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Someone In This Online Group Asked “Teachers, What Was The Worst Thing You Had To Confiscate From A Student?”, 30 Folks Delivered

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For many kids, school is like a second home as they spend so much time there, get to hang out with friends and explore what their interests are. So sometimes they feel so comfortable at school that they forget that it is actually an academic institution and some things should stay at home.

Sometimes kids bring the weirdest things to school they weren't supposed to and teachers have to confiscate them for safety reasons. Reddit user GlytchedTTV wanted to know from teachers “What was the worst thing you had to confiscate from a student?” and there were some surprising answers.

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#1

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Teachers, What Was The Worst Thing You Had To Confiscate From A Student?”, 30 Folks Delivered I had to confiscate a sea bass from a student who had brought it in to use in the playground at break time...he was walking around slapping people in the face with it and challenging them to a duel..

FearlessPressure3 , morebyless Report

Final score:

566points

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#2

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Teachers, What Was The Worst Thing You Had To Confiscate From A Student?”, 30 Folks Delivered My mom has had stories about what's she's confiscated from lower elementary aged students (K-3). The usual prank items like woopie cushions, sure. But one time a student was playing with this weird box. The box was locked. So she couldn't put it in the confiscated bin. She put it on top of a cabinet. About an hour later, it starts ringing. Furiously. It took some doing to get the box open.

Turns out, this kid's parent was a professional chef. So the kid had grabbed every timer in the house, set them for the max amount of time, locked the box, brought it to school, and played with it so it would get confiscated and ring loudly. Whole class erupted with laughter and screaming. A true agent of chaos

Cathy-the-Grand , garlandcannon Report

Final score:

331points

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#3

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Teachers, What Was The Worst Thing You Had To Confiscate From A Student?”, 30 Folks Delivered My teacher took my gold nasa pen I got for my birthday because "it wasn't fair to the other students", I never got it back

jaciviridae , Caleb Bond Report

Final score:

226points

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#4

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Teachers, What Was The Worst Thing You Had To Confiscate From A Student?”, 30 Folks Delivered My wife is a teacher and one of her first graders brought her 2 hard seltzers because her mom said they’re good after a long day and she deserved them

Nocreativeability , Mike Mozart Report

Final score:

208points

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#5

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Teachers, What Was The Worst Thing You Had To Confiscate From A Student?”, 30 Folks Delivered A chihuahua- a 1st grader had slipped it into his backpack while waiting on the bus to pick him up. Poor thing was just quietly sitting in his backpack that was on a hook in the hallway.

sushiluva7050 , kaelin Report

Final score:

208points

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#6

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Teachers, What Was The Worst Thing You Had To Confiscate From A Student?”, 30 Folks Delivered Preschool teacher here. I had to convince a 4 year old that his mom's wedding ring should go into a special box on the front desk instead of on the finger of a six year old girl he had a crush on.

Later he brought in his dad's car keys, and a bottle opener.

Luka-the-Pooka , Patrick Byrne Report

Final score:

187points

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#7

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Teachers, What Was The Worst Thing You Had To Confiscate From A Student?”, 30 Folks Delivered My mom told me that a kid in elementary school came to the school with a bag so the teacher took a look and there was a baby in it. The girl wanted to show her friends her little brother. The baby vomited all over himself and the parents didn’t even notice that their 1 week child was missing.

lawsuy , 2benny Report

Final score:

180points

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#8

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Teachers, What Was The Worst Thing You Had To Confiscate From A Student?”, 30 Folks Delivered I had to confiscate hand sanitizer from a student who decided to drink it to get drunk and threw up EVERYWHERE.

astrobre , Counselman Collection Report

Final score:

169points

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#9

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Teachers, What Was The Worst Thing You Had To Confiscate From A Student?”, 30 Folks Delivered Once we got confiscated a pineapple that all the boys would worship.

Nik9200 , Vegan Feast CateringFollow Report

Final score:

166points

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#10

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Teachers, What Was The Worst Thing You Had To Confiscate From A Student?”, 30 Folks Delivered Not the worst but definitely my favorite. I taught 4th graders and saw a couple of them passing around a sheet of paper to each other instead of doing what they were supposed to be doing. I took the note from them and one of the kids' faces looked as if her life was over and she started crying and begged me not to look at it. I unfolded it to see what they were writing about. The note was filled with drawings of cartoon butts and they told me they wanted to have a contest to see who was the best at drawing butts.

mjab97 , maxpixel. Report

Final score:

153points

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#11

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Teachers, What Was The Worst Thing You Had To Confiscate From A Student?”, 30 Folks Delivered When I taught grade 2 a kid managed to bring a live wild badger in a box. It promply escaped and we had to evacuate while animal control was called. The kid's parents had no idea how he caught a badger, and he never told us where he got it.

Leprechan_Sushi , John Campbell Report

Final score:

149points

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#12

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Teachers, What Was The Worst Thing You Had To Confiscate From A Student?”, 30 Folks Delivered Kindergarten, studying butterfly life cycles. Little guy brings in a “chrysalis” he found on the porch of his house. A doobie, the kid brought me a doobie and wanted us to see how long it would take to turn into a butterfly.

TheMagicallyMacabre , Michelle Grewe Report

Final score:

148points

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#13

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Teachers, What Was The Worst Thing You Had To Confiscate From A Student?”, 30 Folks Delivered Most dangerous: a knife from an 8th grader.

Most annoying: different school than above, but a wifi jammer and a USB killing device from an 8th grader.

CageyRabbit , Rocco Report

Final score:

144points

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#14

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Teachers, What Was The Worst Thing You Had To Confiscate From A Student?”, 30 Folks Delivered Worst thing: bullets. From a first grader. Had to do a room clear to look for a gun.

Best thing: a cat a high school student brought in their backpack, haha.

Substantial_Peace707 , kinggrl Report

Final score:

144points

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#15

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Teachers, What Was The Worst Thing You Had To Confiscate From A Student?”, 30 Folks Delivered Not a teacher but in 2nd grade I had a clay dinosaur project confiscated from me by the teacher who assigned the project. I think it was because I wouldn’t stop playing with it. I never got it back.

Looking back it makes sense that I couldn’t stop playing with it. I’m a full time ceramic artist.

Uyulala88 , Jody McIntyreFollow Report

Final score:

143points

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#16

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Teachers, What Was The Worst Thing You Had To Confiscate From A Student?”, 30 Folks Delivered The weirdest one was definitely the fish in a vase they found during locker checks. It was in an unassigned locker someone had added a lock to. Inside was a live Betta fish in about as large a vase as you can fit in a locker. Fully decorated. Someone had clipped a little book light to the top of the vase presumably so fish wasn't in the dark all the time. No one claimed to know whose if was or how long it had been there so it lived in the coaches office for at least that year.

Polyf**kery , Christine Cavalier Report

Final score:

142points

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#17

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Teachers, What Was The Worst Thing You Had To Confiscate From A Student?”, 30 Folks Delivered Ear piercing gun. Had to stop them from piercing each others ears during lunch

grimberlyplace , Fiona Henderson Report

Final score:

119points

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#18

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Teachers, What Was The Worst Thing You Had To Confiscate From A Student?”, 30 Folks Delivered I taught 1st grade and confiscated a piece of a broken beer bottle from a 6 yr old. It really surprised me, because he was the sweetest kid. Turns out another classmate asked him to bring a weapon and hide it in the playground sand, so that he could get back at another kid. I tried to do more life lesson things than suspension for both boys, bc they’re freakin 6, but school policy had them both suspended for a few days.

No_Fondant_5030 , Stefan van Bremen Report

Final score:

118points

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#19

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Teachers, What Was The Worst Thing You Had To Confiscate From A Student?”, 30 Folks Delivered A styrofoam head that some boys had drawn a smile on and scooped out some eye holes. It had a name and they took it to every class. It got old and shabby and so did the joke so I put it out of its misery.

Great staff room trophy though

eggbert_217 , Eric Sonstroem Report

Final score:

115points

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#20

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Teachers, What Was The Worst Thing You Had To Confiscate From A Student?”, 30 Folks Delivered A gorilla mask...yes...dude put it on while my back was turned and facing the board. I laughed like hell then took it for the day until his parents collected it.

RanjitKumarSingh , Roger Ahlbrand Report

Final score:

111points

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#21

A 6 pack of beer from a second grader. In her defense, she was going to share it on the field trip that day.

Final score:

111points

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#22

A Coors Light that the child had mistaken for a Diet Coke. The student was mortified. I just giggled. The principal kept it for “evidence”. He kept it in the refrigerator in his office until it “disappeared” one day.

dwhitesciguy Report

Final score:

111points

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#23

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Teachers, What Was The Worst Thing You Had To Confiscate From A Student?”, 30 Folks Delivered Once our philosophy teacher got mad and confiscated our recently captured grasshopper because we named him "Aristotle"

elprosar , PPD Report

Final score:

110points

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#24

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Teachers, What Was The Worst Thing You Had To Confiscate From A Student?”, 30 Folks Delivered I took a teaching job on a high school once, it was a fun optional subject and my students were 15 years old, the only thing I confiscated were one and a half onions.

One of the kids was eating the onions and blasting the girls with his breath. He brought 3 onions to school...

vairoletto , Jeff Easter Report

Final score:

106points

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#25

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Teachers, What Was The Worst Thing You Had To Confiscate From A Student?”, 30 Folks Delivered Over the course of years:

Bottle of Vodka 'hidden' in the girls bathroom by 7th graders. "How did you know where to look?" Everyone who came back from the bathroom was drunk so, you're not as sneaky as you think.

Vape "My mom gave it to me for allergies." "So, I'll just give it back to her then." WIDE EYES. "No!!"

Student banging the primers of two 30-06 shells together in class. -- Grab!-- "I just wanted to see if they would go off."

tempaccntnow , Sento Report

Final score:

105points

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#26

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Teachers, What Was The Worst Thing You Had To Confiscate From A Student?”, 30 Folks Delivered A god damn tattoo machine. They were tattooing their hands. (8th grade, Germany)

Dolifti , TIGER500 Report

Final score:

102points

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#27

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Teachers, What Was The Worst Thing You Had To Confiscate From A Student?”, 30 Folks Delivered My mom always told the story about my brother bringing a signed picture of Richard Petty to his class and telling everyone he was his Dad (1-2nd grade maybe) but that everyone forgot because the next kid pulled out an antique gun

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93points

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#28

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Teachers, What Was The Worst Thing You Had To Confiscate From A Student?”, 30 Folks Delivered Handcuffs and tear gas from the same student, same lesson

oldbutdum , David Surtees Report

Final score:

91points

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#29

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Teachers, What Was The Worst Thing You Had To Confiscate From A Student?”, 30 Folks Delivered I recently confiscated a giant ball of cheese. Kid had like 8 cheese sticks, had unwrapped them, and was forming them into a massive ball of goo. He was about to shove it in his cheese hole when I took it. It had started to melt. I teach 8th grade. Cheese goo.

Interesting-Road-441 , Rusty Clark ~ 100K Photos Report

Final score:

83points

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#30

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Teachers, What Was The Worst Thing You Had To Confiscate From A Student?”, 30 Folks Delivered A tazer disguised as a torch

leobeer , Myself248 Report

Final score:

78points

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#31

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Teachers, What Was The Worst Thing You Had To Confiscate From A Student?”, 30 Folks Delivered A puppy. It had been in this kid's jacket pocket for about 4 hours. I had to send the kid to the office because I didn't know what to do with a puppy.

Yes, it was alive and very messy.

mel2mdl , Lisa L Wiedmeier Report

Final score:

33points

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#32

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Teachers, What Was The Worst Thing You Had To Confiscate From A Student?”, 30 Folks Delivered $900. Mom had a bag of cash laying around and her 2nd grader decided to bring it to school.

pretzel90210 , 401(K) 2012 Report

Final score:

32points

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#33

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Teachers, What Was The Worst Thing You Had To Confiscate From A Student?”, 30 Folks Delivered I was the student and my Math teacher confiscated my Gameboy. This was 2002 maybe.

I got it back by mail in 2012. I already had like 2 PlayStations by that time but atleast I got it back.

Myrealnameiskoch , Gehirnfussel Report

Final score:

31points

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#34

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Teachers, What Was The Worst Thing You Had To Confiscate From A Student?”, 30 Folks Delivered I had a student bring a live mouse to school to feed to our class pet, a ball python. He had brought the mouse in his front pocket of his pants instead of something reasonable to hold it.

garlicDgalaxy , Bicanski Report

Final score:

28points

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#35

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Teachers, What Was The Worst Thing You Had To Confiscate From A Student?”, 30 Folks Delivered Razor blades.

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Final score:

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#36

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Teachers, What Was The Worst Thing You Had To Confiscate From A Student?”, 30 Folks Delivered My brother recently got a m&ms container with a hotdog weenie inside it confiscated. The teacher nor principal even threw it away. They made my mom go get it lmaoo

heavenupsidedownn · , Mike Mozart Report

Final score:

19points

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#37

my mom was a school teacher, and she once confiscated a DOZEN of pages with some BTS dudes printed on it because apparently, some 7th grade girl was staring at them instead of paying attention in class

Final score:

18points

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#38

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Teachers, What Was The Worst Thing You Had To Confiscate From A Student?”, 30 Folks Delivered I remember in high school a teacher confiscated a student who had 15 condoms

BrutalDeathMetalFan , pxhere. Report

Final score:

13points

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Jo Choto 2 years ago

If you ever needed proof that young people's brains are not fully formed and therefore do not function optimally, this is it. Every time they charge a kid as an adult, I just think about how unfair it is to do this to kids, who are effectively brain-damaged by virtue of not being adults yet.

10points

Aaricia 2 years ago

That depends, sometimes kids know exactly what they're doing.

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Yort 2 years ago

Adults are stupid as well, though. And a 12 year old who tries to sacrifice someone to s fictional character is absolutely old enough to know what they’re doing.

3points

Kickin' Wing 2 years ago

Let's let them move next door to you then.

0points

Who Panda 420 2 years ago

This kid in my elementary school, I'm talking a kindergarten student got in trouble because their mom gave them crack to sell out of his lunchbox. It was a big thing in the news.

5points

Kai David 2 years ago

When I was a teacher, game boys were the hot item. Parents had to come pick them up. At the end of the school year I would have maybe 10 game boys

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Jo Choto 2 years ago

If you ever needed proof that young people's brains are not fully formed and therefore do not function optimally, this is it. Every time they charge a kid as an adult, I just think about how unfair it is to do this to kids, who are effectively brain-damaged by virtue of not being adults yet.

10points

Aaricia 2 years ago

That depends, sometimes kids know exactly what they're doing.

16points

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Yort 2 years ago

Adults are stupid as well, though. And a 12 year old who tries to sacrifice someone to s fictional character is absolutely old enough to know what they’re doing.

3points

Kickin' Wing 2 years ago

Let's let them move next door to you then.

0points

Who Panda 420 2 years ago

This kid in my elementary school, I'm talking a kindergarten student got in trouble because their mom gave them crack to sell out of his lunchbox. It was a big thing in the news.

5points

Kai David 2 years ago

When I was a teacher, game boys were the hot item. Parents had to come pick them up. At the end of the school year I would have maybe 10 game boys

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