People share what the “incident” was at their high school, and these stories have my jaw on the floor

Warning: This post contains stories of child sexual abuse and sexual assault.

Recently, Reddit user Haunted_Neko posted on the popular Ask Reddit page to ask the age-old question, “What was your high school controversy?” More than 4,000 people wrote in with stories of the “incident” that happened at their high school, and their stories ranged from hilarious to weird to downright heartbreaking. Here are some of the most interesting:

1. “The kid got expelled for calling a teacher an alleged predator. Fast forward, we’re all graduates and guess who’s in the news for being a predator… Mr. Professor!”

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—u/toetagem416

2. “The kid tried to light his fart and ended up hiding on the floor.”

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—u/HoldenCaulfieldsDIU

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3. “We had a whole school session in the auditorium about these little things people did with paper clips that would break and feel like a bee sting when you got hit with them. Not only did it raise awareness throughout the school, but they were also stupid enough to show us how to make them and use them to cause bee stings.

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—u/-CgiBinLaden-

4. “Our head PE teacher had not one, but TWO pregnancy scandals. He got the girl’s PE teacher pregnant (both were single) during my senior year. He also got a senior in my graduating class pregnant during my senior year. The second one came out right before graduation, so I have no idea how it all worked out.”

—u/txa1265

5. “Our IT teacher used to drunkenly email the class at 2am with bad spelling and sexual innuendo.”

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6. “If a teacher was arrested in the middle of class by the FBI and the sheriff for filming child sexual abuse in school.”

—u/Secret-Guitar-8859

7. “The really popular teacher—early 30s, everyone’s best friend—was sleeping with the girls in his classroom on his desk. His door had a lock and a garbage bag over the slotted window, which we all thought was weird. He said it helped him focus when he was marking.

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“Eventually, one of the girls’ grades were so bad that her parents started asking her about it, and she basically confessed that her mental health was trashed because the teacher was sleeping with her, unprotected, several times a week.

Once the school found out, the teacher was put on leave, and suddenly all these girls were coming forward as victims (in private, but the dive quickly spread throughout the school). There must have been eight or nine in total by the end – it turns out he was having sex/having sex with several different students.

He was quickly charged and convicted after a guilty plea.”

—u/Takhar7

8. “My (private) high school was closed due to the biggest political corruption investigation in my country. Apparently the school was laundering money for corrupt politicians.”

-I / h-it’s raining

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9. “I saw a young student age an older teacher. She hated him all right, but she ended up losing her job. That kid was a piece of work and it was fun to watch him get what he deserved.”

—u/GoodWifeSlutLife

10. “One of the teachers was being very inappropriate with her students. We at the school newspaper wrote a story about it. It was censored by the principal. The journalism teacher argued that our newspaper was a forum for student expression and could not be censored by the school. The principal disagreed. There was a big fuss about it, and in the end the story might not have been driven by her, so she might have done something. with her.”

—u/funky_grandma

11. “Whether or not boys could have long hair (this was in the ’60s). The school said no; the kid and his parents said yes. They went to the state Supreme Court and ruled against the school.”

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12. “On my last day of senior year, the boys in my class brought in water balloons. One of them told the vice principal he had ‘plastic explosives’ in his backpack and refused to let him look when asked. The school went into bomb threat mode and we were all forced to go home early.”

—u/blackwellsucks

13. “Some guys (players) burned a penis on the football field with gasoline. Yeah, the grass didn’t grow back and we played on it all season.

—u/MatthewWWFanatic

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14. “Over winter break, my freshman math teacher was caught meeting what he thought was a 12-year-old boy at a McDonald’s in the next state over. Trunk had lube, condoms, wine coolers, the whole nine yards. The worst part was I found out I wasn’t actually an A in math, I think he had a crush on me.”

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—u/thepitz

15. “A disgruntled student punched a hole in the dean’s office window, poured five gallons of gasoline, and threw in a match. An ‘occupational studies’ student (ie, a high-support kid who was being trained as a caregiver) was riding his bike home and saw the fire, called 911, and probably saved the school from burning down, but was given a shot in the back.” to sweep the floors next week.”

—u/bombs either

16. “The school’s favorite teacher got fired for having weed in his classroom. But it wasn’t his. He let the baseball players keep their bags in his room if they were in his homeroom. The drug dogs came in and cleared the room. He took the fall even after it was known it wasn’t his. The baseball player was the ugliest kid in school until graduation.”

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—u/BosskHogg

17. “A group of students self-published a zine that called out certain faculty/security for being vile/corrupt/general morons. There was also a good amount of anti-authoritarian poetry/writing/drawings. All nine students were found out and promptly expelled.”

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—u/gnartothecore

18. “Someone used their printer to make fake bills, crumpled them up to make them look believable, and then actually used them to buy lunch. The fake bills were discovered and there was a huge investigation because this is technically a counterfeit. No one was caught, though.”

—and/R4GEQUITT3R

19. “The kids used a keylogger to capture the teacher’s logins to the online grading system. They started charging the kids to change their grades in certain classes they had access to. Eventually, a teacher noticed that some of the grades had changed and alerted the administration. The police got involved; it ended up being quite a problem. League schools, some of which praised them for their clever discovery.”

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—u/Br0donnell

20. “The married gym teacher had an affair with the married English teacher. They both divorced and married each other.”

—u/vbgooroo55

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21. “‘The Shitter.’ Someone would go around all year and poop on the hoods of students’ cars, in the school parking lot, and in their driveways with a note that just said ‘stop harassing Joel,’ so obviously Joel was doing that, but he never got caught. He continued to be harassed.”

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—u/colonelcanada

22. “A few years after I graduated, my high school was involved in a class change scheme to keep football players eligible to play. The principal and head football coach were canned. During discovery, it was revealed that the football coach had two families.”

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—in/PrimalNoid

23. “A girl was upset that her boyfriend broke up with her and started seeing someone new, so she tried to run him over in the school parking lot.”

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—u/99 Dalmatian pups

24. And finally (and disgusting): “Our school had a pep rally in the gym. The captains of the winter team sports were blindfolded and told they were going to be kissed and had to guess who was kissing them (they assumed another student), only to have their parents come and kiss them/makeout/makeout. a student and it was all over the news. They don’t do it anymore this “prank” at school”.

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—u/TheRazzle_Dazzle

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