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wriggleigglepiggle · 2025-01-01T19:27:21+00:00

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 ?

wigywhoo · 02/01/2025 20:58

Covidwoes · 01/01/2025 20:25

@Thaiyogamassage I remember that one!

Same, but I thought that was
Prince?

sunshinewithrain · 02/01/2025 23:57

Pretty standard and wasn't a rumour but caused a lot of gossip ...... deputy head was shagging the food tech teacher

HelpMeGetThrough · 03/01/2025 02:41

Just remember that me and the DT teacher were a rumour for a while when I worked at the school.

We were apparently in a gay relationship as we were spotted out together. Scandal!!!

Of course we were out together, we were good mates and spent most weekends in the pub recovering from the previous week!!

Teanbiscuits33 · 03/01/2025 05:15

Sugarfreerage · 01/01/2025 23:28

A boy in my year group got permanently excluded and the rumour was that it was because he'd shoved a mobile phone up his bum in the toilets.

To this day I don't know whether it's true or not but there wasn't any other obvious reason for him being kicked out 😲😂

It definitely doesn’t ring true to me…🤣

HelpMeGetThrough · 03/01/2025 05:31

Sugarfreerage A boy in my year group got permanently excluded and the rumour was that it was because he'd shoved a mobile phone up his bum in the toilets.

To this day I don't know whether it's true or not but there wasn't any other obvious reason for him being kicked out 😲😂*

Butt dialled someone every time he farted.

Latenightreader · 03/01/2025 05:48

Meltedwelly · 01/01/2025 20:30

Our lower and upper schools were separate and you had the fear of god put into you that when you went to the upper school the older kids gave you an initiation involving being held upside down with your head in the toilet while someone flushed it.

Did the school begin with N?

peachie82 · 03/01/2025 05:54

A boy stole a giant starfish on a school
trip to the seaside centre and carried it back to school in his lunch box - true apparently. Poor thing didn’t make it 😢

CamelsForChristmas · 03/01/2025 08:24

HellofromJohnCraven · 02/01/2025 12:49

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.

The HT at my school liked boys. It was known he used to pick his favourite as a Head Boy and then groom them. Everyone knew it. One of the head boys actually tried to commit suicide in the HT's home which is when he got moved on. He then went to work in schools in Thailand and the last I heard was jailed for paedophilia about 10 years ago.

What is it with pervy teachers just being moved on from school to school. I personally have knowledge of it within the past 5 years, so not something that has been consigned to the mists of time.

StopStartStop · 03/01/2025 08:42

I worked in a school where the following exchange allegedly took place....
On a coach on the way home from a visit to the zoo
Pupil: Miss! Miss! Jim's got a penguin
Teacher: Tell him to eat it later
On arrival at school
Teacher: Right! Which member of staff is going to drive back to the zoo to return this penguin?

FrenchFancie · 03/01/2025 09:20

The two pencils up the nose / everyone getting an A, went round our school. As a group we tried to decide who should take one for the team so the rest of us could get As…. Strangely no one volunteered.

My school was religious all girls, and the rumour was that the priest liked his girls young, so much so that we tried not to leave him alone with the younger ones if possible. Turned out to be true and he spent some time in jail, think he’s dead now (no loss).

RenaissanceBaby · 03/01/2025 09:47

AmberOrca · 01/01/2025 20:23

That one of year 11s was shagging the electrician (mid 20s) who was doing the lighting for the school play and that he got her pregnant and she had to have an abortion.
Oh yeah - that wasn’t a rumour- that was me.
But everyone else had a laugh about it

I’m so sorry you went though this and hope you’re ok now. School can be such a horrible and cruel experience. 💐

akkakk · 03/01/2025 09:54

Sallybun · 02/01/2025 01:09

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.

Standard operation

Wendolino · 03/01/2025 11:08

@CamelsForChristmas
In a university where I worked, a librarian was moved on for pervy deeds. He went to work in a further education college where he continued his perversions. From there he went to a leading Russell Group university and afterwards to become head librarian of another prestigious RG university. All the places he worked (and was caught) gave him a payoff and a fantastic reference. Nobody wanted the publicity or shame attached to their institute. The further education college had a police chief on the college council too.
What is it about education and academia?

Pedallleur · 03/01/2025 11:25

Wendolino · 03/01/2025 11:08

@CamelsForChristmas
In a university where I worked, a librarian was moved on for pervy deeds. He went to work in a further education college where he continued his perversions. From there he went to a leading Russell Group university and afterwards to become head librarian of another prestigious RG university. All the places he worked (and was caught) gave him a payoff and a fantastic reference. Nobody wanted the publicity or shame attached to their institute. The further education college had a police chief on the college council too.
What is it about education and academia?

Where I work there was a recent incident where a staff member and a student (over 18), both male were caught in flagrante by another staff member.

MudpiesinEssex · 03/01/2025 11:30

What is it about education and academia?

Opportunity.

LittleGreenDuck · 03/01/2025 17:13

wriggleigglepiggle · 01/01/2025 19:51

It was a flute rather than a test tube at our school

This one time, at band camp...

MonickerMonica · 06/01/2025 17:58

This thread has been so amusing and I was tempted to start one asking about the nicknames we gave our teachers back in the day. I remember Beaky and quite easy to guess why he deserved that name. Several more spring to mind but won't start a thread as not sure if it would be wise.

We had a teacher who taught us German and obviously we called him Hitler. The rumour was he was a Nazi. He was Yorkshire born and bred and had a Yorkshire twang but as soon as he began lessons he morphed into something else 😏

Cattenberg · 07/01/2025 01:23

My friends and I had a teacher we all liked. He was middle-aged and didn’t have much hair.

One friend nicknamed him “Gary”, which stuck. Eventually, the teacher took my friend aside and said, “now, a joke’s not fair if one person’s not in on it. Why do you call me Gary when you know full well my name’s Colin?” My friend said, “… erm, it’s short for Garibaldi, Sir”. Poor Gary. He was a nice man.

Damnloginpopup · 07/01/2025 08:36

TheDowagerCountessofPembroke · 01/01/2025 19:56

At my school it was a rumour like that about the rather prestigious girls school in town. (I was at the secondary modern). The rumour continued that local shops weren’t allowed to sell the girls cucumbers, carrots or bananas.

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Remember the rest tube one...and the farmers not growing carrots near the local girls boarding school 😁

Both true. Definitely. Heard it myself 🤣

Damnloginpopup · 07/01/2025 08:40

ElsaLion · 01/01/2025 20:00

That a PE teacher was having an affair with a student in the year above me (year 9, so she would have been 14). It transpired to be true, and the teacher was sacked and later hung himself when the affair was discovered.

If he was an English teacher he would have hanged himself 😁

Damnloginpopup · 07/01/2025 09:02

Isanyonereallyanonymous · 01/01/2025 22:41

Omg yes, this! And as you say, how did it get spread in the pre-internet days?!

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Thought it was Marc Almond.

Or was it Boy George?

Damnloginpopup · 07/01/2025 09:07

JustCrow · 01/01/2025 23:04

That Marc Almond had to be hospitalised and had his stomach pumped because he’d swallowed so much jizz.

Twenty different people's.

RelativePitch · 07/01/2025 09:28

At the boys' school down the road from us it was the 2 male music teachers who had been spotted snogging in a parked car outside Pizza Hut.
At our girls' school our female PE teacher had been jilted at the altar and subsequently turned gay.
At the end of year 7, the absolutely terrifying dragon of a headmistress retired. Apparently she shaved off all her hair, became a nun in a Buddhist hermitage and was sleeping on a shelf.

Damnloginpopup · 07/01/2025 09:35

Soooo...

Female English teacher shagging a boy in lower sixth. True.

Another female English teacher shagging male head of English. True.

Lad getting bummed by an alsation during PE at a previous school. Would have been true if he hadn't got his shorts on when the dog assaulted him.

Girl caught fingering her arse in the playground. Doubtful.

Girl shagged boy on a grave in the cemetery. Pretty sure it was true.

Two geography teachers were shagging each other. True. But they were married.

French teacher smoked fags and drank whisky in her store cupboard. True.

Italian language teacher shagged girls who babysat for him. Possibly True

Female deputy head of PE was shagging male students. Probably false.

1986-91 (13-18)

SoapySponge · 07/01/2025 09:40

That the extremely mild-mannered Classics master could (& had) kill a man with his bare hands.

Turned out to be true. When he died his obit in the local paper said he'd been a Commando in WW2 and had a string of decorations for bravery.

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