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[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 125 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

When I was a freshmen I showed everyone what a proxy was and got the whole class kicked of the internet.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 48 points 3 weeks ago

Thank you for your service

[–] Samdell@lemmy.eco.br 106 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

So the solution to gendered bathrooms is for guys to give each other head? I volunteer.

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 64 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

For the good of society and no other reason, I'm in.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 28 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm in it for the succ. I'm not ashamed.

[–] prex@aussie.zone 6 points 3 weeks ago

Succ-cioty?

[–] LuckingFurker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 3 weeks ago

I also volunteer to undermine some rules

[–] threeonefour@piefed.ca 86 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

A guy at my school was caught using the library printer to print out Pokemon hentai to bring home. They moved the printer to behind the desk so you needed to ask someone for what you printed.

[–] moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 52 points 3 weeks ago

one of the many wonders of high school

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

…without explicitly banning the printing of said hentai. The chad move in response to this should be obvious.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 weeks ago

Hey librarian, could you pass us those 80 pages of tentacle rape porn? Please.

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 74 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

One of the teachers hired two students to stage a home invasion on himself and his wife. They were going through a rough patch in their marriage and he thought being a hero and stopping the break-in would somehow save his marriage.

The two students ended up breaking in and tying up his wife as requested, but he got a little too into character and ended up knocking out one of the students with a brick.

Guy ended up going to prison for a while.

[–] FearMeAndDecay@literature.cafe 53 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Okay, students being stupid enough to agree to this makes sense bc they’re kids, but how did that teacher even come up with that idea, let alone actually do it?? That’s actual wife-hating behavior to think traumatizing her to “save her” is a good idea. Hopefully she finalized the divorce while he was in prison where he couldn’t hurt her

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 46 points 3 weeks ago

The funny thing is that one of the reasons the teacher started to go off script was because the wife wasn't being a compliant damsel in distress and ended up freeing herself and calling the cops.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 40 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

A freshman got caught beating off in religion class (Catholic HS). He somehow wasn’t thrown out and the nickname “Jerkoff Joe” stuck with him for his next 4 years.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

does every school have one of those? Ours was named "Sticky". He changed schools after a semester of that nickname. it's a small enough city that didn't help

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No, not every school does…

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[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 3 weeks ago

Went to high school in a very small rural town. There was a time when someone snuck in a bunch of chickens and a raccoon in the middle of the day. That was a strange day.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 36 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Had a teacher fuck a student at my school. I was in that teacher's class when the shooting next door happened.

[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 30 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Kid getting shot in the hall over his sneakers...

[–] urheber@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 3 weeks ago
[–] 0ops@piefed.zip 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Pumped up kicks I'm guessing?

[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Possibly it was in the late eighties.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 22 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Mustard gas in the parking lot. Yeah IDK.

[–] SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Had to evacuate the building because due to the teacher in my chemistry class accidentally letting a bunch of bromine gas escape.

My sister had the same classroom evacuated after she made an explosive that burned the ceiling tiles and set off the sprinklers.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Wish we had chemistry, alas we had to settle for making chemical weapons with cleaning supplies from the 99¢ store. The mustard gas was just what was noticed, I know damned well that someone made a hand grenade in one of those pre fab classrooms that were meant to be temporary but all got turned into storage.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

storage? we have a school here that like 2/3 of the classrooms are portables.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

There are two highschools in my area I went to the old one built in the 50s which was used for special needs because I am an autistic who leans towards violence. Anyways the portables were probably from the late 90s early 2000s when the new highschool was still being built

[–] festnt@sh.itjust.works 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

first year of highschool, friend groups already formed. the classes started 7:30, and went until to 17:10; 10:00 to 10:20 and 15:10 to 15:30 was a short break where they gave out food and sometimes drinks (like chocolate milk, coffee, etc) and 12:00 to 13:30 it was lunch time. 12:30 to 13:00 they locked the doors to make sure nobody would steal other peoples stuff.

around the time of 12:30 to 13:00, some kids (including me) were bored and wanted to go get our backpacks, i believe because the next class was in the computer labs, meaning we'd still have to walk a bit to get there. since we were bored kids, we started joking around, acting like we were going to punch the door, kick it, etc. some other kid just came in and kicked the door open, breaking everything around the handle.

so anyway, the people that were doing the thing in front of the door (other than me) went to the principal's office or whatever that's called, together with some people who were just sitting around. everyone was punished. the kid who actually broke the door was supposed to pay a bigger portion of the new door, though he never paid (afaik). and the others that went into the office had to pay a smaller portion each. yes, even the ones who went just to confirm that the kid did the thing, and were literally sitting on the floor until it happened. i was one of the ones who were doing the thing on the door, but i just kinda didn't know what to do so i sat down and i wasn't punished. lol

the excuse the doorbreaker kid's parents gave was that he was autistic, couldn't understand it was a joke and wanted to help.

oh and of course at later years of highschool there was sex, drugs, and other crap of the same caliber. not me though, i just kinda started dating in the first year and we never broke up... now she's my fiancée or however that word is spelled!

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Great anecdote. I was thinking how unfair it was to make the jokesters pay until...

the excuse the doorbreaker kid’s parents gave was that he was autistic, couldn’t understand it was a joke and wanted to help.

Yeah. If you create the conditions in which someone acts, then you share responsibility.

There is always some son-of-a-bitch who doesn’t get the word. - John F. Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

lawful good to end segregation processes

[–] festnt@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 weeks ago

more like chaotic good

[–] Hazmatastic@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Our seniors got to go to Disneyland for Grad Night. Someone ended up taking way too much acid on Small World, crawled off the ride, and sat in a corner in fetal position until someone came and got him. My old high school is no longer allowed to go to Disneyland for grad night.

I think our cheerleading team was banned from regionals after throwing a mattress out a hotel room the following year

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

so on our school trips, in order to somehow prevent fucking, they would have the chaperones put a lil bit of tape on the outside of the doors. kind of like the TV "put a hair on the windowsill to see if someone came in the window" bullshit, theoretically the tape would either break or they wouldn't be able to re-tape the tape if they left their hotel room after curfew. My room was right next to the chaperones. One night, after being tired of the ridiculous extra rules they were adding to the trip to account for Mike (a well-behaved student who the head chaperone just did not like) I went around to all the rooms with students, took the tape off, and taped the chaperones in. Apparently there was too much tape and they were unable to open the door the next morning. Oopsie poopsie!

that was one of the more minor incidents (the chaperones thought it was hilarious, so i didn't tell them Mike helped) we had. I'm not telling what I got up to that night.

[–] colin@lemmy.uninsane.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

on the only overnight school trip i ever went on, Zach was taking too long in the shower and Garrett shouted at the bathroom "if you don't hurry up i will shit in a bag". we laughed it off but then he went to the minifridge, grabbed Zach's lunchbag, squeezed himself into the little coat closet, did his business & left without a word.

[–] colin@lemmy.uninsane.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

weed was pretty endemic on our highschool campus. it wasn't unusual at all to take a bathroom break during class and see someone zonked out and sitting against the wall in the hallway waiting for something to pass. i still have zero gauge on how much schools vary on this stuff: tell that experience to one friend and they'll say "sounds like highschool", tell it to a different friend and they'll ask "what the hell kind of a school did you go to?" i'm sort of thinking it's less "did your school have a drug problem" and more "did you notice the drug problem" at this point.

[–] Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 weeks ago

Basically, how they were treating students. The school was operating under a lot of obvious nepotism, and was pretty openly bigoted. I was one of their primary targets. It ended with the state investigating, and then lawyers, and the school agreeing to pay my tuition to go elsewhere.about 1/4 of the staff turned over by the next year. Three years later the whole hierarchy was changed, and much of the rules, and policies, were changed.

At this point, 2 years later, the new superintendent called my dad and apologized for how I was treated. He then asked if it was possible to make amends, and for me to return to the school. He turned that down. To this day (30 years later) kids still hear about the "out of control" period in the 90s that lead to the school being completely reformed. If people are interested I can elaborate on things that went on. For one, their most academically gifted student, by a long shot, was basically shunned because he is gay. The dude is probably a legit genius, and is a prodigal musician. He had the highest marks, and assessment scores, but that didn't matter, he was a dirty queer. The school was a place you could call Kafkaesque without there being a bit of exaggeration.

[–] rockettaco37@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

The only incidents at our school was people sneaking into the stage lighting booth to fuck.

Oh, and also one kid got arrested for selling weed out of one of the bathrooms.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 7 points 3 weeks ago

Unfortunately I can't remember it all but on a school trip some guys snuck away with some girls to drink beer and I think they made a big mess and climbed around on the building. And were just almost caught.

When our class's super strickt teacher went into retirement we made a book for him with all kinds of stories. One of them was the real story of what happened that night. He loved it and laughed his ass off reading it. Hope he's doing well.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Around Columbine, rumours started going around at my school that one of my friends was going to shoot up the coming assembly. He wore a trench coat but was just another dnd nerd and bullying wasn't even bad at my school (this itself was probably about as bad as bullying would get). He was monitored during the assembly and a lot of people avoided it, but it was one of the few I went to. Obviously nothing happened during it.

Though my favourite assembly story from that school was about the time they absolutely wanted everyone to attend one. Many people would usually just leave the school during them, so on this day, they posted teachers at each door to keep people from leaving while others moved through the school and herded everyone to the gym.

I remember getting to the gym, thinking they had beat us, only to enter and see that the line of people going in didn't disperse to the seats in the bleachers. Instead it continued on to the one door they forgot to guard: an exit from the gym itself.

I wish I could have seen the look on their faces when they got in to the gym only to find it probably less full than usual, since everyone exiting from right there probably made some who wouldn't have normally left grow bold enough to do it. But I didn't see their faces because I also left.

Then they just kinda gave up. Even though it would gave been relatively easy to fix the flaw in their plan, they never did try to block us in like that again.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Big melee between rednecks and black kids after someone wrote some racist shit on a poster. Cops show up and join on the side of the rednecks because obviously they did. They doused basically the entire first floor of the school in pepper spray (or maybe it was tear gas? idr), all classes on lockdown for several hours, pigs even beat up and arrested a black student's mother when she arrived to take her daughter home because of what was happening. So yeah that was like the first week of freshman year. Fuck 12.

[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's bussin, no cap, for real, for real.

[–] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

On god skibidy fleek ratchet

[–] jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

guy peed on a female classmate's desk and bag

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[–] zanyllama52 3 points 3 weeks ago

I have a couple good ones. The standout would be someone pranked their friend by putting a dead fish in their glove compartment and let it cook in the hot sun all day to stink up the car. The other guy reciprocated by finding a snake and killing it and putting that in the first guy's glove box the same way.

The guy who started the prank ended it by climbing on top of his buddy's car and pissing into a funnel which led to a hose and spraying the piss all over the interior of his car.

Nasty ass kids. 🤣

[–] Shotgun_Alice@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Nature finds a way.

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