and it's for all the wrong reasons
so long story short (i've posted about it a bit), a bunch of seniors from my school decided to have a senior prank after baccalaureate. the original plan was for 5 seniors to fill styrofoam cups with water and spell "2016", but they never got to do that.
instead, half of the graduating class (the original number was 41, then it went to 37 after 5 students were let off the hook, and our local paper now says 34) broke into the school and vandalized it. they wrote all over the brick in chalk (indoor and outdoor), spraypainted the walls of the dean's office, pissed all over a teacher' classroom, released boxes of crickets in the school, sprayed the security cameras and bathrooms with silly string, flipped furniture, threw cereal and peppers down the hallway, and supposedly stuff in the floors. they came in wearing masks and flipped off the cameras, screaming "forget osceola, forget this school, forget this stuff" the whole time. 5 of the seniors stayed to clean up the mess so that we could have class on monday. charges were pressed, suspensions were issued, and the participants are banned from walking at graduation and have likely lost their scholarships.
but now there's a bit of a division going on. the parents of the participants, the participants themselves, and the majority of the 9th and 10th graders believe it was a little prank and the school is going too far with the punishment they're issuing. the rest see the school as completely in the right for punishing the students.
regardless, it's created a stir on facebook. the 40 seniors protested at school, at the courthouse, and in a kfc parking lot until the local/regional news came out to interview them. and now that their story is out, it's spreading everywhere:
http://www.iheart.com/news/half-of-seniors-to-miss-graduation-14706239/http://www.star-telegram.com/news/nation-world/national/article76984032.htmlhttp://fox2now.com/2016/05/11/prank-leads-to-criminal-charges-nearly-half-of-seniors-to-miss-graduation/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=linkhere's a video showing what the school looked like:
http://wreg.com/2016/05/12/video-shows-the-damage-from-senior-prank-at-osceola-high/i find it ridiculous that the seniors want to keep denying what happened even though there are tons of brand new cameras at my school. there's literally a second-by-second list of who was where and what they were doing that night. they have screenshots and video evidence showing what the seniors did.
it's kind of surreal that my little school would make such big news like this. what's y'alls thoughts?
p.s. pray i don't get killed by protests tomorrow night bc i have to take pictures at graduation. i can't fight y'all
