Post-its pile up at second Ind. high school

ANDERSON, Ind. (WISH) - The Post-it note prank that left dozens of students suspended and a custodian’s job in limbo seems to have inspired students at another Indiana school.

A 24-Hour News 8 viewer says 8,000 Post-its were placed around Anderson High School overnight.

Friday morning, the sticky notes could be seen on doors to the school and through hallways visible from the doors.

Cascade High School suspended students and school officials were still considering whether to fire a custodian over the incident.

Anderson High School's senior class president said Friday morning the prank was to make a point about the Cascade High School incident. Student Grerayle Walton said Anderson Community Schools officials weren't planning to punish the students who posted the sticky notes, "which is the main point we wanted to make." Anderson students didn't think Cascade High School students should have been punished.

Walton organized the prank involving 80 students and more than 20,000 sticky notes.

"It took us two hours to put up all the sticky notes, but everybody had fun, and it was all good humor and no hard feelings, no one lost their job and nobody got suspended," Walton said.

This time, the principle was in on the joke.

"People were laughing and rearranging them, and just everybody thought they had fun with it. And they haven't had one adverse reaction. We had a lot of parents knew this was happening, and they came to look at it," said Principal Lucinda McCord.

The agreement was the mess had to be cleaned up, but some teachers even went a step further.

"A lot of the techers, they were offering them extra credit if they would bring them 100 sticky notes," Walton said.

McCord said senior pranks are fun as long as they're harmless, but if it goes a step furthur, then people should be punished.

"You expect a senior class - more and more do something. Usually they do something that is fun to do, but if it's harmful and destructive, people should be responsible," she said.

The students started taking down the sticky nots at 1:30 Friday.

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