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High school is a period of life that most of us have experienced at some point in the past, present, or future. And while it might be regarded as only an educational place, it would be rather a misconception. You see, high school also raises us in a social way.
There, we experience scenarios we can't really encounter in the "outside" world. Interestingly, often enough, those events stem from or result in some kind of drama, as teenagers are inherently dramatic. So, today, let's entertain ourselves by reading up on it, shall we?
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#1
My school had a secret boys poker club, that got uncovered after one of them bet his gf, lost, and she complained to the teachers, not wishing to become the winner's gf.
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#2
I went to a local yard sale and recognized the seller as a girl I went to high school with. We chatted. She mentioned the yard sale was due to her divorce and that she was divorcing our high school history teacher with whom she'd had a years long affair - starting in high school - and who she had married very shortly after he divorced his wife very shortly after she graduated high school.
#3
The head of the english department had an affair with the head of science.
His adult daughter then turned up and keyed science teachers car during school hours, and they somehow hushed this up until another teacher had a few too many at our formal/prom and spilled the gossip to a bunch of us.
Many movies and TV shows are set in high school for some reason. The reason is likely to be obvious. As this netizen named a few factors that possibly might have something to do with it, especially in the Western-based media.
They say that high school might be personally relatable to most of the, let’s say, US adult viewers, solely due to the fact that most of them attended it, even if they may not have graduated.
#4
Found out our quietest, most wholesome teacher was the secret mastermind behind a massive senior prank involving 300 rubber ducks in the principal's office. the legend was right under our noses the whole time.
#5
One of the students in our school, the son of a retired police chief, stole a Cessna airplane and flew an uncharted flight from a small airfield outside Toronto to Montreal.
#6
Our drama teacher in the 8th grade was let go for being inappropriate with students. Everyone went on a rampage when he left and we couldn't understand why he was let go.
Found out a few years after high school when he was hitting on me through Facebook messaging and I told my mother. She mentioned that something weird happened when we were in school too and that's why he left. Thanks mum for letting me know! A bit late!
So, if you set the same story in college, it becomes relatable to way fewer people, which can turn away the viewers. After all, it doesn’t take a genius to realize that quite a lot of people crave relatable scenarios from the stuff they’re consuming.
Also, high schools tend to take place in a rather compact place, which makes the creation easier for the creators to build sets. Not to mention how much easier it is to properly represent school subjects than college ones, due to the limited choices of electives and things like that.
#7
The craziest piece of drama was about *me*, and I was too busy being shuttled back and forth between divorced parents every other day to notice. Apparently multiple guys tried to get me to sleep with them, but failed because I was so uninterested in the general HS population that I didn't realize what they were trying to do. This resulted in them feeling personally attacked for whatever reason and spreading rumors that I was sleeping around, which ended up being so wide-spread and violent that we ended up having a whole assembly on harassment, with me having absolutely no idea the assembly was about me to begin with. I only found out years later when I ran into a guy at the grocery store and he apologized to contributing to said rumors about me. I really wish I could adequately describe the look on his face when he realized I actually had no idea what he was talking about.
#8
Sadly I’m just joining the club it seems like - music teacher groomed and slept with several students. We would joke that he was sleeping with the drum major, and sadly we were right. She is the one who ultimately blew the whistle.
#9
That a white guy and a black girl were a couple but the administration called them in and told them they couldn't do that. This was a small parochial school in the '80s in southern California.
Mrs Irish Mom 20 hours ago
Sorry but your colour does not match that of your partner so we forbid it, 🤯
There can also be a reason why taking high school students as protagonists is comfortable for creators. You see, they are grown up enough to nearly be adults and able to take on various challenges, but not adult enough to care about rent, food prices, or other kinds of adult-y responsibilities. It's the perfect age to start some adventures, isn’t it?
So, with so many TV shows and movies taking place in high-school settings, there are bound to be plenty of stories regarding that time of our lives.
#10
Our principal was embezzling quite a bit of money. Ended up on the local news.
He had always been an ahole. My friend won the grand prize at the state science fair and brought back a trophy for the school, and he didn't care. No congrats, job well done, nothing. He just didn't care.
#11
At our first high school reunion (five years), one of our teachers showed up in a bad-fitting wig, got drunk, and sloppily tried to seduce the women. We then realized that he most likely became a teacher because he was attracted to young girls.
#12
Some girls dad had a secret bathroom camera that filmed tons of underage girls. He was a well known doctor in our area and his kids were very nice people. Daughter was in my grade, so smart and kind.
They had a big house with a separate pool house and the camera was in the pool house bathroom. Kids were there all the time.
It was so shocking and so sad, I feel so sorry for all the innocent children and now his own children have lost their father. Absolutely massive scandal in our community. He’s in prison for the rest of his life I believe.
Some of them are not that realistic. By that, we mean, when there are stories about supernatural stuff, like Teen Wolf or Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Or maybe it’s only us who didn’t have to deal with werewolves and vampires during our time in school, and these stories are very relatable to you.
But it’s more likely that stories like Heartstopper or Never Have I Ever are more relatable to the general audience, as they deal with teenagers’ stuff rather than supernatural stuff.
Still, that doesn't mean these shows cannot have totally unhinged storylines. Like in the latter, Never Have I Ever, where the main character gets stuck in a rather interesting and questionably realistic love triangle. This whole thing drives the show into rather dramatic places and makes for good TV.
#13
Finding out half the couples were secretly dating each other like it was a whole soap opera behind the scenes, made me realize I really was just there for the homework.
#14
A friend of a friend was sleeping with one of the special education aides who was there to facilitate an extra study hall for the kids who had them as part of their 504 and IEP plans.
The friend of a friend was a bit slower than other kids, just a general low IQ and an ADD diagnosis. He was apparently bragging about being intimate with the woman hired to supervise the study hall. She wasn't a teacher, didn't have a teaching degree or anything, but was serving a supervisory function. Totally inappropriate. All the guys were cheering him on though.
I guess it went on for a while and she was "suddenly fired for no reason." It was all swept under the rug.
#15
Elementary school drama. I had two six grade teachers that were co teachers. It was a pilot program. She got pregnant during the year. We found out much later our both married co teachers had a pretty torrid affair. Both of their marriages ended. Unsurprisingl, the woman teacher was fired. Mr Frank, with his not so hidden alcohol drawer was kept on. The 80‘s were crazy.
We aren't saying that real-life high schools don’t have these stories playing out in them. It’s likely that at least somewhat similar situations have happened to someone. Ultimately, teenage years can be a very dramatic period in someone’s life, so some crazy stuff is bound to happen.
Just like the stories in today’s list – some of them are truly unhinged. The interesting part about them is that most people only found out about them after graduation. So, basically, they could’ve witnessed a TV show scenario play out in real life, but missed it.
Has something similar happened to you? Please, share your story!
#16
Music Teacher (male) and Drama teacher (male) - (one sleeping with students and the other with a hidden camera in a change room) at my all boys High School. In my primary/elementary school a priest was caught being inappropriate with students 10 years before I was enrolled and caught after I graduated. I thankfully was never a victim. All Catholic schools of course.
#17
The craziest English teacher (female) married the laziest English teacher (male). She would always get slighted by the smallest thing and would refuse to teach us until we as a class apologized. It got so bad that the department head had to intervene though he blamed us and requested we apologize in order to ensure the knowledge she gave would be 'blessed'.
Her husband was lazy. He didn't teach us anything including the new exam format which caused the majority of his students to get low marks and drop in rank. We had to complain to the principal before we got a new teacher. He also had a scandal where he dated a 17yo student openly (she was older than age of consent and at the time it wasn't illegal to be in a relationship with a student as it wasn't in the US).
The marriage didn't last. Crazy + lazy will never be a good combination. Thank goodness there wasn't any kids involved.
Edited a few words for clarity.
Bi.Felicia 1 day ago
Well except for the kid that he was dating, even though she was able to consent, doesn't change the fact that she was still a child.
#19
Had a music teacher that all of the girls generally avoided because there were rumors that he would try to touch them. I've even heard that some girls tried to report him to the principal but she would just shrug it off. I never had to have his class because of the major I had so never crossed paths with him. 15 years later I see a news article about dude getting arrested and charged for texting inappropriately some of his students.
Same school, there was a math teacher that everyone loved because he was basically "friends" with all of the students, I crossed paths with him once because he subbed for my math teacher once and dude just gave off creepy vibes to me. 16 years later dude was fired for "inappropriate behavior" at a field trip. From what I understand he didn't actually try to touch anyone or have inappropriate relations with a student but still.
Just to give examples of actual good male teachers at that school (and not blaming the girls or anything because this was a different time when celebrity tabloids mentioned girls dating guys twice their age and it was seen as a "cool mature it girl" thing to do) I had an art teacher that was in his 20s and literally most of the girls would flirt with him and I'm pretty sure a few asked him out. Dude made it a point to never be alone with any student and would physically keep his distance from the girls who would flirt with him and would always tell stories of his girlfriend.
Also I had a gym teacher who was in his early 30s and he was considered a good looking guy so a few girls would flirt with him and he would legit shut it down real quick and turned it into class lessons on why girls and guys shouldn't try to have relationships with authority figures.
#20
At a boarding school now famous for covering up mistreatment: a very quiet girl was being preyed on by an employee 10 years her senior. When word got out, she was punished, not him. She got expelled, never got to finish her high school education, and is now married to the former employee, still.
#21
My high-school best buds parents got divorced as we started senior year, they were like the friend groups parents so it was a big deal to us. Seemingly came out of nowhere and I didn't have any idea why until I saw my buddies dad at a Walmart in Colorado like 2 or 3 years after high-school and he explained to me how Will (our friend) and his mom had been intimate. And they are now in a relationship lmao. When his dad found out he just left and moved to Colorado. Crazy.
#22
Our valedictorian was apparently a jerk that thought hitting his girlfriends was an appropriate communication style.
#24
The rich pretentious kid who always bragged how rich they were, turns out their dad was arrested and jailed for embezzling millions. .
#25
One of the football coaches was selling steroids to the team.
An english teacher started dating his former student once she begun college. Supposedly, the student reached out to the teacher after graduating. .
Michael Largey 1 day ago
Students very occasionally do "reach out" to their former high school teachers. Unless they graduated ten or more years ago, the only answer possible is "I'm very flattered, but I can't."
#26
Heard rumours in grade 9 that a classmate was hooking up with another classmate’s mom, who had started volunteering in the library. The mom, daughter and boy all left the country shortly after, even though the boy had an entirely separate family?
We never heard anything else about them until our 10 year reunion when the mom and boy showed up married and told everyone they adopted a child.
#27
Not long after I started teaching post-secondary, I had a young student in their 20s. They told me they had dropped out of highschool in grade 9, and as I got to know them better, I found out that they were in fact the sister of someone in my own grade, at my own highschool. Turns out the family was ruled with an iron fist, and the parents had kicked them out for a minor infraction (think, going to the movies when they'd been forbidden to do so). They were taken in by someone, and got a job working at our local stock exchange. They were bright and worked their way up a decent pay, doing responsible work. But they were back to school to catchup. They did well, despite not having the foundation, and I marveled over the fact that the sibling had never shown the slightest indication that so much family trauma and misery was going on. Cruel.
#28
That one of the school resource officers was a creep and would routinely hit on and solicit the girls. Didn't find out until about 10 years later on a random Facebook post where multiple of my former classmates talked about their encounters. And yes, a few did take him up on his offer.
GalPalAl 2 hours ago
I used to work at Eckerd's photo department (defunct d**g store chain that closed) in and after high school. Was always disgusted by the store manager. He was such an a*s and I truly hated him. He was gross and biased and very sexist. He implied the only way he wouldn't act like a dic hed is if I let him review any pictures of girls who were scantily. He didn't like me because my feelings about him were obvious. Never learned what happened to him but his name is Robert Dutra and he used to work in Pembroke Pines. Hoping he got arrested for something before I stopped working there.
#29
I went to a private catholic high school. I have two stories.
1.It was an open secret that the principal, vice principal and Dean of the school had stolen money from a previous school they all worked at. It turns out they were given our new school as a shut up compromise because they knew soooo much about higher up priests that were molesting children. They were all arrested a few years after I graduated for doing the same thing- embezzling millions of dollars.
2. I married my high school sweetheart. His sister was in my grade. She was never interested in dating. She played the religious girl/theater tech role of being too busy to bother. The week after we graduated she moved out and cut contact with her family. It turns out she was being violated by the theater teacher for years. She moved into his house and acted like mommy to his children. 4 years later she broke free and moved back home. Still messed up.
#30
We had a Chlamydia outbreak my freshman year of high school (more than 100 students is what I heard) and after I graduated, I found out that one girl gave it to about 10 guys and that's how it spread throughout the school. But to make it even worse, she was apparently spreading it by charging guys to hook up with her in the school bathrooms.
It was a huge drama at the time because we had security waiting outside the bathrooms and could only go in one at a time for the rest of that school year.
#31
We had not one, but two teachers that were dating 18 year old students during my senior year. The teachers' contracts were not renewed for the following school year, but because the students were 18 it wasn't technically illegal and didn't make the news. Me and my friends found out after we graduated because one of the teachers was a little too shameless and posted about it on Facebook lol.
#32
Find out our teacher is dating with my classmate, thats why my classmate gets jealous everytime we tease our teacher with the other teacher lol.
What do you think ?
David Paterson 10 hours ago (edited)
All I had was a religious studies teacher who disappeared - with the school's money.
Paul C 1 day ago
I had a french teacher (male), who always seemed to hate the girls in the class (we were about 11-14 at the time). We didn't really understand why, but no boy was ever left alone with him. If a boy had to stay behind after class, several of his mates always waited just outside the room. I guess on some level, we must have known at least that it wasn't safe, but nobody ever directly talked about him as being anything other than a teacher who didn't like girls. Years later he was arrested for taking photographs of boys in the changing room of the local cricket club. All made perfect sense to me then. And I was just glad we had the instincts to ensure no boy was ever left alone with him years before at school. This was back in the mid-late 70s and he was caught in the mid 80s.
David Paterson 10 hours ago (edited)
All I had was a religious studies teacher who disappeared - with the school's money.
Paul C 1 day ago
I had a french teacher (male), who always seemed to hate the girls in the class (we were about 11-14 at the time). We didn't really understand why, but no boy was ever left alone with him. If a boy had to stay behind after class, several of his mates always waited just outside the room. I guess on some level, we must have known at least that it wasn't safe, but nobody ever directly talked about him as being anything other than a teacher who didn't like girls. Years later he was arrested for taking photographs of boys in the changing room of the local cricket club. All made perfect sense to me then. And I was just glad we had the instincts to ensure no boy was ever left alone with him years before at school. This was back in the mid-late 70s and he was caught in the mid 80s.
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