Hilarious School Prank vs. Overtight Administration

Ryan Patrick O'Hara

Ryan Patrick O'Hara

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I don't think I've laughed so hard at a bunch of kids before. I give creative props to these kids for doing something completely harmless, non-vulgar, and completely hilarious. Suspension?! I figure if you let them just do it for a day or two they'll get super sick of it and stop anyhow. Threats will just embolden them to rebel further. If I were a teacher I'd probably not be able to stop laughing.

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The Internet article doesn't give the full picture. I heard an interview on NPR yesterday with one of the kids involved.

To be honest, I think the school administration had cause to act... not because of any vulgarity (though, according to the student, it was blatantly used as a replacement for f**k). When you get down to the heart of the matter, the students were using it to disrupt class. It wasn't just popping up in casual hallway conversation, but was being blurted out in class in a deliberate attempt to distract from studying and lectures. Once it becomes a matter of students acting in ways completely disrespectful of the teachers, it's really not a matter of the harmfulness/harmlessness of the word.
 
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Kinda funny.

But not really THAT funny.



If I were a teacher, I'd just sit at the front of the class with a loaded super soaker. Another, non-vulgar, not violent, non-destructive method of dealing with the problem.
 
kidwoo said:
Kinda funny.

But not really THAT funny.



If I were a teacher, I'd just sit at the front of the class with a loaded super soaker. Another, non-vulgar, not violent, non-destructive method of dealing with the problem.
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That's a gun ... on campus. It doesn't matter how bright and full of water. "A gun is a gun," they told us. My school threatened to expel kids for it. It was, after all, a felony.
 
C2V said:
The Internet article doesn't give the full picture. I heard an interview on NPR yesterday with one of the kids involved.

To be honest, I think the school administration had cause to act... not because of any vulgarity (though, according to the student, it was blatantly used as a replacement for f**k). When you get down to the heart of the matter, the students were using it to disrupt class. It wasn't just popping up in casual hallway conversation, but was being blurted out in class in a deliberate attempt to distract from studying and lectures. Once it becomes a matter of students acting in ways completely disrespectful of the teachers, it's really not a matter of the harmfulness/harmlessness of the word.
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You obviously woulda been one of those uncool kids that wouldn't have done it. haha.

kidwoo said:
Kinda funny.

But not really THAT funny.
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I'm a big muppets fan. So I guess that's why I love it.
 
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Ryan Patrick O'Hara said:
You obviously woulda been one of those uncool kids that wouldn't have done it. haha.
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We actually got our share of shenanigans banned from the school, or at least from the classroom. Some a little more destructive than others. And the ones that seemed innocuous at the time... I was pissed that the school reacted the way it did. But now having been on the other side of that experience, I look back and realize why the faculty did what they did.

I'm a huge Muppet fan as well, but back to the NPR interview that equated it both to Beaker and to the Road Runner, the student said that their "meep" had nothing to do with either.
 
kidwoo said:
No.

It's not. It shoots water. It's not any more a gun than the spray nozzle groundskeeper willie uses. They're not going to throw groundskeeper willie in jail now are they? No, they are not. :D
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Depends on the local jurisdiction. Not sure it would be a felony anywhere... but in many places that have "Zero Tolerance" policies, even the little plastic gun used for a GI Joe toy is still considered a "gun" and can get a student expelled. If it's shaped like a gun, it's a gun. Ridiculous, yes... but logic and bureaucracy rarely go together.
 
Mike Harvey said:
Depends on the local jurisdiction. Not sure it would be a felony anywhere... but in many places that have "Zero Tolerance" policies, even the little plastic gun used for a GI Joe toy is still considered a "gun" and can get a student expelled. If it's shaped like a gun, it's a gun. Ridiculous, yes... but logic and bureaucracy rarely go together.
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All right screw it. I'll just throw water ballons at them instead.
 
I'm starting to understand this string of teachers getting intimate with students.

Their hands are tied when it comes to discipline. They have no choice but to try the more flies with honey approach.
 
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