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Someone overdosed at my old high school in the middle of picking teams for PE class game. Just dropped to the ground in an instant. I wasnt present during it but talked to a lot of people who were. They dismissed everyone for the day and had many assemblies after it regarding student safety.
Or the fact that a teacher was responsible for a meth epidemic that spread throughout the school, he got caught selling to a student in the bathroom.
Trying to give a presentation in front of the class while being painfully aware of your unibrow.
When i was in elementary school there was an after school program. A couple years after I left elementary school the guy that ran the after school program and a summer program got arrested for touching an 8 year old and trying to start a relationship with him. The scary part for me was i was in a room alone with that guy a couple times when i was in elementary school. Realized how lucky i got when i heard the news
Gang fight between black and Hispanic girls. It involved hammers and a few other weapons. It was brutal.
A kid fell on the playground and took an eye out, it was awful
4 guys entered the school and stab one student to death
A friend of mine was travelling in her father’s car behind their mother’s on the way to a popular convention and a massive truck collided into both cars. Dad and my friend were fine. The mother was killed instantly, and the little sister (who was in the same car) died not long after. It was never explicitly said but… my friend managed to escape the wreckage to try and help her mom and sister. She watched the little sister die.
My friend was never the same after that and she avoided us (me and the friend group) completely since we reminded her too much of her little sister whom we’d play with.
Skip forward a few years and a well known student at school accidentally hung himself under the influence of recreational drugs. I didn’t know him, but heaps of my classmates did.
The school nearby to ours have a massive bus accident that ended up pinning an elementary boy from the sister school to the gates. He didn’t make it, and the dent was there for weeks.
A teacher raped a student.
Kid in my class had an older brother(late 20s) who murdered his mom and then killed himself. He had a young kid, too.
We were sent home before we could get hit by an f2 tornado.
We had a small pen in the back of the school where the farming club raised calfs and pigs to sell at the local rodeo to fund their college tuition. Well, the one calf that became a cow got startled by something and kicked behind itself, caving in a pig’s head. Nothing able to be done other than watching it wriggle around and seize to death. Didn’t see it personally, but it affected one girl so much that she changed her future college major from agriculture to I think teaching.
Very first day of school at our newly built middle school and high school building our library aide was electrocuted while using a copier machine and died. Power went out all through the school, I was in the computer lab in the library and we had to wait there until the fire debt was able to remove her body.
Not me but I have friends who were present for both the Oxford and Michigan state shootings. I could never imagine going to school after that
We were organizing a large LAN party with 500+ students, and suddenly we all received ‘active shooter on campus’ alert, and the last seen location is two blocks from us and the suspect is escaping towards us. We all got in one of the large auditorium and locked the doors as instructed.
The auditorium held the league of legends tournament with many setups and live stream / commentary. It was the most eerie experience when you can only hear all the clicking, the keyboard, and all the gameplay sounds intertwined, but no one is talking. It was dead silence despite all the noises as strange as it sounds.
Suddenly we hear faint foot steps. It was a Saturday late evening and most buildings on campus doesn’t have much light on, but the one we are in was fully lit and very visible from the outside. And one after another, the clicking stopped, the gameplay sound dimmed until muted. We can now hear the fans of the PC setups and some quiet murmurs. Someone knocked on the door repeatedly and thank God it was campus police.
Honestly I think all of us for a few seconds thought this would be the end.
Probably that one of our teachers got arrested for molesting a child (not one at the school) and producing child pornography from it that he sent to some dude in England. They caught him during the pandemic so people didn’t figure out until some classmate found out he was booked in jail with like a million dollar bail.
2nd grade.
Teacher was trying to familiarize us with Hispanic traditions (early 80s). During class time, she took us out to the black top. It was just the teacher and our second grade class. She got a piñata. She blindfolded us, and let each of us take a swing at it. The item she brought to crack the piñata with was unfortunately an aluminum bat. One kid swung before he was supposed to- he cracked her hard right in the forehead. She dropped to the blacktop, bleeding and completely unconscious. I can’t remember how another adult was made aware of the situation. We all stood around 👀 just looking until another adult came and ushered us back to class. Mrs. E wasn’t back for several weeks, and when she did come back, you can see the mark of that aluminum bat. It was terrifying. I’ll never forget that.
I’m in Australia and one time in primary school we had a lockdown because it was thought someone was waking nearby with a gun, turns out it was just a mentally unwell man with a toy gun but that was freaky.
For high school 2 students died in the same year, they were a few years above me but one had an accident and the other a sudden medical problem
A magician that performed at my elementary school every year (he was a former student) kidnapped one of the students. She was found alive.
Edit: Looked into it more and apparently he took her to his home, blindfolded her, and videotaped her naked while asking her to perform sexual favors. ☹️ She did not though and was returned to the school unharmed. He is now a lifelong sex offender.
I had a health teacher in HS was pretty chill and funny, but the begging of this year I saw in the news they raided his house. They found child pornography in his computer and a gun as well. Keep in mind he’s married and has two young kids. But when it was my last year of HS he took his whole advisory class to go sleep over at his house, most kids said they were exited because he lived by the mountains and he had a big house. Now looking back It’s creepy as fuck to realize this guy had child pornography and had lots of kids sleep in his home.
Peer-on-peer SA and harassment in my class year during grades 6-8. Led to 1 pregnancy, 2 girls leaving the school, and several needing long-term therapy. Victims blamed.
The only thing stopped it was a student leaking info and teachers “talking to” the boys and girls separately as groups. Mid 80s, no formal investigation.
A girl was run over infront of our school during break time. She died on the spot. It was an elementary school
50 years ago, my elementary school days, kids were playing on a grotto complete with animal statues, images of St Bernadette Soubirous and the Blessed Virgin, plus other concrete decors. One kid was pushed off a high place and he hit his neck on one of the animals, tearing through his jugular. There was blood everywhere. Everyone was screaming, including yours truly 😱
Supply teacher taught an entire class on how to properly kill themselves with a rope. Got fired when that came out.
Also, an entire class failed their finals and weren’t permitted into university because a teacher tried to gamble with course material, thinking he’d guess what was on the exam based on previous years and teach only half the course really well rather than teach the whole course poorly.
Got everything wrong. Kids were in tears five minutes into the exam before they were bawling their eyes out since they knew *nothing* that was being asked. Some kids left early rather than waste their time trying to finish. Guy was fired before the end of the school day.
This was in the early 90s. A 15 year old girl was passed out drunk at a party and was gang raped by 5 guys.
The guys acted like they were studs and she was made out to be a massive slut.
She dropped out of school and there were zero consequences for the guys.
Fucking depressing.
I had big breasts at an early age I was SA by a boy in year 6 who though he had every right to touch me. I was then harassment by boys all that year calling me snide remarks of names a cow was one. I’ve slowly learnt to love myself again. Half those boys now are either on drugs or dead.
my close friend and some of our other pals, broke in, vandalized, urinated and had sex in countless rooms. it’s was a mess
he since paid his community debt, apologized and realigned is life priorities. great guy, just made some mistakes when he was younger
A cute little 4th grade girl was killed when our bus was t-boned by a pickup truck. It’s been almost 60 years and I still remember her crying and bleeding.
When I was in high school, there was a kid from the junior high next door that went missing for about a week. After pretty extensive search, they found his body wrapped and bound by duct tape, partially burned (it had been raining that entire week).
One of our classmates had killed the kid. They had been in a relationship, the younger one broke it off, and was bludgeoned to death. The killer helped on the search, and even went as far as running errands for the parents, mowing their lawn and whatnot. His print was on the duct tape, and he was arrested right when we were coming back from the field trip at the beach.
It was pretty fucked.