Accomplice in a senior prank

[Anonymous]

Hopefully this taught your niece a lesson. Drugging people is not a "prank".

[Anonymous]

What if one of the teachers was breast feeding/pumping milk? What is someone had an allergy or bad medication interaction?

This kid had 2 felony charges doing the same thing:
http://www.parentdish.com/2007/02/16/laxative-brownies-put-teen-up-sh-t-creek/

Here's an article about students going to jail for a laxative cake "prank". http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/students-laxative-spiked-cake-sends-brooklyn-teachers-hospital-article-1.296052

[Anonymous]

Maybe some posters can share their own or their kids' pranks and punishments?

[Anonymous]

If I was a teacher in that school I would press charges. She's lucky no one has.

That would have been incredibly humiliating and embarrassing to have that happen in your place of work. Plus there are not very many staff bathrooms in school buildings .
That was no prank. It was just a cruel, preplanned thing to do to innocent people.

Your niece and the boy involved had multiple chances to think this through considering the steps they had to take to carry it out. It shows some serious character flaws on their behalf. I don't care how old they are. They should know better and behavior like this should not be tolerated in any way. I've heard of kids getting expelled for way less.

Considering that your family isn't seeing this as the huge issue it is, is a problem in and of itself.

[Anonymous]

I think her punishment was appropriate. Frankly, I'm surprised the senior wasn't expelled or charges weren't pressed.

[Anonymous]

I'm pretty laid back, but I'm another one who would have pushed to press charges. She's lucky she wasn't expelled. That's not a prank. It's a crime.

[Anonymous]

Yes, appropriate.

As a PP said, she was lucky to not get expelled and not have the police called.

[Anonymous]

OP, I posted earlier. I just reread your original post, and the way you've written it makes it seem like the boy did everything but somehow your niece was "found to be an accomplice." Are you saying she didn't help the boy? What was her involvement exactly?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe some posters can share their own or their kids' pranks and punishments?

I never played pranks, and none of my friends did either. Most of us are in the babies and toddlers stage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OK, so here's the story:

My niece is a rising junior. At the end of last year, she helped a senior friend carry out "his" prank - he put laxatives in brownies and put them in the teacher's lounge. Well eventually someone found out it was his brownies causing ahem....issues...among all the teachers who ate them, and he wasn't allowed to walk at graduation - he was graduating within the next few days anyway so they couldn't do much as far as punishments. My niece, on the other hand, was found to be the "accomplice" and will face a five day suspension at the start of this school year, was kicked out of NHS, being a freshman mentor, her president role of a club, and a few other things.

Is this appropriate punishment, do you think? I just found out about it tonight when my sister called me (for other reasons, but somehow the topic came up) and it seems a little excessive, but maybe I'm off base.

Both kids should have been expelled. That is not a "prank". Purposefully making someone physically ill is a crime.

[Anonymous]

So she was hanging around with a senior boy as a sophomore? She's probably into a lot more than lacing brownies with laxatives.....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OK, so here's the story:

My niece is a rising junior. At the end of last year, she helped a senior friend carry out "his" prank - he put laxatives in brownies and put them in the teacher's lounge. Well eventually someone found out it was his brownies causing ahem....issues...among all the teachers who ate them, and he wasn't allowed to walk at graduation - he was graduating within the next few days anyway so they couldn't do much as far as punishments. My niece, on the other hand, was found to be the "accomplice" and will face a five day suspension at the start of this school year, was kicked out of NHS, being a freshman mentor, her president role of a club, and a few other things.

Is this appropriate punishment, do you think? I just found out about it tonight when my sister called me (for other reasons, but somehow the topic came up) and it seems a little excessive, but maybe I'm off base.

This isn't a prank. It's assault that could have led to criminal charges. Your niece got off light.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OK, so here's the story:

My niece is a rising junior. At the end of last year, she helped a senior friend carry out "his" prank - he put laxatives in brownies and put them in the teacher's lounge. Well eventually someone found out it was his brownies causing ahem....issues...among all the teachers who ate them, and he wasn't allowed to walk at graduation - he was graduating within the next few days anyway so they couldn't do much as far as punishments. My niece, on the other hand, was found to be the "accomplice" and will face a five day suspension at the start of this school year, was kicked out of NHS, being a freshman mentor, her president role of a club, and a few other things.

Is this appropriate punishment, do you think? I just found out about it tonight when my sister called me (for other reasons, but somehow the topic came up) and it seems a little excessive, but maybe I'm off base.

they should have withheld the senior's diploma and put it on his high schools transcript, and for your niece - her punishment is lenient in my opinion. they should put it on her transcript AND make her do community service as suspension does nothing. what they did was really dangerous!! Any of those teachers could have been on a myriad of medications making laxative use a very dangerous thing. shame on them.

[Anonymous]

Better than putting lsd in the coffee. The stupid part was getting caught

[Anonymous]

I teach in a private school and the kids would have been kicked out for this.