What Happens When Your Child’s Attention Span Is Much Too Short To Catch “The Moral Of The Story”

And it seems clear they really just don’t get the pedatainment (entergogical?) trope of “learning from the actions of your peers”:

A senior stunt involving a laxative-laced cake that sickened several teachers in Brooklyn was inspired by an MTV show, one of the pranksters told cops.

The three students who admitted to the mischief had bright futures ahead of them, but now face charges that carry up to seven years in prison. They were arraigned Wednesday on special counts of second-degree assault and reckless endangerment reserved for attacks on teachers, officials said.

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Top student Tiara Peoples, 17, baked the cake, while pals Kenny Ramirez and Quashon Burton, also 17, distributed it to staffers at the Brooklyn School for Global Studies. The Bundt cake was studded with Dulcolax tablets, and two teachers were hospitalized.

Peoples cried when cops were called to the school.

“She told friends she didn’t think [there] would be so much in the cake that anyone would have to go to the hospital,” a school source said. “Her parents were pretty upset with her and called the school repeatedly to see how the teachers were doing.”

Ramirez apologized for his “stupid mistake,” which he said was was ripped off from MTV prank show “High School Stories.”

MTV said the show discourages copycats. “MTV always depicts the very real ramifications of these actions, showing how seemingly harmless pranks can have serious consequences,” the cable channel said in a statement.

Earlier: Piece Of Crap Kids.