Old but gold question.

  • invertedspear@lemmy.zip
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    3 months ago

    Grade school: teacher fired for passing failing students so he wouldn’t have to deal with them next year. This was before “no child left behind” existed. At the end of one of the school years a girl tripped and fell and somehow got a metal tent spike through her neck. She was ok, just had a wicked scar.

    Middle school: someone did the old flush the fireworks thing and somehow revealed a major flaw in the plumbing that required demolishing a whole building. We didn’t have water on campus for the last month. This was in Phoenix and it was getting stupid hot, so that whole month was half days.

    High school: At the end of the year before I started a bunch of students got arrested for using an empty science lab to make meth. In my junior year there was a party that got a couple kids killed in a drive by.

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      2 months ago

      Fired for passing failing students. At this point in North America teachers have to pass failing students! I’m not US American so I am not sure if “No Child Left Behind” means no failing, though I remember it was a Bush jr policy that lowered standards.

      Sounds like you went to very “active” middle and high schools!

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        2 months ago

        The no child left behind policy was intended to ensure that kids got extra help when needed. In reality schools determined it was way easier to lower the bar than to get some kids to learn. Kids and shitty parents have figured this out and will game the system as much as possible. Clear on it being a baby bush policy. FWIW I think the intent was good, but making more demands of the education without providing additional resources and no way of enforcing quality has reached an inevitable point.

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    2 months ago

    There was this smoking hot witchy girl, and some of the jocks found her bag and shit in it. None of them got in trouble for it, her family sued but I don’t know if anything came of that.

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    2 months ago

    There was this asshole teacher, one of his students stole his car and crashed it through a set of double doors into the building. Destroyed the entire entryway and both sets of heavy duty doors.

    Epic, man. Everyone hated that teacher and he had bought one of the new VW bugs when they first started making the new ones and he thought it was just so cool.

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    3 months ago

    A couple years before my time, but a cheerleader was assaulted and killed on campus while waiting to meet up with her team.

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    3 months ago

    Not exactly a big one, but two of our teachers were fucking. Everytime he came into her classroom to get something they were really flirty with each other. They didn’t know that we knew.

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    3 months ago

    Besides the school shooting? Wish I was kidding. On a more fun note, another quiet kid decided to just rub his shit all over the walls with red food coloring to make it look bloody. Also had a fight club ring pop up at lunch with 4-5 concurrent fights before it got broken up.

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    3 months ago

    School trip to the neighboring Town

    First class, someone put a “help kidnapping” paper sign in the back window

    Wasn’t seen until the second class that got transported got pulled off the road from the special police force

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    3 months ago

    The baseball team at my high school would haze freshmen by sodomizing them with a baseball bat. This made it to the news and we suddenly didn’t have a senior baseball team that year.

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    3 months ago

    Nothing as fun, but just a heavy corruption scandal. The director of the school was apparently pocketing a lot of the money from school funding initiatives, and offloading a lot of the purchases that were supposed to be done onto the last year students. I remember our class being chosen to buy new furniture for an entire classroom in the name of “giving something back”.

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    3 months ago

    There was a kid that shit his pants at my middle school. Left a little nugget that slid out of his basketball shorts in the hallway. I guess there was also some on his seat which nobody noticed until a girl in the next class sat in it.

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    3 months ago

    Pre-Columbine mass shootings: Some kid rode his bike up the stairs during class changes and was denied walking the stage at his graduation for “seriously endangering himself and the entire student body.”

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        He was a wiry little guy, the steps were steep. It was rather comical, he started at the end of the hallway and just went hard. We all thought he was on cocaine, but who knows?