Students working off $7,000 in damages done to high school in senior prank gone wrong

The word got out. Um, the messages that got very twisted very fast. Katie Brunell is the principal at William Monroe High School. Her phone rang with the news about the vandalism. Well, before dawn, last Friday, we had streamers, toilet paper, um, laundry detergent, glitter, um, some paint, um just all over the building balloons. I think the situation in its entirety became overwhelming. She and other staffers got in the building and started the clean up that would eventually cost $7000 to finish. It's *** senior prank gone wrong based on the damage mainly from chemicals that have been used extinguisher that we could not open school at that time. And that decision was made. The students got into the school using *** teacher's key. How they got that key is still being looked into. Now, each of those students involved here at William Monroe High School have to pay for their share of the damages and complete 15 hours of community service before graduating on Saturday. And we knew they were involved because we, we searched the cameras that we have throughout the building. We also, um, many of them came forward on Friday senior pranks have happened in the past but none to this degree. But how did they get in? Why did they get in? Um Those are all things that will be. I am sure talk about and addressed as we move forward. The school is now completely clean. The damage fixed Brunell is using this moment as *** teaching lesson for the underclassmen. We want to make sure that we drive home that there are better ways to leave your legacy at William or high school.