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Whatever you like.. Pranks, Fights, teachers behaving badly, unexplained events... etc etc..

We don't have enough threads around at the moment that isn't just another discussion about something in the news, politically correct nonsense or random questions that last a page or two at best.

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Around 20 years ago in high school I gained a bit of a chip on my shoulder, teachers disliked me because i was categorised in to a "peer group" with other rebels and antagonistic nerdewels.

After putting a considerable amount of effort in to volunteering after school, achieving far above the rest of my class in certain subjects.. i was held in lower sets because of a perceived attitude problem (that in all fairness a few teachers saw through completely.. and actually changed my life)

A local forum had started up that had posts from people in the local town (90k population), so i felt the need to write a "review" of the school, some rather angry and unfair opinions about some teachers and telling parents to avoid sending their kids there at all costs.

So a few days pass, i come in to school a few minutes late and as i am walking down the main corridor i walk past the headmaster, he greets me saying "Good Morning", as a pleasantry i return in kind... As i reach the end of the corridor the headmaster; in a questionatory manner says my name, i stop turn around and in a deeper tone repeats my name with surname attached..

"yes sir" i replied.. "In my office please."

So i enter the office, and in silence he sits at his desk, taps away at his keyboard and swivels his monitor around, showing the entire "artice" i wrote about the school..

Baring in mind i had used a alias, so i had no idea how he knew it was me who posted it..

I admit to the act of wanton youthfulness and hold my hands up.. My head master in the most gentle way i could imagine, says.. "Well, if this is the way you feel.. i think its best we start arranging your transfer to another school."

lump in throat, life over moment. Couldn't believe what i was hearing.. After this i was sat in the dining room for 4-5 hours before being sent home, to which later in the day the school board intervened and allowed me to stay under certian terms.. 1) the post must be removed, 2) i must write formal apologies to all staff named in the post, 3) i must serve 3 weeks of all day isolation.

Needless to say, i learned nothing from the experience.. other than, don't get caught in future.



Apologies for the long and probably dull post, but this is a true story from my school days.

ps. That teacher went on trial today for historical sexual assault crimes against a minor (unrelated)
 
one of the "heard about but wasnt actually there" stories but apparently one of the history teachers in our school wasn't particularly fond of germans despite apparently having relatively recent german ancestry in his family (grandfather i think).

one day a bunch of students drew a swastika the full size of the blackboard in permanent marker then shaded it into a square using regular marker so when he came in and started rubbing it off the board it was revealed.

apart from that it was the usual ctrl+r then replacing common words with vernacular on peoples reports, activating high contrast mode, and screenshotting the desktop before setting it as desktop background and deleting all the icons, printing off 1 million decimal places of pi or loading up the standard array of rickroll/other internet prank sites when people left their pc's on.

seems i was bad luck for schools, both primary and secondary schools when i left the headteachers were fired within a year, one for blowing the schools budget on a facelift and the other for wasting money on putting message screens up everywhere while some departments went under funded
 
I can't really remember much unfortunately, however there was a chap in my form who's sadly no longer with us but I recalled a few of his memories recently which raised a smile.
  1. He was a few minutes late to lesson (I think it was a year 9 science class??) and the teacher asked him to stand outside the classroom, to which said chap replied "you're having a ****ing joke". A bunch of stunned 13/14 year olds gasped in shock at such a remark, and the teacher calmly escorted him to the head's office!
  2. Another science lesson (funnily enough), there were a bunch of German exchange students in. Our fellow student didn't seem to like this and started making remarks such as "no nazis here, we don't like your kind" and "ha ha we won the war". I'm surprised they didn't say anything to anyone and he was allowed to get away with this!!
I'll see if I can remember any more and post them up as and when.
 
One of our French teachers was on a gay dating website and some kids set up a fake profile and matched with him. They printed off some almost nude images of him they got sent and proceeded to print them off and pin them up around the school, poor guy.

He was suspended and later cleared, because the kids shouldn't have been on an 18+ website in the first place. But he left the job and moved to a different school, unsurprisingly.

B@
 
Too many to recall, one that really sticks out is when they changed the dress code for shoes/trainers and in protest nearly everyone at the school decided to take theirs off and throw them on the school roof at lunch time. Poor caretaker was up there for a while retrieving them all while we all got a rollicking in the school hall, shoeless.
 
adolf hamster said:
it was the usual ctrl+r then replacing common words with vernacular on peoples reports, activating high contrast mode, and screenshotting the desktop before setting it as desktop background and deleting all the icons.
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This was a common one. People never learned and would just panic!
 
ddoubleep said:
This was a common one. People never learned and would just panic!
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indeed, its amazing how a small amount of computer literacy goes such a long way. even not too long ago at work i pranked a guy who came into lunch with his laptop unlocked looking at holidays, set it down and went to get his food, naturally a quick keyboard shortcut later and he came back to an upside down screen.

needless to say whilst my intentions were purely humour it's a good thing that's the end of it. how people dont lock their computers i don't know
 
Another classing with the upside down screen! Got to try that one for old times sake this week on someone....

An inverted Mac laptop was another one.
 
We were amazed when canned coke machines were installed in the corridors of my secondary school, then promptly began working out ways to get free coke! We worked out that if the huge, heavy machine was tilted forwards nearly 45 degrees (this took the strength of about 4 of us) and pushed back upright, the jarring would dispense a can! This was a 5 person job, including one person keeping lookout.

Anyway we were 'dispensing' one day and the lookout whistled an alert while we were in mid tilt, 3 of us turned and legged it but one lad, who wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer, was too slow. The machine fell and smashed his ankle as he was running away and the head of year came around the corner to find him trapped! He was on crutches for weeks.

Ahh school, it was a crap school full of kids from bad areas but there were so many laughs :)
 
When I was about 17 we used to have school assembly with years 9 through to 13 lined up in blocks in the hall - year 9 at the front, 13 at the back.

The headmaster and other heads of form/year sat on the stage at the front to conduct the assembly and down each side of the hall various teachers sat at the edges.

A guy in year 12 ran on to the stage as assembly ended, with a cheese grater in his hand, yelled something unintelligible and proceeded to mock-grate his backside in front of the whole school (around 1200 pupils)

He then panicked, ran off the stage, ran down one side of the hall and was rugby tackled before he could make his exit by our burly Geography teacher.

I have no idea why he did it, at the time his friends would not tell anyone anything about it and neither would he. He added me on Facebook years later and of course I immediately posted about it on his wall which he deleted and removed me, only to re add me again a few years later.

I'll never forget that, the rugby tacklle as he made his exit was absolute poetry, the Geography teacher properly took him out :D
 
A guy in my class used to lean back in his chair with both his hands clasped behind his head, an open book sat on his groin with the spine resting against the edge of his desk. He'd get the attention of one of the girls in front, and they'd look round to see the book rise and fall against the desk.

He's probably in jail now.
 
Hard to remember, pretty tame I think. School had around 1400 pupils, rural school. I remember watching one fight which lasted about 2 minutes.

Was pretty quiet in class, got a bit more vocal in final year.

I was punched in the face by a *****, eye was completely swollen shut for about 3 days. That was actually a pretty big moment for me, first time I realised my own mortality I think. About 15 years later I realised what it was all about, apparently I had offended someone by not speaking to them and they 'got' this idiot to ambush me right in the middle of about 200 pupils, I could have flattened him but wasn't my thing, new situation for me. I'm not a ***** btw however we were all thrown into the one pot and all that. Parents were both teachers etc.

Other than that I did well at running was at the national level both track and XC. Right up there with the best, one or two went to the Olympics. Hence a lot of people knew my name, also would have my name in the local paper a lot. I was famous for 5 minutes so to speak.

Overall can't complain, good teachers, few roasters of pupils as they used to say. Hard to know as you have nothing to compare your school too.

Do wish I had worked harder though. Honestly have hardly seen anyone from school in 23 years.
 
Getting a friend to send a random online picture of some boobs to the headteacher, using someone else's email account. Accompanied with a derogative message ;)

He got expelled and I had to serve isolation as they called it, for my involvement.
 
In the early 80s some friends and myself decided to bunk off for a day. As the 3 of them all lived in nearby villages, with me being the townie, we agreed to meet a few miles outside town.

The morning of the bunk off, which was a lovely early summer day (we waited for a good day), I went to my bike but discovered it had a puncture. I didn’t have time to fix it so my mum, thinking I was headed to school, said I could use her bike (shopping basket etc), and as I wanted to partake in the bunk off fun I readily agreed.

As I was a little behind schedule I took a few short cuts to get to the road that headed out of town to the meet point and as I crossed a busy road I got hit by a car. I ended up in hospital, not too badly hurt, and ended up having a week or so off school. Fortunately the road I got hit on was also on a route that could have, but taking a few different turns, led me to school so even though it wasn’t my usual route, I managed to blag it with my parents that I had just taken a different route.

Turns out my 3 mates got seen by a farmer messing about in his fields, they were messing about not him, and as they had the school uniform on he reported them and it wasn’t difficult for the school to work out who they were.

Long and short if it they got a load of detention and I got a load of sympathy. Oh how we laughed about it when I got back to school. Of course I never told them I had been on my mums girl bike.
 
When I was at school we had blackboards that were like a super wide "belt" pulled taught over rollers at the top and bottom so that it could move up or down. Some of us got to a lesson before the teacher did and one lad wrote a sweary on it with a big arrow pointing downwards, then carefully pulled the board down so that this word was now hidden on the reverse side. Teacher walks in, starts the lesson, begins writing on the board and eventually has to pull it down to get to a blank space. This meant that the sweary was now at the top of the board along with the arrow pointing nicely at the top of his head. Obviously we all begin sniggering while everyone else erupts into fits of laughter, the teacher didn't have a clue what was going on.

We used to swap Commodore 64 games and it wasn't uncommon for a game to get passed to so many people that tracking it down was a nightmare. I'm sat in a lesson and the teacher went out to get something. One lad gets up and starts going round the class asking "have you got my copy of <insert game name>?" (I can't recall what it was, this happened decades ago). I remember having this game, but gave it to someone else who was sat a few seats away from me, so when my turn arrives I told him this. He storms over to this lad, punching him in the face, causing a nosebleed and a minor scuffle, quickly brought to an end by the teacher returning.

There was a gang of bullies who used to mercilessly take the mickey out of a lad's name, which came to an abrupt halt when this boy tried to hang himself in the bike shed using his tie. We were all in the same year (first one at senior school, so I was 12-13) and it was a real eye-opener at just how cruel kids can be.
 
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