School Controversies!

[Marik2]

My computer teacher was fired for supposedly having sex with a 17 year girl on his break. Though I think it was more about touching each other than sexual intercourse. He was the last person that anyone would think of him ever being in an inappropriate with a student since he was a very professional guy.



During my senior year there were a ton of stupid bomb threats in the last 2 months of school from stupid people who weren't going to graduate. It was a good time since it got me out of doing work for some classes that sucked.

 

[Shiftygiant]

I remember my friends stole a PE teachers phone and found a shit tone of porn in his browser history. We also had about three girls who were going to or have had children by the end of the year and another of my friends dropping acid during a graphics exam. Not as 'controversial' as the Teacher Blowjob story, but it's the most that happened to my knowledge.

 

[AntiChri5]

The most controversial thing to happen to my school recently was the implementation of school uniforms. Not even nice, spiffy ones either. Just boring collared shirts that are primary colors, khaki pants, and you can't have hair dye that's not a single, natural color.

School uniforms just can't be justifiable in my eyes. They serve no purpose, and there's little to no proof that they increase productivity. At a job I can understand, you need to know who to go to. At school, we aren't the ones providing the service. Luckily I graduated just before this all happened however.

The argument is that it makes it harder for students to bully each other for economic or fashion reasons and makes it much easier to enforce a dress code. I have never heard anyone say that they increase productivity.

Every school i went to had uniforms. Don't think any had problems with hair dye though, that seems a bit much.

 

[antigodoflife]

I went a high school for boys because my mother thought it was better for my growth (still have trouble talking to girls), so all the controversial things were essentially "I bet he's gay, let's beat him up, harharhar!" or if there was an asshole teacher they'd say "I bet he has sex with boys, lol, pedo harharhar"

Needless to say, I much preferred college.

 

[teqrevisited]

My school was pretty boring over all.

Apart from the regular fights with the other nearby secondary school, which they mostly discouraged when they put up a huge perimeter fence, all we had was one stand-off with a kitchen knife, a stolen container of red phosphorus rods and a dumped car that exploded on the sports field.

 

[Eliam_Dar]

Not exactly a controversy, but our high school has recalled all of her former students to an emergency meeting to be held on may 17. The issue is that the school is pretty much destroyed. When I went there we had three gyms, a swimming pool, labs, recently renewed classrooms, well you get the picture. Now the gyms are destroyed, swimming classes have been suspended since the pool was closed, the classrooms don't even have blackboards.

The problem is that since I left there were several cases of corruption and the government reduced the funding by half, to that add a generation of kids who didn't care about the school, and well, the school got to a point that they recalled us to request for either funding or help.

 

[Brownie80]

My old music teacher is currently in prison for doing things with a 17-year old student.

Surely they are both consenting adults? If he raped her then id see a problem but she is of age

It's more of a problem that they were doing it at school, I'm not entirely sure of the details of the case but I'm pretty sure it counted as rape, even though it might be viewed as consensual. I also believe that it's illegal (or at least unethical) for someone in a position of responsibility & power to have a relationship with a student unless they're over 18.

I think it is only statutory if the girl is 16 or younger and has intercourse with a male over 21. However if it was at school it's an entirely different story.
OT: There was a teacher at my first middle school who got stampeded over by a mob of kids at the end of the day. Also, three girls got into a fight which ended in one getting a concussion. It was so serious that they considered banning the two other girls from going to school in the county. Now someone can see why I left that place after a year.

 

[doomspore98]

My school sort of has a stigma surrounding it. The most controversial thing that happened when I was there was when a girl and her boyfriend got into a fight with another couple. Their friends joined and eventually around 10 people were fighting. Finally, the police officer came and pepper sprayed people and got punched in the head during the pepper spraying. The pepper spray hit everyone around the fight too so a bunch of people got to go home. Apparently if one more person got into the fight it would have been classified as a riot and we all would have gotten to go home.

Another story happened last year when a security guard got a 16 year old pregnant the day school ended, in the school.

 

[flying_whimsy]

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In the US at least, age of consent varies from state to state along with other qualifiers (if under the age it's ok if the partner is within x number of years and the under age person is still above a specific age, it's ok if they are married, etc.). However most schools have rules about relationships with students and many areas will have laws specific to authority figures. I researched age of consent laws while I was in college, but that was a while ago so things might have a changed since.

OT: We had some bomb threats in high school; a music teacher from my elementary school was found guilty of possession of child pornography (although that happened well after I finished high school); some kerfluffles over student rights regarding free speech, dress codes and tank tops for girls, and what students were and weren't allowed to do on school premises; after columbine, the school cracked down on the kids that had black trench coats (although funnily enough they had decided to stop wearing them out of respect before hand but still got in trouble anyways); there was that time where a girl was giving another student a blowjob behind the vending machines that caused a major ruckus; they put pop machines all over the high school the first year I was there and it caused a controversy with parents; the cheerleading squad got its first male member my senior year (it caused more controversy than I expected); and the year after I graduated the district (in an effort to save money) offered to buy out all of the teachers' contracts if they'd been there more than a certain number of years (the test scores dropped shortly after that when all the rookies came in at considerably lower salaries).

I wish bullying had been taken more seriously back then, as the school system did a lot to punish the victims and silence any incidents.

 

[JagermanXcell]

My AP psychology teacher was rumored to have been flaunting around with a 17yr old baseball player. Eventually it led to rumors of him capturing evidence of her exposing herself to him and him showing it to his baseball peers.
It got worse when you realize that her husband works at the same school too. (both actually had history of cheating on their partners)
It got worse when a friend of mine decided to make a meta joke of it during the school's news tv broadcast.
It got worse when the team responsible for the skit got pulled into the office and were asked "do you have any videos or pictures?" (confirming it was actually true)
It got worse when 2 days later she stopped coming to class and was apparently forced to quit.

But it got better... I passed AP psych...

 

[DSK-]

My school was pretty damn bad. Second worst school in it's borough. We had all sorts going on. I remember having around 50-55 teacher in the space of 5 years of compulsory, followed by probably 5/6 more added to that list for sixth form.

# When I was in Year 11, former students from the year above me entered the school car park and 'bottled' a teacher. You could hear the "Stop. STOP!" *smash*. They were high and drunk, calm as a coma they walked out after doing it. He soon left.

# We had a teacher from South Africa that was tricked into joining the school, being lied to by the Deputy Headteacher by saying it was a good school and generally bullshitting the guy into joining the faculty. He was over-qualified in SA so he said. He left by the end of the year.



# In sixth form, whilst doing a GNVQ for Business Studies, our then Headteacher, and one of our teachers in one of the modules, was fired after a debacle surrounding the poor GCSE results of all the Year 11's in our previous year, among other things.

One day, whilst doing coursework in the library with my friends, the librarian called me and said that the school office (which I had previously done some work experience for during the course) had said that I was requested at office for an important meeting with someone from Pizza Express (who was a managing director). Due to the fact that the Headteacher was sacked and we basically had no-one to teach us or supervise us, I and some of my friends went to greet the guest, and had the embarrassing task of walking her through the dirty, disgusting corridors and at one point, past the putrescent and foul smelling lavatories of the gents where I felt compelled to apologise for the state of the school. We had the meeting, it turned out well (we, the business students had to sort everything out) and saw her off, thanking her for her help.

ON THE SAME DAY, RIGHT AFTER THE MEETING, waiting for our next class, our Customer Services teacher came in, red eyed, clammy faced, smelling of alcohol, and started spouting off about his ex-wife. We made him a cup of coffee and tried calm him down and eventually managed to get him to teach us. At a later juncture we saw him a few days later in the office and we found out that he had been summarily fired. We then had 2 Customer Services teachers, each one having us for a single class, before finally being given someone I can only describe as a douche bag Agent Smith lookalike who showed up a couple more times than the others.

More stuff happened during my time there, of course.

Let me tell you. That GNVQ was a fucking hard time, not least of all because the maths side of it was tough for me.

That was one shit school. A year after I left Sixth Form for College they bulldozed it and turned it into a sports academy with Government and a football club's money.

Thanks to that school I came out with some shitty GCSE results that have hampered me numerous times in further/higher education and employment.

 

[Saetha]

I went to a pretty tame highschool, actually. In all four years, I only saw one fight that was immediately broken up by an AP after the first punch. There's was another time that some kid OD on drugs in the bathroom - one that wasn't located near any classrooms, so no one went in there unless it was passing period, so it was awhile before anyone found him. Rumor had it that the drug was Oxycotin, or whatever it's called. There was also that one time someone dumped a two-gallon jar of bouncy-balls in the foyer for their senior prank, right as school let out. That was a fun day. I think they ended up getting banned from graduation, though.

The biggest problem with our school is that it was all so laissez-faire. No one really went around and made sure teachers were doing their jobs. I had one teacher that gave out As just because you brought her food, one teacher assigned maybe one assignment a week and let us sleep in his class, one teacher didn't even teach us anything, he let us watch Zoolander and Tangled and when the final came, he let us look up the answers on our phones. And those were all AP classes. The one regular class I took? It was chemistry, but we took a benchmark test that half the class ended up failing, so I had to sit through a month-long biology recap even though I got a commended.

Back a few years ago this happened in my high school: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/dc-high-school-student-claims-she-was-raped-during-school-hours/

What didn't get reported for some fucked up reason was that the charges were dropped because the girl finally admitted that she willingly gave oral sex to the boys, but decided to claim she was attacked when others found out about it. I believe after reviewing some camera footage they even saw her on film waiving the guys over to the area where the supposed "crime" took place. I guess one way of avoiding rumors about you being promiscuous is to try and send the people you had relations with to jail?

Hell, the guys they grabbed I knew for years. They were rough dudes, but I would never suspect them of being rapists. I mean, if you wanted to know who jumped some guy after school, yeah, you may want to look into them, but when it came to this it didn't fit.

This actually happens an awful lot, someone will bring up the possibility of a false accusation and get shouted down by cries of rape culture and victim blaming. A similar incident happened a year or so ago at Ohio University. A girl got her picture taken while a guy was going down on her public, the picture leaked onto Twitter or something, and even though they had hard evidence she consented, she still ended up accusing him of rape to save face. When courts dismissed the charges, the whole school got not one, but two conferences on rape culture and sexual harassment. Eventually the girl changed her story to "I was too drunk to consent" until it turned out the guy was drunk, too, and the whole thing was dropped. Funny how they never reported that part.

 

[FPLOON]

Well, at my second middle school, the music teacher was fired for spreading his teachings of Antisemitism...I honestly didn't know that until after he was fired, because before that, I ended up talking to him about the Shadowmancer series...

Meanwhile, at my high school, one of my formal friends was part of a school drug smuggling ring... I was almost arrested for being an accomplice to him because of how the security cameras around the school showed how "close" we were around the campus...

However, the only "school controversy" that actually turned positive was after I graduated from said high school, where a lesbian couple won for senior class king and queen... The fact that the voting process, itself, was almost unanimous as well as no one voting out of sheer irony was just that reassurance that this wasn't done out of future discontent or something like that...

 

[Nickolai77]

After leaving my primary school, I learnt that my former headteacher was forced to resign after an investigation found he had been embezzling funds. Considering it was a Church of England school, and our head teacher was a devout Christian (his main interests were God, classical music, "little green landrovers" and birds) it just goes to show how people don't always live by the values they preach.

In high school there were all sorts of rumours about certain teachers. A popular rumour was that one of the maths teachers would lock pupils inside the cupboard, and as long as he was there, there were loads of rumours about a music teacher being a paedophile. One of my friends made up this rhyme: "Look out for Mr Jackson when he passes he's got mirrors on his glasses". Of course, these were all rumours though and probably untrue.

 

[Fractral]

Well, in Year 7 we were encouraged by our PE teacher to strip naked when we went to have a shower. Most people used towels, but one kid did decide to go naked in the first lesson. When the teacher found out he gave the kid a merit, which led to him being considered something of a pedophile. A few other odd male teachers had poor reputations like that.
It's a pretty strict Church of England school though, with a good reputation that it (mostly) upholds. The worst we've actually had in the past few years is one asshole putting acid from the chemistry supplies in someone's drink, a few morons turning up to school smashed and some teenagers getting it on in the toilets. That was never followed up on, though, since the vice headteacher decided to cover it up rather than deal with it.

 

[Fsyco]

This was at our rival high school, but I like to think it counts, since we were all from the same area.
http://www.dailybreeze.com/general-news/20120126/3-palos-verdes-high-students-arrested-in-grade-tampering-plot

Basically, three kids stole a janitor's key and used it to break into their classrooms at night and install physical keyloggers on teacher's computers, and then returned at a later time to use the login information to change grades. They also stole tests and answer keys, but the login info thing was more interesting to me. Then they charged some other students for the service of having their grades changed and seeing tests. It reflects a really unhealthy 'grades at all costs' mentality rife in my hometown. There were also a couple people I knew who overdosed on pills while trying to stay up to study or do homework, and had to go to the ER. Cheating was also a huge problem, especially in the AP Physics classes.

My school also had a scandal with a dance instructor boning his (female) students, and we got vandalized a few times by our rival high school. And our cheer section was temporarily disbanded after some people trash talked the other team during a game or something. My high school wasn't very interesting.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

Alleged things that happened in my high school:

1. The US History and Horticulture teacher was growing pot on school grounds in the garden between the sunflowers and tomato plants. Never fired, never found out by the faculty or school board.

2. Many of the teachers were absolute drunks, some even keeping bottles IN their desks and drinking on campus.

3. For years a certain teacher would be dosed with LSD by students, allegedly because the teacher enjoyed it after the first prank.

4. At my first high school (a private school), we had a drug testing policy introduced my 3rd year. Supposedly all students were supposed to be tested randomly throughout the year but the students who's parents worked for the school (especially the ones who were known to be major users) never got tested.

Thats just a few but I don't know if they're controversial so much as societal quirks.

 

[Spacemonkey430]

I was in Chinese class my 10th grade year when we went into lock down because this happened:

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/132669348.html

It was actually really shocking for my sleepy little town but it happened nonetheless. Other than that, my school is probably one of the most uneventful schools ever.

 

[Kyrian007]

You hear the neo-Con TEAbaggers calling U.S. public schools "liberal factories" all the time on talk radio and in blogs. They obviously never heard of the public school I went to (or the tens of thousands just like it in the "bible belt.") My 6th grade health class was shown a pro-life video... featuring an actual abortion procedure. Yup, close up camera work from administering ansthetic all the way to bio-material disposal. All shown to 11 and 12 year olds. Parents were not specifically made aware of the nature of the video, but students were told what was going to be shown and could get their parents to sign a slip if they DIDN'T want to see the abortion video.

Don't get me wrong, I see the education value in showing a clinical abortion video. You know, to medical students in grad school. However, showing a pro-life propaganda "scrape out" video to PRE-TEENS. Fucking disgusting the lengths that pro-lifers will go to, especially if they have instutional control at a school district level. The stunt had totally the opposite effect on me. I'm basically a moderate politically, but because those fuckers had the audacity to do that to me as a CHILD... I've violently turned into several "protest chains" where the demonstraters are blocking the entrance to a clinic (or more their usual cowardly tactics, having groups of their own children block the entrance.) I turn in acting oblivious to their protest as they scatter, barely missing getting run down. And then I open my window and ask for directions to a nearby landmark. You should try it, it's totally fun.

 

[SilverLion]

At my primary school there was this big top courtyard on a hill, with the classes on the top-left side and the bathrooms on the bottom-right side. Now one day, from what we can gather this kid was getting dressed in the bathroom for swimmign but realized he'd forgotten his togs in the class. And you're not going to believe me, but I swear this is true; he ran out the bathrooms, across the courtyard and into his class to get his togs butt-fucking naked. I didn't actually see it happen but it was the most talked about thing for months afterwards. Also, at the same school one of my classmates did a book report on Captain Underpants and hwne he got to talking about the titular character he pulled his pants down and showed everyone his knickers.