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

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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?

The elderly lady who lived opposite us gave me her old typewriter and a load of old stationery. She was a retired schools inspector and the stationery included a load of old Department of Education headed paper. I promptly used the typewriter and paper to write a letter to my head-teacher informing her that Friday's were no longer going to be part of the school week and would hence forth be the first day of the weekend. Sadly she comply with this instruction. :(

Ignore the stray apostrophe in that post.

• Sadly she DIDN'T comply

:) in yr 11 my best friend and I had a halloween party and had one of those crappy ghosts that made wooing noises when someone walked past it so the next day we hid it under our RE teachers desk so it went off everytime he moved his foot he clearly thought this was hilarious coz he spent the rest of the week hiding it in different places round the school near our classes so he could blame us... git even let us do 5 whole minutes of detention before arriving with sweets and admitting it.

My mum's was the best though, she decided it was too cold for a snowball fight outside so her and her friends took the snow into one of the portable classrooms and played in there instead.

Our teacher threw out the class Christmas tree in the alleyway behind school.
Next day she arrived to find the tree back in the classroom with a note attached:
"A tree is for life, not just for Christmas"
She put the tree back in the alleyway.
Cue weeks of tree replacement, until February half term, when the tree was little more than a skeletal brown gothic horror. The teacher snapped the tree in half and stuffed it into her tiny car. We never saw it again.

my class were a bunch of cunts who thought it funny to lock the teacher in cupboards and play up all the time. since id been brought up to respect teachers though, i found it hard to join in but would get bullied when i objected, or worse, spoiled their fun. why is it funny to drive a 'useless' teacher to the point of tears? never did understand that

loving the tree one though thats a proper prank!

We were cruel to one particular teacher. We used to all make a sound in the back of out throats, so she wouldn't know who was doing it. One would start, then another, then another. We would either all alternate, so she couldn't pin it down, or all do it. We nearly drove the poor useless woman to a nervous breakdown!

I would go nuts at my DC if they ever got caught did anything like that.

Before I finally saw the light and left teaching, I witnessed a colleague doing dinner duty being pelted with food by pupils.

It's a fine line between pranks, and the kind of workplace harrassment and bullying that no other professional person would tolerate for a single second, but which are seen as 'par for the course' for teachers.

OMG, as a teacher about to meet a whole new set of classes next week, this thread is making me a tad nervous...........

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When did you DO these things? How many years ago?

I did nothing at school. Dh tells me the pranks he did and I am truely shocked. Not as shocked as I am by this thread.
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Some pranks are funny, like the tree, so many are just about it being ok to be a bully.

One of the boys in my class had one of those Casio watches that could act as a remote control. He programmed his watch to control the school video players and would stop, fast forward, rewind, pause and eject videos at will. The teachers were absolutely flummoxed because 'it had always worked fine for the previous class' and they never talked cross dept so didn't realise it was only our class it was happening to.

The Christmas tree one made me spit out my coffee. That's brilliant 'cause it doesn't actually hurt anyone, it's just funny.

My German teacher was the best to wind up. Our favourite one was to just move seats. He sat us in alphabetical order and we just used to switch randomly, but answer to the name of the person we'd swapped with. He got SO confused when "Matt" answered to "Jess".

A group of us in the 6th form started an affair between 2 teachers.

Well, when I say we started it, what we did was to convince each of them that the other was wanting to start one.

It was 1989 and our school had a very early sort of an intranet system for the teachers.

By judiciously looking over the shoulders of the teachers, we managed to piece together their passwords.

Someone then started logging in each morning and sending messages between the teachers. What made it work was that neither of them knew how to see the sent messages, only the received ones.

It went on for weeks and weeks.

its all good fun until someone gets hurt but then there is nothing liked getting picked on, bullied or Terrored in the workplace.

In primary, we set all the stop clocks in the cupboard to go off at the same time, which happened to be just after the unfortunate trainee teacher had sat us down for a story! I still remember the look on her face when 30 odd bells suddenly rang out!

Can't remember any senior school ones but there plenty and I remember some kids really went a bit far, and feeling sorry for the teachers at times.

Some of these that don't hurt anyone are funny. However, some of it is bullying. Those saying that teachers have to put up with it when it wouldn't be allowed in other work places are wrong. You don't have to put up with bullying from children. You can report it as bullying and the school will have to do something about it.