A group of about 30 graduating students will have to do 16 hours of community service after trashing Oneida High School for a senior prank late Tuesday night.
Oneida Police Chief Darryl Laxton said the students dumped garbage and cedar shavings around the school, wrapped plastic wrap around doors and took desks from classrooms and put them in the hallway.
Laxton said because the prank didn’t do any actual damage to the school and only took about two hours to clean, the students would just have to do community service within 30 days. He said they identified the students involved and as they showed up to school on Wednesday morning, they were rounded up and made to clean up the school.
He said he met with the juvenile judge and felt like felony charges weren’t necessary, since many of the graduating seniors have scholarships and futures.
Ann Sexton, the director of schools for Oneida Special School District, said they would defer to OPD and the juvenile court to handle punishment. She said the seniors were almost done with school anyway; Oneida graduation is next Saturday.