By MATT GRIPPO, AIDAN JOSEPHSON and CASSIDY DESTEFANO – An unexpected assembly for freshmen convened on Thursday, Oct. 23 during Drop Everything And Read time to address the chain of school-wide emails that circulated the previous day. The original email in the chain, sent from freshman Cameron DeStefano’s account, was sent to all CHS grades as well as the freshmen of each MCVSD academy.

DeStefano tweeted that he was “hacked” and didn’t send this email, which accumulated over 80 responses from students at different academies throughout the course of the evening and into the morning. At CHS, the term “hacked” references when a student leaves their email account logged in on a school computer, and another student sends an email from their account.

The emails themselves contained banter, pleas about stopping the mass emails and various pictures.

Biology teacher Leah Morgan informed Principal James Gleason “after several of my students were complaining … and asking me to do something about them.”

“I have no thoughts of thinking that this is funny. Upperclassmen and students within this class asked you to stop, and you continued on,” said Gleason.

Gleason appeared to not be the only one displeased with the emails. Senior Alli Long of Eatontown said the emails were “obnoxious and extremely immature.”

Freshman Shannon Damiano of Spring Lake Heights said that, without the assembly, “people wouldn’t have stopped spamming all the academies.”

Gleason said he will take disciplinary action and will be calling students down to his office within the following week.

“I think they need to be monitored until they realize that the system is a tool, not a toy,” Long said about the freshmen.