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25 People Look Back On The Biggest Scandals That Rocked Their High School Years
Article created by: Gabija Palšytė
For many, high school is one of the most (if not the most) colorful years of their lives. Some met the love of their life and experienced their first kiss, while others made lifelong friends.
But for these people, it was a time when they witnessed such a disgraceful scandal that it remained fresh in their minds for many years. They spoke about it in a recent Reddit thread, where they shared stories about teacher-student relationships, unwanted pregnancies, and illegal activities that could easily be a plot to a crime thriller.
If your high school experiences were anything similar, we’d like to hear about it in the comments below.
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#1
It was the mid 90s and It was a huge deal at my Catholic school. The editors of our school news paper were ordered not to print a LBGT article by the administration. They printed the paper with the article included but redacted. They did a sit in in the main hall of the school, Tape over their mouths with censored written on it. 30 years later and I can still see them sitting there. .
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#2
14 year old kid slipped in the shower and died. I didn’t know him but sometimes I remind myself of it. Crazy how fragile we can be.
#3
Married Science teacher/girl's basketball coach was sleeping with a senior on the bball team. He later divorced and then married the senior. Then he went on to become the county’s school superintendent.
#4
There was one gal who cheated on her senior chemistry finals and snapchatted the answers to her story. Someone snitched and she got suspended. The ironic thing is that she had the reputation of being like the A+ student and I think was close to valedictorian. She was actually supposed to speak at graduation but they didn’t let her.
#5
Baseball coach got fired for making the moves on some of his team members.
This was one of those “so obvious” situations with more red flags than the Chinese embassy.
He was known to shower with the team.
He hosted unchaperoned pizza parties after baseball games at his house and liked to wrestle the players shirtless after showering….
There was an awful lot of wrestling and showering involved.
This was back in the 1980s. Of course there was no announcement or communication. He just “wasn’t there anymore” one Monday morning and nobody said a word.
#6
A chemistry teacher got sacked because after repeatedly warning one particular student about wearing his safety glasses, she taught him a lesson by spraying him in the eyes with a chemical solution.
#9
My high school Civics teacher went inside the school building on the last day of school and was never seen again. There is video footage of him walking into the building from the teacher's parking lot, but he does not appear on the video footage from the inside of that very entrance. It’s like he literally disappeared while entering the building. He was also my junior and senior year homeroom teacher, and everyone thought it was super weird that he wasn’t in the classroom because he always got there extra early, even for the teachers. Since I knew we had to have attendance submitted to the office or we would all be counted absent, I went down the hall and told one of the other teachers so he could take our attendance.
But yeah, he was never seen or heard from again. The police did a huge investigation and I heard (but I don’t know for sure) that the FBI got involved. As far as I know, he didn’t have any skeletons in his closet, not even a parking ticket, no enemies, no particular reason to disappear. He just suddenly stopped existing best anyone could tell. That was back in 1997.
EDIT: I’m not sharing the details of this case due to hometown politics. I don’t live in the town anymore, but I’m still in touch with a lot of my friends from high school. Some of those friends are police officers and many of the town’s residents don’t want their town known for this. I personally disagree, but I’m being respectful of the overall population’s wishes. If my lack of detail causes you to doubt my story, that is unfortunate, understandable, and well within your rights. I’m not going to provide any more information. Have a good day.
#11
This girl had a baby and then decided to throw it in the dumpster. She never got in trouble but isn't alive today, by her own doing. Terribly sad for everyone around her.
#12
We had a bmx bike riding show held in our gym for some self-esteem message, and they made an announcement at the beginning to the tune of "We are riding full speed in the hallway before entering the gym so we can do our tricks. We don't have breaks on our bikes, so do not cross in front of that door for any reason." They made the announcement a couple times because they were so worried about a student not listening. The show came to a halt when the yearbook teacher got absolutely rammed when she crossed in front of the door to get a better picture. Someone got it on video and put the clip to "wrecking ball"... it went viral around our school.
#13
This was back in 1981/82. Our married assistant principal was having an affair with a student, and everyone knew it.
Once she graduated, he left his wife, moved in with the former student, and got her a job at the school.
Everyone was stunned that not only did he keep his job, but he was able to get her a job.
It finally came to light that the principal was stealing money from the school budget, and the assistant principal was blackmailing him.
#14
Beginning of my junior year we had a new religion teacher fresh out of college, very early 20s, her first teaching job. Small catholic school, I had her for a “morality and ethics” class. She was very nice but obviously socially awkward, probably never had a boyfriend, let us walk all over her just so we would all like her. We come back from winter break and she’s gone. No explanation from the staff or the teacher that replaced her. In the next few days through the rumor mill we all learned she had been having a sexual relationship with a senior. Not only that, he had been planning a school shooting event meticulously. Notebooks of plans, hit lists, maps, etc. He told one of his friends who immediately alerted the police and he was arrested. They found plenty of evidence at his home to confirm all of this including multiple weapons. The really wild part is the teacher was aware and part of this plan… thank god for his friend.
#15
One of my favorite teachers almost got fired because there were two girls fighting & he pulled them apart by pulling their hair lmao 😂he walked them to the office by their hair, he was old already!
#16
The daughter of the Driver's Ed teacher/D. A. R. E. representative totalling her dad's new sports car while very drunk.
#17
I didn't perpetrate this, but a kid gave laxatives to a pig, greased it up and released it in to the commons area during the middle of lunch hour.
#18
I was the scandal.
Every day at school a notice would be read “Please return the screws from the desks, you will not get in trouble, leave them at the office.”
It was me. I was unscrewing and stealing all the desk screws…
I had a pencil case full of screws… and no desk lid was attached solidly to a desk. It was my way of acting out due to lots of bad stuff going on.
#19
Female wrestling champion was targeted with bigoted slurs painted all over the school. She was openly gay and this was a very liberal town, so it was odd. It made the news and she claimed she was jumped by masked individuals. Police uncovered she made the whole thing up. She was arrested for filing a false police report and vandalizing the school.
#20
This one gay kid like 4'9" was responsible for outing around 4 jocks in school....he would offer oral to any guy and 4 dudes said yes and were all outed after.
#21
Teacher threw a stapler at a kid that wouldn't shut up and hit him in the head with it. She got suspended but not fired.
#22
When there was a semi credible (at the time) bomb threat and they decided to put every single person in the gym for hours .
#23
Long time ago when computers in classrooms were new and "networks" were really new, our computer teacher who was also the network administrator became too trusting of his class. One insanely smart classmate learned enough from him to hack into the network and lock everyone out. Still not sure what leverage they used to get the kid to let him back in, but the kid was never punished for it.
#24
The gymnastics coach would start dating a a former student every year once she was freshman in college. He still teaches there. Finally got married at like 40. I get that the women were adults but it’s definitely a bad look.
#25
For the senior prank some enterprising students decided it would be fun to glue shut the locker bays. Fortunately they did this before school so nobody had their stuff in their lockers because the administration decided it would be too costly to fix (something about having to replace the gates) and left them glued shut. They remained glued shut for at least the next 3 years.
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