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AIBU?

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Did you play tricks on your teachers that you would/ wouldn't admit to your DCs?

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Justforlaughs · 22/08/2013 19:06

Not AIBU but I'm bored! When we were in school we used to play all sorts of pranks. I remember using diversion signs to send all the traffic from the main road through the school gates and out the other side. What did you do? And would you be mad if your DCs did the same thing now?

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thekingfisher · 22/08/2013 19:49

and advertised the head mistresses car for sale in the local newspaper

thekingfisher · 22/08/2013 19:49

and the temporary classrooms.....

thekingfisher · 22/08/2013 19:51

and also put in an advert for cream teas at the 6th form house for over 60's...

we were quite naughty....

and something that may completely out me but our 6th form house was called West Bank house .... on the last day of sixth form the sign was 'edited ' by swapping over the first letters.......

waltzingmathilda · 22/08/2013 19:52

No. I'm old enough to respect both authority and my parents

SmiteYouWithThunderbolts · 22/08/2013 19:53

and something that may completely out me but our 6th form house was called West Bank house .... on the last day of sixth form the sign was 'edited ' by swapping over the first letters

LMFAO!!!!

Inclusionist · 22/08/2013 19:53

Love yours kingfisher

complexnumber · 22/08/2013 19:55

We would all move silently to the front by about a foot when our French teacher was facing the board.

More easily we would all change places when she wasn't facing as we knew she did not know our names.

Lj8893 · 22/08/2013 19:55

Kingfisher

Yours are all brilliant!

Spikeytree · 22/08/2013 19:55

If some of my classes went missing I wouldn't be wasting time looking for them.

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Justforlaughs · 22/08/2013 19:57

Smite that is fab!
Oh, the good ol' days!
(and after all the fun and games we had I can still put an apostrophe in the right place so I must have learned something)

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Capitola · 22/08/2013 20:06

Yes, we were horrid. All girls, convent school - nuns that were lambs to the slaughter. We were vile, looking back but God - did we have a laugh.

I have never admitted anything to my dcs and wont until they're adults.

cathpip · 22/08/2013 20:10

We tied the history teachers brief case to the blinds, he was not happy, neither was the head teacher......

gordyslovesheep · 22/08/2013 20:14

never did anything - my mum was a teacher - I saw how hard she worked and the abuse thrown at her

she was reduced to tears once - it was so fucking funny - not

MiaowTheCat · 22/08/2013 20:41

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Spikeytree · 22/08/2013 20:43

I've taught in some schools where I've considered locking myself in the cupboard, Miaow, but I know what you mean. There are 'pranks' and there is vindictive ganging up and being proud that you've reduced someone to tears when they are just trying to do their job.

redexpat · 22/08/2013 21:06

We flicked the ink from our fountain pens on the french teacher's back. She was also pretty useless but I feel [blush now].

Lj8893 · 22/08/2013 21:08

I don't think any of us were bragging about it, just that it had happened in our class/school.

Not saying its an excuse but I was 12 at the time, and yes I do look back and think what a horrible thing to do, along with many other things I'm sure I did at that age!

I can't remember exactly what punishment our class got for it but whatever it was, we certainly deserved it!

ElvisJesusAndCocaCola · 22/08/2013 21:14

miaow and spikey I went to a respectable girls' grammar school and the way I saw a couple of teachers treated by the girls (I was a not-so-innocent bystander :( ) made me vow never to train to be a teacher.

I am now a teacher, of course, and luckily have never encountered similar behaviour, thank god.

5Foot5 · 22/08/2013 22:01

Some of these are hilarious!

My favourite was one played on our English teacher by a boy in the class. He got a piece of chalk and carefully bored a hole down the middle, just big enough to take a live match. He then put it on the ledge of the blackboard at the start of the lesson. Of course she started to write and suddenly had a flame coming out of the end of her chalk. It was superb! Fortunately she was a very good sport and was impressed herself.

CubanoHabana · 22/08/2013 22:14

We put our form teachers chair on the roof once, a branch from a tree in his cupboard and then when it was snowing put footprints on the roof heading away from the window, to the edge, using a stick and a pair of shoes - he panicked about that one as he thought someone had gone onto the roof And then fell off...

He did threaten that if he ever taught any of us for gcse that he would guarantee we failed!

In the boys school, they hid in a different classroom for a young German teacher and when she went to get the head, they all mysteriously were sat working in the correct classroom, head took teacher off virtually in tears and when she came back, guess what? No kids in the classroom again... She never came back after that lesson - word was she had a nervous breakdown. We were told my head of German that if any of us who were taught by her wanted to take it for gcse, that she would hold extra lessons as she was aware that we were not at the expected standard....

I am now a teacher and only thing that has been done to me, is locked out of my room once... Can't say I minded not having to teach them, just sat happily ringing their parents to let them know they had an hour's detention the next day, they didn't do it again!

DalekInAFestiveJumper · 22/08/2013 22:33

We took the frog we were supposed to be dissecting in biology, rigged it from the lab sink by a hangman's noose and drafted a suicide note purportedly written by said frog explaining that it was tired of being used for its body, and never being appreciated for its intellect.

Bio teacher won that one though, no question. He was always getting onto us about slamming the dissection trays down. So the next day, I go to grab our now mostly skeletal frog from the fridge, plunk it down, and the zombie horror JUMPED INTO MY HAIR. Teacher had rigged the thing with a windup spring that was triggered by a solid thud. Once I stopped freaking out, it was six kinds of hilarious.

justmyview · 22/08/2013 22:41

My friend got hold of Polyfilla from her Dad's toolkit, we mixed it up in the girls' toilets and made a fake plaster cast on her arm. Blocked all the basins big style, but (to my astonishment now) we didn't get into any trouble. Fair play to the school management - I assume they just acknowledged that it was an innocent prank and no harm intended - it was kind of obvious who the culprits were!

IsotopeMe · 23/08/2013 00:06

Some of these stories are hilarious!

JCDenton · 23/08/2013 01:04

A group of around 12 of the strongest lads picked up our CDT teachers' Mini and carried it around the corner from where it was parked. That may have been slightly beyond the pale.

koutaliaphobe · 23/08/2013 01:20

My mother has admitted her school pranks to me. They were far worse than anything we ever got up to (at an inner city comprehensive).
At her lovely all-girls grammar school they dangled a trainee teacher out the window by her ankles. And never got in any trouble for it as the poor woman was too terrified of what they'd do to her if she ever mentioned it :(

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