Do you anticipate senior prank season with worry? Or are you OK with the custom so long as it’s innocent enjoyable? We requested our Fb group for the finest and worst senior pranks that lecturers have witnessed, and among the solutions would possibly shock you!
The G.O.A.T.s
“The very best prank I’ve witnessed was when the seniors reworked the employees parking zone right into a petting zoo. Goats, cows, sheep, and so forth. Hay bales for a border. They needed to begin fairly early to have that each one arrange earlier than anybody arrived.”
—Lavon H.
Automobile chaos
One other well-liked theme for senior pranks includes autos. Parking them, reassembling them, and … welding them?
“This was 1979. We took aside a VW Bug and reassembled it within the enclosed faculty courtyard.”
—Audrianne H.
“The welding program seniors welded a VW Bug across the flagpole the day earlier than commencement. The college couldn’t get it off in time, so everybody displaying up for commencement needed to stroll previous their prank. Completely happy ending—they confirmed up the following day and eliminated it, so the varsity didn’t should pay for it.”
—Heather F.
“One of many seniors had a dad who owned a heavy-equipment rental enterprise, in order that they put the principal’s automotive on the roof of the fitness center proper earlier than homecoming. Fortuitously, he was a very good sport about it since he knew he’d get it again.”
—Michelle R.
A matter of princip(al)
What’s a very good senior prank with out getting the principal concerned?
“The relocation of the principal’s workplace—together with actually every little thing that wasn’t nailed down—out onto the sphere. All the pieces was in the identical place as in his precise workplace, they usually ran I don’t know what number of toes {of electrical} twine in order that he was totally in a position to work outdoors for the day.”
—Sarah J.
“The seniors made a ‘poolside lounge’ within the intersection in entrance of the highschool workplace. That they had pool chairs, a small kiddie pool (stuffed with water!), and plenty of pool toys. The principal thought it was a hoot and sat in a pool chair, together with her toes within the pool, earlier than faculty began.”
—Lauren M.
“When my husband was principal at our native highschool, seniors bought into his workplace and individually wrapped EVERYTHING with aluminum foil—each ebook, pen, file folder, and so forth.!”
—Kellie P.
Train them a lesson
Different good-natured pranks targeted on lecturers.
“The seniors thought they’d ‘sneak in’ to the varsity late at night time and put all of the senior lecturers’ furnishings within the hallways. What they didn’t know? That we knew about it! It was nice enjoyable and everybody helped clear up afterwards!”
—Brianna A.
Mariachi magic
Two pranks concerned hiring mariachi bands to serenade the varsity. Observe: Whereas we don’t condone pretending there’s a combat, we completely condone mariachi bands (so long as they’re not handled because the butt of the joke). Festive, boisterous … can anybody take heed to Guantanamera with out feeling joyful?
“A gaggle of youngsters in a circle yelling ‘Battle! Battle! Battle!’ Circle opens up and as a substitute of youngsters preventing, it’s a mariachi band!”
—Katie B.
“Two years in the past the seniors at my youngsters’ highschool employed a mariachi band to observe the principal round for the day. Even made the native information.”
—Beth H.
’Tis the season
These pranks take “deck the halls” to a brand new degree.
“At a close-by highschool, the youngsters collected discarded Christmas timber and saved them till spring. Then on senior prank day, they ‘planted’ the timber within the soccer subject. Some have been even adorned!”
—Amy J.
“We had a trainer who hated Christmas. Complained all 12 months about it being the worst vacation to exist. So for April Fools’ we bought the janitor to allow us to in after faculty and went Christmas loopy. Tree within the classroom, lights, tinsel, stockings, and so forth. He got here within the subsequent day and laughed more durable than anybody has earlier than.”
—Alissa M.
Prank and circumstance
We’re unsure why, however these commencement pranks are notably hilarious to us. Is it the randomness? The subtlety that builds over time? Both manner, we expect these pranks are egg-ceptionally marble-ous.
“The 12 months our faculty bought a brand new constructing, the seniors didn’t do a prank within the constructing however as a substitute every of them handed the superintendent an egg once they acquired their diploma.”
—Jeanne T.
“A single marble in every graduate’s hand given to the superintendent when shaking palms at commencement. There have been 942 graduates and the superintendent’s son was the final to cross the stage!”
—Bonny B.
On the market by proprietor
The web disappoints us generally, however not in the case of innocent online-selling pranks.
“We had a bunch put the assistant principal’s automotive up on the market on Craigslist along with his cellphone quantity. It stated, ‘proceeds will profit the category of —’”
—Becky S.
“College students in one other highschool in my district made a Zillow itemizing for his or her faculty.”
—Bailey M.
All the time keep in mind me
These courses definitely knew the way to depart a long-lasting impression! A number of senior pranks concerned leaving objects across the faculty that have been usually not discovered till years later.
“A category printed hundreds of enterprise playing cards that stated one thing like, ‘There are 5,000 of those hidden across the faculty. Good luck eliminating us.’ It was final 12 months’s group, and I nonetheless discover them generally in books or behind a bit of furnishings. I feel they’re humorous and innocent.”
—Kassie D.
“Over 300 of these crazy-haired trolls hidden all all through the varsity constructing … tossed up onto excessive ledges too. The later courses/years continued to stumble throughout these trolls for a number of extra years, and one was so excessive that nobody can get it … so there sits the loopy orange hair.”
—Catherine F.
Pupil swaps
“A few years in the past, the seniors of two central Alabama HS’s reversed and confirmed up on the different faculty. It was noon earlier than the lecturers truly caught on. Epic!”
—Myron H.
“Finest senior prank ever! Seniors in a historical past class. The trainer was referred to as out to the workplace for a minute. Whereas he was gone, all of the seniors went into the room subsequent door and a category of second graders crammed the room. When the trainer got here again in … lol!”
—Jacqueline P.
“Many of the seniors at our faculty set it up with our superintendent and the superintendent of our rival faculty. The seniors from every faculty secretly switched colleges for the day. I walked in to my first interval class, and it was stuffed with 30 youngsters I had by no means seen earlier than. I performed it off in stride and went round giving them names that I assumed they seemed like … then 30 extra seniors from the rival faculty packed in, adopted by a tv crew and our superintendent. It was fairly effectively performed.”
—Jason J.
Clearly, the sky’s the restrict in the case of college students leaving their mark. Whereas senior pranks could generally trigger a little bit of chaos, additionally they deliver laughter and pleasure to the varsity group. So, whether or not you’re a scholar or a trainer, benefit from the giggle!
What are the perfect and worst senior pranks you’ve encountered? Share within the feedback beneath!
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