What was “the incident” at your middle school and/or high school?

A kid shot himself in the head and died, officially while showing a friend his father's gun and playing around with it.

This was during the afternoon, during the heyday of latchkey kids, and apparently the father left an unsecured loaded gun lying around where a kid of 12 or 13 could play with it.

In HS, a kid laid down in the road and got run over. It was officially a suicide but alcohol apparently -- but not surprisingly -- played a large part.

We had a lockdown, but the teachers wouldn’t tell us what it was for. Turns out a wanted criminal that had escaped a transport van was on the lamb near our school. Meanwhile, the teachers left all the lights on and our classroom doors open, despite the fact that we were told to hide and be quiet, so we were sitting there thinking the teachers were actively trying to get us shot.

Turns out a wanted criminal that had escaped a transport van was on the lamb near our school.

Baaaaaaaaaaa!

boy/girl had very vocal sex in the middle of the lunchroom, during lunch...........nothing in handbook about not having sex on school property, so they got away scott free........the handbook was hastily re-written...........

this actually happened Cypress Creek High School, Houston, TX 1982

We had an F4 tornado come through. The morons had us huddled in the gym when the roof blew off. I'll ever forget it. We were just suddenly engulfed in flying dirt and other debris. Eight students and four teachers were killed. I was sixteen. I'm thirty-eight now and still have nightmares about it.

Our incident was that one of the most good looking, athletic, and popular boys in the senior class (Jeff) got killed in an auto accident. It was on a Saturday night, he was out with some other school friends, and alcohol was involved. The news went out of Sunday morning (my mom woke me up to tell me) and at school on Monday it seemed like everyone was crying about it.

But I can tell you that from my point of view -- I was a freshman nobody -- dumb teenagers didn't entirely know how to act. I didn't know him and didn't care all that much, but when you see the faculty, staff, and other students visibly upset then you realize that you at least need to be respectful and should not appear uncaring. But inside, I really just wanted to get back to the routine of classes and studying. Jeff was immediately elevated to "teen angel" status, and the rumor was that he had not had anything to drink and that others were at fault. But I suspected that was just a story made up to ease the pain of grieving parents.

Well, r6’s story makes mine seem rather tame.

Bunny Bixler and Gloria Upson were in the semi-finals—the very semi-finals, mind you—of the ping-pong tournament at the high school and this ghastly thing happened. They were both playing way over their heads and the score was 29-28. And they had this really terrific volley and Gloria stepped back to get this really terrific shot. And she stepped on the ping-pong ball! She just squashed it to bits. And then Bunny and Gloria ran to the closet of the game room to get another ping-pong ball and the closet was locked! Imagine? They had to call the whole thing off. Well, it was ghastly. Well, it was just ghastly.

A football player got shot and killed by a kid from another school. This was big news because this was well before these things were a weekly occurrence. The story made national news when the little brother of the football player jumped over the barrier at the trial to get to the defendant.

In Junior year, there was a girl who was trying to climb into or out of her bedroom window on the 2nd story of her house, and she fell and was impaled on a fence post. She died and everyone was talking about "that girl who got impaled".

In Sophomore year, there was a yearbook scandal. A boy who was in a photo at a track event appeared to have the tip of his dick hanging out of his shorts while he was running. EVERYBODY knew the exact page number the photo was on. I don't know how the editor didn't notice it.

This 11 year old kid went hunting with his dad and shot his dad in the back on accident and killed his father. The kid claimed that the shotgun fell over, but I didn't believe him because he would've hit his dad in the feet not in the back if that were true.

[quote] We had twin girls in my class who disappeared one day and never returned to school. Turns out they had murdered their mother with an axe.

The girls from "The Shining," except in reverse!

Some black kid in my school flipped his shit in one of the classes. He started pushing over desks, grabbing girls and threatening to hurt them in front of the class. This was in the 8th grade, so were around 13 at the time. I wasn't in his class, so I didn't witness it. I reference that he's black because I went to a school that was 95% white. There were two black kids in our grade and one of them was the stereotypically loud mouthed cocky obnoxious jock and this kid was the super quiet one who no one would ever suspect of doing something like that. Everyone was shocked at the time, but this was 5 years before Columbine. Now that we see that a lot of these shooters are quiet, isolated loners, it doesn't come as a surprise.

A kid was murdered on his way home from a dance at another school. It was a real tragedy that made national headlines.

In my very Christian HS a student in my sophomore class was expelled for raping his 11-year old sister. Then he apparently grew into a hulk over the summer and they "made allowances" to let him back in because he was great at football. Yeah, CIF.

There was a rumor that our PE teacher/football coach was dating the infamous topless dancer Carol Doda (this was in the '60s in the Bay Area.)

In middle school, a goth girl committed suicide. She was your typical kid who periodically lashed out at classmates and teachers for being misunderstood but not having a proper outlet to cope with whatever it was she dealt with.

In high school, my junior year, a classmate that I had numerous classes with died in a car accident. It was weird because he was the quintessential class asshole who wanted the reactions from teachers and negged and teased anyone and everyone. He was truly vile.

I was Prom King.

A gal committed Suicide in her garage. I was a junior in high school and it freaked me out. The day before we all joked and had fun. Then today she is dead. I honestly did not grasp the situation.

In HS you have those adorable couples, well this couple was them. Their locker was right next to mine, we spoke Friday, and the ended up dying that Sunday. The gals father drove off a cliff. That was bizarre, too. Now I watch the crime shows and think maybe the father was really a murderer. Seriously.

In grade school we had two classmates die during the first Mount St. Helens eruption. They were vacationing near the mountain.

In my sophomore year, we had a boy (neighborhood friend) die. He was driving drunk. He killed two, left the other paralyzed.

My freshman year, a very popular gal was also driving drunk. Her sister survived, but suffered serious side effects. The driver died.

It’s all so bizarre dealing with death dying when in K-12. It was difficult for me to comprehend.

In grade school at a party, the jocks went outside to play tag at night and one of them ran out into the road and got hit by a car and ended up in a wheelchair.

This motherfucker - Ricky Kasso. Sparked the whole Satan paranoia of the 80s. I was a sophmore and knew him peripherally. I'm quoted in Rolling Stone too when they did their big article on it, Totally fucking nuts.

my high school in Houston produced the infamous Woodlands 11, who in 1990 killed a gay man in the Montrose gay area of Houston......they beat him to death and left him bleeding for 11 hours in the gutter..........his name was Paul Broussard.....he was just stopping in at a Montrose bar for a drink after a particularly bad day at work.......

One of the most notorious gay-bashing deaths before Matthew Sheppard....................

A kid in my school blew away his mother and sister because she wouldn’t let him have the car.

A rich popular kid was driving drunk and was killed along with two more of the most popular kids in school. I was very distant friends with his younger sister who was in my grade.

Another rich kid was a drug addict and ended up in rehab.

Three girls in my class were taken by some guys in a van and at least one raped. We had to go to assemblies where they instructed us on how to deal with the girls when they returned. They also told us how to protect ourselves from getting into similar situations. I knew one of the girls fairly well (through theater) and had no idea how to talk to her afterwards.

A girl in my Senior year shot her mother after an argument and then ran away with her boyfriend. She used her father’s gun. Eventually she got picked up by the cops in Florida.

She was a nasty bully so I didn’t care.

A drive-by shooting that targeted some kids from my high school who were walking home. I don’t believe any were killed, but at least one was critically injured.

Good heavens! Some of you went to some pretty rough schools. I never in all my life!

A kid in middle school flipped out on a teacher who had kept him after class and beat him up so badly he caused him to have brain damage.

Four of my classmates in Senior year were burned to death in a car crash.

My God, R19. you sound like you live in a town from a Stephen King novel. That's a lot of shit going on in a few years.

this changed everything in Vermont, every native Vermonter remembers where they were when this happened and it's referenced in casual conversation to this day. it the closest I have to a JFK /Lennon moment

Not much happened in mine. Most people were well behaved and drama free. I found the whole time fairly boring.

When I was in junior high school, an albino black kid (negroid features, red hair, very pale eyes), named Othello, raped a nun and was sent off somewhere for a long, LONG time. He was one of the most peculiar people I ever met.

A friend was upstairs on an open air bus on the way to Senior Dance when the popular boy had his head ripped off by an overpass. Really fucked them all up. Made the papers

Don't ask.

I was the special needs kid who danced naked in class.

A bunch of teachers male and female molested kids in both of my high schools and 2 of the campus cops got caught dating and stalking girls. The one from the next high school over was really crazy. The gay chorus teacher set up a cocaine ring with kids as dealers and he was molesting them all and making porn with them too. He turned out to be HIV positive and it was never confirmed if any of the kids were. It was lurid as hell. I tried to look it up because at the time it made national news 1989-91, but after 10 pages of various local teachers fucking students stories, I've given up. I want to say it was even in People Magazine.

I'm still laughing at what R8 wrote which was deftly lifted from Auntie Mame. (Not the gawd awful musical, Mame.)

Mine was when a teacher invited a few Black Panthers to come speak at our school. Think this was 1969 and in a small town of 6,000 in Oregon. It created quite a stir and people still talk about it.

In sophomore year, there was a girl who had a brain aneurysm burst while she was on a family ski trip. She was in a coma for a long time. In the beginning they didn't know if she would ever come out of the coma and thought she might deteriorate into a vegetative state, but something like a year later was learning to walk again and at some point made an appearance at school. She was permanently disabled but trying to find a way to continue with life.

I also posted upthread about a different girl who got impaled on a fence post when she fell out of her 2nd story window at home. She died on the fence post.

I attended a catholic grammar school (and high school and college...oy...).

When I was in 7th grade a kid burned down the parish church. He was a year or two younger and the brother of a girl in my class.

Everyone was horrified and we had to attend mass in the school gym for a year while they rebuilt. Horrors!

Pretty tame compared to some of the stuff above but it was a big deal back then and the family was ostracized by the good catholic folks in my hometown.

This girl got raped by her dad but still decided to have the baby despite being in 7th grade. It was bizarre to go to school and see a six months pregnant thirteen year old.

Fatal car crash with three drunk kids in a Camaro at a sudden curve on a country road. Somehow a girl named Chrissie got nearly decapitated by a piece of metal.

To this day they call it Chrissie Curve.

I remember that r34. Haunting.

We had a mean, cruel gym teacher named Miss Stoltz in junior high. She only had eyes for her little posse of girls who were athletically gifted. The rest of us were treated like garbage and failed repeatedly. These girls went on sleepovers to the teacher’s house, she gave them rides to school. One day she was miraculously gone. Of course she had been sexually abusing all the jockettes. It was quite the scandal. One of them is now my dental hygienist and I enjoy making her reminisce about Miss Stoltz. She gets so flustered.

A female classmate was raped and murdered, her naked body tossed into a creek, during the summer before our senior year in high school. She was murdered by a teacher with a past history of inappropriate behavior with female students. His accomplice was a male teen with a criminal history.

Not a great way to spend your senior year.

R44 is evil.

Someone was selling guns in the boiler room.

We had a serial arsonist who burned down our administration building, then 6 months later burned down our library, and then burned down out administration building AGAIN. All in a span of 18 months. I don't think they ever caught the person.

One of the priests at St. Andy's Catholic School was molesting kids at our school. I didn't find this out until just recently. It wasn't specified as to whether the victims were male or female students. Maybe both, who knows?

He's now 86 years old ........ What are the chances of prosecution at his age? I went to school in Pennsylvania, and most people are aware of the scandal that broke here. This whole thing sickens me

Debi Saunders called me a "jerk-face" once and I still get streamed when I think of her. But I laugh now when I think about hearing that her father died with huge gambling debts her mother knew nothing about. Her former stay-at-home mom had to get a minimum wage job at a discount store.

The Challenger blew up and several kids' dads died.

Four of my friends and I streaked during halftime of a football game. We were each paddled the next day, which was more of a turn-on than a punishment.

Yes, there was some sizemeat.

[quote] When I was in junior high school, an albino black kid (negroid features, red hair, very pale eyes), named Othello,

That's where I stopped reading.

I was a high school junior when I began classes for Cosmetology. The owner of the school, a married man with five young children, was screwing two of the student teachers. The day they discovered that neither one of them was his "one and only" all hell broke loose during facial class.

From age K-12 we hung around a family (I’ll call the Tyler’s) that gave my mom the creeps. They had children that were my sisters age, plus a sibling my age. The father was a local Sheriff. He would pull over my family just to be funny. (Small town humor). We were very close and we would spend the night there and them at our house. There were many strange happenings when we all hung out together. One time, the Eldest daughter was visiting my sister. She walked home, and after 10 minutes she comes running back, in a panic, saying a van of men were following her. My Dad went looking for the White van and took her home. Weird occurrences would always occur. After HS we found out the Eldest Daughter and the rest of the children accused their father of Satanic Cult killings, etc Practices. He was convicted and is in prison. It was a huge case.

Flash forward I was working at a posh restaurant and I waited on the two other men who were being convicted, too. Plus, in my college years we were reading about the same case in my psych book. I was able to speak about the case and had inside knowledge. The eldest daughter even took us to this secluded house in the woods where the satanic killings, etc took place. It was a hike to even get to the house. We lost contact now. Although, the updates I have gotten are not great.

It just really shows you to follow your gut. My Mom, strict Christian, always said she felt the devil when she visited or went to their parties. They lived down a long driveway on property, too. They dug up most of the acres looking for bodies. It was very scary.

Then my close friend in Undergraduate ended up in prison. They have their very own snapped, etc.

J.F.K. was shot when I was attending grade school. The nuns ushered us out of the classrooms and over to the church to say the rosary, and then sent us home. I remember seeing my Dad cry and it scared me. The only other time I had seen him cry was when my grandfather died.

There was a rumor that my hot ginger science teacher was caught jacking off between classes in the little side room where the equipment was stored. He never quit or it was just a rumor, but for months, I tried my best to walk in on him for all kinds of excuses!

Mr. Easton, my junior high French teacher, got into a fistfight with the school principal in the parking lot one day after school, right in front of where the school buses were loading. The next day there was a new French teacher. No one had any idea what triggered the incident.

In 8th grade, our Teacher, who I believe was a Child molester. A student caught him masturbating during class time. They searched his desk and found porn. A few days later, we arrived to the classroom and he was no longer teaching.

I believe to this day he had child porn. He was a gross mousing wimpy man.

R6---That sounds horrifying! I live in CA, where tornados are extremely rare. I have a lot of questions because tornadoes seem so massively destructive and random at the same time (touching down and hitting one building, skipping another, mashing shit up and throwing stuff around). Sincerely asking, what response/evacuation procedure/sheltering options should a school full of teens employ for evading a gawd damn tornado? Where do ya go? What do ya do?

A girl was raped by her brother (he was convicted) and committed suicide (an overdose) in the school bathroom.

A teacher had sex with a student during the school day on school property and they were caught by another student. The second student was paid off by the teacher not to report it but did make sure the entire student body heard that it had happened. It was plausibly true because the teacher was a creep, the student he had sex with had a weird crush on him and they were always hanging out together.

A girl went out for a burger over a weekend, got severe food poisoning and died.

Two students were diagnosed with childhood leukemia. Both died.

Someone put LSD in the health teacher's coffee and he freaked out running down the hall naked.

Mid 80’s - kid was found with a joint in his locker. His dad was called in. The dad took the kid to the barber and had his hair shaved off and made the kid wear a T-shirt reading “Do I look cool now?” He made his son stand at the exit where carline was so that everyone leaving would see the kid.

R60-you shelter in a basement. If you don't have one, a bathroom.

Allegedly, Janice S., one of the hottest and most popular seventh-grade cheerleaders, accepted a dare at a party to put a still semi-frozen Oscar Mayer beef frank in her cooter. All of this happened while she was sitting atop a television set. Allegedly. It was *the* topic of conversation for six months.

Janice S. was all of us.

In my sophomore year I had a saturday detention (yes,those were real) and there was this cute hippie type boy in there as well. Long story short,I ended up blowing him in the bathroom. 5 minutes later he was hit by a car right in front of the school. I walked out to wait for my mom right after it happened and I could still taste him in my mouth. We also had a girl who tried to abort at home and she died.There was another girl who choked on a ring she had stolen in the mall when they tried to bust her and she also died.

Not that I doubt the veracity of your story, R6, but this is the official list of tornado-related deaths at schools in the US. If you were 16 at the time, and now you're 38, that should put this around 1997. Looking at the list, nothing even comes close - either in terms of year or number of deaths.

My teacher, Mr. McAllister, tried to ruin my future. LOL

Junior-high: Someone reported to the school administration that my 13-year-old younger brother's locker was full of drugs (which, of course, it was). The school principal was opening the locker to inspect it when my brother was tipped off by another classmate. He left the classroom he was in and ran down the hall to his locker, where the principal was pulling everything out and bagging up the drugs and paraphernalia. He proceeded to attack the principal and really beat him up badly until a custodian pulled him off and dragged him away, kicking and screaming. The principal was hospitalized with broken ribs and fingers. So, they expelled my brother, logically, and no other school in the district would take him. He was given the choice of completing a GED at a local community college, and he never even did that because he opted instead for life as a career criminal. On one occasion, in the basement of our parents' home, he cut the lights and attacked me in the dark with an ice axe (the type climbers use on frozen waterfalls); he fully intended to kill me with it. He failed only because I caught it in mid-air and managed to wrestle it out of his hands. He's been in and out of prison numerous times and for various crimes ranging from armed robbery to domestic battery, to child pornography. I cut him out of my life years ago, and though he's tried to contact me from time to time to jones me for money (he knows I've done very well because I've worked very hard), I refuse to speak to him or even acknowledge his existence ever again. I consider him as dead.

Cathy Hall, daughter of the nasty hall monster Mrs. Hall got pregnant...scandelous in 1968

[quote] I had a saturday detention (yes,those were real)

They are still real.

My dad got the president job and embarasses me every day. Don't worry about me though because one day I will break out of my cage and get even, just wait you'll see.

This maniac.

Gay male drama teacher was having sex with male students. (I think there were photos too)

This was in a small town so the entire school district was abuzz. He ultimately was arrested. Not sure if he went to jail. But there were numerous town meetings about it

Two pregnant cheerleaders. In the '60's.

Wow, my school was tame compared to these stories! We did have this one guy who had snowy white hair and two different coloured eyes. In grade 2 he exposed his penis to the girls sitting on the floor at story time. When we got to secondary school, he used to straddle the metal barriers in the canteen and grind on them, shouting out "penis power!" He would then pretend to throw a handful of cum, or sperm as he joyfully cried, at all the people who would laugh at him. He was a strange but harmless weirdo.

Nothing that I was aware of. I was also way out of the loop. Here’s to you Montreal in the late 70’s.

Having a teacher eat a fellow student kind of tops the thread, IMO, R74. Jeez, how unspeakably macabre.

Just the usual... half the girls in class got pregnant

The most vile teacher in school got her just deserts (to our cruel teenage minds) when her only child wrapped her car around an electric pole

Six of my classmates were in a van driven by another classmate. He was speeding/showing off, then he lost control and the van flipped. The driver and front seat passenger were both paralyzed from the neck down.

Not my high school, but I hung out with all the people involved at the time. A girl was killed and her body set on fire in a dumpster behind a grocery store. The guys who did it made it look like it was a ritual killing, when in fact they did it because she going to break up with their friend. She wasn't; she was just moody because she just found out she was pregnant.

Her boyfriend, who wasn't involved at all, took the fall for his friends out of guilt and then took his own life in prison.

The evil fuck who actually killed her bragged about it and used the fact he got away with it to threaten others. Many of our circle of friends went to the police, but they didn't do anything. Anyone involved in the murder and cover up is now either dead or in a really bad place. The killer disappeared around 2000 in LA, assumed homeless. His accomplices are either dead or suffering from debilitating medical conditions. One was decapitated in a car accident. Another was diagnosed with MS.

R79 Well the teacher was unkown to any of us - he was in the neighbouring school district. The victim was a senior in my high school and one of the nicest and most all American studs. The cannibal teacher used to dress in Nazi uniforms - and that school district never raised red flags?!!!! Nobody has any clue of any link between the student and that teacher. We has a sort of aborted rumble between the two schools but it was broken up before it started. It was on their turf.

I guess the biggest one was the Swedish exchange student just disappeared one day, eventually we found out she got knocked up and they shipped her back to Sweden. We never heard who the father of the child was so I am guessing it might not have been someone in my school. This was in the 60's.

Funny story, a friend of mine got his girlfriend pregnant, or so they thought, they told her parents and the very next day she got her period. A few months later she really did get pregnant, some people just don't learn. Can you imagine having to have that talk with her parents a second time.

Junior high teacher was about to be arrested for child molestation, supposedly of a student. Instead, he blew his brains out. We all figured out who in the school he had fucked with, too. Weirdest part...they only told the eighth graders that he had killed himself because we were mature enough to handle it.

Another kid killed himself by jumping off the roof and hanging himself from the chimney.

I should clarify - the rumble was on the evening of the murder. The next day the cannibal called and turned himself in. Maybe it was 2 days later. None of the gory details were shared with us for a long time.

[quote]Gay male drama teacher was having sex with male students.

We had one of those, too, but he was married to a woman and was known to force himself on some boys. He hired a friend of mine to do some yard work and when the friend finished and went inside to get paid, the teacher threw him down on the floor, held him down and started getting rough with him. My friend escaped.

This being the time it was (and not that long ago), the teacher was given a talking-to and nothing ever happened to his job and it wasn't reported to the police.

My school is somewhat famous for a mass stabbing, but that happened within the last few years.

When I was a student in the 80s:

- We had a math teacher that would date seniors. (He was hot, too, a tall Italian guy.) I think he knocked up the senior du jour my year and ended up marrying her.

- Another teacher who taught one of my classes was arrested for sexting a student a few years ago. (He was hot in my HS days but was an old bloated drunk by the time he was caught.)

- We had a cat fucker in our class. I don't think it was a rumor. It got so even the teachers knew about it. At the quietest moments of class, one person would just "meow" and we'd all laugh until tears were rolling down our faces.

A longstanding scandal was that one of our foreign language teachers married a woman who also taught languages at the school. She had posed for some magazine (it may well have been Playboy but if not, the B version of that) and at least once a year, when she'd pull down the map/projector screen for a film strip, someone would have taped up a copy of the picture, beav and all.

Oh, and there was the gossipy scandal where several teachers and the two principals harassed a gay student during his senior year and tried to make him drop out. They almost succeeded in driving him to suicide. But that one isn't so fun. Well, it was me, so it wasn't fun for me. It might have been good gossip for someone.

I don't know what the articles mention. The cannibal castrated the victim and ate his junk. I think he was castrated alive.

Two sets of high schoolers were drag racing on a back road at high speeds covering both lanes. One of the cars slammed into an oncoming car that had three elementary school teachers in it, some of them had been their former students. Two of them were killed outright. The third one was thrown from the car in to the fields beyond. They were dressed for the tennis club and when the police and ambulances arrived they thought the third teacher was just a jogger who had witnessed the accident. She was so traumatized by the accident she couldn’t explain that she had been in the car at impact.

Lots of people mention fellow students dying in car accidents. Have been through that situation.

A good friend of mine was the driver in an accident where his passenger died. (I would have been in the car, too, had my mom refused to give me ten bucks for the movies.) He was a really new driver, 16 years old, had only had his license for like a month at that point. The kid that died was his parents' only child. It was horrible. My friend wasn't deliberately reckless, but you just don't know at that age and with only a little experience what to do.

It wasn't a scandal at our school, most people there liked him, but we were both members of a youth group and it pretty much tore the group apart. (Lots of subtle homophobia coming out, since it was becoming obvious my friend was gay.)

[quote]A longstanding scandal was that one of our foreign language teachers married a woman who also taught languages at the school. She had posed for some magazine (it may well have been Playboy but if not, the B version of that) and at least once a year, when she'd pull down the map/projector screen for a film strip, someone would have taped up a copy of the picture, beav and all.

That's hilarious!

A ninth grader (when ninth grade was still part of our three-grade junior high school) was murdered in a slightly wooded area while walking home after baseball practice with school property, a Louisville Slugger baseball bat.

I'm from a very small New England town which to my knowledge never had a single murder in many decades. Needless to say, nobody knew anything, and the murder was never solved, nor was there ever even a suspect. After a year or two the family moved away.

High school, central Utah, ca. 1992: On the last night of our grandiose theatre production of "Into the Woods," immediately after it was over and had let out, three students were instantly killed on the street in front of the school when they were crossing the busy road next to it and a van plowed them all down. The city government had refused for so many years to put a traffic light there on the crosswalk; now, there is one. Shortly after that, our longtime drama/theatre teacher cleared out his office, resigned and fled the scene overnight after a male student he'd been fucking and supplying alcohol to for two years confessed it all to his parents. Turned out it was not the first student who'd been sexually abused by this teacher/pedophile but the fourth during his tenure at this high school. Two of the teacher's own kids were also students attending this high school when word and details got out. (Damn, can you imagine?) For several years after high school, this former student was a regionally well-known drag queen who performed at Pride and battled alcoholism and depression. He gave up drag after a couple of years, married a woman and had children, and went into teaching children's theatre in Montana, but then he committed suicide. Our former high-school drama teacher, who was married to another local high-school drama teacher during the years when he sexual abusing the four students, apparently evaded any consequences except for an ugly divorce. He has since started a local playhouse and has become a regionally recognized drag queen himself, a local radio and YouTube personality with a "one-woman show" whose primary drag character is a folksy parody of old Mormon women.

Our state-award winning, middle aged science teacher was also having his way with the senior girls. One of whom became his wife in her early 20s after he dumped his long-suffering wife.

The two other science teachers - a plain middle aged married couple - were of course, you guessed it, swingers and not too discrete about it apparently. Didn't take long for some of the students to find out about it and the endless teasing and harassment began.

The unmarried weirdo track coach with a power complex was of course screwing around with his older female athletes and not subtly. At one point not long after I graduated he was accused of statutory rape and brought to trial. Acquitted, but had to leave town, not to be seen again.

When I was in about 6th grade the white trash parents of an 8th grader came into the English teacher's classroom and beat the shit out of her in front of the whole class over bad grades or some other perceived wrong against their precious child. The beating was so intense that some of the kids in the class threw up. There were news crews and follow up stories on the resulting court cases for a long time after. Around the same time an entire family came home from Xmas shopping and surprised a burglar in their house. He tied them all up and shot and killed them after terrorizing them for some time (both parents and 2 small children). The kids went to my school, but I was in 8th grade and as they were in 2nd grade and kindergarten I didn't know them.

A teenage boy got the cord of his jacket caught in the bus doors as he was exiting. The bus dragged him and he died.

Good god, you people are depressing!

Math teacher was caught with a sophomore.

They both left the school immediately afterwards

Yeah, but did any of your stories have a TV movie made about it? And with TORI SPELLING as its star?

(OK - while this did happen at my high school, it was many years after I attended it.)

r19 = Jessica Fletcher

R101 yes

Very small village in rural Ohio. Graduating classes of about 50-60 kids each year; K-12 in two buildings joined by administrative offices -- so, all in one. Everybody knew everybody, their parents, their grandparents kind of place.

I was in 6th grade and our theretofore poor HS football team scored a coup by hiring a former football coach (and PE/health teacher) from the Catholic football powerhouse school a couple counties away. Everybody was excited as hell not to have a 0-10 football team any more. His first year, my school went 5-5. The next year, after starting 3-0, coach went missing.

My mom learned from the mom of one of my classmates, whose brother was a freshman, that even before the season started, the coach initiated the freshmen football players by making them stand naked in the showers without the water turned on, then the seniors applied Nair to their cock-n-balls, then he made them wait ten minutes before they were allowed to turn on the showers. Afterward, the seniors were sent away and Coach inspected each freshman visually and somesthetically. He masturbated two of them to ejaculation then performed fellatio to completion on another.

This was 1977. Apparently one of the boys he masturbated told his girlfriend, who told her mom, who told my classmate's mom. She confronted her elder son, who told her the whole story. She gathered the other moms and they went to the HS principal. Rather than call in the police, the school board accepted his immediate resignation and he moved to Canada. Monday he was my health teacher. Tuesday he was gone. BTW, he was super ugly. And Catholic.

JFC the schools some of you went to! As another poster said, it sounds like Stephen King.

Some idiot set fire to one of the boys' lavatories in my senior year. Every fire truck in the county was there, police, the whole thing. Whoever that idiot kid was, he was never caught.

We had a special needs kid (read: severely retarded) who was confined to a wheelchair and couldn't even speak intelligibly. He was only capable of doing one thing: jerking off. Constantly. He'd whip his dick out and start pounding it in front of everyone. When that happened, his two aides, who were with him constantly, would whisk him off to the nurse's office until the "episode" passed. He really belonged in a special needs group home, but legally a public school couldn't turn him away and his parents were in such denial they wouldn't even think of putting him in a home so my high school was stuck with him. EVERYBODY, from faculty to students, wanted to kill those fucking parents for foisting him on us.

Our gym teacher claimed he got feline gonorrhea from pooping in a litter box.

All I know is, he kept an open tin of canned salmon on his porch and none of the neighborhood cats would go near it.

In high school, a girl died of TB. Big controversy because of her Visa status (pre 9/11) and there were rumors that she was older than she said. The story made all the NYC tv and radio stations and was featured on the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather. I was interviewed for CBS 88 AM. That was freshman year.

Senior year the yearbook staff hijacked the yearbook and put a bunch of racist and sexist stuff in there where it had to be re-published. They even insinuated that one of the cheerleaders had multiple abortions. Again, made the NY news.

WHen I was in high school the kid across the street was beheaded in a corvette convertible racing down the road.

My mom was a teacher and changed schools one year. Right after the school year began another teacher, the long-standing drama director and his wife invited my parents to dinner. A grand time was had by all apparently. A week later the drama teacher was accused of grooming and molesting the "lead" male student-actor, which he'd been doing for years. Each was the "favorite" and played all the leads and was seduced IN the teacher's home! He was fired, of course.

I knew the guy who reported it, and vaguely knew one of the earlier star male students, a popular and talented NYC actor who has never said anything, but I cannot imagine he wasn't subjected to the same awful behavior.

Brush High Lyndhurst Ohio. 1997. The principal opened up the wall in a bedroom closet in his beach house through to the bathroom. He covered the opening on the bathroom side with a two way mirror. He then set up a video camera in the closet so he could video the inside of the bathroom. He then invited over the school’s female cheerleaders for a beach party and told them to all go change in the bathroom. Apparently it wasn’t a very good two way Murrow because the girls could see the red camera light flashing on the other side. Google Brush High School principal arrested. And you’ll find at least one article.

Back in the 60’s in junior high (9th grade) paddling male students was a common form of discipline. We were in the swimming unit which was done in the nude. He thought it would be a good idea to have paddle day where everyone got a swat when they entered the locker room. In one of the classes he lined everyone up in the pool area and the class voted on who had the rosiest butt after the swats. Someone told their parents and they complained to the principal. Nothing happened that year that I heard of, but the teacher was moved to another school the next school year.

Way back when, 1970 to be exact, a freak lighten bolt hit the football team as they were coming off the practice field during a light rain. Two freshman kids were killed. Very sad. 50 years later this is something the school still remembers. There is even a moving mini documentary on You Tube.

For many years, I was a woodwind instructor for the summer marching band program at a prominent Las Vegas-area high school. About ten years ago, the fit hit the shan when the longtime drill instructor for the color guard, actually a great choreographer who'd helped the program win numerous trophies, was exposed as a gay pornographic model and actor by some students (who, no-doubt, were jerking off to him on the Intarwebz). He was replaced in an instant, with some pregnant frau who pretty much sucked and was nowhere near as good an instructor. The band students and color guard girls were bereft.

Some guy made dynamite in the school chem lab. There was a big stink and a locker to locker search but they did not find it. He and his pals later set it off. They were lucky they didn’t get hurt.

r112 So this one time, at band camp ...

I feel like I need one of those police procedural photo boards to keep some of these straight. Especially R94.

(not criticizing the memories but whew, lots going on!)

When I was in high school, there were several girls that frequently commented that this one weird male teacher was a little too touchy feely with them. They brought their complaints to the higher ups, but of course nothing was done. Over a decade later, something really bad must have happened because I remember seeing in the local news that the jerk was finally fired for inappropriate conduct with a student. The sick thing is that not only had people complained over a decade before, but there were fellow asshole teachers who defended him and were angry he was fired, which is them basically saying the people who brought it forward were lying.

My next door neighbor shot herself in the face in the woods behind her house. We were all called to an assembly where they told the news because her daughter attended the school. That's how I found out.

Her daughter and were good friends. When we were walking home from school the day before, we heard a shot. It was weird because it wasn't hunting season so we both noticed it. When my grandmother was outside working, she heard whimpering in the woods but didn't think anything of it. She apparently didn't die right away.

Her daughter moved away for a while then came back to live with her step father and turned into a wild child. Speculation (not unfounded) was that the mother shot herself because her daughter and husband were sleeping together. After a year, the daughter moved away for good after a wild party resulted in several underage kids getting alcohol poisoning. I haven't seen her in 25 years.

One of the basketball coaches ended up marrying one of his players after she graduated. He was about 30 years older than her. Gross as hell.

r5 "is that frowned upon?"

The day we blew a fellow 8th grader in grammar school.

He had a magnificent 9-incher and we swallowed every drop!

I'm the same poster [R94] and [R112]. Back in the late '90s, Utah, there was a woodwind student I was teaching for about a year, an eighth-grade kid who was attending the same junior-high school I myself had graduated from many years before. He'd suddenly stopped showing up to his weekly music lessons, and his phone number was disconnected. I'd heard nothing from his parents, so I had no idea why. I learned from another student who was in his band class, that he'd transferred schools practically overnight because their gym teacher and a handful of students found the kid naked and jacking off in the locker room with something up his ass.

Forgot. There was a group of popular kids from a couple different schools that drove a van drunk. Someone opened the van door and two guys fell out and got killed. I don't remember if they got run over or hit the curb.

Two guys hung themselves.

One guy shot his grandfather and killed him.

A group of teachers from my school got caught having an orgy in the opera house washroom. There were seven of them I think--all male. It was in the paper.

One of my friends (female) bragged she could seduce any man at my high school. (I think we were juniors at the time). Another friend dared her to seduce the metal shop teacher, a big brawny ex hippy of a man. She did. It ended his marriage.

The school counselor (a woman) molested a high school boy and was never caught. He later murdered a guy who molested him when he was quite young. He never was caught. Now he murdered another guy, and the school counselor goes to see him in the state pen. She’s gross, old, and married but in love with him.

Our young, hot Spanish teacher got a cheerleader from the school pregnant. They were both Latino, ended up getting married and had three kids together last I heard.

In high school, we had a girl killed by a serial rapist/murderer. It was big news because such things just doesn't happen here, often. It was especially sad because she was one of those few people who was insanely gorgeous and popular, but was at the same time extremely friendly and genuinely nice to everyone. Everyone at the school, regardless of clique was touched by her death, because she had friends in every group. The crime has since been covered on several true crime series, and I just can't watch them because it still hurts.

On a less sad note, we had an English teacher fucking one of the history teachers/coaches, who had the classroom next to her. The English teacher was known to be something of a slut, I think she was on her fourth husband at the time. They would both give their classes videos to watch and then return at the end of the period, obviously post-coital. Anyway, one day the coach's wife showed up and was determined to find them in the act. Everyone had to fan out and find them before she did. No one ever knew if the wife was armed, though everyone assumed it. They were discovered in the old locker rooms, which were used for storage, half dressed. Meanwhile, the school secretary who was supposedly helping the wife look for them, had her in an entirely different wing. The principal covered it up because he didn't want the publicity and the English teacher's classroom was moved all the way to the other side of campus.

We have threads like this every so often and I am truly shocked at how many of you went to high schools where teachers were fucking students. Amazing (and sad) how often this has happened.

Every last one of the teachers and administrators at my high school were basically straight out of John Hughes movies - middle-aged, homely and gross. It was unfathomable that any student would've wanted to fuck any one of them.

In the 1970's the cool young basketball coach/math teacher was having an affair with the 17 year old cheerleader. Common enough, but I was lucky to be working at the Holiday Inn where they met for sex when the private detectives her parents hired kicked the door open and went in with flashbulbs popping. We got notice it was happening and I watched from down the hall. It was just like in the movies. Not much happened though. He kept his job and wound up marrying another student a few years later.

We had a kid vanish over the summer, anda few months later they found his body in an empty railroad boxcar on the other side of the country. It took several more months before they managed to identify the body. By that time we had all graduated and gone our separate ways, but they believed he was raped and murdered by a carnival worker in town for the county fair.

There have been rumors circulating for the past few years regarding Father Feeney's inappropriate behavior. I'm not certain what he actually did, but suddenly he disappeared from the orphanage rectory like a thief in the night.

It certainly makes a young boy wonder ............

Some real sad stories here.

The big scandal at my school echoes R62; someone put LSD into the teacher's coffee pot and the vice-principal was seen moving down the hallway clutching the walls. Later I was told about the culprit who came from a family well-known for being trouble-makers. Some people thought it was hilarious and some were horrified. Looking back from almost 50 years later I can say the wierdo science teacher was one who should have been targeted. He was a very bad man and the times were such that he was allowed to hit us with a hard ruler. He would deliberately set us up to fail so he could hit us. He would take kids on camping trips and god only knows what happened there. Eventually he was fired, way too late for many of his students. Those were the days.

R32 That is reminiscent of the wooden paddles that we made by kids in shop class. They were about 1" thick and somewhere between 18-24" long, and we're hanging on the wall in many classrooms. I'd only seen a paddle used once, and it was pretty brutal.

I've often wondered how many of those paddles left shop class and ended up in the hands of " juvenile delinquents."

The douchey woodshop teacher at my junior high school was demonstrating for my class how to use the bandsaw, when it suddenly hacked his thumb off. The thumb went flying across the room along with a lot of blood. The teacher retired shortly after that.

Our very old high school secretary dated Liberace. (not kidding)

Oh, and Jon S put M80 firecrackers in the junior high bathroom and blew up a toilet. Caused a flood, school cancelled.

R88, meow! That made me laugh just reading, thank you, needed it today.

And I'm sorry to hear about those cunt teachers of yours.

Honestly, I can't remember anything scandalous happening in my high school.

There was a substitute teacher who asked two freshman girls if they wanted to go to a concert with him, which was odd. (They didn't go.) But it's not like it was reported; we just thought it was ...unexpected..

That certainly wouldn't fly today.

MY HIGH SCHOOL OWNS THIS THREAD.

I had just moved to suburban D.C. from Seattle and it was the first or second week of second grade and they were having a class discussion my first day there because a students mom killed all her kids and herself in the car with a hose from the exhaust pipe. I was freaked out and one girl said the student would’ve liked me as she was so nice. later back in Seattle in h.s. someone put LSD in a teachers coffee and the in class they mocked his strange last name and her started crying.

It's been awhile so I don't remember all the details - a group of kids, mostly Asians, hatched a plan to rob a computer parts dealer. One kid was afraid another would rat them out, so they killed him by whacking him with a hammer and a bat. When that didn't work, they poured rubbing alcohol down his throat and taped his mouth shut. They buried him in a shallow grove in some guy's backyard. He didn't die immediately, but asphyxiated on his own vomit. The ringleader was super smart (and later diagnosed as schizophrenic). I recalled he studied for his APs in jail while awaiting trial. Years later, I read he had won an essay contest while in jail.

The story was made into a movie, Better Luck Tomorrow.

Catholic School

Seventh grade honor student knocked up another seventh grade honor student. No one could believe it because the girl had no tits and basically still looked like a little girl. He was sent to boarding school. She left school, gave birth and got on with her education elsewhere. Years later, I attend the same Ivy university the father attended, and would see the girl regularly visit him with the now 7-year-old kid in tow. I guess since the dad was from a prominent wealthy family, they wanted to keep the kid as part of said family. Fast forward fortysome years, and the girl attends a high school reunion, looking gorgeous, head held-up high. The “kid” is now 47 years old, very level headed, smart ... and hot! Mom is 60. She (and her families) did good raising him.

Another seventh grader died electrocuted when he rode his bike into a puddle that contained a live wire.

My fourth grade classmate and Cub Scout dropped dead at gym class completely unexpectedly. He wasn’t overworked or panting. Just got a slight headache and that was that. Aneurysm

And then there was our pedophile gym teacher, who taught me how to kiss when I was 10.

37 years ago in West Des Moines, Iowa, right as 7th grade was starting Johnny Gosch disappeared on his morning paper route. He was last seen 2 blocks from my family home. Never found. Strange stories over the years. His was one of the first faces to end up on a milk carton.

A boy named Basil was assaulted by bears.

My best friend Susan perished of fits.

Poor Fanny from homeroom was sucked dry by a leech.

Senior beach night, Maud was swept out to sea.

And not a month later, Neville died of ennui.

Our senior class president had his head shot off by a police officer. The kid broke into a school to steal test answers for an Air Force entrance exam. That was the last time police officers were allowed to say "Stop or I'll shoot" and then shoot fleeing suspects. We found out later that the kid was responsible for the theft of 40 typewriters from typing class. He dumped them in the Missouri river. He was a thrill criminal.

There were two things people in my town never forgot, especially those who went to my HS. One, there was a guy who was said to have cut his own head off with a chain saw. Whether that happened or not, I never really knew. I had just transferred into the school, and never met the guy. I was friends with his next door neighbor, however, who swore it was how he killed himself. The school wanted me to replace this guy in a number of functions, but I didn't want to have anything to do with it.

Second, my junior year, two very cute blond seniors got motorcycles and promptly had wrecks that turned them into vegetables. Most people I knew in HS would not get on a motorcycle afterwards. I have only been on one once. One of the guys is unfindable on social media, so I imagine he eventually died. The other appears to have been dragged around by his parents, and later his brother, to live with them. He's 69 years old now. Hardly had a life, beginning at age 17.

In junior high school, a female art teacher beat the shit out of two male students. I don't remember the reason. She was never disciplined. It was the 1980's. In senior high - one of the jocks had two girls pregnant at the same time. They both had abortions; A young male teacher made a sexual comment to a female student who had a sucker (candy) in her mouth. He was suspended for the remainder of the school year; One of the popular girls caught a white-trash girl giving a blowjob the school library. She told the principal. The principal told them that was something that they should do outside of school hours. Again... it was the 80's.

[quote]There have been rumors circulating for the past few years regarding Father Feeney's inappropriate behavior. I'm not certain what he actually did, but suddenly he disappeared from the orphanage rectory like a thief in the night.

You must be from my neck of the woods. I know of whom you speak. When your brother is on the Lawrence Welk Show, I suppose you think you can do anything.

'Another seventh grader died electrocuted when he rode his bike into a puddle that contained a live wire. '

Bullshit. Bike tyres are rubber and rubber is an insulator

Grew up in a farming community. A kid in our class had chores to do before school. While using a pitchfork against a huge pile of hay, the hay pile collapsed. Dead.

Our Civics teacher would be out periodically and then show up with a black eye to teach class. She felt compelled to give us some lame excuse but her husband was later arrested for domestic abuse.

[quote]While using a pitchfork against a huge pile of hay, the hay pile collapsed. Dead.

Poor dead hay pile.

I was the incident of my school, year 2003. I went to a highly conservative religious school in a small rural town. I confided in one teacher that I was gay and in love with another guy. The next day I was told to go to the pastors office where I was derided for the choice I had made. Within a day everyone knew, teachers, kids, everyone. It was a scandal. I lost every friend I had, was expelled from school and had a mental breakdown that took many yeas to heal from.

That's just awful, r149.

Two connected incidents: a couple boys died crossing one of those open railway crossings, then, a short time after, grieving students were injured by a runaway car outside the school gates.

It was local news, but everybody knew lol.

R6, holy shit. That's horrific. DL hug for you.

I don't know if it was "the incident" because, like everyone, we had our share of drownings, car accidents, teachers diddling students, etc. Let's just say it was unique. A junior/senior in my high school/neighborhood died in a shoot out with the state police after he pulled a gun on a local cop during a traffic stop.

It escalated quickly, I guess you could say.

A beloved teacher died in a horrible car accident in high school. I never had him as a teacher, but one day I got cornered by a bunch of kids who were making fun of me for being gay in a hallway. (I used to dress pretty out there so I was a target outside of my friend group.) It was in a part of the school that most people didn't go to but I had tried to walk away from them and ended up there by accident.

That same teacher had seen that they were following me, he followed them, appeared from behind a corner, stepped in and stopped the kids from making fun of me by making fun of *them* one by one. He was a tall black man with short dreads. He was wearing a polo shirt and some dockers. At first they started laughing when he made fun of one of them but then he kept going until he got them all. He told them to go to class and they did. He walked me to my next one.

On the way, he gave me the best pep talk ever and told me I should be proud of myself and not feel bad for being different even when kids made fun of me. He said he liked my style. He also said I'd never see them again after I graduated cause he knew I was "going places" so I just had to hang on and if I ever needed anything to come and find him.

When the news hit the school several teachers cried. Everyone was sad for weeks. I remember seeing one of the other very few black teachers in my school rushing down a hallway covering his face sobbing. They had been best friends. That teacher ran into the library and I walked after him. Our library was often empty other than my friends and I who would meet there every morning because it was always empty. I overheard him telling the librarian about the accident. He then disappeared around a corner and I could hear him crying. I went to a different corner and I cried too.

Thanks Mr. Norris.

He made a difference, R153. He sounds like he was everything a teacher should be.

A few guys were expelled from my secondary (up to age 16) school for dealing drugs on school grounds, but I never knew the details of it and how they got caught - I think it was only weed but still fucking stupid.

A girl was killed in a car crash soon after we left school (at age 17) and her boyfriend was driving, he survived but with quite a lot of injuries and took a while before he could walk again, I think he blamed himself for her death though I don't think there was drinking involved.

Someone got fucked on the piano of the music room during the prom (this was an unconfirmed rumour but knowing who was involved, believable).

Oh and my form tutor was a paedophile who was only exposed years later and lost his job, marriage and house because of it although he didn't go to jail (only had images and didn't do the abuse himself). When I found out I was really shocked because out of all the teachers there I would have said he was the least likely to be a paedo - we had loads more paedo-y ones!

A kid was going to shoot up my math class. He was the type, except for the fact that he was always saying creepy shit to random people out of the blue like “i wonder what it’s like to see someone die”. Turns out he was bragging to another student about having a handgun in his bag. They ratted on him, and the school resource officer dragged him out and searched him before escorting him out. He didn’t have a gun, but he did have a hit list, which included the majority of my math class since they bullied the hell out of him. The craziest fucking thing was that when he went to the hearing board, they didn’t even have him expelled. He was sent to the “behavioral school” for a few months before coming right back and getting kicked out again, this time for threatening to stab someone. If all school administrations are like mine it’s no wonder school shootings happen so often.

I don’t recall any major scandals at my school, but our rival high school had one. Its wrestling coach (of course) was fired for a breach of his morality clause after his wife discovered he had a secret life as gay porn star “Ty Fox” and mailed his porn tapes to a local news station to publicly expose him.

R21 Have you seen this film about him?

[quote] taught me how to kiss when I was 10.

MARY!

Among various other scandals: we had an actually straight, married male drama teacher. He had sex with at least one student (yes, female) that I know about. It was widely discussed but I guess it was never reported to any authorities.

Oh, we had a woodshop teacher who everyone thought was only partially literate (we were always trying to figure out if that was true), and he was suddenly fired with no formal explanation one day but the rumor was that someone noticed he had little mirrors strapped to his shoes and used them to look up skirts. He did frequently sit at his desk and call all of us up there one by one to talk to him, and supposedly that’s when he was doing his creepiness because he could hide his shoes behind his desk. He was a weird dude.

One of my art teachers was also fired for slapping a girl (who generally speaking deserved to be slapped IMO). The story was that the girl stomped on the teacher’s foot—we all knew the teacher limped around a little bit and complained about nerve pain in her foot—and the teacher reflexively slapped the girl. Not much of a scandal, I know.

There was a random naked man who somehow walked into our high school and was staring at women inside the girls locker room. A girl saw him in there and reported it to someone. The police caught him at home where his grandma and him lived. His grandma on the news (paraphrasing): " the cops were at the door and they asked for him. He came downstairs and said grandma, there's something I have to go do. And then he went off with the cops." LOL!

A kid allegedly got a hard-on in the gym locker room.

Quelle scandal.

R163, that was a scandal? When I was in grade school, the boys didn't know that a hard dick was any different from a soft dick. It was only when we started 7th or 8th grade that hard ons in the locker room stopped.

I was being sarcastic after all these horrible stories, R164.

Trying to find a link to this but my junior high art teacher in Indianapolis picked up a hitchhiker and took him home. My teacher was murdered by the guy and I think he got away with it using the old "gay panic" defense. The teacher was an oddball who always smelled like booze but was well-liked and a nice man.

A friend's next door neighbors parents went away so the kids threw a party. A girl they didn't know was there and her ex boyfriend showed up. He took her to buy a pack of cigarettes and murdered her. My friend's neighbor had to take the witness stand to talk about the party and what they knew and saw.

I felt really sorry for the murdered girls parents. They were from Chicago and sent their daughter to this small college in a little hick town in Michigan where she was killed. I'm sure they never thought that would happen.

The same friend's neighbor across the street was convicted of rape when he was in high school. They let him come home on a furlough for Christmas and he broke into a house and raped the mother and daughter.

All this was in a nice neighborhood too.

My middle school experience is mild by comparison. The boys routinely smeared feces all over the boys' bathroom and wrote pornographic things about the stacked religion teacher. Much clutching of pearls.

When I was a senior in high school, a junior girl was walking home with a friend after a football game. A couple blocks from her home, shie was hit by a car and killed. The driver of the car was drunk and her step-father. He did not stop. Her mother was also in the car. The friend with her that did not get hit and told the officers she thought he did it deliberately.

[quote]In high school, we had a girl killed by a serial rapist/murderer.

OMG how did she end up meeting this guy?

[quote]Speculation (not unfounded) was that the mother shot herself because her daughter and husband were sleeping together.

She was stupid. She should have shot her POS husband instead.

R171 Actually he was a delivery driver and she was home alone.

A girl ran away for 3 days, was found hiding in the bushes of the local druggie park by the beach a 1 minute walk from her house.

Ours was a mixture of stories similar to ones previously posted. We had the male choir director commit suicide (one of the jocks said at the time "I guess 'cos he was queer?"). We had a pretty, friendly girl drown in a boating accident one summer. We had a guy and girl (both in ROTC) caught having sex on school property - the girl left school but the guy was paddled and got his head shaved and generally punished beyond belief. A jock brought booze to school and was expelled. A popular student streaked a pep rally and was expelled. And then there was the girl who was expelled for daring to come out as a lesbian.

All in one school 1974-77.

r34 that was a few years ago and live tweeted, weirdly enough.

Our vice principal in high school was fucking a girl in my grade. I was on the yearbook staff and the office I was in was right next to his. She was dumb as a brick, and was hooking up with him with the understanding that he would "adjust" her grades. It was a "grab the popcorn" moment, when she, along with her parents, stormed into his office and started screaming to high hell.

R34 This incident was in New Zealand

Not a public incident but when I was 16 I had a fake ID (the drinking age was 18) and walked into my first gay bar.

My current high school English teacher was sitting at the bar.

[quote]Bullshit. Bike tyres are rubber and rubber is an insulator

And the rims, hubs and spokes were metal (back in 1972) you fucking idiot.

Meow!

An underclassmen turned out to be a serial killer. The twist? He’d already started killing before he was even a freshman.

R173 Wow, that is scary. Was the delivery driver supposed to be delivering something to her house? If so, that makes it all the more scarier.😳

Was it ever revealed what made him do it, and how long of a sentence did he get?

[quote]A ninth grader (when ninth grade was still part of our three-grade junior high school) was murdered in a slightly wooded area while walking home after baseball practice with school property, a Louisville Slugger baseball bat. I'm from a very small New England town which to my knowledge never had a single murder in many decades. Needless to say, nobody knew anything, and the murder was never solved, nor was there ever even a suspect. After a year or two the family moved away.

I think I know this case. Did this happen in Connecticut?

R183 Sorry, I made a mistake, her killer wasn't a serial killer. We had a serial killer in the area at the time and I conflated the two, because at the time everyone thought they were connected. The man that killed my classmate was a delivery driver for DHL. He wasn't delivering anything to her. He rang her doorbell and asked to use the phone. Because he said he couldn't find the house he was supposed to be delivering to. Cell phones weren't yet common place. My classmate being a friendly and trusting person let him in. He then raped, brutally murdered her, and stole numerous items from the house before leaving her to be found by her family. He was discovered when he was found to have violated parole for an unrelated crime in another state and his DNA was uploaded to a database. He was convicted and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole for the murder and burglary, 30 years for rape, another 30 for Kidnapping and a further five for possession of a weapon during the commission of a crime. Personally, I wished he had gotten the Death Penalty.

Also, it destroyed her neighborhood, when she was killed it was an established safe middle class neighborhood. After her murder, it has become crime ridden and impoverished.

A member of my class was run over by kids drag racing right before school started (I think this was senior year). I didn't know him and was even a little doubtful that he was in our class, but he was evidently well enough known that it became a big deal. Around the same time one night a couple of members of my class crashed into two girls driving in the opposite direction but—if memory serves—on the wrong side of the road. The girls were killed.

I went to a small high school in an upper middle class city in the Midwest. A lot of things were covered up because it was supposed to be one of the best schools in Ohio but we all knew the real stories.

My freshman year Spanish teacher was clearly into his female students. Supposedly he had sex with at least one of them and when we came back from winter break he was gone. I always felt weird about it because I had a huge crush on him.

The senior star of our basketball team was decapitated when he hit a tree while drunk and rolled his brand new convertible. His father, who was the coach and a history teacher, had a complete nervous break down and later committed suicide.

One of my best friends was murdered by her jealous boyfriend. He walked into the McDonalds where she worked and calmly shot her in the face. He was later murdered in prison.

A boy with schizophrenia was committed to a mental hospital by his parents to receive treatment. His friends thought it was a good idea to help him escape. He threw himself in front of a train 2 days later.

Another boy was accidentally shot in the stomach by his uncle while they were hunting. He died in the woods before help could arrive. The rumor was that it was a drug hit because they owed too much money to their supplier and the uncle knew it was either him or his nephew so he killed him.

Our physics teacher, who was a raging alcoholic, lost it one day and beat the shit out of one of his students in front of the whole class. He was gone for a couple months but then came back as if nothing happened.

One of the guys on the wrestling team would routinely beat the shit out of his girlfriend. She always had bruises on her face and body but nobody said anything. He died a few years ago from a steroid induced heart attack.

Another boy that lived on my street raped his own sister. They thought he had run away but they found him several weeks later hiding in the attic of his house. I never believed that his parents didn't know he was there. They were a very strange family.

Our advanced placement English class had the same teacher for grades 7 and 8. It was an end-of-school ritual that he would have a pool party at his house for the eighth-graders.

My eighth grade year he announced that the boys had been too disruptive all year and it would be girls-only. It wasn't until I was an adult that I figured out he just wanted to leer at tween girls in their bathing suits, the nasty old perv.

R188 Did the parents of those girls not stop to think that it was just a little questionable that a male teacher invited only girls for a pool party?🙄

My high school (after I graduated) had a student their who along with her older sister and parents were all bludgeoned to death by a baseball bat ; 3 at their home while sleeping after the older sister was killed in a nearby park. prior to the 2 boys who did it getting caught, charged and convicted they had told a friend the bat in their car was gonna be used to kill someone. One boy said he was in a rut and wanted something to do. One boy told the cops how hard skulls were after beating several with the bat. Bellevue WA where Bill Gates lives.

[quote]Did the parents of those girls not stop to think that it was just a little questionable that a male teacher invited only girls for a pool party?

I don't know; it was always a coed pool party until my year. Plus he was very religious and at the time that would have been reassuring.

6th grade texted Catholic school in the 70s. Ex nun. Had boys - 12 year olds - give her oral sex under desk. Made the pedo priests seem normal in comparison. The 70s were crazy - especially in Catholic schools because all the priests and nuns were so confused about the new sexual mores.

[quote]I think I know this case. Did this happen in Connecticut?

No. There must be similar stories I guess.

Bill Gates lives in Medina.

My senior year I got one of the popular guys expelled. I was a student assistant to the creative writing teacher, because I'm a nerd. The teacher would give me the things students wrote to proofread for spelling and/or grammar mistakes. She removed the cover pages and I never knew who wrote the papers. I recognized a story he wrote as plagiarism, which was punished with expulsion, no exceptions. When they escorted him from campus, he got violent and ended up getting arrested. Since he was a dumbass coke dealer, he had a bunch of cocaine on him and in his locker. He ended up giving up the name of his supplier for a more lenient sentence. This in turn led to a series of arrests which made the local news.

I knew his family, and they never recovered. His mom died while he was in jail. The teacher has since passed away and I have never told anyone else this story because I know I destroyed their lives.

On a lighter note, my math teacher got in trouble for bringing her dog to school on a teacher work day (when the kids have off but the teachers still go in to work), so in solidarity there was a school wide protest and everyone brought their pets to school that day. It was fun and cute.

R194 I grew up in Medina but to have mail delivered to your home your address was Bellevue..or go to the little Medina post office. This incident involved a Bellevue High student. When I was there a teacher got LSD laced coffee. Mercer Island students poured acid on a new extremely costly new track and ruined it.

R195 You didn't destroy their lives; you were only doing your job with integrity. The guy destroyed *his own* life through his shitty and selfish choices, and he screwed his own family in the process. Flush 'em.

[R178] Jeez I remember hearing about that, I was in high school at the time, it was in the early-mid 90's.

Classmate was hit and killed by a bus, deemed accidental. Family suspected some one shoved her. Close friends suspected suicide. In hindsight, I think she was struggling with gender ID but we didn't have half the understanding then that we do now.

Dean stood trial for banging troubled teens on the science tables.

Junior prom princess stabbed a girl in the quad. A lot of students went wild, climbing up trees and walls to get a better look.

Classmate and her coercive boyfriend made news and jail sentences through a serial bomb/extortion scheme.

Dude drank formaldehyde from the fetal pig jar.

Dude sawed thumb off in wood shop, became schocky, and started parading the severed thumb around the room.

We had a food fight so epic they hired security thereafter. Felt bad. Stupid teen brain.

Abusive football player beat up his marching band flag girl girlfriend for getting pregnant. Like, pulverized her. She either miscarried or aborted.

Chola got so drunk on screwdriver rocks at lunch she passed out cold in her desk, peed the floor, and vomited ice cubes. A couple strong boys just picked up her desk with her in it and set her outside.

About 3 ROTC girls were discovered to have a suicide pact which was thwarted.

That's off the top, I could go on.

"Someone," etc. Pardon the typos from autocorrect.

Kid got hit by a train on the lines next to my high-school. It tore him open and dragged him 40 feet. They put in a pedestrian overpass pretty quickly after that. A good friend was raped by her bf's mates while he watched and did nothing - they also assaulted her with metal objects and left her with lifelong pain and unable to have children. Scumbags. Teenagers can be brutal.

r187, could you please say what city your high school was in?

[quote]No. There must be similar stories I guess.

Ok thanks r193. The case I was thinking was in CT (got my facts mixed up) but yours is in Mass, yes? The Bedard boy?

My art teacher got pregnant to Princess Anne's husband. It ended their marriage and was headline news on the BBC world service.

Wow R205 - that’s juicy. I just googled it - didn’t realize that Anne went through the whole messy divorce thing first. The 90s were really a mess for the BRF.

R34, really? You're friends with a classmate of DL legend Dan Motherfuck!?

R205 are you a kiwi ?

[quote]r195 I have never told anyone else this story because I know I destroyed their lives.

I can understand you feeling regretful, but that student ruined his own life by cheating on papers, and dealing drugs.

Why would he think either was a good idea?

[quote] r202 A good friend was raped by her bf's mates while he watched and did nothing [...] left her with lifelong pain and unable to have children.

God, that's awful. Did they do jail/prison time??

We had a bunch of kids go missing one summer.

Yes, r204. That's the one.

R203 Starts with an S and a suburb of Cleveland.

The freshman English teacher had been regularly grooming girls and banging them (sometimes in 9th grade, sometimes by 12th, sometimes throughout). One girl, just after graduation, had a nervous breakdown when she realized he wasn't leaving his wife for her, and had to be hospitalized. The ensuing investigation revealed at least 10 girls he'd been banging, and it was suspected there were many, many more. At least five in my class had admitted they had ongoing sexual relationships with the dude (mostly reciprocal oral).

r213, can you say if it's closer to Cleveland Heights or Chagrin Falls? I'm in Rocky River.

Who knew Shaker Heights was so wild?

r216, how do you know it's not Solon?

Duh - R217. Upper middle class suburb of Cleveland. And clearly didn’t happen recently. Those kind of things only happened in the pre-90s era. Solon McMansions didn’t exist then. It’s Shaker Heights

The niece of my Housemaster was killed in an abortion clinic shooting in Brookline, MA. Poor guy was a basket case.

R144 here. We also had a pretentious student who all the teachers hated. His father would show up at school and yell at the them for mistreating his son. It was reported in the local newspaper that there was a photo of the kid's father on a dartboard in the faculty lounge.

The art teacher who beat up the two students in the mid 80's committed suicide about 20 years later.

Girl in 4th grade suddenly dropped dead while playing at recess. Blood clot to the brain. I was in 6th grade at the time but classmates knew her through girl scouts. Our wonderful principal Mr. Kostkanin made the announcement at each classroom. Everyone was beyond shocked that a young child could suddenly die.

Almost everyone at Montezuma Grammar School were Christians specifically Baptist so everyone was consoling each other by saying how she was now in heaven with Christ.

Shaker Heights is a hotbed of class conflict, if one reads Little Fires Everywhere.

Yes R208 . JAFA

My PE teacher was fired because he was the centerfold of a Playgirl magazine.

R224b Useless without photos

R225, I had the magazine until my mom found it and though it away. 1978.

We need to redo this old saying as [italic]"I AM THE INCIDENT!"

R224/R226 You know that all the past Playgirl centerfolds are online, right?

What's his name?

R228, June 1980

Damn, he's hot! And packing, too!

^. June is hot!

We thought he was hot too!

R228, Does that include 100% of all Playgirl centerfolds? Want to find pictures of an ex who didn't use his real name.

Wow, reading this thread I would start to get a boner reading one reply about teacher sex and then my dick would reading the next suicide/murder story.

McAnally. Anally.

We had an alum who died in the Gulf War in 1991. He was 20 at the time, had graduated two or three years earlier. I was a junior. It was a humongous deal. This was in a mid-size suburb of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. My geometry teacher (male) was crying and it was very disturbing. They cancelled school for the day. I remember my friends and I laughing just to release the tension.

When I was in middle school, a girl in the grade above me died in an ATV accident. It rolled over on her and crushed her to death. Absolutely horrifying. It was the first time I had encountered death like that, and I didn't even know her really. On a more lighthearted note, when I was in high school, one of the drama kids was caught getting a blowjob from a girl in the costume room by our flaming drama teacher.

[quote] I remember my friends and I having a circle jerk just to release the tension.

that's how it's supposed to be done!

Shaker Heights was developed by two incestuous gay brothers, the Van Swearingens.

McAnally <=== Haha!

In second grade a little girl in my class was kidnapped and murdered. She was missing for a week before she was found in an alley a few blocks from our house. She had been sexually molested. They never solved it. This was in '58.

Bill McAnally? Was that a nom de guerre?

My sophomore year, our school music department hired an assistant director to help out with both the orchestra and band. (Our school had an amazing music department.) The guy they hired, John Simic (sp?), was VERY talented. He also had a habit of challenging the boys to work on specific solo pieces and stuff, with the promise that if we did it well, he'd invite us over to his place for a pizza party. I was one of those boys and the week before I was supposed to go over to his place for one of these pizza parties, he disappeared. The orchestra director told us he was gone, that was the end of it, not to discuss it anymore. But sure enough word got out that he was sexually abusing a number of boys.

I didn't have to go through that, thank god, but there was another boy that this creep clearly favored who lived just down the street from me. This kid was a freshman and he also disappeared from school at the same time. I stopped seeing him in the neighborhood and no one knew where he went. A month later, he was back in school, very quiet and mum as to where he was. My friends and I suspected that he was the one who told. I don't think I ever saw him smile again after that. He just stayed to himself. He knew people knew; it was heartbreaking.

That is really sad, R243.

This thread has made me remember a dozen or more little scandals I had completely forgotten about.

It also prompted me to broach the subject with an old female classmate I ran into the other day and Good Lord, the stuff she knew that was top secret to me as a male was amazing, I had no idea how many teen pregnancies, rapes, and even incest there were in that high school.

^ Spill!

The bleachers in the gym collapsed the same year one of the cheerleaders committed suicide.

R22 ... We went to the same high school. What year did you graduate?

We had a 5th grade teacher who took the boys on weekend camping trips and sleepovers at his house. Then... he was gone. Suddenly Sister Catharina was taking all his classes, and when we asked what happened to"Gonzie" we were told, "he no longer teaches here. He is gone."

It a common note in these stories that when teachers were discovered to be molesting students, it was never spoken of, the teacher disappeared and the students were never to mention it again.

This is a mistake. If the teacher admits guilt it should be shouted from the rooftops.

R250 At my school (sorry, place for faculty to rape students), we had the Priest and Junior House master 'disappear' during the hols.

Years later saw the Priest went on to another school and also raped all the children.

Schools need to actually protect pupils from rapey adults, not just cover it up so they end up continuing the rape

R251 Sadly, schools, churches, and other institutions try to cover it up to protect their reputations, when the truth of the matter is that their reputations suffer much more when the cover up is eventually exposed, which it always is. If they would just face up to it when it happens and be forthright, their reputation might take a short-term hit but will then recover as people respect their integrity. Whereas by covering it up they severally damage the reputation that they think they are protecting.

[quote]It a common note in these stories that when teachers were discovered to be molesting students, it was never spoken of, the teacher disappeared and the students were never to mention it again. This is a mistake. If the teacher admits guilt it should be shouted from the rooftops.

My Father spent several terms on the school board and it was an annual thing to discover that they had a child molester or some other flavor of sexual predator teaching. Almost every time it turned out that the teacher had done the same thing in his last position, but rather than prosecute they accepted their resignation, covered it up, and sent them down the road with a clean recommendation where they became the problem of the next school district, not theirs.

Which is exactly what his school district did too. No one wanted to prosecute and risk the lawsuit and the publicity. not the cops, the school district lawyers, the insurance companies, or even the parents of the kids involved. That was 40 years ago, but I doubt much has changed.

I think it's a method of controlling the student population as well. How do you get children to respect their teachers in whose care they remain for 7 hours a day if they could be predators and criminals?

2001 graduate from an all-boys Catholic school. Offhand:

-my geometry teacher had some sort of "incident" at a school lock-in he was supervision. I think I heard he beat a kid up but who knows. He was gone on Monday and we had subs the rest of the year.

-kid had sex with a girl in the back of a SUV and someone took pics and sent it around. There was a FBI child porn investigation. Also came out that same kid had gone to a bar and knocked a woman over the head and had sex with her. Real nice kid. That was kept hush, hush, but I was one of the ones who got the pics.

-The BIG scandal was the year before, when a bunch of seniors, in keeping with a prank with a rival school, went over there and cut down the trees in their quad. Expulsions, etc. It was a huge deal.

2001 graduate from an all-boys Catholic school. Offhand:

-my geometry teacher had some sort of "incident" at a school lock-in he was supervision. I think I heard he beat a kid up but who knows. He was gone on Monday and we had subs the rest of the year.

-kid had sex with a girl in the back of a SUV and someone took pics and sent it around. There was a FBI child porn investigation. Also came out that same kid had gone to a bar and knocked a woman over the head and had sex with her. Real nice kid. That was kept hush, hush, but I was one of the ones who got the pics.

-The BIG scandal was the year before, when a bunch of seniors, in keeping with a prank with a rival school, went over there and cut down the trees in their quad. Expulsions, etc. It was a huge deal.

Um.. R255/R256 - not sure it was interesting enough to post once, never mind twice.

One of our teachers was removed from the school, for inappropriate touching. It ruined his career... But I witnessed him touching girls the way teachers shouldn't touch students.

I've seen things that a woman ain't s'posed to see.

OMG, R259 I just spat out my wine all over my laptop.

We had a big earthquake that smashed all the windows and collapsed a small section of the school. Was pretty cool because we got a couple of days off school out of it.

R261 are you referring to the chch earthquake by any chance?

No, Edgecombe earthquake - 1987

oh deer

Nothing that crazy, but my maths teacher used to shave in class, he'd sit there with his electric razor going while we did times tables. Also, one teacher would up drunk in the morning, pass out behind his desk during lunch break so that the janitor had to go and wake him up.

I had a teacher in middle school who was an alcoholic. She always had a thermos of "coffee" on her desk and from the smell of it, it was about 10% coffee and 90% booze. We watched a lot of videos in her class. As soon as class started, she'd turn off the lights and we'd watch a video for the whole class period. EVERYBODY knew Mrs. M------ was a drunk, it was a running joke. To the best of my knowledge, the administration never stepped in and intervened. This was back in the 80s when things were a lot more hands off. Today, there would be no way a teacher drinking in class would be tolerated.

The high school I graduated from in the 1970s (El Modena High School in Orange, California) made the national news in 1999, when the school district refused to allow the newly formed Gay-Straight Alliance to meet on school grounds or even announce meetings. They finally won a federal lawsuit which forced the district to allow the club. This was surprising to me because when I went to that school in the homophobic 1970s such a thing would be unimaginable.

Most everyone got food poisoning from the sauce on the burritos when I was in the 7th grade. I asked for no sauce and had a nice 4 day weekend while the bullies were puking and shitting themselves to death.

Our junior high was a brand new building and all the ceilings had a spray-on fuzzy coating over the drywall. It was the funniest thing ever to reach over and wipe the ceiling with your had when you were in the stairwells, because the coating would drift down and land on the kids below. It looked like they had dandruff. Sometimes it was so thick it looked like it was snowing.

A few years later they closed the building for a semester because the spray-on coating was asbestos and it all got removed by guys in those white space suits.

I'm thinking our 50th reunion might be a sparsely attended affair.

Three successive priests “leaving” the parish. One year later they were all charged and received jail time. Only (!) one was a paedophile; the other two had stolen money.

My older brother’s girlfriend saw a physics teacher fucking a student in his office. What disgusted her is that whilst she rode him, he sucked on her nipples “like a baby”. The girl cornered her in the bathroom, begging her not to tell her parents and threatened self harm. So rather than tell her parents, she told my parents. When she told them, I was sent to my room but snuck out and listened from the hall. My brother got the day off school whilst he escorted her to make her statement. I tried to pull a sick day to attend as well, but my mother saw through my ruse and I was sent to school.

A group of kids that were in remedial learning murdered an old lady who just happened to look out her window and witnessed them burglarizing a restaurant in the middle of the night. I guess something woke her and she got up to see what it was since she lived directly across from the place……the genius mastermind of this caper was already known to have a fascination with guns and slightly below IQ. It wouldn’t surprise me if he was released later…since he was a juvenile at the time…and joined MAGA or Q-Loon and became a rabid tRump supporter…….seems like he would fit right in………..but I’m only speculating on that front.

One of our teachers was caught jerking off in the boys bathroom…and forever branded a fag. I never understood why he didn’t go to the teachers lounge to relieve himself….it was almost like he wanted to get caught…..that prospect most likely excited him.

Our Lady of Angels School fire. Dec 1 1958. RIP

I was in junior high when this was going on. It was "the incident" or series of incidents, rather. It affected every student in the school district, because we all had a crash course on racism, KKK, White Supremacy. None of us knew what a burning cross meant and why this was happening.

The city put police in our schools, there were fights in the hallways. We had a lot of assemblies, "unity" groups where they'd put black & white kids together to talk & listen. All black kids were let out fifteen minutes early from school and their families were out front waiting to pick them up. Taking the bus or walking home was not an option; black kids would get harassed and attacked by white students AND adults. The other problem was that this group of White Supremacists were a bunch of really young guys, and they had younger siblings still in school with us. Some of them were just like their older siblings. They had their own "White Power" gang and would do stuff like wear white tshirts for "White Power Wednesdays" and other provocative stuff. Racist graffiti in the bathrooms and elsewhere. The black principal of an elementary school had one of the crosses burned in his yard. It was disgusting.

This may not be too sensational, but this was always an "incident" that gave me pause.

We had a creepy English teacher at my high school based in Westchester County, NY. For years, he had a reputation for being inappropriate with female students -- leering at them, looking for excuses to spend extra time with them, and grading them on a curve if they wore revealing clothes. He pulled double duty as the girls' volleyball coach and he'd always try to recruit girls to play. I shuddered when he started to teach 7th graders...

By the time I was in his class, he had been at the school for about 2 decades. There were always complaints about him, but nothing ever came of them. And then right before my senior year, there was a rumor that he would stop teaching students and take over for the school librarian -- all while collecting the same teacher's salary.

It sounded too outrageous to be true, but sure enough, he ended up being the librarian. I was shocked he would even take that deal since he was clearly put in that position as a compromise. He must have had some ego if he was willing to show his face again and check out books for the kids he used to teach. (Of course, he wasn't even a qualified librarian)

I've always wondered if there was some major incident that prompted this "role change." I also wondered if he had some sort of leverage that kept him from getting terminated outright. Maybe tenure, union protections, etc? This all happened in the late 90s/early 00s, so maybe he would have just been fired by today's standards.

I fucking hated growing up in my hometown, so I never really bothered putting an ear to the ground and getting the full story. I was more preoccupied with leaving it. Still, it's not hard to connect some of the dots. And now I wonder if there's a connection to R214...

This fat bitch ate a meatball sandwich right out in class. And she was passing notes!

My 14 yr old sister having an abortion inside the girls restroom in 8th grade.

[Quote]also wondered if he had some sort of leverage that kept him from getting terminated outright. Maybe tenure, union protections, etc?

It's very probable, r276. In NYC, it's near impossible to fire a public school teacher.

[Quote]At a minimum, it takes two years to dismiss a tenured city teacher, according to the report.

[Quote]“And that’s the best-case scenario,” said one of the study’s authors, David Griffith. “But two years is already far too long — it usually doesn’t take two years to fire someone who isn’t doing a good job in most industries.”

[Quote]Even after they’ve been marked for termination, instructors can drag out the process internally or through court action, the report said.

[Quote]City teachers must be observed at least eight times over the course of two years in order for termination proceedings to take place — and they can fight negative findings at every step, Griffith said.

R279, good point -- I figured the union played a big role in that dealmaking. I guess I was most surprised that he wasn't just placed in a "rubber room," he was still free to mingle with students. Only now he couldn't teach or grade them.

This was in the ‘70’s. Female history teacher right out of college- maybe 22/23- ‘secretly’ dating one of the senior boys. It seems like no big deal now when you realize they were just 4-5 years age difference and he was 18. Both very attractive people. Oh and a couple of pregnant cheerleaders.

One afternoon in high school getting on board the bus to go home, all the "bad" and tough boys and a couple of girls who usually sat at the back of the bus smoking cigs and weed were suddenly not there, because they had OD'd that day and been rushed to the hospital on angel dust.

Is angel dust still a "thing"? Would they be laughed out of town for OD'ing on something like that today??

A girl ran away for a morning. She was found and escorted back to school by a sympathetic shop owner who recognised the uniform.

The had a pregnancy scare as a teenager and disappeared for a few days. Her parents alerted the local newspapers.

Then a few years ago she was hospitalised after a nervous breakdown. Her kids took the father’s side (the father being the guy she was with since her teen years).

When I was 14, it was discovered that one of the handsomest boys in school was the "boyfriend" of the parish priest in our local Catholic church. The guy was 17 and came from a poor family; he had started singing in the church choir at 13 and, about a year later, the parish priest visited his parents to suggest a mutually convenient arrangement: he would pay them quite a lot of money every month, as long as they would prostitute their son to him. They obviously agreed, and were instantly lifted from poverty.

I never knew how it all was revealed (adults refused to mention it around us children), but everyone spoke about it and it was a HUGE scandal in the area. However, as this was the mid-90s, the parish priest was simply transferred to another church and the boy's family moved elsewhere - this happened in the old town of a very large city, and in the quarter where I lived everyone knew each other, but it's very likely that people in other areas would have never even heard about it.

Also, the mother of one of my classmates died of an aneurysm while sleeping. This lady was a teacher in our school and was EXTREMELY popular with the rest of the faculty - the sort of person everyone looks up to, for God knows what reason (she wasn't anything special by any stretch of the imagination).

Because of this teacher's popularity, her very mediocre and insufferably arrogant daughter was treated like royalty, and everyone kept singing her praises even though she was an average student at best, was plain as dirt and had the personality of a famished piranha.

Well, one day the mother didn't wake up at the usual time and, when my classmate's brother went to wake her up, he found her dead. Yes, it was a tragic situation, but you would have thought that a national hero had died by the way in which everyone at school reacted. Many people were behaving like the world had ended, and I regret to say that I didn't care, even though I never dared to show it (I perfectly understand the feeling, R7). There was a huge funeral and everyone attended, and then my classmate and her brother went to live with their wealthy grandparents, and were never heard from again.

The thing that shocked me the most is that people who claimed to be heartbroken and made ridiculous displays of grief, had forgotten all about it a week later, and were behaving as if nothing had happened. Also, many classmates who swore to the deceased teacher's daughter that they'd be best friends forever and loudly wept with her, started bitching about her just a few days after the funeral, and never even tried to contact her again. It was downright spine-chilling, how everyone claimed to be deeply affected by what had happened and a few days later, it was evident that they didn't give a damn.

People are strange and will do anything for money, or to project the right image in front of others - those are the lessons I learned from these experiences.

In the back of the yearbook for a small fee, like $20, you could have listed a personal sentence or quote or whatever you liked within a certain number of letters. The extra money supposedly paid for the color photograph portions of the yearbook and filled three or four pages. The student editors listed a bunch of them in a manner like an acrostic poem so that when you read down the page it said “Lloyd Sucks.” Lloyd was the name of the principal and it was discovered by administrators within hours of the book’s distribution. From then on that form of fundraising for the yearbook was canceled and so were colored pages in the yearbook.

[quote]Yes, it was a tragic situation, but you would have thought that a national hero had died by the way in which everyone at school reacted. Many people were behaving like the world had ended, and I regret to say that I didn't care

You've made it very clear that you don't regret that at all.

For R284

During summer break a kid, one or two years my junior, and his sister played with matches in their father's car. The car caught fire and the younger sister died. The boy survived but with severe burns to most of his body. He needed a blood transfusion after the accident and the blood he received was infected with HIV. He died around ten years later, in the early 90s.

Also, this happened. It was the talk of middle school for a couple hours.

Sore, forgot the link.

I didn’t know people still got HIV from blood transfusions in the late 80s, that’s terrible.