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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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#1
Path of Totality 5 years ago
Wait. I'm 14 and this made me realize that I kinda think that way. Time to re-evaluate my mind set.
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#2
Love My Dogs 5 years ago
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.
Grumble O'Pug 5 years ago (edited)
We had a class called civics and the teacher taught us everything from how to balance a check book, to buying a car, to understanding credit, to taxes. This was all in addition to the citizen responsibilities like voting, etc.
Spikey Bunny 5 years ago
I did that in high school. Best class I ever took!
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I love cats 5 years ago
I have to do a line dancing unit every year while half of us dance and the half sits on the floor laughing
Lyra Rey 5 years ago
When we did square dancing in I think third grade, the girls in my class outnumbered the boys by two, so I got roped into dancing as a boy. I was unbelievably humiliated the entire time, but then the last girl I danced with, a popular girl who was actually kind of a b***h to me most of the time, told me she thought I was lucky because I didn't have to dance with any boys. So that helped.
Mark Johanen 5 years ago
Umm ... This makes no sense. Schools should not teach one thing if there is something else that is also worth teaching? How dare they teach science when there is also such a thing as history! Perhaps square dancing specifically isn't something you will ever do after school, but learning to interact with other people socially seems like something worth learning.
-zawarudo- 5 years ago
Yea my school did that in 6th grade- and I remember doing the cha cha slide in elementary school at one point but I don’t remember when 😅
CbusResident 5 years ago
In the US, mid-'90s, for middle school (ages 12-14), the required 'Home Economics' class: 'Sew a pillow!' 'Make a pie! That way you can make your own pillows and pie one day! It'll save you money when you don't have to buy them!' (Our district was fairly well off btw - had a very consumerist culture - almost everyone had Abercrombie, The Gap, - all the latest trendy b.s. from the malls). But did we learn about the costs of college, about mortgages, about retirement accounts, investing? Not really. But pillows! Lots of coverage of how to sew your own pillows!
#3
Water Bottle 5 years ago
Nowadays it’s Kahoot! instead of jeopardy. In my classes s**t goes down when a Kahoot! starts.
Ivy Chambers 5 years ago
It is were you have like a jeopardy game in the class but the questions are related to things you are learning. I played them all the time before test
PotterHead 5 years ago
That was literally me. The popular boys would cheer if I was on their team because i´m the nerd.Same thing with group projects.
Ginny Weasley 5 years ago
Yes. This happened all the time. I ended up doing all the work and that is why I always hated the Jeopardy review games.
Plushipoof 5 years ago
People would ignore me any other day but once I got on their jeopardy team the teams would glare at eachother almost before they would announce which team I was on. For one moment, I was the popular kid.
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.
#4
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
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.
Just JoLynn 5 years ago
Then your next teacher gives you detention for being late to class because you had 3 minutes to walk across campus and pee.
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Maddie Painter 5 years ago
Literally everyone who tells us what the bell is for: When it rings, you can pack up and leave Any teacher: No, no, no. Class is over when I dismiss you (Evil laugh) or you can't leave until everyone is quiet The whole class; asdljfaldjsfljadlfj random stuff aldjflasdfjlskf i got fortnite al;dkjfalskjdfalksjdflkasdf i'm talking to hear my own voice ;lkdjfalskdjfalkdsjflaksdfklasfkl Parents: Wtf why are they an hour late Kid (The chatterbox): It was um.. Diego and Sniper... (lol)
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Jill 5 years ago
We had gym clothes and showers in HS as well...but noone barely used the showers. Too much teenage angst and pressure.
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-zawarudo- 5 years ago
We didn’t—but I do remember it was pajama day in elementary and we had to do the pacer tests
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
This is a marker of rich versus poor, be that neighbourhoods, private vs public schools, or, indeed, between countries. I grew up in a country where it was unthinkable not to shower after gym class and my son grew up in a country where not even gym clothes is something one changes into for physical education.
Lyra Rey 5 years ago
I went to school in a very affluent district and we never changed for gym in elementary school. In high school we changed and showers were available but nobody used them. There wasn't time.
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Seabeast 5 years ago
I did a 6.5 minute mile as an adult and fairly serious runner. At age nine? Not a chance.
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Lyra Rey 5 years ago
I don't remember ever running a mile in elementary school in the 90s, but I do remember wearing my regular clothes for gym and then going straight to my next thing without changing.
Kristina Thomas 5 years ago
Yeah I think the mile run started in middle school.
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Sticking pins through skin.
Michelle C 5 years ago
OMG...I used to do this all the time! Would stick them in vertically so it looked like I had needle finger tips and scare my little sister...sigh, life before internet
Potter 5 years ago
Oh I am 12 and do this all the time. I do get a lot of weird looks but it's fun!
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Carol Knouse 5 years ago
I did this. I also took a needle and tread and sewed my fingers together!
*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 5 years ago
TYGBNHGBVFC it really bothers me when people do thisssss! You could say that it gets under my skin, but what would the point of that be? Hhcdnjswilndc
-zawarudo- 5 years ago
We had a sewing unit in our FACS class in 6th grade and there was a group of kids who did this a lot and it made me feel anxious :’)
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?
#7
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
So far this is the only one I can relate too. I only discovered about 5 years ago that this wasn't true.
Randomcthulu 5 years ago
I had a classmate who did a speech on Marilyn Manson for public speaking class, he included that tidbit and needless to say, speeches about celebrities were banned for the rest of the semester after that
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Alexandru Bucur 5 years ago
Oh yeah, that rumour got even to our side of the pond. Since we were in high school at the time and big fans of the guy (Mechanical Animals had just came out), we took one look at it and decided it was b******t peddled by all the haters...
#8
My chemistry teachers solution to people stealing her calculators.
Jill 5 years ago
Yeah, but inevitably someone forgot theirs and had to ask to borrow one from the teacher..thus the brick. :D
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beastmachine. 4 years ago
Damn, here we aren't even allowed to go near a calculator before entering college...
Maddie Painter 5 years ago
My teacher's math teacher: You need to kno all these boring maths your probably never gunna use if you go into the field we expect u to go into (Working at Mc Donalds) because you won't carry a calculator in your back pocket My math teacher, 20 years later: Hahaha I just bought an Iphone 11 pro max and guess what app it has!? He was the best teacher ever... he let us have "hints" that basically answered exam questions etc. he even let us use calculators not to mention he was HILARIOUS
Michelle C 5 years ago
In my school you had to sign it out so if you stole it they knew it was you and where to find you
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Hanni 5 years ago
In an ideal word parents should introduce their children to the art of adulting.
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Aaron W 5 years ago
I'm glad my school taught me how to draw parallelograms instead of how to do my taxes. It's really come in handy this parallelogram season.
Mario Clouâtre 5 years ago
It's freaking addition and subtraction coliss. Don't tell me they didn't teach addition and subtraction!
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Is it just me or the US tax system is overly complicated and that's on purpose? The way I understand it, they take a cut of everything and then it's on you to calculate your exemptions, deductions etc and file them and they'll send you some of that money back. If you get them wrong or don't make the deadline, well, sucks to be you, I guess... In my country the income tax is paid by the employer so it's never even considered as part of my salary and property taxes are calculated by the tax office - I just show up once a year to tell them my name, swipe my card and they give me a receipt, and, if I do it before the end of April, I get to play less. Oh and I also get free Healthcare out of it.
Just JoLynn 5 years ago
You are correct, and there are different tax brackets for different income levels, the exemptions and deductions only apply for certain types of jobs with certain types of expenses and so on. Oh and you mostly only get money back if you make a nonlivable wage or have a ton of kids, otherwise you pay more money.
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Samantha Lomb 5 years ago
Normal countries don't make you file your own taxes, they are just deducted from your pay and either your employer or the gov does the paperwork. The US could do this too but doesn't due to pressure from the tax prep lobby
CbusResident 5 years ago
But learning bio is not really impractical and useless. Quite the opposite E.g. Careers in healthcare, science - bio also affects every single thing around us everyday (ahem, COVID-F*****G-19). Having a basic understanding of bio is at the cornerstone of whether we're an ignorant society or not, whether there can be in future generations more great scientists who do things like cure diseases. So to quote Gordon Ramsay: "Mate, that's kind of a stupid complaint."
Daria B 5 years ago
I agree. Biology, and science in general, is actually useful. Your knowledge about it also decides how you will treat people around you and how you treat yourself too.
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Courtney LeDroit 5 years ago
What do we do about inequality, bullying, taxes and getting loans? school system: Here, learn to fill out these checks that will be obsolete by the time you're old enough to use them.
Cheryle Truhan 5 years ago
We are already required to teach math and manners and social skills
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.
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Jill 5 years ago
And it's still a thing with my students after all these years. Apparently some jokes never get old.
Dynein 5 years ago
There's only two things that age jokes: Individuals getting tired of a joke, and social changes. The latter doesn't apply here, and the fact that it's a school means there's a constant inflow of teens hearing/seeing the joke for the first time.
Load More Replies... WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
On my school there was joke where you had to do some calculations about a war and how much money each country would invest, how many people would get wounded, killed and went missing and who would be the winner at the end of the war. And than the answer came out as Shell.
#11
ej wey 5 years ago
Well while you got a got scar I got stabbed in the hand with her pencil and the graphite is still there. It was one of the ginger headed Moore twins. Wooooff
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Hunter Bradley 5 years ago
i gotch you i broke out a week a go lets go vroooooooom
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aLittleKillingJoke 5 years ago
i dropped out of school and got my dream job, I'm as far from jail as i could possibly be
Aragorn II Elessar 5 years ago
I do that in high school, namely because my next class is always on the other end of the school and the teachers hand out the homework after we pack up
Kristina Thomas 5 years ago
Nope. My husband was like that, and still "filed" his papers loose in bags when we met in our late 20s, and he has never been a criminal. He works and obeys the law like all the normal folk.
Bloxmakesgames2019 5 years ago
No I’m not my locker would literally have a paper avalanche when I opened it I’m not in jail
#13
That one kid.
Id row 5 years ago
Because you know they'll walk in 10 seconds after you leave.
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Jill 5 years ago
This happened for one of the Advanced Placement Physics classes that we had at my High School. So all the students left and when the teacher got back all the students got detentention for skipping out. The thing was was that all those students were Seniors who were almost all straight A students that had gotten into Harvard, MIT etc. So the students thought it was a blast to get detention for the first time in their lives. Someone even called the local news station to come out and do a report about how much fun they were having with it.
CbusResident 5 years ago
American Attorney here: In most states, if the kids are under 16 they are not legally allowed to leave the school bldg or a specific classroom for this reason - the school principal would have every right to require them to stay for the duration of the school day, including requiring them to stay in a specific classroom for a certain part of the schoolday. If the kids are 16 or older, legally they're allowed to leave whenever they want, any time.
Alexandru Bucur 5 years ago
Well, our math teacher in secondary school was a bit of a boozer and one time he showed up for class hungover and fell asleep with his head on the desk... We thought that was hilarious, so we all just milled around the classroom and pelted him with rolled pieces of paper. No matter how loud and rowdy we got he didn't stir until the bell rang, then he took his things, muttered a greeting and left. A few years after I graduated he became the principal of that school...
Random Panda 5 years ago
Once we had a teacher who was running late and a lot of my classmates wanted to leave, citing this "rule". In the end we all agreed to go (I don't remember how we agreed). Well, just as we're all headed out someone spots the teacher just she's coming into the building. Cue mad dash back to the classroom, before she could see us. It was a fun way to start the day, I suppose.
Maddie Painter 5 years ago (edited)
I did once in fifth grade and walked home because my freind said we can legally leave. I got in so much trouble that day! Edit: Just found out I was actually breaking the law..
#14
Pamela24 5 years ago
Nah, that's a stereotype. My Math teacher was one of the best - just last year I went to her 50th birthday party and we got wonderfully drunk together and my gym teacher was the only one who noticed when thing got bad at home when I was fourteen.
Spikey Bunny 5 years ago
Some teachers deserve medals for saving us from bad family situations... For me it was a summer school English teacher. Chis Shulte saves me!
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Kade MacNeill 5 years ago
My sophomore math teacher was less of a cop and more of someone you could be real with
Jill Pulcifer 5 years ago
This is so true, my HS english teacher was in her 70's and liked to talk about how in the late 1930's she put herself through college working as an escort. While my gym teacher was also the attendance officer, not because he had to be, but because he was ALLOWED to be.
Alexandru Bucur 5 years ago
Completely true in secondary school, and only half true in high school since my math teacher was a cool old lady (the gym teacher was a bully and a tyrant, so that fits). Definitely not true for my brother, because his history teacher was both a bad teacher and a harpy and he got on well with the others.
*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 5 years ago
NONO no nO no, math teachers are usually the more chill ones, along with science and theater. The history teachers are pretty ok, but every English teacher I've ever met has been a nut.
aLittleKillingJoke 5 years ago
my english teacher was my pe teacher and lemme be honest right here, dude was my favorite teacher (favorite subject?: english! most hated subject?: pe!)
Bender Bending Rodríguez 5 years ago
Holy mother this is so true. I never realized this till now.
Paul K. Johnson 5 years ago
My math teacher was also our basketball ref. And he had a really mean table tennis game and that was with one glass eye!
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athornedrose 5 years ago
so true. it was coffee. occasionally with alcohol in it
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Wolfstar 5 years ago (edited)
We called ourselves 'band nerds.' The orchestra kids were 'orch-a-dorks.'
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Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago (edited)
I had one of those hair thingy's, had it in for ages. I didn't get mine on a cruise or holiday though.
CelSlade 5 years ago (edited)
I got one at a summer festival. Had a cute little metal turtle at the bottom. Every time I turned my head too fast that little shelled bugger tried to blind me! XD
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LoPandas 5 years ago
Oh my god, I had those sandals but in pink. They were my favorite thing in the entire world. I wore them every day and everywhere
Kristina Thomas 5 years ago
Were yours sparkly too? And I wore mine with knee socks.
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Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
I'm about to say something weird--jelly shoes smelled awesome.
ebonyruffles 5 years ago
And when you’re sick of them, just throw them in a frying pan.
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Csaba Hegedűs 5 years ago
Well, I'm not sure you want to get sunburnt on purpose for any reason, especially for bragging. Also, those shoes are ugly as hell ><
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Nea 5 years ago
I ws popular in my school but when i see 'popular' kids in movies, i get very confused.
Potter 5 years ago
At our school it's kinda like this, there's the cliche of "popular kids" that are mostly jerks, with a few great kids thrown in there, but no one likes the group as a whole. I am lucky to be popular, but not in that way. My popular is that I have lots of friends and know everyone. And I definitely don't just talk to "cool kids" in fact I avoid them a lot XD Please don't downvote.
Nora H. 5 years ago
Sorry but how are they popular, if no one likes them? I would really like to understand.
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Courtney LeDroit 5 years ago
I hope all the popular kids I went to school with grew up and got a personality outside of being d***s.
Bender Bending Rodríguez 5 years ago
Where I am from popular kids are usually the smart ones not like what we see in American movies. Everyone wanted to be with those smart popular kids in hopes of getting help with homework and study materials. Even bullies and jocks will not bother smart ones and group. That was about 25 years ago, not sure how it is now.
Princess Christiaansen 5 years ago
I live in a town with 3 hospitals, one nationally ranked and a college. Popular was the kids whos parents are rich. Who owned boats, popular locations.
Nora H. 5 years ago
Maybe she was depressed and mistook you for a nice person, she could talk to. You know, those who care about others, even if they may not know them that well.
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BG 5 years ago
I weighed 372 lbs when I graduated high school. I'm 43 now and I run three 10k's per week in addition to weightlifting.
Blarrg 5 years ago
Same. Former fat kid, remember dreading "mile day." Trotting at the back with the other fatties, adolescent boy-boobs bouncing... Coincidentally I am sitting and cooling down from a 10k run at age 55.
Load More Replies... Seabeast 5 years ago
I had undiagnosed/untreated asthma when I was a kid, so I couldn't run without coughing up a lung or feeling like I was suffocating. My gym teachers insisted it was because I was out of shape. As an adult in my 20s and 30s, I was running races up to half marathon distance, doing ski loppets up to 45 km in length, weekend bicycle stage races later on, open water swim races up to 2 km, ... suck on that, Miss Mogk.
Bettye McKee 5 years ago
Actually the post said 4th grade PE. So maybe you did run in 4th grade.
Isaac Harvey 5 years ago
One mile? For my black belt tests I have to run 3 miles in 35 minutes or less. I've done it twice as if this writing.
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elia 84631 5 years ago
Tyropites by cantine for me. If you're looking for quality school lunch with healthy food and effort, see Japanese schools
Shelp 5 years ago
We never had hamburger at school, not even once. Actually, we never had any fast food
Em Wal 5 years ago
Hamburgers aren't inherently "fast food". It's not like they were feeding us McDonald's in the school cafeteria, just easy, inexpensive meals.
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Prison Mike 5 years ago
Sometimes on Wednesdays the way my schedule works out I end up having lunch at 10:30 in the morning. I usually don’t eat because whose that hungry that early
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Randomcthulu 5 years ago
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
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
When I was in year 6, our class would often hear all sorts of banging from the class next door. Turned out the teacher had a temper and when he was angry he would either smack a Metre ruler on the table or throw a chalk duster.
deanna woods 5 years ago
I am pretty sure that when I was in 9th grade, the people in the next classroom heard me fall against the wall because this girl kicked my chair while I was using it to tie my shoe.
Amy Mettlen 5 years ago
Had a teacher in elementary school that had to tell a teacher next to our room to shut up because she was yelling so loudly we couldn't hear our own lesson.
Plushipoof 5 years ago
Once we were playing kahoot in my class and it was so loud they thought we were beating up the teacher. It was 10th grade. Not to mention I have a processing disorder so loud kahoot rounds do not feel good on my brain cells
Water Bottle 5 years ago
Our Kahoots are just as good, table slamming and yelling. Every now and then we would have a teacher stop in to make sure everything was ok.
Load More Replies... *sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 5 years ago
no, it was screeching/screaming in the hallway, along with the occasional thUMP, and/or someone screaming their little lungs out whilst sprinting like a madman down the hallway.
Maddie Painter 5 years ago
My brother attended the same school as me and the special needs classroom was right down the hall in fifth grade. He would be in A.L.E, get butt naked and scream obsinities. Mum would come in and then spank him and he would scream. I could not catch a break from his melt downs. Everyone would make fun of that kid and I would laugh and scream "That's my younger bro" every time all though i was secretly enraged that he thought he could act that way at my school. Few years later, we find out not only does he have Add, Adhd but he is also Bipolar! 7th grade was crazy because he got transferred and put on medications for his bipolarity. (that's why he was having raging metldowns, he wasn't on the proper meds)
CRINGY animations 3 years ago
i remember this one kid was screaming in the hallway so the teacher stopped class and started chasing the kid down the hallway
A_fangirling_Demigod_witch 3 years ago
we were once playing never gonna give you up at top volume in english class. chill teacher. wonder what the math teacher next door thought..
ALEXIS CISNEROS 4 years ago
yeah, also people get super excited when seeing the schools mice, hawks, squirrels and s**t
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PotterHead 5 years ago
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)
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
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.
Walter Smith 5 years ago
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?"
Vanta Black 5 years ago
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.
Nora H. 5 years ago
Sounds like a variation of the flu.. I had a similar episode once when I was a kid. Not fun!
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Karmadillo 5 years ago
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.
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Maddie Painter 5 years ago
Once my english teacher asked him why it's a free country and to recite the rote of the declaration of idependence/ amendment that states that. He turned so red and everyone laughed. Then she made a rule that you can't use it's a free country as an excuse without knowing those things.
Amy Mettlen 5 years ago
I had classmates that would yell " This is a conspiracy!" ever time we were given homework. I know they're on a road crew now.
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Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago (edited)
Wow, seeing some comments school starts really early in some countries. In Australia school usually starts anywhere from 8:30-9am (depending on the school) and then finish around 3-3:30pm.
blubfisher 5 years ago
When I was in middle school class would start 7:15
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MagicalUnicorn 5 years ago
mine started at 7:30 and i had no problems with it (morning person)
Random Panda 5 years ago (edited)
Where I'm from schools have shifts. First shift was from 7:30 until 13:00, then you're free to go home (unless you had signed up for extracurriculars). Second was from 13:30 to 7 PM. We switched at the end of the semester. I'm not a morning person, but I preferred the morning shift, because it gave me more free time - I'd spend some time on homework, which depending on the workload could be anywhere from a couple of hours to just 30 minutes, and then my afternoon was free. I had all the time in the world for my hobbies or to see friends. With the afternoon shifts I'd study in the morning, then go to school and by the time I got back home I'd have only a couple of hours before bedtime.
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Daniel Mason 5 years ago
That's because people at my school would wet it and throw it at the ceiling
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Kateryna 5 years ago
In my elementary school if you wanted to go to the bathroom you had to ask the teacher for toilet paper. Then everyone will watch as you rip off the amount you need and head out. It was weird.
Daniel Mason 5 years ago
That's because people at my school would wet it and throw it at the ceiling
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Lavender Brown 5 years ago
That is soooooooooo annoying!! There are 2 girls in my class, and they scream all the time!!
Jacey Brenda King 5 years ago
We never had that, but there was always a group of kids who did a collective groan when the lights were turned back on and their eyes hurt from the adjusting.
#26
Kids cracking their backs on these chairs.
Plushipoof 5 years ago
Did they ever shock you? For me they always shocked and frizzed my hair up
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*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 5 years ago
THOSE F*****G-- These were EVERYONE with long hair's WORST ENEMY
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
Our chairs were always connected to the desk. Only a few classes in high school has these chairs.
Audrey Bob-The-Builder 5 years ago
Different genders when they see those chairs: Boys: Ooh, I can stand on those and yell! Girls: *clutches hair* NO NOT MY SCALP OWWWWWWWWWW (not overreacting tho)
Maddie Painter 5 years ago
I was that kid. I turned around and everyone was always creeped out because immeadietely, It would crack one vertabrae at a time and I would say it's A GHOST AHHHH
GiveMeTheKidsKaren 5 years ago
I used to wrap my ankles around the metal legs and tilt back...
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Brian Geppert 5 years ago
First you have to accept the horrible things that you did to the erasers...
Load More Replies... Alexandru Bucur 5 years ago
Someone needs to learn the distinction between the word "definitely", meaning "for sure" and "defiantly" which means "boldly resisting something"...
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Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
They flicked their eyelids over. I can't do it but my dad can. It is so gross lol.
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Evil Little Thing 5 years ago
Apparently my mom was one of those kids, and instead of jail she had a successful private practice as a psychotherapist. Now she's retired and spends all day working on a nonprofit she founded and growing lettuces.
John Laurens/Gay Turtle 5 years ago
*sees this while supposed to be doing homework* AHHH! *my mom* wtf why are you screaming over hw?
Fred and George Weasley 5 years ago
i remember some creepy kid in the year below came up to me and my friend and did this. he was a weird kid
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blubfisher 5 years ago
My middle school was kind of a shitshow and once a kid brought pasta, threw it in the toilet, and lit a fire under the toilet
your_lesbian_friend 5 years ago
I mean... my school has that weird bathroom where weird s*** happens like this all the time lmao
Katinka Min 5 years ago
Damn, why didn't i think of that, back in the day? This really made me laugh, and, yeah, I was that kind of kid.
#30
The kids who bit into Bubble Tape like this.
Lauren Caswell 5 years ago
Ooof, I remember this gum. If you chewed it too long it would just suddenly fall apart into goo. Blech.
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Guy MacGregor 5 years ago
never heard of that before. I like the concept though (of tape Chewing-gum)
#31
Sniffing the markers a little too much.
Melissa Spencer 5 years ago
Especially when you got to pick them up at the office and they were still warm!
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Bender Bending Rodríguez 5 years ago
We have jumbo tip once at work and everyone who works here does it lol. Yes, including me.
Load More Replies... Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
I love the smell of Artline markers, petrol, concrete sealer, paint thinner etc.
Kade MacNeill 5 years ago
I don't think I've ever agreed with a statement so much
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Emerald Joanna 5 years ago
I got made fun of for having a "fat a*s". Who knew that in todays world people would pay thousands to have a butt like mine!!! I struggled for YEARS feeling like my butt was something to be ashamed of. In my 30s now & OWNING IT!!
Emily 5 years ago
I also got made fun of for my big butt. I was this tiny little skinny girl with the big butt and was so ashamed. Now I (and my husband) LOVE it!!
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BingeFest1 5 years ago
I never understood why the Sophomores would bash the Freshman, you're only a year older get over yourself
Don Golosso 5 years ago
Maybe because the year before they where bashed so now it's finally their turn?
Load More Replies... deanna woods 5 years ago
When I was a freshman my, my older sister( who was a junior) was not allowed to make fun of my freshman status.
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Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
What kind of school is this? The worst I saw in the toilets when I was at school was wet toilet paper thrown on the ceiling or mirrors.
Just JoLynn 5 years ago
My schools did this, but it wasn't the students it was done by the janitorial staff to let us know the toilet was out of order.
Load More Replies... PotterHead 5 years ago
Once when my sister was in 5th grade (I was 6th), this one girl freakin wiped poop ON THE FREAKIN WALL
CbusResident 5 years ago
Funny and weird but off topic for this list: these aren't things that many people thought were normal in school. I went to public and private schools, have done substitute teaching, never seen such bizarre, outlandish stuff going on with the toilets.
The most creative and witty username known to man 5 years ago
A couple years back, a group of kids at the high school I go to stole a toilet. This was apparently a collaborative effort spanning all four grades. Somebody filmed the whole ordeal.
Audrey Bob-The-Builder 5 years ago
Schools are supposed to have toilets!?!? I thought that was just a rich private school thing
Lilly Rose Poppy 5 years ago
Once I walked into my bathroom at school and there was water EVERYWHERE the teachers made alll the girls clean it up even though they knew who it was, and they didn’t even help!
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Martha Meyer 5 years ago
I'm really starting to wonder what kind of fast food c**p they serve in U.S. schools. Chicken nuggets, hamburgers and pizza?!
KittyComics 5 years ago
plus noodles, sandwiches, hotdogs, and those disgusting green tater tots 😨
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Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago (edited)
I liked the way we do food in many Australia schools. We don't have cafeterias that you see in the American movies. We have canteens (aka tuckshop) where you line up and pick what item you want like a packet of chips, icy pole, drink etc and if you want something for lunch you choose something from the menu and make a lunch order. You give the teacher your lunch order in the morning with your money and at lunch it gets delivered to your classroom. We had things like hot dogs, mini pizzas, sausage rolls, spaghetti, fish fingers etc. This is an example of what a canteen menu has (of course not all schools have the same stuff). canteen_me...0df7cc.jpg 
ADHORTATOR 5 years ago
Yummy.... when I was in school in Germany, there were no cafeterias or canteens, they sold only little snacks (it was the second job of the janitor)
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Cristian Hain 5 years ago
at my school they switched out all the chicken for something that tasted like fish
Alexandru Bucur 5 years ago
Ah right. School lunches. That's not a thing over here, you have to bring your own lunch from home... Which, considering all the complaints about the quality of said lunches, means we probably got of much better.
Nia Loves Art 5 years ago
Whenever we do chicken nuggets at the childcare center I work at the kids get so excited. It’s adorable. They are just so happy.
#36
Things breaking off for no reason.
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Emperor Kitten 5 years ago
I may have yelled "pot some pants on" and similar a few times, and slowly convinced my friends mom he's gay. Allegedly.
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Alexandru Bucur 5 years ago
Not a single school I ever went to felt the need for such a system. If you really had to go to the bathroom you just went, and maybe, on the way back, you stopped to chat with the hall monitors if they were people you were friendly with, because hall monitor duty is really boring...
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ANDREA SERRANO MORALES 5 years ago
last years band teacher at my ms made the students wear a toilet seat around their neck just to go to the bathroom, he made them hold it for 45 minutes straight.
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Lynden Manning 5 years ago
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.
Carrot dude 5 years ago
I guess I'm very American because almost every one of these was extremely relatable.
NoYFB 5 years ago
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.
LoPandas 5 years ago (edited)
The concept sounds kind of fun, but the name tho haha
Load More Replies... Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Is it surprising that children sometimes behave in infantile ways? Especially during puberty?
Nicky OldfieldDesciple 5 years ago (edited)
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.
Alice Laughs 5 years ago
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.
Aragorn II Elessar 5 years ago
Eh my current high school isn’t so bad, but a lot of these are relatable from my old district
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
The stupidest thing that I remember people doing when I was at school was "Smileys" using a lighter.
Lynden Manning 5 years ago
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.
Carrot dude 5 years ago
I guess I'm very American because almost every one of these was extremely relatable.
NoYFB 5 years ago
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.
LoPandas 5 years ago (edited)
The concept sounds kind of fun, but the name tho haha
Load More Replies... Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Is it surprising that children sometimes behave in infantile ways? Especially during puberty?
Nicky OldfieldDesciple 5 years ago (edited)
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.
Alice Laughs 5 years ago
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.
Aragorn II Elessar 5 years ago
Eh my current high school isn’t so bad, but a lot of these are relatable from my old district
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
The stupidest thing that I remember people doing when I was at school was "Smileys" using a lighter.
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