The high school principal was furious after being pranked by his seniors, but it wasn’t what they expected.
Last week, two Illinois students pulled off a rowdy senior prank by hiring a professional bagpipe player to shadow their high school principal and play various songs for an hour.
According to reports, bagpipe player Scott Whitman came to Richwoods High School in a kilt and hat on Thursday thanks to seniors Maggie Moore and Pierce Hill and gave principal Billy Robison a 60-minute non-competition. It is said that he serenaded her with a stop.
The idea came together as “Plan B” after two bright students tried to hire a mariachi band to do the job, but it was out of their price range, one of the students said. Ta. he told the Peoria Journal Star.
“I was looking up mariachi bands on Pinterest, and the idea was to have them go after[Robison],” Moore told the paper.
“But it was around Cinco de Mayo, and the prices were very high, and they were all based in Chicago.”
But Moore also had memories of enjoying listening to bagpipers play Scottish music as a child, which led her to explore in a different direction. It had been approved in advance by other school administrators.
“It was Plan B, and it worked out better that way,” she told a local publication.
Whitman, of the Celtic Cross Pipes and Drums, had performed a variety of songs, including “Amazing Grace” and “Scotland the Brave,” but this was his first time performing.
“I get a fair amount of gig requests,” the 34-year-old musician told the Star-Journal. “Mostly it’s funerals or weddings. Maybe birthdays. But this was my first upperclassmen prank request.”
Between Moore and Hill told WMBD Part of their purpose was to “embarrass the principal,” but once Robison realized what was going on, he became excited about the prank.
The principal accompanied Mr. Whitman, Illinois Wesleyan University’s director of music education, to perform throughout the school and outside in the parking lot, according to the video program.
“I thought it was brilliant and very creative. Credit to the students for coming up with something that wasn’t disruptive to the school and didn’t require the custodians to clean up after themselves,” Robison told the station. .
“I thought it was amazing because it was all so much fun.”
