Senior picnic canceled after senior prank
By KAYLEIGH KARUTIS, The Leader-HeraldBROADALBIN - A senior prank at Broadalbin-Perth High School contributed to the cancellation of the senior picnic and resulted in suspensions and orders of community service.
Some 16 students were involved in the prank, Superintendent Stephen Tomlinson said. The students obtained a key to the building and went in during the weekend about two weeks ago, he said. They took furniture, including desks, from classrooms and placed it in the hallway, Tomlinson said.
There was no damage to any of the property, he said.
"It was more of an inconvenience than anything else," he said.
The students were brought before the school's Board of Education, Tomlinson said. They were suspended from school for three days and ordered to perform 30 hours of community service each, he said.
The school recovered the key, Tomlinson said. He said he did not know how they obtained it.
As part of the students' punishment, the annual senior picnic in Saratoga Springs was canceled, Tomlinson said. The primary reason for the picnic's cancellation, though, was low turnout.
"Of 160 students, we had 30 sign up," he said. "The majority of the decision [to cancel] was due to not enough interest."
Broadalbin-Perth senior Hannah Pecora said neither she nor her friends were bothered by the cancellation of the picnic.
"No one was really that mad about it," she said.
"It wasn't really that bad," she said. "A bunch of us got together anyway and had a barbecue of our own."
As for the prank, Pecora said she and other seniors thought it wasn't the best choice.
"We just thought it was stupid," she said. "At first we didn't really care, but it went too far."
Kayleigh Karutis covers rural Fulton County. She can be reached at ruralnews@leaderherald.com.
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mickey1
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06-27-08 3:37 PM
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justme2008 yes they did its not fair,
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ReclaimGville
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06-27-08 3:20 PM
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Come on you people in Broadalbin. If that happened in good ole Gloversville, you people would be having a field day with it. But since it happened in your quaint little village you are ticked off it made the papers.
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JUSTME2008
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06-27-08 2:42 PM
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I agree mickey1, awards should not have been included for punishment. It's sad too, I am sure most of them worked hard to get them.
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mickey1
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06-27-08 2:37 PM
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yes freedom your right but taking there awards away come on
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FREEDOM
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06-27-08 2:16 PM
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There community service should be to mop and wax the floors the furniture is out of the rooms. Its an okay prank but they could have been more creative. They got caught and have to pay the price, 30 hrs. of community service seems fair .Move on . Good luck class of 2008
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JUSTME2008
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06-27-08 2:12 PM
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LOL, I was just eager to see if anyone would say.
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mickey1
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06-27-08 2:09 PM
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so true and it will come out
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raceway1
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06-27-08 2:09 PM
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the teacher is in trouble for messing around with a girl.... As for the key... I really don't think it's appropriate to say who and where they got it from
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JUSTME2008
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06-27-08 2:05 PM
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there are many things kept hush hush, a lot of the time to avoid embarressments, provide protection to all parties invloved. So true . But....there is always someone who knows/ finds out, and spills the beans!!
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mickey1
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06-27-08 1:58 PM
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i know but can't say, and another thing, they harp on this prank but what about the teacher that got fired for messing with a senior boy they they don't say anything about that though i know why
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JUSTME2008
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06-27-08 1:51 PM
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I don't live in Broadalbin and I would like to know how they got the key.... anyone want to share?
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LoyalSocialist
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06-27-08 1:49 PM
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Lame...who cares...just made the maintainence staff have to work a little harder. They could of definately done worse. In college, we moved our buddies entire dorm room outside. Bed, dressers, computer, everything and arranged it just like the room. Then sat there and waited him to come back from class. The RD "repremanded" us by telling us that it was funny and move it back by 10pm.
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mickey1
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06-27-08 1:40 PM
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raceway1 your right everyone does
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mickey1
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06-27-08 1:38 PM
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i kind of find it strange that it happen 3 weeks ago but they put it in the paper the day of there graduation, real thoughtful of this person
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raceway1
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06-27-08 1:35 PM
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everyone in Broadalbin knows how they got the key
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mickey1
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06-27-08 1:35 PM
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oh and also thompson says he don't know where they got the key ya thats a lie he knows how they got it
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teebzz
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06-27-08 1:33 PM
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u know what re-arranging furniture leads to, right?
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mickey1
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06-27-08 1:32 PM
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yes it is old news so why are they bringing it up now and no they didn't go on it because they voted no because the other kids couldn't go.
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raceway1
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06-27-08 1:30 PM
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it's old news... it happened a couple weeks ago and the picnic was cancelled because only 30 kids wanted to go.
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raceway1
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06-27-08 1:29 PM
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one more thing... would you all like someone coming into your house when you aren't home? If you came home and saw things moved around what would you do?
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mickey1
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06-27-08 1:28 PM
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why would they even put this in the paper it doesn't make since, there is other important stuff out there they should be focusing.
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raceway1
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06-27-08 1:28 PM
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the kids that broke into the busses in South Colonie got arrested... these kids are lucky. Yes it's a prank and they can be expected, but don't break into the school.
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mickey1
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06-27-08 1:24 PM
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carol h you are right!
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mickey1
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06-27-08 1:19 PM
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ok for teh record the picnic was canceleld because alot of them got together and decided not go because there friends who did the prank could go that was pretty nice of them and yes it wasn't right but no harm done, as far as, the punichment they got out of school, cummity d\service 30 hrs no trip and there awards taken away, i don't think that the awards should of been taken thats not fair, i can bet if one of those student was a board members kid they would have been alittl more lighter on these kids. oh ya cuntina mercedes i suppose you never did anything wrong as a kid!
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slider
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06-27-08 12:47 PM
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over should have been other. Sorry, bad grammar.
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