what was your school's huge scandal?
In middle school, we had some rumors spread around that a certain gym teacher (Mrs. J) was peeping on girls undressing.
These rumors spread and got pretty vicious.
People started saying that Mrs. J tried to get girls alone in the locker room and had "a type" that she'd go after.
We had a school-wide assembly where the principal berated the students for spreading these unsubstantiated rumors and how hurtful and disrespectful it was to Mrs. J and our teachers.
2 years later, Mrs. J was arrested for molesting 3 girls that year alone.
Many other former students came out about similar experiences.
Some dating back 15+ years prior to her arrest.
Edit: clarification
Edit 2: Stop asking if this was in your State/City.
I'm not telling you.
I mean i dont know if this counts but one of our prefects got caught drinking.
In a bar.
Legally, in regular clothes.
I know, how could he.
And because of that the school took away his badge and so in protest all our prefects lined up in front of the principals office and handed in their badges.
It was chaos, a contest of chicken between the school and the student leaders and in the end the school blinked first and gave everyone back their badges.
We had a ban on bringing our own bottles to school and could only purchase drinks from the school store because there was an alcohol problem.
Kids would come to school with pretty much anything they could get their hands on and would start drinking in first period.
One day, before the ban, they did a sweep in first period and had everyone open their water bottles and check what was inside.
I think there were over 50 kids caught that day.
We also had a problem with opioids.
Ambulances were there at least twice a year to get someone that overdosed in the gym.
My school had a few in the span of the 4 years I was there, and a few since I graduated.
In the middle school that fed into my high school, a wrestling coach got caught sexting & sleeping with a student.
That student went to my high school the next year, and by December, it came out that the school’s security guard was sexting & sleeping with the same girl.
A girl in my year died from a heroin overdose, and a guy that was with her at the time hesitated on calling an ambulance because then he’d get in trouble cuz he supplied the heroin.
Had a LOT of fights happen in our central area during passing periods.
A guy from another school in our district went missing.
Turned up a few days later, having committed suicide.
His girlfriend (I think, may have just been a close friend) stepped in front of a train the next day.
This girl was actually a prior fling of a buddy of mine’s, still understandably a sore subject with him.
Long-time science teacher got caught in a prostitution sting and was forced to resign.
Hanged himself a few days later.
Our football field was fenced in, but backed up against some house backyards.
The school tore down the bleachers on that side of the field by the houses (they were the visitor bleachers so were decently short) and replaced them with new Home side bleachers that cost over $1 mil.
These were WAY taller, and blocked out the sun from the houses they were by (the bleachers were east of the houses, so the houses didn’t get sunlight till afternoon).
After some complaints, it was discovered the school built the bleachers BEFORE they got the permits to do so.
Dunno if they figured they’d get it during construction or didn’t give a beep or what, but ultimately the school had to tear them down.
One of the main people who lived in an affected house & fought for the bleachers to get torn down due to the no permits had a daughter in school at the time, and she got bullied by a lot of people, and that family regularly received death threats.
Just a few years ago, one of the deans got in legal trouble cuz he was doing illegal locker searches.
He resigned as a dean, but somehow came back on as a math teacher in the same school?
Last I heard, kids made fun of him to the point that he left.
Finally, a kid committed suicide and implicated being bullied as the reason why, and named the bullies.
Turns out, he’d gone to the deans about this multiple times, but the bullies were football players so it got ignored.
After the suicide, the whole situation got swept under the rug, with the school refusing to accept any responsibility and students got in trouble for talking about it.
After a snowfall I quickly gathered my squad of friends and made boulder sized snowballs.
Then we placed them so if you looked out from the upper windows it was a big penis.
Even got 2 teachers to help who just wanted to connect with us.
They didn't realize what they had assisted with until the entire teacher faculty poured out from the building like angry wasps.
Someone found an empty lube container in a couch in a classroom that was generally open.
They got rid of the couch.
A kid also drove a dirt bike through the halls and got arrested
In the space of 3 years, my former high school in a very wealthy, white, and rural area churned out the scandals:
1) The 60 yr old PE teacher was arrested for a sexual relationship with a 15 year old, served 5 years in prison.
He was caught physically mailing nude photos of himself to an underage student’s house...which the students parents intercepted
2) The history teacher was arrested when a cop pulled him and one of his students over, found drugs in the car and they were both high - turns out he was supplying coke to students.
He had to serve a decent chunk of time.
3) The 40+ year old volleyball coach married one of his players the second she turned 18 and no one said/did anything when they were “dating” when she was 15/16
Our Principal's son was mentally ill. One night, they were all gathered in the school office.
Son comes in with a grenade in his hand because of family issues.
Police were called and only two police officers arrived.
After police 1 and 2 arrive, some more policemen came by.
The late policemen wrongly identified police 1 and shot him.
Mistakenly thinking he was the mentally ill son with the grenade.
Police 1 happens to be a father of two children.
Those two study in our school.
Police 1 is dead now because of blood loss and the mentally ill son is now in jail.
Those 2 kids get free tuition from the school since they effed up big time.
A little more than a week after the Parkland shooting, our principal suddenly got on the intercom and told us to evacuate the building.
We did, and we hadn't gone through proper evacuation procedures, so we all ended up all over the damn town (one kid literally ran all the way home) trying to figure out where we're supposed to go.
We all assumed it was a potential bomb threat and got sent home for the day.
Over the next week, the school changed their story about four times, so us students started freaking the beep out and started trying to figure out what exactly had happened to trigger the evacuation.
But two things happened that finally made the situation escalate out of control:
The principal called us in to an assembly and proceeded to blame us for the rumors, as though it was our fault they couldn't get their stories straight.
Students finally figured out that what had happened was that someone had accidentally left their sandwich in a locker overnight, then someone smelled the rotting food, got a teacher, and that teacher panicked and caused the evacuation.
I think a total of seven people in all got fired by the time the dust settled.
We were on an episode of Sally Jessy Raphael as “the next Columbine.” A disgruntled employee, a teacher (possibly a long-term sub) that was only there for a little while, slipped on a piece of paper on the tile and broke her arm headed to break up a fight.
She told the story under anonymity as “broke her arm breaking up a fight,” and proceeded to talk about how unsafe and unmonitored the school was.
The show sent someone with hidden camera glasses to walk in and show how easy access was for potential shooters.
Dude walked all around the school and was never stopped.
This is in small town Kentucky near Ft. Knox.
When the show aired they sent the school a copy of the episode and we watched it on the in-school TV system.
Afterward the school installed doors that locked from the outside and funneled all traffic through the front door and installed cameras everywhere.
This was 1999-2000.
I was a freshman.
Principal had an affair with my AP chem teacher.
The school board came down hard on the teacher, and she was suspended for most of the year, which sucked because none of us passed the test.
Principal got a slap on the wrist, though he ended up quitting at the end of the year.
Villanova University's Chair of the History Dept., Dr. Christopher Haas, had thousands of child porn files on his university issued laptop.
He was fired, charged, and committed suicide before sentencing.
His position was filled by a women who let 5 students get lost in the Egyptian desert during a study abroad.
Two students needed emergency medical attention.
Her defense was that she was taking a nap and had no idea where her students were, quote Dr. Kellyanne Diamond.
Fuckin' beep all.
Guy got blown by his gf in the floor of the biology section.
Both 16-17.
The floor was completely surrounded by glass.
Even the top.
You could see everything in it from every direction.
There was just no place to hide.
Our new high tech library with fancy full glass front was like 5 meters in front of it.
So someone eventually saw it...
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Didn't got into much trouble, though.
Since this happened in probably the most liberal area in Germany, our head (gnihihih) of biology just gave them a VIP talk about the bees and birds, and some condoms.
Some kids climbed on the roof and a boy sprayed "just one kiss..." on the side of the building in big letters cause he was in unrequited love.
The school board thought it was a courageous gesture and left it up.
For years.
Possibly forever, cause it was up for the entire 6 years I went to school there.
In high school we had a long term substitute teacher.
She gave a student Xanax and had sex with him.
He had proof of it in his phone so she gave another student a gun to go rob him and take his phone to delete the evidence.
She got arrested.
Update: yes I know it was rape I wrote it 2 minutes before o went into work so I wasn’t focused on the wording and whether it was a male or female student I would have worded it the same
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