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Someone Wonders “What Was ‘The Incident’ In Your High School?” And 30 People Give Interesting And Insane Stories
Nothing compares to the good old high school days. The paradox of that careless era was that even if you didn’t particularly enjoy it at that time, the chances are, you still carry vivid memories that you cherish throughout your life.
It was a time of exploration and learning unlike any other. It is when most of us made lifelong friends, fell in love for the first time, learned valuable lessons and grew into the person we are today. It is also when we had to deal with college pressures and future anxiety, which was an important rehearsal for adulthood.
So when someone asked on Reddit “What was 'the incident' in your high school?” it resonated with too many people and turned into one hell of a read similar to the adventures of Napoleon Dynamite. Below we wrapped up some of the craziest stories, so pull your seat closer, everyone!
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#1
During lunch if you picked up trash and turned it in to the yard attendant you would get a dime per piece. One kid did it religiously, every lunch, and was tormented and bullied the whole time. Kids would knock the trash out of his hands, push him over when he picked it up, call him all sorts of names, they were relentless. Than in Junior year, he bought a '66 mustang.
Not an incident really, but I still have respect for that kid.
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#2
Principal found weed in the boys bathroom. Called an assembly and told us we had to vote for who we think it was. I think the principals son got like 98% of the votes. Suddenly the voting system wasn't valid.
We didn't even coordinate it, everyone had the same idea at once and it was glorious
#3
During my senior year, the biggest fight of my school career broke out in one of the main hallways during class change. I don't think a single student in attendance that afternoon wasn't packed like a sardine somewhere in that hall. We were going absolutely nuts; jumping, screaming, chanting "FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT." Riot mode at this point, really. It was impossible to see who was fighting, much less break it up or make your way through. Principal realized that fairly quickly and called the police to send help. About 10-15 mins later, 10 officers show up and bust through the crowd within seconds only to find 2 students sitting criss cross on the floor playing a few rounds of rock em sock em robots. Senior prank of the century... absolutely hilarious and 100% safely executed. Quality senior prank!
#4
Not high school but I remember in elementary school, we got put on lockdown because someone thought there was a rabid fox on the field. It was a fat orange cat.
#5
Senior year we received our yearbooks the week of graduation and to our surprise the full page action shot for men's soccer showcased our player jumping up and lifting one leg to trap and control the ball. Unfortunately, he forgot to wear underwear that game and the tip of his weiner was fully visible sticking out of the bottom of his shorts.
Our school had over 4,000 students and we were required to bring our yearbook in to security to have the d**k sharpied over or we would not be able to walk at graduation.
#6
I went to a private school where you weren't allowed to have your phone on you. One day the vice principal bursts into a classroom and says in a panic "quick, I need to use someone's phone!" 10 kids got detention and their phones confiscated.
Screw you Mr. Kiefer
#7
When I was in high school, our hick town school had a “gang” called the Cobras who would spray paint “Cobras” on school property, write it on desks, in the bathrooms, basically everywhere. It’s was dumb and many of the students had a good idea who was a part of this “gang” but the teachers didn’t.
The principal would call down groups for photos in the year book (siblings, sports teams, drama club, etc) on overhead announcements, and one day they called down the Cobras for a school photo for the yearbook, to try and figure out who they were. They caught almost half the students who were defacing school property because they showed up for the “group photo”.
#8
So every school has their weird kid. Were going to call my schools weird kid T. Everyone knew him, and knew something was off. He was an angry kid. But otherwise functional, was in band, normal classes. But was really weird. Some examples: got mad and broke a window in a practice room, was found butt naked in the room the color guard girls kept their things, threatened people etc. But we never actually hurt anyone. He was actually very kind to me. Well our senior year he said he had a big surprise for the last day of classes. Half the school didnt show up honestly expecting him to bring a gun or something. Low and behold T shows up to school in a dress, and a wig, and makeup with a new name. Totally normal sweet girl now, waitress, nice, youd never know.
Tl/dr: we thought the weird kid was gonna kill us but instead he came to school as a girl.
#9
We were all called to an emergency assembly and told a student had died... Her friends were distraught and even the people who didn't know her went quiet. I think I remember a group of students putting together a type of memorial card. The whole morning was morbid... Until the 'dead girl' arrived at school and didn't know what was going on.
#10
We never had a school camp, because the last time they held one, three students got pregnant
#11
At my high school, seniors had to do a senior project. Can be anything really. Just plan it out and follow through.
A very popular and well liked senior made an end of day announcement that tomorrow morning he'd be in the student parking lot working on it and needs as many other folks there as possible.
The next day he drives into the student parking lot, setup a tripod and a camera. A large crowd gathered round, just about 30 mins before the first bell. He hit record, thanks everyone for showing. Then he reached into his car pulled out a handgun and killed himself before anyone could react.
No one knows why. He was a great guy with a bright future. Never know what struggles others are going through. I think about it frequently and take that into consideration to try and be nice to others with random acts of kindness.
#12
This happened in grade school but a moose escaped a local zoo and somehow made its way to our school yard during our recess. We were all rushed inside and the school was put into a lockdown situation until the moose left the yard.
One guess what country I’m from.
Edit: Anyone who guessed Canada is right, I feel like there’s nothing more canadian than almost getting mowed down by a moose
#13
* During one of the semi-formal dances of the year (not Prom) some school official thought it would be a GREAT idea to screen the underwear choices of the girls attending, for "morality purposes" because thongs were of the Devil. Their GREAT plan for implementation was to literally pull girls aside from the ticket line and just lift up their skirts. Right there. No curtain, no other room, nothing, just right in front of the gym doors. While EVERYBODY ELSE was in line, able to SEE. This was a NYTimes quote: "said one parent called her to report that a teacher had pulled a girl's top to see if she was wearing a bra."
And then there was the Lore: Why Can't Seniors Leave Campus for Lunch.
Seniors with cars used to be able to leave to get fast food. This was discontinued because some JACKASSES went to the local daycare center up the hill (like a 15 minute walk away) and started flashing their genitals at the children.
#14
There had been rumors since my freshman year about the assistant principal taking a certain "special interest" in a few of the girls. Almost everyone wrote it off as high school kids starting stupid rumors.
Until my senior year.
When four police officers came in after school and walked him out in cuffs in front of a few hundred students watching a basketball game against another school.
He was f*****g one of the girls in my grade and selling her oxycodone in the hallways. Got 10 years.
KombatBunni 2 years ago
Like when the rather handsome grounds keeper at my high school got busted with a year ten student..oops
#15
oh man..
One time this kid i was friends with brought this hot sauce called Da Bomb(1.5million scoville units, hotter than hell) to high school and let a bunch of kids try it during lunch, i mean atleast 30 kids. Some kids really started freaking out because that s**t is ridiculously hot, like you’re supposed to add one or two drops to a big batch of chili to make it spicy. Some were trying to show off and took a swig of it and ended up vomiting everywhere from the heat/panic. Multiple kids had to go to the nurse and be sent home because they way overdid it, although i think most just really had no idea what a scoville unit was or that they made hot sauce that was that ridiculously hot. It was chaos. I tried it as well, a dime size amount, and I couldn’t concentrate on anything but chugging milk. And i’m really good with spicy foods! Finally the principal came on the intercom and said “Whoever brought the hot sauce please..just stop..” My friend got into some pretty big trouble for that one.
#16
A football player with the last name ‘Parham’ got punished for some s**t and was no longer allowed to walk the stage for graduation.
One day, a friend of his pulled up in a truck outside of the cafeteria during lunch, slammed on the brakes, jumped out, and proceeded to sprint inside.
He streaked through half the cafeteria with a spider-man mask on and “Free Parham” painted on his bare a*s. Staff tried to grab him and stop him, and despite him literally slipping on a piece of food and falling, he escaped valiantly - as any hero should.
Eventually, Parham was once again allowed to walk the stage, although I’m sure the stunt wasn’t the only reason for it.
#17
A girl in her final year got pregnant and was hiding it from her parents. She was 18 at the time though. She went to the counsellor (qualified clinical psychologist) who was helping her through it. The counsellor walked her through all of her options and did what she was supposed to do.
The girl (I think possibly in denial) carried the baby to quite far along but then wanted out. She was also starving herself.
Long story short (I also can't remember all the exact details) she apparently went to a dodgey clinic where she convinced them she was much earlier in the pregnancy (guessing they did no tests) and they gave her abortions pills or something like that (like I said - can't remeber the exact deets so don't crucify me).
She started profusely bleeding in class the next day and was rushed to hospital. The baby survived for about 4 hours and then passed away. Obviously by his point her parents were there. Upon questioning she named out school counsellor and said that she had forced her to have an abortion. This whole case went to court. Our poor school counsellor could not say anything or defend herself publically until the case was done. We had reporters outside our school gates for ages.
It all came out at the end that the girl had lied and the counsellor was completely innocent and had just done what she was supposed to do and had offered the girl all the information and advice for her to make an informed decision. I was amazed at how professional the counsellor was and how she did everything by the book when it came to speaking about her client.
Anyway, that was crazy.
#18
I was a teacher and a very good kid just got pushed to his limit by a bully teacher (had been bullied by this guy for a couple of years; never did find out what was up with that).
So bully teacher says something to the kid, he runs out to his car, grabs a crowbar and comes in smashing all the glass he encountered (it was safety glass but lots of shards anyway). Tries to go after the teacher to kill him. He got trapped in the library (the classroom was located in a small classroom off the library) and I was right next door, keeping kids in their seats and unable to go to the bathroom for about 90 minutes. Cops began arriving from all directions since we were right off two state highways. State cops, canine cops, etc. Kid destroyed all the beautiful 1940's oak shelving, teacher's desk, anything that would break. His mom shows up and disarms him. Kid gets slammed on a stretcher and hauled off to the nearby AFB, where his dad worked.
Not sure exactly what all happened there but he got a lifetime ban from being at the high school and a serious restraining order from ever contacting or being near the bully teacher.
I liked the kid, never had once tiny bit of trouble with him. Saw him a couple of months later and asked him to please tell me if he was ever mad at me. He laughed.
Kid was diagnosed with intermittent explosive disorder. Went on to be a good adult. He'd just kind of lost it that day.
I did not know that the kid was being bullied until the s**t hit the fan; then kids told me the whole story. There was nothing I could do except offer words of support to his girlfriend and then be nice to him when I saw him again. As a victim of lifetime bullying (not school but family), I know the damage it can cause.
As far as bullies go, I called them out in my classroom whenever I knew what was going on. But if you know anything about bullies, they tend to do these things at times/places that teachers don't see. We can't stop what we don't witness. Sadly, many/most victims do not report until the situation has reached critical mass.
Molly Whuppie 2 years ago
So what happened to the teacher? Kid who was bullied by a person in power for -years- gets a restraining order and a life time ban from the school but the bully teacher gets what?
#19
A teacher in my high school walked into the unisex bathroom because someone reported that two kids went into it together. He walked in, found nobody in there, and as he walked out the two kids fell from the ceiling completely naked and onto the floor in front of him.
#20
The schools library had huge impressive displays of taxidermy. A huge collection that started well over a hundred years ago. Truly a sight to behold.
Anyways someone smashed a window and f****d a badger.
#21
The boys made a “would f**k”-list rating us girls from 1-100 in excel. Full names and all. More than 200 girls listed, It had a “did already f**k and this is my rating”-column and was adjusted continuously.. Accidentally spread bc one boys GF thought he was cheating and checked his phone. Went on for quite a long time. Huge case. Went national
The lesbian knitting panda 2 years ago
The kids at my school did something like that. Had code names for every girl in their year
#22
Which.
Guy takes massive s**t off the top floor of a massive stairwell.
Same stairwell, someone drops a pressurised can of soda cracking open a teachers skull.
Someone brought in a decommissioned WW1 authentic stick grenade. The entire school was evacuated onto 1 yard for 4 hours while bomb squad were on their way.
Our schools councillor who took kids out of lessons to help with low self-esteem committed suicide. That one's a bit sad tbh.
Drama teacher got arrested for convincing 2 14 year old students to have sex while he watched and he still works there.
And a music teacher got sacked for coming in drunk... Twice.
I love lower class Britain.
The lesbian knitting panda 2 years ago
I would like to know what was taught in the drunk teacher's lesson
#23
Ours was a sad one.
Our boys basketball team was traveling home from a game in inclement weather. The van caught some slush and lost control into the path of an oncoming tractor trailer.
The coach was driving and survived. He lost his wife and 7 students. A very sad tragedy.
SheamusFanFrom1987 2 years ago
Damn. Hopefully he has recovered from the incident and the casualties are at peace T_T
#24
2 guys in my year decided to bring about 50 cabbages in to school and start a cabbage fight in the science corridor. All hell broke loose and cabbage leaves everywhere. About 100 students joined in lol
Edit: You most certainly can have 100 students and 50 cabbages in a cabbage fight. (Check the cabbage fight rulebook. Lol jokes). It wasn't a case where 100 students were already there and waiting. The 2 guys just randomly started the cabbage fight at break time and the students who were already in the corridor began to join in. Cabbages started to break. Other students heard the commotion and then joined in. Picking up lumps of cabbage. So on and so forth.
#25
One of the students ditched highschool one day and rode his dirt bike really fast in front of the school popping a wheely while the school was still in session. He wiped out and slid and hit his head on a light pole and died right in front of the school across the street. Really sad and super crazy.
Edit: this was in Bakersfield California. It's crazy how many other places this has happened. Also, no helmet was involved that I'm aware of. A few people have mentioned the light pole, it can also be called a lamp post, or lightpole, sheesh. The pole received all kinds of attention after. People writing notes on it, people leaving flowers and lighters and so on. It was really weird. I wouldn't want to be remembered by what killed me, but I think a lot of students didn't have anywhere else to mourn him.
Jordi Sharpe 2 years ago
I saw a kid bash his head open at the skate park when I was like 9. Puddle of blood, brain matter... it was f****d.
#26
One of the girls in my grade made cupcakes with c*m (from a guy friend of hers), hair, and toenails baked into them. She brought them to school and gave them to the people who bullied her. My sister had PE with some of the people who ate the cupcakes and needless to say they were NOT happy.
#27
We had like five fire drills in a month because teachers kept making popcorn in the microwave in the teachers lounge, eventually they got banned from making popcorn. Not the most interesting thing ever but it was pretty funny at the time
dream of delusion 2 years ago
pffft- either the microwave is broken or they’re just reallyyyy bad at making popcorn
#28
A plane crashed into my high school, and they had to rebuild like half the school.
More! 2 years ago
A plane crashed into my back yard one morning just as I returned from dropping the kids at school, I was on the toilet at the time. I thought a truck had lost control on the street, sped down the driveway and smashed into the house.. that’s was the noise sounded like to me, it kept getting louder and louder and then BANG! He was flying g very low when he crash landed. What a shock when I went outside and found nothing, until I took a few steps and looked towards the back of the yard, a plane on the fence, held there by trees. I was expecting to see dead bodies, but it was just the pilot onboard going off to work. He was shaky and couidn’t walk further than out to the wing. But he was not broken. I called the ambulance and held an umbrella over the pilot as it was a hot day The one and only fatality was a bird, found when the crane drivers came that afternoon to clear the wreck. You’d be surprised how quickly those guys can cut up a plane and take it away.
#29
My high school had a decade themed talent show every year. They would do it in our auditorium which had a orchestra pit underneath part of the stage. Close to the end of the show a lot of people went out on the stage and started dancing, and the stage collapsed. Only a couple people were hurt, but one of my friends broke his pelvis and had to be in a wheelchair for a while. It must been a slow day for the news because it made all the way to the BBC, and Tosh.O did a bit on it.
Jordi Sharpe 2 years ago
Ooooh, did Tosh make horrible, callous comments about the folks injured? He's very good at that. At being an a*****e.
#30
This kid was doing pull ups on a door frame in our wood shop and some of his friends thought it would be funny to place a pipe bender under his a*s. When he finished his pull ups and dropped off the frame, the pipe bender went straight up his butt and tore his r****m open. Kid didn't graduate cause he spent so much time in the ER and now he has to s**t in a bag.
What do you think ?
Nathaniel 2 years ago
A mid twenty year old male assistant to the PE teacher was having an affair with a 16 year old school girl. He did not teach her, she was of legal age, it was technically legal but still EW!
Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago
EW. And of course it's not just an age thing, but a power dynamic thing.
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KING ILLEGAL FOREST 2 years ago
My best friend and I WERE the "event" during our high school years. (Think Weasley twins type of shenanigans.) But all of our pranks pale in comparison to one of the senior pranks. When I was a sophomore, a few of the seniors "borrowed" 3 pigs from one of their farms (we're rednecks). They marked each pig with a number--"1", "3", and "4"--and let them loose in the school. The teachers and principal spent HOURS looking for piggy number 2 before the kids finally admitted there were only three pigs.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
The pig thing is one that was always talked about at high schools where I lived as the ultimate 'muck up day' prank. Of course none of us had the courage (or stupidity) by the time we got to year 12 to actually do it. One of my friends also wanted to do a variation where she announced to the school she had hidden a $5, $10, $20 and $50 note in random books in the library and have a plant who would 'find' the $20 as 'proof'. She never did that either, though she did get caught putting vaseline on the locks of a number of lockers.
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Mrs. Jan Glass 2 years ago
One of the couples in our high school got pregnant. She was on scholarship. He was the pastor's son. Guess who got kicked out, and guess who saw zero repercussions?
Trisec Tebeakesse 2 years ago
Well...my High School used to have a lunch program for the elderly folks in town. One day, we had a bomb scare, and we evacuated to the far side of the parking lot. Right at that moment, three school buses full of the old folks rolled up to the front door of the school. It's decades later, and we still call it "The day the old ladies came to see the school blow up."
marianne eliza 2 years ago
1976 Police tried to do an undercover operation at our upper middle class public high school. Sent undercover agents "disguised" as high school students (HA, yeah, right) to try and buy drugs. These obvious adults were dressed in someone's idea of mid-70's typical high school wear. They stood out like sore thumbs. No one wore clothes like that in real life, just in ridiculous mid 70's movies. And the cars they drove? Sorry again. We may have been in an affluent area but kids still drove their parents' hand-me-downs. They hung out in the parking lot trying to be cool. What a joke.
Dre Mosley 2 years ago
Nothing stands out as THE incident, but we had a student death pretty much every year. Either car accident or suicide.
Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago
When I was in highschool a kid opened their locker and a live chicken jumped out at them. I didn't personally witness it, but I found out about it because some classmates caught the chicken and brought her to me because they knew we had a chicken coop at home and could take care of the poor thing. Later on it turned out she had been stolen from another local highschool which had its own miniature farm for teaching students about agriculture and animal care, which led credence to the theory that the whole thing was a revenge prank done by someone who had been expelled from our school. (A teacher from the other school came by and collected the chicken, who was returned safely to her family, so at least she got a happy ending. I never found out if the kid responsible was caught).
David Martin 2 years ago
I showed up to high school one day, and noticed a lot of whispering going on all around, but couldn't catch many details, just the name "Steven X". I happened to be in a class with this Steven, who wasn't there that day, or the next two. By day three, I got curious and asked a friend what was going on. Turns out, Steven had been expelled. He had broken into the teacher's lounge over the weekend to raid their fridge for some reason...and then, for some further reason, decided to use a hot dog bun he found there to pleasure himself on their couch. Cue the janitor making the rounds.....
Rachel Reynolds 2 years ago
My HS had the Senior Curse. For more than fifty years, at least on Senior died. My class looked like it would break the curse, but two or three months before graduation one girl vanished without a trace. We walked, had the whole memorial thing, very sad, and went on with our summer. Toward the end of summer the county fair came to town and with it...the missing girl. Turns out she hooked up with a carny, got pregnant and ran off to be with him. Apparently they got married? I'm not clear on the details. To be clear, she came from a well off upper middle class family and now she travels the country and runs carnival rides. So...good for her, I guess, as long as she'd happy.
RandomFrog(He/They️️) 2 years ago
I’ll share mine (these aren’t too severe) Elementary school: -some kindergartners stick metal in a socket and caused the lights to go out in three hallways Middle school: -principal was rumored to be a pedo and he was a confirmed homophobe -got my backpack nearly stolen (I put up a fight) and came and pushed me to the ground three times. He was way bigger than me and put his hands on my shoulders and pushed down. -same kid who tried to steal my backpack went to juvy for stabbing someone (that’s the most severe)
Guile main 2 years ago (edited)
Someone stole a urinal from the bathroom, they ened up locking up that bathroom for the rest of the year. Oh and someone once stuck a pipe cleaner in a socket and causes sparks and the lights flickered for a long while
lapis lazuli 2 years ago
this one is pretty weird. basically, in the boys locker room there was a clogged toilet. none of the boys wanted to plunge it and the janitors didn't want to go in there either. the poop was like a foot long and snaked around the inside of the toilet bowl. eventually, people would line up to see the poop. it was that big. still, nobody could flush it. so... people started pooping on top of it. there was a huge scandal throughout the school because of that one toilet that was filled with various boy's poop. Eventually the principal had to step in and the boys locker room was closed off for a few days while they took care of the "situation." the question still stands: who did it?
Laura Current 2 years ago
when a mild school girl was killed by her father, who had just picked her up from school. he strangled her to death, drove home and told his wife that the devil told him to do it.
Rowan/Vin 2 years ago
Innnn primary school a boy stabbed a pencil lead in one of my friends hand, then someone in my class got in trouble for saying its unfair how he breaks stuff and hurts people and all that but never gets in trouble. Anddd my high school got burnt down the year before covid hit
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
There were three fires at my primary school while my sister was there, and one at my high school while my brother was there. At least it made the government hurry up with grants to replace the buildings...
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Ada Hunter 2 years ago
me who grew up and is still going to high school in the utah bubble: wtf did i just read
Ciara Ann Stone 2 years ago
Mine was two separate incidents: my school was basically an underground pharmacy for opiates, Adderall, and fentanyl patches where we would suck on them. Even the straight A students took them ALL THE TIME. The second crazy thing that happened was we had a mid 30s English teacher-she was pretty in an ordinary way but a great teacher. My senior year was my last year with her then she up and quit as soon as summer break began. Why!?!?! She began an 18 yr old student, WHOM she taught for four years. Crazy.
rowan-the-dragon-nerd 2 years ago
This happened at my friends elementary school: Apparently this girl stole another girls phone and used it to call 911. She said that there was a "strange person" at the school and when the police got there she said it was just a prank.
Jamyi Lee 2 years ago
Oh baby. This one is crazy. My husband (then boyfriend) out of nowhere verbally attacked my homeroom teacher. Saying how "I saw you looking at her like that you f*****g pervert, my girlfriend isn't coming back into your classroom you ginger f**k!" He wasn't looking at me by the way. It was another girl in my home room. 15 years later he was charged with multiple counts of rape and indecent relationships with students. Then the police took the couch from the theatre department and his semen was all over it along with the DNA of several other females.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
Thankfully not much chance of shootings at my school, but we did do a 'code black' drill when I was in year 11. It was meant to be a school lockdown drill for if someone with a weapon or something entered the school grounds. I was in drama class and the teacher told us the drill was happening that period, but she didn't know the exact time. Well we were in a classroom on the very edge of the school grounds and the PA system wasn't working, but we thought we heard the bell for the drill so all got up and hid under our desks. We waited a couple of minutes and heard nothing else so went on with class. About 10 mins later the actual bell went but we had already done our drill so ignored it. We were also amused that the action plan was pretty pointless in this classroom, as there were wall to floor windows all along one side and the blinds were all broken. Easy to laugh about it when you know the likelihood of having to do it for real is pretty small I guess.
Ella The Book Monster 2 years ago
Not my high school but my sister’s, apparently one of the teachers was shot and killed by his son in a gas station parking lot
OneHappyPuppy 2 years ago
A lot of sh*t went down in my school, fights (involving knifes), elementary school kids getting a police record for staging fights, bomb threats, theft where they'd put us on lockdown to search us but my mom's high school takes the cake. This was late 70s, in a notorious part of the city. I don't know the details (nor do I want to) but there was this teacher who was absolutely despised by his students, so much that someone found his daughter, decapitated her and her head was placed on the teachers desk for him to find as he entered the classroom. The most disturbing fact to me is that an entire class of students had that much hate and fury against this teacher that they sat calmly waiting for him in front of a poor child's head
Kristal 2 years ago
I call bs on the decapitation unless there is an article or something. That kind of stuff would go on national news.
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Went to a Catholic girls high school. We had a few things. The saddest the first. There was a hill behind the school/convent that went done to the street where a pub was across from. Our janitor was murdered one evening after getting paid and was heading down the hill to the pub. Two others were funny. Went to school during the years that streaking was popular. It was during first lunch and the lower hall was crowded. Next thing you know, some boys from a neighbouring boys school came down the stairwell naked and ran the length of the lower hall and up the stairwell at the other end. I was usually on first lunch. I was home sick that day. Going to have to write part 3 in reply.
Miss Frankfurter 2 years ago
Part 3. There was a movie called The Trouble With Angels. It was about all the crazy trouble a one girl and her naive friend caused at the school. In one scene they were in the basement smoking cigars and had opened the window to blow the smoke out through. An elderly nun saw the smoke and called the fire department and find it was these two girls smoking in the basement. Cut to my school. The girls in the highest grade had their own lounge. They were allowed to smoke in there. I know, but this was very early 70’s and the Order was a very liberal one. Smoke detectors were a new thing and they were installed everywhere, including the lounge. You guessed it. One afternoon the fire bells went off. We do the fire drill thing, but it’s not a drill. The fire department shows up. You guessed it. It was caused by the large amount of smoke in the lounge from so many of them smoking. The fire department was not impressed. Needless to say, it became a smoke free lounge. Movie= reality.
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LapCat 2 years ago
Not that big of a deal but in sophomore Spanish class, someone brought some “samples” of the hottest peppers in the world. Before class ended students were up and about mingling, apparently one of the students was dared to eat one of the peppers to which he did, and ended up running frantically to the band rehearsal room across the hallway and puked in their sink.
JLN 2 years ago
In grade 9 there was a French trip to Montreal, the legal drinking age in Quebec is 18, and one of the 14 year olds looked 18 and wasn't carded (asked for ID). About 15 kids got drunk and proceeded to puke while on the bus all the way home (about a 4 hour drive). There was never another French trip!
Wysteria_Rose 2 years ago
We had one incident where a freshman/sophomore girl claimed to the school (I think without evidence) that she and our English teacher/debate coach were having an online relationship. One morning, his stuff was all packed and a substitute filled in for him. It came out that she lied about all of it so he did come back and things resumed normally, though many of the students outright bullied the girl for almost getting a cool teacher sacked (can't say it wasn't a poor decision to make). The rest hit senior year when our new-to-be superintendent was rumored to have slept with the principal, vice principal, and the town dry cleaner (she was getting divorced at the time as well).
Monica Pryts 2 years ago
A false alarm for emergency services is not a prank. Usually comes with a fine.
I Honestly Have No Clue 2 years ago
Three things 1. My brother stabbed someone in elementary 2. So apparently some guy cheated on his girlfriend with another girl, and got that other girl pregnant. His girlfriend then beat up the girl the boyfriend cheated with by slamming her head into a pillar repeatedly. Note that this was at my sisters high school 3. According to my sister, her band director has a thing for one of the drum majors
Cass Malone 2 years ago
Some idiot brought a 5th of vodka to school. It fell out of his locker and made the whole entire 3rd floor smell like vodka for the rest of the day. The locker are still smelled like it for a week or so afterward
Shannon Hawks 2 years ago
Damn. only thing that happened in my H.S. was when 1 certain person was absent you could expect a fire drill or bomb scare. (early 1980s). everyone knew except the faculty
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
So, in Australia the last day of school for year 12s is called muck up day, but in general all pranks etc are banned these days (possibly always were but easier to enforce now or something). My muck up day we were allowed to use chalk and silly string all over the school and have a water fight as long as only year 12s were involved. Leading up to the day there was a 'plan' mentioned that everyone would go to the school the night before and string up a Bunnings (national hardware store) sign on the performing arts centre, because it looked like one of their buildings. Fairly tame prank I would have loved to be involved in, but my friends and I were never told of any actual time or anything so assumed nothing was happening. What did happen was a small group got drunk and went to the school that night (I don't think they even took a sign) and were promptly caught by the security guard the school hired for that one night. Though originally told anyone who did a muck up day prank wouldn't..
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
...be allowed to sit their exams I don't think that happened, since all they were caught doing was trespassing, no damage or anything. Every year people would say they had grand plans, but nothing outside of a few egging really came of it. No one in my year level or ones above or below egged anyone, I think because so many of us had been witness the year before to a group from another school egging us while we were at our bus stop and they kept going even when the bus pulled up and one hit the bus driver in the eye and he was hospitalised. Stupid stuff that I hope they got no pleasure from. The one prank my friends and I pulled was putting post-it notes with the word moist on them all over my drama teacher's car, because he hated the word!
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Nathaniel 2 years ago
A mid twenty year old male assistant to the PE teacher was having an affair with a 16 year old school girl. He did not teach her, she was of legal age, it was technically legal but still EW!
Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago
EW. And of course it's not just an age thing, but a power dynamic thing.
Load More Replies... KING ILLEGAL FOREST 2 years ago
My best friend and I WERE the "event" during our high school years. (Think Weasley twins type of shenanigans.) But all of our pranks pale in comparison to one of the senior pranks. When I was a sophomore, a few of the seniors "borrowed" 3 pigs from one of their farms (we're rednecks). They marked each pig with a number--"1", "3", and "4"--and let them loose in the school. The teachers and principal spent HOURS looking for piggy number 2 before the kids finally admitted there were only three pigs.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
The pig thing is one that was always talked about at high schools where I lived as the ultimate 'muck up day' prank. Of course none of us had the courage (or stupidity) by the time we got to year 12 to actually do it. One of my friends also wanted to do a variation where she announced to the school she had hidden a $5, $10, $20 and $50 note in random books in the library and have a plant who would 'find' the $20 as 'proof'. She never did that either, though she did get caught putting vaseline on the locks of a number of lockers.
Load More Replies... Mrs. Jan Glass 2 years ago
One of the couples in our high school got pregnant. She was on scholarship. He was the pastor's son. Guess who got kicked out, and guess who saw zero repercussions?
Trisec Tebeakesse 2 years ago
Well...my High School used to have a lunch program for the elderly folks in town. One day, we had a bomb scare, and we evacuated to the far side of the parking lot. Right at that moment, three school buses full of the old folks rolled up to the front door of the school. It's decades later, and we still call it "The day the old ladies came to see the school blow up."
marianne eliza 2 years ago
1976 Police tried to do an undercover operation at our upper middle class public high school. Sent undercover agents "disguised" as high school students (HA, yeah, right) to try and buy drugs. These obvious adults were dressed in someone's idea of mid-70's typical high school wear. They stood out like sore thumbs. No one wore clothes like that in real life, just in ridiculous mid 70's movies. And the cars they drove? Sorry again. We may have been in an affluent area but kids still drove their parents' hand-me-downs. They hung out in the parking lot trying to be cool. What a joke.
Dre Mosley 2 years ago
Nothing stands out as THE incident, but we had a student death pretty much every year. Either car accident or suicide.
Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago
When I was in highschool a kid opened their locker and a live chicken jumped out at them. I didn't personally witness it, but I found out about it because some classmates caught the chicken and brought her to me because they knew we had a chicken coop at home and could take care of the poor thing. Later on it turned out she had been stolen from another local highschool which had its own miniature farm for teaching students about agriculture and animal care, which led credence to the theory that the whole thing was a revenge prank done by someone who had been expelled from our school. (A teacher from the other school came by and collected the chicken, who was returned safely to her family, so at least she got a happy ending. I never found out if the kid responsible was caught).
David Martin 2 years ago
I showed up to high school one day, and noticed a lot of whispering going on all around, but couldn't catch many details, just the name "Steven X". I happened to be in a class with this Steven, who wasn't there that day, or the next two. By day three, I got curious and asked a friend what was going on. Turns out, Steven had been expelled. He had broken into the teacher's lounge over the weekend to raid their fridge for some reason...and then, for some further reason, decided to use a hot dog bun he found there to pleasure himself on their couch. Cue the janitor making the rounds.....
Rachel Reynolds 2 years ago
My HS had the Senior Curse. For more than fifty years, at least on Senior died. My class looked like it would break the curse, but two or three months before graduation one girl vanished without a trace. We walked, had the whole memorial thing, very sad, and went on with our summer. Toward the end of summer the county fair came to town and with it...the missing girl. Turns out she hooked up with a carny, got pregnant and ran off to be with him. Apparently they got married? I'm not clear on the details. To be clear, she came from a well off upper middle class family and now she travels the country and runs carnival rides. So...good for her, I guess, as long as she'd happy.
RandomFrog(He/They️️) 2 years ago
I’ll share mine (these aren’t too severe) Elementary school: -some kindergartners stick metal in a socket and caused the lights to go out in three hallways Middle school: -principal was rumored to be a pedo and he was a confirmed homophobe -got my backpack nearly stolen (I put up a fight) and came and pushed me to the ground three times. He was way bigger than me and put his hands on my shoulders and pushed down. -same kid who tried to steal my backpack went to juvy for stabbing someone (that’s the most severe)
Guile main 2 years ago (edited)
Someone stole a urinal from the bathroom, they ened up locking up that bathroom for the rest of the year. Oh and someone once stuck a pipe cleaner in a socket and causes sparks and the lights flickered for a long while
lapis lazuli 2 years ago
this one is pretty weird. basically, in the boys locker room there was a clogged toilet. none of the boys wanted to plunge it and the janitors didn't want to go in there either. the poop was like a foot long and snaked around the inside of the toilet bowl. eventually, people would line up to see the poop. it was that big. still, nobody could flush it. so... people started pooping on top of it. there was a huge scandal throughout the school because of that one toilet that was filled with various boy's poop. Eventually the principal had to step in and the boys locker room was closed off for a few days while they took care of the "situation." the question still stands: who did it?
Laura Current 2 years ago
when a mild school girl was killed by her father, who had just picked her up from school. he strangled her to death, drove home and told his wife that the devil told him to do it.
Rowan/Vin 2 years ago
Innnn primary school a boy stabbed a pencil lead in one of my friends hand, then someone in my class got in trouble for saying its unfair how he breaks stuff and hurts people and all that but never gets in trouble. Anddd my high school got burnt down the year before covid hit
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
There were three fires at my primary school while my sister was there, and one at my high school while my brother was there. At least it made the government hurry up with grants to replace the buildings...
Load More Replies... Ada Hunter 2 years ago
me who grew up and is still going to high school in the utah bubble: wtf did i just read
Ciara Ann Stone 2 years ago
Mine was two separate incidents: my school was basically an underground pharmacy for opiates, Adderall, and fentanyl patches where we would suck on them. Even the straight A students took them ALL THE TIME. The second crazy thing that happened was we had a mid 30s English teacher-she was pretty in an ordinary way but a great teacher. My senior year was my last year with her then she up and quit as soon as summer break began. Why!?!?! She began an 18 yr old student, WHOM she taught for four years. Crazy.
rowan-the-dragon-nerd 2 years ago
This happened at my friends elementary school: Apparently this girl stole another girls phone and used it to call 911. She said that there was a "strange person" at the school and when the police got there she said it was just a prank.
Jamyi Lee 2 years ago
Oh baby. This one is crazy. My husband (then boyfriend) out of nowhere verbally attacked my homeroom teacher. Saying how "I saw you looking at her like that you f*****g pervert, my girlfriend isn't coming back into your classroom you ginger f**k!" He wasn't looking at me by the way. It was another girl in my home room. 15 years later he was charged with multiple counts of rape and indecent relationships with students. Then the police took the couch from the theatre department and his semen was all over it along with the DNA of several other females.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
Thankfully not much chance of shootings at my school, but we did do a 'code black' drill when I was in year 11. It was meant to be a school lockdown drill for if someone with a weapon or something entered the school grounds. I was in drama class and the teacher told us the drill was happening that period, but she didn't know the exact time. Well we were in a classroom on the very edge of the school grounds and the PA system wasn't working, but we thought we heard the bell for the drill so all got up and hid under our desks. We waited a couple of minutes and heard nothing else so went on with class. About 10 mins later the actual bell went but we had already done our drill so ignored it. We were also amused that the action plan was pretty pointless in this classroom, as there were wall to floor windows all along one side and the blinds were all broken. Easy to laugh about it when you know the likelihood of having to do it for real is pretty small I guess.
Ella The Book Monster 2 years ago
Not my high school but my sister’s, apparently one of the teachers was shot and killed by his son in a gas station parking lot
OneHappyPuppy 2 years ago
A lot of sh*t went down in my school, fights (involving knifes), elementary school kids getting a police record for staging fights, bomb threats, theft where they'd put us on lockdown to search us but my mom's high school takes the cake. This was late 70s, in a notorious part of the city. I don't know the details (nor do I want to) but there was this teacher who was absolutely despised by his students, so much that someone found his daughter, decapitated her and her head was placed on the teachers desk for him to find as he entered the classroom. The most disturbing fact to me is that an entire class of students had that much hate and fury against this teacher that they sat calmly waiting for him in front of a poor child's head
Kristal 2 years ago
I call bs on the decapitation unless there is an article or something. That kind of stuff would go on national news.
Load More Replies... Miss Frankfurter 2 years ago (edited)
Went to a Catholic girls high school. We had a few things. The saddest the first. There was a hill behind the school/convent that went done to the street where a pub was across from. Our janitor was murdered one evening after getting paid and was heading down the hill to the pub. Two others were funny. Went to school during the years that streaking was popular. It was during first lunch and the lower hall was crowded. Next thing you know, some boys from a neighbouring boys school came down the stairwell naked and ran the length of the lower hall and up the stairwell at the other end. I was usually on first lunch. I was home sick that day. Going to have to write part 3 in reply.
Miss Frankfurter 2 years ago
Part 3. There was a movie called The Trouble With Angels. It was about all the crazy trouble a one girl and her naive friend caused at the school. In one scene they were in the basement smoking cigars and had opened the window to blow the smoke out through. An elderly nun saw the smoke and called the fire department and find it was these two girls smoking in the basement. Cut to my school. The girls in the highest grade had their own lounge. They were allowed to smoke in there. I know, but this was very early 70’s and the Order was a very liberal one. Smoke detectors were a new thing and they were installed everywhere, including the lounge. You guessed it. One afternoon the fire bells went off. We do the fire drill thing, but it’s not a drill. The fire department shows up. You guessed it. It was caused by the large amount of smoke in the lounge from so many of them smoking. The fire department was not impressed. Needless to say, it became a smoke free lounge. Movie= reality.
Load More Replies... LapCat 2 years ago
Not that big of a deal but in sophomore Spanish class, someone brought some “samples” of the hottest peppers in the world. Before class ended students were up and about mingling, apparently one of the students was dared to eat one of the peppers to which he did, and ended up running frantically to the band rehearsal room across the hallway and puked in their sink.
JLN 2 years ago
In grade 9 there was a French trip to Montreal, the legal drinking age in Quebec is 18, and one of the 14 year olds looked 18 and wasn't carded (asked for ID). About 15 kids got drunk and proceeded to puke while on the bus all the way home (about a 4 hour drive). There was never another French trip!
Wysteria_Rose 2 years ago
We had one incident where a freshman/sophomore girl claimed to the school (I think without evidence) that she and our English teacher/debate coach were having an online relationship. One morning, his stuff was all packed and a substitute filled in for him. It came out that she lied about all of it so he did come back and things resumed normally, though many of the students outright bullied the girl for almost getting a cool teacher sacked (can't say it wasn't a poor decision to make). The rest hit senior year when our new-to-be superintendent was rumored to have slept with the principal, vice principal, and the town dry cleaner (she was getting divorced at the time as well).
Monica Pryts 2 years ago
A false alarm for emergency services is not a prank. Usually comes with a fine.
I Honestly Have No Clue 2 years ago
Three things 1. My brother stabbed someone in elementary 2. So apparently some guy cheated on his girlfriend with another girl, and got that other girl pregnant. His girlfriend then beat up the girl the boyfriend cheated with by slamming her head into a pillar repeatedly. Note that this was at my sisters high school 3. According to my sister, her band director has a thing for one of the drum majors
Cass Malone 2 years ago
Some idiot brought a 5th of vodka to school. It fell out of his locker and made the whole entire 3rd floor smell like vodka for the rest of the day. The locker are still smelled like it for a week or so afterward
Shannon Hawks 2 years ago
Damn. only thing that happened in my H.S. was when 1 certain person was absent you could expect a fire drill or bomb scare. (early 1980s). everyone knew except the faculty
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
So, in Australia the last day of school for year 12s is called muck up day, but in general all pranks etc are banned these days (possibly always were but easier to enforce now or something). My muck up day we were allowed to use chalk and silly string all over the school and have a water fight as long as only year 12s were involved. Leading up to the day there was a 'plan' mentioned that everyone would go to the school the night before and string up a Bunnings (national hardware store) sign on the performing arts centre, because it looked like one of their buildings. Fairly tame prank I would have loved to be involved in, but my friends and I were never told of any actual time or anything so assumed nothing was happening. What did happen was a small group got drunk and went to the school that night (I don't think they even took a sign) and were promptly caught by the security guard the school hired for that one night. Though originally told anyone who did a muck up day prank wouldn't..
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
...be allowed to sit their exams I don't think that happened, since all they were caught doing was trespassing, no damage or anything. Every year people would say they had grand plans, but nothing outside of a few egging really came of it. No one in my year level or ones above or below egged anyone, I think because so many of us had been witness the year before to a group from another school egging us while we were at our bus stop and they kept going even when the bus pulled up and one hit the bus driver in the eye and he was hospitalised. Stupid stuff that I hope they got no pleasure from. The one prank my friends and I pulled was putting post-it notes with the word moist on them all over my drama teacher's car, because he hated the word!
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