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Senior dumbness in Arizona

"Is our children learning?"  Here in sunny Arizona, apparently they don’t learn to avoid doing really, really stupid things.

Police weren’t laughing Monday over a supposed "senior prank" by a Peoria High School student they accused of showing up on campus wearing a ski mask.

Police were called and the school, 11200 N. 83rd Ave., was placed in lockdown for nearly 2 ½ hours as more than two dozen officers searched for intruder, fearing that the masked man possibly was armed.

The student, Zubair Hussaini, 18, was arrested in a nearby neighborhood after the masked man fled from the campus, said Mike Tellef, a Peoria police spokesman.

"He told the officers he was not armed and did this as a ‘senior prank’ after being dared by another student," Tellef said.

Hussaini was taken into custody and booked in a Maricopa County jail on charges of interfering with an educational institution and obstructing governmental operations, both misdemeanors, he said.

Police recovered a ski mask and yellow tee-shirt believed to have been worn by the intruder, but no weapon, Tellef said.

Numbskull.  (Hat tip to Education Wonks.)