Prank names school board free#

Superintendent Jeanne Williams said the prank certainly goes beyond the typical toilet papering. 'It was pretty wild … as a parent, it’s just funny,' Bruch said, noting school officials whose names are on the letter might be thinking otherwise. 'It looked like the real deal,' Haines said.Īnother parent, Kristi Bruch, said the last sentence tipped her off - that students are more likely to have sex with protection. Postage and color copies alone could have put costs near $200. Welsh and the assistant principal’s name bookend the opposite side of the page.Įven much of the wording sounds official: '… the minor cost of supplying contraceptives to students is greatly offset by the value of the health and safety of Dunlap students.' And the envelopes incorporated address labels. The letter, which appears to be a scanned duplicate of the high school’s letterhead, is in color and includes a flying eagle - the school’s mascot - in one corner. '(The pranksters) definitely put in some effort.'

'‘This isn’t real, right?’' Welsh said of the types of calls he received. Most parents were unbelieving and seeking reassurance. Welsh and other school officials believe, based on all the phone calls and e-mails received Monday and Tuesday, only parents of high school juniors were targeted - although some 200 letters may have been mailed Saturday. 'At the same time, they crossed the line.' 'It’s a senior prank,' says Dunlap High School Principal Tom Welsh, whose typed name appears on the fraudulent letters and envelopes. It stated the mailed letter she had just received was a fake. Still, a bit skeptical and curious, Haines later visited the district’s Web site, finding a completely different note addressed to parents. 'I was a little shocked,' Haines said Tuesday of her initial reading, surprised that school officials would allow such a move without bothering to ask parents, 'but I wasn’t too worried, I trust my daughter.' The letter goes on to ask that parents talk with their children about safe sex and 'discourage them from taking the risks involved with sexual intercourse …'

Prank names school board free#

It said the Dunlap School Board had approved making condoms available to students free for the upcoming junior/senior prom in a week and a half, hoping to encourage safe sex and making responsible decisions. The minute-long clip of Chair Cooper reading the list has already more than 663,000 views on YouTube - far and away exceeding their channel’s average view count of just a few hundred.Rose Haines was a bit stunned Monday after she opened the day’s mail to find a letter she believed was from her daughter’s high school. Lucky for those of us outside the New Bridge Learning Center Auditorium in Richmond last Thursday, the Henrico School Board films their meetings for posterity.

Had the Cooper perhaps read the list a bit faster, he might have realized the prank afoot. Cooper announced the names carefully: Phil McCracken, Eileen Dover, Suk Mahdik, Ophelia McCaulk, Don Kedick and Wayne Kuhr. As names are called, the person may approach the podium and share their comments.īut this recent meeting included an unusual number of names apparently absent on that day. As public board meetings go, Cooper invited a pre-submitted list of town residents to speak on current issues affecting their community. It happened during the latest meeting of Virginia’s Henrico School Board on Aug. Maryland high school listed on Zillow for $42K in ‘creative’ senior prankĪn age-old prank was successfully pulled off in a moment that no one saw coming - or even recognized in the moment. Students prank sleeping principal at home: ‘You are in the most trouble’ TikTok pranks have gone from dumb to criminally unfunny Nicki Minaj gets ‘swatted’ by callers who claimed her 2-year-old son being abused, fire at her LA home: report