GDS Senior Prank

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As the mother of a responsible, curious teen at GDS, I have to say I am appalled at how many of you are encouraging this behavior. My son is a junior caught in the middle of the college process and this chaos has completely derailed his studies. I spent the morning frantically reaching out to the school, believing my son’s college plans were now in jeopardy, and I had to miss several vital meetings with my working group to fix this mess. My son is now in an environment of anarchy and vandalism, right when he should be hard at work preparing for the SAT. I find it frankly disgusting on the part of the senior class, who must know from experience how difficult this time of the year is. Am I really the only one who wants to see some consequences enforced? Maybe not expulsion, but perhaps a suspension and some restrictions on the usual end-of-year senior festivities. I think cancelling their prom would be more than fair.

Skipping “vital meetings” to frantically contact a high school about something that a few hours wasn’t going to make a difference in was your choice, and a poor one. Even if the news had been legit, nothing would have changed while you were in your meeting.

This is another fake post by a teen and you are falling for it. Again. The gift that keeps on giving.

[Anonymous]

This is hilarious. What a good use of technology. Kudos to the students for being safe but playing some fun games. I drove by today on river road and saw a wedding on the field, like who thinks of this stuff. In a weird way proud these kids had some fun, didn't let poor admin get in the way, and hope they all have a great last few weeks of the year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As the mother of a responsible, curious teen at GDS, I have to say I am appalled at how many of you are encouraging this behavior. My son is a junior caught in the middle of the college process and this chaos has completely derailed his studies. I spent the morning frantically reaching out to the school, believing my son’s college plans were now in jeopardy, and I had to miss several vital meetings with my working group to fix this mess. My son is now in an environment of anarchy and vandalism, right when he should be hard at work preparing for the SAT. I find it frankly disgusting on the part of the senior class, who must know from experience how difficult this time of the year is. Am I really the only one who wants to see some consequences enforced? Maybe not expulsion, but perhaps a suspension and some restrictions on the usual end-of-year senior festivities. I think cancelling their prom would be more than fair.

Troll

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As the mother of a responsible, curious teen at GDS, I have to say I am appalled at how many of you are encouraging this behavior. My son is a junior caught in the middle of the college process and this chaos has completely derailed his studies. I spent the morning frantically reaching out to the school, believing my son’s college plans were now in jeopardy, and I had to miss several vital meetings with my working group to fix this mess. My son is now in an environment of anarchy and vandalism, right when he should be hard at work preparing for the SAT. I find it frankly disgusting on the part of the senior class, who must know from experience how difficult this time of the year is. Am I really the only one who wants to see some consequences enforced? Maybe not expulsion, but perhaps a suspension and some restrictions on the usual end-of-year senior festivities. I think cancelling their prom would be more than fair.

preach

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not at GDS so no skin in the game, but for me, hacking into a database of personal information goes beyond a prank. It certainly exposes a tech weakness that the school should address, but I would be upset about this one.

But again, not our school or our kid, so if y’all are cool with it, you do you.

Does the GDS handbook not have really specific rules for use of the directory? This would be grounds for expulsion of a student if a kid did it or non-renewal of a contract if faculty or a parent did it. We had a family removed from our school years ago because a parent scraped the directory for an outside fundraising thing.

It's a prank. On Senior prank day. No one is trying to mae money off of it. Lighten up.

[Anonymous]

Didn’t know it was Senior prank day, so I was running through all the scenarios about how this could happen, why, and figuring I would talk to other parents at an athletic event this weekend. They totally had me! Well done Seniors!

[Anonymous]

My main reaction is this is not funny. But I don't find pranks funny. Humor that rests fully on laughing at other people's feelings of panic and stress is not only not funny, but mean and lazy.

[Anonymous]

Not a GDS parent. I think I would panic, then be annoyed (once the prank was revealed), and then get over it. At least it wasn’t physically destructive.

[Anonymous]

This is an amazing prank. Hopefully also a little wake-up call to any high-strung parents who overreacted.

Way to go seniors!

[Anonymous]

Why I oughta, these hooligans really grind my gears.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As the mother of a responsible, curious teen at GDS, I have to say I am appalled at how many of you are encouraging this behavior. My son is a junior caught in the middle of the college process and this chaos has completely derailed his studies. I spent the morning frantically reaching out to the school, believing my son’s college plans were now in jeopardy, and I had to miss several vital meetings with my working group to fix this mess. My son is now in an environment of anarchy and vandalism, right when he should be hard at work preparing for the SAT. I find it frankly disgusting on the part of the senior class, who must know from experience how difficult this time of the year is. Am I really the only one who wants to see some consequences enforced? Maybe not expulsion, but perhaps a suspension and some restrictions on the usual end-of-year senior festivities. I think cancelling their prom would be more than fair.

womp womp

[Anonymous]

i'm an old person who graduated from GDS in the eighties.

The greatest senior prank of all time (for DC)) goes to St. Albans for putting a huge "For Sale" sign on top of the National Cathedral. (sometime in the late 70s, early 80s.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why I oughta, these hooligans really grind my gears.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:i'm an old person who graduated from GDS in the eighties.

The greatest senior prank of all time (for DC)) goes to St. Albans for putting a huge "For Sale" sign on top of the National Cathedral. (sometime in the late 70s, early 80s.)

I would love to have seen that!

[Anonymous]

Not a GDS parent but I don’t find this prank funny. Was it actually authorised by the school? Senior pranks are supposed to be school-focused not something that will give parents a heart attack. The car idea that someone mentioned seemed cool