What Happened to SB High “Pranksters?”
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June 4, 2022, 10:18 am
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Last weekend there were 50-60 Santa Barbara High School students who vandalized the school as a “Senior Prank.” There were 16 caught by police, so what happened to the students?
Were they allowed to walk for graduation? Were they forced to clean up the mess? What were the punishments?
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Same with the January 6th insurrectionists? Most of them “got caught up in the moment”? The rule of law only stands in certain circumstances apparently.
Other than making them pay for damages, there seems to be no point in punishing these kids. Most of them got caught up in the moment and went along with the group. Kids of this age don’t usually want to “miss out” on the action (like a fight in the parking lot after school type of thing….everyone wants to watch). Let’s move on from this as these high schoolers by now wish they had not been involved. Something like this should not follow them for the rest of their lives, and many of them are bound to get jobs with the city no doubt.
Someone simply ask a question. Sheesh. If you want to move on, I’m sure no one will miss you not commenting. And wanting to watch isn’t the same as getting involved in doing damage and breaking the law.
The line for adulthood is drawn at the age of 18, and at that age we are held legally responsible. If you are irresponsible from the age of 18 on, then you are held accountable for the most part. Nearly all of the goofball antics by adult-age students in IV (and every other college town in the US….except maybe Pacific Union College in Angwin). The antics usually stop once a person has responsibilities such as a professional job or has a child or has to take care of a parent/sibling, and so on.
Back in the day we used to always get high and drink beer on road trips….even if the road trip was just a few miles away to the next all-night party. We did this wellllllll into our twenties. Happy to say that most of us stopped this horrible behavior, but a couple did not and paid the ultimate price.
The point is that in the larger picture, messing up the inside of a high school is, as they say, basically a nothingburger. Have ’em clean it up, and let’s move on until the next bonehead high-school prank gets out of hand.
Can we do that? Move on from this and have a laugh later on, can we as a generous society? If not, I’d love to hear the reason for punishing, crushing, and ruining the lives of these legally adult high schoolers. Many of them have nothing, and some want to ensure that continues by the inability to forgive for such a small infraction. Bottom line: Give them a break people.
MarcelK: I think the difference is that some want to forgive and forget, and on the other side punish and ruin. I approach this as a forgive/forget situation as other than making a mess and a tad bit of damage, no one was hurt. My way of thinking is to help them understand what they did was not acceptable. It seems that some are thinking it’s best that all of these kids face ruin for the rest of their lives, but that’s not very adult of us. Let’s ruin their lives because they tossed some oysters on the floor….oh, must be the end of the world. Small potatoes, as they say….really small taters.
Babycakes – didn’t you want to ruin the 18 year old (without knowing any details) for his “particularly hateful crime” at Cabrillo? As you say…Just a bit of damage at school… no one was hurt. Can’t we just help him understand instead of showing “no tolerance”?
SBSand said “… if they caused property damage they should have to pay restitution and help clean up…” What about the 18 year olds that caused the Tea Fire. AFAIK they walked away with no consequences while over 200 people lost their homes and life’s possessions.
Sounds pretty similar to the damage at Cabrillo High School… though that was “particularly hateful”…