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TEANECK, N.J. (AP) — Sixty-two students were arrested Thursday after police said they broke into their high school overnight for a senior class prank, urinating in hallways, greasing doorknobs with petroleum jelly and taping hot dogs to lockers.
Police said officers responding to a burglar alarm at Teaneck High School shortly after 2 a.m. also found desks flipped over, chairs broken, graffiti on the walls, silly string on the floors and balloons throughout the building.
It's not like they innocently TP''d some trees. Charge them with criminal trespass and vandalism. Then again of any of these kids come from well to do, uppidy families, they'll be given high fives and be sent on their merry ways.High school senior class prank leads to 62 arrests
Thoughts on punishments here.
Should parents be held accountable?
Legal arrest records?
Official charges?
Just a high school prank?
Let kids go with a wrist slap?
They're just being kids?
Enough is enough with these young punks - throw the book at them?
High school senior class prank leads to 62 arrests
Thoughts on punishments here.
Should parents be held accountable?
Legal arrest records?
Official charges?
Just a high school prank?
Let kids go with a wrist slap?
They're just being kids?
Enough is enough with these young punks - throw the book at them?
"If this was a senior class prank, I just don't believe that a lot of them realize the seriousness of it as far as breaking into the building," Sgt. John Garland said. "That's a burglary and I don't think they understand that. It's a very serious offense."
They should know better - that in today's world a prank means jail time. Yes they were just being kids. It was a high school prank but there is no common sense nor sense of humor nor way for kids to innocently express themselves any longer in our society. Zero tolerance means these kids will probably be suspended perhaps for the rest of the year, seniors will not be allowed to graduate with their class, they may be charged with juvenile misdemeanors depending on the damage - maybe light felony's. The days of pranks during or at school went away last in the 1980's, probably never to return.
Are you generally saying that's a good thing or a bad thing?
If you were King - would you let kids go with no punishment at all?
I would, had they not been as destructive as it sounds like they were.
High school senior class prank leads to 62 arrests
Thoughts on punishments here.
Should parents be held accountable?
Legal arrest records?
Official charges?
Just a high school prank?
Let kids go with a wrist slap?
They're just being kids?
Enough is enough with these young punks - throw the book at them?
If I could still be King and not give into the stupidity, I'd dismiss the police, make these kids clean the entire school, top to bottom, including the grounds, sports fields, busses, I'm talking everything. Then they'd get to stay in class the entire rest of the year - no early dismissal, no off prem lunch, and when class wasn't going on they'd be watching informative video's in the auditorium and would spend every last second in school. I may or may not require summer school class on "How to behave in society" before anyone got their graduation papers as well. But I'd let them graduate, I wouldn't file charges, I wouldn't go after their parents....
They should know better - that in today's world a prank means jail time. Yes they were just being kids. It was a high school prank but there is no common sense nor sense of humor nor way for kids to innocently express themselves any longer in our society. Zero tolerance means these kids will probably be suspended perhaps for the rest of the year, seniors will not be allowed to graduate with their class, they may be charged with juvenile misdemeanors depending on the damage - maybe light felony's. The days of pranks during or at school went away last in the 1980's, probably never to return.
High school senior class prank leads to 62 arrests
Thoughts on punishments here.
Should parents be held accountable?
Legal arrest records?
Official charges?
Just a high school prank?
Let kids go with a wrist slap?
They're just being kids?
Enough is enough with these young punks - throw the book at them?
High school senior class prank leads to 62 arrests
Thoughts on punishments here.
Should parents be held accountable?
Legal arrest records?
Official charges?
Just a high school prank?
Let kids go with a wrist slap?
They're just being kids?
Enough is enough with these young punks - throw the book at them?
Nonsense. It is not a natural part of being a kid to intentionally damage property, public or private.
Nonsense. It is not a natural part of being a kid to intentionally damage property, public or private. That is why it is a criminal offense to do so. As pranks at HS we picked up the coach's VW bug and placed it (tightly) sideways in the gym entrance alcove and set fireworks (bottle rockets), timed with cigarettes to delay the fuses, in the staff parking area but we did not intentionally break or permanently damage/deface anything. Pranks are intended to annoy not to do permanent harm/damage.
Scare them, school disciplinary measures are fine like not letting them walk, but arrests are overboard. This country has a serious problem with bringing in law enforcement on everything.
High school senior class prank leads to 62 arrests
Thoughts on punishments here.
Should parents be held accountable?
Legal arrest records?
Official charges?
Just a high school prank?
Let kids go with a wrist slap?
They're just being kids?
Enough is enough with these young punks - throw the book at them?
Are you suggesting that the police should not respond to an alarm at a school? That makes no sense.
Ummmm....... I'd have to disagree a little with that.
Lawn jobs (turf jobs) in cars....graffiti....shooting out light bulbs or windows with bb guns.....throwing snow balls at cars.... kids do that crap ALL THE TIME
Yes...I'm suggesting police officers should no longer respond to alarms.
Senior prank for my graduating class was riding a horse through graduation practice on the football field and driving a VW bug through the auto shop's doors and into the hall, through the school and out the front doors (during classes)..... nothing permanently damaged, and no one had to clean up after us.
Kids idea of 'fun' has changed massively in the intervening years.
Make them clean it up, pay for damaged goods, do X number of hours community service, and let the parents add their punishment on.
High school senior class prank leads to 62 arrests
Thoughts on punishments here.
Should parents be held accountable?
Legal arrest records?
Official charges?
Just a high school prank?
Let kids go with a wrist slap?
They're just being kids?
Enough is enough with these young punks - throw the book at them?
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