Once, a school principal disciplined a mischievous student by making them sit in the basement and read the U.S. Constitution. That student, Thurgood Marshall, memorized the entire document in the process. Later in life, Marshall achieved the historic milestone of becoming the first African American Supreme Court Justice. As a civil rights advocate, he played an instrumental role in dismantling racial segregation and transforming the American legal landscape. Notably, Marshall argued and won the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education, which declared segregated public schools unconstitutional.
France banned serving alcohol…
France banned serving alcohol with school lunches in 1956, but only for kids under 14. Before the 1950s, French children were not only allowed to drink wine, beer or cider in the canteen, but they were encouraged to do so.
In Finland, knitting…
In Finland, knitting and making textile stuff is part of the school curriculum.
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Two 16-year-olds got lost in the Canadian…
Two 16-year-olds got lost in the Canadian wilderness while snowboarding, but were able to stay warm by burning their homework. The two boys were rescued the following day and managed to avoid frostbite, sustaining only minor injuries.
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In 2009, a 52 year old man used…
In 2009, a 52 year old man used forged papers to enroll as a high school student at Waterford High School.
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Teachers Disclose The Absolute Worst Thing A Student Has Ever Done To Them
Being a teacher is one of the most noble professions there is, but it’s not a walk in the park.
Teachers are underpaid and underappreciated.
Besides teaching, the amount of drama they have to deal with is unimaginable.
So Redditor TheRealZFinch wanted to hear from all the educators who have had to endure while teaching other people’s children.
They asked:
“Teachers of Reddit, what’s the worst thing a student did to you?”
Evil Parents
“I had a parent push me, spit on me and slap me when she came to my classroom unannounced, because I had given her daughter a detention for spitting in my face.”
“Parent denied it, school did nothing. Don’t teach anymore! I’m in Australia FYI.” ~ Apprehensive-Ad4244
“My girlfriend also wants to quit teaching because of shitty kid’s parents.” ~ NeokratosRed
“I feel for you, you do years worth of difficult training because you want to work with and help children, change the world for the better, and you wind up being crap on every day instead by parents.”
“Luckily, teaching skills are very transferrable, I’m now in the disability services industry.” ~Apprehensive-Ad4244
Bad Kids…
“A friend of mine is a teacher is a rough neighborhood.”
“One day immediately after school she got a call from the principal telling her to stay in her classroom with the door locked instead of leaving like she normally did.”
“The police arrested one of her students, who had bragged to another student about kidnapping the teacher.”
“He was arrested waiting by her car with a knife and zip ties.” ~ SoullessDad
Private School Drama…
“I was slammed against a wall by a 17 year old kid who then wiped his hands all over my face and kissed me.”
“One other student saw and she laughed. I left the position immediately. It was a private drama school.” ~ Ieatclowns
Birmingham UK…
“I’ve been mostly lucky, but I’ve had 2 bad ones, both while training.”
“Both these were in Birmingham UK.”
“A student aged 7 brought a Stanley knife into school and was taking it out of his pocket and messing with it while looking straight at me.”
“It was pretty scary knowing he knew exactly what he was doing.”
“A very aggressive child attacked me, digging his nails into my arm and drawing blood. He then twisted my arm backwards.”
“That was a fun report.”
“I’ve also had a chair thrown at me. Fun times.” ~ Winchesters_TARDIS
“Hey, also Birmingham, UK here!”
“But I am still a student, in Sixth Form right now.”
“The following stories are all from secondary, though.”
“One of my friends almost started a physical confrontation with a teacher, to the point that they were physically yelling at each other and squaring up.”
“Another time a group of boys yelled sexual expletives at a female member of staff (the boys that few people liked, the number of their friends decreased YoY).”
“Teachers started searching students bags because so many people were bringing in weapons. “
“In a school near mine, a teacher got stabbed, chairs were being thrown around, a teachers arm got broken, it was bad – but that wasn’t my school.”
KABOOM!
“Mine still had its fair share of incidents not pertaining to teachers, but we were not that bad thankfully.” ~ mxlevolent
“I’ll never forget the day I had a student light off a firework in my classroom.”
“It’s not the worst thing I’ve ever had a student do in my classroom, but it’s definitely the most unexpected thing that I’ve had happen.”
“I’ve been called things by students, and I even got pushed by a student once.”
“But looking back on all of those situations I feel as if they could have been avoided had I built up better relationships with those students or handled the situations that lead up to them differently.”
“With the firework in class, it was completely out of the blue and not at all something I feel like I could have prevented.”
“It just happened randomly one day, and I will never understand why the student decided to set it off during class.” ~ DerekIsAGooner
Feeling the Bounce!!
“I had a student run into me and bounce off of me.”
“She then accused me of shoving her and hurting her back.”
“I was relieved of my position and I resigned.”
‘”Fortunately the footage shows that I was hit by her, but I still lost my job.”
“After an inquiry with the Texas Education Agency they found i did nothing wrong and I got to keep my license.”
“Fortunately I was offered a position with a government contractor making more money with a lot less stress.”
“I never want to step foot in a classroom as a teacher ever again.” ~ Damnpenguins4269
Let Go!!
“I had a student grab my arm, then later claim I grabbed him back.”
“His parents wanted to press charges, have me arrested, but the SRO refused, as he’d already taken a dozen witness statements corroborating my version.”
“I got very lucky. Another teacher had to sit for months at central office while CPS investigated baseless claims.” ~ lazy_days_of_summer
“Out loud to the whole class, I had a student wish cancer on my unborn son.”
“Had another student say he would shoot my wife.”
“This one wasn’t so bad, but could’ve been—one female student started a rumor that she was my favorite and that I thought she was cute.”
“I had to proactively reach out to leadership to put that one down before it got bad.”
“In general, tons of swearing and disrespect.”
“Most of it is due to childhood trauma and home life, but yeah, teaching is great but being a teacher can suck.” ~ mywifemademegetthis
Feel the Warm
“I taught toddlers, and they consistently wanted to sit in my lap.”
“I had a few girls climb up in my lap, smile sweetly, and pee all over me. It’s amazing how a 5-gallon bladder fits in a pint sized body.” ~ schnozzberryflop
Terrifying…
“I taught elementary kids in Korea and they were honestly angels.”
“But when I subbed for a friend’s high school class for a week I had a student and his friends try to lock me in the classroom alone with them while they acted really overbearing and sexual.”
“It was terrifying, but thankfully didn’t last long at all as the VP came to have lunch with me 2 minutes in.” ~ punctuationist
Crazy
“A colleague was stalked by a kid.”
‘”Found out where she lived, where she shopped, what her routine was.”
“Used to get her friends to stand outside her house and harass her outside Tesco.”
“She would make comments in class, such as ‘aren’t green curtains nice?’”
“Knowing the teacher had green curtains, for example.”
“It got so bad she got the police involved and ended up moving house.” ~ Evening_Rose_619
We need our educators.
They don’t deserve abuse.
Be better kids and parents.
In 2000, fundamentalist Mormon…
In 2000, fundamentalist Mormon leader Warren Jeffs ordered his followers to pull their children out of public schools, leading one school district to drop from 1,200 students, to less than 250.
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History Buffs Share The R-Rated Facts That Don’t Get Taught In School
I love history.
It’s a lifelong soap opera because history is actually riddled with drama and crazy.
But most of it is hidden from us.
Why is that? Don’t educators realize that the more salacious it is the more everyone will pay attention?
I’ve learned things about the past out of school that would’ve gotten me an “A” in class, because my attention would’ve been peaked.
An unknown Redditor wanted to get into some scandalous information we missed out on when we were younger.
They asked:
“Knowledgable Redditors, what are some R-rated facts about history that usually get left out of the average middle/high school classroom?”
Let’s get to learning.
Snip, snip, snip…
“JFK was the first US President to be circumcised. He was 22 at the time.” ~ otis_the_drunk
The Most Powerful Symbol
“Ancient Romans drew penises on everything.” ~ CorporalThornberry
“They also wore necklaces with winged cocks on them.”
“It was replicated recently by a jewelry company and turned out to look like a cock-cross so the Catholics all said nay nay and they cancelled it.”
“Source: https://www.google.com/amp/amp.kansascity.com/entertainment/ent-columns-blogs/stargazing/article4447208.html“. ~ rezlang
Hiding the truth…
“Powdered wigs became popular because they hid the baldness caused by syphilis, which was rampant in Europe during the 17th century.” ~ Reddit
“Another crazy fact about these wigs, right before the French revolution.”
“The wigs the French aristocracy wore at the time were massive. To keep them from losing shape, they starched them.”
“Meaning they used edible grain to create wig starching powder. While the population couldn’t afford to eat because a loaf of bread became more expensive than a week’s wage.”
“It’s no wonder the revolution started and ended the way it did. French aristocracy was literally using foodstuffs to make their giant wigs stay up.” ~ Mister_Dink
How Very Fifty Shades of It All
“History is really, really kinky.”
“Some ancient temples and holy places, especially in India, depict acts that range from orgies to bestiality.”
“Temple prostitute is one of the oldest professions and were widely accepted in early history, showing up as early as the Epic of Gilgamesh, which coincidentally also featured bestiality.” ~ xenomorphs_at_disney
“Considering the number of ancient cultures that had ‘God have sex with animal’ as a prominent story it amazes me that people don’t realize how prevalent it has been throughout history.”
“I mean, there’s a whole story about Loki turning into a horse and doing it and birthing a superhorse, not to mention all the Roman/Greek deities gettin’ crazy.” ~ losian
Oh My Anne…
“The diary of Anne Frank also included detailed accounts of her exploring her sexuality/ masturbation which was quickly edited out before it was published.” ~ bttrflyr
“That was brave when she was living in a small space with several other people. I mean the masturbation is one thing, but writing about it in front of people with little to do? Damn.” ~ Merle8888
Sacrifice the Children
“Infanticide happened through ‘almost’ every culture, on every continent, throughout history, to a significant degree.”
“Sometimes gender was a factor, sometimes it wasn’t. Ancient Egypt was the exception, but unwanted kids usually became slaves instead.” ~ TimelyKaleidoscope
“The biggest reason in Christian Europe was birth defects.”
“A daughter could still pull her weight on the farm but a child with spina bifida or Downs or missing limbs couldn’t.”
“This was even worse than it seems because the rural poor, who made up over 90% of the population, were so inbred that up to one in eight children were born with an identifiable defect.” ~ Reddit
“Pretty much. And there were myths that grew around these things to justify them, such as human beings being switched with troll babies, identifiable because the switched baby seemed sick and wasn’t thriving.”
“They were supposed to basically torture it until their ‘real’ child was returned.” ~ TimelyKaleidoscope
A Scandalous Expedition
“The were able to follow the trail of Lewis and Clark by finding mercury. Which they were taking to combat syphilis.” ~ Klaxon722
“York, Clark’s slave who accompanied the Corps, had a lot of sex because of his curiosity as a Black man.”
“Few Whites were ever in the area at all and no Black person ever made it that far up. It was mostly French trappers and Russian or Spanish explorers.” ~ AudibleNod
2 is Too Many
“Twins were a scourge and were left in the wilderness. What a burden to a family.”
“I think we don’t appreciate how besieged by death and illness everyone was. A family could have 20 children and see 5 raised to adulthood.”
They weren’t inured to it or callus, they loved and grieved their children the same as we do.”
“They had God, family, friends, and untreated depression, alcohol, and suicide to get through it. And a lot of hard work.”
“So killing an infant they can’t care for was a mercy for the children they already had.”
“If you have 5 mouths and money barely to feed the 7 of you, it is cruel to all of you to bring in another 1 or 2 and make the lot of you starve.”
“Even more so if that child is born with a mark on them that shows it won’t make it past a few months or a few years.”
“Why starve 2 children when you can kill only 1? They didn’t do this cheerfully.”
“They did it to survive.” ~NotMyHersheyBar
The Stench of It All
“Not R rated on its own, but have you ever considered how smelly history would be?”
“Imagine the signing of the declaration of independence.”
“A reportedly hot day, during a time when people didn’t bath often, people wore a bunch of layers, and you have a bunch of dudes packed into a room for hours.”
“The R rated part, all of these people had sex. And it would smell so bad.” ~ jpterodactyl
Rituals
“The Aztecs would wear someone’s skin for days until it peeled off as a ritual sacrifice to the maize goddess during the new harvest season, the skin was supposed to represent the husk of corn and how it would dry up and peel off the cob, also around this time they would have priests wear penis hats to represent fertility.” ~ lizardlord217
“Let’s be honest, it’s the Aztecs we’re taking about.”
“A literal society based around human sacrifice, whose founding myth involves the revelation that the gods wanted human sacrifices “‘ike tortillas fresh off the griddle.’ (I.e., early and often).”
“What do you think the answer is?” ~ DowncastAcorn
Now that is fun.
We really should scatter the fun with the just OK parts of history.
Scandal is the bedrock of every nation.
Just let the freak flag fly!
The last school that was desegregated…
The last school that was desegregated was Cleveland High School in Cleveland, Mississippi. This happened in 2016. The order to desegregate this school came from a federal judge, after decades of struggle. This case originally started in 1965 by a fourth-grader.
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People Share the Rumors at Their Schools That Turned Out to Be 100% True
I’m having a hard time pinpointing a huge rumor that captured everyone’s attention when I was in school, but I think it had something to do with a girl in my class getting pregnant and having to leave school due to her parents’ shame.
And I honestly can’t remember if that was true or maybe that poor girl just moved schools for another reason and had to deal with all that gossip.
Schools are total rumor mills, in case you forgot.
Folks on AskReddit shared stories about big rumors at their schools that turned out to be true.
22. Pregnant.
“That a 12-year-old 6th grader had gotten pregnant over summer break.
Our Los Angeles county suburb (it was a small and far-separated from LA itself, see how large that county actually is on Google if you are unawares) was so scandalized by this “rumor” that a newspaper article came out with a cartoon drawing of a pregnant girl in a pretty little girl dress and ribbon in her hair — playing with dolls and kneeling next to a doll-house — accompanied the story about the “little girl who got pregnant and planned to keep the baby.”
She was interviewed. I remember her name but it’s unnecessary— the whole town knew who it was.
What’s wild is that the kids in Jr. High actually had a baby shower for this 7th grader as she got close to full-term, and all brought in packs of diapers and formula for her on a designated day. With the teachers, principal, and probably the school district in support of this.
The year was 1984-1985.”
21. It’s all true.
“In high school: that the biology teacher was growing weed in the environmental lab. Supposedly he did it for 30 years without anyone noticing. No one could ever prove it though.
Later on, I was assigned to be the agent taking care of some of his financial matters, so I went to his house to have him sign some paperwork. He had a hydroponic setup there, so I asked him about the environmental lab. It was like Han Solo in The Force Awakens.
“It’s true. All of it.” Then he offered me a brownie.”
20. Whoa.
“There was a rumor that a teacher had s** with whole basketball team.
Well, turns out it was half of the team.
Worst part is her son was on the team.
Her husband ended up divorcing her and her son left with his dad.”
19. Scandalous!
“Our science teacher was having an affair with our science technician and regularly left class to do his thing with her in the technician’s room.
That rumor started on Day 1.
Four years, two divorces, and two very quick departures later it was confirmed and what was left behind was a technicians daughter in my year whose life had fallen apart.”
18. The cool teacher.
“In middle school, we had a “cool” Social Studies teacher. He loved the popular boys, especially the athletes, and not only ignored bullying in his classes of unpopular kids, he often took part in it.
He also offered up his services for tutoring to these boys. Everyone always thought he was a kiddie toucher, except the popular boys who would threaten you if they heard you talk bad about him. When we came back to school at the beginning of 8th grade, he was gone. As was one of the more popular boys in school. He transferred to an insanely expensive private school.
Turns out, sure enough, he was assaulted by the teacher several times during tutoring sessions at the teacher’s house. The school district agreed to pay to send the kid to private school as part of a settlement.”
17. Better be careful.
“That this girl at my school who was maybe 16 was banging all the older kids who never left for college.
Well she definitely was and everyone found out when she banged one of the cooler guys still in high school and there ended up being a herpes outbreak at my school.
Nearly 40 people got herpes.”
16. Acting!
“There was a family in my town that foster-to-adopted all their kids. They had a daughter of their own and then they adopted another girl her age when we were in 8th grade. They did NOT get along.
When the original girl developed epilepsy a few years later, her new sister claimed she was faking and everyone thought she was so mean and ostracized her.
Eventually, she had to fess up to faking the seizures all along when she signed up for basic training, which she never even completed. Unfortunately this was after we all graduated, so we never got to apologize to her sister.”
15. Undercover.
“That one of the students was actually a cop.
Turns out he was a cop and busted one of the actual students for selling handg**s in school.
If you thought 21 Jump Street was unrealistic, think again. The cop was a 33 year old male and undercover for like half the semester.”
14. Sad.
“In Elementary (about 15 years ago), our favorite school teacher didn’t come back after a summer break. He was awesome: funny, sporty, cool, down to earth, never shouted. Just a great role model to have around when you are a kid.
Rumors went round that his wife and daughter d**d in a car accident. No one believed it. It was just what kids said on the playground. Somebody heard it from somebody who heard it from somebody.
Then I went to the local grocery store with my Mom a little while after school had started again. I saw my old teacher. He was a shell, a wreck. I was only 8 but even then you can tell when someone isn’t there anymore. I asked parents of my friends, and they confirmed the rumors.
I felt so bad that something as awful as that could happen to one of the best guys I ever knew and always looked up to. Turns out he committed suicide a couple of years ago. Same bridge that his wife and daughter d**d on all those years ago.”
13. He’s cool, man!
“There was always a rumor that the head janitor was a huge pothead and would smoke with students in one of the storage sheds away from the main building.
I always figured it was bulls**t until my friend CJ sent me a pic of him and the janitor smoking weed while surrounded by folding chairs.”
12. Tunnel of love.
“In my Catholic (Jesuit) high school, one of the priests and one of the nuns were very close friends.
We all loved them, and we could see that they were quite fond of one another (and they made a really nice looking couple). We used to affectionately kid them about “meeting in the tunnel” between the convent and the rectory.
A few years after my class graduated, they both left their Orders, got married, and had kids. We’re all happy for them.”
11. Seemed like a nice guy…
“We had a dean who “retired” one summer.
Turns out, he was busted in a huge sting by cops. He had 2 ladies of the night and coke in his apartment when he got rolled up; ended up pleading guilty to felony drug possession (a few others I can’t remember), and sentenced to 5 years of probation.
He was an advisor for the school’s Drug/Alcohol Task Force.
Nice enough guy. Really cool with all of his students, maybe too cool.
Always seemed to have super red eyes.”
10. Crazy.
“That one of the kids hung himself on a swing set in a local park.
They didn’t say who it was, and just thought it was a vicious rumor about the same guy.
Then four girls who were close to him came down the stairwell crying and ran out the front door and started heading in the direction of the park.
It was confirmed around noon, we were sent home after lunch.”
9. Uh oh…
“Our freshman science teacher was a massive jerk to any girl, and would frequently throw the dress code book at girls for the slightest issue.
Everyone said it was because he was p**sed his daughter became a str**per… that ended up being true.”
8. Yikes.
“Some girl had s** with her half brother.
We all thought it was rumor until she got drunk at a party and told everyone.”
7. Put that thing away!
“I had a science teacher that was rumored to get a bo**r whenever he started shouting.
We thought it was a myth until we noticed it for real, he would always try put one leg up on a chair to hide it”
6. Learned a lesson.
“At our school this one kid was rumored to be a son of one of the local gyms amateur boxer teacher.
None of us had no real reason to think twice about it. Once we got to high school this kid started teasing that kid. I had a couple of mutal friends with the bully so I warned the guy he might want to let up on teasing him. A couple days go by the dude didn’t stop. And the boxer’s kid proceeded to give this guy one of the worst one sided fights I have ever seen.
The bully learned his lesson and never bullied anyone else for the rest of our high school years. So it turned out to be true.”
5. Okay…
“In middle school, there was a rumor my 7th-8th grade Social Studies teacher owned a pet donkey.
Turned out to be true.
The donkey’s name was Pedro the Donkey.”
4. Pregnant.
“Paige WAS pregnant….none of us believed her.
We were 13 and we were just about to start S** Ed classes in a few weeks to learn about s** so we all thought she was making it up. Then she started to gain weight but she had always been kind of overweight and so no one really believed her then either.
Then she brought sonogram pictures in because she was sick of people not believing her. Most people believed her after that. Then she got taken out of school and this was back when FB was super popular and everyone was talking about her baby a few months later she had posted all these pictures.
Sorry I didn’t believe you Paige….I looked her back up when I was 15. She had a second kid.”
3. Sounds fun!
“There were rumors that there was a network of underground tunnels that connected every building on my college campus.
Didn’t believe it til I walked through them myself.”
2. That’s crazy.
“We had heard an underclassman (she was 15-ish) was sleeping with a local army guy, but nobody really believed it until the day our school got locked down bc her boyfriend showed up with a knife.
The boyfriend (in his thirties) was intending to force her go get an D&E, but our principal was a bada** who locked her in his office, then took the boyfriend DOWN and held him in a headlock until the cops arrived.”
1. An odd duck.
“That the Biology teacher decided to use the scientific method to personally prove or disprove to himself that humans could photosynthesize.
He did this by laying bare a** nak** on his front lawn, landing him a public indecency charge.”
Were there any big rumors in your school that turned out to be true?
If so, please tell us about them in the comments.
We can’t wait to hear from you!
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