Image: Lake County News-Sun
This seems draconian. Even worse is the kid quoted at the end, who sucks up and accepts his sentence.
ZION, Ill., April 23 (UPI) — A Zion, Ill., high school has suspended 11 seniors involved in a prank that featured a student in a gorilla costume chasing banana-clad seniors in the hallways.
Zion-Benton Township High School handed seven-day suspensions to the costumed students, who phoned in sick before the stunt and wore pantyhose over their heads to conceal their identities during the prank, the Waukegan (Ill.) News-Sun reported Wednesday.
Some of the students said the school overreacted with the harsh punishment.
“What’s funnier than a gorilla chasing bananas through a school? Nothing,” said Andrew Leinonen, the prank’s mastermind and the student who dressed as a gorilla. “It was a harmless prank.”
However, others said they were just thankful the school decided not to bar them from prom and graduation.
“We think this is a just punishment,” said Brendon Epker, one of the students who dressed as bananas. “We broke rules we shouldn’t have broken.”
A longer and more explanatory account of the whole affair is here.
A slideshow is here.
These kids deserve medals, not demerits.
Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman 
