It was just a prank !

Fort Mill Times (SC) ^ | 1/22/10 | olepap

[olepap]

It was just a prank!

On Thursday, April 1, 2010 ( April Fool’s day) me and my class of fellow students decided to pull a small prank that would not hurt or disrupt anything during class: At 3 p.m., the entire class (or half of the class, as it ended up to be) fell out of their seats at the same time and laid in the floor for a few seconds and then got back in their chairs again.

After we had returned back into our chairs we began reading again. By the time we had all returned to our chairs, our teacher had left the classroom and, what we later found out, had called an administrator. We were all taken down to the ISS (in-school suspension) room where we were then given two days of in-school suspension. When we pulled our prank, it was at the end of the day and the last day before spring break; we were also reading and it was not during a lecture or a test. It was a simple prank where nothing was broken or hurt.

The reason I’m writing this is because I don’t believe that we should be serving two days of ISS for something so small and harmless. We even got back up and continued reading after she walked out of the room. And, yes, we said “April Fools!”

So, do you think we were in the wrong for doing such a simple, harmless prank? Do we deserve the two days of ISS? Maybe 50-to-life would have been more appropriate for rolling on the floor?

I think not. Some people need to lighten up, have a laugh and enjoy life.

Cale Norman

Cantrell Avenue

Fort Mill

[workerbee]

Wow! Sister James would NOT have been amused in my school! LOL

[tatsinfla]

had something similar happen in jr high...we did a book drop...big big mistake....lol...we paid the price...just no sense of humor...

[Liberty Valance]

[SnakeDoctor]

They probably overreacted ... but part of pulling a “prank” is having the stones to take your lumps. Serve your suspension, and move on with your life.

SnakeDoc

[Robe]

I'm a Tech Support guy for a near by High School with a student population of about 2,000. On April 1st, after receiving numerous lame April Fools Jokes from the faculty, I decided to play one of my own and sent the following to all the faculty . Explaining that this was a new error message they would get due to the many cases of self afflicted viruses encountered lately

I received 13 responses, asking " What do I do if I receive this error message" ( Take it from me, teachers aren't as smart as they want you to believe

[Liberty Valance]

[Guyin4Os]

o/~ We don’t need your ed yew kay shun...
We don’t want your thought controwwl
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teacher leave those kids alone...
Hey! Teacher! Leave those kids alone..
(funky guitar riffs)o/~

[AmishDude]

I’d guess a detention or two would be sufficient, but the discipline in our schools is now dictated by lawyers.

Still, 2 days of all-day study hall isn’t exactly the rack.

[KarlInOhio]

Some teachers handle pranks well and others don't. When I was in high school the senior class stole every single blackboard eraser in the school, even those in locked supply cabinets. Some teachers had fits, some just found some cloth and made do. The best response was a government teacher who just continued to write on the blackboard. When he got to the end he wrote over what was there already and made it very clear that we were responsible to know what he wrote even if we couldn't read it and that he chose what the test would focus on. The next morning an eraser from the stash was back in his class.

He was also the one who taught us that the House of Representatives had revoked their minimum height requirement but the Senate still had one when a particularly ditzy student commented how short our Representative was after he talked to the class.

[KosmicKitty]

Good thing they didn't try this.

[murron]

If we had done this to Sr. Benedict in my school, we all probably would have gotten a swat witht he yardstick. She had absolutely no sense of humor.

[Nea Wood]

When I was a kid, we’d pass a note around saying, “At exactly 1:23, everybody drop your book on the floor.” We’d do it, and it would make a really loud noise. I suppose today, the teacher would have a heart attack and we’d all be in jail for attempted murder.

[MEGoody]

. . .that would not hurt or disrupt anything during class

Uh, but you did disrupt class. And yes, I think 2 days ISS is fine. One would probably have been more fair, but suck it up kid. Take it like a man and stop whining.

[martin_fierro]

[MEGoody]

Teachers and school administrators have become sadistic nazis

LOL Just a bit of an overreaction to 2 days ISS for pulling a stupid prank that did disrupt class.

The mistake of the students was not understanding that these people are actually looking for reasons to harm them.

LOL Sure, 2 days ISS is going to scar these kids for life.

Good grief.

[Erasmus]

Later on, they were drafted into the Corps of Engineers.

≤}B^)

[Constitution Day]

Heil Grammatik!

[Erasmus]

The Vice Principal was imperfectly amused. He spent hours with alcohol getting the adhesive off.

[bert]

I would suggest falling out of your chairs in the ISS room just to see whathappens

[Billthedrill]

But don’t do the prank if you’re not willing to walk the plank.

I am sooooo stealing that...