30 Crazy Things Teachers Did In The 80s And 90s That Seem Unbelievable Now

My elementary school had something similar. If we read a certain amount of books and tested well on them, we'd get coupons for a personal pan pizza with Pizza Hut, tickets to 6Flags or something similar.

Schools where l live still will have sleepovers like that for Grade prep to Grade 2 , to make up for them being too young for school camp

If I a library did that when I was a kid hell I'd read a s**t tone of books in the name of free food!

I think my high school needs this. Maybe the middle.

The way I read books (both when I was little and now) I'd spend every night in the library.

My third grade teacher owned a cave and we had the end of school picnic there. It was epic.

This sounds like a fantastic day! Why would this not be OK these days?

How is this "messed-up"? Definitely would not be done now a days but doesn't fall under the "messed-up category.

When I was a kid, the fifth grade teacher had an end of the year party for both classes she co-taught with a male teacher. She lived near the lake, and we all went swimming. I remember the male teacher letting us hang off his arms in the deep part. That would never happen now! This was the 70's. Only two adults with about 40-50 kids with both classes present!

I had a highschool teacher who wanted to "be friends" with the students. She would go out with them and do stuff a teacher isn't supposed to do. She decided she would help me learn how to drive. I crashed her car into a parked car as soon as I drove out of the school parking lot.

Ironic that in today's world he would be chased by angry villagers with sticks!! Oh how the humans turn!

My second grade teacher stabbed me in the hand with his pencil. Picked me up out of my seat by my ear. The principal wanted to paddle me. That was only second grade in the 80s

Seems like this should still be a thing LOL

Bring it back!

Had a teacher in elementary school, that would throw balls at you, if you were talking, not paying attention. We all thought it was awesome.

One of our agriculture teachers would pull me and 3 other girls out of class every year of high school to go to her farm and help vaccinate all of her horses and cows. She would drive her Suburban and after we were finished she would take us to get something to eat before returning to school. We usually missed about 3 hours of school depending on how the cattle cooperated!

Lol, my high school had a smoking area for the teachers, and one for the kids.

I lucked out and ended up with the football coach for my driver's Ed teacher. It was just me and him for the whole thing. Instead of having to sit and watch all those boring movies we drove around every single day of it. I took all of the written tests in n the car as he drove around. After the tests I drove us around. He'd take us through drive throughs for snacks and stuff too. On days that landed on the weekend instead of driving around town he'd have me drive us through the mountains that were near town and give me history lessons about what the old buildings and stuff were when he was a kid. He was the coolest dude when he didn't have to have his football coach face on. We remained friends long after highschool until he passed away. One of my absolute best memories of highschool.

Our Senior year we were allowed to leave the school and go across the street to get lunch at our local hot dog/ice cream stand. Not sure we were even given a time to be back.

Bro y u take pic of the Macdonald near my house?

We only had this on the last day of kindergarten, called "Discovery Day". They took us all to the local park for an all day outing since it didn't rain (would've been indoors otherwise). All parents were invited, and those who couldn't make it, their kid(s) got looked after by other parents there. We got to play on the playground, went on bug hunts, bird watching, a river walk, got to plant some flowers, did arts and crafts in one of the pavilions. Had lunch there, had story time and took naps on sleeping bags spread out under trees because we were all worn out. Got to play some more, had ice pops, then did a treasure hunt so we all ended up with "loot" along the way and the "X that marks the spot" was back at the pavilion where a local animal shelter had brought out a bunch of puppies for us to walk and play with. Best. Day. Ever. But it was ALL thanks to that 1 kindergarten teacher, and the parents. Teachers really are/can be amazing.

In middle school (90's) we didn't have a car. my math teacher/chess coach (who looked dead up like Arnold Schwarzenegger) didn't want me to have to quit the chess team. he'd drive me home 20 minutes every school day. no one in admin batted an eye, and we only ever talked strategy. can't imagine that flying now.

That was because schools were better. Teachers were respected and paid. Not today. California asking parents to rent rooms out to teachers wrf?

Not a farm but at my elementary school in the 90s used to walk us to the park each spring. We'd just go straight through the neighborhoods until we were there and spent most of the school day playing and eating sack lunches before walking back to the school. They don't do that anymore.

i did this in third grade (2014)! it was during winter so we went sledding, everyone got hot chocolate, and we got a hayride :) best day of school ever

I was very shapely and busty in high school. There was one boy in my math class that was very touchy despite making it clear I wasn't interested. One day, lunch had ended, and we were lining up outside our classroom, this boy stood right behind me, and proceeded to grab a feel of my boob. I had just come from the library, and had several hard cover books in my hand - so I turned around and whacked him a good one on top of his head. I had previously complained to our teacher about him, and it just happened that our teacher was lurking around the corner, trying to catch the boy in the act. The boy complained, and our teacher told him it was his own fault for being an a*s***. He left me alone after that (and was laughed at by all his friends, too).

I once was, unprovoked by any means - hardly knew the guy - called a "Hurensohn" (a prostitute's son) by a classmate. He didn't explain how he came to this conclusion about my mother's means of making money, which also didn't hold the slightest truth to them. I asked him to stop several times, he repeated several times and received a black eye. Ran into the classroom to snitch. Teacher called me in, asked me if I punched his eye - yes, I did. Why? Explained, some others confirmed, he basically said "Patrick, you had it coming, your fault!" and nothing more happened. And that teacher never liked me by any stretch of what liking one may represent, neither did I like him, but. Must have been 1995 or 1996, I only was in that class these years.

Kinda like a teacher putting a 'hit' on the bully. Sometimes this really DOES need to happen..

Mid 80’s, English class Miss Seaman. This one guy, the school superintendent’s son was just endlessly making racist comments about be. I snapped, got up and punched him hard right in his back - an unmistakable “Boom!” that everyone in class heard and stared as I returned to my seat. Miss Seaman just glanced up then went back to reading something. Nothing happened and that guy stopped giving me s**t.

There was a kid in my daughter's 1st grade class last year that was bullying all of the other kids. All of the parents know about this kid, and it's sad because his parents are actually very sweet, it's just him. Anyway, on field day, my daughter walks up to him and says "I don't like your face" and just walked away. He told the teacher, and she did what she was supposed to do, and comforted him. Then she walked over to my wife and I and said "I don't like his face either"

In 1992, a sixth grade (11 yo) kid brought a "handful" of mercury to school in an open container. He and his classmates had fun playing with it and word soon spread. I went to the Principals office to tell her about the problem, but she already knew. She had a bemused boys-will-be-boys attitude, but said she was going to call the fire dept. as a precaution. When I told her guys in hazmat suits and masks would close down the building, she shook her head no and looked at me like I was nuts. Well ... they only evacuated one-third of the school and sealed the affected areas in plastic sheeting. The Principal thought I was psychic. I thought everyone knew the MAD (insane/crazy) HATTER in "Alice ..." got that way from mercury poisoning.

It isn't touching mercury that's dangerous. It's breathing it into your lungs. Mercury is toxic at 1 part per billion, but it naturally evaporates at 5 parts per billion.

We had a chemistry set in the basement and played with the mercury until it was all "gone". I remember mixing up some stuff and burning it. OMG I never smelled something so bad...the sulphuric odor was so intense! As if the pit of hell was cracked open. My girlfriend and I cleaned up what we could and put out the fire of course. We really thought we might die, made a pact to not tell anyone. She just went home to quietly die. Yes mom was home and probably couldn't smell it over all of the cig smoke. Still alive after 40 some odd years but I can smell it like it was yesterday. Oh for the good old days. 1970's

It's most harmful from breathing vapors.

Our teacher did the same thing other than letting us have our own to play with. Stuff was just allot more simple in the 90's.