Senior Prank Day is a common tradition that happens near the end of the school year, where the senior class collectively pulls harmless pranks around the school as a last “hoorah” to commemorate their time in high school.
Ms. Heim, a Spanish teacher and current helper to Ms. Stuart, who is the Senior class dean, says that, “I don’t think this is something that happens every year.” Not all senior classes have participated in senior pranks, and it hasn’t been a long standing tradition here at LCDS.
When LCDS first started participating in senior pranks Heim recalls, “specifically a group of students who wanted to do a prank but didn’t want to get in trouble for it… They wanted it [the prank] to be light hearted and in good spirits, not destroying any parts of the school. It was meant to be something to make the administration or the upper school office laugh.”
Last year, the senior class snuck their graduation caps into their graduation ceremony, and put them under their chairs so they could throw them at the end. Alumni Sophia Wolf ‘25, provides insight to how the seniors were feeling, “there was a lot of anticipation built up around it, so everybody was really excited. We were especially excited to see everyone’s reaction.”
A few years earlier Heim remembers a specific class, “They [the students] took their own photos and photo-copied them over and over again, cut them out, and they taped them over some teachers’ classrooms.”
Ms. S describes her own high school prank, “We printed out little pictures of the principal and put them in every space you could find, drawers, under carpets, just taped them all over the building. To this day people are still finding them around the school.”.
Usually, for most high schools the senior class will perform their pranks without the administration knowing. Specifically, for LCDS prank ideas will be brought up in STUGO meetings, and then will be brought to the upper school office.
Heim says, “Students will usually work with the senior class dean, and then get it approved by the upper school office. We [faculty] might not get all the details of what exactly is going to happen but maybe a general gist.”
As of right now the senior class does not have a current idea in mind, but that does not mean that they won’t participate in the trend. Senior Gavin G. assures us, “If we are doing a prank we do not know what we are doing yet, but in the future we plan to do something.”
