Accomplice in a senior prank

[Anonymous]

Agree with the others. Drugging someone isn't a prank. I hope she's able to comprehend the severity of her actions now. What if someone had Chrohn's disease? Diabetes? Colon cancer?

[Anonymous]

Yes, OP, you are seriously off base if you don't understand how serious her "prank" was. Both students should have been expelled (yes, he could have been expelled and his college might have rightly rescinded acceptance) and both are very lucky to have escaped without criminal charges.

Hopefully, your niece is smart enough to recognize she is getting off easy and will rethink participating in any future cruel "pranks". Tell her to be grateful for her luck, serve her sentence gracefully, and write apologies to all the teachers.

[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.

yes

entirely appropriate
He didn't deserve to walk, and your niece is sucks at being a role model!

What a vile prank!

[Anonymous]

toilet paper in the trees is a prank. what she did was criminal.

[Anonymous]

This is not a prank. She drugged people. That's a criminal offense in case you weren't aware of that. She's lucky she got of so easy and hopefully this teaches her a serious lesson for life. Scary that people seem to think stuff like this is okay...very scary...

[Anonymous]

In addition, I hope it is noted on her high school record, so all the colleges she applies to find out about this and decide maybe they don't want your niece to attend their school. Off to community college for her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is not a prank. She drugged people. That's a criminal offense in case you weren't aware of that. She's lucky she got of so easy and hopefully this teaches her a serious lesson for life. Scary that people seem to think stuff like this is okay...very scary...

+1 The actions of these teens could have caused serious health consequences to the teachers, depending on their medical history! I think both the teens involved got off easy.

[Anonymous]

She's lucky that she doesn't face criminal charges. I would have gone to the police.

[Anonymous]

If your concern is that the other boy got off too light, he did. They should figure out something else to do to him: write to his college, press charges, file civil suit -- whatever. But your niece got off relatively light too.