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....

Ay my school we had a Halloween ritual (endorsed by the teachers) which involved the fifth formers running a ghost trail.

The trail ran through the main school house (beautiful old manor)and involved buckets of real blood, pigs' eyes, and other offal procured from the butcher. It was essentially an opportunity for the older girls to give the younger ones a hazing.

Funnily enough the teachers decided to draw a close to it when the Child PRotection Act came in, and they were due to be inspected

Our music teacher was murdered when i was in year 10. I remember being told in assembly and everyone laughed, i think it was shock. He had been on holiday in the usa and was found strangled in a hotel room.

I never knew that MMJ.

glad i use lillets now

Don't worry, AdamAnt. Although you did have me rushing to check what I'd posted!

mamazon - lillets expand neatly widthways, tampax expand legthways and unevenly, so more chance of leakage

That bloody food tech teacher was probably paid a retainer from lillets, that would explain a lot

I remember a few teachers had nervous breakdowns. ONe used to play with worry beads in every lesson.

I also remember in the science lab there was a foetus in a jar! I was absolutely fascinated with it.

shakeysgirl - you from birmingham?

a primary teacher being allowed to work with small children when she shouted, spat, continually frothed, was mental and screwed pencils into children's heads.

LV - yes i am

one girl tried it on with several teachers and when she got knocked back would make alagations of sexual abuce against them .

I went to Boarding School.

Our music teacher had an affair with one of the 6th form girls - he was sacked and she left not long after.

One of the housemistresses was sacked for allowing all the fifteen year old 5th years in her care to go out on the toot every weekend and bring boys back.

I remember getting up ill one night and going to the on duty matrons room to find it empty and on searching the rest of the staff rooms they were all empty too. In fact there was not an adult on the premises even though there were about 100 girls ranging between the ages of 4 and 14 in the building sleeping. It was a big stately type home and I was terrified.

Every Saturday and Sunday afternoon we were just all left to our own devices anywhere in the school or grounds for about 6 hours with no staff anywhere obvious. You had to go searching for them. Remember this is over 100 kids with the youngest being 4.

Looking back the whole set up was outrageous really.

Someone once found a ripped up pr0n mag in the hedge near the school gate.

My Sociology teacher was living with an ex-pupil.

The Deputy Head got sacked for shagging a student.

Lots of flashers...it was a Girl's Grammar school so maybe that's what attracted them? Who knows

The best one is this: our school opened up its Sixth Form to anyone who wanted to do A-Levels, and passed the selection test. For some reason, this included a 30-something man who everyone was (quite rightly, as it turned out) suspicious of. Less than a term into the year, he was chucked out after being caught in the girl's loos. Lovely!

almummny this wasnt in herford was it?

No, West Sussex. Are we allowed to name and shame on here? Dont think it is even open anymore anyway.

did htey wear odd unifroms

Pretty old fashioned uniforms. Tunics, fawn socks, brown shoes, kilts and jumpers on Sundays and Capes for outside. Why do you ask?

A girl was caught playing the harp with her bare breasts?

Youch!

the hapr thing has stuck in my mind too

The school science block was burned down by my then boyfriends older brother.

Another ex-boyfriend from the year above me died on April fools day by choking on his own vomit after a party

Oh, and we caused Victor Passmore to have the steps removed on his Brutilist art sculputre 'Pavillion' when we used it as a glorified bus stp to gather and drink cider.

The harp thing is mind boggling! MB wins the wierdest school experience hands down!

We merely had a few flashers, a teacher breakdown and had to watch some riske french videos after we'd refused to sit a second french O level but weren't allowed to stop going to the lessons. There was also a girl who actually passed out unconcious during our 'birds and bees' sex ed lesson, poor thing.

I always win this competition, and the harp thing gets it every time!

She was a most strange girl, who when we were in primary school used to 'give birth' to leaves by pulling them out of her knickers.

A physics teacher ran a kid down on the school grounds, jumped out of the car, and shouted at the girl who was lying on the ground.

A history teacher threw a desk down a flight of stairs at a child.

My biology teacher once lifted up a small boy and tossed him to one side, did the same with a much larger boy, realised his mistake, and crumpled under the weight of the lad!

It was a rum old place!

The music teacher in my school married an ex-pupil about 6 months after she had left school. There were a few raised eyebrows, but the party line was that they fell in love after she left school.

Not sinister, but tragic, one of the girls in my class died on a ski lift when I was 9.