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 ?

Think I know this person- disgraceful

Rumour was about me in year 7 of a horrible mixed school- apparently I was born in a taxi in Berlin 😂 I’m from Liverpool and my school was in Liverpool so god knows where that came from.

I moved to a much nicer school for year 8 which was all girls.

All primary school rumours were ghost or death related bar the one about the head teacher, who liked to run his hand up and down the girls' legs when they were stood next to his desk, (this sadly was true), had put his hand in one particular girl's knickers. It seems none of us reported this back to our parents or if we did we were ignored (early 80s).

The more innocent rumours were the Bloody Mary one, there being a man eating wolf in the woods that backed the school, and eating oranges and drinking milk at the same time made you ill because the milk would curdle in yoir stomach.

Secondary was similar to all the above. More general were the two pencils up the nose and getting As of someone died during an exam. More specific were always sex related in some way, from the PE teacher being a lesbian to teachers having group sex, with all the pregnancies, masturbation in various places and over certain girls or teachers, boys being gay, and objects up orifices, inbetween. (I image similar goes on now - but I do hope the level of scandal about people being gay is gone.)

There was one that one boy in my year called the school and pretended to be in the IRA, and told the school secretary there was a bomb in the school, because he didn't want to do a particular lesson. The secretary didn't believe him, amazngly enough. because:

1. He didn't disguise his voice and she could see him in the phone box just outside the school.
2. Our school wasn't exactly a prime concern of the IRA.

This I could believe as he was quite wild and was inclined to do anything.

Ok I missed that. Weird as no need to mention names at all. No need to be rude.

One of our English teachers was rumoured to have an iron tit.

When my DS was in year 4 his teacher was off long term sick. The school did not communicate why the teacher was off.
After a few weeks the rumours really started flying - the teacher had had a breakdown, was in a mental health ward etc.

The teacher actually had a sudden and life threatening physical illness and was quite upset that the head had not told the parents what was happening.

That if you stepped on a crack you were a hairy kipper.

That the teacher showed his cock to the class, as part of a health education class.

Pretty sure this was my school

Small Town, east Midlands, early 1990s. There's fuck all to do but smoke, drink and/or have sex. They've just closed the fucking cinema down! We had a lot of girls fall pregnant back then. What my daughter would now call The Tea is that a girl got pregnant in Year 11. She was 12, just. She was in my brother's year two down from me.

My science teacher & my English teacher, both awful people, hooked up, got married & then produced offspring. Ew.

Someone collapsed on the rugby field but luckily for them (and a huge sigh of relief from the school leadership) a lad who was in the Sea Scouts leapt into action delivering CPR lifesaving. The injured boy survived! The school said phew! I wanted to learn hiw to do this vital skill! (And I did).

What really happened was a man drove from the other end of the country and unsuccessfully tried to lure a couple of small girls into his car.

By time the story reached us 8-year olds, he was a tramp with big teeth, jumping out of the roadside ditch to murder passing pedestrians.

I had to chuckle at the bomb hoax one, we had that too, however the little shite that did it managed to convince the school secretary and the police by doing his homework on the fact that the IRA always used a code with bomb threats, lord knows how he knew what type of code word to use (though his Dad was in CID in the local force so maybe his Dad spoke about those types of things?), also his Irish accent was perfect, he was always good at impressions. So we did get evacuated from school which of course then started the rumour that there was actually a bomb in the school and the most popular teacher had detonated it lol. This same boy did go on to burn half the school down one Sunday evening because he was bored, as you can imagine that caused lots of issues with where to put us all with lots of classrooms being out of action. We also had a teacher die whilst teaching his English class, and the class loudmouth was the only one to jump up and try to help with CPR, sadly the teacher did die of a heart attack. I know the school were very good at offering counselling etc. which back in 1990 wasn't alway available and it was a 'roughish' school so that was something. I always felt sorry for the 'class bike' rumours, bullying really wasn't it and like others have said it was never aimed at the boys always the girls who got the smirks or the nasty comments. Rumours of perv teachers as well, sadly it was a teaching assistant (whose brother was a teacher at the same school) who was found to be a paedophile and went to prision for it, though I believe his actions were in a previous school before coming to ours. Oh and a girl in my English class knocked out the female English teacher with one punch when she was told off for chatting in class, I still see that girl around town sometimes, mad to think about really, she was expelled which was fair enough.

So many true stories of perverted older men, so fucking grim and disappointing.

The true story was that 2 teachers had an affair. One was married and his wife was also a teacher at the school.

The likely false rumour was that the music teacher was sacked from her old school for hitting a student with a keyboard. This was the 00s so long after corporal punishment ended!

Girl X who had recently arrived was giving blow jobs. Turned out to be true but only for the favoured few. There wasn't a queue. What is it with male teachers? Why not wait until the girl left school or was that part of the allure?

The male drama teacher left suddenly one half term. The rumour was that he was transgender and left to start living as a woman. ( Early 1980s)

This turned out not to be a rumour.

We had one particular flight of stairs was haunted because at some point some of the older girls had an ouija board and summoned up a dead teacher.
Lots of rumours about teachers and girls having sex. As far as I know only turned out to be true once.

There was a Maths teacher nicknamed Batwoman.

Rumour had it that she dressed as bat woman, jumped off the wardrobe in a sex game on top of her husband, landed on him and hurt his back and he had to go to hospital.

Nobody questioned the validity of this in 1993.

That the deputy head liked boys.
At the time (late 70s, early 80s) all the pupils knew it. Boys avoided him etc.
He was prosecuted in the early 2000s after several boys my age became men and were horrified he was still there.

Another true one was a teacher dating a sixth former.

It’s so funny, I’ve just been discussing this thread with my husband who is from another European country and he said that they had lots of similar stories e.g. unplanned pregnancies due to using a chocolate bar wrapper as a condom 😁I find it hilarious that many of these urban myths appear to know no borders 🤣

That an English teacher used to be a stripper. No idea where it came from.

Oh no! Our IT teacher was weird too and can imagine it being him! Shudder

The rumours at our (all girls) school were very similar to what many have said on here. Affairs with the biology teacher, the mean girls in our year were so mean to the new English teacher that she ran out of the room crying, that one of the girls in year 10 was going out with an Olympic sprinter (a really hunky muscly guy that definitely gave the girl some cred in the school!).

One I definitely know to be true was the PE teacher having an affair with a friend of mine when she was 16. While he waited for her to be 16, she had always been the tiny girl in the year, so although she was 16, she looked a lot younger.

She has spoken about it since and it all sounds really creepy as an adult, but he love bombed her and they ended up in a relationship until she was about 20.

She then did a full re-evaluation of her life, had a lot of therapy and is now very happily married (to a woman).

Glad it wasn't just my school 🙄

Very small world!