At least 13 seniors at Keller’s Central and Timber Creek high schools will not be allowed to participate in graduation ceremonies this weekend for the roles they played in end-of-year senior pranks last week.
For their roles in a massive food fight at Central on Friday, nine students from Central will not be able to walk across the stage at Saturday’s ceremonies.
Four students at Timber Creek won’t be able to participate because of their role in a prank in which snakes, rats and crickets were released into hallways and stink bombs were set off throughout the school.
Keller school district and campus administrators met Tuesday to review the situations and determine consequences for those students involved.
According to a news release, the students punished “were identified as having physically created an unsafe environment through reckless disregard for the safety of other students, and were witnessed by campus staff or administrators doing so.”
Additional students at Keller, Central and Timber Creek high schools will receive lesser punishments for senior pranks.
According to the news release, those students “will still be allowed to participate in graduation ceremonies; however, they will be accompanied by their parents after arriving, be sequestered from the remainder of classmates before graduation, and will be monitored closely during the graduation ceremony.” – Lee Williams
Lesson learned.... I'm sure if on my last day of work if I decided to pull a prank like that i'd be in jail.
Posted by: CxM | May 30, 2012 at 12:14 PM
Good for the adminstration. They should not be able to attend
Posted by: Virginia Preas | May 30, 2012 at 12:50 PM
They all think they can do whatever without any consequences. Maybe a hard lesson learned. Maybe...
Posted by: Paul | May 30, 2012 at 03:06 PM
The food fight...as wasteful as it is, isnt something that is justified for something they rightfully earned. we all remember what excitement it was to graduate from high school. It was a lapse in correct judgement. Now, the rats, snakes, etc...that is truly something warranted as anyone could be deathly allergic as rats carry infectious disease. Idk - I guess I choose not to loose sight of what makes youth what it is, a learning process to where I am now as an adult.
Posted by: Cynthia | May 30, 2012 at 03:36 PM
They should be jailed for vandalism and criminal mischief! Why should they get a free pass just because they are teens doesn't mean that life for them has no consequences!
Posted by: Jason Childs | June 02, 2012 at 07:20 AM