April Fools Day

[Box and one]

Going back in Time.. I am the Principal of a big High school in NY . The week before at a Principals meeting I'm listening to all my fellow Pricipals talk about April fools pranks and their High School and how they deal with them . I take any prank seriously and Personal . My former superintendent who has transferred to another school is at a biggest school district in the Hudson Valley He hired me as an asst prin at my school a few years before. . He was involved in a serious prank at his new school ..Kids put Crisco oil all over the steps of 4 floors oh his new state of the art High school . Then they hit the fire alarm and 2,000 kids came out for the Fire drill. Kids and staff were falling all over steps and a security office at the HS fell . The radio of the one security gds in school screamed " officer Down . The NY state police and local police station heard it also and within 10 minutes there were 10 state trooper cars and another 10 local police. The school was in a " lock down". Then a food fight in the cafeteria was going on . The seniors at his school had planned the whole prank . At another HS the seniors put some kind of Glue on all the out door locks so when the buses came to drop off the students no one could get in the school . Thousands of kids were in the parking lot Buses loaded with students Parents dropping off their kids A huge traffic problem in front of the school
So I had sent a letter out to all the seniors and their parents a few days before saying any prank at the HS could mean your son/daughter would not be allowed to participate in the graduation ceremony . You could pick up your childs dipolma in my office the next day after graduation I was being proactive for April Fools pranks I had a senior assembly and met with all the seniors faculty advisors ..
Well I thought it would work , But we had 2 seniors go to the local pet store and buy 10 white mice . I heard on the radio there were mice all over the hallways during the changing of the periods and girls were screaming as the mice were all over the two floors . Then One of our students who dressed like a Columbine kid who wore army fatigues and combat boots deceided he would step on the mice and kill them . He was actually trying to help but he squished them and there was blood all over. One of the seniors girls came into my office and told me who bought the white mice. and what store it came from After order was restored and the hallways were clear ed I separated the two boys we suspected I hopped in the Drivers Ed car and took a yearbook with me I have to pick up my granddaughter from school sorry will continue when I get back .

 

[Box and one]

Sorry for the delay in this long boring story that has absolutely nothing to do with Handicapping but I took the yearbook to the pet store and the manager who at 1st refused to help me pointed out in the yearbook a senior who owned a python snake and these mice were actually the pythons food . This student had bought them day before 5 white mice . The owner of the store said he had no idea that this kid would release them in the hallways of the HS and I believed him . When I got back to school I brought the senior in my office and he admitted it was him that had brought the mice to school and released them I called his parents and suspended the senior . Since it was almost the last few weeks of school and the senior prom was at the end of the week I allowed him to attend the senior prom and gave him 4 or 5 detentions and 2 days OSS Out of school suspension. He had to help clean the cafeteria after school and empty all the garbage cans in the school I allowed him to attend the Prom and graduation ceremony . But every April 1st I remember that day like it was yesterday. The boy that dressed in a Army outfit and combat boots in now a NY state trooper The boy who bought the mice to school is now a stock broker on Wall Street and is a friend of mine on Facebook . He is married and has 3 ids and sends me a Christmas card every year.
A few years later on another April fools Day in my parking space in front of the school students collected picnic tables,umbrella's and chairs in my parking space. space. I had to pretend that I was upset. But always thought of all those other school that had graffiti ,key locks and damages done . Think being proactive and sending out letters to the parents made everyone realize Pranks can go to far. Anyway another April fools Day has passed and gone away

 

[MadJack]

Kids put Crisco oil all over the steps of 4 floors oh his new state of the art High school . Then they hit the fire alarm

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I imagine some serious injuries.

 

[yyz]

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I imagine some serious injuries.

There were no injuries in those days. You just rubbed some dirt on it and got back in the game.

 

[Box and one]

Don't think there were any serious injuries. Think many kids went to the nurses office . But the superintendent who was now the big boss of the district and my former principal was hit by a taco in the cafeteria during the food fight. His principal at his school was a former colleague of mine at our old school . When I retired I became Principal of 3 more high schools as an interim principal. I did 2yr year stints as was paid a per diem salary . At all my schools there was never a food fight or serious Prank April fools day . As I heard these Principals talk about what might happen on Prank day at their schools I made sure it could not happen at my school. Also I was a rare principal . I ate lunch in the cafeteria with the students and also supervised with the other teachers who did cafeteria duty. We had 4 lunch periods so I was in the cafeteria or in the gym shooting jumpers . Many parents who came to school for meetings over their kids were held in the gym or cafeteria ...It drove my secretaries crazy finding me. If I turned off my radio off they knew I was in the gym or cafeteria . I use to eat with all the custodians and put my lunch in their refrigerator in the custodians room . I miss those days and many of those custodians were former basketball players and I coached against them They also lied about how many points and who won when my team played them I always won lol All these memories kick in on April 1st .. Take it easy Go North Texas