Pranks--Carver Davis

Throughout the year, Merit students have had days where there isn’t anything to do, and they feel like school is a little too unexciting. The day is lacking something entertaining. Why not pull a little prank on an unsuspecting freshman or maybe a few sophomores. Why not a teacher?
Though pranks continued all year, April first, otherwise known as April Fool’s Day, allowed for even more motivation. Students focused their pranks on teachers, and teachers focused their pranks on other teachers.
Sophomore Mark Kennon, and freshmen Elyse Johnson, Eli Allen, Tasha Young, Sheldon Boone in Mrs. Smith’s study hall class (according to Kennon) moved “everything, and I mean everything, except for the props” out of Ms. Smith’s room and into Ms. Gritton’s room.
Sophomore John Southworth and another student who I will not name planned to mess around with Mr. Hatfield’s room while he was out eating Wendy’s with other teachers. During Chemistry, John unlocked a window allowing them to enter the room later. It took about ten minutes to find out how to open the window. They finally found out that they had to lift them up and then slide them over. But once they opened it up and they were all excited, they argued over who would climb through the window and open the door for the other.
They found a smaller student, junior Riley Grant, who was willing to climb in and open the door for them. After being heard by Mrs. Coleman and being kicked out of Mr. Hatfield’s room, they had sophomore Mark Kennon climb through later and open the door.
John and his unknown partner in crime then cleared all of the tables and flipped them over onto the ground. When Mr. Hatfield returned, there was evidence of who had committed such a crime; a size fifteen footprint on the face of a desktop. There’s only one person in the school with shoes that big: Carver Davis.
Mr. Emory himself had some fun too. He took fire alarms and stuck them above the tiles in the ceiling. They would constantly beep and aggravate teachers like Mrs. Fullmer and Miss Meyerson. According to Jessica Foster, “They were so annoying!” she continued, “I wanted to punch someone.”
At one point in the year, Ms. Cox was vandalizing Mr. Emory’s car. Then Mr. Emory wanted to get even with Ms. Cox, so he put tables and chairs on the inside of her door so she couldn’t get in—it didn’t work. Then he took catfish rolled in butcher paper and threw it in her room. However, she retaliated and threw it in Emory’s room. Then Emory took rope and bungee cords and connected them to her door, then to the ramp, sp that they couldn’t leave the classroom.
On Miss Meyerson’s birthday, she got a text message from Mr. Hatfield warning her that there was a group of students surrounding her car. She looked out her window and what did she see? Freshmen Eric Pence, Cole Halladay, Trevor Beede and Aldyn Ashcraft and junior Aubrey Royall sticking tons of sticky notes on her brand new Toyota Corolla.
“We sticky noted that car like crazy,” said one of the alleged culprits, Royall. Miss Meyerson has officially been Sticky-Noted. From this day forth, nobody can look at her the same.