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What was the scandal at your school?

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NoEffingWay · 28/10/2020 12:13

There was the maths teacher who was known to be a bit of a creep, who was caught snagging a pupil in the school hall...never heard from him again.
And the headmistress was caught with her hands in the till, quick retirement and shipped out.
I went to a decent school I promise!

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Lockdownfever · 28/10/2020 17:46

Back in the 80's, one of our heads of department suddenly left school halfway through a term. Nothing was ever said as to why he left and no one mentioned him again. About ten years later, and well after I had left school, I read in a national newspaper that he had been released from Broadmoor where he had been since killing his wife :-/

JurassicShay · 28/10/2020 17:56

My best mate was pregnant in year 11

Pe teacher & English teacher are lesbians and still together now 16 years later

IT and RE teachers had an affair and later married

Deputy head was nick named mitler (hitler but with his first initial) he was the image of him and real stern, if you were in trouble it was him you were sent to. Students used to seig heil him!

Pervy wood tech teacher

Young maths teacher who either had a massive dong or a permanently stiffy used to perch it in the corner of the desk. Rhyme made up which was sang to him all the time
Mr ...... he's such fun, he sticks boners up your bum.
He was a push over and done whatever he could to get through the lesson.

Salcara · 28/10/2020 18:10

Went to high school down under. When I was in year 8, the high school sports coordinator was hooking up with a year 12 student. Inevitably she got pregnant and returned to school after the holidays married for her final term - her parents and the extended family had a wee chat with the father-to-be and emphasised his career being limited if he didn’t stand at the top of the aisle.

The female drama teacher was married to the male English teacher. She left him for the female art teacher.

High court judge’s son got busted selling weed on campus. They brought drug dogs on property... found his supplier was the school custodian.

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Salcara · 28/10/2020 18:15

Forgot to add... when I was in Year 11, the school sports coordinator was hooking up with a girl in my year... never found out if his school girl wife found out but obviously he didn’t learn his lesson the first time as his new girls brother smacked him one in the car park

MrsAvocet · 28/10/2020 18:15

One of my friends was having an affair with a teacher in 6th form. (Early 1980s) I don't know why I didn't do anything about it or tell anyone as I knew it was wrong but somehow got sucked into believing that I had to keep quiet to protect her. The thinking was that she would be in trouble, might not be able to finish her A levels and would probably be thrown out by her parents. We did grasp the idea that he might lose his job if the story got out, and she begged us to keep quiet because of this too - that would be unfair apparently. Shockingly none of us seemed to consider the idea that she was a victim of abuse. We bought into the story that they were in love and that he would definitely marry her once she left school and they could legitimately be together. He didn't of course.
Another "scandal" that was actually terribly sad, though I didn't appreciate that at the time, happened in my final year at primary school. A new girl joined the class at the beginning of the year. She was a bit scruffy. Sometimes slightly smelly. Never invited anyone to her home and never talked about her family. She didn't really make friends, until Christmas came around when she gave every single girl in the class very generous presents - by the standards of our 1970s small mining town anyway. I remember very clearly that I got a red and black ladybird purse and a big tube of multi coloured bath oil spheres, unwrapped and pulled out of a big bag of similar goodies. It was very exciting and we all loved our gifts. She was the most popular girl in the class for a few days. Then suddenly she wasn't there anymore and our class teacher solemnly told us that if we had received presents from her we needed to bring them in the next day. Someone asked why and was told that she had given us things that she shouldn't have and they needed to be sent back. She never returned to our school. Of course I now realise that she had stolen the gifts to buy our friendship because we had all been little shits who looked down on her. I expect she went into care or some kind of institution. I often wonder what became of her, even all these years later. I hope she eventually found kind people and things improved for her.

andadietcoke · 28/10/2020 18:20

Groundsman committed suicide in the workshop, three pupil / teacher affairs - one sacked, one left of her own accord, one subsequently married the pupil and is still there I think. Lots of 'last day' craziness including a pupil staging a sit in on the roof of the library (big grand private school), and my personal favourite, when they put an ad in the local newspaper for a jumble sale and for people to leave their jumble with the gatekeeper at the front of school. There was a lot. Ooh, and sheep on the field.

SingleHandSue · 28/10/2020 18:24

My DS’s best friend uncovered a very private side of their head of year when they were in year 11.

The HOY had been posting photos of himself on Facebook and Twitter pages dedicated to men wanting to be humiliated by younger men. Of course DS’s friend spread it to all the school kids before any adult was aware.

The photos were hilarious to be fair. Lots of biker leathers and big work boots and close up crotch shots. Imagine being the one to discover that about your teacher.

He wasn’t even sacked, just asked to take a post somewhere else.

purplecorkheart · 28/10/2020 18:33

A teacher got annoyed with a girl no listening. Went to pull her ears but caught her earrings and damaged her ear lobes.

Sub teacher made a student who had a doctors note do PE. She ended up being hospital. He was never seen again.

ExtremeWeatherScenarios · 28/10/2020 18:38

RE teacher who lectured us on morals aaaallllll the time, got married, had an affair with the history teacher and ran off with him.

Carouselfish · 28/10/2020 18:57

Dt and cookery teacher had affair. Peripatetic music teacher was a paedo.

VamosAhora · 28/10/2020 19:05

Mid 80s, teacher had a relationship with 15 year old, he was asked to leave the school.

30 years later he was finally struck off for doing the same thing again. Utterly manipulative guy, I'm glad he was finally caught and shamed in the newspapers.

Strawberrycreamsundae · 28/10/2020 19:22

Very strict convent, much praised head girl bound for Oxbridge got pregnant at 16 and quickly left the school.
My school bully left at 15 pregnant, that was the best thing that ever happened to me there, never saw her again.
Two PE teachers married each other’s brother but were actually in a lesbian relationship all along.

DeeDimer · 28/10/2020 19:36

80's girls boarding school. One of the girls in the 2nd year (L IV in old language lol!) ran away. She had a boyfriend! Shock horror!
The year we did our O Levels one of the girls fainted during an exam it turns out she was pregnant.
In the 6th form a really bad influence took the girls to a pub instead of a play. Said group was seen in the pub by the maths teachers. The ringleader was hauled in from of the Headmistress and was threatened with suspension. I deny all knowledge Blush

Henrietty · 28/10/2020 19:42

I went to a private girls school in SW England. It wasn’t even in a rough area but the amount of things that happened are unbelievable!

Regular flasher who would show up 3/4 times a month at the back fence. He was progressively doing worse things and getting braver. It started off just flashing, then turned to wanking and even throwing semen over the back gate. This was maybe ‘93/‘94. I can’t believe it went on for almost a year before the guy was caught.

PE teacher has a bit of a rep as being a man-eater. She was early 40s. New tennis coach comes in, very young, very handsome, pe teacher sets her sights on him immediately. Two weeks later she gets caught giving him a bj behind the tennis court. I remember he left but she stayed on for years after. Same pe teacher also had an affair with one of the school dads.

Because of our location, and the fact it was the only private girls school in our area, there were a lot of children of celebs and footballers there. The amount of stuff they got away with was unreal. Because their parents were famous, non of the teachers would say anything to them. One girl was having an affair with the 50 year old history teacher and her parents paid the head not to do anything about it as they didn’t want bad publicity. Weed and cocaine were accepted and being taken quite blatantly.

Pupils regularly skipping class and going into town to meet up with the local boys school lads. Quite a lot of sexual contact going on back and forth. One girl in particular used to give out blow jobs for a joint. We thought it was a rumour until we actually witnessed it. She was probably only 15 at the time. It’s awful to think no one really found it that weird.

Quite a lot of teacher/pupil relationships but I don’t remember a single teen pregnancy while I was there.

History teacher was a proper pervert. He deliberately used to put me up front of the class and stand so close to me that his crotch was in my face, basically. It was completely out in the open that he was obsessed with me. He used to make me stay behind every single lesson and would rub his crotch against his chair whilst talking to me. I do remember telling the head once and nothing really happened about it so we all just accepted he was a perv and tried to avoid being alone with him.

Male caretaker would deliberately come into the girls locker room while we were changing for pe. It happened every week. Again, it was just accepted that he was a perv and we learnt to live with it.

So, so awful looking back now but I loved my time at school and I’m still friends with loads of the girls from my class.

uglyface · 28/10/2020 19:44

A girl in our year didn’t turn up for school for a couple of days in a row. Turns out that she had unexpectedly given birth in her bathroom, having not had a clue that she was pregnant.

Chewbecca · 28/10/2020 19:44

tasmanian yes, it is a W... Under the clock?

WildRosie · 28/10/2020 19:47

Sounds like I've hardly lived! The only hint of scandal at my high school was one particularly unpleasant boy calling the Latin teacher a silly bitch. Shock horror eh? Maybe it was a bit much in 1986 but decidedly meh compared to what I've read on here ce soir. For the sake of context, the pupil in question was an objectionable little shit in any language and said teacher had a sharp tongue and had few fans among the pupils at large. But she could teachSmile.

LabiaMinoraPissusFlapus · 28/10/2020 19:47

Chemistry teacher sacked for being caught wanking in the girl's toilets. It was an all girls' school and the art teacher confirmed this was true. Our physics teacher took us all at the age of 17/18, bought us drinks, got us pissed, took us back to his flat, behaved questionably with one on the girls. Carried on career as usual. And there were hidden cameras discovered in the changing rooms, it was in the paper.

Drogonssmile · 28/10/2020 19:48

Our music teacher had an affair with our English teacher's husband and got pregnant by him. We were more amused by the fact the baby had the initials TIT (we were 13 to be fair).
The deputy head was accused of raping a sixth former. He was later found to be innocent but not before he'd lost his job and reputation. His family were devastated.
One of the girls got pregnant at 15. This was major scandal as it was a ver ver posh all girls school. That same girl got married to the father of the baby (who is now in her twenties) , they are still married and they have three other children. I love that story.

Mysterian · 28/10/2020 19:53

My school flew a swastika for a while.

Not a real one. Some idiot thought that a black letter K would look good on a white circle on a red background. Hard to see anything but a black cross when it flapped about.

planningaheadtoday · 28/10/2020 20:09

The French teacher getting the English teacher pregnant.......they were both young but unmarried, this was a very long time ago when it just wasn't done!

Honeyandapple · 28/10/2020 20:11

The year 11 leavers burnt a massive cock picture in to the playing field. Perfectly viewed from the upper floors or the main schools. It was skilfully done and they couldn't get it to disappear for years

CoffeeRunner · 28/10/2020 20:15

PE teacher who was married to a French teacher having an affair, and then a child, with the married Drama teacher.

ArrabellaAM · 28/10/2020 20:17

No real scandals but a few rumours about teachers being "peados" or alcoholics.
Did have a very good looking teacher at college who was quite flirty though!

HotToCold · 28/10/2020 20:21

Would be funny if the same school....
JP? 😂

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