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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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. .
I agree, even though all of my children attended Church of England Primary schools. They were never this strict, though and taught the children to be tolerant of everyone.
Load More Replies...It's baffling why so many Christians are so afraid of anything even vaguely queer
Forbidding discussion of an issue shows that you're on the wrong side of it.
Teacher in middle school went out on leave to have a baby. Her replacement was so liked that they hired him on to be a constant teacher's aid, and if someone called off, he was the first sub for any class.
It was also his first job at a school, right out of university, so he was as young as he could be. A lot of the middle school girls (12-15 years old) looked up to him as a "mature hottie." I heard some disturbing things.
You can probably see where this is going.
Two girls got into a rather violent fight, clothing was ripped, hair was ripped out, blood was drawn, this wasn't just knuckles to faces until someone stopped, they were fighting to k**l.
Turns out he was sleeping with both of them, and they both thought they could keep him all to themselves until they turned 18 and got married. So, instead of getting mad at him, they got mad at each other for moving in on what they viewed as "their man."
Shortly after the fight was stopped, the principal sat them down and asked them to work backwards down the timeline to figure out who started it. So the dude was walked out in handcuffs less than 15 minutes after the fight started.
We had a hot young male teacher start at my high school. He was openly stalked by groups of teen girls who made inappropriate comments and openly flirted with him. He quit 6 months later after being groped by 3 teen girls after their group of friends surrounded him in a stairwell. The 3 girls were expelled and charged with SA. Their friends also got into a lot of trouble.
Our P.E. teacher Mr Powell in year 11, I was 15/16 years old. Was marched out of the school in handcuffs during lunch so a lot of people saw. Found out later he slept with 3 girls ranging from 12 to 15 and got one pregnant he was a 35 year old man with a wife and kids. The girl he got pregnant spilled the beans to her parents when she was showing her weight gain due to the pregnancy. It was a huge thing for a week or two in the news. One of other girls came forward as well, one was found but was convinced she was in love, sadly. All 3 girls transferred schools, thankfully there identity was kept a secret as they were minors, we knew though. Pretty f**ked up all round, so I'm not surprised at all.
I want to be shocked but we hear it so much. My senior year i was 17 in1990and didn't realize a young male student teach was kind of hitting on me until I got older. He was tall and had a neatly trimmed beard and mustache. I never liked men with facial hair but I would say he was attractive from what i recall. I had my glow up at 14 and he would compliment my hair or clothes where other students could hear and they would make "oooh" sounds. He didn't do that other girls and I was the shy one in class. I had a lot of bad shít going on and I was just trying to make it to graduation. I could have been very susceptible to someone like that because my parents didn't check my grades, I had a car, was in an abúsive on/off relationship. If it wasn't for my priority getting thru cosmetology that we took for free at our school who knows. These men and women are awful.
Good on that principal. We had a scandal at my high school actually multiple that the principal I believe had covered up, but I really don’t remember all the details on it anymore since it’s been a while.
A kid k**led himself after being bullied for being gay.
One of the girls who bullied him is now a sports reporter and reality show host.
Every time I see her on TV I gag.
I'd call into the show if possible and hopefully while live on air ask her if she remembers so and so kid. Can't hide from your past.
Tried to figure it out but got six possible hits right off the bat that meet that description.
Well, she likely still holds homophobic views. I do believe forgiveness is important, but not when you cause someone to k**l themselves.
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Ultra conservative, very homophobic and xenophobic, super egotistic US government teacher. Encouraged people to debate with him, then when he was losing the debate he'd send the students to the office. He couldn't be fired because he had tenure and they'd need a really good reason other than him being a super selfish a****t. Not even the teachers liked him.
He bragged about his wife and kids all the time, taught things as if they were undeniable fact because he had documentaries to "prove it," and it was super easy to distract him from actually teaching because all you had to do was ask him about his life and he'd spend the entire 40-minute lesson talking about...himself.
He left his wife and kids for a man.
I had a math teacher wich was easy to distract. We just had to start talking about some topics she liked and no teaching was done the whole hour. It was fun to use this to our benifits, but the last lessons before the tests it was hell to pay.
We had a few easily distracted teachers, we loved it at the time but it definitely showed in our exam results.
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.
My fear is this I am terrified of being that 14 year old kid dying because I f*****g slipped in the shower imagine my legacy ending because of some spilled shampoo...
I’ve noticed lately how slippery my conditioner makes the tub… so much so I got a slip mat
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Jeg skled på golvet etter at jeg dusjet på ungdomsskolen, mer skjedde ikke
I have a pair of shower flip-flops to prevent me from slipping because I am the clumsiest person I know. I'd already fallen a couple of times and almost fell through the glass screen once.
I hate the glass! It's terrifying. You might want to try no slip bath mat in tub and outside of it, sometimes flip flops get caught and make you trip! My mom took a brutal fall down the stairs in them.
Load More Replies...Yeah, humans are both incredibly tough and ridiculously fragile at the same time.
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.
At my HS, similar thing happened (can't remember if it was girls basketball or volleyball though). Coach wasn't married, but he and the girl were together for her entire senior year. Everyone swears they didn't do anything until she was 18 but IDK. The day of graduation, right after the ceremony, he and the girl moved in together. I've heard they are still together 26 years later, so good for them I guess? 🤷♀️
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.
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.
Within the last few years a woman id worked with got herself in a mess. She worked in the community and was just genuinely, generally loved by everyone. Nice woman, good mom, hard worker. Well she snapped. She says the above and hazing of this sort is going on at our school and her boy was hurt, badly. No one believed her, said she was crazy so she went a little crazy. I cant remember exactly but i know forcing the male ring leader off the road to "talk" to him was part of it. She gets arrested. Goes to the hospital. Still trying to get someone to believe her about all the boys that were hurt. Ends up stabbing a nurse with a pen when they were attempting to sedate her, gets send to the mental institution. It all came out what she was saying was true. I saw her out the other day. She was as beautiful, sane and sweet as ever.
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.
It doesn't matter, an a*****t is an a*****t
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Me, having a baby senior year. The scandal lives rent free in my home.
There were 2 girls in my senior class who were pregnant. I know that one of them her parents were pretty supportive and they actually hosted one of the graduation night parties. I don’t know how the other girl’s parents took it. But I remember thinking even back then how strange I as that all the social stigma just fell on the girl.
The Band Director’s son got a girl in his class pregnant junior year. SHE was expelled. HE went on and graduated from that school the next year. None of us girls would even talk to him, much less date him.
Load More Replies...A quick search tells me that this would be ages 17-18. Not really that unusual, historically, although when I grew up in the UK with both age of consent and school leaving age of 16 most such would no longer be at school, so the 'scandals' were when 14 and 15 year-olds were having babies.
When my little brother was in 5th grade (usa so 5th grade is around 10/11 years old), he had 2 twin girls in his class. One of them ended up pregnant. I don't remember what came of it because I was a Jr or Sr in high school (between 16 and 18 yo) and my parents were old school and didn't discuss anything with 'us kids' if it didn't pertain directly to us. So I don't know if she had the baby or terminated (I hope she did. That's way too young to put a young child's body through pregnancy and birth. Life long damage, mentally and physically), kept it or gave it up. Idk if it was a little boyfriend who was the one who got her pregnant or her dad/uncle/brother/cousin/step dad/step brother/stranger/teacher... Anyone really. All I know is she was fkn 10 or 11, still a little girl, a little child. Not even a preteen. Barely outside of being a baby. Just barely stopped believing in Santa Claus. Still watching cartoons. Jfc.
Not that unusual where I grew up, in fact my old high school now has a nursery and support team exclusively for the teen parents. The teen pregnancy rates in the area have fallen drastically since the school added this despite what many believed! (A lot of people were against it assuming it would encourage teen pregnancy but it's actually had the opposite effect.) My nephews attend the school now and there are only 3 teen mums there right now, when I was at the school the average was 10/12 teen pregnancies per year group and the girls almost always had to drop out early.
A girl poured cologne in the music teacher's water bottle and dude almost died.
I don't think drinking cologne would k**l you even if you didn't notice and stop at the first sip, so the claim is, err, somewhat exaggerated.
Load More Replies...You wouldn't even be close to dying from swigging cologne. You would likely vomit it all up and may have a coughing fit.
Unless you happen to have an allergic reaction to something in the cologne.
Load More Replies...Unless you have absolutely no sense of smell or taste how would you not notice that immediately?
Had it proved fatal, the kid would have been "instrumental" in the teacher's death.
Hmmm I did not know of this method. Isnt cologne just water, alcohol and aromatics? What part of it would be deadly so fast? in eastern europe we have "drinking colognes" - cheap colognes in 1/4 l bottles sold at shifty corner stores. They are sometimes even lemon scented. Sure the dudes drinking them do not live long but it usually takes a couple of years or even decades
1) The athletic director and superintendent were embezzling funds from our massive sports program. They were caught because they were exchanging text messages on their school issued phones calling students racial slurs and saying sexist things.
The text messages ended up coming out in court and exposed many teachers' personal business, including affairs and illnesses, etc.
2) Our school board was being defrauded by a law firm for millions of dollars.
3) The previous superintendent had also stolen from the school district and gotten caught.
Meanwhile, there were several school buildings that were like, crumbling. We were rationing art supplies and sharing books while they were STEALING from us!
4. A really well-liked and popular teacher was criminally charged for sleeping with a student. People were fighting about it for weeks.
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.
I call BS on this one. A case such as this would have created a lot of media coverage and yet there is nothing to be found that matches the story. The closest is a woman in Queensland, Australia: she was a civics teacher who vanished after being dropped off at a bus stop to catch a bus to the airport for a planned trip to England. OP claims that the FBI investigated, so it supposedly happened in the US, and searches turn up no information whatsoever on such an event.
Yup, "I don't want to give more details because of town politics" is pure b******t
Load More Replies...So apparently if details get out it will immediately lead straight to the op and whole town will know they said something....try a little better next time op
The cheerleader and math teacher that had a thing going on. They very openly hung out and flirted during school. The kids were aware they were seeing each other outside of school, not sure if the adults knew. He married her the day she turned 18, *while she was still a student*.
The shocking part? There was no scandal. No one said a f*****g thing about it, no consequences for the teacher at all.
Chemistry teacher quit to marry a 16 year old student. That was in 1967. I’m older.
Load More Replies...When I was in 9th grade in the early 90's a senior was openly dating a teacher's assistant who was working there to get his degree. Everyone knew, no one cared. I honestly didn't think anything of it at the time. She was right around 18 and he wasn't very old, maybe 21. I didn't realize it was wrong until I was older and knew teachers weren't supposed to date students no matter their age.
A teacher got a student, the daughter of our school board president, pregnant. Did he get fired? No, the school board president didn't want the father of his only grandchild to be out of a job. (And I suspect he didn't want to be stuck with paying the kid's expenses.) In fact, the teacher was soon given a higher paying administratice job. At last answering the age-old question "Who ya gotta f**k to get promoted around here?"
Still happening, i know a principal that married a student, ofciirs it was takked about. Wat was more talked about, is that came out, she had an afair with an other teacher for 4 years at the school of their children.
I'm probably gonna be lynched for this comment, but... it looks like it wasn't some frivolous fling, it was a serious relationship that ended in marriage, so idk why there should be a scandal. Sometimes people of different ages just click and can be happy together.
Not a full grown adult with a teen who's brain is not fully developed mentally and emotionally
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The disappearance of all the mouse trackballs from the computer lab.
Anyone else used to get a weird satisfaction cleaning those and the rollers? Yes, I'm that old. (they didn't look like this, who chooses these pics?)
I understand what you meant, but today I learned about the existence of the trackballs depicted on a picture above. My first thought was also this: FbXmn-pacAEa9V1.jpg
We had two guys from school rob a Taco Bell and one of them ended up murdering another student who had been working that night.
A good kid lost his life, a buddy of ours got 25 to L and the dude who committed the murder got life without parole.
Another kid who was the “get away driver” went on the run for almost 15 years.
It was just a messed up situation all the way around. So many heart broken parents, family members and friends.
Went to school with a guy -kind of a "burn out" as we called them in the 80's- that knew mainly thru other friends and talked at lunch don't recall if we had classes together. Didn't see him Sr. year or at graduation and later that year he was arrested with 2 other 18yo guys, not from our school, for murder of an old man a town over. One of the guys did yard work and things and knew the guy kept a lot of cash in his house. They got caught because they went to a local car dealership and paid cash for a couple mustangs and the dealer was obviously suspicious. They're serving life. So sad for that man.It's such a safe town and i live in it now.
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.
But, how could she never get in trouble after throwing her baby in the dumpster??
Much as people want to believe that this would be a well thought out and very evil decision, I can assure you that this was the behaviour of a very disturbed and frightened mother. While it may be necessary to have court case to formally establish this fact I would very much hope that she had the psychological support she needed (which clearly she didn’t). Plus it also reads like she may have been abused to end up pregnant any way.
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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.
I am glad they had no breaks on their bikes. So much better to have brakes.
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.
1994/1995 my last year of highschool, I had a classmate who aspired to be in politics. He wore a business suit and tie every day to school (this was a public HS, we didn't wear uniforms) Anyway, he was a major conservative in a very liberal leaning area. His personalized license plates on his car were some variation of REPUBLICAN, like RPBLICN. At least once a week his plates were removed from his car as a prank and hidden around campus for him to find. It pissed him off obviously but most of us just found it hilarious. ¯_(ツ)_/¯.
If he thought that licence plates and a suit make a politician I hope he never got into politics. But then, yeah, Republican - all for the show but not doing any real work.
So a self-important gasbag who always has to make sure he's not mistaken for some ordinary l*****e. Yeah, a textbook Republican. (Edit: l0wlife is apparently a slur now)
There was a fight with these two huge guys just pummeling the s**t out of each other with a massive circle of kids around them watching, when suddenly a short little shadow ran into the fight. My friend and I turned to each other and said at the same time, “Was that Mr. Chung?”
Mr. Chung was the shortest, roundest little pacifist you ever did see, but I’ll be damned if he didn’t somehow get these two huge guys pulled apart! 🤣.
It can be surprisingly easy to separate two fighting young men, especially if the fight is really just about a dynamic playing up. You know, the chest-thumping one. It's more about shocking them out of the dynamic - stepping between them as a small, bespectacled woman usually did the trick. Used it all the time.
That makes sense....theyre probably waiting for it half the time
Load More Replies...Whenever there was a fight in my high school the teacher that broke it up was this small little woman with a huge voice that no one dared to cross.
You don't wham on the little guy and Mr. Chung knew this. There are places where smallness is a psychological advantage.
Football coach/teacher freaked out and ripped a door off its hinges when a student wrote a short story about a clown that m******d all his clown-students, (was obviously a story about the teacher).
I thought it meant mürdered and was really confused and then ooohhhh. 🤦🏻♀️
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.
My American History teacher was having an affair with his teacher's aid. He even played some role in getting her several college scholarships she didn't earn. This all came out mid semester. When everyone found out and it was revealed to his family, he committed s*****e by sitting in his car in his garage with the engine running. We had a sub the rest of the semester. I've always felt like there was more to the story that never came out. It was nuts though.
I had a teacher who was physically deformed. He was a really solid math teacher. Sadly, he was caught in a "romance for money" sting because his deformaty made him lonely. I still struggle why that should even be illegal when both parties are informed, concenting, adults. The teacher who replaced him was terrible and I'm still grateful I took the class with the one I had.
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!
There was a teacher in my Jr. High school who, if he caught you running in the hallway, would grab you by the pit of your stomach and frog hop you back to the far end, before commanding " walk the length of the hall". Your stomach would be so darn sore that you could barely stand let alone walk!
The daughter of the Driver's Ed teacher/D. A. R. E. representative totalling her dad's new sports car while very drunk.
As the old saying goes, it's always the shoemaker's kids who are barefoot.
I always heard it as "it's the preacher's kid who marries second" (as in they have the baby first).
Load More Replies... I was in HS in the 1970s, and the big scandal that I still remember is the affair the boys' swim and water polo team head coach was having with one of the swimmers on the girls' team. Everyone knew about it, and I do mean everyone; it was one of those open secrets. I'm sure even people in the administration knew it, but since our swimming and water polo teams were very successful, they looked the other way.
There was one exception to the "everyone knew about it" though: The coach's wife. My brother, who was on the water polo and diving teams, was present when she found out and stormed into the pool area during practice in a crying and screaming rage. She even dragged their 2 young sons along with her. From what my brother told me, it was one hell of an ugly scene.
His wife eventually divorced him and -- hopefully -- took him to the cleaners financially. He later married the girl from the swim team. I think they got divorced later, too, but I don't recall how many years they lasted.
[EDIT] I forgot to mention that the wife was absolutely gorgeous, and by all accounts a genuinely nice person.
I'll never understand why some choose to go out for a pretty hamburger when they have lobster dinner waiting at home
My high school had an awesome computer club especially for the 90s. But it was d**n hard to get into. I tried constantly with no luck. In my senior year, the teacher in charge of it and some students were arrested for counterfeiting money. The older I get, the more I can't understand why an adult would team up with teenagers to do such a thing.
There's a long history of it. Charles Dickens wrote a book about it. See Wikipedia Fagin and also Artful_Dodger
Indeed, and the reasons are pretty obvious. Young people can be easier to manipulate, easier to tempt, less risk averse and, if caught, the penalties can be relatively minor, or expunged when they reach the age of majority. Of course it all falls apart if a kid is caught and spills the beans on the adult, which explains the brutal retaliations for snitching in crime syndicates.
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In high school we got these new laptop carts. Basically carts on wheels to hold laptops + a printer that you could roll around to different classrooms. A teacher in another room printed her emails on the cart printer by mistake. I picked them up thinking it was my paper. It was NOT.
It was 6 pages of spicy a*s emails between the teacher and principal, both married, and not to each other! They were NASTY yall.
Edit: I thought it was the teacher who printed them, but I found out later it was a kid in her class snooping on her computer when she left the room. He was trying to print them so he could show everyone.
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.
A kid in my class tricked another kid into eating those chocolate exlax..kid didn't even make it to the bathroom..that's what u get for being a bully..
I am sorry for the pig, poor creature didn’t deserve being drugged..
I did that but for my 6th grade HomeEc class. I was real popular at being the most unpopular kid in school, got bullied on a daily, even by the HomeEc Teacher. I don't think she realized how much I ended up hating her. Anyway, so she gave us all a cooking assignment 1 day and wanted us to turn it in the following day. She gave me fudge. I go home and told my mom (who also didn't care for my H.E.teacher) and my mom gave me $$ for my assignment. That's when I bought Chocolate ExLax. Made the fudge. Took it to school the next day. Presented my assignment to the teacher, she passed it around to the class. HomeEc was my 2nd period...B4 the end of 3rd period, the HomeEc Teacher and everyone in my 2nd period Went Home due to a mysterious stomach bug. Hmm, served them right. No Regrets.
3 sixth formers stole a fist sized lump of sodium from the chemistry lab and flushed it down their dorm toilet. They were lucky the ensuing fireball didn't k**l them. The 1st lad came back to school 6 months later and was still.wearing a hat to cover the patchy hair regrowth. The other 2 took longer to recover. I don't actually remember seeing them again...
Ih, I get it now: Fvck Around Find Out. Took 2 days for me to figure it out
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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.
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.
LOL you read my mind!!! His interview with Diane Sawyer is the only good acting he's ever done
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Several boys were s******l over losing their girlfriends.
One guy shot himself.
One guy hanged himself.
One guy jumped off a bridge and drowned.
The school kept it a secret.
Unfortunately this sometimes happens. A county near us had a few years of multiple suíicdes within the same school system in weeks or months. But they're cutting funding to our schools not just eliminating the Department of Education but Ohio republicans. We can't get healthcare to cover therapy and schools can barely afford enough counselors. Bullying and school shootings have kids on edge like never before. They need help.
I must admit I always wondered, even now 30 years later, why 🇩🇪German school system made us read stuff like "Romeo and Juliet" or "Die Leiden des jungen Werther" (ending with a s*****e of the male main character about a girl) in such a vulnerable age (15-17 years old). Like, most of us had zero or one relationship at this point, and they let us read t h i s... ? Hmmmmpf. It's really odd, IMHO. Teacher even mentioned the "Werther effect" (copycat s*****e) phenomeno, the s*****e wave among young readers after reading "Werther" when it was new. Like, if you want Shakespeare, why not The Tempest or Taming of the Shrew? ...
... theoretically it could have been a great opportunity to not only learn about 1) the structure of a drama and storytelling basics, or what tropes are etc but also about 2) ways to deal with ending relationships, how final life is, if sūicide is okay, how to deal with "enemies", that it might be not a good idea to "inherit hatred towards other group of people"... but t h a t topics (2)) our teachers avoided like the plague.
Load More Replies...My junior year of high school, a kid stabbed 6 students and tried to k**l himself. I could have been stabbed since my weightlifting partner was. My friend told me to wait a minute for him before we headed to the locker room. Saved my life. (Mountain View Stabbing November 2016,).
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.
That's actually really messed up, they might have legit reasons for not coming out, such as a very conservative parent they are scared of or something.
Two freshman girls (one being the school s**t even by this age) and two freshman boys recorded themselves having s*x. The guys were made out to be predators, the girls were seen as victims. Never mind they were dating.
One of the girls’ dad was a cop and went on some public blast talking about how innocent his daughter was and how she was such a victim to these aggressors and threatened to press charges etc. Blah blah blah.
One of the boys’ dad was a lawyer.
A year later, said dad/cop gets fired for hosting an alcohol-filled house party for his daughter and any other junior who wanted to come. Video surfaced of him doing keg stands and taking shots with 16 year olds. At one point, he whips out his wallet to say ‘Hey (Steve), run down and pick up some more vodka, we’re runnin’ low’. He knew ‘Steve’ had a fake.
Turns out the lawyer got wind of the upcoming party, knew there’d be alcohol there, and had his son’s friend (who he knew would be there) record it pretending to just be cool about recording it all.
So yeah, cop was fired for the bad press and in lieu of countless child endangerment charges.
So the girl was the sl*ut and the boys were....just being boys, right? Fvck you se*xist garbage. Enjoying se*x doesn't diminish a woman's worth, just as it clearly doesn't diminish a man's.
Way to ignore the part where the boys were automatically labeled as sexual predators because they were boys, while the girls, though likely complicit in the act, were automatically seen as victims. Or, the fact that, as freshmen, they were around the 14-15 age range, so legally too young to be sleeping around. Or, the fact that there was no reason to believe that either of the boys slept around a lot, and if you automatically assume they did simply because they were boys, then that would make YOU sexist against men.
Load More Replies...One time, a kid put his thumb drive in my teacher's computer for his presentation and accidently pulled up p**n on the projection screen. I've never seen a human turn that red before. It was hilarious.
Nothing to be ashamed of, it could be worse, like an Andrew Tate video.
I had a teacher in 8th grade roll in the "TV cart" (yep; I'm that old) with a VHS player. It was history class and we were studdying WWII. The local news had just done an interview with WWII vets the week or two prior, and she recorded it to share with the class. So she pops in the tape, hits play, and goes back to her desk on the other side of the room. The interview starts with a nurse who walks on screen. Ok... Then the nurse starts dancing... This seems off... Then the nurse rips off her top! I've never seen a teacher turn into an olympic runner / huddler faster than that moment. She ran across the room, swiveled the TV around. Seems that her husband recorded a p**n video over her news recording. Lucky for her, internet wasn't a thing so it was a funny event, but not a career ending one.
The day of the bloody doorknobs.
One random day, the bell rang and we all poured into the hallways like normal, but pretty quickly it was apparent that nothing was normal.
Someone had taped used maxi pads to every single doorknob. At least 50 used pads covering every conceivable entry point. So many that you could actually smell them.
Needless to say, this set the crowd of teenagers into a frenzy. Teachers had a hell of time reigning them in while also being unwilling to touch the pads. After what seemed like forever (probably less than 3 minutes), a janitor appeared wearing gloves and pushing a trash cart. He unceremoniously went door by door, yanking the crusty pads off the handles, spritzing with some spray and half heartedly wiping it before moving down the hall to the next door. He looked like it was just a normal day, when we all knew it wasn't.
The mystery naturally spread like wildfire. This was 1995, so the school didn't have security cameras yet and as far as I'm aware, the culprit was never discovered, never claimed responsibility, or made any mention of a 'message' or such. Speculation raged, with everything from a form of student protest, to a cry for attention, to a mentally ill kid playing a prank.
The amount of pads used required a good bit of 'saving up' to prepare, and it was naturally assumed the culprit was a girl but nothing definitive was ever learned.
We all figured it was some sort of feminist statement (height of girl power era) that they'd eventually release some sort of manifesto or other 'here's why that happened' type deal... but silence was all that followed.
My daughter's hs someone peed on maxi pads and stuck them all over thr bathroom walls..small town school only 54 kids. Blamed the girls but we are pretty sure it was one of the boys . The school as free maxi pads left in the girls washroom. So they had easy access
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.
my brother's grade 3 teacher threw scissors at him (and a chair at another student, his friend) and didn't get as much as a slap on the wrist lol. teacher cliques are real
We just got chalk whipped at us from across the room. Thank goodness.
We had a science teacher who was demonstrating holding heating metal over a Bunsen burner until it was glowing red. He whacked the hot rod over a girls hand for not paying attention. Burned her badly. Same guy would throw dusters at people. This was a catholic school late 80s. He saw no consequences
Pfffttt. In the 70's and 80's you were lucky if you didn't have a teacher that threw an object at your head if you didn't shut up. Or break a ruler over your head or desk.
The police used to bring d**g dogs every so often to sniff lockers, kids bags etc. to make sure no one had weed or other d***s. This happened about 4 times a school year. Anyways, the dogs came one day and sniffed around. They were not successful finding any d***s on students. They were however successful in catching a substitute teacher with 1/4 - 1/2 ounce of weed on him.
Then VP Al Gore was speaking at my place of employment. One of the dogs they brought in alerted on one of our maintenance guys (a great guy, definitely a stoner, really smart and had deep conversations with the scholars). But anyway, the Secret Service guy just told the dog "We're not looking for that today." 🤣 The security wasn't that great. I just happened to be walking the hallway between our interconnected buildings and intersected VP Gore and security detail coming in the back door.
When there was a semi credible (at the time) bomb threat and they decided to put every single person in the gym for hours .
So that the bomb could take out everyone at once? We usually just got kicked out of the building. Not fun when we could not take our stuff or jackets and it was -15C and snowing outside.
I didn't go to school in the time of fake bomb threats. That would suck. I think they did fire drills on days when the weather wasn't extreme.
Load More Replies...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.
In 2019, a kid catfished the parking attendant at my high school and got him to send full frontal nudes. He was an old guy. He was part time and his job was essentially like being a meter maid. I don’t think anyone ever got their car towed, just a really big annoying green sticker if you didn’t have a parking pass which was like $25 if I recall correctly. No one liked him obviously, it didn’t help that he wasn’t nice, but he really didn’t do anything crazy that I remember. Idk how but the kid got the parking attendant’s phone number and tricked him into sending several d**k pics, then posted the screenshots on our high school’s Snapchat story, so it was literally hundreds of people.
The kid got suspended for maybe 3 days. Right when Covid lockdown started, he and his dumb friend made a podcast where he laughed about it. He said he had to write a paper on internet safety or something like that. I think they took the podcast episode down pretty quickly. I hope he’s doing terribly .
I hope that kid can only get a job cleaning nursing homes like the first one my dad was in. Actually no. I wouldn't trust him in a nursing home. Cleaning sewer drains in NYC.
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.
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.
Umm, just because it's before school doesn't mean nothing is in there. We didnt take every book home every day. And sometimes you left a spare jacket or shoes just in case.
For the same reason that hazing is still condoned at many schools. It's part of the "ethos".
Load More Replies...My classes senior prank was messed up. There was a statue that the wood work class made in the 70s of our mascot, a lumberjack, in our middle common area. This thing was huge, like 7 feet tall solid wood, heavy as hell. This was the 2000s, so it had been there for 30ish years. For about a week, the cheerleaders sat around it at lunch and slowly removed the bolts holding it down. During an assembly, the football team snuck out and removed it, never to be seen again. Rumors went around that it was either burned or put in the lake. The admin couldn't prove who had done it so no one got in trouble. Really messed up cause of how long that thing had been there.
Our high school theater sound dude (40s) got a Jr pregnant. Dude had put my microphone on me so many d**n times as well as many many other students. Him and my director got fired because of him kind of knowing…
Don't worry, him putting a microphone on you won't get you pregnant
It still allows him to fiddle with their shirt necklines.
Load More Replies...Just to put that in further context— putting a mic on someone means you have to run the wire up their back, and you have to get pretty close and personal. Sometimes mics need to be hooked to the backs of bras.
My sister took on the role of mic fitter for all the girls at Scout's Showtime performances to avoid males doing it. There were more girls than boys in the shows generally, so it is a big job.
Load More Replies... On my first day of high school (all girls school) the entire student body was called into an assembly in our gym. Our principal and vp were looking very serious. They announced that Mr. (Let’s call him Oz for the sake of the story) was arrested this morning at his new school. Well as a first day freshman I had no clue who this man was. But the upperclassmen seemed to know. Principal proceeded to explain that Oz was not employed at our school this year and worked at another school. He was arrested for having an inappropriate relationship with a student at the new school. Apparently that school started before ours and he met this girl over the summer when he was working there. The principal then asked us to respect the privacy of our senior class. Well wait why? Was he close to this group or something? Did he do something?
The seniors then spend the rest of the week in and out of the office. My best friend’s older sister was a senior. At first she didn’t really tell us much. But one night I was spending the night at their house and the sister’s friend was there. Let’s call her Emma. Emma was a young senior. She was only 16. She was going on and on about how upset she was that her boyfriend cheated. How dare he! They’d been together almost 2 years. Naturally my friend and I get invested in this conversation. My friend’s sister walked away and Emma started telling us about her boyfriend. He was older. They were so in love. That’s why he got her a cell phone to just communicate with him. He bought her clothes. He even made sure she did well in English class. So when another girl called her and told her to check the dirty.com and said that someone else was now dating him she knew she had to call the police. Emma was older”dating” Mr. Oz. And apparently it was common knowledge.
My friend and I checked websites and sure enough the seniors all knew. For years. They were spreading it and then one day one of them saw him with a girl at his new school. She told Emma who felt betrayed so she reported him for saying this new girl and it eventually came out that they were together. Now Emma insisted she still loves him and would take it all back if it couldn’t be proved he had another girl. I don’t think that happened. I do know Oz was guilty and spent some time in jail.
Every girl I went to high school with knows this story. They know how he seduced her playing guitar in his room and apparently tried this with numerous girls based on what I’ve been told through the years. He was creepy and would frequently comment on girls looks and outfits.
Thankful I never encountered him but this was one of the biggest scandals and I still think about that assembly and it’s general weirdness often.
Oh and our art teacher was known to date students as soon as they graduated.
Oh and my homeroom teacher Mr. W slept with the biology teacher once. He stopped talking to her and she made it her mission to have everyone hate him. She would tell us about things he told her to convince her to sleep with him and how he broke her heart.
A classmate planned the murder of her mother. She conspired with another classmate in our class to commit the murder. When the police caught them, they claimed as an alibi that they had flown to Frankfurt to buy fish at the market at the time of the murder. One of them is still in prison, the other was released 3 years ago for good behavior, but we have no news about her further fate.
She was very charming and attractive, and I have to admit that I was even in love with her, before she went this crazy 🤷♂️.
Senior year someone wrote on the girls bathroom wall “Type’s full name gives a great f$&@.” No clue who wrote it but I think I know. (Sup W if you’re out there.)
It was in the gym restroom.
I had one of those families where everyone went to events. Science Fair for the whole town was in our gym. So I had something, sis did and so did my cousin.
Grandma used the restroom. She dragged my mom, aunt, and other grandma into the restroom to see it.
That was an awkward few weeks.
But here’s the coup in the story than came a decade later. My aunt is funny and worked writing for sitcoms. At my wedding, as we are leaving the reception to the airport my aunt tells my wife “I have it on written authority you’re going to have a great honeymoon, then clapped my back, right champ?” I blushed.
I didn't understand any of this. I'm getting too old for these internet shenanigans
The “cool guy” Spanish teacher got caught f*****g a bunch of students when he took one to get an abortion. The crazy part is that like 15 years later, Geraldo Rivera did some news story in my town, and the teacher was sitting front row at the event. Everyone from high school was posting the clip.
A lady came to talk at an assembly in the lecture hall about how her daughter was m******d (brutally stabbed) after dating and trying to break up with an a*****e junior in highschool when she was a freshman.
She was highly offended at the audience's snickering and making light of the situation. She wrote an op-ed to the paper. Some parents were like "WTF is wrong with you kids" but ultimately it kind of felt like par for the course in our school so idk.
Squirrel - I got a mental picture reading this and laughed my a**e off
Load More Replies...The cheer team having social media leaked and all their d**g used got exposed but none of them were kicked off the team lol.
Our school charged $100 for a parking pass for the year. The parking pass was just a sticker with the schools logo with “parking pass” written under it. Me and a friend made one in photoshop and went to Staples and printed off a ton of them for like $20. We then sold them to people for $25. School was obviously very confused when there were like 200 cars and they’d only sold a few dozen passes. Someone ended up snitching and we both got pulled into the office with a cop and the school saying we owed them all the money we’d made and needed to provide a list of everyone we’d sold them to. We just played dumb and pretended we had no clue what they were talking about. Stopped selling them but that was the last we heard about it. Next year passes were numbered and when students bought one they were assigned a number so put an end to the whole thing. But between the 2 of us we made probably like 2-3000 bucks.
I went to a very aptypical high school that was located within a much larger athletic/office building/compound run by a large legacy company. Said compound had a cafe and bar within it, and ran many different events that it catered food and drinks for, and was licensed so alcohol could be served.
A couple kids in my grade figured out where the compound stored all their alcohol (beneath the seating of the largest hockey rink at the compound) when we were in 11th grade and managed to steal A LOT of alcohol. They probably could’ve gotten away with it but they bragged so much about their accomplishment that eventually the teachers caught wind and reported it to the larger company.
Bizarrely, I don’t remember them actually getting in that much trouble. I think the school and company went the scare-tactics route of ‘if we wanted to charge you with theft, which we very well could, you would be in a WHOLE lot of trouble, so just don’t do it again’.
I’m pretty sure this stunt became a local legend at the school and is still talked about 7 years after we’ve graduated lol. And sufficient to say, the company majorly stepped up how they secure their alcohol.
This story sticks in my mind, and the other time a couple got caught having s*x in a stairwell of the compound. Strangely enough the guy in said duo was also one of the ones that stole alcohol….
The Valedictorian started sleeping through the earliest 1, 2, and then sometimes three or four periods of school. He would sometime show up around noon, but usually by 10 or 11 am.
The state had a mandated number of attendance days (counted in period 2 or 3, the "home" class), so he had to go to detention after school to make up a lot of days. He once showed up for band (first period) and his school instrument was being used by a sophomore. He hadn't been there in over a month I guess.
Our principal my freshman year was a functioning alcoholic.
My mother taught in a Catholic school with a principal who was a non-functioning alcoholic. But since he was a priest, the diocese did nothing about it.
Two older kids sneaking in beer and vodka and getting caught…(in britain so reputable secondary school).
So many of these are about grown adults who should never have been allowed near children.
There is a huge case in Australia at the moment because a childcare worker molested children between 8 months and 4 years old. 2000 children had to be tested for STDs because he worked at 24 different centres during the last few years. It has shown huge shortfalls in the working with children check program. So many people slip under the radar.
Load More Replies...I went to a Catholic school in the 90s, one year a new science teacher started working there. He was 24 and very attractive, he was very passionate about science and loved being a teacher, which made him an incredible teacher! He quickly started having issues with harassment from groups of teen girls (one group in particular took things way too far) who would make inappropriate comments, act openly flirtatious and stalk him around the building. He eventually left the job and apparently quit teaching altogether after being gropped by 3 teenage girls whilst walking upstairs, their group of friends all thought it was hilarious and told everyone what they'd done. The teacher reported the a*****t straight away, he'd been very open with his science colleagues about all the harassment the entire time. The teenage girls were expelled and charged with sexual a*****t, their gaggle of friends were given warnings from police officers and got into a lot of trouble from the school.
My school had an award ceremony at the end of every year, the head teacher usually opened the ceremony with a small speech about the students and their achievements. One year our new head mistress walked on stage and slipped right as she reached the mic stand. She slipped right off the stage, did a weird mid air backflip and landed hard in a heap on the ground. The thousands of witnesses all sat stunned for a few seconds then it was chaos as parents and teachers sitting nearby ran to help her. An ambulance was called and the ceremony was cancelled. A few days later we found out she'd broken both legs, fractured a hip burst her lip and nose opened, and needed stitches on a huge head wound. It's all anyone talked about for months. She eventually came back to work after about 6 months, she was still in a wheelchair aslowly regained her ability to walk. By the time I left school 2yrs later she was able to walk using a cane and having gained the students respect and admiration.
I taught for one year at a private school in WNY. The kids came from all over the country to go to this school, and you had to live on campus. One of the boys who was very nice and super awkward realized that there was no security in the computer lab, and that anything could be stolen by anyone. So he brought it up to the teacher hoping something would be done. Nothing was done. So to prove his point, he stole a computer. The next day he brought it back, thinking that now that he made his point, they would do something. They did something. They expelled him. The poor kid wasn't out to steal it, really. He just wanted to make things more secure. He wasn't caught because he admitted to it before they suspected him. But still, he stole a $2,000 computer (in the late 90s!), so he was expelled.
I graduated with a cop killer. Although it came a full year after graduation, we all knew d**n well who he was. Here is the officer obit; perp is not named. https://www.odmp.org/officer/13680-police-officer-harold-louis-vitale
These arent highschool stories but I have stories from middle school amd elementary school Elementary school- I had a Janitor at my elementary school named Mr.Tony. He never really talked much everybody thought he was just shy. He wasa a bit slow so everyone made an extra effort to be nice to him. Well over the summer right before I went into 6th grade, his friend he was vacationing with found several and I mean SEVERAL data sticks with child pornography on it. Middle School-I had a teacher named Mrs Kieth, she was genuinly creepy. A little too excited about everything and she brought a legit childs skull to work with her in her purse as a "good luck charm". Well she was ex militairy and had a son who attended a HS across town. One day her son tooke HER gun to school with him. They both escaped charges and moved to like california. Her mugshot became a relic at my school.
In boarding school for high school. One girl put a lock on her door, which was not allowed. She got pregnant. Twice. Got sent "to visit family." Twice.
So many of these are about grown adults who should never have been allowed near children.
There is a huge case in Australia at the moment because a childcare worker molested children between 8 months and 4 years old. 2000 children had to be tested for STDs because he worked at 24 different centres during the last few years. It has shown huge shortfalls in the working with children check program. So many people slip under the radar.
Load More Replies...I went to a Catholic school in the 90s, one year a new science teacher started working there. He was 24 and very attractive, he was very passionate about science and loved being a teacher, which made him an incredible teacher! He quickly started having issues with harassment from groups of teen girls (one group in particular took things way too far) who would make inappropriate comments, act openly flirtatious and stalk him around the building. He eventually left the job and apparently quit teaching altogether after being gropped by 3 teenage girls whilst walking upstairs, their group of friends all thought it was hilarious and told everyone what they'd done. The teacher reported the a*****t straight away, he'd been very open with his science colleagues about all the harassment the entire time. The teenage girls were expelled and charged with sexual a*****t, their gaggle of friends were given warnings from police officers and got into a lot of trouble from the school.
My school had an award ceremony at the end of every year, the head teacher usually opened the ceremony with a small speech about the students and their achievements. One year our new head mistress walked on stage and slipped right as she reached the mic stand. She slipped right off the stage, did a weird mid air backflip and landed hard in a heap on the ground. The thousands of witnesses all sat stunned for a few seconds then it was chaos as parents and teachers sitting nearby ran to help her. An ambulance was called and the ceremony was cancelled. A few days later we found out she'd broken both legs, fractured a hip burst her lip and nose opened, and needed stitches on a huge head wound. It's all anyone talked about for months. She eventually came back to work after about 6 months, she was still in a wheelchair aslowly regained her ability to walk. By the time I left school 2yrs later she was able to walk using a cane and having gained the students respect and admiration.
I taught for one year at a private school in WNY. The kids came from all over the country to go to this school, and you had to live on campus. One of the boys who was very nice and super awkward realized that there was no security in the computer lab, and that anything could be stolen by anyone. So he brought it up to the teacher hoping something would be done. Nothing was done. So to prove his point, he stole a computer. The next day he brought it back, thinking that now that he made his point, they would do something. They did something. They expelled him. The poor kid wasn't out to steal it, really. He just wanted to make things more secure. He wasn't caught because he admitted to it before they suspected him. But still, he stole a $2,000 computer (in the late 90s!), so he was expelled.
I graduated with a cop killer. Although it came a full year after graduation, we all knew d**n well who he was. Here is the officer obit; perp is not named. https://www.odmp.org/officer/13680-police-officer-harold-louis-vitale
These arent highschool stories but I have stories from middle school amd elementary school Elementary school- I had a Janitor at my elementary school named Mr.Tony. He never really talked much everybody thought he was just shy. He wasa a bit slow so everyone made an extra effort to be nice to him. Well over the summer right before I went into 6th grade, his friend he was vacationing with found several and I mean SEVERAL data sticks with child pornography on it. Middle School-I had a teacher named Mrs Kieth, she was genuinly creepy. A little too excited about everything and she brought a legit childs skull to work with her in her purse as a "good luck charm". Well she was ex militairy and had a son who attended a HS across town. One day her son tooke HER gun to school with him. They both escaped charges and moved to like california. Her mugshot became a relic at my school.
In boarding school for high school. One girl put a lock on her door, which was not allowed. She got pregnant. Twice. Got sent "to visit family." Twice.
