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People Share Stories Of School Events So Disturbing, They’re Still Talked About To This Day
We tend to romanticize our school years. No serious responsibilities, friends, lots of free time – for some people, it's the best time of their lives. Indeed, a 2019 survey found that 77% of now-parents of school-aged children (6-18) think their school days were the best years of their lives.
The fondest memories usually include the school cafeteria: bringing your own lunch, not being able to tell what kind of food is served, trading lunch with friends and classmates, and so on.
Yet, some pretty wild and interesting things can happen at schools, too. Some of them might even turn into nationwide scandals. In a thread where one person asked, "What was the most illegal thing that happened at your school?" the answers ranged from "All the bad haircuts" to some wildly inappropriate and disturbing stuff both the students and teachers did.
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#1
Kids smoked pot on the school bus. The school bus driver drove to the police station rather than the school and turned the kids in.
#2
It's so hard to pick just one.
We had the gender neutral bathrooms becoming a brothel, a math teacher dating a junior, the vice principal sleeping with multiple students, a crackhead social studies teacher who punched his boss in the face during a class, and one of the women at the main office get busted as a c**aine dealer.
#3
Catholic high school...a priest on the faculty got a girl pregnant then paid for an abortion. The Bishop paid off the girl's family to keep it quiet. The Pennsylvania grand jury exposed it twenty years later.
#4
When I was in elementary in the 90s as we were coming in from recess the boy standing next to me was shot by a stray bullet. Some kid was shooting birds in his back yard and the bullet hit my friend. If the boys and girls line was reversed it would of been me. And I was like 2 inches shorter than him. It hit him in the chest , luckily didn't hit his heart. He lived but it traumatized me.
#5
A guy and a girl, both in ninth grade from what I can remember, decided to throw down and have sex with each other in a classroom in front of the entirety of the class while the teacher was out of the room. It was chaos. People yelling, some encouraging them, others objecting. The teacher came back and some of the students actively held the door to prevent her from interrupting. The cops got involved. It was all over the news and the school shut down for like 3 days.
#6
In high school, the Principal (who lived right across the street from me) got accused of SA against a student who was his adopted son living with him. The kid had behavioral issues so a lot of people didn’t believe the student, and the principal was allowed to keep his job. During the next school year, a student wore a wire into his office, and got the principal on recording.
Chocolate llama 2 months ago
Jeez, I wonder why that poor kid had behavioral issue..../s. Glad for the student that busted the principal
#7
The computer teacher for 8th grade was busted handing out, 'A's,' for handies. All genders welcome.
I s**t you not, his name was Mr. Palmer.
#8
A kid got beat to death in my school. Locked down for 4 hours. He was life flighted and died a few days later. The kid who k*lled him ran away from the school but they ended up catching him. He only got 20 yrs probation and is now a successful real estate agent and everyone kind of forgot about it.
Uncommon Sense 2 months ago
Gosh. For the life of me I just cannot work out what k*lled could possibly be. What a conundrum.
#9
Besides multiple teachers and admin being arrested for banging students? We had a dude passing counterfeit money. So much so the secret service showed up. And i was hauled off to a windowless building to explain why i had a fake 20.
#10
Police searched a student's car in the school parking lot and found his girlfriend's body in the trunk.
If that doesn't count because the m*rder happened off of school grounds it was a whole ring of people doing tattoos and piercings that ended up getting infected.
#11
Principal invited the cheerleaders to a pool party at his house and set up a camera in the bathroom where he told them to change.
#12
Someone threw a molotov cocktail into the office thinking they could erase their report card grades. Grades weren't even stored on hard copies anymore. It was already in the computer with offsite backups.
#13
This chick beat this other chick so hard that she needed facial reconstruction surgery, and then punched out campus police. They tried to tase her, but she kept punching through it.
Edit: this happened in HS.
#14
A girl broke the geneva convention she mixed ammonia and bleach and brought it to school to fight 2 other girls over a stupid boy.
#15
A dude robbed the McDonald’s down the street with a gun while wearing our uniform.
#16
Well… an armed robbery plan that ended with a m*rder. And it was carried out by the most accomplished athletes at our school at the time.
Mid 1990s.
The Varsity Captain, Varsity Co-captain and the Junior Varsity Captain robbed the pizza place next to my after-school job and m*rdered someone I knew that worked there. One of them worked there, and they planned to stage a fake robbery; the other two being the robbers and “forcing” him to open the safe and registers. An off-work employee stopped by randomly while this was happening and one of the “robbers” shot him >!in front of his 2 year old son!< with the very real gun.
The shooter was in my psychology class, and in my desk pod (the classroom was arranged in groups of 4 desks pushed together). Let’s call him S. All week our teacher would make sure we were all doing okay— this happened in the mall closest to our high school so dozens of juniors and seniors worked in the varying businesses there. S would make these comments like “damn, I hope they get him” and “that’s scary, so close to home….” One day, maybe that same week even, the police came to the school and I’ll never forget how I felt in this moment — S was called to the office during our class and he just stood up, gathered his backpack and book, smiled at us all, and said something like “well, that’s that,” or “about time” and “it’s been good, y’all” something that hinted at admission.
Pretty sure I remember they canceled a bunch of games; the joke in town was “Oooh don’t play ______ High, they have a k*ller football team!”
The trial was a whole debacle because there were other students - other football players - peripherally involved… like how they got the gun from another varsity football player (not present during the shooting) who worked at a sporting goods store and had stolen it from their boss. All three were found guilty — mainly because they used a school logo football bag during the robbery and then dumped the empty bag in the park between the school and the mall — and got varying sentences. I think S was tried as an adult and might still be in prison.
If this story sounds familiar to you, *go Cougars* amirite
Edit to update: just looked him up on socmed — ***OMG he’s out***.
#17
He was either a junior or senior, but he'll always be remembered as The Sheep F****r for a reason.
Rinso The Red 2 months ago
Two Scotsman were sitting on top of a hill that overlooked their small village. During a break in the conversation, one man lets out a sigh as he's looking down at his village, and his friend asks him what's wrong. "Look at that town down there." he replied. "You see the bridge crossing the river that leads into our village? I built that bridge with my own two bare hands. But do they call me McGregor, the Bridgebuilder? No. "And you see the Church in the middle of our village, overlooking the square? Well I built that Church with my own two bare hands. And do they call me...McGregor, the Churchbuilder? No." He pauses, and looks over at his friend. "But f**k ONE sheep."
#18
I dont live in the US
a Student bought a gun to school with the intent of filming a Youtube Video showing off his way of "Dealing with bullies and teachers you dont like"
luckly, the kid was caught and arrested. Scary as s**t as I was litterly just down the hall from the classroom he was filming in.
#19
Bomb threats. Lots and lots of bomb threats. Like, seriously we had days that we evacuated for 3-4 bomb threats in a single day.
#20
It was 1971. a girl i knew whose boyfriend dealt d***s brought a bunch of really strong LSD to school to sell. for the rest of the day we freaks would see each other walking down the hall tripping balls and laugh ourselves silly…there must have been 20 of us. one of the cheerleaders got some and ran away from home. the principal grilled her but couldn’t prove anything. and then there was the band teacher who ran off with one of his students mid-semester.
#21
Technically, I went out with a teacher? I was 18 and senior. Went to the movies alone, and he was there, sat down next to him, and he moved a seat away. He was a history teacher, and it was a horrible, inaccurate history movie. Ask if he wanted to grab dinner and dicuss it. He was divorcing his wife and I had my mom (she was a us history professor) meet us with her colleagues and grad students. We all ate and they went to a bar for a trivia night and I went home.
He messaged me years later and said that dinner made him felt human again and not a shell. He met his now wife a month later at a teaching conference.
Edit: for clarity. English wasn't my best subject.
Roan The Demon Kitty 2 months ago
nothing wrong happened here? sounds more like an outing between friends than anything romantic/scandalous.
#22
In middle school, a classmate of mine stole his grandparents car, picked up his gf, and tried to drive from the SF Bay Area to Colorado to see the X Games. They made it all the way to Colorado too.
Funny thing is that the X-Games were on a tape delay so even though they were on tv, they had happened a couple weeks before he tried to drive to Colorado.
#23
Probably that time I brought uranium into class.
My physics teacher was sceptical until he checked it with a Geiger Counter. I was promptly sent sent home with it and told never to bring it into school again. It's lucky he didn't freak out too badly, evacuate the school, as some teachers
I still have it (I made a little box for it):
https://imgur.com/a/XXztcOn.
Johnny McFearless 2 months ago
Many many years ago I overheard two guys, physics students, in a bus talking about their plans to steal some uranium from an institute and making a box for it to keep it. Now I wonder if there is a connection.
#24
Dude robbed a Liquor Store and stashed it all in lockers. A kid took a crow bar to each locker and stole all the booze. Also, someone hit someone in the head with a bat but what can you do 🤷🏼♂️.
#25
A music teacher joined who had been on britains got talent, everyone loved him. Turned out he tried to SA multiple girls and was fired within a week of joining.
#26
School got a threatening letter from a movie studio because students where passing around a pirated copy of The Blind Side on school issued computers. School wiped every computer and threatened any student caught "in the act of piracy" with expulsion.
#27
Several guys bought enough c**aine to turn $100k or so into millions. They didn't account for the DoD server the school was on (military school), and apparently key words flag somewhere. The FBI, DEA and other 3LA's showed up one day.
#28
I posted a couple crazy stories as a reply to a comment here, but also remembered another one: teachers aide and a student were "in love", or as in love as a 16 yr old and a mid 20's can be, i guess. Once their relationship was found out, they tried to drive to Canada (no idea why they decided on Canada) but got picked up at the border. Never saw the teachers aide again. Student went from shy, quiet girl before meeting the aide to batsh*t crazy after returning from their attempted getaway.
#29
I went to a private school, and right before my senior year started it was discovered that one of the top administrators had been stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the school. He was arrested, and we had a new set of principles or whatever the title was on the first day of school.
#30
I’m sure there were worse things that I don’t remember, but a friend of mine ran a business out of his locker selling movies pirated from IRC chat rooms. I’m pretty sure he got a cease and desist from the MPAA.
What was the most illegal thing that happened at your school?
OneHappyPuppy 2 months ago
I've posted this before on BP but my mom's school takes the cake. *Trigger warning - proceed with caution* There was this absolute AH of a teacher in my mom's school that was apparently horrid to all his pupils. Well, being in a bad part of town (some 40yrs later it is still considered gangster territory) he ticked someone off pretty badly that they actually tracked down his infant daughter, decapitated her and placed her head on his desk to find in his first class of the day. Thinking of the amount of hatred his pupils had for him to actually anticipate him walking through that door whilst sitting mere meters from a poor innocent girls head makes me shudder even while typing this.
MaryHadaLittleLamb 2 months ago
The mom of a middle school girl dressed in her daughter's clothes to look younger, went into the school in the morning with the rest of the students, and beat the c**p out of a girl that had been bothering her daughter. During the beating, she was encouraging her daughter to get a few punches and kicks in. This happened at a middle school, so the girls were no older than 14. She was arrested.
Beth Wheeler 2 months ago
That woman was stupid. There was a kid that I wanted to slap the s**t out of for bullying my son I'm 6th grade but I would never do that. He left him alone after his brother went to pick him up after school one day, highschool and middleschool. My son had to park Instead of pulling up around front for some reason that day and walked up behind that bully threatening his brother. He asked him if he wanted to try that c**p with him, that kid turns around and looks UP. My oldest is 6' 7" tall, that kid didn't bother my other son anymore. He was also just starting in Taekwondo for self defense, my oldest had been in it since 6th grade also. That kid did end up in prison for murder though.
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Richard Graham 2 months ago
In my senior yea I was in an advanced art class. The teacher told me I needed help with the anatomy in my drawings. Took me to his office, closed the door, then showed me gay porn for 20 minutes.
Tempest 2 months ago
On our last day of school some guys in my grade lit fireworks in the road outside. One of the fireworks flew off, landed in a neighbouring house’s yard (or their balcony) and went off. It was loud but I don’t think there was any damage. The guys got some minor punishment from school (it was our last day but before our graduation). We all found it hilarious, including some teachers, cause that neighbour always had beef with our school and kept calling the police on minor issues like noise complaints. All of us hated that house.
Shark Lady 2 months ago
My first day at secondary school, someone who left the year before turned up at lunchtime and stabbed a student in had had trouble with the year before. He was apprehended by the maths teacher and marched to the office to wait for the police to arrive. This was a rural UK school where knife crime really wasn't a thing so it was a major news story for a while.
Livingwithcfs 2 months ago
A pair of students from different classes hooked up. Her boyfriend found out a turn up at the school with a machete. No one was hurt but it was a very strange day
Leoninus Fate 2 months ago
the whole lock down such, the bathrooms were not attached t other school, i went to it and they called a lock down, and i ran to the doors and they were locked, I'm stuck outside between the parking lot and the bathrooms, someone comes to the door, i tell them i was in the bathroom when it called, please let me in, the person {it was an adult and princeables assistant we found out} told me to be quiet and stop pounding on the door and go away, not to g o to the bathroom or they would help me, just i would be quiet and leave so i don't call the dude i guess, well thankfully my home was a few streets away, i get up figure what the hell and run home, my mom is home about to take my aunt to work, shes surprized, cause she dropped me off like 3 hours before, i tell her, i got locked out and they wouldn't let me in and there's a shooter there, she started calling police and ...short tearms, they kicked me out and we got money to pay for any other school i wanted to go to.... but good lord
Sami-Jo Ross 1 month ago
Someone lit the 7th grade girls bathroom on fire and it was closed down the rest of the year. Students were no longer allowed to use bathroom passes during class and had to go between classes.
Red_panda 2 months ago
Not my school, and not even when I was in high school; but I always bring it up in articles like this. The high school a town over had their entire student body get caught up in a nude photo ring. Every student had a nudes photo of every other student. The youngest involved was 13, the oldest was 19. I don't think anyone got charged with anything; but all extracurriculars were canceled the rest of the year and to this day the school has a strict no phone policy.
Gavin Johnson 2 months ago
We had a student who chained another student to a lamppost and whipped him, he got away with it ‘cause he was a schoolboy weightlifting champion and the protégés of our deputy head. One summer a bunch of students met with a ‘rival’ school for a fight and one lad turned up with his Dad’s sawn off shotgun, yeah, he got arrested, this is the U.K. y’know? We had a teacher sent down for SA on two girls who were 14, he then locked them in a storeroom and only let them out if they promised not to report him, they lied, he let them out, they then reported him, he traumatised those two poor girls, scumbag. Two teachers who hooked up with sixth formers, 17 year old male students who thought it was ok. The school and the Police took a very dim view of those teachers.
_physically_insane_(he/they/any) 2 months ago
One of the teacher at my school sent nudes to a student. She was fired once he reported it, and I think she had a trial but idk what the sentence was.
Calunii 2 months ago
Didn't happen AT school but when I was in HS, one of our schoolmates was hired to m*rder a girl our age (around 15). He ended up killing her and stabbed her dad. He did it for a bit of money and status I believe. The person who hired him was another teenage girl that had beef with the victim over something silly. He got out after a few years and went straight back to committing crimes
OneHappyPuppy 2 months ago
I've posted this before on BP but my mom's school takes the cake. *Trigger warning - proceed with caution* There was this absolute AH of a teacher in my mom's school that was apparently horrid to all his pupils. Well, being in a bad part of town (some 40yrs later it is still considered gangster territory) he ticked someone off pretty badly that they actually tracked down his infant daughter, decapitated her and placed her head on his desk to find in his first class of the day. Thinking of the amount of hatred his pupils had for him to actually anticipate him walking through that door whilst sitting mere meters from a poor innocent girls head makes me shudder even while typing this.
MaryHadaLittleLamb 2 months ago
The mom of a middle school girl dressed in her daughter's clothes to look younger, went into the school in the morning with the rest of the students, and beat the c**p out of a girl that had been bothering her daughter. During the beating, she was encouraging her daughter to get a few punches and kicks in. This happened at a middle school, so the girls were no older than 14. She was arrested.
Beth Wheeler 2 months ago
That woman was stupid. There was a kid that I wanted to slap the s**t out of for bullying my son I'm 6th grade but I would never do that. He left him alone after his brother went to pick him up after school one day, highschool and middleschool. My son had to park Instead of pulling up around front for some reason that day and walked up behind that bully threatening his brother. He asked him if he wanted to try that c**p with him, that kid turns around and looks UP. My oldest is 6' 7" tall, that kid didn't bother my other son anymore. He was also just starting in Taekwondo for self defense, my oldest had been in it since 6th grade also. That kid did end up in prison for murder though.
Load More Replies... Richard Graham 2 months ago
In my senior yea I was in an advanced art class. The teacher told me I needed help with the anatomy in my drawings. Took me to his office, closed the door, then showed me gay porn for 20 minutes.
Tempest 2 months ago
On our last day of school some guys in my grade lit fireworks in the road outside. One of the fireworks flew off, landed in a neighbouring house’s yard (or their balcony) and went off. It was loud but I don’t think there was any damage. The guys got some minor punishment from school (it was our last day but before our graduation). We all found it hilarious, including some teachers, cause that neighbour always had beef with our school and kept calling the police on minor issues like noise complaints. All of us hated that house.
Shark Lady 2 months ago
My first day at secondary school, someone who left the year before turned up at lunchtime and stabbed a student in had had trouble with the year before. He was apprehended by the maths teacher and marched to the office to wait for the police to arrive. This was a rural UK school where knife crime really wasn't a thing so it was a major news story for a while.
Livingwithcfs 2 months ago
A pair of students from different classes hooked up. Her boyfriend found out a turn up at the school with a machete. No one was hurt but it was a very strange day
Leoninus Fate 2 months ago
the whole lock down such, the bathrooms were not attached t other school, i went to it and they called a lock down, and i ran to the doors and they were locked, I'm stuck outside between the parking lot and the bathrooms, someone comes to the door, i tell them i was in the bathroom when it called, please let me in, the person {it was an adult and princeables assistant we found out} told me to be quiet and stop pounding on the door and go away, not to g o to the bathroom or they would help me, just i would be quiet and leave so i don't call the dude i guess, well thankfully my home was a few streets away, i get up figure what the hell and run home, my mom is home about to take my aunt to work, shes surprized, cause she dropped me off like 3 hours before, i tell her, i got locked out and they wouldn't let me in and there's a shooter there, she started calling police and ...short tearms, they kicked me out and we got money to pay for any other school i wanted to go to.... but good lord
Sami-Jo Ross 1 month ago
Someone lit the 7th grade girls bathroom on fire and it was closed down the rest of the year. Students were no longer allowed to use bathroom passes during class and had to go between classes.
Red_panda 2 months ago
Not my school, and not even when I was in high school; but I always bring it up in articles like this. The high school a town over had their entire student body get caught up in a nude photo ring. Every student had a nudes photo of every other student. The youngest involved was 13, the oldest was 19. I don't think anyone got charged with anything; but all extracurriculars were canceled the rest of the year and to this day the school has a strict no phone policy.
Gavin Johnson 2 months ago
We had a student who chained another student to a lamppost and whipped him, he got away with it ‘cause he was a schoolboy weightlifting champion and the protégés of our deputy head. One summer a bunch of students met with a ‘rival’ school for a fight and one lad turned up with his Dad’s sawn off shotgun, yeah, he got arrested, this is the U.K. y’know? We had a teacher sent down for SA on two girls who were 14, he then locked them in a storeroom and only let them out if they promised not to report him, they lied, he let them out, they then reported him, he traumatised those two poor girls, scumbag. Two teachers who hooked up with sixth formers, 17 year old male students who thought it was ok. The school and the Police took a very dim view of those teachers.
_physically_insane_(he/they/any) 2 months ago
One of the teacher at my school sent nudes to a student. She was fired once he reported it, and I think she had a trial but idk what the sentence was.
Calunii 2 months ago
Didn't happen AT school but when I was in HS, one of our schoolmates was hired to m*rder a girl our age (around 15). He ended up killing her and stabbed her dad. He did it for a bit of money and status I believe. The person who hired him was another teenage girl that had beef with the victim over something silly. He got out after a few years and went straight back to committing crimes
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