30 Teachers Reveal The Wildest Reasons They’ve Sent A Student To The Principal’s Office
Interview With AuthorFact is stranger than fiction. We’ll stand by that statement until the world ends! Many movies and TV shows about school life aren’t able to hold a candle to the real-life situations teachers have to deal with nearly every single day.
Redditor u/DarkPonyAssassin recently started up a very interesting (and confusing!) r/AskReddit thread about the craziest and most bizarre reasons why educators had to send a student to the principal’s office. Scroll down to check out some of the weirdest teacher stories. They're a mix of hilarity and some really worrying behavior.
Bored Panda reached out to the author of the thread, u/DarkPonyAssassin, and they answered a few of our questions.
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I sent a kid to the office because he told an incredibly funny joke and I wanted the dean to hear it. He thought it was great and sent the kid back.
The joke was: Why are Catholics glad Jesus was crucified instead of stones to death (with rocks)? Because now they go (make the sign on the cross) instead of (punches himself randomly about the head and chest). To this day I have never laughed at a student's joke as hard as I did with this one.
Brilliant... Our religion (yes, roman catholic school...) teacher told another version of this : Why was Christ not drowned? Imagine having to hang a fishtank on the wall...
As a Christian, I think this is something I can laugh at as well. Good one, kid... XP
I'm an atheist, but I also think this is hilarious. Never underestimate the uniting power of a good joke.
Load More Replies...Christ was killed by crucifixion, so Christians make the sign of the cross when they pray, as a reminder of how he was killed. Would be a bit awkward to simulate being stoned to death (hence the random punching) instead :)
Load More Replies...Kids making jokes about what an inconvenience it would be to everyone if Jesus had the audacity to be murdered any other way, adults laughing. Thinks it's cool to post online. This shiz is beyond disturbing y'all. No wonder the Catholic Church has such a flawless reputation, especially when it comes to children.
I've heard the same joke but with bees instead of rocks. Act as though being attacked by bees
You've heard of the Jesus myth though right?
Load More Replies...We were interested to find out about the inspiration behind the thread, so we got in touch with the author of the post on r/AskReddit, u/DarkPonyAssassin.
They told us that some memories from their past made them want to hear about other redditors' experiences as well. "I just remembered some of the crazy stuff I did in high school," they said.
u/DarkPonyAssassin told Bored Panda about some of the 'crazy' things they did back in school. "I would just get up and leave classes whenever I felt like it. My science project blew up. Snorted pixie sticks. Rolled dice in class. Fighting," they listed a few of them.
They said that they'd been to the principal's office several times. "Eventually, I just stopped caring. I was nervous the first few times I went, but after however many times, I didn't care."
I’m a middle school teacher. I had a student sneak a gas cooker and his moms pork chops into school in a large backpack. He cooked pork chops for his friends at lunchtime, he was sent to the office for unsafe behaviour, his mom was PISSED he took her pork chops she was preparing for dinner.
I like the fact that the mom was mad not because he took a potentially dangerous piece of equipment to school but because he took the pork chops she was saving for dinner
My guess is that she paid for the food, not her middle school son, so it's understandable. He obviously knew how to operate the equipment.
Load More Replies...No we don't cook things, we made deviled eggs after lunch one time
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I’m not a teacher but am a school psych. I don’t send kids to the office, but some of my teammates sure have… some highlights.
Had a kid hop onto the counter the onto the big whiteboard case, and straight into the drop ceiling. He climbed around up there yelling and screaming, knocking down ceiling tiles, before we finally coaxed him down.
One girl took a class chair and shattered a window in a classroom’s back office. On another day, this same girl gave the assistant principal and me a watercolor paint shower. I was lucky… I was standing just behind the AP and only got a few splatters on my jacket while she ended up getting the full blast.
I lied… I guess I have sent a few kids to the office… once… and all at once. It was last year, and I pull into the parking lot of the junior high school I work at. I get a text and pull up my iPad to reply when I realize something is happening in my peripheral vision. I look up to see five students surrounding one other student who is on the ground getting the s**t beat out of him. I’m an ex hockey player. I liked scrapping when I was a middle and high schooler. I have a very high standard for what I even consider a proper fight. This was a one sided gang beat down.
I go flying out of my rig, and charge up to them. “OY!!!” I shout in a kid’s face, startling him. He was wearing a hooded sweatshirt and a mask, so I could only see his eyes, which were wide with shock. Glad I had that effect, as I was woefully outnumbered, I just kept shouting like a drill instructor… “STAND UP!! GET IN LINE!! MOVE!!” Having asserted moral authority, I quite literally marched this line of kids to the office. The victim of that assault was bruised but otherwise okay. I’m kinda glad it was me who came across it and not the majority of my peers. I’m a relatively tall guy in good shape. I can be intimidating if I need to be, and in that situation, I needed to be.
That's awesome what you did, but I hope that the kid being beat up wasn't punished for some weird obscure reason
The victim was bruised, but believe me, as one who was badly bullied, he was definitely not ok.
Good for you. In the UK our schools tend to pretend that bullying is not occurring. If they do admit it and do anything about it the parents of the bullies kick off and it’s swept under the carpet. Bullies know there are no consequences to their actions. Last week there was a viral video of a girl being battered by 2 feral 11 year olds and an older girl. This weekend a teenage girl was killed in the village I lived most of my life in by 2 other teenagers.
Had to not be in the US... here, the beat to hell kid would have been suspended because the other 5 were on the football team.
Meanwhile, we were curious to get the OP's take on teaching, discipline, and respect in school. According to them, some of the main signs of a good educator include empathy and knowledge of their subject.
Not only is a great teacher someone who listens to what their students are saying, instead of ignoring them, but they also take the time to continue studying their subject. It's all about good communication and understanding that just because that someone's already become a teacher, their educational journey hasn't ended.
However, not every student is open and willing to accept their teachers' rules.
My Dad gets offered like 16 times the pay to be a professor in Pretoria...so we move to South Africa and he has this student who is just scoring like 8 out of a hundred, then 11, and then 7. At the end of class one day he calls this young lady by name and asks her to stay behind for a second. She walks forward and she is stunningly beautiful. My older sister explained she looked exactly like this Vendela Thommessen who was a sports illustrated swimsuit model....my Sis was with him that day, but behind the screen his projector was being displayed on and peeking around listening. My Dad says "I am afraid this work is a bit too advanced for you. I seen that you have taken the prerequisites and received A's in the classes...is something affecting your performance"?
Now this girl has no idea my sister is behind the screen and this beauty says to my Dad "Well, I earned those A's the same way I am going to get an A in your class...on my knees". My Dad walked her to the Dean's office and when he returned my sister was crying and told my Dad he was a jerk for not praying with her. My sister was 10...
Funny, but what's funnier was her thinking she would graduate and get a job in that field. I mean grades and degree's don't matter when you get a job and they find out you can't do any of the work.
Load More Replies...The sis was so innocent, lol. Also, go teacher for standing up for his morals and ethics.
To be a fly on the wall when that kid eventually learned what that student was implying.
I know I'm going to get down voted for this, but I'm ok with that. There is something very off about this story. It seems very hyperbolic in its plot points, clichéd, and almost braggadocious. I have a masters in psychology and have worked with abused children for a number of years. This smacks more of a plot to a porn than an actual occurrence (young girl, "stunningly beautiful just like a swimsuit model, "on my knees.") Before we get hung up on possibilty or anecdotes, Yes. It is possible that a student offered s*x in exchange for grades. Sure. But this story is pinging on my "nah" radar. If there is any truth to this, maybe take a look at your delivery, my friend. It's very Lolita-fetishy- Don't-Stand-So-Close-to-Me. Had this occurred, she would actually be a child/young girl with a s*xual trauma history,, particularly with teachers as adult perpetrators. Glad your dad was able to withstand the temptation of the young seductress and marched her down to the dean.
Not a teacher, but in middle school they pulled my kid into the office for "running a slime racket" - she was selling baggies of slime for kids lunch money. Later that year she was pulled into the office and told to stop "illicit sales on school grounds" - turns out she was selling pencils for a quarter and pens for fifty cents, which was half the price you could buy them from the school directly lol.
Same kid, different middle school the next year, got pulled into the office on suspicion of vaping. She wasn't. They held her for three hours in the office with the principal and SRO trying to coerce her into confessing. She told them to search her bag and locker - *they refused* - she started to get pissed off and winged her backpack toward the SRO and said, "Just f*****g search it so I can go back to class." They called me for cussing at the SRO. I absolutely tore into the principal for keeping her out of class half the day and then having the audacity to only call me because she used the f-word and was "being disrespectful" when they could have just looked through her stuff and been done with it.
When I was in fifth grade, a friend and I had our own business like that, selling, and renting, pencils, colored markers, and selling candy that I bought from the liquor store a block from the school. We even had our own credit card, where they could borrow stuff and pay us back later. We called it The S &A School Shop. It was pretty profitable.
i have a friend who runs “illicit sales”. he’s literally been doing it since middle school and he makes bank. he’s quite good at origami and clay working so people buy from him. he also plays guitar during lunch and he’s so popular he got to play at a pep rally!
Something similar happened to my son in middle school. He had used the bathroom and left and less than a minute later, on his way back to class he was escorted to the Dean's office by the resource officer. They held him there for 2 class periods questioning him about who all had been in the bathroom bc someone had smoked pot in there. They knew it wasn't him, but they kept questioning him. He has a language disability and didn't fully understand what was going on. It wasn't until he called me, crying, that I even knew anything about it. I was livid. I went to the school and gave them a tongue lashing for KNOWING he had a disability and for questioning him without me present, AND for knowing he was not the one smoking pot but keeping him out of 2 classes to question him.
SRO - student resource officer, a police officer that works at the school full time.
When my ex was a kid, his neighbor would receive these Playboy magazines in the mail quite often and he'd steal them. Managed to collect a huge stash and brought them to school to sell to his classmates. I think this was before he got to middle school. Made a good bit of money from it, lol. At least for a kid.
I had to write a kid up during Remote School during the pandemic because he used a smoke machine to pretend his room was on fire and then he abruptly dropped out of the zoom for the rest of the day
They never followed up on any comments or elaborated in the original post.
Load More Replies...Not at all bright his judgement was cloudy, or should I say smokey
Load More Replies...We also asked u/DarkPonyAssassin for their opinion on what teachers might do to ensure that their students respect them and the rules they set out.
"Tell the school board to get out of the way so that they can enforce their rules," they explained that there's sometimes friction between what the board and the teachers want.
"They also need to follow through with what they say that they will do," u/DarkPonyAssassin pointed out that teachers have to show everyone around them that they mean what they say. They need to be seen as consistent, trustworthy, and prove that the promises that they make aren't something that they'll go back on. That should help set healthy boundaries for what students know they can and cannot do.
A grade 1 student came up to me on the playground telling me another student was making her sick. She pointed to another student about 10 metres away, looked at me, and projectile puked on the blacktop.
Went to the other student...he had found rabbit turds on the ground and stuck them in his mouth and was chasing kids around.
I then puked. I didn't go to the office. But rabbit turd kid did.
I had a little kid standing in front of me saying "Miss, I don't feel well." When I asked "Do you feel like you're going to be sick? she nodded and then immediately projectile vomited straight into my face.
Soooo sorry for laughing. There's just something hilarious about spontaneous projectile vomit. Unless you're the one who has to deal with it.
Load More Replies...Did he mistake the turds for Cocoa Puffs? My bunny has completely turned me off from them every time I check his litter box.
When I was in elementary school, a bunch of kids found rabbit poop and thought it had gold in it. It had had little flicks of yellow grass in it. I was the aspiring paleontologist at the school, and everyone was bringing up the poo to show me. They were so excited that they had found gold, and I had to tell them that it was literal s**t.
When I was a kid there was a kid on the playground that used to throw dog poop at people, he thought it was funny, and stored some in his pockets....he got bullied for smelling bad in kindergarten.
Okay, disgusting, but immediately going to puking? Some very sensitive stomachs there.
Naww, rabbit poop isn't that bad. We used to throw it at each-other growing up.
I had to send a kid out of my room for an actual live wild rabbit in her backpack! She freaking caught it before she came to class. Fast 5 year old.
I live in an area with quite a few wild rabbits. Those buggers are too fast to even see properly sometimes. How would you catch one?? I salute this kid
Load More Replies...This is possible; I've done it before when I've seen wild ones in danger. Put them back safe and they're good to go.
I know it is not like catching a wild rabbit, but it just reminded ms how a Kid in my 1st year used to bring his pet rabbit in every day. The play ground was separated by the electric train line by a length of chicken wire fencing. He was pull the bottom of the fence up and let rabbit go through. This was followed by him fetching the caretaker (janitor) to get the rabbit back safely. Predictably, one time this 'amusing game' came to a sad end when the bunny hopped a bit faster than the caretaker could be called. Strange child. We were 5 at the time. Wonder what happened to him...
Unless it had miximatosis(sp?) bunny would just sit there and let you pick it up.
I highly doubt it. The rabbits in your area must be way too used to humans feeding and petting them.
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I had a student that cried every time I would try to encourage her to answer questions in front of the class. I stopped calling her to the board as I feared maybe she was facing pretty bad trauma or anxiety. So I let her do individual work. One day I find out she, during class time, kept sending inappropriate insulting texts around the class about some classmates and myself. When I emailed her mother about this, she went as far as to use her mother’s account to send me an email back saying “just leave her alone”. The next morning she made a remark that I was very inconsiderate for giving out homework when some students work, I was surprised seeing she suddenly spoke loud and interrupted me during class. She attempted to name other students that work after school just like her, but one of them, Aiden, stood up saying “So? I still get my homework done, except I don’t waste time gossiping about others and using crocodile tears when it comes to showing my understanding in class”. She was shocked, stood there for a little bit, and started crying, which clearly felt forced. I sent her straight to the office, from there called her mother to verify who sent the email, and had her come over for a long discussing.
Mean girls always cry to get away with stuff. My daughter had a friend in primary school who was very mean to everyone. One day they got in a fight on the way home and this kid told her mum that mine had dug her nails into her head and made her bleed. The mother reported it to the school. I went in with my daughter and she showed the head teacher her nails which were absolutely nonexistent. Then an older boy from the school who was there told the head that the other girl had hit my daughter while they were arguing and mine had fought back and won. He also said he was never getting in a fight with my daughter. He is still friends with her now and this was 9 years ago.
....what caused her to be like this? Why? I don't understand why she would do all that
One of the best qualities that any educator—or person for that matter—can have is adaptability. Life rarely goes the way we planned. So what you need is the ability to react to weird and surprising situations in a way that shows you’re in charge. You need to be prepared for everything by being quick to react.
Say your student sneaks in a gas cooker and pork chops to school. While everyone else is doing a double-take and standing around with their jaws dropped, you’re already handling the situation: talking to the student, calling their mom, trying to figure out what the heck just happened.
Being sent to the principal’s office isn’t always a bad thing. It’s a disciplinary tool, and it all depends on how educators use it. For example, it can be a way to get to the bottom of what’s going on in the student’s life. There is absolutely no substitute for good communication, and being sent to the office can be just the opportunity that the student and the staff need to get on the same page.
Kid shows up to class 10-15 minutes late to a 40-minute period. 7th grade. Shawn: “Sorry Ms. G I was in a bad mood and I didn’t want to bring it to class.”
Me: “Hi Shawn, I will still have to count you tardy. You’re extremely late and I need to know where you are for safety reasons. In the future there’s a counselor request form on my GoogleClassroom page you can fill out.”
Shawn: “Okay thanks”
Things went normally for about 10 minutes, until another student shot a rubber band. It didn’t hit anyone but Shawn decided to take justice into his own hands. In the middle of me giving instruction he gets up, walks slowly across the room (I assumed for a tissue) and smacks the other student across the face.
Shawn is working through some stuff... He needs more counceling. Or maybe his parents need some too.
"Kid, be late to my class again, and I'll match your bad mood and raise you a detention."
nobody gonna talk about all of those punishments for being 10 - 15 minutes late?!
No, because missing 22% of the class deserves to be marked tardy. Even 2 minutes late should be marked tardy
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Was sitting at my desk one day and a student calls out “hey mister watch this” and then brandishes a bottle of listerine mouthwash and chugs it down in 5 seconds. He then burps and asks if he could go to the nurse so I kindly sent him on his way.
Underage drinking - that stuff is quite popular with alcoholics. 26.9% alcohol.
our listerine is 95% , so this kid would have had to have his stomach pumped in a matter of minutes, or likely die.
Load More Replies...It was probably just colored water and they now know exactly how to get out of any class ever!
oh god i use Listerine because im a neat freak about my teeth, i really hope it was the alcohol free stuff otherwise i have no idea how that kid could have held it down
Got into a fistfight with their mother outside the classroom door.
I remember trying to break up a fistfight between two parents in the playground (I think Americans would say school yard?) before school. As I tried to get between them to separate them one of the parents punched me by accident, shouted "Sorry, miss, didn't mean to do that!" all while continuing to swing wildly at the other parent.
We say playground in the US, too. I think Paul Simon is the only one calling it a schoolyard.
Load More Replies...More to the story: OP continued, “ I taught in a rough school filled with students punching teachers, stealing air condition units, burning the bus. In this case the mom came to the room because her daughter had taken something, the two got into an argument outside then punches started getting thrown. This same pair had also gotten into a fist fight with another mother and her daughter a few months prior.”
Teachers aren’t mind-readers (at least, we don’t think that they are!), so if you have issues at school or at home, you have to reach out to them and ask for their advice. One of the best ways that you can tell if you’re dealing with a great teacher or someone who’s just in it for the paycheck and clocks out immediately after the school bell is to look at how they treat everyone in the class. Do they go the extra mile? Do they see the students as actual human beings? Do they actually care about your education or just that you get good grades so they look better?
Some of the best teachers are the most empathetic. If you can empathize with your students, you can find ways to motivate them far more than just by being a specialist in your specific field. Teaching well requires high emotional intelligence, not just a good memory for facts and decent oratory skills. There’s a need for collaboration between students and educators, at least on some level.
A student repeatedly getting on tables and singing Gucci Gang in the middle of class. Every. Day. For. Weeks.
I once taught a first hour class of freshmen. Often at the start of class, a couple of students and I would get up in front of the class and sing "Toonces the Driving Cat" from Saturday Night Live.
Load More Replies...I feel him. I had the song Mahna Mahna stuck in my head for three months
Tossing a chair at a fellow student's head because they didn't want to let them cheat. Then the follow up with the lovely mother who could not grasp that her kid was being suspended and that she would have to pay medical bills. The other student had a deep gash on his shoulder and I was bruised on my left side from trying to intervene.
As a former MS/HS teacher: it never left. Kids also only have very black/white ideas about peer pressure, not knowing that something like trying to convince their friends that another kid is uncool also counts as something like peer pressure. Like 70% of teenagers are f*****g cruel a******s.
Load More Replies...Too many pathetic parents who act like their children are so perfect and don't care when their children hurt others!!
It was the second day of my first year teaching (5th grade). A student refused to do a writing assignment because she said she forgot how to write in English. When I asked what language she knew how to write in, she said, "I only know Japanese."
Listen... it is plausible a student at my school would be proficient in writing in Japanese. HOWEVER, I had already seen her files. I knew her dad was in a Mexican street gang and that she was being raised by her blind grandmother who was a native Spanish speaker. The likelihood that she knew was fluent in Japanese was a bit far-fetched.
She eventually told me she also speaks Japanese, so I called her out by asking her to say, "I don't want to come to school today" using her newfound foreign language skills. This 11 year old LITERALLY responded with, "Ching chang chong!"
I sent her to the dean's office for refusing to work and man, OH MAN, did it work out perfectly. She sat down with the dean who tried to pry more information from this student...
Only for the dean to explain to the student she herself is half Japanese and attended school in Japan. I wish I could have been a fly on the wall when the student heard the dean speaking ACTUAL Japanese to test the students' knowledge of the language.
The student eventually said she only knew a few Japanese words, which devolved into her admitting the entire story was a lie to get out of doing an assignment. On the second day of school. And lies like this went on allllllllllll year long. So many hilarious, yet equally sad, stories from that year that I still laugh at eight years later....
I can verify that 'Ching chang Chong' is definitely not japanese
I'm currently learning Japanese, and although I can read and understand some words, wouldn't shout it from the rooftops that I know the language. False bravado is cringey sometimes...
My cousin did something similar. Told her mother that she had self-studied Japanese and could speak it perfectly...and my aunt being a gullible soul believed her. My dear cousin was not very appreciative when, over a family dinner, I asked about her day in Japanese. I know only the survival basics (greetings, asking for directions) but that girl couldn't even string two words together.
Load More Replies...My father 'taught' me the Chinese alphabet as a kid. (obviously a nonsense rhyme) I, in turn, taught it to my own kids. Massive tears from my then 11 year old, when she tried to talk to a Chinese girl at school, and realised it was gibberish. She still reminds me about it, but hey, my grand daughters know it too.
The literal only flaw in an otherwise perfect film. Even Blake Edwards later admitted his regret over not having hired an Asian actor to play Mr. Yunioshi. There were plenty of them, Flower Drum Song came out the same year.
Load More Replies...bro, what? That's often referred to as Chinese, not to mention offensive to some.
No one thought to tell the girl that lying is bad? She clearly grew up in peculiar circumstances and may not understand her actions?
However, educators need the proper support as well. They need to be paid a stable wage and receive proper training to constantly improve their qualifications. Support from their fellow teachers and students can help keep them motivated to keep on trying their best. Meanwhile, everyone has a responsibility to take care of their health, eat well, and get enough sleep so they’re not burned out and exhausted. You can’t deal with pork chop fiascos well if you barely slept the past month!
One kid kept stabbing another kid in the neck with a needle. The kid getting stabbed *didn't feel it*, but I saw it. The stabber was sent to the office, and the other kid was none the wiser.
But thankfully, the kid who was getting stabbed recovered from the frozen shoulder they were suffering from.
And then Liam learned the difference between a neck and a shoulder. (;
Load More Replies...Hmm... Maybe stabber kid saw parents doing drugs and decided to try it himself...
More likely they were fascinated by the fact that the other student couldn't feel the pain.
Load More Replies...The kid being stabbed needed to be the wiser. Can't get a tetanus shot if you don't know you need it.
F*****g stabbing with a needle? depending on the needle, that could kill! If I ws the victim, I'd demand juvee for him.
Juvee?!? That was Assault! He needs to be put in prison
Load More Replies...Whoa! I've been told I'm oblivious, but even I'd notice getting stabbed in the neck with a needle!
When my sister was a substitute teacher a kid ate the dead class fish. It was Monday so it might’ve been dead all weekend
Wouldnt the school nurse have been a better choice? What was the principal supposed to do about it?
What’s the nurse supposed to do about it? By that point the fish would already be deep in the kid’s stomach and on its way to being digested.
Load More Replies...When I was an assistant teacher in preschool a kid ate glitter one day then pooped glitter the next day... Pretty sure he was part unicorn.
School Counselor here who is forced against their will to mostly remediate behavior.
2nd grader coming back from suspension shouting I’m back mother f**kas upon returning into the room.
4th grader calling other students parents to tell on them. (I thought it was pretty creative despite everyone else being up in arms).
3rd grader having a meltdown about getting parents called. Not in itself a big deal. But the student then shouts, “and they take all their parenting advice from Britney! I hate BRITNEY!”
2nd grader kicking the cane out from beneath an elderly sub.
4th grade gambling ring based of the schools token economy.
5th grade “snack bandit” who covertly sold snacks because the schools food is so bad. (Again not sure why everyone was up in arms).
I can go on…
I’m so sorry but I can 100% see my brother setting up a token gambling ring XD
I'm sorry, but that second grader one made me laugh. I don't think I would have been able to keep a straight face.
My school had a gambling ring that met at lunch in random empty classrooms. If you knew where to go you were in. This was tenth grade so we played for marbles. The teachers all knew about it but since it was for marbles they didn't really care. We'd play until the marbles were all won by a single person. Said person would then take a bathroom break and meet up with the dealer during last class of the day since they had a free period and trade in the marbles for cash. Cash pot was collected from players in the morning minus a few $$ for the dealer. Repeat marble gambling next day. Teachers eventually caught on and the dealer was asked to stop. I may or may not have been said dealer 😉
What does "up in arms" mean? I try to read it like physical arms to hug with or arms like in guns and neither makes sense?
"Up in arms" means to protest or be angry about something.
Load More Replies...A bunch of kids in my year used to play cards for cash, until they realised that somebody was going to fall into bother because the sums were stacking up. So they changed the stakes for how long they had to hide under the desk during computing class (a very dull lesson with a dreadful lesson). Boys will be boys, so *obviously* they used to kick each other under the desk as the hapless teacher ambled around wondering where various students had disappeared to at random intervals, but overall it was a good solution to a tricky problem.
First, that's not just boys being Boyd that's smart make the others uncomfortable so they have to give up sooner
Load More Replies...I was in my final trainings to be a teacher and working at an elementary school, first grade class and one of my duties was helping kids struggling with their reading. One girl named Taylor told me that her mom told her that she was too pretty to know how to read. She was dead serious. I end up calling her mom to get this sorted and she comes to the school after the kids had left and tries to f**k me to get her daughter better grades.
I wonder where the kid learned it from 🤔
Load More Replies..."Long story short, that kid ended up getting an A in my class. Still struggles to read though."
No good at math either. But I give her mom a 6.9
Load More Replies...And she was so smart she skipped many grades and graduated at the age of 13
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South Side Chicago: There was some kid munching down on a T-Bone steak in class. The succulent, delicious meat was distracting the other students, so they sent him to the office to finish it off! Unclear if he was going for the name "T-Bone". No idea how this errant T-Bone was obtained, but it look and smelled like it was freshly made.
Looks like they just sent him to the office to finish the steak off, doesn't seem like he was in trouble.
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Jesus my mom. There was a stench in the classroom but they couldn't figure it out for months. A boy was making POOP balls in his desk. Rolling up his turds and putting them where pencils would go on the sides. She has completely blacked out this whole thing.
When I was in the 1st grade the boy who sat next to me stuck his hand down his pants and pulled it back out with poop on his finger, which he promptly showed me. It's still one of the worst things anyone has ever done in my presence. Even though we are both adults now I will ALWAYS think of him as Poop Boy. He could find a cure for cancer but that will never overwrite how disgusting he was when we were 7 years old.
After reading all of these harrowing and bewildering stories, I absolutely don't regret my child-free choice.
"Those who write on shithouse walls roll their s**t in little balls. Those who read these words of wit eat the little balls of s**t."
My moms been a teacher for many years. Apparently one of her middle school students had been coming in day after day just absolutely filthy wearing the same dirty clothes. She notifies the office and they talk to her and the parents. Apparently the family has been living in an RV with no running water (I’m not sure if this is due to homelessness or what-we’re in a rural area and it’s not uncommon to see people living this way). The school offers to let the girl shower at school and they even have a special “shop” of sorts (free to the students of course) for clothing and things like hygiene items. The only issue is the school needs the parents permission to let her shower there at the school and the parents won’t grant it. I’m not sure why. And yes CPS has been notified several times, but they must be deeming the family’s dwelling habitable in some way, though I’m not sure how the parents are getting away with such horrid obvious neglect. My mom says the kid is just so sweet but she smells bad and looks even worse and she’s afraid the bullying will start soon :/ the area I live in is absurdly poor and very rural so sadly such instances are not unusual.
Pretty common here. Several homeless people in class. We buy the kids deodorant, shampoo, feminine products, etc to provide for free to help out.
That's really awesome, Jason. Sad there's a need for it, but awesome when others step up.
Load More Replies...Heartbreaking that the parents will not accept help for their child. The bullying has already started most likely?
Go to the local news about it, or start a group to raise awareness of the situation!!
The small, rural town I grew up in was predominately working class and farmers, with about 10% white collar professionals. Despite being grossly in the minority, they still had the audacity to ridicule us for being poor.
Not a teacher, but my dad was a bus driver, and one day, this kid gets on the bus, sprinting, and nearly knocks himself out on the chair. When my dad goes over to see what's happened, he realises the kid had no pants on. The mother, who drove off in her car extremely quickly, had literally sent this poor kid to school with no pants on. My dad got a student he knew really well to sit next to this kid and comfort him, and also make sure everyone else wasn't a******s. My dad, when he finally got to the school, walked this kid into the office and asked for a spare pair of pants. Poor kid. That mother was an a*****e.
I'm guessing US or they'd just be going commando. :P
Load More Replies...This is one threat my parents never actually followed up on
2 stories: taking a test, a student sighed and I smell alcohol on his breath. Asked him if he'd been drinking... he said no he had liquor flavored gum...I said at can I have some... he said he'd left it in his car.. go to the office and tell them you need to go to your car. Called to make sure he stayed at school and didn't drive off Again during a test a student decided he wanted to see what would happen if he put a paper clip in an outlet, there was a flash, the paperclip clip flew across the room and my clock shorted out. Had a quick lesson about electrical current, then off to the office
hi umm the last one was me i'm sorry about that your still the best math teacher🥰 also ididn'tt know about the clock have a good day
I had someone try the paperclip trick except they used a silver gum wrapper. Yes the silver colored coating on the wrapper is metallic and it does a great job of shorting out the socket. The kid wisely decided to be absent the next day so I couldn't properly chew him out.
I know that's now how Ben Franklin discovered electricity but it sure as $hit is the way I discovered it!
we had a friend in school who used to stick aluminum gum wrappers in outlets, was fun times x3
My dad claims that when he was a kid, he stuck his finger into an electric fence.
Because some teachers walk the room to make sure noone is cheating or to see if anyone has questions
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Kid in boarding tried to cook a whole raw chicken with like 5 minutes in the microwave. A whole chicken.
Kid needs some cooking lessons, though I feel like with the cooking fails on here that some adults would try this too
My uncle would try this....though he'd stick it in for 2 hours rather than 5 minutes.
Load More Replies...Waaay more concerned with how a child got a whole raw chicken and what they planned to do with it after it cooked
One student bit another student in the arm. He was shocked that I kicked him out because he was "just playing". He left teeth marks in her arm.
This was a 9th grader.
Age means nothing lol, Suárez did the exact same thing and he was 24 or 25 lol....
When I started teaching at my current school in 1994, two boys got into an altercation while I was standing outside talking with the principal. Everything seemed fine, but later in the day one of the kids come and asks, "Ma'am, do you have some cream or something I can rub on my back?" I ask why. He says, "Because the bite mark is itching." THE OTHER KID HAD BITTEN HIM IN THE BACK. I MEAN, THIS WAS CSI-LEVEL DETAIL TEETH MARKS! I called his mother and she took him to the doctor. The other kid got detention.
I also bit someone on their arm in first grade. She was being a bully and deserved it
Same here, either in first grade or kindergarden.
Load More Replies...Plot twist: they have been happily married now for six years, and now she bites him.
OMG THIS HAPPENED TO ME TOO! TWO BOYS STARTED TUSSLING AND ONE BIT THE OTHER IN THE ARM. SIXTH GRADE WAS A WILD TIME.
He stole a door.
From the OP: "I'm a student, so I don't know all the details. But some kid stole a stall door from the second floor bathroom and was carrying it out downstairs when he was caught. It was the devious lick challenge from last year where student stile a bunch of stuff from schools. He also admitted to being the one who had stolen the mirror."
Plot twist. I had a teacher who stole a door. It had been custom painted by one of the art students. She had been moved to a new classroom and they wouldn't let her take her door. So she came in on the weekend and took it
This happened at my school too, not one time but multiple times, and they all passed it off as a "woodwork project" and *nobody thought to check with the woodwork teachers*
Caught a kid playing LoL on his laptop during evening study. Moved to confiscate it (per school policy) and he slammed it shut, leapt onto the table, dashed over several computers like a f*****g spider to the window and tossed his own damned laptop outside. We were on the third floor so of course it shattered. It wasn’t the last time he smashed his own property rather than give it up for an evening. He was 17 at the time.
Agreed, it's one thing to slam your laptop shut to hide what you're doing, but laptops are expensive. Even if you're caught watching porn, it'll cost you less than destroying the laptop unless 1) it's CP, or 2) it's gay and you have parents that will beat you horribly or make you homeless if they find out AND you live in a state that legally requires the school to out students to their teachers (in which case, why the hell would you take that risk in school?). His actions make no sense except through the lens of someone who knows they are doing something illegal of something that will get them disowned and yet cannot help themselves.
Load More Replies...What was going through that kid’s head when he thought “this is a good idea, they won’t catch me!”
My wife is a high school teacher. She was teaching a lower-level math class, and she had a student who was probably too smart for the class, but too lazy (or too "cool") to take a harder class. One day, out of boredom, he was throwing his pencil up at the ceiling. On the third or fourth try, it got stuck. So he threw a pen to try to dislodge it. Didn't work. He then threw his notebook at it. Missed again. So he stands up on the desk-chair-combo, takes his notebook, jumps in the air, and swats at the pencil. Pencil fell to the floor. He lands on the desk, which (if you remember those desk-chair-combos) is not supported by the chair's center of balance. He falls off the desk and lands on the floor. Oh wait, did I mention the lock box on his ankle? I think I left that out. The lock box pops off and lands on the floor. He looks for a second, says "OMG Mrs Hymie0 I have to go to the office the police are coming to get me," grabs the lock box, and sprints out the classroom door.
Ok, but why were you allowing him to throw the pwncil in the first plage, let alone climb on the desk??
You’d be surprised the amount of pencil chucking people have gotten away with in my school
Load More Replies...Too smart for the class but not smart enough to avoid a conviction in high school
I've watched pencils get stuck in school ceiling tiles only difference was the teacher didn't let the kids get it back, and that was much more entertaining.
I assume they meant an ankle monitor. Used by police to track certain criminals who are let out on bail or parole.
Load More Replies...An ankle monitor used by police to track people on home arrest and some parolees. If it's removed for any reason the police will know immediately.
Load More Replies...7th grader in north Philly went into the teachers “lounge” (which was a small room that had a fridge and a table that sat 4-6 teachers) took a teachers meatball hoagie out of the fridge and threw it down the fire exit stairs. This kid had 12 pages of single space 10pt times new Roman of write ups in power school. Never got expelled, just wasn’t allowed to enroll after 8th grade. This kid was a complete a*****e.
You just brought more attention to it. notice it has 45 downvotes and you only have 10 upvotes... you covered nothing
Load More Replies...I'm not a teacher, no education in teaching, but I do have a special needs daughter who had severe behavioral difficulties. Every time I read a story like most on this list, I wonder who has failed these kids? I know some kids just act out for attraction attention and that's another issue, but some genuinely need some intervention and I just wonder what ever happened with them.
Where I live, if a kid like this gets excluded from a school, he has to enter the district’s program for kids with behaviors issues. My sister runs this program and the kids get intensive help and programs tailored to them individually. Some do quite well, others end up in prison, sadly.
Load More Replies...A boy threw a (raw in the centre) roast chicken into our staffroom. Opening the door and pausing to throw the chicken slowed him down long enough for us to see who did it. How do you mostly roast a chicken, and why bring it to school?
i am at a loss for words, yet in great apriciation for this kid's dedacation.
'Student jiggling ear by the lobe..."oh man, I feel it." Air soft bb falls out of ear onto desk." "WOW that's been in there for two years!" I was afraid to tell my mom when it happened...
Not a teacher, but a former classmate decided it was a brilliant idea to stay inside the classroom during a break, open the teacher's laptop, pull out every single key and put them all inside a transparent bag next to the trash can
Not a teacher but witnessed this happen. Kid had a temper with the teacher in our woodshop class. Well this kid must have gotten really mad so he walked up to the teacher and threw a big piece of wood (about the size of a toilet paper roll) right at his desk. That's the first time I ever heard a teacher use the f, a , and d word in one sentence ever. Dude who threw wood got a 3 week suspension and turns out he got kicked out from the class.
Again, you only brought more attention to the comment. It has 20 downvotes and you only have 4 upvotes. You aren't covering anything
Load More Replies...Okay, say someone chucks a heavy wood chunk at you when you're not expecting it and see if you still think it's excessive.
Load More Replies...And this is where I counter the whole " schools are indoctrinating our kids" thing. Teachers are too busy trying to teach math or chemistry or where to put a comma while kids are cooking pork chops, gambling, or making poop balls.
I've been saying this for years. It is why I decided to pull my kids from public schools and homeschool them.
Load More Replies...I am concerned by the proportionally high number of incidents involving chickens.
I got one! In Chemistry class, 2 kids (muppets) decided it would be a good idea to put copper sulfate crystals (toxic if you eat too much) put it in their coffee, and drank it. Both went home ill about an hour later. Both still alive, both still idiots. Same class, different kid, but while the teacher was talking, whipped out his flask and poured some tea into that lid-mug thing on top. Dude looked like he was having a blooming picnic in the lesson! Teacher was not amused.
I got kicked off the school bus a bunch of times when I was little, mostly for jumping over seats and once for peeing on the floor (a friend dared me to). Also for putting an orange in the exhaust pipe, but that actually wasn't me. The main one I remember from school was in 5th grade when I mooned the class, and my punishment was to do multiplication tables during recess for over a month. Lots of times getting in trouble at lunch, too, doing things like throwing chewed up crackers at the ceiling to get them to stick, or slamming the ketchup and mustard containers down (while squeezing them) to see how high up they would spray. So many times I had to stay inside after lunch (during recess) and write the same thing over and over (like Bart Simpson does in the beginning credits). Taking exercise (recess) away from a hyperactive ADHD kid is *not* the best way to solve the problem 👎
This is my husband's story. Grade eight math class, kid decided to light his desk on fire. He lit some paper on fire, put it in his desk and sat there as the desk went up in flames. This kid was just sitting there normally while the teacher freaked out and ran out of the class yelling "I'm done with this". Someone else came back to put the fire out. Teacher apparently had a nervous breakdown and never came back. Not sure if she stopped teaching or went to another school.
So just last week my kid got sent to the principal for the very first time, 6yo 1st grader. At recess they were playing soccer and a kid kicked the soccer ball over the wall by accident, ending the game. The whole group of kids playing chased this kid. My son caught him, grabbed him and kicked at him. The kid punched my kid to try to get free. Aide breaks it up. I was so upset because it quite sounds like my kid was acting like a bully in this situation. The principal told me how the kids were both really honest, both cried, and neither were hurt. This is extremely atypical behavior for my son. He is usually the sweetest, most caring, most empathic kid. I could feel a bit of this boys will be boys mentality from the school. His punishment was to sit out of recess the next day. At home we talked a lot about it, how he felt, how he can express how he feels without hurting anyone, how the other kid must have felt, how he would feel if he was the one who accidentally kicked the ball.
At home he lost his Switch and YouTube (his favorite things) through the weekend (3 days total). Comments from the school: “These things happen, especially with boys.” “There was a mob mentality and my son just happened to be the one to catch the kid.” I don’t know. Any parenting advice out there? Things I should talk to my kid about? With this being so incredibly not typical behavior for him should I calm down a bit or do I need to really worry about him bullying others. I would hate to allow that to develop. I’m very open to honest feedback, just please no name calling my kiddo.
Load More Replies...As a student the ones that stood out were: a guy bringing a scorpion to school but claimed it's safe because he removed the stinger and another guy cut the cable to the PA system so we couldn't hear the announcements...no one noticed for a while (the buildings of the school were separate not one whole building).
Wow! And I thought some kids in my high school were badasses. As an innocent witness I watched about 6 jocks physically pick up a volkswagen beetle and move it to a spot between the hedges. It was a driver's ed car that was parked at the main front entrance of the school... mid 80s.
Former high school admin, got called to a class with security officer. A student with autism and some moderate cognitive issues had apparently been watching anime all weekend. The 14 year old was standing on top of a work table wielding one of those thick yard sticks like a samurai sword and yelling at everyone in "Japanese." Anyone who got close to him got whacked with the stick. I distracted him (he HATED me) while security disarmed him and pulled him down off the table. We ended up restraining him on the lawn in front of his classroom until he chilled out. Another severely handicapped special education student who discovered masturbation during summer school and would practice frequently and publicly. Bit a teacher when student was encouraged to reclothe himself. We put his belt on backwards and got him a one-on-one aide. Bless that dear man's soul.
Got word that a group of friends was day drinking clear alcohol out of their water bottles. Walked in to their class, picked up the water bottle and smelled the contents, and then asked the young lady to gather things and meet me in the hallway. Colleagues picked up the rest of the group at the same time, can't text your way out of that one.
Load More Replies...I had a student try the seven up challenge in class last year. Just as the bell rang to start class, she whipped out a liter of seven up, and before I could stop her, chugged the whole thing. Of course it all came right back up a second later. At least she made it to the trash can. She later admitted to me that it was one of the dumbest stunts she had ever tried.
And this is where I counter the whole " schools are indoctrinating our kids" thing. Teachers are too busy trying to teach math or chemistry or where to put a comma while kids are cooking pork chops, gambling, or making poop balls.
I've been saying this for years. It is why I decided to pull my kids from public schools and homeschool them.
Load More Replies...I am concerned by the proportionally high number of incidents involving chickens.
I got one! In Chemistry class, 2 kids (muppets) decided it would be a good idea to put copper sulfate crystals (toxic if you eat too much) put it in their coffee, and drank it. Both went home ill about an hour later. Both still alive, both still idiots. Same class, different kid, but while the teacher was talking, whipped out his flask and poured some tea into that lid-mug thing on top. Dude looked like he was having a blooming picnic in the lesson! Teacher was not amused.
I got kicked off the school bus a bunch of times when I was little, mostly for jumping over seats and once for peeing on the floor (a friend dared me to). Also for putting an orange in the exhaust pipe, but that actually wasn't me. The main one I remember from school was in 5th grade when I mooned the class, and my punishment was to do multiplication tables during recess for over a month. Lots of times getting in trouble at lunch, too, doing things like throwing chewed up crackers at the ceiling to get them to stick, or slamming the ketchup and mustard containers down (while squeezing them) to see how high up they would spray. So many times I had to stay inside after lunch (during recess) and write the same thing over and over (like Bart Simpson does in the beginning credits). Taking exercise (recess) away from a hyperactive ADHD kid is *not* the best way to solve the problem 👎
This is my husband's story. Grade eight math class, kid decided to light his desk on fire. He lit some paper on fire, put it in his desk and sat there as the desk went up in flames. This kid was just sitting there normally while the teacher freaked out and ran out of the class yelling "I'm done with this". Someone else came back to put the fire out. Teacher apparently had a nervous breakdown and never came back. Not sure if she stopped teaching or went to another school.
So just last week my kid got sent to the principal for the very first time, 6yo 1st grader. At recess they were playing soccer and a kid kicked the soccer ball over the wall by accident, ending the game. The whole group of kids playing chased this kid. My son caught him, grabbed him and kicked at him. The kid punched my kid to try to get free. Aide breaks it up. I was so upset because it quite sounds like my kid was acting like a bully in this situation. The principal told me how the kids were both really honest, both cried, and neither were hurt. This is extremely atypical behavior for my son. He is usually the sweetest, most caring, most empathic kid. I could feel a bit of this boys will be boys mentality from the school. His punishment was to sit out of recess the next day. At home we talked a lot about it, how he felt, how he can express how he feels without hurting anyone, how the other kid must have felt, how he would feel if he was the one who accidentally kicked the ball.
At home he lost his Switch and YouTube (his favorite things) through the weekend (3 days total). Comments from the school: “These things happen, especially with boys.” “There was a mob mentality and my son just happened to be the one to catch the kid.” I don’t know. Any parenting advice out there? Things I should talk to my kid about? With this being so incredibly not typical behavior for him should I calm down a bit or do I need to really worry about him bullying others. I would hate to allow that to develop. I’m very open to honest feedback, just please no name calling my kiddo.
Load More Replies...As a student the ones that stood out were: a guy bringing a scorpion to school but claimed it's safe because he removed the stinger and another guy cut the cable to the PA system so we couldn't hear the announcements...no one noticed for a while (the buildings of the school were separate not one whole building).
Wow! And I thought some kids in my high school were badasses. As an innocent witness I watched about 6 jocks physically pick up a volkswagen beetle and move it to a spot between the hedges. It was a driver's ed car that was parked at the main front entrance of the school... mid 80s.
Former high school admin, got called to a class with security officer. A student with autism and some moderate cognitive issues had apparently been watching anime all weekend. The 14 year old was standing on top of a work table wielding one of those thick yard sticks like a samurai sword and yelling at everyone in "Japanese." Anyone who got close to him got whacked with the stick. I distracted him (he HATED me) while security disarmed him and pulled him down off the table. We ended up restraining him on the lawn in front of his classroom until he chilled out. Another severely handicapped special education student who discovered masturbation during summer school and would practice frequently and publicly. Bit a teacher when student was encouraged to reclothe himself. We put his belt on backwards and got him a one-on-one aide. Bless that dear man's soul.
Got word that a group of friends was day drinking clear alcohol out of their water bottles. Walked in to their class, picked up the water bottle and smelled the contents, and then asked the young lady to gather things and meet me in the hallway. Colleagues picked up the rest of the group at the same time, can't text your way out of that one.
Load More Replies...I had a student try the seven up challenge in class last year. Just as the bell rang to start class, she whipped out a liter of seven up, and before I could stop her, chugged the whole thing. Of course it all came right back up a second later. At least she made it to the trash can. She later admitted to me that it was one of the dumbest stunts she had ever tried.
