Who doesn’t remember drinking milk with their pizza or burgers in the cafeteria? When you’re in high school, you don’t question a lot of the things that happen around you. It’s only when you leave that you start to realize what a weird place it really was! Some of the things are a bit peculiar, while others are positively bizarre.
Bored Panda has collected some of the best examples of weird school things, so scroll down to see exactly what we mean. For those of you still in high school, maybe this list will open up your eyes to all the weirdness. Remember to upvote your faves and leave a comment about other weird high school things you’ve noticed, dear Pandas!
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I had to do square dancing in 4th grade with a boy and the teachers wouldn't let us bring wipes or gloves. This was the time when cooties was a thing. It was gross.
It’s not just former students who think that high school is incredibly strange—some teachers are flabbergasted, too. For example, Michael De Main has been teaching in secondary schools for 16 years and he thinks that a lot of teachers accept things that are downright weird.
In Michael’s opinion, it’s bizarre that different high schools can choose to start and end classes at different times. So while one school might open at 8 AM, another might decide to start classes 15 minutes later. The same weirdness extends to periods that can last for 40, 50, or even 75 minutes, depending on school policy. Don’t even get us started on how breaks are not the same length, either.
If we started packing up before the teacher asked us to we would have to stay back after the bell went for about 2 mins or so.
Teacher Michael also questions whether we still need roll call—isn’t that time better spent, you know, actually learning things? Not to mention playground duty where a teacher has to stand around, watch the students play, and make sure that they don’t get into any trouble. And who can forget about toilet duty? Sure, teachers need to make sure that students aren’t getting into any trouble, but all of this seems a bit over the top, don’t you think?
So far this is the only one I can relate too. I only discovered about 5 years ago that this wasn't true.
My chemistry teachers solution to people stealing her calculators.
However, according to Michael, the weirdest thing about high school might just be the students themselves who are hard to figure out even with all the experience in the world. Finally, let’s not forget about the basics: furniture. Some students still have to sit on uncomfortable chairs and use tiny desks, so it’s no wonder that some of them can’t pay attention!
When you look at everything, high school sure is a weird place. But I sure could go for some chocolate milk and a slice of pizza right about now.
I had one of those hair thingy's, had it in for ages. I didn't get mine on a cruise or holiday though.
We just got to smell the home ec class burn another batch of cookies every day, the teacher was too stupid to know to adjust cooking times etc for higher altitudes and couldn't figure it out, we literally begged our English teacher to let us go show them what they were doing wrong, she laughed and told us to go ahead because that teacher had been driving her nuts for years
At lunch the boys would dare each other to gag themselves until they threw up. One boy went home early like 15 times a year due to this. They were both geniuses and idiots. (Mainly idiots)
I threw up on the pie tins in kindergarten that we used to test evaporation. They had been there for weeks. We had to start over.
...then the ancient janitor would come shuffling along and throw saw dust on the puke, while a superfluity of Nuns looked on.
I remember doing that in third grade and it looked just like a pizza. The class stood around staring at it until someone said: "How did you swallow a whole pizza?"
I once threw up in the middle of my high school playground. I was off the day before, went in the next day feeling fine, and puked just as I was headed to registration. Spent the rest of the week in bed switching between puking, crying, and sleeping, although I was never out for long. No idea what caused it, and I've never experienced that kind of illness since. The stomach cramps alone were bad enough.
Sounds like a variation of the flu.. I had a similar episode once when I was a kid. Not fun!
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The closest experience I've had for that was during a mock exam in Year 10. One the opposite side of the happy where I sat in, someone projectile vomited onto the person in front of them. The person then vomited again, narrowly missing a teacher and other students.
I wonder if it's because little kids don't usually know whether they're sick or not. If they don't like school, they're like "boo hoo, I'm sick, I need to stay home" and if they like school they just run around all happy not realizing they have a stomach flu until they throw up.
Do they mean throwing up on purpose? I know when I was at primary school almost daily there was a pile of saw dust on the ground to absorb and cover the vomit but the kids involved were sick and wasn't done purposefully.
4th grade I literally had a class mate make himself purposely throw up he was kinda crazy
Had no idea I wasn't feeling well, maybe stress? Then I threw up all over my algebra book... first thing in the morning. Surprisingly, everyone was super cool about it. The principal Sister took me to her office and helped me change into a fresh clean uniform and was super sweet the whole time we waited for my mom to pick me up.
I told my mother I didn't feel well one day. And she gave me a hard time. I went to school, and few hours later I was one of those kids. Had to go through 7 more years of school before I could get away from people who knew about it.
Does anyone remember the stinky stuff that looked like cat litter that the janitor put on top of the puke?
i was eating one of those breakfasts they pack for you for field trips and a girl behind me threw up into my hood... Luckily, it wasn't that cold and I didn't need it.. My best friend gave me her cardigan, too.
The kids who bit into Bubble Tape like this.
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Is this an American thread? Public schools really aren't that bad in Australia. Really, the only difference is they put education first, whereas private schools put money and status first.......and their buildings have a fresher coat of paint on them.
I guess I'm very American because almost every one of these was extremely relatable.
Finnish schools had a game for kids called kuka pelkää mustaa miestä, which translates to Who's afraid of the black man. One of the kids was selected as the black man, then we shouted "who's afraid of the black man?!" and started running in the gym class while the black man tried to catch us. This was considered a normal activity at the time. Naturally not played anymore.
The concept sounds kind of fun, but the name tho haha
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Is it surprising that children sometimes behave in infantile ways? Especially during puberty?
I went to a catholic school in Ireland. You don't know what weird is until you have a 70 year old nun trying to give a sex education class. This happened when I was 15 years old. And yes, we did already know where babies came from. So did a certain girl in the class who at the time was already 4 months pregnant.
Every now and then I think about Americans as actually the unwitting participants of something akin to The Truman Show. What if there is another reality outside the borders? Distraction with a horrible thing to keep them from knowing about a hellish thing. An experiment by the rest of the world to see how people retain their humanity under certain conditions, recorded now and available in live streaming, engendering scorn and pity by turns in its viewers.
Eh my current high school isn’t so bad, but a lot of these are relatable from my old district
The stupidest thing that I remember people doing when I was at school was "Smileys" using a lighter.
The author of this post is Lithuanian. Just saying.
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Is this an American thread? Public schools really aren't that bad in Australia. Really, the only difference is they put education first, whereas private schools put money and status first.......and their buildings have a fresher coat of paint on them.
I guess I'm very American because almost every one of these was extremely relatable.
Finnish schools had a game for kids called kuka pelkää mustaa miestä, which translates to Who's afraid of the black man. One of the kids was selected as the black man, then we shouted "who's afraid of the black man?!" and started running in the gym class while the black man tried to catch us. This was considered a normal activity at the time. Naturally not played anymore.
The concept sounds kind of fun, but the name tho haha
Load More Replies... Is it surprising that children sometimes behave in infantile ways? Especially during puberty?
I went to a catholic school in Ireland. You don't know what weird is until you have a 70 year old nun trying to give a sex education class. This happened when I was 15 years old. And yes, we did already know where babies came from. So did a certain girl in the class who at the time was already 4 months pregnant.
Every now and then I think about Americans as actually the unwitting participants of something akin to The Truman Show. What if there is another reality outside the borders? Distraction with a horrible thing to keep them from knowing about a hellish thing. An experiment by the rest of the world to see how people retain their humanity under certain conditions, recorded now and available in live streaming, engendering scorn and pity by turns in its viewers.
Eh my current high school isn’t so bad, but a lot of these are relatable from my old district
The stupidest thing that I remember people doing when I was at school was "Smileys" using a lighter.
The author of this post is Lithuanian. Just saying.
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