Josephine Hyde is a senior at New Prague High School in Minnesota. She was brainstorming ideas for a senior prank, when she decided to do things a little differently this year.
“I was thinking about what a senior prank is and how it’s the legacy you want to leave behind,” Josephine said.
Instead of embarrassing the underclassman she decided to leave behind notes of positivity for each and everyone of the 1,300 students. It seemed the kids were so unfamiliar with a kind act like this, they were confounded.
“I was a little confused,” one student said.
Josephine feels like kids at her school have the wrong priorities and wanted to remind them of what was important.
“I think there is a competition of popularity or just wanting to feel better than other people,” she said. “Even if they don’t need the message today, they might need it tomorrow. We should just come together with our differences instead of tearing each other apart."
She spent hours writing messages like "Just smile!" and “Stay positive even when it feels your whole world is falling apart.”
The school administration was pleasantly surprised by Josephine's approach to the senior prank.
“To see somebody say ‘I’m getting the message, I want to do this,’ it makes everybody here proud,” Principal Lonnie Seifert said.
Now this is certainly one way for a senior to leave their legacy behind.
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