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[Wafflecakes]

When I was in high school I was a fairly shy guy and was easily embarrassed. Teased a lot etc.

Anyways. Was in Drivers Ed class (I think) and sat next to a girl from the Philippines (fairly broken English but very popular) and I said something along the lines of "how are you doing today" at the start of class as she gave me nasty look and waled away.

Wasn't till a few weeks later and lots of weird looks from classmates that I realized OH FUCK she totally thought I said something else (essentially propositioning her). Of course by then everyone knew because she was kind of a loud mouth. That was a miserable year........ I was in a religious school.

 

[Deadbeat]

Some guy threw up all over his mac book in one of my classes a year ago. It was apparently less than a couple weeks old as well. He was just sitting there drinking some coffee and he barfed all over his shirt, laptop, and lap. Noone even noticed in class because it was so quiet. No hurling sounds it just poured out and the people at the table with him were kind of in shock then were getting up to get paper towels to help.

Its weird because:

1. It was a giant quiet barf disaster.
2. Brand new laptop wrecked. Good luck getting out that smell.

 

[Puckmarin]

My wife had this instructor in grad school:

http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2010/11/04/19387/

Story is, Findlay came home and found her husband looking at kiddie porn on the computer. They got into a heated argument that became physical and she said she shot him in self-defense but didn't kill him. She said he then felt so bad about the child porn that he grabbed the gun and killed himself. That's when she called 911.

Police thought differently and she was charged with murder. A jury found her NOT GUILTY of murder but GUILTY of attempted murder and she was sentenced to 5 years.

My wife and some other students actually hung out socially with the professor and her husband while in school and my wife characterized their relationship as "strained." Evidently Findlay suffered from some form(s) of mental illness (under treatment) and arguments between her and her husband often became physical.

 

[blackwatchplad]

Occasionally would have a really bad "drive-by" in the school parking lot.

My 10th grade math teacher was poisoned with rat poison by one of the students in our class... she was gone for most of the semester. She was mean.. but didn't deserve that.

In detention one time in high school, I remember the ''teacher'' in charge flipped out and threw a desk across the room and it hit a kid. Knocked him unconscious.
The "teacher" was actually just the wrestling coach and detention was his class for him to teach so he could keep his job. Wrestling was the only good thing about the school so they didn't dare fuck with his position.

Also walked in on a teacher having web cam sexy time... with another teacher 1 floor below us. Pretty awkward.

I had a history teacher who was a Vietnam veteran. He was very paranoid constantly. Always keeping the blinds open so he could look out into the woods. He would have flashbacks during class. Everyone made fun of him. I spent some time with him during lunch, he was actually a very nice guy. Always smoked a bit of pot while we were gone for lunch though.

I could go on and on about all sorts of mishaps that happened during school.
I swear, every teacher that had our class.. probably went home and drank themselves to sleep every night just to cope with us.

 

[tehrafe]

Nothing too exciting in my school days but some things happened nonetheless.

1) We used to put two Lego guys on the floor during recess, circle around it in a big group and shout “FIGHT, FIGHT!”. All the people on the playground would come over to see what was happening and so did the teachers. Teachers break through the circle and saw the Lego guys, the whole playground bursts into laughter.

2) The janitor fills up the vending machine but forgets to lock it. Next recess somebody notices and everybody on the playground rushes to the vending machine filling their bags with Coke, Sprite, whatever was in there. The teachers always picked one random kid to blame since they didn't know who originally told everyone about it.

3) We had some kind of technical class about web design and Photoshop but nobody paid attention, instead we were playing return to castle wolfenstein in multiplayer. All of a sudden some guy shouts “Who the fuck is Hitler and where the hell is he camping, that head shot was bullshit.”. The teacher gave us shit but we continued to play.

Spoiler

(My nickname was Hitler)

4) Some kid put the school mailbox on fire on a Friday afternoon. The next Monday there were posters all around the school looking for the person who put the mailbox on fire because “important letters” were destroyed. It got blamed on a junior but I knew it was a friend of mine.

5) We used to print on old “Heidelberg Degel” machines and were told what specific products to use to clean the machines at the end of class. A friend of mine accidentally used the wrong product and the machine started ejaculating foam like there was no tomorrow. The workplace got filled up with it and he ran away, blaming it on his co worker (the poor guy was the class geek and almost started crying).

Great thread OP

 

[D_Star]

Well I guess a couple of things stood out during my time in high school. I live near a part of the Netherlands that, well, is known for it's socio-economic challenges, a lot of the stuff that happened could probably be related to that. A few examples:

1) A chinese girl from my senior year group committed suicide, sad story really. Apparently she was under a lot of pressure to perform well in school, but she didn't. She hung herself from the curtain rails with the curtains being shut. As the story goes, her little brother found her after he went looking for her in the house, and to his horror only found her when he tried to pull the curtains aside to see if she was in the yard outside. I didn't know her too well, but she was like the best friend of a female friend of me at that time. The entire school was in uproar; teachers sitting outside crying, social workers trying to talk to us, group sessions.. It all ended pretty sudden when we attended her funeral a few days after.

2) Mass fights would often break out at my high school during recess, mostly between some skaters (stoners you guys would call them) and some moroccan youth. You'd best get out of the way when that happened, as sometimes these guys would bring knives. Because of this, the police would often patrol around our school at recess.

3) My german teacher died of cancer in what felt like weeks. I remember having German class with him, then all of a sudden he would disappear for weeks and we would get a substitute. Then the substitute was gone and he returned, and just a week after that I came into school on monday to see everyone around us sobbing and crying, and seeing a little shrine with a picture of the guy smiling and a single candle placed in front of it. Such a weird vibe...

4) I was mugged in broad daylight while having a walk around the school premises with a friend of mine, I was probably around 12 years old. The guy had a knife and was threatening to cut us up if we didn't pay up. All he got was a whopping two or three guilders (the dutch currency at the time).

5) And to end on a lighter note: when you finish high school in the Netherlands, a school dance or prom is often organised near the end of the senior year. Ofcourse we had one as well. I remember a lot of booze being smuggled in, by both teachers and students. A lot of the teachers were piss drunk, one would take off his shirt while dancing and being in this weird liquor induced delirium, we laughed our asses off. Also, our janitor yelled "Everybody's gonna get laid tonight, bitches!!" just before the dance started, which made us feel slightly uncomfortable, lol! Ofcourse, nobody did get laid, but still, it was funny at the time.

 

[ResidentDante]

1) We used to put two Lego guys on the floor during recess, circle around it in a big group and shout “FIGHT, FIGHT!”. All the people on the playground would come over to see what was happening and so did the teachers. Teachers break through the circle and saw the Lego guys, the whole playground bursts into laughter.

Amazing!

 

[FairXchange]

I was reading this thread and was shocked by the responses until I realized/remembered I have insane school stories.

When the PSP was first released, some guy tried robbing a person in the grade above him at knife point for it, at the bus stop outside of the high school. In the struggle, the person who owned the PSP got hold of the knife and proceeded to open up air holes in the robber's back. The robber/student then collapsed and was taken to hospital and never returned to the high school. I saw it happen, btw.

Another incident, I was now a senior in high school. Two sophomores got into an argument about some rivalry or feud that was brewing. A student that was previously expelled came bursting through the doors and began punching one of the sophomores. The student being attacked pulled out a knife and went crazy, stabbing the expelled student in the chest and stomach. Teachers ran in attempting to pull them apart, it was chaos. The person who was stabbed stumbled out of the school and was soon after airlifted to the nearest hospital for surgery. Once again, this happened right in front of me.

Come to think about it, I have a lot of stories from HS. It was a pretty crazy time in my life. Btw, the HS is a very prestigious academy now thanks to a diligent principal. The high school was in a suburb out just outside the GTA in Ontario.

 

[J-Roderton]

We had a kid try to hang himself with a shoe string in the boys bathroom during gym class. It was probably the 3rd time he had attempted it.

Same kid used to bring a universal remote to class and turn the TV on and shit during class to mess with teachers/subs.