Brickbat: For Sale

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For his senior prank, Kylan Scheele listed Truman High School in Missouri for sale on Craigslist. The asking price was just $12,275. School officials suspended him for the remainder of the school year and barred him from taking part in graduation. They say the ad was an "implied threat" because it mentioned a "loss of students coming up." Scheele says he was referring to the graduating class.

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[Robert]

How many schools do I have to sell?

[Roger the Shrubber]

School officials suspended him for the remainder of the school year and barred him from taking part in graduation.

OUCH!

[This Machine Chips Fascists]

Laugh it up funny boy. This is going on your permanent record!

[gaoxiaen]

He's now on the no-flight list, too.

[Leo Kovalensky II]

I mean this is akin to human trafficking really. Trying to sell school-aged children's school. They should probably put him on the sex offender registry while they're at it.

[General_Tso]

Double secret probation, at least!

[Fist of Etiquette]

Independence Police Department detectives investigated the Craigslist ad and decided not to pursue criminal charges...

In other words, try as they might, they couldn't find a charge they could successfully put on him.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Out of an abundance of caution, administrators and police...

...decided to provide students with a valuable lesson on the mindlessness of bureaucracy and the stupidity of the catchall phrase abundance of caution.

[Roger the Shrubber]

Is there any restriction or reaction that cannot be justified by citing an abundance of caution?

[Wizard4169]

If there's a restriction that can't be justified, then clearly your caution isn't abundant enough.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Out of an abundance of caution, the student notified the public that the building and grounds might be available for purchase.

[This Machine Chips Fascists]

Well, because 9/11 doesn't work on these young whipper snappers. Plus they think they know everything. Kids today...

[Longtobefree]

the phrase "abundance of caution", like "zero tolerance", is a warning that the speaker is incapable of thought, and will never accept personal responsibility.
In a truly professional setting, it should be the equivalent of "I resign".

I wuld have given the kid extra credit for creativity

[Inigo Montoya]

Say what you want about school administration, but they are providing thousands of jobs for people with severe intellectual deficits who would otherwise be on welfare or institutionalized.

[Rich]

"Heeyyyy .... Is that an implied threat?!"

[Rich]

abundance of caution

Nice band name, but perhaps too close to "Corrosion of Conformity".

[This Machine Chips Fascists]

Start a file on this one.

[Rich]

Obviously the solution is to criminalize "senior pranks".

[Robert]

The use of the phrase "his senior prank" is interesting, implying that each sr. is expected to pull 1. Which leads me to wonder about all the others that did not lead to suspensions.

[creech]

Guys in my class ran a bra up the school flagpole. I can imagine the inquisition that would go on today.
"Whose bra was it? How old was she? Did she give implied consent? Does the bra color or size discriminate against POC or obsese girls?" etc.

[Cloudbuster]

Shame on you for assuming the gender of the bra'd owner.

[Cloudbuster]

^bra's

[Don't look at me.]

It was your mom's.

[loveconstitution1789]

The Bro.

[lap83]

"I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell"

[loveconstitution1789]

I still don't see how activities outside school cause in school punishments.

[This Machine Chips Fascists]

Check your caution levels, they seem to be a bit low.

[Deconstructed Potato]

Does the young fellow have any legal recourse to challenge the "abundance of caution" that has detrimentally affected his future and academic standing?

[Tom Bombadil]

Meh. Huge nothing burger.

He graduated. If he's going to college, he's already been accepted somewhere. No criminal record.
He learned a fair bit about the way the world works.

This kid will probably be a huge success in the way Tom Cruise's character was in Risky Business.

[Eidde]

They were just embarrassed because the only people who responded to the ad bid much lower than the asking price, along the lines of $500.

[lap83]

Darn Craigslist flippers...they'd slap some new paint on it then try to resell it for 5 times the original purchase price

[Rossami]

A stupid prank. And a vastly more stupid overreaction from petty school bureaucrats.