Vandalism or School Prank?

Seaford, Ny- Local school officials get police involved to figure out which students did a prank of covering the school's lawn with pumpkins.

In today's society pranks done on school grounds by seniors are happening more and more. The seniors feel they have to out do the past seniors, so they will be remembered for years to come. Some schools do nothing about school pranks because they know the kids are just doing it to be remembered and to leave their mark on their school. In other cases like Seaford High School the officals feel that if they let this prank go the pranks will get worse year by year and they do not want to have vandalism or things to make the school look bad in their neighborhood.

Local school's seniors take pranking to a whole new level, they covered the entire school's lawn with pumpkins. School officials are taking these acts very serious and want to punish the culprits greatly. "They will be suspended for a month, and have to clean up the mess they made, and do community service," said School's Principal. We got to interview some of the kids from the school, one being a senior "I don't know who did it but it was just a prank that they want to be remembered for, none of what was done has caused permanent damaged, so I don't see the big deal, " Said Joe, Senior.

The police are questioning all students, and parents of the seniors to see if their children were home the night the incident happened. When we asked parents opinions they agree that it was a harmless crime and noone should get in trouble for this, it's like suspending someone a whole month for starting a food fight. The school officials are being completely harsh with their punishment, and maybe if they weren't going to have such a problem then they seniors who have done this would come forward.

The seniors just thought it was going to be a prank to be remembered by and did not realize everyone was going to take it so serious. Students from the school say that the seniors do a prank every year and they get in trouble for it but not as serious as this year, and this year's prank is not as bad as some of the other years, because all they have to do is take the pumpkins away. In the past students have spray painted the lawns and let animals loose in the building during school hours, and thouse students only got in school suspension for a week or two at most. The officials figure if they show the students they are taking the pranks done to the school very serious then the students will be less likely to do one in the following years.

The students of the school feel that the principal is going overboard and making the prank a bigger deal than they should, noone got hurt and there was no permenant damage to the school inside or outside.