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Worst thing you or a classmate did in school

Sgt Hartman

I think the worst thing I did was when I picked up a classmate half my size and gave him an Undertaker Tombstone onto the concrete floor. He ended up getting a concussion and I got a bollocking from the principal.
The worst thing I saw someone do was fake an epileptic fit. He was expelled for that act of stupidity.

What's the worst thing you done or seen someone do?

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spurious

A school I worked in used rooms that were part of a convent building. There were all sorts of rooms in which trouble could be found. Two lads were messing with matches in a room with long curtains Of course, up go the curtains and much amusement as smoke everywhere and classes needed to be evacuated. Sadly, so also did the floor of very elderly nuns above.

It wasn't so funny when our classes were stood outside watching these clearly terrified and probably senile old ladies being brought down the stairs through the smoke.

It was mostly smoke though, so we were back in for classes that afternoon.

We also had a set of identical twins - one a great little bloke, the other a horror, always in trouble and eventually advised 'his needs might be better met elsewhere'. One day good twin was absent and bold twin decided to come into school for the laugh. It turned out his class had an elderly nun who used to be called in when we were really stuck for substitute teachers. She would babble on about her time on the missions in Africa and generally the lads would have a snooze. Not this day, when bold twin decided he would stand on his chair, moon her and leg it. We never saw her again.

EmmetSpiceland

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

The teacher I had when I was 7 used to make us do competitions where 2 of us had to sit on the boiling hot radiators in the class, and the last one to cry was the winner. He'd physically hold you down on it if he thought you were trying to hop off too early. He had another competition where the last 3 kids into the class in the morning had to stand up at the top, and would be beaten on the arse with a bamboo rod. Again, last one to cry was the "winner". There was no prize. There'd be a stampede in the morning not to be last in, bt someone always had to be.

One teacher stripped a 9 year old kid down to his underwear, threw all his clothes out the a second floor window, and made him run down and collect them with half the school watching out the windows - and that was just the teacher having a laugh.

Another one in primary school held a kid out a second floor window by his ankle, the kid screaming in fear. That guy would regularly punch little kids full force in the chest, knock them on the ground and kick them, ram their heads into the door. He should have been in prison. Instead, he was just lauded as a "tough" teacher.

It was absolutely ****ed up what they got away with. School is so different now.

Shame no former pupils came back for him in later life.

Gregor Samsa

weldoninhio wrote: »

A 9/10 year old, or less, battered a nineteen year old??

unhappys10 wrote: »

Yeh that's bollox, if he was a year behind that makes him 11 max. No 11 year old could do that to a 19 year old unless he was about 20 stone and sat on him.

Believe what you want lads, no skin off my nose, but the reason I'm telling the story is because it's exceptional. Obviously I can't offer any evidence, but it's a thread for anecdotes, so it is what it is. It was a school on the northside of Dublin, around 1984 or so. I remember the names of the trainee brother and the kid. Everyone else I know who went to the school at the time knows it happened too, it's been often talked about over the years.

Gregor Samsa

sweet_trip wrote: »

Kinda ****ed up when I look back at all the teachers that would do horrible **** to children just because they were absolute bastards.

The teacher I had when I was 7 used to make us do competitions where 2 of us had to sit on the boiling hot radiators in the class, and the last one to cry was the winner. He'd physically hold you down on it if he thought you were trying to hop off too early. He had another competition where the last 3 kids into the class in the morning had to stand up at the top, and would be beaten on the arse with a bamboo rod. Again, last one to cry was the "winner". There was no prize. There'd be a stampede in the morning not to be last in, bt someone always had to be.

One teacher stripped a 9 year old kid down to his underwear, threw all his clothes out the a second floor window, and made him run down and collect them with half the school watching out the windows - and that was just the teacher having a laugh.

Another one in primary school held a kid out a second floor window by his ankle, the kid screaming in fear. That guy would regularly punch little kids full force in the chest, knock them on the ground and kick them, ram their heads into the door. He should have been in prison. Instead, he was just lauded as a "tough" teacher.

It was absolutely ****ed up what they got away with. School is so different now.

B.A._Baracus

weldoninhio wrote: »

Bart Simpson, in that episode of the Simpsons where he does the exact same thing. Season 2 Episode 14. :rolleyes:

Tall tales eh?
I just read another post in the thread and it does come off as spoof or one of those school urban legends.

unhappys10

weldoninhio wrote: »

A 9/10 year old, or less, battered a nineteen year old??

Yeh that's bollox, if he was a year behind that makes him 11 max. No 11 year old could do that to a 19 year old unless he was about 20 stone and sat on him.

weldoninhio

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

There was a guy in the year behind me in Primary school that got put out in the corridor for messing in class. This bollix of a trainee Christian brother - who was probably only 19 - that used to hang around our class far too much came along and saw yer man outside the door. Instead of leaving the kid to his punishment, he gave him a slap across the head as he walked past. The kid jumped on the Brother, knocked him to the ground and laid kicks into him, breaking his arm. No action was ever taken against the kid, who obviously attained legend status immediately. And the Brother, while he still hung around being a prïck (with a cast on his arm), had his cough softened significantly.

A 9/10 year old, or less, battered a nineteen year old??

weldoninhio

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

The whole football field had ‘*****’ burnt into it with weed killer. I won’t speculate as to the culprit.

Bart Simpson, in that episode of the Simpsons where he does the exact same thing. Season 2 Episode 14. :rolleyes:

Hotblack Desiato

fleet_admiral wrote: »

Got a right bollocking off the extremely sound teacher who ended the dressing down by saying 'Jaysus lads yis will get me fuxking sacked'

Some would have taken that as a challenge

AdrianBalboa

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Way back when, a few of the chaps decided to play a little April Fools “prank” on one of the teachers.

A load of envelopes were stuffed with blank pages, “mimicking” letters, and addressed them to him.

Anyway, in he comes, and sees all the stack of envelopes. He sits down, opens one, blank, opens another, blank and opens another with the same “result”.

At this stage he looked very confused and one of the boys jumps up and shouted ‘first of April, sir!’ and everyone split their sides laughing. He barely acknowledged it.

Of course, they weren’t to know, but it turned out his wife had just died in childbirth, the child too, and everyone felt terrible when word “got back”. Terrible timing really.

Goodbye Mrs Chips!

Patrick2010

antix80 wrote: »

The bold boy of the class in primary took the teachers glasses, waited til he bought new ones, then left them back.

Another time he threw a block on a seagull breaking its wing and warranting a visit from the vet. Good shot.

And in another bird related story, he raided a bird's nest and threw the eggs at classmates.

Bet he grew up to be a complete pr1ck

EmmetSpiceland

Way back when, a few of the chaps decided to play a little April Fools “prank” on one of the teachers.

A load of envelopes were stuffed with blank pages, “mimicking” letters, and addressed them to him.

Anyway, in he comes, and sees all the stack of envelopes. He sits down, opens one, blank, opens another, blank and opens another with the same “result”.

At this stage he looked very confused and one of the boys jumps up and shouted ‘first of April, sir!’ and everyone split their sides laughing. He barely acknowledged it.

Of course, they weren’t to know, but it turned out his wife had just died in childbirth, the child too, and everyone felt terrible when word “got back”. Terrible timing really.

TheW1zard

I have a few but theyre probably not that good.

We had a maths teacher who was 3ft nothing and we used to put the chalk and duster on top of the blackboard so she couldnt reach it.
She ran out of the room crying one day and we never did it again.

We had another maths teachers whos suitcase was sellotaped together. We used to hide in the cupboards, other students used to sit in on the class, and when he patrolled the schoolyard one kid used to sneal up behind him and blow a trumpet full blast-making him jump a foot off the ground!

The most disgusting thing i ever saw was a blocked toilet, with an giant terd floating around the top. Someone got a biro and made a **** flag out of a piece of paper and stuck it in the poo. That little **** boat was so grim, i felt sorry for the cleaner lol

The schoolyard scraps were something else too, we were complete animals

chrissb8

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

Did you often carry day-old fish on your person?

Why do you think he brought the fish in. The post answers itself.

Peter Flynt

Reading the comments on this thread and the general quality of the posts on boards.ie makes a lot of sense.

fleet_admiral

Me and a mate went into school still pissed from the night before. First class was double metalwork. We started messing with a machine that ended up sending projectile screws all around the class and into the ceiling.
Luckily nobody got hurt.
Got a right bollocking off the extremely sound teacher who ended the dressing down by saying 'Jaysus lads yis will get me fuxking sacked'

antix80

The bold boy of the class in primary took the teachers glasses, waited til he bought new ones, then left them back.

Another time he threw a block on a seagull breaking its wing and warranting a visit from the vet. Good shot.

And in another bird related story, he raided a bird's nest and threw the eggs at classmates.

the purple tin

Fu*ks sake!
Some of these stories could be plotlines for the tv show Oz.
And people say teachers have an easy job :eek:

Hotblack Desiato

dodderangler wrote: »

Anyway I threw a trout at him ( was fishing the day before).

Did you often carry day-old fish on your person?

sweet_trip

Dognapper wrote: »

There is actually a school in Laois not to far from me where the principal is being investigated for bullying kids , this is a primary school not even a secondary, the things I have heard would turn your stomach.
All I know is if it was my kids then the principal wouldn’t be given the chance to be investigated, I know it sounds like I’m acting the big shot but I’m sure a lot of parents would feel the same way.

I had two principals in primary school that would regularly bully and physical assault us. This was the early 2000's too so not long ago.

Kinda ****ed up when I look back at all the teachers that would do horrible **** to children just because they were absolute bastards.

Back in 4th or 5th class so kids were about 10 years old one of the students drew a funny sign that said "danger" and stuck to the teachers desk as a prank. The most harmless/funny thing a kid could do.

The prinicpal went ****ing ape ****. Roaring at the class saying how dare we, and that we're a disgrace. When he singled out the one kid he abused the fúck out of him, shouting into his face, grabbing the scruff of his shirts etc. Followed by a lengthy punishment of lines and standing in the corner.

This was regular carry on in primary school. I've had dozens of teachers over my school years carry on like this. The hell is wrong with these people who decide to become teachers and act like this?

Scumbags,

In secondary school it more become psychological bullying. Teachers picking on students for different looks or not meeting their expectations. Belittling them.

stinkypinky

Three incidents I can remember from Secondary.

We had a handicapped lad in a wheelchair in our class called Brian leading up to the leaving cert, he had a lot of problems, used a machine for speech and needed a full time carer. He'd join in with PE every so often. One day we were playing indoor soccer and Brian joined in guarding one of all the goals, he was basically just sprawled across in front of it. Someone took a tame shot and it ended up sort of stuck under him, queue the resident oddball from way out the country laying kicks into him viciously trying to get the ball from out under him, he had to be pulled off and poor Brian was traumatized, he never joined in again after that.

There used to be a roll making "business". Come little lunch at 10.45 you could queue up and buy a roll some of the students had made, it was very popular. A good friend of mine at the time who was a bit of a sly dog decided he'd start printing out fake fivers and order two rolls every couple of days. Well you know what they say about greed, eventually he started printing fifties and being handed a bunch of change back essentially crippling the business. He was caught and his father was called in - His dad made a big donation to the school and he wasn't expelled.

Last one I can think of is a lad I know well from my own town stole money from one of the teachers purses. He lost part of his school uniform and his mother was an absolute tyrant who'd regularly beat him so he needed the money to get a new jumper. He was caught and ran out of the school but was eventually allowed back, I'd say he explained the situation to the principal. One day we were driving home from my grannies house and spotted your man in our back garden, said he was looking for a football. No big surprise the next day when my jumper was missing off the clothesline.

[Deleted User]

sweet_trip wrote: »

Knocking down walls between classrooms.

That reminds me,
There was a big classroom in our school and there was a folding wall,
it folded like an accordian .
It was really heavy duty.
If we had a free cass we would run the length of the class into the wall to annoy the teacher on the other side.
One time a fella sat in a desk (the joint ones) and we slid him up the isle as fast as possible into the wall.
the whole thing came crashing down !

suicide_circus

Kylta wrote: »

When I was in primary school a teacher had a fit in the class, while he was on the ground two pupils rained kicks into him while another robbed his wallet. They didn't realise.that a Christian brother from another class that was directly overlooking our class seen the whole thing. Needless to say they were beaten senseless. Their all dead now. One was stabbed to dead and the other two died from overdoses in later years.

Was it Gonzaga or Blackrock you went to?

Dognapper

jh79 wrote: »

In Primary school one lad sh*t in another guys school bag while we were out on a break.

Possibly the same guy broke in to the school and destroyed the heating system. We got a couple weeks extra holidays out of it

Someone in my school actually put pigeon in another lads school bag , he opened the bag and the pigeon Nearly took his eye out , everything was also covered in crap in his bag.

[Deleted User]

In Primary school one lad sh*t in another guys school bag while we were out on a break.

Possibly the same guy broke in to the school and destroyed the heating system. We got a couple weeks extra holidays out of it

Dognapper

sweet_trip wrote: »

Yeah they can be. My rural school was worse than a prison. It was hell on earth and the teachers and principal were complicit in it. It was truly a fúcked up place.
Lots of special needs kids were sent there too, because it was advertised as a school that specialised in that stuff. Mostly autism and kids from abusive backgrounds.

Those kids were targetted the hardest and their lives were made hell.

We also had no facilities. No GAA pitch, no canteen, no lockers, no music room, no clubs or social activities, no selection of subjects, the list went on.
We were all funneled into the hallways at lunch and told to shut up.

There is actually a school in Laois not to far from me where the principal is being investigated for bullying kids , this is a primary school not even a secondary, the things I have heard would turn your stomach.
All I know is if it was my kids then the principal wouldn’t be given the chance to be investigated, I know it sounds like I’m acting the big shot but I’m sure a lot of parents would feel the same way.

sweet_trip

Dognapper wrote: »

To be fair I went to a school In Dublin and it was bad but my niece is in a rural school now and the way she described it it’s a rape and drug factory.

Yeah they can be. My rural school was worse than a prison. It was hell on earth and the teachers and principal were complicit in it. It was truly a fúcked up place.
Lots of special needs kids were sent there too, because it was advertised as a school that specialised in that stuff. Mostly autism and kids from abusive backgrounds.

Those kids were targetted the hardest and their lives were made hell.

We also had no facilities. No GAA pitch, no canteen, no lockers, no music room, no clubs or social activities, no selection of subjects, the list went on.
We were all funneled into the hallways at lunch and told to shut up.

Dognapper

sweet_trip wrote: »

Rural school. not mentioning any names.

I bet city schools were way worse though. Particularly a lot of the dublin ones with legit drug addict students and criminal families.

To be fair I went to a school In Dublin and it was bad but my niece is in a rural school now and the way she described it it’s a rape and drug factory.

sweet_trip

a_squirrelman wrote: »

:eek::eek::eek: Where was this?

Rural school. not mentioning any names.

I bet city schools were way worse though. Particularly a lot of the dublin ones with legit drug addict students and criminal families.

Dognapper

Sgt Hartman wrote: »

That's shocking!! It actually reminds me of the time I was doing a training programme in Sligo IT back in 2004. I went into a toilet cubicle there one day and there was swear words written in excrement on the walls of the cubicle. It was a fairly regular occurrence for their weeks I was there and I was wondering to myself what type of individual would do something like that.

It’s bad alright , I couldn’t help but feel for the lad when I found out suddenly all his acting out and being a pure scumbag made sense.