<p>Seems like a decent prank</p>
<p>[East</a> valedictorian, salutatorian among those suspended for prank - BrookfieldNOW](<a href=“West Suburbs - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel”>West Suburbs - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)</p>
<p>More evidence of stupidity in school administration.</p>
<p>There are no real checks and balances in school disciplinary proceedings; the school system makes the rules, decides the punishment, and hears the appeal of the punishment. There’s no independence, and some systems (such as my district) run amok because of it.</p>
<p>Oh, no…a swingset! Isn’t there zero tolerance for swing sets?!</p>
<p>If this isn’t resolved, I’d like to see their fellow classmates make some sort of gesture in response.</p>
<p>Bad idea to go on the school roof. It was a bad idea when my son did it, and it still is! LOL</p>
<p>This is another example of a consequence that is way too harsh for the “crime.” (a harmless school prank) There should be consequences for going on the school roof but it should not be missing graduation when they have a clean record for four years. Their graduation marks four years of what they accomplished. The consequence for the prank could be community service or cleaning up the school or something of that sort.</p>
<p>If the aim of the administration is to keep kids off the school roof for safety reasons, then definitely don’t let the val and sal participate in graduation. What if a kid had fallen off and broken his neck?</p>
<p>One year when my daughter was in high school, a group of seniors put raw fish in several unused lockers in various parts of the school. They did it on a Friday afternoon. When the students returned to school on Monday, the stench was unbearable.</p>
<p>I think all the underclassmen would have liked to see those kids banned from graduation. Or maybe dismembered. They would certainly have preferred a swing set on the roof.</p>
<p>I don’t object to the $300 disorderly conduct citations. That seems appropriate. It’s a significantly painful fine for a young person but not anything too drastic. But making the kids miss graduation seems sort of mean.</p>
<p>ellemenope, I agree that the school needs to mete out a consequence given the safety issue and to not condone going on the roof. I just don’t think missing graduation is the appropriate consequence. I don’t think this behavior warrants doing away with going to graduation which signifies what they accomplished for four total years. I think this is something they did one night and should have a consequence that fits that accordingly.</p>
<p>The punishment only lasts one night–they still have a diploma to mark the past 4 years of effort.</p>
<p>One night for one night…sounds fair to me. </p>
<p>My D and her friend are co-vals of their class this year and they wanted to ditch school to shop for graduation dresses. ARE YOU NUTS?!! You come within 2 weeks of graduation, you’ve worked hard for academic honors, you have wonderful colleges to attend in the fall–and you want to take a chance to throw it all away… to go shopping???</p>
<p>[Sorry, this senior prank thing has been on my mind of late…]</p>
<p>Kids who still want to climb on roofs–good for them. I think we over-freak about “safety” issues these days. Certainly not anything worth keeping them from a very important day for them.</p>
<p>does no one have a sense of humor anymore?
I think one class at my daughters school assembled a car on the roof. ( dont know if it ran- but the building did used to be a dealership)</p>
<p>If “Zero Tolerance” policies also applied to teachers and administrators this kind of situation this would never occur. </p>
<p>The best way to get rid of any bad rule/law/policy is to require that it be enforced equally. Anything else sanctions the abuse of authority.</p>
<p>Hope at least one of these kids is headed to CalTech or MIT, where such things are appreciated.
Meanspirited to keep them from graduation. That’s punishing the parents more than the students. (at least in our family, parents care more about the cap and gown stuff than the kids do).<br>
If you wanted the punishment to fit the crime, the $300 is a good start, and then how about some kind of community service… instead of leaving cookies for the custodians, they spend the first week of summer vacation helping the custodians with their jobs?</p>
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<p>Having them miss the graduation is just mean-spirited. While cooler heads rarely prevail, it would be nice if they did in this case.</p>
<p>Well, apparently now the young men will be able to participate in their graduation ceremony, but the valedictorian will not be allowed to give his speech. He is still the valedictorian, though. There was a lot of public support for these boys.</p>
<p>That’s good to hear!</p>
<p>I am glad to hear that they will be allowed to participate in graduation. </p>
<p>The val is still the val and I think they should let him speak. Personally I would like to hear him describe how they pulled this off. But that’s just me. I have no tolerance for the ridiculous “zero tolerance” policies in which logic and common sense are set aside and students are harshly punished when it’s not called for.</p>
<p>This is why I am not a school administrator.</p>
<p>Some senior girls (all good students,athletes,leaders) rolled…with toilet tissue…the trees in the student parking lot during the last week of school. They were suspended for three days for “defacing school property”. Everyone thought it was ridiculous. They were not barred from grad. though.</p>
<p>Glad these guys get to graduate.</p>
<p>No speech is a good compromise.</p>
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<p>Back in my day we t.p.'d ( as we called it) houses on a regular basis. The Pep Club did this at the football player’s houses during Homecoming Week and at least once during basketball season which was interesting in our cold,snowy midwest winters. No one at the school or the athletes parent’s had any problem with this at all. It was just seen as a school spirit thing.</p>
<p>Now it’s cause for suspension.</p>