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

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lazarou · 07/02/2008 15:19

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....

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Maidamess · 07/02/2008 16:22

Brian Jacks (ex Judo champ and star of BBC's 'Superstars') came to our school.

All the girls had to kiss him on the cheek

I'm still scarred

Maidamess · 07/02/2008 16:22

OOh, and the PE mistress offered to help any girls struggling with Tampax to insert them for them.

SisterBee · 07/02/2008 16:24

Dear god!
i can't remeber anything exciting/sinister happening at my school ever. although i didn't go much so may have missed a bit.
Wish i'd been at MBs school though

controlfreakyagain · 07/02/2008 16:27

at my "naice" private girls school hysterical spinster latin teacher....
"girls, girls, dont't look out of the windows, there's a naked man on the hockey pitch...."
guess where we all looked!
v memorable for our impressionable young minds....

talkingmongoose · 07/02/2008 16:29

We had to do PE in our vest and pants (primary). The (male) teacher lifted me up and ran round with me in the PE lesson and said that he was a caveman, I was a cavewoman, and he was taking me off to his cave.

What - what - was that about?

sophiewd · 07/02/2008 16:31

My nice private girls school -

lots of bullying
biology teacher accused of molesting one of my classmates
and just a lot of not nice teachers and nuns

YeahBut · 07/02/2008 16:33

We had a very butch spinster biology teacher and weedy assistant head (also a spinster) that were "very good friends" who just happened to share a flat. Not at all sinister but just a bit that they ever thought people would really believe that and also a bit sad for them that they felt they couldn't be open about it.

Blandmum · 07/02/2008 16:33

My school, while not being the best of places to get a formal education, did make sure that nothing that has ever happened to me as a teacher shocked me in the slightest!

the headmaster has a nervous breakdown , on the stage in front of us all . He kept asking us about who had seen Kojac the night before!

wannaBe · 07/02/2008 16:34

we had a bomb scare, but not your average bomb scare - a kid did it as a bet. We were all studying in the school building (was boarding school) and he went into the office downstairs, rang the phone upstairs and when the teacher answered he said "there's a bomb in your school" she panicked and we were all evacuated. When the police came to inspect the building, they walked into said child's class and there on the notice board in big bold letters was written "I won, there, you owe me a litre of fanta!" . On reflection the teacher should have had an idea something was amiss as when the call came in it was an internal call (ie within the school hone system) which rang totally differently to external calls. .

South-African president P.w. botha's granddaughter attended this school too and she had frequently threatened to get her granddad to deport people who didn't comply with her demands (she would have been about 9 at the time .

Our hostel was broken into and the burgler broke in, stole all the food out of the kitchen, went and hid it, then came back and went upstairs and looked into every bedroom until he found one where a girl was sleeping on her own, he then went and sat on her bed and when she sat up he hissed "shshshshshs" at her. she ccreamed and he legged it. But when the police came they found he'd left an 8 inch carving knife behind . He was caught several months later and it then emerged that he was wanted on several counts of rape .

Blu · 07/02/2008 16:36

Am at the harp in a school, never mind the nipples!

dustystar · 07/02/2008 16:37

Our head teacher was an old hippy in a camper van who didn't believe in ophysical discipline so used tickle torture as a punishment instead. It was a very successful technique and he was lovely but he'd probably be arrested today.

When I was older a group of students took apart a teachers car that she had left in the carpark over night and put it back together in the staffroom. Another year someone dies all the water blue and we had blue mashed potatoes for lunch

Not nasty or sinister but funny.

controlfreakyagain · 07/02/2008 16:39

oh we had loads of nipples, but no harps.

dustystar · 07/02/2008 16:39

dyed the water blue

LIZS · 07/02/2008 16:39

Art teacher having it away with the pe teacher's brother on a residential field trip allegedly

flipflopper · 07/02/2008 16:40

When I was at primary school we had a slightly odd headmaster for a while, and in a science lesson he brought in a blackbird he had found dead, boiled it up and showed us all the different parts. The smell of it was gross!
Thinking back, it was prob for his own entertainment rather than educational

GetOrfMoiLand · 07/02/2008 16:41

martianbishop:

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

PMSL

Mine:

-year 11 Chemistry (all girls group - they seperated the boys and girls in top set so the boys wouldn't 'distract' us clever girls ). Anyway, end of every term, very odd chemistry teacher used to let us girls have a water fight in the lab, with beakers, pipettes and the like. All of us with white shirts on which gradually got more transparent as they got wet. We may have been clever girls but we weren't bright enough to realise he was an old perv.

-the head of music was jailed for 4 years because he had been 'having an affair' with a 14 year old male student. The boy was horrifically bullied throughout the rest of his school life.

-some one went on the rampage one night (must have broke into the school, unless it was one of the teachers lol) and drew huge 6 foot high pictures of nob ends, and smeared shit all over the glass doors to F Block.

In food technology (why?) the teacher dangles a tampon under some water and showed us how it expanded. She showed us the difference between tampax and lillets (I still use lillets to this day because of that demo). Still don't know why the frig she showed us this in food tech!

  • school buses set on fire on a regular basis
  • police came to do a demo showing how well sniffer dogs can sniff drugs out of lockers. 3 lockers were sniffed out having had pot in them. Funny thing was 4 teacher fucked off home smartish because they had dodgy substances in thier bags/coats (this I remember from when I worked in a school, as opposed to being a pupil)
AdamAnt · 07/02/2008 16:41

YeahBut - I'm sure you didn't mean it that way, but two women living together isn't sinister, whether straight or lesbian

AdamAnt · 07/02/2008 16:42

YeahBut - totally misread your post.

chuggabopps · 07/02/2008 16:42

wow- this thread is ace.
mine seems a bit dull compared- I was at poncey girls school where two games teachers shared a two bedroom house with a spare room, one girl wrote in to more magazine about the latin teachers bad breath and when it was printed left it out for her to find, the art teacher was suspended when she was pregnant (wasn't married so was considered a bad influence) and the history teacher was rumored to have had a nervous breakdown but miraculously his new book came out round about the time he came back to school.

now i look back it just seems so false, and overly image concious. Hope I never lie about such things to the newest generation.

Boco · 07/02/2008 16:46

My primary school teacher was a really racist old man who would throw the board rubber at heads, use the slipper and generally scream himself into frothing hysteria. One day he used one too many racist taunts at one boy - and the boy - who was always very quiet and shy, suddenly picked up a chair and hit threw it at his head.

MAMAZON · 07/02/2008 16:47

getorfmoiland - what is the difference between lillets and tampax?

DualCylinderCod · 07/02/2008 16:48

LOADS of suicide attempts

wannaBe · 07/02/2008 16:48

a boy got his gf (from another school) pregnant which was a mortal sin as sex outside of marriage was very sinful. This boy was told he was not allowed to talk to girls in future, and the girls were told not to talk to him (I imagine they thought that we might all get pregnant through talking) .

I was kicked out of the debating society for having an opinion "debate is supposed to be based on carefully researched scientific facts, not on opinions" I was told, because I had dared to debate the topic "do teenagers get enough freedom".

MamaG · 07/02/2008 16:49

All high school

  • one boy set fire to a girl's hair. She had taht massively gelled curly hair and he was flicking his lighter - whooosh (poor girl, but she did look MUCH better with short hair). I actually snogged said boy at a later date
  • a girl in my class had a DD when she was 13 and TWINS at 15
  • LOADS of teenage pregnancies
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