People Are Sharing What The “Incident” Was At Their High School, And These Stories Have My Jaw On The Floor

Warning: This article contains stories of sexual abuse and assault of minors.

Recently, Reddit user Haunted_Neko asked the age-old question in a post on the popular “Ask Reddit” page: “What was the controversy in your high school?” More than 4,000 people wrote in about “incidents” that happened in their high schools, and their stories ranged from hilarious to bizarre to heartbreaking. Here are some of the most interesting:

1. “Kid got kicked out for calling his teacher a predator. Fast forward, we all graduated and guess who’s on the news for being a predator…Mr. Teacher!”

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—u/toetagem416

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

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—u/HoldenCaulfieldsIUD

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3. “We had a whole school meeting in the hall about these little things that people make out of paper clips and when you hit them with a paper clip, these little things break off and it feels like being stung by a bee. Not only did it raise awareness of this throughout the school, but they also stupidly showed us how to make them and use them to cause bee stings.”

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—u/-CgiBinLaden-

4. “Our head gym teacher was involved in not one, but two pregnancy scandals. During my senior year, he got the girl’s gym teacher pregnant (both were single). He also got a senior in my graduating class pregnant during his senior year. The second one came to light before graduation, so I don’t know how it played out.”

—u/txa1265

5. “Our IT teacher used to send drunken emails to the class at 2am containing misspellings and sexual innuendos.”

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—u/deleted

6. “A teacher was arrested by the FBI and Sheriff in class for taking images of child sexual abuse at school.”

—u/secretguitar-8859

7. “A very popular male teacher – early 30s, everyone’s best friend – slept on his desk with female students in his classroom. He had a lock on his door and a garbage bag in the window under the door, which we all thought was weird. He said it helped him focus during grading.”

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“Eventually one of the girls got such bad grades that her parents started questioning her and she basically admitted that her mental health was in bad shape because the teacher was sleeping with her without protection multiple times a week.

When the school found out, the teacher was suspended and suddenly all the other girls were coming forward as victims (privately, but the rumor quickly spread around the school). There must have been eight or nine in total by the end – it turned out he was having sex with/making them have sex with multiple different students.

He was charged and convicted soon after the guilty plea. “

—u/Takhar7

8. “My (private) high school was closed due to the largest political corruption investigation in our country. It was proven that the school was laundering money for corrupt politicians.”

—u/h-paiva

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9. “Watched a young male student sexually harassing an older female teacher. She gave him a thumbs up, but ended up losing her job. That kid is an amazing guy, and it was so fun to watch him get the comeuppance he deserved.”

—u/GoodWifeSlutLife

10. “One of the teachers behaved very inappropriately towards a female student. Our school newspaper wrote a report about this incident, which 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. The incident became a big deal and the report was not published. The teacher involved is also the town police chief, so it may be related to this incident.”

—u/funky_grandma

11. “Can boys have long hair (this was in the ’60s). The school said no; the kid and his parents said yes. Went to the state Supreme Court and they ruled against the school.”

—u/afcagroo

12. “On the last day of my senior year, classmates in my grade brought water balloons. One of them told the vice principal that he had ‘plastic explosives’ in his backpack and refused to let him see it 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 their penises with gasoline on the football field. ‘Going in’ from the yard line, which was about 20 feet. Yeah, the grass didn’t grow back and we played on it all season.

— u/MatthewWW Fanatic

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14. “During winter break, my first-grade math teacher was caught meeting someone he thought was a 12-year-old boy at a McDonald’s in the next state over. There was lube, condoms, a liquor cabinet, the whole nine yards in the trunk. And the worst part was, I found out that I wasn’t actually an A student in math, I think he just had a crush on me.”

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-u/thepitz

15. “A disgruntled student drilled a hole in the dean’s office window, poured five gallons of gasoline, and threw in a match. A ‘vocational studies’ student (i.e., a high-support kid training to be a janitor) rode his bike home, saw the fire, called 911, and likely saved the school from burning down. That kid won a prize and a photo in the student newspaper. But was back sweeping the floors the next week.”

-u/bombiewhether

16. “The favorite teacher in school got fired for having marijuana in the classroom. But it wasn’t his. He made the baseball players put their bags in his room if they were in his room. The drug dogs came in and cleared the room. Even knowing it wasn’t his, he took responsibility. The student who played baseball was the most hated kid in school until he graduated.”

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—u/BosskHogg

17. “A group of students self-published a zine accusing specific faculty members/security guards of being mean/corrupt/common assholes. There were also numerous anti-authority poems/writings/drawings. All nine students were found out and summarily expelled.”

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—u/gnartothecore

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

—u/R4GEQUITT3R

19. “The kids used keyloggers to capture their teachers’ logins to the online grading system. They started asking the kids to change their grades for certain courses they had access to. Eventually, a teacher noticed some grades had changed and notified the administration. The police got involved; it ended up being quite a big incident. The kid behind it was pulled out of the school system before being expelled. Pretty sure they went to Ivy League schools, some of which praised them for their clever discovery.”

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—u/Br0donnell

20. “The married PE teacher had an affair with the married English teacher. They both divorced and remarried.”

—u/vbgooroo55

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twenty one. “‘Shit.’ Someone had been pooping on the hoods of students’ cars and in school parking lots and driveways all year long with a note that said, ‘Stop bullying Joel,’ so it was obviously Joel who did it, but he was never caught. He did continue to be bullied.”

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—u/Canadian Colonel

twenty two. “A few years after I graduated, my high school was involved in a scheme to change grade levels in order to keep football players eligible to play. The principal and head football coach were fired. During the course of the investigation, we discovered that the football coach had two families.”

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—u/PrimalNoid

twenty three. “A girl was angry because her boyfriend broke up with her and started dating someone new, so she tried to run him down in the school parking lot.”

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—u/99dalmatianpups

twenty four. Finally (and disgustingly): “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 the person kissing them was (they assumed it was another student), only for their parents to come over and kiss them/make out really damn close. This is something they do every four years from what I heard until it was recorded by a student and it made the news. They don’t do it anymore. ‘Prank’ at school.”

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—u/TheRazzle_Dazzle

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