Friday, May 22, 2009
Teachers at Dallas’ Woodrow Wilson High School get a Friday morning surprise
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From the looks of things, seniors at Woodrow Wilson High School in Dallas spent all their time at the Thursday evening (May 21) Senior Dinner assembling cardboard boxes and then distributing them across the school parking lot so teachers arriving at school the next morning would have to get out and move them before parking their vehicles.
(Get it?)
See, if they'd just applied this much effort in their studies, they might have raised their grade averages by a full half a grade point. (Or something like that.)
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bkball2391 Anonymous
As a senior of Woodrow Wilson High School I would like to clarify a couple things:
If you insist on reporting events at Woodrow, do it correctly.
The Woodrow Wilson Senior Dinner was attended by not only our prinicipal Mrs. Vail but the rest of the administrators that were affected by the prank. So unless you are insinuating that the administration had a hand in the production of this prank, I would revise your story.
The senior class did this of their own accord and spent no official class time assembling or implementing this prank. All others who put hard work into the Senior Dinner should be lauded for their beautiful event and negated of all association with this prank.
As for the comment that the effort put into this prank would have been better spent focused on our studies... well there are various things wrong with that:
a. Assembly and implementation of this prank took all of 3 hours late at night. No valuable "study time", as senior clearance day was yesterday, was spent.
b. If you take a look at the top ten percent at Woodrow, you would be pleasantly surprised to find kids with some of the best test scores, impeccable transcripts, and resumes that could knock many accomplished adults out of the park. They have spent their entire high school careers studying and participating in various extra-curricular activities that allowed them to be competitive in the admission processes of some of the best universities in the nation.
c. The prank, which was a harmless act of releasing stress after a month of AP preparation and testing, was representative of the four years of hard work, and seniors having a bit of deserved fun after an incredible high school career.
Again I plead with you, learn the facts before you go reporting falsities and tarnishing your own journalistic reputation.
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Travis Bush Verified
LOLZ! Great prank!
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chasd00 Anonymous
get over yourself bkball2391
btw, does anyone know if the daytime curfew will apply in the summer?
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Travis Bush Verified
I'm thinking the young one doesn't recognize a bit of snark when he sees it..
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bkball2391 Anonymous
I don't really think it an over reaction to ask for a truthful representation of the event, but that's just me.
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John Meyer Staff
Welcome to Pegasus News, bkball. And thanks very much for the rest of the story.
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Travis Bush Verified
bk...I think you miss the point. This wasn't meant to diss the Senior class..I think it is great you gave the teachers a bit of a prank at the end of your four year gauntlet. Thanks for letting us Peg readers know about your side of it too. You had to be fairly organized to pull it off and it was not harmful or destructive. Good on ya and have a great summer.
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whiterockGod Anonymous
Yo Chasdoo. <<JEALOUS and Pwn3d)
Don't rumble with the Seniors for bkball has presented themselves in a proper fashion of debate structure.
Dang I wish I could present myself as well as they did.
This was a incredibly well executed prank that was immediately rectified by the students.
BTW your really showing you critical thinking with such statements as "btw, does anyone know if the daytime curfew will apply in the summer? ".
Oh that would be so enforceable genius!!!
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James Scott Verified
are there any pics? I’m having a hard time envisioning any hilarity in this prank.
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Travis Bush Verified
James, one imagines that anything more would have precipitated police involvement and possible drug testing for all the graduates....
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Alex Bentley Staff
James, there's a picture in the linked story.
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John Meyer Staff
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ch0 Anonymous
Aghhh, you kids, with your music and your hair!...
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Travis Bush Verified
Did I say testing? I meant tasting!
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Chris Kidd Verified
Whatever happened to doing fun things like taking apart the principals car and reassembling it on the roof or cherry-bombing the toliets, now thats comedy..
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Travis Bush Verified
chris..now those things become felony theft and terrorist plots..
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Pavel Lishin Verified
bkball2391, you are gonna do great in college. But probably not too many girls.
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Rick Yost Verified
From Woodrow's graduating class of '74 myself, I can tell you that you don't learn the real lessons until after you get out. Such as: it is hard as hell sometimes to obtain, "...a truthful representation of the (any) event..."
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