senior class president, and potential valedictorian may not get to return to a regular classroom before the end of his high school career.
Jacob Zimmerman following . He told Fox 5 Atlanta that he has been suspended for the remainder of the school year for his role in the incident, though claims he was only involved in spray-painting the intersection in front of the school—an action he says many other students have done in past years.
saw school buildings spray-painted to include windows; some perpetrators also made it onto the school’s roof, which was also painted. Some of the paintings across the campus, in addition to “Senior” and “2012,” also included the text “YOLO” and “Musgrove is a [expletive]”—the latter message seemingly targeting Assistant Principal Greg Musgrove.
Two vehicles also were spray-painted, as were the guardhouse, fences, signs, a scoreboard and the school’s pirate ship. Vandals also threw chairs, tables and benches into the school’s parking lot, a incident report said.
“If I knew that doing a senior prank would result in all of this, I would’ve never gone,” Zimmerman told Fox 5.
In all, school district officials said clean-up of the damage to East Paulding High .
Though Zimmerman told the Atlanta TV station that he is spending his last remaining weeks of his senior year in alternative school, no official word on his peers’ punishments have been released by school district officials, who said that how many students were punished, what punishments they received or whether students’ punishments differed.
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Do anything but wreck his future.
I would be willing to bet that ALL of us have committed "crimes" just as bad or worse that these kids; we just didn't get caught. How many of us haven't driven above the speed limit, ran a red light, or maybe even cheated a little on taxes? These kid's actions only ended up harming themselves. I think their punishment is more than adequate, and won't leave them branded with a criminal record for one dumb decision that only harmed some property, and it can be fixed. Some of us need to look in the mirror before we condemn a bunch of high schoolers for a prank.
How bout you Mr Jones - have you settled up for all your misdeeds in life? Turned yourself in and paid a fine each time you found yourself speeding (and risking the lives of innocent people)? Ever driven after drinking a beer when young and foolish? Did you go down to the DA and asked to be charged for DUI? So, Mr Dick Jones has NEVER committed a crime that he didn't seek punishment for? I doubt it. I'm glad our DA is focusing on using our expensive justice system to punish real criminals, and not to brand a bunch of foolish school kids as criminals for life.
I wish these young people sweat a lot in their community hours, to feel the fatigue of work and to learn to be grateful in life and have a good future and become productive citizens.