Silly Seniors

I am home a little earlier than expected. I got to school this morning and noticed that all of the school lights were off expect for a few here and there. It was dark enough that administration and campus aides were carrying around flashlights to help students get to their lockers. A lot of cell phones/Ipods came out so people could see as well.
Because this also meant the AC was off and the back up generators could only turn on one light per hallway (meaning no classroom lights were on), they ushered all the kids to the stadium for light and to get out of the hot school. It was still a few minutes before school started so many students were just entering the building to be told to leave and go out back. Us teachers had to keep the students at bay so they would not escape! Many of them tried, but because we are liable for them until they are officially dismissed, we had to keep them all on stadium grounds, which is a ton of room to hold them.
We got word that the electricity problem was worse than we expected. Apparently a transformer across the street would have to be serviced, which takes about a day to reboot. However, we had to keep the students for 1 1/2 hours because the busses were still on their middle and elementary school routes. Even upperclassmen drivers had to wait. Around 9am (they were taken to the stadium at 7:30am), the busses came and school was dismissed.
What is interesting was that today was final exams for the seniors (just hours 1,2,3). We cannot make them come back on Monday so they are exempt from half of their exams! It is optional if they want to come on Monday to take them, which I assume only a few will do to help raise their grades. I think it is VERY coincidental that this happened on the last senior day (although the administration says it is unrelated). The only other senior prank this week was that an octupus was found hanging from the ceiling in the fine arts wing. And there was talk of a food fight on Wednesday so no condiments were allowed to be sold. For instance, no ketchup/mustard for hot dogs, no cheese for nachos, students had to put dressing on their salads instead of asking for a cup of it on the side. I had no idea how much patrolling and investigating teachers and administration have to do during this week! Silly seniors...