Prank should be applauded for brilliance, having been carried out without anyone really realizing the outcome. A slap on the wrist away from other students.

And the coaching staff should work more diligently to improve the team, rather than moronically (I’m assuming) cheerleading the suspension demand front and center.

The student won’t be scarred for life, won’t have his education disrupted, the administration can say they did something, and life will go on.

Fortunately, this just teaches kids to distrust and despise authority, an all-American value if there ever was one.

kidos to this kid. he will have quite a story to tell his grandkids.

Anyway, I met some of the most interesting people in ISS and detention. Picked up a few hotties here and there, got some great weed connections, met the kids that could drive. Yep, I became a much more interesting person. I actually got into trouble a little more often, just to get ISS and meet other kids. It wasn’t as if my learning halted; oh indeed new vistas dawned for me.

The nice part about it is, I got many of these kids to open up and talk about what was making them so wound up. Some of them ended up straightening out and going to college, albeit not necessarily because of me. Some of them ended up dead from drug overdose, suicide, or the sad tale of two friends who got drunk and one killed the other in a drunken argument fight.

I think ISS and detention should be mandatory, and every teacher should have to do some time in there, too.

The US is getting too anal.

Cheers

I second that, today’s kids idea of a prank usually involve vandalism mixed with injury and/or rape.

Many senior pranks have become either unoriginal, destructive, or a despicable act upon others. This was smart, harmless, and easy to laugh at no matter which side you were on. If I had held up the placards in that show, I’d have felt stupid but at least would have had to say “it was a good gag.”

The ISS was required, though. As a school administrator, I’d have congratulated him on the execution and suspended him as well.

Also, the first card trick prank that I know of was at the 1961 Rose Bowl when the University of Washington was pranked by the California Institute of Technology. Since these card tricks have been a halftime mainstay at football games for about 100 years there were surely pranks done even before that.

Anyway, since school administrators these days discourage original thinking and non-conformity, it is no surprise that the kid was suspended.