What was THE INCIDENT at your secondary school?

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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.

One of our physics teachers was an alcoholic and frequently came into lessons quite literally falling-down drunk.

One day he p*ssed himself in front of the whole class. `we never saw him again.

Thinking back, it was terribly sad - he was only a young man (seemed ancient then, but must only have been in his late 20's/early 30's). I wonder what happened in his life that he drank so much at such a young age.

Aren't 4th year's 16? They are in Scotland. It's still abuse regardless.

A kid bunked of school to visit the London Transport Museum (!) and left his bag of the tube and allegedly it caused a closure as a suspicious item so he was known as '[Name] Bomb Squad' forever after

As a teacher….

The usual affairs between staff, divorces, marriages etc. Some pupils knew about, some they didn’t, some got the wrong end of the stuck.

Going back a bit - relationships between staff and pupils, some rumours, some wishlists some ended in marriage.

Pupils who though staff were gay and they weren’t. Pupils who missed other staffs’s clues.

A murderer, just after he’d left and as predicted by a colleague.

A sad sudden death, completely wrongly blamed on drugs. It was congenital defect just waiting to happen. This poured additional upset on a terrible situation.

To be involved in youngest pupil to achieve cold fusion at 13. Nice time, decent lads.

We had a teacher accidentally slam a door on a student's hand. Said student was due to represent Scotland in an athletics meet a few weeks later as they were a junior javelin champion or potential champion. Even though it was accidental the teacher was hounded out by the student's parents by a really, really horrible campaign. The teacher ended up off sick for months before leaving.

The other one was a pupil who'd been suspended who kept sneaking into the school buildings and setting the fire alarm off. It became a game to them after the school started putting a staff member on the gates to try and stop them.

One of the main buildings in our school was a tower block and it was massively dangerous in fire drills/scares because people were piling onto the staircase from four floors with no patience. The suspended lad decided one day to turn on the fire hoses at the bottom of the stairs and then set the alarm off meaning when the first people got to the bottom they tried to go back to avoid the hoses spraying water, but people were still piling down from behind. A boy was badly injured after slipping on the wet floor and then other people not being able to avoid him.

The funniest one was a school trip at my primary school in the days when just the teacher came. Somehow after counting all the kids onto the bus the teacher faffed about so much the bus driver didn't realise she wasn't on the bus and set off without her. Which given the stern lectures we'd all had before the trip about not faffing and how important it was that the bus was back on time gave all of the kids a giggle.

There were many incidents at my secondary school but most notable was a deranged ex pupil with a grudge turning up with a homemade flamethrower and torching the school hall were children were sitting an exam!

Very strict RE teacher in his late 50s ran off with a sixth form girl. We were all flabbergasted as he seemed like the least likely teacher to do so.
A girl in my year died in a horse-riding accident aged about 13 which was in the media at the time. It was very sad.
The headteacher drank and everyone knew he had bottles behind the window curtains in his office. Eventually he fell over drunk at Sports Day and got sacked.

When I was in sixth form a small group of us went on a trip to London with one teacher and he got absolutely legless one night and we had to put him to bed to sleep it off. But we all liked him so we didn't tell anyone and he didn't get told off.

A girl in our school apparently got fingered with a twix

Bomb scare. Barely made the news that night (you can guess where bomb scares are commonplace… I always said if this happened anywhere else in the UK it would be national news for days)

I remember my London primary school being evacuated a couple of times around 1977-78 because of IRA bomb warnings and my cousin's school was too. At the time I think they had a strategy of giving a huge number of warnings to places like schools and department stores to cause maximum panic and disruption. I don't remember it being on the news, but we weren't stuck inside the school. Tbh I don't think the kids had much clue at the time that it was anything to worry about, but it stuck in my mind because the parents were panicking and upset when they collected us from the community centre we were taken to.

Headmistress had an affair with a games mistress. It was reported in the tabloids and she was sacked by the governors. I’m retrospect it was very sad. They were both single, consenting adults and did not deserve to have their personal letters published in the Daily Mail.

Daughter of a very famous film star got expelled for dealing drugs (again, reported in the press).

Not reported in the press but much more interesting… a few pupils got suspended for drinking alcohol at a disco. The whole year group of 100 girls then got an apparent attack of conscience and (falsely) confessed. They had to rescind the suspensions. It was a proper Spartacus moment.

A boy apparently liked using a plastic bag full of ham to have a wank into

I can't get over some of these. Mostly really horrific and tragic but the severed head in the long jump pit, the chaplain using church funds to buy his gay lover drugs and the lions rampaging through the school sound like great sitcom material!

My school was very tame in comparison. Mostly just very sad stories caused by mental health problems in pupils and staff.

A girl was 'licked out' and the boy got something in his mouth which be thought was a starburst so he ate is but it was actually genital warts

Nothing really of note, though probably more likely that I was just oblivious.

There was a local-ish school that was involved in a tragic road accident with many of the young pupils killed, a few friends of friends so did touch our school as well.

A former teacher of mine (who I liked very much) moved into headship and was later found to have doctored SATs papers (end of primary school exams).

Where I live now one of the local schools a man came in and stabbed a pupil to death, the school has since been knocked down and rebuilt and is a totally new school -as far as I am aware though there is still a small memorable area for her.

Eighties, small town grammar and the head of our year got caught cottaging in the park next door to the school (as part of a wider ring). He was not a very nice man so I wasn’t sorry for him. It was in all the papers at the time.

One of the sixth form boys wrote "fuck off Mr

RE teacher and the vicar. That was in the papers and the news of the world was at the school gates.

Music teacher was sacked for coming on to one of his female pupils aged 14

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A girl in our school apparently got fingered with a twix

Ahhh, we had a girl that apparently got fingered with a Mars bars. The term Mars bars party was thrown about for a while.

A friends boyfriend thought I would be a good idea to put tiger balm on his hand and then fingered her. I think he was given the idea by the new tingly lubes that had just been released

I went to a Convent. There was the girl who was caught waving about a Polaroid of her boyfriend's erection. The teacher nearly expired. There was also the nun who was sexually abusive to boarders and was quickly shifted off to a boys school. She should have been shot quite honestly, she was a vile manipulative bully hiding behind "God". I mean I am going back some 40 years here. There was no safeguarding, especially in private schools.

'Where are all these schools' nothing happened in my Grammar in the late 80's early 90's .

The biggest thing that happened during my 7 years at secondary school came when i was in year 9, when some yr 10 girls stepped over the schools exclusion zone which happened to be a 3 foot wall.

The simple offence of knowingly setting foot outside the school exclusion zone was classified to be a 'heinous' and 'mutinous' incident. This was multiplied by a factor of five because some Sixth form boys were eating Fish and Chips at lunch time. This incident was apparently according to the Headmistress as being 'beyond the pale'. This being the first time in the history of the school that any girl had intentionally crossed the '(DMZ) or the demarcation zone. The head in her fury insisted that if any girl chooses to replicate this act of 'insubordination' that they would face severe consequences!

I was going to say it was probably me leaving school pregnant but that doesn’t even compare to twins murdering their mother with an axe so I don’t know!

There was a very cool and fit boy in one of the upper years, sort of a bad boy type, and it turned out the boring crusty irritating chemistry teacher was his stepdad. We all dined on that for a while when we found out. Unsurprisingly he didn’t do chemistry.

Back in the 70s, 5th formers, now called year 11s, prepared food for the forthcoming Speech Day, a very special awards day at the big local church. Girls’s Grammar school. Special guests invited for tea afterwards, governors, teachers etc. Some of the food was laced with washing powder resulting in some guests being very ill. It was in NOTW. Can’t remember what happened to the perpetrators, but we all knew who they were.

But no really mad stuff happened other than the usual teen pregnancies/fights/expelled pupils. What a boring school I was at.

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This... It was in all of the local papers. But this is the only record i could find now!