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Seniors prank teachers with staff parking lot beach party

Keegan Dant and Vijay Vanathayan|May 27, 2016

Seniors celebrating finishing the year with a beach party in the staff parking lot

Hannnnngggggg teeeeennnn!

The class of 2016 seniors came to school early this morning and turned the school parking lot into a Memorial Day block party beach.

The seniors planned ahead for the day by bringing food, a grill, beach towels and beach chairs. They also brought skateboards, water guns and water balloons to terrorize underclassmen, beach balls and ladder ball.

“Most pranks are meant to destroy the school somehow or cause some type of disruption, but we just wanted to have fun one more time before we graduate,”senior Clarence McNeary said. “I’ll probably see these people again… [but] it’s something we’ll never forget.”

Although they didn’t want to cause too much trouble, it wouldn’t be a prank without a little mischief.

“We wanted to do something that was fun but also a little deviant, so that way the teachers weren’t able to park in their spots and they had to walk a little bit farther and park in the student parking lot,” senior Hayley Myren said. “We got here at 5am to set up to beat all the teachers.”

“It was really funny, especially the teachers [because] they kept trying to park in their parking spaces,” senior Ines Agopome added. “But we wouldn’t let them park, and they got so salty.”

Today wasn’t just about pranking; for the seniors, it was goodbye to everyone and the school.

“Our senior picnic got cancelled because not enough people signed up, so this is kind of like our own picnic. We brought a grill and everything and everyone brought food, so it’s just a fun way to get together and do something before we all graduate and go our separate ways.” Myren said.

“[My favorite part of the prank was] probably just the overall experience of seeing everyone that we’ve been in high school with the entire time,” McNeary said.

”It’s really fun to be able to get out here with everybody else because I know I won’t see a lot of these people in the future, so it’s good to have one final get together,” Myren added.

Although principal Carol Goddard did not know about the prank beforehand, she thought the seniors did a great job. “I think it was extremely smart, humorous, not offensive, and well done,” Goddard said. “It was all in good fun and they are having a lot of good fun out there and that’s what it’s all about.”