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.

Caretaker was a pedophile

6th form teacher dated a student , both female - now married ......

@smallandimperfectlyformed

NoviceNewMN I'm sorry, I was one of the ones who shared darker stories and I wish I hadn't really. It's not your fault that there was so many grim memories. I have enjoyed the more frivolous scandals though!!

@smallandimperfectlyformed

I'm sorry, I was one of the ones who shared darker stories and I wish I hadn't really. It's not your fault that there was so many grim memories. I have enjoyed the more frivolous scandals though!!

No need to apologise at all. I was just berating myself for my own naitivety. It is 'interesting' (really not the right word here but you know what I mean hopefully) how many stories there are about older pupils (16 - 18) having relationships with teachers including younger teachers ( like the 24 year old PP wrote about). Of historical note, perhaps rather than interesting is what I mean. I genuinely think this wouldn't be treated in the same way today.

When I was at school, a group of girls aged about 15 went on work experience to the same place. One of them was the type to try to dress a lot older (attempting to get into night clubs etc) and got asked out by a man working there. He was probably early - mid 20s and a lawyer/legal clerk type so you'd think he'd know better. I remember when I heard about it feeling really young and gauche and sad that I was so obviously a 15 year old school girl and she was a glamourous adult!!! Oh the irony. Now obviously I feel completely differently about it all.

Definitely seen differently today.

A kid in my year got his recently-left older brother to come in and beat up the deputy head. No-one is entirely sure whether the deputy head was targeted or if he was just first on the scene. He was one of the nicer teachers at the school and people were genuinely shocked.

The drippy geography teacher everyone took the piss out of anyway proposed to his girlfriend on TV as well. We were surprised he even had a girlfriend.

All male boarding school 1970s...female kitchen and housekeeping staff recruited for being older age and assumed unnatractive to hormonally crazed boys...haha ...there was some er activity ..
One of ourmost handsome prefects had an affair with the rather hot mid thirties head of housekeeping, it was discovered and she had to leave .

We had a girl who used to jump over the fence up top courts to skive off school. One day her ring got caught in the fence as she jumped over, her finger (with the ring stuck) was still attached to the top of the fence which was about 8ft tall, I never saw it myself but apparently all the ligaments were hanging down 🤢 teacher had to come and pick it off and off to hospital she went.
Now she has no wedding ring finger

A year 11 lad got stabbed by a year 10 lad. Was in the paper. I was in year 10 at the time. The younger lad got sent to young offenders. Real shocker as it was a good school in a nice area

@Lockdownbear

Very worrying how most of these stories involve male teachers and female pupils.

Yes and it's a sign that attitudes have changed to see it for what it was. In the 90s teenage girls were seen as fair game. Now people see the power plays involved in these relationships.

Attitudes may have changed about the appropriateness of it but sadly some teachers still take advantage of their students. I graduated in 2006 and there were rumours of a few of the younger teachers at it and one found to be true a year later with a 14 year old.

Had a female music teacher who always had a case of wine in her room. Apparently while on a school trip she got drunk and tripped on a pot hole and broke her foot. Said teacher was later charged with grooming and sex with her male students.
We had a joint 6th form with another school and a boy from there who was in my form class was murdered. I still think of him to this day. His murder is still in the news today.

Another sad one, a 4th year boy (16) raped a 1st year boy (12) in the loo during classes. Can't remember whatever happened to either of them bit it was a time when he would have been made to apologise then all forgotten.

@FirstTimeMommy2021

That reminds me of our gym teacher who used to go on and on about making sure that anyone with pierced ears removed their earrings before gym - I mean an actual gymnastics class (floor, beam etc) rather than just generic exercise.

She always delighted in freaking out the class with a graphic tale of a pupil who had got a dangling earring caught that had ripped straight through her earlobe. Not in her class naturally.

As a teaching tactic, it really worked as it is one of those things that still stays with me now as a piece of advice - not specifically about gym (!!) but be careful with physical activity

karmakemmie

Head Teacher at my school got sacked for embezzlement. Or rather jumped before he was pushed. Now is the Super Head of a string of SEMH academies and, according to a friend who still works with him, still is up to no good. He obviously knows where the bodies are.

Was the known embezzlement at a school in a town beginning with P, and head teacher's surname beginning with S. The whole governing body had to be replaced as well.

If so, he came to DS's primary school as head after leaving that school. I had stepped down as a parent governor (and involved in the school finances) not long before he came to the school. And he seemed up to the same tricks, from what I heard and saw. Let's just say I'd heard about something to do with the finances, and it was connected to an area that I had experience in and things didn't add up.

He moved on relatively quickly to bigger things. He was a very charismatic person and clearly took care to get the governing body in his pocket. The chair of governors would light up like a Xmas tree when he was around, and even giggled a couple of times.

At the bus stop after school, a girl in my year was pushed into the road and hit by a car. Her leg was broken. I saw it from the opposite side of the road 🙁
A girl was hit on the wrist by a flicked cigarette on the bus. The story was that it burned her badly enough to burst the vein in her wrist. The perpetrator was suspended and then not allowed to wear her uniform when she came back.
A couple of girls were pregnant doing their O levels.
The girl I sat next to in 4th year was hit by a car on her way to school and died a week later 😢
But no inappropriate teacher/pupil liaisons I was aware of.

@Mummyoflittledragon

4th year is year 10 so 14/15
5th year is year 11 so 15/16

Ergo 6th form - lower 6th then upper 6th being year 12 and 13

Not to be pedantic (and it doesn't make the original story less awful!) but 4th year is age 15/16, 5th year is 16/17 and 6th year is 17/18. Only the handful of people born around the February cut-off would be younger than that.

I started 4th year in August 2005 when I was 15 and I turned 16 the next spring, during the exam period.

Somebody wrote the word 'cock' in huge letters in the snow on the playing field.

Clearly viewed from the upper floors of our all girls catholic convent school. 😆

@Onlyfoolsandhorseswork

The year before I started two girls went to be registered and the left the school grounds There was a fire in the block they where meant to be in and two firemen died that day trying to find them

It was the gossip for years

This wouldn't be a school with the initials UM?

@PotteringAlong I went to your school unless there’s been more than one severed head dumped at a school. But it seems unlikely

@amusedbush, were you in England? Your years are out by one for English state schools. Y7/1st year 11-12, Y8/2nd year 12-13, Y9/3rd year 13-14, Y10/4th year 14-15, Y11/5th year (O level or GCSE year) 15-16. Y12/lower sixth form 16-17, Y13/upper sixth form (A level year) 17-18.

[quote MatildaJayne]@amusedbush, were you in England? Your years are out by one for English state schools. Y7/1st year 11-12, Y8/2nd year 12-13, Y9/3rd year 13-14, Y10/4th year 14-15, Y11/5th year (O level or GCSE year) 15-16. Y12/lower sixth form 16-17, Y13/upper sixth form (A level year) 17-18.[/quote]
No, I'm in Scotland. I thought the mention of the February cut-off deadline gave that away, sorry!

Year 7 is not equivalent to 1st year here. Year 7 is "primary 7" here, then you go to into 1st year at secondary school at 12 (or 11 if you are one of the younger in the year, i.e. started primary 1 when you were 4 years old).

1st year - 12/13
2nd year - 13/14
3rd year - 14/15
4th year - 15/16
5th year - 16/17
6th year - 17/18

I’m guessing by mention of the February cut off, @amusedbush is in Scotland.
I think I may have been the scandal in my year I got pregnant at the end of year 10 (by my much older boyfriend) and never went back to do GCSEs. I did go to the year 11 leavers dance as my friend’s guest, and took baby dd to show her off. Everyone knew about my relationship, and I’m sure it would be considered a safeguarding issue nowadays. I did eventually leave him, and that dd recently graduated university.

A 6th former got pregnant and had an abortion; everyone knew about it the following week because a classmate's mother was the GP's receptionist.

@cortex10

A 6th former got pregnant and had an abortion; everyone knew about it the following week because a classmate's mother was the GP's receptionist.

She'd have deserved the sack. That is a serious breach of confidentiality, whatever year it was.

I went to an all-girls school.

I doubt this was the the school event but it was our year event.

The year 11 trip to Alton Towers, the bus was pulled over by the police because one girl decided to strip all her clothes off for the benefit of passing vehicles, some of whom called the police 😬

Biology teacher divorced his wife and then started a secret relationship with a year 11 girl (she was 15 at the time). They were busted after her friend saw texts on her mobile phone from him (the teacher) and reported it. He was suspended and then arrested. They let him out on bail and they fled together to Gretna Green and married on her 16th birthday . He later went to prison, but she was pregnant by then

A student teacher (I think he was on a placement?) left his laptop on one morning as the class were coming into the room. He was called away and left the room. One of the pupils gets up and looks over at the laptop. The screen was only made up of images of several naked men! Obviously word gets round quickly and the other teachers find out. The pupils who saw the images were questioned. Officially we were later told it was a "computer virus" that made the naughty images appear but he left the school that day and was never seen again.... Funny coincidence that.

One of the loveliest teachers we had collapsed and died from a huge heart attack in his classroom. He wasn't old at all. So sad it was a long time ago but I still think of him.

Biology teacher divorced his wife and then started a secret relationship with a year 11 girl (she was 15 at the time). They were busted after her friend saw texts on her mobile phone from him (the teacher) and reported it. He was suspended and then arrested. They let him out on bail and they fled together to Gretna Green and married on her 16th birthday . He later went to prison, but she was pregnant by then

Did this make the news? I'm sure I heard about it.

Year 7 is not equivalent to 1st year here. Year 7 is "primary 7" here, then you go to into 1st year at secondary school at 12 (or 11 if you are one of the younger in the year, i.e. started primary 1 when you were 4 years old).

Year 7 is the first year of high school @amusedbush the same as 1st year. PP was correct they were equivalent. Yr8 is the second year of high school so equivalent to 2nd year.
Year 6 in England is the 7th year of primary school (reception is the first) so is equivalent to p7. We are in Scotland and my dd is in 1st year and is 11