What slightly sinister events do you remember from your school days?

[lazarou]

Was just randomly thinking about my old school (private all girls) and I remember in assembly the headmistress used to give a run down of all the nasty things some of the girls had been up to that week (not me though, I was a good girl).

One week someone had been busy glueing a rabbits mouth shut in the pet house

The following week a few of the boarders had been into the local village on the rob

Then someone had said to one of the dinner ladies 'my father pays your wages' after some sort of disagreement

Then it was discovered one of the sixth formers had been having it off with the music teacher - not announced in assembly though, of course.

Perhaps someone recognises thes events and went to the same school....

I remember that an assembly was called to stop pupils throwing stones at the local prostitutes who had complained to the headmistress!

Someone shat in the geography teachers cupboard.

A girl was caught playing the harp with her bare breasts by the music teacher

A chemistry teacher was caught shagging a lab tech in the plant breeding room by the head of chemistry.

Someone was stoned and jumped off the roof of the science block, landed on a teacher's car. Totalled the car and walked away shock and brused but unharmed

One of the art teachers would climb between the floor of one room and the cieling of the room below and whisper rude things to the teacher working in the room

Beat that!

my school was a bit rough.

-we had a stabbing.
-a huge fight in the middle of town that even appeared in The Sun.
-at least 10 pregnancies.
-the RE teacher was sacked cos it was found out that numerous girls had got more than their papers marked.

• another fight where a girl was pushed in front of a bus.

told you it was a bit rough

At primary school i remember the Headmistress (a nun)used to jab children with her fingers in the head if they weren't paying attention.

Another nun used to humiliate children who were crap at maths in front of the class.

One time the Headmistress made me sit with a severe nosebleed(daily basis for me) and wouldn't let me hold my nose.

I also remember her shaking me because i knocked a cabinet over(quite accidentally)

Love nuns i do

In High School i remember someone tripping a teacher up and she fell down the stairs and broke her leg.

A regular occurance were fake bomb scares and bunged up gas taps.

I am sure there are lots more .........

ooh yes lots of pregnancies too.

mb, I don't know why, but the bare breasted harp-player had me in stitches!

lazarou, glueing the rabbit's mouth is so horrible!

I'm really delving into my memory and I can't find anything to match these examples!

an older student would sit in the trees behind the year 7 block and pick off kids with an air rifle!

(i'm not joking)

Fights were 10 a penny, as were unplanned pregnancies. One girl went into labour in school, and had to be rushed to hospital. She had 'supressed ' the fact of her pregnancy to herself, and everyone else. the first her mother knew was when the hospital phoned to tell her she was a grandmother. Very sad.

We used to get regular escapees from the nearby home for bewildered gentlefolk turn up in our playground. We once had an assembly by our evil Head of Year (female) calling us all 'disgusting tarts' for daring to cover up our spots and wear a bit of lip gloss. Still about that one.

God how can i forget the teacher who was so provoked by the children taunting him chanting "John the Baptist"(cos he wore sandals)that he beat crap out of one of them.

Dont you just love catholic schools.

Oh yes, bomb scare a plenty (well it was the 70s)

Harp story true! She must have had nipples of leather!

MB - intruiged by hapist - was she playing the strings with her breasts ? (ouch if she was)

ooh !
we had power cuts too - mustive been seventies

Am equally intrigued by the bare-breasted harp player though MB. She must have been enviably firm of chest with nipples like plectrums (or whatever the harp equivalent is

OUCH!

The head of govenours was drunk at one school concert and regaled us all for 30 minutes about what our Headmaster had been like as a little boy. He was a psycho, so none of us dared to laugh.

ooh the science lab was always out of bounds due to someone either setting fire to something.

someone painted the teachers chair with hydrochloric acid once and she burnt her legs.

all maintenance contracts stated that any workmen had to be over 45. because girls kept shagging any workmen that came to school.

PE teacher (female) was caught being very rude in the PE store room with an item of a pupils underwear.

ooh dear there are loads....every time i click post i think of more things lol

she was just sort of 'strumming' the strings with the old Nips. A little soft glisando, I suppose!

at the end of term the headmaster and the only other male teacher used to blindfold themselves and hit each other with rolled up newspapers for our entertainment...

Christ, the hours must have flown by!

Wow MB, some school
A lot of the sinister stuff I remember from primary days makes me and , but relieved that in this day and age it would not be allowed to happen

• child with ASD from a struggling, impoverished single parent family - belittled and ostracised by the Head and by many others - staff and children - who concluded they could get away with it too
• reception teacher with major, long-term family crisis. I only found out the cause of it all many years later but her (justifiable and unarticulated) sadness and rage scared the wits out of me
• overweight child whose single parent was dying of cancer, severely bullied by the dominant gang at school - led by the child of one of the teachers

I hated my primary school, luckily it is a very different place now. But I often wonder what happened to some of the troubled, unsupported children and adults I remember from those days

MaryAnn, were they playing Are You There Moriarty?
My secondary school days were much more fun

the year after i left a girl walked off the roof having taken an E.
she apparantly was s strict vegan and had imagined she was being chased by a pork pie.

Someone broke into the school and sprayed weedkiller all over the lawn.. it took a few weeks for his name to show through clearly in yellow on the other wise green grass.

Mine are positively mild compared to some.

I also remember a question we were asked in a lesson once.

Here was the scenario

'Your father, who is in a wheelchair, and a scientist who has found the cure for an incurable disease are both stuck in a burning building. YOu can only save one.Which one would you save?'

And they all chose to save the scientist! Not one wiould have saved their own father, lol!

Also a question in a science test 'Why should you warm the teapot before putting boiling water in it?'

And loads of people said 'because if you put boiling water in a cold teapot, the tea pot will explode.'

Marina - yes they were !!