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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06-27-08 12:46 PM
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Yes a harmless prank and yes it was a "felony", but come on people look at what is going on in the world. Check Foxnew's story about a group of 13 year olds who beat a homeless man to death! When you look at what over teenagers have done, this is nothing more than a prank - maybe not in the best of taste but neverless..
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mistyblue0909
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06-27-08 12:29 PM
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No damage was done they just wanted a prank to remember.Some real criminals get less punishment.
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EyeMan
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06-27-08 12:24 PM
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Am I missing something here? I would love to get into some of your houses, and move the furniture out into the yard. Harmless prank.
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raceway1
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06-27-08 12:17 PM
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you all know that breaking into the school is a felony right? These kids are lucky that this is all that happened. Dumb prank...
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carolh
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06-27-08 12:06 PM
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just goes to show you the "humour: Blowers and the rest of the school staffing has...these are kids being kids and having clean fun...but has to be punished on their LAST outing as a class. Who really is the "childish one(s)?
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countrygirl
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06-27-08 11:47 AM
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What was the harm?? There was NO damage and no one got hurt, there was no destruction to school property. It's their last year and they just wanted to have a little fun and a memory as to something they done in their Senior Year. There are alot more serious crimes going on out there in this world than moving furniture into a hallway!! For crying out loud, lighten up!
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rocky1
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06-27-08 11:29 AM
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You wonder what is wrong with kids nowadays? This explains a lot. Punishment given for a silly prank, which is expected and nothing more than punishment to the staff for all the years of homework and tests, but when they do something dangerous, they get a slap on the hand. Some of these students are off to higher education, some will be seeking employment now. What is wrong with one last laugh together? There is a line between distructive and fun, the board of Ed needs to learn where it is.
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itsjustme
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06-27-08 11:13 AM
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This is nothing compared to what some of the graduating classes do as their pranks.. I know if a class that graduated from BP that did much worse.. and my glass at JHS did much much much worse than this we never got in trouble or anything it is something that is expected..
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JUSTME2008
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06-27-08 11:03 AM
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Every year there is a prank , this was kind of funny didn't harm/destroy/steal anything. Seems the suspensions/community service would have been sufficient enough. Somekind of discipline needed to be shown for their behavior. Wonder how/where they got the key??? That's the bigger question,and hope there were no copies made to get into worse hands.
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jbd333
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06-27-08 11:00 AM
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i did not know that the school could enforce community service?
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06-27-08 10:44 AM
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Good prank. Hey, nothing was damaged and nobody hurt. We did this to our RA at college, put his whole dorm room in the mens room :) Perhaps not the best prank in the world, but it could have been a lot worse.
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