The news these days is often depressing at worst and frustrating at best. It’s easy to let it get us down. Never fear… The News Blender has you covered. Once a week we feature Something Good and, in return, all you have to do is tell us something good that has happened to you this week, something you are thankful for, a joke, a cute animal story, an inspiring tale of heroics, a Random Act of Kindness… SOMETHING good.
Today’s something good is a senior prank.
Kids all over the nation are graduating and with graduation comes the inevitable senior pranks, so, in their honor, we will feature one of the best.
At St. Andrew’s School, a co-ed boarding school in Delaware, the Class of 2023 pulled off one for the ages on their Head of School, Joy McGrath. The faculty lives on campus, some even live in the dorms, according to CBS, which made the shenanigans possible.
With the help of Ms. McGrath husband, Ty, and other faculty members, 77 students crept into the first floor of her house at 1 am with sleeping bags, blankets, and cushions and camped out. They were all silent and went to sleep with the goal of surprising her when she came down to the kitchen for her morning coffee at 6 am.
KaiChun Chuang, a now recent graduate, told CBS, “We made it very clear that we all had to be very quiet in their house and had to go straight to bed so as to not wake her up to get that money shot.”
They were successful – she was indeed surprised and enjoyed the joke, that is now going viral on social media, immensely.
Joy said with a laugh, “Seventy-seven (students) in the living room, the library, the dining room, the back porch, the kitchen – they were everywhere.”
After the joke, there was coffee, donuts, and community for all. The irony of this prank going viral on the school’s Instagram is, the school does not allow student to have phones and it was only filmed so the kids could show the other faculty. Ford Chapman, Co-president of St. Andrew’s class of 2023, told CBS, “It’s a little bit ironic because we have a no phone policy. It’s just a little bit funny our big thing is a viral video.”
Class of 2023 co-class president, Trinity Smith, said, “When I saw other people surprised by the prank, that’s when I was like maybe this was a better prank than we even thought.”
The quick video shows how tight the St. Andrew’s community is.
Joy said, “I would be happy to see any one of those kids, anywhere in the world, any time, just as happy as I was to see them that morning. Before I became Head of School, I actually lived on a boys dorm with 10th-grade boys, and so I could sleep through the apocalypse. And apparently, I did!”
Now it’s your turn… Tell me something good!
