Teens challenging laxative cupcake punishment
Ah, the ol’ laxative cupcake trick seems to never go out of style. Administrators are also not any more amused by the prank, as two Louisiana teens found out.
A pair of high school seniors are fighting expulsion and criminal charges after officials at their Metairie school discovered their “senior prank:” a pan of laxative-laced cupcakes left in the teachers lounge.
Principal Kristi Phillippi got to the tainted treats before any of the teachers at Patrick F. Taylor Science and Technology Academy in Old Jefferson could eat them, according to a Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office police report and Jeff Nowakowski, spokesman for the parish school system.
Officials determined that seniors Jeannie Nguyen, 17, of Kenner, and Kamrin Kennedy, 17, of Marrero, cooked up the scheme, the police report said. They were booked with mingling harmful substances, punishable by up to two years in prison and a maximum fine of $1,000.
Both students were suspended for the rest of the school year, Nowakowski said. But both are challenging the expulsion, Marietta Kennedy, Kamrin’s mother, said Monday. “We’re not justifying what these kids did. But the thing is, we just think the punishment doesn’t fit the crime, ” she said.
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