Everything has to start somewhere, somehow, and in some way. Every problem has a start, an origin per se. This issue originally started with the phishing scam email. The lovely email sent out to the entire Penncrest School District. Hundreds of students are involved in it, able to freely message in it whenever they please… What could possibly go wrong?

The answer is everything. Hundreds of students, throughout an entire school district with three schools, are able to freely email whatever they please. Obviously people are going to take the opportunity to do just that. Almost immediately students begin to respond to it. The phishing scam email starts with a student replying with, “Thank you for keeping us safe!” and, soon after, more emails begin to come in. Shortly, the stream of emails dies down, gradually stopping.

Then… the second email was created. This one was much more hectic than the first. While the first one did get more emails in it, the second one was more hectic.

Many people were very annoyed with the constant stream of emails. Some were asking for others to stop responding or to simply “shut up.” 

Here are some notable and funny responses in the emails, including the entire “The Bee Movie” script, factual information on bananas, Swiss cheese, the F-16 Fighting Falcon, the “Shrek” movie script, and many more. As fun as it was, reading these emails, students were in class, so it did get quite annoying. Some students who got annoyed were told to turn on “Do Not Disturb.” 

Eventually, the email got so out of hand that Ms. Thomas sent out a video through email to the student body of a student, Saegertown senior Xander Braune, showing how to ignore the email. The emailing fell quiet, and people stopped responding to it. Whether it was because they did what the video said, or they were given a warning to stop, doesn’t matter. In the end, both emails now remain silent, but scrolling through them shows the utter chaos that was once Penncrest students’ “group chat.” This can be remembered by many, some more fondly than others. Either way, for a brief moment, students from three different schools were able to freely talk to each other and “greet” new people.