A student and her football player boyfriend were caught behind the school after a game making out and probably more. The girl was made to publicly apologize to the class and then "strongly encouraged" to leave and finish her high school somewhere else. The boy faced no public repercussions and appeared to carry on as normal.
Let's call her "Jenny". For about a year, any time someone pushed the line on public displays of affection per school rules, they were warned to tone it down or they would get "Jenny'd".
Catholic school, in case you couldn't guess.
Awful. Which decade did this happen?
Knowing Catholic run schools this might as well have been last week.
Girl who had a crush on me (and dumbass me was very slowly figuring this out) got in trouble in class for mouthing off, and when the teacher told her to go to the principal's office she refused. He grabbed her by the arm and she kicked the teacher in the balls. HARD. I never saw her again. I think she had a number of issues. But damn, she was hot.
Your balls thank you for never clueing in
Dodged a bullet. She had transferred in from somewhere. Pretty sure she was desperate for friends and was love bombing me. I was dumb and naive.
Close! It's naive
Thanks. Phone at early o'clock typo.
A neighboring school to me had a dean of students with an absolutely terrible relation to the students, and someone a few grades above me got a few weeks of out-of-school suspension for waiting for the very end of Spirit Day (when everyone was outside enjoying a popsicle, I guess the teachers thought they had the attention span of 6-year-olds) and kicking her into the grass. He's still a celebrity for this.
Remember a story a teacher told the class where it looked like a student had fallen asleep so she got her friend to try to wake her up but then a pool of blood starting leaking out of her arms
Turns out she had a nose bleed and went unconscious after trying to hide said nose bleed instead of telling the teacher
Australia btw
Even the nose bleeds are scarier in Australia!
We have 2 major incidents
First one:
Dude A lends Dude B some money, relatively small amount, pretty sure it was less than $50. Dude B decides he's not going to pay it back, so like mature, reasonable teenagers they decide they're going to go to the park after school to fight about it.
Dude A is not a big guy, he asks Dude C who is a giant of a human being to come along just to make sure he doesn't get killed, sort of a referee to pull dude B off of him if things get out of hand, not expecting him to step in or lend a hand or anything.
Dude B apparently has a different idea about how this is going to go down, and has a few friends come along with him with screwdrivers and baseball bats and other such improvised weapons.
Dude C sees this as they're about to walk off the school property to fight, and does his job, takes these weapons, throws them in his bag, throws his jacket over the protruding bat, and they're about to continue on their way.
The school, however, got word of this fight about to go down, and a bunch of cops show up.
Dude A lucks the fuck out and a passing senior he kind of knew pulls him into her car and assures the police that he wasn't involved in this clusterfuck. None of the other kids give him up and he gets off scott-free and cops never figured out who the last unnamed party to this was.
The rest of them are all taken in, questioned, and receive their various punishments. Dude C gets the worst of it since he's the guy who's now holding all the weapons. He goes and spends a year or so at an alternative school, and is allowed to come back partially on the condition that he joins the football team. Our senior year we proceeded to win 0 football games, so fat lot of good having a giant on the team did.
Apparently dude C had misled his friends about how much money this was over, when informed by the cops that it was over like $40 he flew into a small rage, threw some things around, then calmly sat down and said "I have been misinformed"
Rumors of course start swirling and the truth gets very lost to the point I heard a version of the story where Dude C attacked the cops with a samurai sword and tried to flee on a motorcycle.
I'm pretty confident that this is a pretty accurate version of events though, a couple of the involved parties have all told me pretty much the exact same story, and it's relatively unspectacular compared to some of the embellished versions I've heard. It's also pretty much in line with what I know of their personalities.
For the most part, these kids weren't dangerous, I don't think any of them really had any other significant problems for the rest of their school career, and I'd describe most of them as nerds and generally decent people, some of them have some mental/emotional baggage, and couple that with some hormones and being stupid teenagers the stars just kind of aligned in the wrong way, and for the most part none of them held any significant grudges against each other and could probably have been considered friends to some extent afterwards.
Second incident:
I'm home sick one day, my mom worked at a school in our district, my sister was in school this day.
The phone rings, it's an automated message from the district. Something about the district being made aware of a threat to the high school, but that everything is under control, there's no danger, etc. not a lot of details.
Call my mom, she doesn't have much more info than I do, she's, not particularly worried, but of course a lot of parents panic and go to pick up their kids. She texts my sister to see if she wants to be picked up, she declines, she's having a good time, it's her and like 3 other people left in her class, they're chilling and watching movies and such, there's a news crew and some cop cars outside of the school.
Having nothing better to do, I'm going through all the news I can to figure out what's up.
Eventually, it took a few days for all of the details to emerge, what we managed to piece together was
There was a kid who was planning a shooting, tried to recruit another kid who turned him in. Cops raided his house, found a bunch of airsoft guns, flea market swords, a half-built pipe bomb, and one gun (that his parents bought him) with no ammo.
This kid had been pulled out of school and was being homeschooled because of bullying. I didn't know him, he was a few years younger than me, but from what I understand from people who knew him he was mostly bullied because he was an unlikeable racist asshole. The short bit of attention the media gave it tried to make it out like he was bullied for being fat (and let's make no mistake, this dude was fat he may have been almost as wide as he was tall) but from the stories I've heard of him from before this happened, if any kid ever deserved bullying it was him for being such a major asshole.
I wouldn't really mention his fatness, except that at some point during the trial and such, his mom (herself a very large lady) got in trouble for trying to smuggle him food, which was just icing on the proverbial cake.
The kid who turned him then went and broke into his house a little while later and tried to steal his Xbox or something.
That sounded like you were talking about Cartman.
You would not be the first to point out the Cartman parallels, it definitely crossed my mind while I was writing it out.
Kid nearly lopped an arm off another kid with a samurai sword. Guess he was bullied and he lost his shit one day. Kid with the sword got help, and the kid who got cut didn't lose an arm.
If I lived in a country with lax gun control, this would have been a much different situation.
Where does one casually get a samurai sword? Was he the hero of time?
A friend of mine recounts how in 1988 he flew home from Japan with a high quality katana as carry-on. Wrapped in a beach towel.
Remember there was a time before 2001 when Americans and everyone else flew differently, and there may be a number of katanas laying around from parents who traveled abroad and bought souvenirs and then tossed them in the attic without thinking.
Even in a Japanese setting, I didn't know you could just buy a katana out of nowhere and freely carry it around.
There were knife and souvenir shops in Spain that sold katanas. Don't think they were sharp but I always wanted to have one when we went there on vacation. But they were too expensive. But we did get some shuriken, nunchakus (I got some padded ones because I was the younger child) and a butterfly knife.
It has to be an authentic samurai sword since they’re kid of a national treasure. If not, there’s specific rules about transporting it to and from your dojo and stuff.
Source: got my shit help up in Japanese customs when I had a very NOT ahthentic katana in my household goods. Went 3 months without my stuff
For some reason my local thrift store had a few katanas and random other weeb tier weaponry at it.
Naturally my friend bought one.
I'd reckon from his parents, but I never saw the incident myself. You know kids in high school though. Spread a rumour and it catches like wildfire. I wouldn't be surprised if it was actually a machete.
Well there were a couple suicides, underage pregnancies, one of my classmates having sex with a teacher (F 16, M40+), a teacher who got shot on a bus, and another teacher who died suddenly in a car crash because he was recklessly driving with a sex worker.
But none of that transcended as "the incident". Personally what was most memorable to me was the time a large gasoline truck crashed and tipped over right at the gates of the school. It didn't catch fire but it got messy fast. Class got cancelled, the street ( a busy avenue) got cut so they could spray some substance on the spill. Fun times hey.
The fuck did you go to school? Gotham?
Just Buenos Aires. I'm sure there's gotta be worse than that in a lot of places. I've never heard of a single kid with a gun there for example
died suddenly in a car crash because he was recklessly driving with a sex worker.
I know they probably played it straight for the eulogy, but I hope someone managed a "died doing what they loved" or something, at least.
We had a girl in middle school who was raped by her uncle and carried the pregnancy to term and, IIRC, graduated high school. She was impregnated at age 11. The wealthy white girls who got pregnant were all disappeared as soon as it was known.
Rural Ohio, almost entirely white school - mid-to-late '90s. Bunch of kids decided to form kinda gangs. One wore cowboy hats and boots. I forget the other. Apparently, a bunch came armed to a football game for some kind of "gang war". Thankfully, that never materialized, but I do know that some definitely came armed. WTF people. No non-whites were allowed in said gangs. (This brought to you by the town with white supremacists and anti-Semites who would say "that's Jewish" to mean something was uncool).
Edit: both of these public school in the same school system.
kid trying to score points with the cool kids squeezed an orange section on the lowest kid on the totem. Lowest kid calmly stood up. Went over to the juice squeezing kid and suddenly started to choke the piss out of him then got a hold of himself and calmly sat down and finished his lunch.
squeezed an orange section on the lowest kid on the totem
Can you translate this?
An orange slice was squeezed above the head of the kid that was the lowest in the social hierarchy in order to cover them in juice.
yes. this is exactly what was done to instigate.
Lowest kid climbed 43 rungs that day, but probably never realized it.
Climbed rungs, hell...
He was removed from the ladder and placed into the "Don't fuck with" elevator.
class was like high teens in size.
A couple of students blew up a cinder block wall. A hole large enough to drive an old style mini through.
The wall divided up two tennis courts and rubble was scattered to every corner of those courts.
This happened at lunch time, when those courts were packed with students.
Someone should have been killed, but not one injury, not one..
How?
Filled the wall with aerosols through a small hole, then ignited it.
Interesting
Ok so, how did they do that?
Filled the wall with aerosols through a small hole, then ignited it.
If it was anything like Doom developer John Carmack back when he was 8, maybe thermite or something similar.
So one day a friend of mine came over when we were 14, around 25 years ago. He had a piece of newspaper with him and said : check this shit out. It was a big article about a teacher that had a "relationship" with a student. He made me read the whole thing and it was clearer and clearer that it was our school at the time. Not only that, it was also his girlfriend involved. It was super odd. She was like 13 and he was around 60. I don't really remember the details, but it was a lot of love letters being sent back and forward.
I thought this would be the biggest bombshell in the history of bombshells and could only imagine what monday at school would be like. Long story short, she moved away like IMMEDIATELY, and i have no idea whatever happened to the teacher, but as far as i remember nothing really except that he became a teacher at another school, and no one really ever talked about it, but everyone knew. It was quite bizarre
How tf does anyone let that teacher move schools and continue teaching.
This happened the year before I moved to the school, but at the beginning of the new school year I heard a lot of whispers about it and once saw a teacher shut down a conversation amongst a group of students about it.
So only ever hearing this third hand, it went something like this: a group of jocks abducted one of their friends after school one day. They took him out to someone's farm land blind folded, tied him up in a tree (or on a cross) and terrorized him by doing crazy shit like running a chainsaw close between his legs.
The kid they did this too immediately became an outcast skater punk who played in the local metal band. I got to know him a little bit through my girlfriend at the time and he was really cool. I have no idea why they did that too him. I don't know what, it any, punishment was handed down to the perpetrators. I know the school district wanted to expel them but it didn't happen during school.
It was common that year for kids from the neighboring town to drive by and yell stuff like "HEY LET'S GO CRUCIFY ONE OF OUR OWN PLAYERS!"
I also got reprimanded by a teacher for joking about kidnapping a friend of mine in order to force him to pay back the various $5 he had borrowed from everyone in our friend group. It was 100% a joke of course but I didn't realize what poor taste it was at the time.
The time an 8th grader cut his finger off.
Wood or metal shop?
History class.
Going to need some more details
Well, we were in history class and the teacher was talking about the revolutionary war. The teacher asked if anyone knew what types of guns the colonists used. Thats when the overachieving kid, stuck his hand in the air, desprate to answer. Well, the room had an old beaten up metal ceiling fan. And as he raised his hand more and more, the teacher ignored him. He wanted to hear from someone ELSE for a change. Well, he didn't want to accept that he wasn't going to get called on. So he's raising his hand extra high. He starts almost standing, until the teacher said "Sit down, I KNOW you have the answer." And the fan continued to keep us breezy on that June day.
That's when there was some commotion in the hallway, and the class clown opens the door to play with them. Turns out it was two girls taking their shirts off. So now every 14 year old boy is rushing to press up against the door. Well his pinky was still in the doorway, because he was trying to play with them before EVERYBODY noticed. That's when the door chopped off his finger.
Was this a New York school by any chance? I heard a story just like that before.
Cleveland, in 1998.
Kid was in history class, cut his finger off.
What more do you need to know?
The rest is history.
French Fries aren't supposed to have bones...
Yes, but also why are you eating french fries covered in blood, found on the floor?
........because thats how we found his finger.
Reminds me of the time a student in my high-school partially cut into their finger in Woodwork
Australia btw
A kid in high school got caught jerking off in the bathroom by the school principal. His full name became a euphemism for jerking off after that.
Someone in a neighboring school to mine did it in both Health class and French class, because the people pictured in the textbooks were attractive. The teacher for the health class one was very, very gung-ho about other peoples' health (like he'd order you to go to the cafeteria to eat if you skipped lunch, that kind of thing), and after that, it became a running joke to ask him (the health teacher) if they could "improve their lower health".
I’m more concerned about the teacher creeping on kids in the bathroom, wtf.
Back when I was in high school, it wasn't uncommon for teachers to use the same restrooms as the students. I can't quite remember but I think there were only a couple staff toilets on the campus, one in each gendered locker room and one in the front office.
Anyway, my point is there's at least the possibility that the principal was just using the bathroom normally and the poor kid was being... less than subtle about what he was doing in the stall.
Bathrooms were shared back then between teachers and students. And when this happened, it was while class was ongoing, so he had very little expectation that he would run into any kids outside of class.
When I was at school teachers had to go into the toilets to stop fights and fetch kids who were hiding or being sick.
That was me. Girlfriend and I got pregnant when I was 15 and again at 17. Kept both and got a job. Studied hard and graduated 19th in my class with honors. Ton of negativity from school staff and loss of friends which is still hard to let go of. We did marry the fall after I graduated and after years of poverty things have slowly gotten more stable.
That's cute!!! You did the right thing, I'm sure it was difficult and it's very brave not chickening out of it.
Thank you; it's been a long, hard road for sure and our kiddos are now grown and doing well. We took the lessons learned and went into foster / adoption and now have a large family which has been a huge learning experience of its own.
A boy got ran over and killed while biking home by a senior who was texting and driving on their way home. It happened less than a mile away from the highschool
One of my classmates did the Hitler salute and exclaimed "Heil Hitler" - an expression which is (rightfully) penalized in Germany, where I live.
The guy was a son of our local police officer.
He didn't got expelled, but he had a very stern talk with our school director. I presume that it was made clear to him that if this ever happens again, he's out. From what I heard last, in the last few years he was really ashamed of what he did when he was younger. I sincerely hope he is doing okay now - he got into the police, and people like him who recognize that being right isn't cool are needed.
Coincidentally my school is in Dessau; our city is well-known for producing Zyklon B, a lethal gas used in KZs across Germany, and a "case of sudden self-igniting" of a migrant called Oury Jalloh in a police cell. Obviously all the camera footage of that cell randomly broke down, there was blood found in the dining room and the guy didn't have anything to lit himself on fire with. But that all obviously is just a coincidence ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Not a good city to do the Hitlers salute in (if there ever was any, which - surprise - doesn't), tbh.
I think there's one city where a Hitler salute would be "good": Atlantis.
Hitler himself fetishized the myth
Whoever does the salute would drown and disappear.
An art teacher gave some students a camera for an assignment. Apparently it contained images of his genitalia.
Reminds me of in Primary school, we had a paper mache project with old newspapers. Somehow copies of The Sun with nude pictures ended up in there.
The theater teacher was caught having sex with a student in the theater, got proof from his phone that he had done it plenty of other times with other kids too.
Also some football players abused Adderall to give them an edge while playing, one died and another got brain damage and will never walk again.
A nearby highschool's waterpolo coach was caught having sex with students too.
Ok, this happened in another school near my own, a catholic school run by priests strict to the point of unreasonable, asshole-level old school strict, they even applied corporal punishment every once in a while.
The story spread like wildfire, there were a ton and a half of cross-school friendships between that particular school and mine. This was "somewhere in Mexico", to keep it anonymous.
Strap in, it's a long story but it's a doozy.
There was this really overweight kid, he wasn't bullied or anything, he had friends and everything.
One day in the middle of class, he raised his hand - "May I be excused? I really need to go to the restroom", and the dismally unsurprising response was - "Certainly NOT! Learn to hold it in! bE a MaN!" A few minutes later, a foul stench spread across the classroom. The kid didn't say anything, he just got up and walked out, as everybody stared in a stunned silence.
Everyone in class stormed the windows from inside to see the kid as he walked across the school yard towards the restrooms, on its' own building, and locked himself inside. One classmate suddenly yelled out - "The shitter!", and within a few seconds the entire classroom joined in a loud chorus - "THE SHITTER! THE SHITTER!"
Par for the course with these sociopathic and incompetent priests, everyone knew there was no paper in the restrooms, a common occurrence.
This poor kid stayed locked inside the restroom as a teacher here and a priest there knocked on the door and attempted to negotiate. This went on for a couple of hours, until the kid's brother arrived at school, walked across the yards, carrying a fresh change of clothes, knocked on the restroom door and was let inside.
By this point, everything in school was at a standstill, every single student in every single classroom was glued to the windows, staring in silence. You could hear a pin drop. Then the door opened, kid and his brother walked out, and headed for the school exit.
Then one kid shouted - "The shitter!", and now the ENTIRE school, from every classroom window, joined in the chorus - "THE SHITTER! THE SHITTER!!!"
The poor kid never did return, he transferred to another school. On the one hand, surely out of shame, but on the other, because the casual, mindless and indifferent cruelty the goddamned priests imposed on children. In a more empathetic, humane school, this would have not happened.
Here's the cool epilogue - when this kid attended high school some years later, nobody bothered him about the incident, he had his own band of friends, went to parties and everything. When the story was told, the emphasis was on the asshole priests. That's a comforting thought.
I'm not sure how much of a scandal it was outside of those directly affect, but I was in the circle. A group of us, led by one of the younger drama teachers, went to the Edinburg Fringe Festival (a big literary, drama and comedy festival) with a bunch of short comic plays by Checkov (yes, really!). he was attractive enough that he had to make sure not to be alone in a room with a female student in case of rumours, but he was decent and would never had done anything like that. He got his wife and his brother involved too, which was cool, we all got on really well. We had a lot of fun, it was great, and, amazingly for the first time at the Fringe, didn't actually lose money! (I think we made like fifty quid between twelve of us, so we didn't exactly make a profit either, but it was an amazing experience)
Then his brother and his wife had an affair and ran away together
I love the fringe. Shame for him, he seems like a good guy and he didn't deserve that.
Some guy peed in a handdryer. Which is weird but even weirder was that the principal did a 15 min sprach about how the perpetrator has mental problems and needs to seek help.
It was really funny.
I had a band teacher that I highly respected in high school. He took a band program that was the worst in the state, a complete shit show, and made it an award winning program. I always saw some of the students hanging out with him in his office at lunch, never thought about it my self or noticed that it was all girls. Fast forward a couple of years after I graduated, I'm working in a local popular sandwich shop down the road from the school. I always saw this one girl who would come in and get his lunch order. I asked her, and she said she was the student assistant for him. The school setup a program after I graduated to earn working experience as student assistants. It turns out the teacher was having an affair with this girl, who was only 17. The school district IT admin found explicit emails between them on the schools email system, and things went haywire. And since the law at the time in my state was 16 was the age of consent, it wasn't illegal. But it was still a huge scandal, married teacher sleeping with his student. The school forced him to resign and the girls family told him to never contact her or come near them. Once she graduated, they got married and are still married to this day.
Wut. In the UK the age of consent is raised in the circumstance of a teacher
The schools I know have specific rules of conduct that says anyone who works at the school can not have a relationship with a student, and also for two years after the student has graduated or left the school. And that’s apart from age of consent.
I'm all for age of consent, but considering that you can have graduates as old as 19-20, and teachers as young as 23-24, I have to admit it seems a bit strange to put restrictions on what they can do outside of (1) what is legal, and (2) what effects their job (like having a relationship with a current student, especially one that you teach).
Like, I know several people in my graduating high-school class that were with someone older than our youngest teacher, a couple of which are still together with the person 10 years later.
We were no longer permitted to go on excursions to the local bird sanctuary because some students derailed the train that runs through the park.
I'm picturing a pack of elementary aged kids armed with crowbars derailing a full on Amtrak train.
It's striking to me to know that I was the kind of kid who could have easily ended up in a headline like this. I was not very impeccable with my word at that age, to put it mildly.
Had a girl that was hardcore into ROTC and she staged this fake “attack” in the girls bathroom and stabbed herself in the leg. She did it to be awarded some medal she didn’t have yet.
Kid drank thallium rat poison, in an attempt to commit suicide. Thing is, thallium doesn't kill you, it just makes you vomit a LOT. So they had to evacuate the classroom because there was a bunch of thallium and vomit everywhere.
The best part is we weren't allowed to leave for 2 hours, because this happened at like 10 and they still wanted the day to count for the school year.
One kid sniffed lighter gas and jacked off during 9th grade chemistry class. He passed out and fell off his chair and hit his head to the floor with his dick still clutched in his hand.
The teacher was so terrified that she couldn't do anything but stutter and shake violently. Me and a couple of my friends dragged the idiot outside to get fresh air while waiting for the ambulance.
The sniffer came back to school the next day like nothing had ever happened. This incident was never again discussed in any way by the teachers or other faculty members.
There were lots of totally crazy shit happening on a weekly basis. The early 90's were pretty wild where I grew up.
Not exactly my school but it happened to my whole city, Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka, the Ken and Barbie serial killers,were abducting, raping and murdering teen girls. I was roughly that age, and it could have happened to any girl in the city.
Gross
I went to the funeral of one of the victims. It was surreal.
Someone left the gas on in a lab to get out of a test they didn't study for.
english teacher mysteriously left halfway through the year. rumors went around that she was messaging students outside of school. never confirmed for me. also freshman year our econ teacher married the gym teacher and she left over the summer to teach at another school
Similar thing happened at mine. Teacher was suddenly gone. Had previously won statewide awards for teaching.
Found out that it was from an inappropriate relationship complaint so they canned him. Found out much later that it was all one-sided, emails and texts showed he was telling her to stop. We lost a good teacher.
thats so upsetting i hope hes been able to turn around
Kid got caught beating his meat in the school library.
Ugh. We caught a kid doing that in my high school library last May. We radioed for help. The campus supervisor walked him outside, talked to him about it, and sent him back to us to finish the test he was working on. I couldn't believe it. Later, we told admin about it and had to write witness statements. He was a freshman and said it's what he does at home when he's sitting around, and didn't realize he was doing it. None of the students know, as far as I'm aware. We all kept it very quiet.
This was (and possibly is) a huge issue in a neighboring school. Someone would say he'd flip the health textbook to page 258 and focus on the attractive stock image person on the page. One day there was a confrontation about it that seemed to blow over when the person said "well it IS health class!"
My school had a kid do that in class under the desk. One of the more hated teachers in the school caught him and asked what he was doing. His reply, "Nothing if you don't want to join."
Not mine but my sister's school - it was the first year the school was open and they had full length stalls in the bathroom. And then a couple months into the school year, a girl gave a boy a blowjob in one of them and of course they got caught. And that's why the school got rid of the full length stalls very shortly after installing them. There were only a few hundred kids enrolled at that point, so of course everyone found out about it and any time someone mentioned that poor girl's name for the next 4 years, it was, "oh the one who sucked [guy]'s dick?"
Power went out for like a whole day then they found a fried rat chomped into the power cable
Was he fried before or after he chomped on the cable
In a perfect world it got the munchies after getting into a students bag of weed then chomped into that sweet sweet high current noodle
A girl got killed by a school bus.
She had been cheating on two different guys, and they found out while on the bus. They started to fight, and the driver pulled over to kick them off. While the driver was pulling away, she decided she wanted to watch the fight. So she forced the doors open on the (now moving) bus, and jumped out. Apparently this was a semi-regular thing for her to do.
What wasn’t regular is that, upon landing, she tripped and rolled under the bus. The rear wheels ran over her head, and she was killed.
The school offered a day off of classes and free grief counseling for the students who were affected. Suddenly, everyone who had ever passed her in the halls was her best friend. It also started a “careful that you don’t get hit by a bus” trend among students, where pretty much any activity was countered with some form of “make sure you don’t get hit by a bus!” Going to basketball practice? “Don’t get hit by a bus on your way to the locker rooms!” Need to go to the library? “Make sure you don’t get hit by a bus on your way!”
It peaked when a student asked a teacher to go to the restroom. She was always a very prim and proper type. She quickly answered “yes, just don’t get hit by a bus on your way.” She quickly realized what she had just said, and looked horrified, which just had us all rolling.
Probably not "the incident" anymore, since it was almost 30 years ago now and no one left there likely remembers.
But a couple of years after I graduated, one of the kids who was a couple of grades behind me sneaked into the school at night, lit a bunch of candles on the floor of the chemistry lab and turned on all the gas taps and put towels under the doors so that the room would fill with gas starting from the top to the bottom. (I guess his chemistry class came in handy since he was smart enough to know that gases float to the top, giving him time to escape.
He went to Juvie for a while I believe, and then ended up living a pretty normal life. Last I heard he had been one of the people listed for the doomed-to-never-actually-happen "100 settlers on a one way trip to Mars" project. Haven't heard anything about him lately since I long ago deleted Facebook and so have no real contact with the people I went to highschool with anymore (just like the old days and I love it)
edited - Sorry, thought he was short-listed. But he was cut before the short-list was announced. Edited to change.
Did he blow up the lab
Took out the entire quarter section of the school, if I remember correctly. Though "explosion" isn't technically correct since it was the fire that did the damage. The lab was never going to be sealed tight no matter how many towels he used, so the gas was never under the types of pressure necessary to cause an explosion; just a fireball that ignited everything around it.
I heard some stuff that was worse happened after I left (girl brought a knife in her bra, someone turned on the gas in the chem lab) but during my time was the Ketchup Incident.
I guess the lunch monitors felt that students were taking too much Ketchup at lunch and “wasting” it, so they started monitoring it - two pumps, no more. Well, the guy I had a crush on (funny cool rebel type, in a band, all that) decided to bring Ketchup to school to share. He got in school suspension for some amount of time, and there were kids caring signs, and I remember a few times chanting, “Free (guy’s name)”. He became a folk hero of the oppressed student. They eventually reinstated full Ketchup privileges, and it was all because of him. At least, that’s how I remember it.
A few years later, dumb ass senior boys glued the sports trophies to the floor of the gym and got in huge trouble.
Beverly Hillbilly type drove past a football team member's family garage sale and called them n-words and n-word lovers.
He was slow-rolling by so one of the player's (white) friends, the team captain as it happens, reached through the window and came pretty close to yanking him out of it before he managed to get away.
It's a fairly conservative county but also very rich and they like to keep the ugliness (and the history of redlining) on the DL so he got expelled and some of the football team broke his arm later. Tragically, despite him naming names, they all had alibis and parents who could afford lawyers.
Also tragically, his parents could afford to send him to a very nice military school that probably looked better on his college application anyways. However, he was dumb as shit regardless, so they might have just sighed and accepted he'll have to be the boss's idiot son for a career.
Fairly interesting expression of socio-economic conflict and human tribalism all around, honestly. Some of the guys who broke Beverly Hillbilly's arm have said some pretty racist shit on Facebook since then even if they weren't so crude, but their teammate was in the tribe so to speak and therefore someone outside of it, and a social outcast to boot, had to punished for attacking him.
Was it the hillbilly who was expelled or the guy who broke his arm?
The "week of fights" as it was later called, where we went on soft lockdown four days in a row due to community violence. First time was because a guy with a crowbar was trying to break the front door windows of the school to get in. His brother or something was going to fight someone and I guess he wanted to be there to help. The other times were also due to fights involving members of two families if I recall correctly, it was really weird.
One student threw a textbook of another student on the roof of the school, who just so happened to be affiliated with some gang. He and his brother beat him up outside my bus, where a well-placed punch sprayed blood on my window.
Star basketball player decided it would be a good idea to commit armed robbery the day before graduation.
A twitter account was created that would post the name of a senior girl and their "rank" in terms of "hotness" a few times a day. No one could figure out who was behind the account, although I think there was a shortlist of potentials.
Another twitter account was created that looked like the school district's official twitter page, which posted that school was canceled due to snow. Well about half the kids believed it and didn't show up, so the school was a total ghost town that day, and none of the teachers did any real teaching since most of them had so few students
A mom broke up with her boyfriend. He returned later and killed her 3 kids, then her, then himself. The oldest son was in my class.
I wasn't great friends with him, but I knew him well enough to feel bad about it. So many people who hated him pretended to be sad for attention.
Kids step dad found an unfired mortar while working on base. Kid brought it to school and dropped it in the band room. Thankfully no one died, but there was still a shrapnel ring in the room when i graduated a few years later.
We had Shitler. Someone kept defecating in the boys washroom and drawing swastikas on the walls with it. The staff couldn't figure out who it was, and started closing down washrooms. At one point there were only 1 or 2 men's washrooms open - and Shitler still struck again. No one ever found out who it was.
In my junior high they had a mysterious urinal pooper. They spent months trying to catch the culprit. They even resorted to a $25 reward and a little campaign in the morning announcements. Then it turned out to be a handicap student who couldn't bend his knees. The posters and campaign quietly disappeared without a word.
Overworked janitor who wanted to reduce the number of bathrooms they had to clean
Yes Prep Southeast campus (charter school does 6th - 12th grade).
The school decided to experiment with separating the boys and the girls in 6th grade.
The result was the 6th grade boys started a secret fight club with money involved in the restrooms, and some high schoolers were managing it. It was found out after a boy's head broke a sink.
The girls got very slightly better grades though.
Other than that, the usual also happened; corruption, fraud, teachers doing pedophilia and ephebofilia, etc.
The usual?? 🤨
Not my school, but one nearby. It smelled like gas in chemistry class and some idiot student thought it would be a good joke to flick a lighter. There actually was a gas leak and he set it on fire, injuring himself and a bunch of classmates. I don't remember if anyone died.
I actually knew a couple of those girls and they weren't nearly that bad.
There were quite a few, though ironically most of the "incidents" at my school were ones that happened at the neighboring public school that leaked over to my school.
I did cause a scare once though. I was the student tasked with helping with the yearbook. Where I live, we have a tradition called "most likely to", where we make questions in the yearbook under a "most likely to _______" format and we nominate classmates to those positions. For example, one section might say "most likely classmate to graduate from Yale", or another might say "most likely classmate to start a cult", stuff like that. This is a well-known tradition. What I didn't know is that inserting one that said "most likely to do a school shooting" was a baaaaaad idea. I thought it was just another entry, but I didn't think maybe the people would panic and I'd be put in in-school suspension. Fortunately my only time in in-school suspension and thus the only time I've had to wear suspenders (they add suspenders to the school uniform of suspended people).
A day before I got in a guy set fire to the trash in the chapel.
So I befriended him immediately!
Someone opened the soap dispensers and put doodoo in them.
So, once I saw the beginning of a fight. Which was stopped after like a minute by the guard ladies.
Yeah, my school was tame as hell.
THE black kid brought a gun to school to shoot his girlfriend for breaking up with him. That really helped to reduce racial stereotypes.
Two guys swam to school. The school was located on an island in the river Rhine, one of the busiest waterways in Europe.
When I was about 11 or 12, my class had a PE lesson, only to find Jess Taylor and Luke Jones, (who were in lower sixth, about 16 or 17) naked and kissing in the equipment cupboard.
Literally no one who was at the school at the time does not know this. Those of us fairly near the front got an eyeful of Jess and Luke trying to put their clothes on as fast as possible. Jess was certainly an impressive and memorable sight, but Luke was as you might expect he would be under the circumstances, which was, from our perspective, of epic proportions. As they finished pushing through the crowd one of the boys in my class called out "respect the dong!" and it broke the shocked silence and we all lost it laughing. Someone else called out "respect the rack!" which brought more laughing and some cheers.
For a while my year group (mainly the boys) called out "respect the rack" or "respect the dong" at play times if they were spotted, but Jess clearly didn't like it so we stopped and left her alone. Luke, though, always took it with good humour, so for the next year and a half until he left the school, we said it to him whenever we saw him at break, but in the corridor where teachers might overhear, we just said "respect". He would always agree and say "respect" and he gradually turned from being a joke hero into someone we really thought was a great guy for having a sense of humour about it all and engaging with us as if we weren't the idiotic easily amused and insensitive little brats that I later realised we clearly were.
We found the phrase "How big was it on a scale of 1 to Luke Jones?" endlessly amusing in almost any context, like "look at this spider!" "how big is it on a scale of tiny flea to Luke Jones?" or "I was walking home and this massive lorry passed me and the pressure wave nearly blew me over." "How big was it on a scale of Ford Fiesta to Luke Jones?" "Oh, Luke Jones, definitely Luke Jones" "Respect the dong!" "Always respect the dong."
the urinal shitter (exactly what it sounds like, he was never caught)
a notable/well-liked student athlete was suffering from depression and sadly took his own life
the cool young teacher ended up being a pedo and his victim was a 15 y/o girl he was tutoring
someone called in violent threats to interfere with notable school events (sports games, tests, etc.); this happened multiple times and then we never heard about it again, nobody in my circle ever heard anything about who it was
Diane Zamora.
Basically HS couple, psycho girlfriend forces cheating boyfriend to lure girl out so they can end her.
Two girls had beef the first year the school opened. Don't know if they were fighting over some guy or what, but one cited the other at a bridge downtown. When the other girl got there there was a huge fight, so one girl pulled out a knife and stabbed her in the neck. The victim survived and the other went to jail and we never saw either of them again.
I went to a really small middle school/high school (this was a charter school that had grades 6-12), and everyone in my grade was pretty tight-knit. When we were 17, one of my buddies had been at a house party with her older 23-year-old boyfriend on a Saturday night. Now, we all knew this guy was a POS, and we were always telling her to dump his ass. But anyways, at some point, my friend decided she wanted to leave the party and go back home, but her boyfriend didn't want to go. They apparently argued about it, and she ended up leaving the party by herself and started walking. She called her mom to let her know where she was and ask her to come pick her up, when all of the sudden, my friend was abruptly cut off. Her boyfriend had angrily gotten in his car and made a beeline straight for her. Ran her over and killed her while she was talking to her mom. He apparently asked someone nearby to help him load her in the back of his car, and he drove her body to his home and brought her inside. Some witnesses had followed him home and called the cops. They arrested him on the spot.
The other thing happened when we were 14/15 - same school. There was this badass algebra teacher/baseball coach that we all loved. He had been going over to this girl's house to "tutor" her for close to a year, but one day her mom found a sext from him on her daughter's phone. Come to find out, he had been raping her just about the whole time, but also they like basically had a full-fledged relationship. This girl's mom was one of the admins at our school, and like I had mentioned, it was a really small school, so the staff were something like a family. There was constantly outings and events with all of the staff and their families, so the two of them were able to spend time a lot of time together without raising eyebrows. The girl was 13 at the time, and the teacher was in his late 30s. He got sentenced to 15 years in jail.
A 7yo girl peed on herself, after that incident we have put a weird nickname to her.
But there was also the other kid around 7 - 8 yo, who poop on himself, anyway these two was the incidents back then.
Peepants and Shitbritches
How old are you ?
Fucking dweebs asking, "what was the incident in your school".
A student and her football player boyfriend were caught behind the school after a game making out and probably more. The girl was made to publicly apologize to the class and then "strongly encouraged" to leave and finish her high school somewhere else. The boy faced no public repercussions and appeared to carry on as normal.
Let's call her "Jenny". For about a year, any time someone pushed the line on public displays of affection per school rules, they were warned to tone it down or they would get "Jenny'd".
Catholic school, in case you couldn't guess.
Awful. Which decade did this happen?
Knowing Catholic run schools this might as well have been last week.
Late 2000s
Girl who had a crush on me (and dumbass me was very slowly figuring this out) got in trouble in class for mouthing off, and when the teacher told her to go to the principal's office she refused. He grabbed her by the arm and she kicked the teacher in the balls. HARD. I never saw her again. I think she had a number of issues. But damn, she was hot.
Your balls thank you for never clueing in
Dodged a bullet. She had transferred in from somewhere. Pretty sure she was desperate for friends and was love bombing me. I was dumb and naive.
Close! It's naive
Thanks. Phone at early o'clock typo.
A neighboring school to me had a dean of students with an absolutely terrible relation to the students, and someone a few grades above me got a few weeks of out-of-school suspension for waiting for the very end of Spirit Day (when everyone was outside enjoying a popsicle, I guess the teachers thought they had the attention span of 6-year-olds) and kicking her into the grass. He's still a celebrity for this.
Remember a story a teacher told the class where it looked like a student had fallen asleep so she got her friend to try to wake her up but then a pool of blood starting leaking out of her arms
Turns out she had a nose bleed and went unconscious after trying to hide said nose bleed instead of telling the teacher
Australia btw
Even the nose bleeds are scarier in Australia!
We have 2 major incidents
First one:
Dude A lends Dude B some money, relatively small amount, pretty sure it was less than $50. Dude B decides he's not going to pay it back, so like mature, reasonable teenagers they decide they're going to go to the park after school to fight about it.
Dude A is not a big guy, he asks Dude C who is a giant of a human being to come along just to make sure he doesn't get killed, sort of a referee to pull dude B off of him if things get out of hand, not expecting him to step in or lend a hand or anything.
Dude B apparently has a different idea about how this is going to go down, and has a few friends come along with him with screwdrivers and baseball bats and other such improvised weapons.
Dude C sees this as they're about to walk off the school property to fight, and does his job, takes these weapons, throws them in his bag, throws his jacket over the protruding bat, and they're about to continue on their way.
The school, however, got word of this fight about to go down, and a bunch of cops show up.
Dude A lucks the fuck out and a passing senior he kind of knew pulls him into her car and assures the police that he wasn't involved in this clusterfuck. None of the other kids give him up and he gets off scott-free and cops never figured out who the last unnamed party to this was.
The rest of them are all taken in, questioned, and receive their various punishments. Dude C gets the worst of it since he's the guy who's now holding all the weapons. He goes and spends a year or so at an alternative school, and is allowed to come back partially on the condition that he joins the football team. Our senior year we proceeded to win 0 football games, so fat lot of good having a giant on the team did.
Apparently dude C had misled his friends about how much money this was over, when informed by the cops that it was over like $40 he flew into a small rage, threw some things around, then calmly sat down and said "I have been misinformed"
Rumors of course start swirling and the truth gets very lost to the point I heard a version of the story where Dude C attacked the cops with a samurai sword and tried to flee on a motorcycle.
I'm pretty confident that this is a pretty accurate version of events though, a couple of the involved parties have all told me pretty much the exact same story, and it's relatively unspectacular compared to some of the embellished versions I've heard. It's also pretty much in line with what I know of their personalities.
For the most part, these kids weren't dangerous, I don't think any of them really had any other significant problems for the rest of their school career, and I'd describe most of them as nerds and generally decent people, some of them have some mental/emotional baggage, and couple that with some hormones and being stupid teenagers the stars just kind of aligned in the wrong way, and for the most part none of them held any significant grudges against each other and could probably have been considered friends to some extent afterwards.
Second incident:
I'm home sick one day, my mom worked at a school in our district, my sister was in school this day.
The phone rings, it's an automated message from the district. Something about the district being made aware of a threat to the high school, but that everything is under control, there's no danger, etc. not a lot of details.
Call my mom, she doesn't have much more info than I do, she's, not particularly worried, but of course a lot of parents panic and go to pick up their kids. She texts my sister to see if she wants to be picked up, she declines, she's having a good time, it's her and like 3 other people left in her class, they're chilling and watching movies and such, there's a news crew and some cop cars outside of the school.
Having nothing better to do, I'm going through all the news I can to figure out what's up.
Eventually, it took a few days for all of the details to emerge, what we managed to piece together was
There was a kid who was planning a shooting, tried to recruit another kid who turned him in. Cops raided his house, found a bunch of airsoft guns, flea market swords, a half-built pipe bomb, and one gun (that his parents bought him) with no ammo.
This kid had been pulled out of school and was being homeschooled because of bullying. I didn't know him, he was a few years younger than me, but from what I understand from people who knew him he was mostly bullied because he was an unlikeable racist asshole. The short bit of attention the media gave it tried to make it out like he was bullied for being fat (and let's make no mistake, this dude was fat he may have been almost as wide as he was tall) but from the stories I've heard of him from before this happened, if any kid ever deserved bullying it was him for being such a major asshole.
I wouldn't really mention his fatness, except that at some point during the trial and such, his mom (herself a very large lady) got in trouble for trying to smuggle him food, which was just icing on the proverbial cake.
The kid who turned him then went and broke into his house a little while later and tried to steal his Xbox or something.
That sounded like you were talking about Cartman.
You would not be the first to point out the Cartman parallels, it definitely crossed my mind while I was writing it out.
Kid nearly lopped an arm off another kid with a samurai sword. Guess he was bullied and he lost his shit one day. Kid with the sword got help, and the kid who got cut didn't lose an arm.
If I lived in a country with lax gun control, this would have been a much different situation.
Where does one casually get a samurai sword? Was he the hero of time?
A friend of mine recounts how in 1988 he flew home from Japan with a high quality katana as carry-on. Wrapped in a beach towel.
Remember there was a time before 2001 when Americans and everyone else flew differently, and there may be a number of katanas laying around from parents who traveled abroad and bought souvenirs and then tossed them in the attic without thinking.
Even in a Japanese setting, I didn't know you could just buy a katana out of nowhere and freely carry it around.
There were knife and souvenir shops in Spain that sold katanas. Don't think they were sharp but I always wanted to have one when we went there on vacation. But they were too expensive. But we did get some shuriken, nunchakus (I got some padded ones because I was the younger child) and a butterfly knife.
It has to be an authentic samurai sword since they’re kid of a national treasure. If not, there’s specific rules about transporting it to and from your dojo and stuff.
Source: got my shit help up in Japanese customs when I had a very NOT ahthentic katana in my household goods. Went 3 months without my stuff
For some reason my local thrift store had a few katanas and random other weeb tier weaponry at it.
Naturally my friend bought one.
I'd reckon from his parents, but I never saw the incident myself. You know kids in high school though. Spread a rumour and it catches like wildfire. I wouldn't be surprised if it was actually a machete.
Well there were a couple suicides, underage pregnancies, one of my classmates having sex with a teacher (F 16, M40+), a teacher who got shot on a bus, and another teacher who died suddenly in a car crash because he was recklessly driving with a sex worker.
But none of that transcended as "the incident". Personally what was most memorable to me was the time a large gasoline truck crashed and tipped over right at the gates of the school. It didn't catch fire but it got messy fast. Class got cancelled, the street ( a busy avenue) got cut so they could spray some substance on the spill. Fun times hey.
The fuck did you go to school? Gotham?
Just Buenos Aires. I'm sure there's gotta be worse than that in a lot of places. I've never heard of a single kid with a gun there for example
I know they probably played it straight for the eulogy, but I hope someone managed a "died doing what they loved" or something, at least.
We had a girl in middle school who was raped by her uncle and carried the pregnancy to term and, IIRC, graduated high school. She was impregnated at age 11. The wealthy white girls who got pregnant were all disappeared as soon as it was known.
Rural Ohio, almost entirely white school - mid-to-late '90s. Bunch of kids decided to form kinda gangs. One wore cowboy hats and boots. I forget the other. Apparently, a bunch came armed to a football game for some kind of "gang war". Thankfully, that never materialized, but I do know that some definitely came armed. WTF people. No non-whites were allowed in said gangs. (This brought to you by the town with white supremacists and anti-Semites who would say "that's Jewish" to mean something was uncool).
Edit: both of these public school in the same school system.
kid trying to score points with the cool kids squeezed an orange section on the lowest kid on the totem. Lowest kid calmly stood up. Went over to the juice squeezing kid and suddenly started to choke the piss out of him then got a hold of himself and calmly sat down and finished his lunch.
Can you translate this?
An orange slice was squeezed above the head of the kid that was the lowest in the social hierarchy in order to cover them in juice.
yes. this is exactly what was done to instigate.
Lowest kid climbed 43 rungs that day, but probably never realized it.
Climbed rungs, hell...
He was removed from the ladder and placed into the "Don't fuck with" elevator.
class was like high teens in size.
A couple of students blew up a cinder block wall. A hole large enough to drive an old style mini through.
The wall divided up two tennis courts and rubble was scattered to every corner of those courts.
This happened at lunch time, when those courts were packed with students.
Someone should have been killed, but not one injury, not one..
How?
Filled the wall with aerosols through a small hole, then ignited it.
Interesting
Ok so, how did they do that?
Filled the wall with aerosols through a small hole, then ignited it.
If it was anything like Doom developer John Carmack back when he was 8, maybe thermite or something similar.
So one day a friend of mine came over when we were 14, around 25 years ago. He had a piece of newspaper with him and said : check this shit out. It was a big article about a teacher that had a "relationship" with a student. He made me read the whole thing and it was clearer and clearer that it was our school at the time. Not only that, it was also his girlfriend involved. It was super odd. She was like 13 and he was around 60. I don't really remember the details, but it was a lot of love letters being sent back and forward.
I thought this would be the biggest bombshell in the history of bombshells and could only imagine what monday at school would be like. Long story short, she moved away like IMMEDIATELY, and i have no idea whatever happened to the teacher, but as far as i remember nothing really except that he became a teacher at another school, and no one really ever talked about it, but everyone knew. It was quite bizarre
How tf does anyone let that teacher move schools and continue teaching.
This happened the year before I moved to the school, but at the beginning of the new school year I heard a lot of whispers about it and once saw a teacher shut down a conversation amongst a group of students about it.
So only ever hearing this third hand, it went something like this: a group of jocks abducted one of their friends after school one day. They took him out to someone's farm land blind folded, tied him up in a tree (or on a cross) and terrorized him by doing crazy shit like running a chainsaw close between his legs.
The kid they did this too immediately became an outcast skater punk who played in the local metal band. I got to know him a little bit through my girlfriend at the time and he was really cool. I have no idea why they did that too him. I don't know what, it any, punishment was handed down to the perpetrators. I know the school district wanted to expel them but it didn't happen during school.
It was common that year for kids from the neighboring town to drive by and yell stuff like "HEY LET'S GO CRUCIFY ONE OF OUR OWN PLAYERS!"
I also got reprimanded by a teacher for joking about kidnapping a friend of mine in order to force him to pay back the various $5 he had borrowed from everyone in our friend group. It was 100% a joke of course but I didn't realize what poor taste it was at the time.
The time an 8th grader cut his finger off.
Wood or metal shop?
History class.
Going to need some more details
Well, we were in history class and the teacher was talking about the revolutionary war. The teacher asked if anyone knew what types of guns the colonists used. Thats when the overachieving kid, stuck his hand in the air, desprate to answer. Well, the room had an old beaten up metal ceiling fan. And as he raised his hand more and more, the teacher ignored him. He wanted to hear from someone ELSE for a change. Well, he didn't want to accept that he wasn't going to get called on. So he's raising his hand extra high. He starts almost standing, until the teacher said "Sit down, I KNOW you have the answer." And the fan continued to keep us breezy on that June day.
That's when there was some commotion in the hallway, and the class clown opens the door to play with them. Turns out it was two girls taking their shirts off. So now every 14 year old boy is rushing to press up against the door. Well his pinky was still in the doorway, because he was trying to play with them before EVERYBODY noticed. That's when the door chopped off his finger.
Was this a New York school by any chance? I heard a story just like that before.
Cleveland, in 1998.
Kid was in history class, cut his finger off.
What more do you need to know?
The rest is history.
French Fries aren't supposed to have bones...
Yes, but also why are you eating french fries covered in blood, found on the floor?
........because thats how we found his finger.
Reminds me of the time a student in my high-school partially cut into their finger in Woodwork
Australia btw
A kid in high school got caught jerking off in the bathroom by the school principal. His full name became a euphemism for jerking off after that.
Someone in a neighboring school to mine did it in both Health class and French class, because the people pictured in the textbooks were attractive. The teacher for the health class one was very, very gung-ho about other peoples' health (like he'd order you to go to the cafeteria to eat if you skipped lunch, that kind of thing), and after that, it became a running joke to ask him (the health teacher) if they could "improve their lower health".
I’m more concerned about the teacher creeping on kids in the bathroom, wtf.
Back when I was in high school, it wasn't uncommon for teachers to use the same restrooms as the students. I can't quite remember but I think there were only a couple staff toilets on the campus, one in each gendered locker room and one in the front office.
Anyway, my point is there's at least the possibility that the principal was just using the bathroom normally and the poor kid was being... less than subtle about what he was doing in the stall.
Bathrooms were shared back then between teachers and students. And when this happened, it was while class was ongoing, so he had very little expectation that he would run into any kids outside of class.
When I was at school teachers had to go into the toilets to stop fights and fetch kids who were hiding or being sick.
That was me. Girlfriend and I got pregnant when I was 15 and again at 17. Kept both and got a job. Studied hard and graduated 19th in my class with honors. Ton of negativity from school staff and loss of friends which is still hard to let go of. We did marry the fall after I graduated and after years of poverty things have slowly gotten more stable.
That's cute!!! You did the right thing, I'm sure it was difficult and it's very brave not chickening out of it.
Thank you; it's been a long, hard road for sure and our kiddos are now grown and doing well. We took the lessons learned and went into foster / adoption and now have a large family which has been a huge learning experience of its own.
A boy got ran over and killed while biking home by a senior who was texting and driving on their way home. It happened less than a mile away from the highschool
One of my classmates did the Hitler salute and exclaimed "Heil Hitler" - an expression which is (rightfully) penalized in Germany, where I live.
The guy was a son of our local police officer.
He didn't got expelled, but he had a very stern talk with our school director. I presume that it was made clear to him that if this ever happens again, he's out. From what I heard last, in the last few years he was really ashamed of what he did when he was younger. I sincerely hope he is doing okay now - he got into the police, and people like him who recognize that being right isn't cool are needed.
Coincidentally my school is in Dessau; our city is well-known for producing Zyklon B, a lethal gas used in KZs across Germany, and a "case of sudden self-igniting" of a migrant called Oury Jalloh in a police cell. Obviously all the camera footage of that cell randomly broke down, there was blood found in the dining room and the guy didn't have anything to lit himself on fire with. But that all obviously is just a coincidence ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Not a good city to do the Hitlers salute in (if there ever was any, which - surprise - doesn't), tbh.
I think there's one city where a Hitler salute would be "good": Atlantis.
An art teacher gave some students a camera for an assignment. Apparently it contained images of his genitalia.
Reminds me of in Primary school, we had a paper mache project with old newspapers. Somehow copies of The Sun with nude pictures ended up in there.
The theater teacher was caught having sex with a student in the theater, got proof from his phone that he had done it plenty of other times with other kids too.
Also some football players abused Adderall to give them an edge while playing, one died and another got brain damage and will never walk again.
A nearby highschool's waterpolo coach was caught having sex with students too.
Ok, this happened in another school near my own, a catholic school run by priests strict to the point of unreasonable, asshole-level old school strict, they even applied corporal punishment every once in a while.
The story spread like wildfire, there were a ton and a half of cross-school friendships between that particular school and mine. This was "somewhere in Mexico", to keep it anonymous.
Strap in, it's a long story but it's a doozy.
There was this really overweight kid, he wasn't bullied or anything, he had friends and everything.
One day in the middle of class, he raised his hand - "May I be excused? I really need to go to the restroom", and the dismally unsurprising response was - "Certainly NOT! Learn to hold it in! bE a MaN!" A few minutes later, a foul stench spread across the classroom. The kid didn't say anything, he just got up and walked out, as everybody stared in a stunned silence.
Everyone in class stormed the windows from inside to see the kid as he walked across the school yard towards the restrooms, on its' own building, and locked himself inside. One classmate suddenly yelled out - "The shitter!", and within a few seconds the entire classroom joined in a loud chorus - "THE SHITTER! THE SHITTER!"
Par for the course with these sociopathic and incompetent priests, everyone knew there was no paper in the restrooms, a common occurrence.
This poor kid stayed locked inside the restroom as a teacher here and a priest there knocked on the door and attempted to negotiate. This went on for a couple of hours, until the kid's brother arrived at school, walked across the yards, carrying a fresh change of clothes, knocked on the restroom door and was let inside.
By this point, everything in school was at a standstill, every single student in every single classroom was glued to the windows, staring in silence. You could hear a pin drop. Then the door opened, kid and his brother walked out, and headed for the school exit.
Then one kid shouted - "The shitter!", and now the ENTIRE school, from every classroom window, joined in the chorus - "THE SHITTER! THE SHITTER!!!"
The poor kid never did return, he transferred to another school. On the one hand, surely out of shame, but on the other, because the casual, mindless and indifferent cruelty the goddamned priests imposed on children. In a more empathetic, humane school, this would have not happened.
Here's the cool epilogue - when this kid attended high school some years later, nobody bothered him about the incident, he had his own band of friends, went to parties and everything. When the story was told, the emphasis was on the asshole priests. That's a comforting thought.
I'm not sure how much of a scandal it was outside of those directly affect, but I was in the circle. A group of us, led by one of the younger drama teachers, went to the Edinburg Fringe Festival (a big literary, drama and comedy festival) with a bunch of short comic plays by Checkov (yes, really!). he was attractive enough that he had to make sure not to be alone in a room with a female student in case of rumours, but he was decent and would never had done anything like that. He got his wife and his brother involved too, which was cool, we all got on really well. We had a lot of fun, it was great, and, amazingly for the first time at the Fringe, didn't actually lose money! (I think we made like fifty quid between twelve of us, so we didn't exactly make a profit either, but it was an amazing experience)
Then his brother and his wife had an affair and ran away together
I love the fringe. Shame for him, he seems like a good guy and he didn't deserve that.
Some guy peed in a handdryer. Which is weird but even weirder was that the principal did a 15 min sprach about how the perpetrator has mental problems and needs to seek help. It was really funny.
I had a band teacher that I highly respected in high school. He took a band program that was the worst in the state, a complete shit show, and made it an award winning program. I always saw some of the students hanging out with him in his office at lunch, never thought about it my self or noticed that it was all girls. Fast forward a couple of years after I graduated, I'm working in a local popular sandwich shop down the road from the school. I always saw this one girl who would come in and get his lunch order. I asked her, and she said she was the student assistant for him. The school setup a program after I graduated to earn working experience as student assistants. It turns out the teacher was having an affair with this girl, who was only 17. The school district IT admin found explicit emails between them on the schools email system, and things went haywire. And since the law at the time in my state was 16 was the age of consent, it wasn't illegal. But it was still a huge scandal, married teacher sleeping with his student. The school forced him to resign and the girls family told him to never contact her or come near them. Once she graduated, they got married and are still married to this day.
Wut. In the UK the age of consent is raised in the circumstance of a teacher
The schools I know have specific rules of conduct that says anyone who works at the school can not have a relationship with a student, and also for two years after the student has graduated or left the school. And that’s apart from age of consent.
I'm all for age of consent, but considering that you can have graduates as old as 19-20, and teachers as young as 23-24, I have to admit it seems a bit strange to put restrictions on what they can do outside of (1) what is legal, and (2) what effects their job (like having a relationship with a current student, especially one that you teach).
Like, I know several people in my graduating high-school class that were with someone older than our youngest teacher, a couple of which are still together with the person 10 years later.
We were no longer permitted to go on excursions to the local bird sanctuary because some students derailed the train that runs through the park.
I'm picturing a pack of elementary aged kids armed with crowbars derailing a full on Amtrak train.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_Nine
It's striking to me to know that I was the kind of kid who could have easily ended up in a headline like this. I was not very impeccable with my word at that age, to put it mildly.
Had a girl that was hardcore into ROTC and she staged this fake “attack” in the girls bathroom and stabbed herself in the leg. She did it to be awarded some medal she didn’t have yet.
Kid drank thallium rat poison, in an attempt to commit suicide. Thing is, thallium doesn't kill you, it just makes you vomit a LOT. So they had to evacuate the classroom because there was a bunch of thallium and vomit everywhere.
The best part is we weren't allowed to leave for 2 hours, because this happened at like 10 and they still wanted the day to count for the school year.
One kid sniffed lighter gas and jacked off during 9th grade chemistry class. He passed out and fell off his chair and hit his head to the floor with his dick still clutched in his hand.
The teacher was so terrified that she couldn't do anything but stutter and shake violently. Me and a couple of my friends dragged the idiot outside to get fresh air while waiting for the ambulance.
The sniffer came back to school the next day like nothing had ever happened. This incident was never again discussed in any way by the teachers or other faculty members.
There were lots of totally crazy shit happening on a weekly basis. The early 90's were pretty wild where I grew up.
Not exactly my school but it happened to my whole city, Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka, the Ken and Barbie serial killers,were abducting, raping and murdering teen girls. I was roughly that age, and it could have happened to any girl in the city.
Gross
I went to the funeral of one of the victims. It was surreal.
Someone left the gas on in a lab to get out of a test they didn't study for.
english teacher mysteriously left halfway through the year. rumors went around that she was messaging students outside of school. never confirmed for me. also freshman year our econ teacher married the gym teacher and she left over the summer to teach at another school
Similar thing happened at mine. Teacher was suddenly gone. Had previously won statewide awards for teaching.
Found out that it was from an inappropriate relationship complaint so they canned him. Found out much later that it was all one-sided, emails and texts showed he was telling her to stop. We lost a good teacher.
thats so upsetting i hope hes been able to turn around
Kid got caught beating his meat in the school library.
Ugh. We caught a kid doing that in my high school library last May. We radioed for help. The campus supervisor walked him outside, talked to him about it, and sent him back to us to finish the test he was working on. I couldn't believe it. Later, we told admin about it and had to write witness statements. He was a freshman and said it's what he does at home when he's sitting around, and didn't realize he was doing it. None of the students know, as far as I'm aware. We all kept it very quiet.
This was (and possibly is) a huge issue in a neighboring school. Someone would say he'd flip the health textbook to page 258 and focus on the attractive stock image person on the page. One day there was a confrontation about it that seemed to blow over when the person said "well it IS health class!"
My school had a kid do that in class under the desk. One of the more hated teachers in the school caught him and asked what he was doing. His reply, "Nothing if you don't want to join."
Not mine but my sister's school - it was the first year the school was open and they had full length stalls in the bathroom. And then a couple months into the school year, a girl gave a boy a blowjob in one of them and of course they got caught. And that's why the school got rid of the full length stalls very shortly after installing them. There were only a few hundred kids enrolled at that point, so of course everyone found out about it and any time someone mentioned that poor girl's name for the next 4 years, it was, "oh the one who sucked [guy]'s dick?"
Power went out for like a whole day then they found a fried rat chomped into the power cable
Was he fried before or after he chomped on the cable
In a perfect world it got the munchies after getting into a students bag of weed then chomped into that sweet sweet high current noodle
A girl got killed by a school bus.
She had been cheating on two different guys, and they found out while on the bus. They started to fight, and the driver pulled over to kick them off. While the driver was pulling away, she decided she wanted to watch the fight. So she forced the doors open on the (now moving) bus, and jumped out. Apparently this was a semi-regular thing for her to do.
What wasn’t regular is that, upon landing, she tripped and rolled under the bus. The rear wheels ran over her head, and she was killed.
The school offered a day off of classes and free grief counseling for the students who were affected. Suddenly, everyone who had ever passed her in the halls was her best friend. It also started a “careful that you don’t get hit by a bus” trend among students, where pretty much any activity was countered with some form of “make sure you don’t get hit by a bus!” Going to basketball practice? “Don’t get hit by a bus on your way to the locker rooms!” Need to go to the library? “Make sure you don’t get hit by a bus on your way!”
It peaked when a student asked a teacher to go to the restroom. She was always a very prim and proper type. She quickly answered “yes, just don’t get hit by a bus on your way.” She quickly realized what she had just said, and looked horrified, which just had us all rolling.
Probably not "the incident" anymore, since it was almost 30 years ago now and no one left there likely remembers.
But a couple of years after I graduated, one of the kids who was a couple of grades behind me sneaked into the school at night, lit a bunch of candles on the floor of the chemistry lab and turned on all the gas taps and put towels under the doors so that the room would fill with gas starting from the top to the bottom. (I guess his chemistry class came in handy since he was smart enough to know that gases float to the top, giving him time to escape.
He went to Juvie for a while I believe, and then ended up living a pretty normal life. Last I heard he had been one of the people listed for the doomed-to-never-actually-happen "100 settlers on a one way trip to Mars" project. Haven't heard anything about him lately since I long ago deleted Facebook and so have no real contact with the people I went to highschool with anymore (just like the old days and I love it)
edited - Sorry, thought he was short-listed. But he was cut before the short-list was announced. Edited to change.
Did he blow up the lab
Took out the entire quarter section of the school, if I remember correctly. Though "explosion" isn't technically correct since it was the fire that did the damage. The lab was never going to be sealed tight no matter how many towels he used, so the gas was never under the types of pressure necessary to cause an explosion; just a fireball that ignited everything around it.
I heard some stuff that was worse happened after I left (girl brought a knife in her bra, someone turned on the gas in the chem lab) but during my time was the Ketchup Incident.
I guess the lunch monitors felt that students were taking too much Ketchup at lunch and “wasting” it, so they started monitoring it - two pumps, no more. Well, the guy I had a crush on (funny cool rebel type, in a band, all that) decided to bring Ketchup to school to share. He got in school suspension for some amount of time, and there were kids caring signs, and I remember a few times chanting, “Free (guy’s name)”. He became a folk hero of the oppressed student. They eventually reinstated full Ketchup privileges, and it was all because of him. At least, that’s how I remember it.
A few years later, dumb ass senior boys glued the sports trophies to the floor of the gym and got in huge trouble.
Beverly Hillbilly type drove past a football team member's family garage sale and called them n-words and n-word lovers.
He was slow-rolling by so one of the player's (white) friends, the team captain as it happens, reached through the window and came pretty close to yanking him out of it before he managed to get away.
It's a fairly conservative county but also very rich and they like to keep the ugliness (and the history of redlining) on the DL so he got expelled and some of the football team broke his arm later. Tragically, despite him naming names, they all had alibis and parents who could afford lawyers.
Also tragically, his parents could afford to send him to a very nice military school that probably looked better on his college application anyways. However, he was dumb as shit regardless, so they might have just sighed and accepted he'll have to be the boss's idiot son for a career.
Fairly interesting expression of socio-economic conflict and human tribalism all around, honestly. Some of the guys who broke Beverly Hillbilly's arm have said some pretty racist shit on Facebook since then even if they weren't so crude, but their teammate was in the tribe so to speak and therefore someone outside of it, and a social outcast to boot, had to punished for attacking him.
Was it the hillbilly who was expelled or the guy who broke his arm?
A mom broke up with her boyfriend. He returned later and killed her 3 kids, then her, then himself. The oldest son was in my class.
I wasn't great friends with him, but I knew him well enough to feel bad about it. So many people who hated him pretended to be sad for attention.
Kids step dad found an unfired mortar while working on base. Kid brought it to school and dropped it in the band room. Thankfully no one died, but there was still a shrapnel ring in the room when i graduated a few years later.
We had Shitler. Someone kept defecating in the boys washroom and drawing swastikas on the walls with it. The staff couldn't figure out who it was, and started closing down washrooms. At one point there were only 1 or 2 men's washrooms open - and Shitler still struck again. No one ever found out who it was.
In my junior high they had a mysterious urinal pooper. They spent months trying to catch the culprit. They even resorted to a $25 reward and a little campaign in the morning announcements. Then it turned out to be a handicap student who couldn't bend his knees. The posters and campaign quietly disappeared without a word.
Overworked janitor who wanted to reduce the number of bathrooms they had to clean
Yes Prep Southeast campus (charter school does 6th - 12th grade).
The school decided to experiment with separating the boys and the girls in 6th grade.
The result was the 6th grade boys started a secret fight club with money involved in the restrooms, and some high schoolers were managing it. It was found out after a boy's head broke a sink.
The girls got very slightly better grades though.
Other than that, the usual also happened; corruption, fraud, teachers doing pedophilia and ephebofilia, etc.
The usual?? 🤨
Not my school, but one nearby. It smelled like gas in chemistry class and some idiot student thought it would be a good joke to flick a lighter. There actually was a gas leak and he set it on fire, injuring himself and a bunch of classmates. I don't remember if anyone died.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fab_Five:_The_Texas_Cheerleader_Scandal
They made this movie about it.
I actually knew a couple of those girls and they weren't nearly that bad.
There were quite a few, though ironically most of the "incidents" at my school were ones that happened at the neighboring public school that leaked over to my school.
I did cause a scare once though. I was the student tasked with helping with the yearbook. Where I live, we have a tradition called "most likely to", where we make questions in the yearbook under a "most likely to _______" format and we nominate classmates to those positions. For example, one section might say "most likely classmate to graduate from Yale", or another might say "most likely classmate to start a cult", stuff like that. This is a well-known tradition. What I didn't know is that inserting one that said "most likely to do a school shooting" was a baaaaaad idea. I thought it was just another entry, but I didn't think maybe the people would panic and I'd be put in in-school suspension. Fortunately my only time in in-school suspension and thus the only time I've had to wear suspenders (they add suspenders to the school uniform of suspended people).
A day before I got in a guy set fire to the trash in the chapel. So I befriended him immediately!
Someone opened the soap dispensers and put doodoo in them.
So, once I saw the beginning of a fight. Which was stopped after like a minute by the guard ladies.
Yeah, my school was tame as hell.
THE black kid brought a gun to school to shoot his girlfriend for breaking up with him. That really helped to reduce racial stereotypes.
Two guys swam to school. The school was located on an island in the river Rhine, one of the busiest waterways in Europe.
When I was about 11 or 12, my class had a PE lesson, only to find Jess Taylor and Luke Jones, (who were in lower sixth, about 16 or 17) naked and kissing in the equipment cupboard.
Literally no one who was at the school at the time does not know this. Those of us fairly near the front got an eyeful of Jess and Luke trying to put their clothes on as fast as possible. Jess was certainly an impressive and memorable sight, but Luke was as you might expect he would be under the circumstances, which was, from our perspective, of epic proportions. As they finished pushing through the crowd one of the boys in my class called out "respect the dong!" and it broke the shocked silence and we all lost it laughing. Someone else called out "respect the rack!" which brought more laughing and some cheers.
For a while my year group (mainly the boys) called out "respect the rack" or "respect the dong" at play times if they were spotted, but Jess clearly didn't like it so we stopped and left her alone. Luke, though, always took it with good humour, so for the next year and a half until he left the school, we said it to him whenever we saw him at break, but in the corridor where teachers might overhear, we just said "respect". He would always agree and say "respect" and he gradually turned from being a joke hero into someone we really thought was a great guy for having a sense of humour about it all and engaging with us as if we weren't the idiotic easily amused and insensitive little brats that I later realised we clearly were.
We found the phrase "How big was it on a scale of 1 to Luke Jones?" endlessly amusing in almost any context, like "look at this spider!" "how big is it on a scale of tiny flea to Luke Jones?" or "I was walking home and this massive lorry passed me and the pressure wave nearly blew me over." "How big was it on a scale of Ford Fiesta to Luke Jones?" "Oh, Luke Jones, definitely Luke Jones" "Respect the dong!" "Always respect the dong."
Diane Zamora.
Basically HS couple, psycho girlfriend forces cheating boyfriend to lure girl out so they can end her.
Two girls had beef the first year the school opened. Don't know if they were fighting over some guy or what, but one cited the other at a bridge downtown. When the other girl got there there was a huge fight, so one girl pulled out a knife and stabbed her in the neck. The victim survived and the other went to jail and we never saw either of them again.
I went to a really small middle school/high school (this was a charter school that had grades 6-12), and everyone in my grade was pretty tight-knit. When we were 17, one of my buddies had been at a house party with her older 23-year-old boyfriend on a Saturday night. Now, we all knew this guy was a POS, and we were always telling her to dump his ass. But anyways, at some point, my friend decided she wanted to leave the party and go back home, but her boyfriend didn't want to go. They apparently argued about it, and she ended up leaving the party by herself and started walking. She called her mom to let her know where she was and ask her to come pick her up, when all of the sudden, my friend was abruptly cut off. Her boyfriend had angrily gotten in his car and made a beeline straight for her. Ran her over and killed her while she was talking to her mom. He apparently asked someone nearby to help him load her in the back of his car, and he drove her body to his home and brought her inside. Some witnesses had followed him home and called the cops. They arrested him on the spot.
The other thing happened when we were 14/15 - same school. There was this badass algebra teacher/baseball coach that we all loved. He had been going over to this girl's house to "tutor" her for close to a year, but one day her mom found a sext from him on her daughter's phone. Come to find out, he had been raping her just about the whole time, but also they like basically had a full-fledged relationship. This girl's mom was one of the admins at our school, and like I had mentioned, it was a really small school, so the staff were something like a family. There was constantly outings and events with all of the staff and their families, so the two of them were able to spend time a lot of time together without raising eyebrows. The girl was 13 at the time, and the teacher was in his late 30s. He got sentenced to 15 years in jail.
A 7yo girl peed on herself, after that incident we have put a weird nickname to her.
But there was also the other kid around 7 - 8 yo, who poop on himself, anyway these two was the incidents back then.
Peepants and Shitbritches
How old are you ?
Fucking dweebs asking, "what was the incident in your school".