What was THE INCIDENT at your secondary school?

[NoviceNewMN]

Inspired by a thread on another website that I randomly came across throught google.

Every school has some sort of 'infamous incident' that passed into the annals of school infamy and was the sole topic of gossip for months if not years.

What was yours?

Mine was the head teacher had an affair with another teacher. Both were married. It all became public on the last day of term and neither of them came back the following term. Just disappeared. No one talked about anything else for a long time.

This was the threat that made me think of this question. The original poster wrote 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. which is pretty horrific.

www.datalounge.com/thread/24755607-what-was-%E2%80%9Cthe-incident%E2%80%9D-at-your-middle-school-and-or-high-school-

• the thread

We had a headteacher having an affair with another teacher as well, was years of gossip. One of my parents was a teacher at the school and said even the staff gossiped about it.

One of the teachers was supposedly shagging a sixth former as well but not sure how true that was.

Similar - deputy head got divorced and quickly married another teacher, who came back after the holidays as Mrs Deputy Head’s Surname. Deputy head had three children at the school

Our biology teacher and a student who had just left sixth year got together and set up home. Her parents were our neigbours. There was a story in the paper and everything!

maths teacher sleeping with a sixth former. He left his job (and his wife!) to move with her to her university city.

Physics teacher in his 40s left his wife for a pupil he started seeing when she was 14. This was before child protection etc.

There was the teacher who had sex with a sixth former, the pupil who pooed in a teacher's favourite mug and the time loads of people in my school year went to get underage tattoos on their lunch break!

God there is a lot of dodgy relationships going on. In my school it was the music teacher…

There was the day the science block caught fire. That was quite an incident!

Our science teacher put a student on the floor. From what I remember the student ran at the teacher and the teacher wrestled the student to the ground, maybe a bit aggressively.
Was gossip long after he left (years after this incident)

Several incidents between pupils and teachers too (well, the same teacher with more than one pupil). Truly was a different time.

Two girls were caught growing marijuana in the boarding house. They told the house mistress it was a tomato plant, so I think she may have become suspicious eventually when no tomatoes appeared.

I went to a girls school in the 80s and our Incident was that a girl was supposed to have died tragically from falling from a balcony or sometimes the bell tower, accounts varied, and thereafter haunted the school. We would scare the younger pupils with this. Sometimes you’d get a library book which had her name written inside the front cover which was of course really the older girls pissing about.

Our absolutely amazing deputy head was killed in an accident on holiday
Broke everyone’s hearts and references to it and how great he was still pops up on the school alumni Facebook group

Oh and the art teacher who tried to hang herself in the supply closet but a student found her in time. She never came back to work at our school and I really hope she got the help she needed

I went to an ultra religious school. The most favourite pupil ever went to Oxford and was held up to us a shining example of achievement. For context, this was the early 1960s. She got pregnant unmarried by a black man. Probably the most scandalous thing the nuns had ever come across. We no longer had to hear how wonderful she was!

When the 15/16 year olds went on strike!! Made the local papers. Can’t remember why though!! It was around 1977.

Drugs brought into school.

Was on the news and everything!

Reason being is it was not the thing you'd expect at my school!!! (Although we realise it happens everywhere!)

Someone drove a car through the downstairs corridor of our school on the last day of term. Not really gossip as everyone knew who it was etc, but talked about for a long time. They weren’t allowed back to sit their exams

There was an incident in the woodwork classroom when a boy accidentally cut off two of his fingers on the circular saw. That was talked about for a while. So was the affair between two PE teachers - particularly because one of them happened to be married to another teacher, who also worked at our school.

A dead baby (stillborn, the police eventually concluded) was found in a girl's locker. It was a boarding school, and she was an overseas student. Very sad story all round.

Two of our female PE teachers arrived in the same car every day so it was assumed they were lesbians - scandal !
I had to be told what a lesbian was !