April 1: April Fools’ Day. The one day a year, it is socially acceptable to dedicate all your time and effort to organizing and playing pranks on anyone and everyone. So, naturally, it would be absurd not to take the opportunity to stir things up and have a little fun!
So, whether you were the pranker or the victim this year, here are some of the April Fools’ Day pranks that will either make you laugh with them or at them.
In a high school in Australia, a principal made an announcement to the 11th-grade class that, effective immediately, they would be required to attend one more year of high school and graduate a year later.
Naturally, all the students were left in utter disbelief. In the end, she let them know it was a prank, and all the students began clapping. While watching the video, you can even see the light leave their eyes when the principal made the announcement.
Even universities have participated in pranking students. At Johns Hopkins University, the medical students were shocked when they heard from their president that Michael Bloomberg, a Hopkins alumnus, decided to no longer continue with his $1 billion donation
that was paying off a large portion of many students’ tuition.
According to the president’s announcement, which Bloomberg emphasized in a social media post, this decision was caused by his disappointment in encountering a couple of medical students who had been enjoying a pineapple-topped pizza that, according to those students, they were able to afford because of the tuition aid.
Of course, it was clear that this was a prank, yet the university’s student publication posted a piece playing along with it.
To get even more local, Walter Johnson High School’s student-run newspaper, The Pitch, published a sarcastic article explaining that the school, along with many other Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS), will be forced to shut down due to the Department of Governmental Efficiency’s (DOGE) cuts in funding.
According to the story, DOGE figured out that the school was spending a lot of money on snacks and a subscription to the New York Times Games, didn’t have the best standardized test scores and had dangerous bathrooms. It also highlighted the students’ understanding of how this decision would solve the overcrowding problem among MCPS and were willing to adjust by accepting
being relocated to schools that could take hours of commute and be taught in unconventional ways. Honestly, their commitment to the joke throughout the article was pretty impressive.
So, whether you had a laugh or felt like you wasted a few minutes of your time, at least you caught a glimpse of the April Fools’ spirit!
By Selena Said
