Share Your School Stories - Weirdos, freaks, and idiots (self-inclusion optional)

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SojuDrnkr said:
Like most high schools, we had a thing called "Pride Week" which was the week leading up to the Homecoming football game. Each class got a hallway which they would decorate, after school hours, and all that junk.
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I've literally never heard of any high school doing anything like that in my life.
 
FuckedUp said:
I've literally never heard of any high school doing anything like that in my life.
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I guess our school did it because we never did homecoming dances. Friday would be the assembly and games, and at night there would be a bonfire where we burn a paper machete of the other school's mascot and stuff like that. Most of us would smoke weed and/or drink before going to it. Sometimes someone would have an after party with a local band.
 
Count groudon said:
He did finally outgrow trying to steal my shit once he hit puberty thankfully. But now I’m super paranoid about lending people shit.
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I can relate. On two separate occasions in college courses, I lent one classmate my copy of an assigned novel and another a group videotape in order for each of them to complete class assignments. In both cases, neither returned the lent item and both conveniently went incommunicado after that. 😠

So, I'm now very reluctant to lend anyone anything other than a spare pen or pencil.

FuckedUp said:
I've literally never heard of any high school doing anything like that in my life.
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My high school's version, known as Spirit Week, took place during the week leading up to our football team's homecoming game or our game with our crosstown rival. Each day, we were encouraged to dress up in themes (pajama day, school colors, mismatched clothes, etc.) and each homeroom teacher would send someone who best represented the day's theme to the cafeteria where the student government would then pick one of the nominees from each class as the day's most spirited students. Friday normally saw us have our final hour class replaced with an all-school pep rally.

@SojuDrnkr - I'm assuming your school called this Pride Week before "pride" became something associated with the push for LGBT acceptance.

During the basketball team's game against our crosstown rivals one year, the cheerleaders made one of those banners where the team would run through it on the way to their warm-ups in order to tear it in half and fire up the crowd. Instead, a student or two came out of the bleachers and ran through it before the team could. The offender(s) ended getting in trouble for that stunt and had to write an apology letter and either serve detention or be part of a supervised work detail -- a fancy term for having to pick up trash or wash desks one day after school in lieu of detention.
 
Highschool's S building (its fucking retarded, supposed to be classes for Science & Math but has other goofy shit, which I'll talk about on this) has IT rooms, which anyone in the Coding, 3D Tinkering etc. clubs can access, and they made a shitty system that works with arduino that has an RFID reader that detects radio waves emitted by the cards we had made, problem is since it hadn't been set to a specific frequency, anything that really had chips could open it, from credit cards with the contactless payment technology and IstanbulKart (Public Transportation cards used in Istanbul, basically the same principle as Oyster cards in London, pic below for both) so people would enter into the room to use the PC's, since school's normal PC's are basically from primitive ages (they dont even have windows activated lol)

This didnt occur to be a problem really since we always had someone in the room on the beefiest pc having fun with VR or doing some other stupid shit, until people noticed they could download minecraft into these PC's if they had an USB or any sort of external drive, so they would download minecraft on them and start fucking playing when there wasnt anyone in there, so you could find a PC when you returned with minecraft on it, with a world they played with school's internet, basically using it as LAN since fortinet is the shittiest fucking internet security guard I had ever seen, you can literally enter the blocked sites by using http secure protocols instead of http normal protocols, as for some reason fortinet cant read these secure connections that are encrypted and not visible to their shit filter :story:

So yeah half the PC's had minecraft downloaded on them and it was a fucking pain in the ass to delete because non administrator accounts on school PC's are so limited, I did have access to one of school's administrator accounts as I had to download VSCode for the new Coding students and the trials on the old ones had expired, but I can't be arsed deleting minecraft off 30+ PC's when they can be downloaded back in a milisecond


P.S I do have another funny story about Minecraft and my school I can write if y'all are interested, this one was in 6th grade when we first got to use our iPads for education, and everyone rebelled against the school playing Minecraft on their iPads with LAN.
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Kiwi Lime Pie said:
@SojuDrnkr - I'm assuming your school called this Pride Week before "pride" became something associated with the push for LGBT acceptance.
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This was in the mid-2000s, so I'm not sure if the alphabet mafia appropriated the word "pride" then. But our mascot was a Lion, since a group of lions is called a pride, yaddah yaddah, you get the picture.
 
Count groudon said:
I fucking read that shit when I was 9. That was the first time a book actually made me cry. Why the actual fuck do so many children’s books involve kids and dogs dying? Why couldn’t they just let us enjoy our blissful innocence until that raging bitch called life took it from us a few years down the road? It’s like the kids book version of having some lady get raped in a lifetime movie at this point.
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Right? I’m still traumatized from reading Where the Red Fern Grows.

SojuDrnkr said:
I guess our school did it because we never did homecoming dances. Friday would be the assembly and games, and at night there would be a bonfire where we burn a paper machete of the other school's mascot and stuff like that. Most of us would smoke weed and/or drink before going to it. Sometimes someone would have an after party with a local band.
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Yep, I think ours was called “School Spirit Week”. It was also the week all the teacher’s houses got TP’d lol.

We had a raffle at one point where the seniors could buy a ticket to win a week of parking in the Principal’s parking spot. The guy who won had a car that broke down. So he put one of those inflatable chairs in the parking space with his name written across it in black marker. I don’t remember what happened to that, but it was the funniest thing.

By contrast, the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen happened in elementary school. There was this boy who was bigger than most of us and decided to be a little shit to everyone in the classroom. He was constantly getting in trouble. One day, we walked into the classroom and this boy was standing up front with an unknown man. The man introduced himself as the boy’s father, gave us a little speech about his son misbehaving and that this was his punishment...and proceeded to bend him over and spank his ass in front of everyone. Apparently this idea was approved by the school.

I don’t remember the kid ever being a problem after that, and no one made fun of him either because we were all afraid of the same fate. That teacher probably had the quietest year ever.
 
Count groudon said:
Why the actual fuck do so many children’s books involve kids and dogs dying?
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Killing a dog is the cheapest, easiest way of tear-jerking. Even if you know you're being manipulated. Fuck you, literary dog killers. You are not all Old Yeller.
 
PotatoSalad4711 said:
By contrast, the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen happened in elementary school. There was this boy who was bigger than most of us and decided to be a little shit to everyone in the classroom. He was constantly getting in trouble. One day, we walked into the classroom and this boy was standing up front with an unknown man. The man introduced himself as the boy’s father, gave us a little speech about his son misbehaving and that this was his punishment...and proceeded to bend him over and spank his ass in front of everyone. Apparently this idea was approved by the school.

I don’t remember the kid ever being a problem after that, and no one made fun of him either because we were all afraid of the same fate. That teacher probably had the quietest year ever.
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This is really weird either way, but did the father pull down his pants for the spanking like in those old cartoons or did he just spank him like a “normal” person?

Either way, could you imagine this happening in current year? It would be a media shitshow.
 
Gingervitis said:
This is really weird either way, but did the father pull down his pants for the spanking like in those old cartoons or did he just spank him like a “normal” person?
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My dad spanked me once or twice and he actually pulled my pants and underwear down. (:_(
 
Gingervitis said:
Either way, could you imagine this happening in current year? It would be a media shitshow.
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In 5th grade the dumb kid from Mississippi was super salty that paddling wasn't a thing in South Dakota. I guess because he liked watching the kids he hated getting their asses beat. Or maybe because he spent years getting his ass beat and was mad that we weren't. Either way every now and then he'd go up to someone and tell them exactly how many ass beatings we should be getting each week.

It was pretty off putting because of his age. Remember when I said he was dumb? Well, I wasn't exaggerating, he already failed 5th grade twice. He blamed it on some test required at the end of the year in Mississippi, said that it didn't matter how well you did the rest of the year, if you failed that test you failed the grade. Even if that was true though, he was still obviously dumb and not just a lousy test taker. Between that, his age gap, and his weird obsession with paddling nobody liked him.

The school obviously thought the age gap and his weirdness was inappropriate as well, because after Christmas they gave him a test and passed him onto the 6th grade to deal with him for the rest of the year. One of my friends in the same Girl Scout troop as me wound up having him in some of her classes. She was shocked and disgusted to find out he'd come from 5th grade, and that he'd failed it twice. She also confirmed he was just as weird about paddling in his new classes, and none of the 6th graders liked him either because he was dumb and obsessed about paddling.
 
A kid somehow downloaded Halo 2 on the computers in science class. From that day on every time we had a sub, we played it. Teacher in said class got death threats and eventually he got fired for something. He was a major asshole anyway.
 
AnOminous said:
Killing a dog is the cheapest, easiest way of tear-jerking. Even if you know you're being manipulated. Fuck you, literary dog killers. You are not all Old Yeller.
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Of Mice and Men did it better.

Actually is kinda funny looking back how shocking the ending was to a lot of us students. The book dragged it out and more-or-less implied Lennie's demise (it's like a cutaway shot), but although we knew how it would end, the movie also kinda dragged it out, but then just suddenly George whips it out and "BANG", and some of the girls in class gasped at it (probably 'cause it was a loud gunshot).
 
My best friend in high school actually partook in the whole "penis exam" meme and made a version of it for our school and taped them all around school. She especially stuck in on her autistic Math teacher's class bc she hated him so much. She got suspended but when she came back, her geography teacher asked to speak with her and asked her about if she made the poster. She said yes and then he told her that he actually showed up. I genuinely don't know how she graduated high school
 
Does anyone remember/get the great body shop? A bunch of little mags that gave health tips for kids? I've had the drawings and characters in the deep recesses of my mind for over 20 years now...also I've pretty much broken everything they told me to do from becoming a raging alcoholic to a full blown Marlboro smoker
 
Jasonfan89 said:
Does anyone remember/get the great body shop? A bunch of little mags that gave health tips for kids? I've had the drawings and characters in the deep recesses of my mind for over 20 years now...also I've pretty much broken everything they told me to do from becoming a raging alcoholic to a full blown Marlboro smoker
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Didn't those things say taking Ecstasy put literal holes in your brain?
 
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