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"Yesterday during third module lunch on the Ninth Grade Academy hallway a head of an unidentified carcass was recovered," began a letter from Surrattsville High School’s principal, Alice Swift-Howard, to parents last Wednesday.
Two freshmen at the Clinton school said the head appeared to belong to a goat. They said the school’s staff removed the grisly find in a matter of minutes and then called off the class trip to the Kings Dominion theme park.
But school officials said that there was no connection between the two events and that the request for the trip had never been approved.
Swift-Howard told parents that the administrator on duty in the hallway alerted security about the animal carcass.
“At no time was the school population compromised (inside) as the security and administration were diligent and the incident was handled according to policy,” she wrote.
She also said the school had installed additional cameras and assigned faculty members to additional duty posts to help catch any future pranksters and to ensure the safety of students.
“We urge you to reinforce and require that your children adhere to the school rules and encourage them that school pranks of this nature are unacceptable and will not be tolerated,” she wrote.
John White, the school system spokesman, at first wondered whether the prank was connected to the school’s mascot, but on learning that Surrattsville’s mascot is the hornet, concluded that "it sounds like a prank that wasn’t very tasteful."

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