people disrespect their elders..

I love the delicious irony of this statement.

The thing is...I was once a teenager. You have not yet been an adult yet. (If you are lucky you will be one day.)

You do not have the privilege of calling me or my remark stupid.

You earn that and you haven't done it yet.

And a part of growing up is learning to control your temper and your words.

Meanwhile, as long as I pay the taxes that purchase the trays and other supplies to provide you with an education, I earn the right to make negative remarks about people who deface school property, are rude and disrepectful to parents and school authorities.

Let me know how you feel in 20 years.

[Cataholic]

Interesting in observing what side someone comes down on- too severe, or not too severe. Seems pretty tied into how old (read that experienced, mature, worldly, however you like) the voter is.

Things I found 'prankish' as a younger person; egging cars and TPing someones house. I now look back on those things and think, "Geez, what kind of idiot was I"? How stupid could I (my friends, too) have been? VERY.


To talk to ANY person like that? WOW. Those just aren't the sort of things one wakes up and says, "Today, I am going to start this sort of disrespectfulness".

High School should be viewed as A training ground for the 'real world'. So, better he learn his actions affect his life NOW when he isn't responsible for much besides pocket money and gas money.

[RICHARD]

I just read a story about 5 kids who were denied their diplomas because of the people who were there to watch the ceremony.

_I saw those AHs that disprupted a college ceremony because a GWB crony came to speak-

Now, Y'all have freedom of speech, but why are you going to wreck a gathering where YOU are not the only ones with an opinion, Pro or Con.

I mean some people made a sacrifice to GET thru school and some mouthy punks have to turn it into a clip on the evening news?

Politics has nothing to do with it...I am talking DECORUM.

Oops, Half the graduating class probably don't know what it meant.

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back to the original point......

The families of the students SIGNED a contract saying that they would maintain their 'cool' during the ceremony and not yell or scream....so the top kid in the class is denied their diploma because her stupid arse family and four thers can't be quiet for a minute....Now they are suing the district.

I use the term effing morons too much. These are Stupid Effing Morons.