11/27/2023 0 Comments Senior prank ideas 2020![]() ![]() “The way that I’ve seen kids change over the years in general is everyone is so into academics and going to college, not that they weren’t before,” Lemone said. He credits this change in the pranking styles to the change in the attitude and intensity of students now. However, Lemone couldn’t even remember a prank from last year. Also a long time ago, students placed tires on the flagpole and crickets in the gymnasium. ![]() The rodents shocked the kids, and the kids, with their screaming and fussing, shocked and actually ended up killing the rodents.Īccording to Lemone, sometime in his teaching career, students took apart a car and put it together again inside of the cafeteria. In the late ’90s, for example, student outreach counselor Chris Lemone recalls some kids deciding to test the administration by releasing rodents into the cafeteria. Through the years, the pranks seniors executed throughout their final week of school, and more popularly, their last day, have evolved. Woog said when he attended Staples High School, he didn’t recall any senior pranks, but he believes they started later in the ’70s when “things were pretty wild.” With Watergate and the Vietnam War, many in the 1970s held an “us against them” mentality – police versus people, government versus people, people versus people.Īccording to Staples historian Dan Woog ’71 this mentality held true for students versus the administration as well in the late 1970s, as evidenced by the start of the senior pranks tradition.
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