What was the craziest rumour at your school ?

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Ours was that the maths teacher left because he was Mr January in a porn mag, nicknamed 'Billy big balls'. Everyone knew of someone who knew someone who'd seen it.

What nonsense went round your school ?

The history and maths teacher got cozy on a school trip we went on but denied anything. I heard he left his wife to marry her and then had a baby after we left school.

I just read out the crisp packet one to dh and he heard that in the east coast of Scotland. I'm in the west coast and I heard it too.

that one of the dinnerladies was secretly a dominatrix

Id love to know if the game of soggy biscuit supposedly played by public schoolboys is true or another urban legend.

When I was in year 9, one of the girls in my class disappeared for about 6 months, turns out she had a baby boy, she was only 14.

Were you in Central Scotland by any chance? We also had a geography teacher rumoured to have a naked woman tattooed under his beard. Never saw him without his beard so couldn't say whether or not it was true 😂

I was indeed 😂. I met him years later clean shaven and I can confirm there was no naked woman under the beard.

I misread this as 'secretly a dinosaur'. That would've been amazing.

No way! Was there also a history teacher rumoured to have been a go-go dancer? She hinted to my CSYS class that was true, but I think she might have been on the wind-up 😂

That the teachers in the history department were part of a satanic cult and met on the first day of each month to chant and drink each others blood. Some nameless soul from one of the year groups above saw them one night when they had after school detention so it was totally definitely true!

I remember this one and watching some TV show discussing whether this would be medically possible. The conclusion was that the pain of surgery would outweigh the pleasure of the blow job. Such innocent times!

We had a teacher we all called PaedoLastname

Turns out that one was true. He took my class for swimming in my first year. We had segregated PE, and usually only female teachers for female students. Maybe it was allowed because there was another teacher present. He got arrested.

I remember watching an urban legend type show and it had the pencils up the nose one on it. This was before internet.

Also secondary school PE teacher claimed that during the forthcoming weekend he would be attending the wedding of David Beckham and Posh Spice, as apparently Dave and he were longtime childhood friends and he was one of the ushers or something like that.

He went into it in such finite details, including what the invitation said and which dress his girlfriend had chosen and so on that eventually us bunch of very cynical teens were won over.

I remember the Monday morning him being extremely smug over it all and kept saying he couldn't tell us anything about it because of the "press embargo" but kept hinting about what went on and all the celebs he was rubbing shoulders with, even what the food was like. Then a couple of days later he admitted that he'd made it all up and tried really hard to pass it off as a jokey prank. But such a stupid and easily disprovable rumour to start about yourself.

YES! And two PE teachers who got it together too! Bless her one PE teacher died of a brain tumour. There was another PE teacher with very tight shorts who had short blonde hair.

I also heard of the Manson rib rumour.

Another variation of haunted toilets in my primary school, turn on all of the taps and say 'Grey Lady, Grey Lady, Grey Lady' to make her appear.

At a different primary school, a girl fell backwards off her chair, hit her head and died. She didn't die, however there was some truth in it. She did fall and hit her head (I witnessed that much myself). She was taken to hospital, did have an injury, but was from a forces family, due to be moving. As a 7 year old from a different class, I just accepted that she died without questioning it. I am now a teacher, and trot that story out on a regular basis (I teach primarily teens so I'm not traumatising young children).

Secondary school, Chemistry teacher rumoured to have been caught watching porn in lesson. He left shortly afterwards, no idea if there was any truth or relation there.

Also secondary school, several girls rumoured to be pregnant, only one confirmed as true, the others to my knowledge were unconfirmed.

Last one from secondary school, the heads of Humanities and Science were having an affair. Ridiculous as they were married with several children at that point. The youngest went to the on-site childcare centre, I used her as the focus child for my Child Development Coursework so it's not like they tried to keep it a secret!

Our RE teacher having affair with the most beautiful year 11 student apparently married

mr C you dirty drummer from Devon !

The start of that had me almost convinced we went to same school then I remembered it was the black lady at mine from an old house that burned down.

I work in a high school and had loads of pupils ask me if that was true last year at GCSE time

Not my school , but DD's primary.

When she was Reception or y1 , her teacher (married)was pregnant. Because kids that age can't conceive the notion of teachers having a life outside of school they decided Mr X (married to someone else) was the dad (Mr. Y couldn't be because he was too old ). Just silly kid stuff really, and nothing uncommon.

Until a few absolutely bonkers parents took it as gospel/or assumed their kids saw/were told something to be so adamant about it that they actually complained to the school.

Must've been a nightmare for the teacher if she took it to heart, but from the side lines it was absolutely hilarious. The head didn't take it seriously and they did have a few assemblies about spreading rumours.

Head of RE in a Catholic school got 15 year old girl pregnant. She later had a late miscarriage at school and it was true. He got the sack and could not teach in the UK again.

The DT teacher lost his thumb in the bandsaw. The drs then chopped one of his big toes off and sewed it in place of his thumb. Apparently it was true but hard to believe.

I worked at my old Secondary for a while (non teaching role) and there was a rumour that a Head of Year was grooming pupils.

He was allegedly investigated by the school and nothing came if it.

Turns out it was true and not long ago was jailed for 18 years.

Oh, I love these types of threads. I've a few to contribute!

A boy in my class slept with one of the LSA's. That was true. He's semi-famous now, and it's all I think of when I see him!

Someone did a poo in the top draw of a teachers desk. True.

The female PE teacher who hated me (she caught me smoking on the field twice, two weeks in a row, and gave me detentions both times - the second time I found my favourite teacher and complained and he got me out of it!), was a lesbian and apparently she was a massive pervert. I think that was true. A few years ago, I read a news article about her working at a different school and getting struck off for having a relationship with a female student and then blackmailing her to continue it.

In sixth form one of the girls was shagging one of the theatre technicians. That was true. After she left they had an on-off relationship for years.

Another PE teacher who we all thought was a bit suspect got sacked after inappropriately messaging pictures to a girl in my year. She'd left school but was only 17.

Also our school bus driver was sent to jail a few years ago for CSA. That was a blow. My friend and I used to sit at the front every day so we could chat to him. He was lovely. Like a dad to us! Bastard.

When I was in year 12, the head of English and another English teacher were expecting a baby together. That was true. And also broke my heart, having been in love with one of them since I was in Year 9! Dropped out of my A Levels soon after.

Actually, there had been a rumour about him that I'd heard years before. My friend swore that he got a boner in front of her and another girl. I didn't believe it then and don't now.

Honestly, there's loads similar to the above. A girl pregnant in Year 9. Speculation about the dad.

It's funny how many turn out to be true. Secondary school was wild. I'm also surprised how many inappropriate relationships and perverts there was. This was 2007-2014.

We also had bloody Mary and the Marilyn Manson one. And we all flocked to the Internet when pics of Pete Wentz's Penis went viral.

Also - lots of rumours about Jared Leto.

In most schools wasn’t it apparently the Frosties Kid who did the pencils up the nose thing?

So many of these are just awful. Secondary school was a horrible horrible place.