'Senior Queens' Prank: Cartersville Schools "Disappointed" With Actions

CARTERSVILLE, GA -- A back-to-school prank that turned into a $300 headache for a homeowner is coming under fire by the school system tasked with educating the very students allegedly behind last week's actions.

The Cartersville City School System said it was "very disappointed with some of the behavior exhibited this year" by the students accused of carrying out the prank, spokesperson Cheree Dye told Patch.

The event, Dye said is usually meant to be fun, took place sometime between the evening of Tuesday, Aug. 1 and the morning of Wednesday, Aug. 2. According to a Bartow County Sheriff's Office incident report, the mother of a child entering Cartersville High School as a freshman said pranksters "covered her trees with toilet paper, scattered shredded paper all over the yard and vehicles, covered her driveway with shaving cream, placed stickers all over the residence and threw dog waste on the windows."

She also said someone took paper plates and covered them with photos of her daughter, and wrote various expletives and degrading comment about the child, the report adds. Those plates were also scattered across the yard (SIGN UP:Get Patch's Daily Newsletter and Real Time News Alerts. Or, if you have an iPhone, download the free Patch app).

A note posted on the front porch, which congratulated the student on her first day of classes, was signed by the so-called "senior queens."

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"The school system in no way condones, promotes or participates in the decades-long practice," Dye added. "We are concerned about the unacceptable conduct of a very small number of students who participated."

Since the incident was reported off campus and not during school hours, however, Dye said the school system has no authority to hand out punishments to students who were involved.

The homeowner told the sheriff's deputy she believed the cost to clean up the damage would be around $300. The Bartow County Sheriff's Office told Patch it's working with the high school to identify the students responsible.

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