Every school seems to have that story. The incident everyone knew about, talked about for months and still brings up years later. When people were asked to share THE event at their high school, the answers ranged from bizarre pranks and spectacular scandals to stories that took a much darker turn.
Content warning: The following high school stories are user-submitted stories and have not been independently verified. Some responses contain references to violence, death, sexual misconduct, self-harm, abuse and other potentially distressing subjects. Reader discretion is advised.
Itz.Kayy
“My best friend was proposed to in the cafeteria at 7am 😭 she said yes just to not embarrass him infront of the whole school but then in private broke up with him 💀”
RICPOSION
“a male teacher of mine was into a female student of 17 at the time. he invited her for ice 1:1 to get together (we are spanish so that was legal), he paid for her boob job and after it healed she dumped his ass 😂😂😂”
Peyton Campbell
“Wealthy family in my town was cooking meth and the dad blew their house up”
Lauren
“we had February fights. each day of February had as many fights as whatever day it was. for example, February 3rd had three fights. we did it until school got shut down due to ‘gang violence’”
Alyssa Beasley
“A senior called out his cheating ex gf during the pledge of allegiance morning announcement”
Hunter
“some kid at my highschool has a tiktok account and it’s him going to the school on random nights and just pissing on stuff at the school”
Ellis
“Popular boy at my middle school shared a popular girls nudes around his friend group. And it came out through a bunch of middle school girls figuring out who all had them and reporting them to the cops, not the school. One day at school, a couple cops came and took the whole friend group of boys and their phones. All the boys involved all took them, and pretty much disappeared after that. So.. Psa, dont mess with Ohio women.”
mya
“a girl died because her teacher wouldn’t let her go to the nurse to get her inhaler because our school has a goofy ahh rule where the nurse HAS to accept your online hall pass or else you can’t go”
madi
“Teacher dropped dead in her class mid sentence.”
Bucky Flats
“A guy failed driver education and deciding bombing the school was the appropriate response.”
Biebs
“A math teacher (Female) is dating a History Teacher (Male) HE WAS HER teacher when SHE was in highschool.”
Bonesnroses
“Some kid tried jumping off the third floor n I talked him down… I got sent home”
anon
“a kid put a dead squirrel in the paper towel dispenser”
[username unclear]
“A teacher had an affair with a student and got fired”
Ava
“They literally made a documentary of it 😭 the high school catfish is what they called it. the mother of this girl Lauren cyber bullied her own daughter and liked Lauren’s bf. Which I think is crazy in the documentary is that for some scenes they used my actual school 😭”
Hannah Miller
“Women’s weightlifting teacher and the football coach got caught having s*x in the weight room during a volleyball game… by a student. They were both married to other people”
Mapycr
“a teacher broke up with long term boyfriend to be together with a female student (they are still together after years)”
luise
“Someone set the toilet on fire n it exploded”
Brooklynn
“The football coach at my hs was having an affair with a teacher at the same school, the women’s husband found them at a motel and murdered them both including himself”
PO
“once a year we’d have a teacher get fired for touching students inappropriately”
hazzah
“my psychology and maths teacher had an affair and then quit to start a vegan cafe”
bentleigh
“every year we have something called ‘fight week’ and it’s basically where evb fights evb for no reason and we have teachers and principals getting beat on”
Tyler Troth
“my freshman year our janitor got arrested for having hidden cameras in bathrooms, locker rooms, and other places throughout the school”
Dailyn._._19
“The copy at the school had a relationship with a student 😭 but the student was the school mascot”
Matthew Flynn
“mine had a senior prank that made national news. They released over 72000 lady bugs into the school”
anon
“we had someone send killer clown videos to the school and threaten to shoot up the school, so the cops searched his house”
Bryanna
“One of our security guards was dating a 17-18 year old at our school and got her pregnant”
apple
“A kid got murdered in the school and we still had to take our finals the rest of the day (search Sterling Highschool stabbing)”
Caitlyn Jewell
“two moms got into a fight in the parking lot and the one pushed the other into the way of a car, she got hit by the car and died. their daughters were watching and they got expelled from the school bc of their moms. the girls mom who pushed the other into the way of the car was sent to jail for murder. i go to an all girls private catholic school idk what the fight was about but ik it was racism.”
cas
“I mean the entire school district is under federal investigation rn soo”
hayden
“This year some girl stabbed another girl with a PENCIL in the neck. they put us on lockdown and brought an ambulance to the school. 3rd time someone brought a knife to the school this year and teachers still let them around eachother”
Lauren Wren
“we had a kid that would right messages in his own shit in the boys bathrooms, called him the dookie bandit.”
Sleepy Sam
“A girl came to school one morning and told me that she was with some guys the night before when they robbed and murdered a man. I had to report it and the police did find the body that day.”
Snowflake5.3
“Some kid fell through the ceiling :(“
Taylor
“a girl went into labour in the school bathrooms and begged everyone to help her to give birth”
Ivy <3
“Texas history teacher fled the school once everyone found out he had an affair with the English teacher. His son was in several of my classes 😭”
Liv
“our gym teacher put cameras in the girls locker room when I was in 3rd grade”
Big daddy k
“A kid hit another kid in the head with a hammer in a woodwork class and he went into a coma.”
madison
“in hs we had a science teacher get caught in a youtube video called how to catch a predator. he literally flew across the country to meet up with a boy at a walmart and got caught on video. oh and he was also the boys waterpolo coach…”
Jules
“a kid st-bbed another kid then we took a class trip to the jail he was put in”
Emma
“Our bible teacher had an affair with a student and the administration would not tell us about anything until it was on the news”
Peyton 🙂
“I live near a mega church and my freshman year there was a little girl that died and the church was attempting to resurrect her and kids would show up to school with her name written all over their bodies”
karradactyl
“football coaches bought booze and dancers as a recruiting tool. we won back to back state championships”
defnot_lydia0
“3 kids in my school killed a kid, shot him 25 times and he was dead upon the arrival, it was later found out it was gang and drug related, the kids are not in jail but simply on house arrest because they are ‘to young to be sentenced’ which is fucked up”
Reza Zaman
“A parent came in to fight a student who was bullying his son and the parent lost the fight.”
emily
“student got teacher pregnant”
Briahna 🪽
“I hit the janitor with my car”
GRACIE
“A kid pooped in someone’s backpack”
taylorrtotss3
“Someone from the blood bank came to give our whole high school a presentation and accidentally put p0rn on the projector in front of everyone.”
joey2cool4dowd
“A bunch of kids made a tunnel systems in the school that were accessible through the desk so kids would randomly disappear in class and hang out in this fort underground”
Lerli_gene
“During senior pranks, someone who had realtor parents put a for sale sign in the school yard”
coleholtt
“i went to school with mason sisk, you can google it”
Ellis
“Popular boy at my middle school shared a popular girls nudes around his friend group. And it came out through a bunch of middle school girls figuring out who all had them and reporting them to the cops, not the school. One day at school, a couple cops came and took the whole friend group of boys and there phones. All the boys involved all are now convicted sex offenders and have been since they were 13. All of them got kicked off the football team, and pretty much disappeared after that. So.. Psa, dont mess with Ohio women.”
Justiceproffitt
“my school had haley beck… and she taught me twice”
Breanna Sutcliffe
“My dean had a miscarriage bc she got hit in the stomach breaking up a fight…”
[username unclear]
“teacher tried drowning a student at a waterpark and got fired 😭”
Dalton Philpott
“fart spray shut our school down for a ‘gas leak’”
Anaya Backliwal
“a girl collapsed and stopped breathing during our prom walk and then a mom gave her cpr and brought her back to life !”
jason_jeffers
“guys called in a bomb threat to distract the police while they rob a bank”
SAHM/ Emilee 🤍
“Idk a teacher at my school got arrested for having a relationship with one of his students.. apparently he went to her church and confessed his love for her to her parents 🤨😂”
sofiya garasic
“Girl announced her pregnancy AND gender reveal on the night of prom like the hour before prom btw”
