Students Suspended, Janitor Fired for harmless Post-it Note Prank. (illegal, Indiana, high school)
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How innocent was this? Well, they wrote "2012" in notes on the school doors. They covered windows with pink and yellow pieces of paper. They used about a dozen sticky notes to create a smiley face on a chalkboard. Yes, a smiley face.
I think the punishment should've been for all involved to have to remove the Post-It notes and all that. Not a suspension (even a two day), and certainly not a firing!
I'm surprised the school wasn't locked down and a swat team dispatched.
These terrorist threats must end.
Execution for all involved.
Zero tolerance for WHAT? It sounds like the school board needs to have a nice long chat with the superintendent on the issue of appropriate discipline. I'm guessing there are going to be parents at school board meetings over this one... If this is a pattern of behavior for him, he needs to go.
if I had to assume, one might assume they were suspended for trespassing on school property after hours, something that actually is a crime.
If you read the article you would not have to assume.
Both a board member knew and the janitor and the students were allowed to do it. And then when students protested the suspension the superintendent suspended 50 more students because they protested.
And this was a school tradition no less.
And with sticky notes. You can't get more harmless than this for a senior prank.
Thankfully the story ended semi-happily..from the OP link:
"Fortunately, after a thorough public flogging and a meeting with parents on Wednesday, Spray accepted what just about everyone else in Central Indiana already knew: that he was dead wrong to order the mass suspensions and that things would only get worse if he failed to acknowledge his mistake."
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