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.

Bold fail for first paragraph 🙈

@liveforsummer

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

The only people at my school who started S1 at 11 were born in January and earl February the year after me, so I was born in spring 1990 and my best friend was born in January 1991. There were only (I think) 4 people in my year who were 11, the rest of us were all 12 when we started high school.

People who's birthdays are September to December will also start high school at 11 though as well as the January and February. DD's bios the beginning of December and her best friend turns 12 next week

I'm December for my birthday and I started S1 age 11. I deferred my Dd and she went age 12.

Approximately half of the dc will start primary school at 4 and high school at 11 - the cut off is end February so those born March to early August will be 5 and 12 and those born late August to end of Feb will be 4 and 11 so it's 6 months either side. I also started s1 at 11 and my birthday is early October. It's not worth comparing ages when talking about the Scottish /English system though on top of the different cut off times deferral is so much more common. There is 2 weeks short of 2 years between the oldest and youngest child in DD's class. Both systems have 7 years if primary and potentially 6 years of high school though - reception to year 6 for England and p1-p7 for Scotland. Yr7-yr12 for England and 1st - 6th year for Scotland. Ages don't tally but the year groups do

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/local-news/child-porn-teacher-escapes-prison-1022636

This happened in the boys' side of our school.

@ambushed
English Y7 is the same as our 1st Year / S1

It gets knock out of sync by them starting Reception rather that Year 1. But they do 7 years in primary (R to Y6) the same as Scotland, P1-7.

On average they are 6mths younger than Scottish kids. Their youngest just starting secondary are just 11, ours are 11 and half.

They have 7 years in secondary, rather than 6, they 6 form is actually 2 years.

@Lockdownbear that’s because reception isn’t always a full year: it can be just 1-2 terms.

Everyone Ive ever known over the years dc have started reception in September with the rest of the school? Why sometimes only a term?

It's because the cut off dates are different not because they do less months in school

At one point you didn't have to start school in England until the term in which you would be 5. Most schools prefer to start all in September and this is very much the norm. Legally you don't have to send them, but practically this can be very difficult.

@Whitefire

At one point you didn't have to start school in England until the term in which you would be 5. Most schools prefer to start all in September and this is very much the norm. Legally you don't have to send them, but practically this can be very difficult.

I'm in my 30s and started reception after Easter as I was born in August.

There were quite a few at mine.

Lovely headteacher tragically killed in skiing accident.

New headteacher ended up having an affair with a teacher (he was married but she wasn't), she was one of my teachers and they would have sex in our classroom before our lesson fairly frequently, after the first time of walking in on them we knew to wait in future if the door was shut, often meaning we were 10 minutes late into our lesson. Raised a few eyebrows amongst the other teachers but nothing was ever said! Windows were always a bit steamed up when we walked in!

Said teacher above also used to regularly smuggle her age 5 and 8 children into our class and they would hide under her desk anytime a teacher knocked to come in. No idea why they weren't at school themselves!

One teacher used to touch up 14 year old girls and look down their shirts, he got away with it for years! Another 40 year old teacher was put on the sex offenders register after having a relationship with a 14 year old. His wife also taught there, they both left after that.

A student sadly hung themselves from a tree in the grounds over night but as it was in a slightly secluded spot they weren't found until children started arriving and lining up for their lessons, a whole class of 12 year olds saw it first. So very sad.

There's been more events since I left!

@TicTac80

A couple of teenage pregnancies (one in my year and one in the year below). This was before Internet/mobile phones etc so I never knew what happened to the girls. I hope that they’re both doing ok.

Teacher got arrested for armed robbery of an off license (think it was an off license!). He was quite a popular teacher as well, so we were all pretty shocked by it.

A girl made a fake/hoax phone call to police about a bomb at the school. Whole school had to be evacuated.

ooh, wonder if we were at the same school? Was the armed robber a Maths teacher?

[quote amusedbush]@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.[/quote]
Depends where you are.

Round here when I went to school, our school years matched those of Mummyoflittledragon so, for example, lower 6th then upper 6th being year 12 and 13.

I was 14 then 15 in year four. In two different schools.

@Cheesymonster

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.

@Cheesymonster sounds suspiciously like we went to the same school. In a town beginning with S?

Hi @dizzydizzydizzy - no sorry, a town beginning with R and the school’s initials were FBS. I was secretly hoping someone would recognise it!

16 year old pregnant- this was 1994 so definitely a scandal. She had to leave school once she started showing.

One boy was playing on the rail tracks and got electrocuted and died - he was 12

2 PE teachers getting married. Don't know if there was an affair involved

And the 2 French teachers got married

Aww what a shame @Cheesymonster. Not the same school then.

Oh, apart from pregnancies amongst staff and pupils - lots of gossip - the nice geography teacher was cuckolded by the horrible German teacher. The geography teacher’s wife might have been a teacher too, but not at our school. No idea what happened later.

Just after I left a teacher fell down the stairs during lunch break ,broke his neck and died. He wasn’t universally popular, was quite anti-Semitic (taught history , made his views on German Nazis quite clear during classes) so I’ve always wondered if he was pushed or if it wS all a nasty accident. It was really shocking though, especially for his two children who taken out of class to be told, then the school shut early. I looked up the school and the guy’s name in the local paper to see if there was any coverage. There wasn’t but I found another death of a teacher and a trial of the driver who caused the accident - road accident. This was all last century.

One of the history teachers married one of the English teachers. Not very scandalous, but we obviously had nothing better to do than ponder over their sex lives

A 15yo got pregnant. It was 1983 and in NI (so practically medieval) and was the talk of the school. Poor child. It was a girls' school, but there was no solidarity, just nothing but criticism of her 'loose morals'. Horrible times with horrible backward attitudes.

When we were 16/17 a girl in my year went home one day and had a baby that night in the bath. Apparently she’d told nobody she was pregnant. She didn’t come back to school. sometimes think about her, wonder how she is. She was a clever girl but had a difficult home background and I just feel really sorry she had to deal with all this on her own. Looking back she did wear a lot of loose clothes in the last few months. Nobody guessed. We must have all been very naive!

@Chipsinthewoods. I went to the local village 'rival' school! Did not know about Lions. From a circus on the Green?