INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) – An 18-year-old who put his suburban Kansas City high
school for sale on Craigslist has been banned from graduation after the senior
prank went awry.
The Kansas City Star reports Kylan Scheele listed Truman High School in
Independence, Missouri, for the bargain price of $12,275 last week. Problems
arose when someone reported the posting as a possible threat because of
Scheele’s choice of wording. He wrote that the reason for the sale was “the
loss of students coming up.”
Scheele says he was describing the loss of the graduates and has apologized.
But he’s been booted from Saturday’s commencement.
District spokeswoman Jana Corrie says significant hours were spent tracking
down the post’s source. She says police even issued an emergency subpoena to
Craigslist before determining there wasn’t a credible threat.
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