Share Your School Stories - Weirdos, freaks, and idiots (self-inclusion optional)

[DrJonesHat]

In 7th grade, my science teacher was in the early stages of Alzheimer's and kept calling me Matt. My name is not Matt. She retired two years later.

Two years after I graduated, the vice-principal everyone hated for being a power-tripping bitch finally overstepped her authority and had the campus police arrest a bunch of kids off campus before school for smoking, even though they were 18. Her excuse was once you go on campus in the morning, you're under school authority even if you leave until school's out. The problem was that many of the kids went straight to the off-campus spot from home, and thus, weren't actually breaking the rules. She got fired, and the school got sued.

 

[Crunchy Leaf]

In 7th grade, my science teacher was in the early stages of Alzheimer's and kept calling me Matt. My name is not Matt. She retired two years later.

Two years after I graduated, the vice-principal everyone hated for being a power-tripping bitch finally overstepped her authority and had the campus police arrest a bunch of kids off campus before school for smoking, even though they were 18. Her excuse was once you go on campus in the morning, you're under school authority even if you leave until school's out. The problem was that many of the kids went straight to the off-campus spot from home, and thus, weren't actually breaking the rules. She got fired, and the school got sued.

but if you're under school authority, the logical response would be to give you a school related punishment like detention or suspension, and not arrest you for something that isn't a crime

i was talking with a teacher at the school i went to it and it has apparently totally given up on discipline. dress code enforcement out the window except for hats. teachers no longer yanking coffee out of people's hands in the hallways. i wonder if teachers are still even allowed to hit sleeping kids' desks with yardsticks--probably not. and any more serious punishment like suspension is also harder to mete out. and then this is the good high schools! i heard a teacher at another school (that i thought was a good school) say that at hers kids throw desks at teachers. and at other other high schools in this district they have metal detectors. it seems to be a nationwide trend of out of control behavior and administrators not letting teachers do anything about it.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Someone earlier mentioned having these weird phobias throughout school, and I just remembered I had one. When I was a kid, I had this fear of missing the bus probably because I hated being late for anything but also because I didn't know how Mom would react were to I have called her from the office. So if we weren't released right at the bell because we had to stay a couple of extra minutes due to being "naughty", I would get anxious and maybe have what amounted to panic attacks, and therefore would run like hell to the buses. There was one day where I realized at the last minute I had forgotten a folder in my desk and so I had to hurry and grab it. That in particular sucked because my classroom was pretty far away (for a little kid), so I'm sure I was a nervous wreck having to barge into the classroom and dig out the folder and then dash right back out and pray my heart doesn't explode.

I didn't have to take the bus throughout middle school so by high school I didn't feel like having to run to the buses every single time, yet I still wasn't a fan of "the walk" (I don't know how else to call it). I was also still super anal about being punctual that if I was so much as five minutes late getting out the door, I'd hurry down to the bus stop down the block even if I didn't need to.

 

[Gordon Cole]

yet I still wasn't a fan of "the walk" (I don't know how else to call it).

My sister called it "Christopher walkin' home."

 

[Kari Kamiya]

My sister called it "Christopher walkin' home."

That's cute.

Just remembered that it wasn't just me I'd freak out over being late for the buses, I would also get nervous if my brothers didn't get to the bus with everyone else. There was a day one brother for whatever reason got out late and when the door closed I actually screamed and started crying and had to beg the bus driver to wait.

Man, I must've really been a nervous wreck when it came to buses for some reason.

 

[Shadfan666xxx000]

but if you're under school authority, the logical response would be to give you a school related punishment like detention or suspension, and not arrest you for something that isn't a crime

i was talking with a teacher at the school i went to it and it has apparently totally given up on discipline. dress code enforcement out the window except for hats. teachers no longer yanking coffee out of people's hands in the hallways. i wonder if teachers are still even allowed to hit sleeping kids' desks with yardsticks--probably not. and any more serious punishment like suspension is also harder to mete out. and then this is the good high schools! i heard a teacher at another school (that i thought was a good school) say that at hers kids throw desks at teachers. and at other other high schools in this district they have metal detectors. it seems to be a nationwide trend of out of control behavior and administrators not letting teachers do anything about it.

OT:
Who the hell tells a kid they can't have coffee? That's army boot camp bullshit.

 

[soryu]

I have so many memories from percussion class in high school. Majority of the time we treated it like a study hall because our teacher would only have a few in the week days where he'd have us practice learning a song for whatever concert was next. A lot of songs only required 4 to 6 people so this left half of the class to do whatever they wanted as long as we were quiet.
In the back of the music room, we had a closet where we'd store majority of our marching band instruments. At some point, the instruments were moved out to a trailer and this left the closet to be used as a majority practice space and random storage room. We also used the closet as a hangout room.
I remember one day, about nine of us cooped ourselves up in that closet and sat in there in total dark while on our phones and listening to our mp3 players. After a few minutes into class, I realized my phone had a really nice button that would let me control the camera flash on my phone fairly quick, basically became a handheld strobe light.
My classmates thought it was amazing and they were in awe. Suddenly, one of the classmates in the closet pulled up YouTube on her phone and started playing dance music, which I'm pretty sure it was Sandstorm by Darude, and announced "It's party time, baby!" There was a flag pole left in the closet and one of the guys attempted to use it like a stripper. Another person found some clown wig in the corner, leftover from madrigal practice that took place the night before and just flung it around.
We were all having a great time, laughing and dancing while I was the strobe light girl. This lasted for about 5 minutes until the door suddenly flew wide open. It was our music teacher. He yelled, entirely confused, "What are you doing?!" The guy on the pole was still on the pole at the time, and I thought it was even more hilarious because he also happened to have been one of the top music students in the school. We scurried out of the closet and apologized, all of us looking at each other in nervous laughter wondering what he was going to say to us. "We're never having this closet door shut during class again... okay?" All of us agreed. He let us go out into the hallway where the rest of the classmates were hanging out and we told them what had just happened.
That was fun. I remember a few days afterwards one of my classmates made a comic about the closet party and we were all laughing about it. We even showed the music teacher and he had a chuckle.

 

[Big Nasty]

The only successful senior prank that happened at my high school happened when I was not a senior - not sure if it was one person or a group (I assume a group because pranks are funnier that way) but they bought some of that "crap in a can" spray, looked like diarrhea. They sprayed it inside all of the vending machines and all over one of the staircases. It was disgusting but not gonna lie, hilarious.

You know what, the same thing happened at my school. Crap in a can all over a staircase. They also put it on bike seats where it froze solid because it was winter.

 

[Crunchy Leaf]

OT:
Who the hell tells a kid they can't have coffee? That's army boot camp bullshit.

One of the older teachers wouldn't let us play cards because when he went to said school (back when it was all boys), they weren't allowed to do that. It was still in the rules but generally not enforced. Also at the first assembly (in 7th grade because it was 7-12) they told us 'look to your left, look to your right, one of you won't be here in six years'. That kinda joint.

 

[Shadfan666xxx000]

One of the older teachers wouldn't let us play cards because when he went to said school (back when it was all boys), they weren't allowed to do that. It was still in the rules but generally not enforced. Also at the first assembly (in 7th grade because it was 7-12) they told us 'look to your left, look to your right, one of you won't be here in six years'. That kinda joint.

Damn, they didn't even pull that shit on us until junior year and that was about college. Then again, the place was chill as long as you kept shit to yourself.

 

[Crunchy Leaf]

Damn, they didn't even pull that shit on us until junior year and that was about college. Then again, the place was chill as long as you kept shit to yourself.

while it was awful at the time I am glad I'm not one of those people who went to a high school where you could get an A for showing up who gets to college and has a huge, huge shock about the amount of work they now need to do

 

[rooblue]

I caught this kid named Zebulon shitting his pants under a desk. Every time I remember the utter look of opprobrium on his face in that moment I can't help but laugh.

 

[Shadfan666xxx000]

while it was awful at the time I am glad I'm not one of those people who went to a high school where you could get an A for showing up who gets to college and has a huge, huge shock about the amount of work they now need to do

Oh yeah that part sucks but I would loathe not having that experience of slacking off. Not many other places to do it and still succeed.

 

[PT 940]

One of my most memorable high school stories took places at the height of the "dumb blonde" jokes popularity. For those of you unfamiliar with this, it's a joke told about blondes that were always ridiculous and never applied to men for whatever reason and implied that all blonde women were stupid. They are only really funny because they are so ludicrous. And now that that's been explained...

I was doing a group project in one of my classes and we did not get to pick our groups, which is why this blonde girl in particular was working with us. She, despite being an AP (advanced placement) student, was just really dumb to the point of sad. Instead of working, I was telling jokes and trying to be funny. I tell the following joke: "How do you confuse a blonde?........Put her in a circular room and tell her to stand in the corner!" No one laughs (mainly because the AP kids never had any sense of humor.) We go back to work and a little less than a minute later the girl, very confused, replies "but circles don't have corners!" No one laughed at this either but mainly out of disappointment.

 

[Lucifer's Rectum]

I knew this guy in high school that was kind of a film sperg. He was a bit strange and super into airsoft and paintball, but never seemed that bad. We hung out with him yesterday night and learned that he's now a hardcore redpill supporter with some borderline incel ideals. Like looking back I can see the signs, but still it's always a surprise when someone turns out to be exceptional. At least now I have another personal lolcow.

 

[Goldbury]

In the ninth grade some of the boys in my class grew bored of fucking around on their phones. So they made up a game that basically was just sexually harassing the girls. As far as I know nothing ever came of it.

Also one of my classmates couldn't stand any mention of women's periods. He would litteraly start to dry heave if you just said the word period.

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

In the ninth grade some of the boys in my class grew bored of fucking around on their phones. So they made up a game that basically was just sexually harassing the girls. As far as I know nothing ever came of it.

Also one of my classmates couldn't stand any mention of women's periods. He would litteraly start to dry heave if you just said the word period.

Teacher: "Now, class, what should you put at the end of a sentence?"
That dude: (Autistic shrieking.)

 

[Bob Page]

Here's another few stories from me:

-This was set during the early part of my senior year. Around October, my grandmother passed away from resurgent breast cancer. At the time of hearing the news and coming back to school the following week, I was still fresh off dealing with the raw grief from it all. There was another kid that drove me and others nuts (might've mentioned him in another thread). Still upset, Ethan (not his real name) decided to be a mouthy little shit. After that, I slammed him against a wall and told him to go eat a dick, throwing him to the ground. What a little shithead.

-Me and my friends were and still are a bunch of airsoft nerds. There was this small wooded area in this abandoned park that we usually used as our airsoft arena. On the weekends, we'd go there to basically shoot each other It was all fun until one afternoon when we were playing, someone called the po-po on us and we made sure not to shoot in the general direction of the houses. Though none of us were arrested, we decided to abandon that area afterward.

-Back then, the soda vending machines were non-existent in the cafeteria and the students jokingly nodded that they were in the school district office across from our school. Those working a special cafeteria, including myself, would often charge a buck for a can of soda but we had to do it without getting caught.

 

[lurk_moar]

Somebody in another German class thought that World War II was world war motherfucking eleven. The question was was there a world war eleven? Gee whiz, the only world wars I remember are one and two. I was never taught about WWVII, WWVIII, or WWIX. The government is keeping a secret from us. s/

 

[MerriedxReldnahc]

Somebody in another German class thought that World War II was world war motherfucking eleven. The question was was there a world war eleven? Gee whiz, the only world wars I remember are one and two. I was never taught about WWVII, WWVIII, or WWIX. The government is keeping a secret from us. s/

One of my first introductions to WWII was when we read The Diary of Anne Frank in 8th grade, and my teacher was very relieved to hear that we already had a idea of what WWII was. Apparently when he asked a previous class the only response he got was, "World War II? Wasn't that The Civil War?"