• BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Not exactly my school but it happened to my whole city, Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka, the Ken and Barbie serial killers,were abducting, raping and murdering teen girls. I was roughly that age, and it could have happened to any girl in the city.

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      3 months ago

      Reminds me of in Primary school, we had a paper mache project with old newspapers. Somehow copies of The Sun with nude pictures ended up in there.

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    3 months ago

    A mom broke up with her boyfriend. He returned later and killed her 3 kids, then her, then himself. The oldest son was in my class.

    I wasn’t great friends with him, but I knew him well enough to feel bad about it. So many people who hated him pretended to be sad for attention.

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    So one day a friend of mine came over when we were 14, around 25 years ago. He had a piece of newspaper with him and said : check this shit out. It was a big article about a teacher that had a “relationship” with a student. He made me read the whole thing and it was clearer and clearer that it was our school at the time. Not only that, it was also his girlfriend involved. It was super odd. She was like 13 and he was around 60. I don’t really remember the details, but it was a lot of love letters being sent back and forward.

    I thought this would be the biggest bombshell in the history of bombshells and could only imagine what monday at school would be like. Long story short, she moved away like IMMEDIATELY, and i have no idea whatever happened to the teacher, but as far as i remember nothing really except that he became a teacher at another school, and no one really ever talked about it, but everyone knew. It was quite bizarre

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    3 months ago

    Yes Prep Southeast campus (charter school does 6th - 12th grade).

    The school decided to experiment with separating the boys and the girls in 6th grade.

    The result was the 6th grade boys started a secret fight club with money involved in the restrooms, and some high schoolers were managing it. It was found out after a boy’s head broke a sink.

    The girls got very slightly better grades though.

    Other than that, the usual also happened; corruption, fraud, teachers doing pedophilia and ephebofilia, etc.

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    So, once I saw the beginning of a fight. Which was stopped after like a minute by the guard ladies.

    Yeah, my school was tame as hell.

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    Some guy peed in a handdryer. Which is weird but even weirder was that the principal did a 15 min sprach about how the perpetrator has mental problems and needs to seek help. It was really funny.

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    3 months ago

    Probably not “the incident” anymore, since it was almost 30 years ago now and no one left there likely remembers.

    But a couple of years after I graduated, one of the kids who was a couple of grades behind me sneaked into the school at night, lit a bunch of candles on the floor of the chemistry lab and turned on all the gas taps and put towels under the doors so that the room would fill with gas starting from the top to the bottom. (I guess his chemistry class came in handy since he was smart enough to know that gases float to the top, giving him time to escape.

    He went to Juvie for a while I believe, and then ended up living a pretty normal life. Last I heard he had been one of the people listed for the doomed-to-never-actually-happen “100 settlers on a one way trip to Mars” project. Haven’t heard anything about him lately since I long ago deleted Facebook and so have no real contact with the people I went to highschool with anymore (just like the old days and I love it)

    edited - Sorry, thought he was short-listed. But he was cut before the short-list was announced. Edited to change.

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        Took out the entire quarter section of the school, if I remember correctly. Though “explosion” isn’t technically correct since it was the fire that did the damage. The lab was never going to be sealed tight no matter how many towels he used, so the gas was never under the types of pressure necessary to cause an explosion; just a fireball that ignited everything around it.

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    One of my classmates did the Hitler salute and exclaimed “Heil Hitler” - an expression which is (rightfully) penalized in Germany, where I live.

    The guy was a son of our local police officer.

    He didn’t got expelled, but he had a very stern talk with our school director. I presume that it was made clear to him that if this ever happens again, he’s out. From what I heard last, in the last few years he was really ashamed of what he did when he was younger. I sincerely hope he is doing okay now - he got into the police, and people like him who recognize that being right isn’t cool are needed.

    Coincidentally my school is in Dessau; our city is well-known for producing Zyklon B, a lethal gas used in KZs across Germany, and a “case of sudden self-igniting” of a migrant called Oury Jalloh in a police cell. Obviously all the camera footage of that cell randomly broke down, there was blood found in the dining room and the guy didn’t have anything to lit himself on fire with. But that all obviously is just a coincidence ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    Not a good city to do the Hitlers salute in (if there ever was any, which - surprise - doesn’t), tbh.

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      I think there’s one city where a Hitler salute would be “good”: Atlantis.

      1. Hitler himself fetishized the myth
      2. Whoever did the salute would drown and disappear.
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    3 months ago

    A boy got ran over and killed while biking home by a senior who was texting and driving on their way home. It happened less than a mile away from the highschool

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    A couple of students blew up a cinder block wall. A hole large enough to drive an old style mini through.

    The wall divided up two tennis courts and rubble was scattered to every corner of those courts.

    This happened at lunch time, when those courts were packed with students.

    Someone should have been killed, but not one injury, not one…

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    Not my school, but one nearby. It smelled like gas in chemistry class and some idiot student thought it would be a good joke to flick a lighter. There actually was a gas leak and he set it on fire, injuring himself and a bunch of classmates. I don’t remember if anyone died.

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    3 months ago

    A day before I got in a guy set fire to the trash in the chapel. So I befriended him immediately!

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    Kids step dad found an unfired mortar while working on base. Kid brought it to school and dropped it in the band room. Thankfully no one died, but there was still a shrapnel ring in the room when i graduated a few years later.

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    I’m not sure how much of a scandal it was outside of those directly affect, but I was in the circle. A group of us, led by one of the younger drama teachers, went to the Edinburg Fringe Festival (a big literary, drama and comedy festival) with a bunch of short comic plays by Checkov (yes, really!). he was attractive enough that he had to make sure not to be alone in a room with a female student in case of rumours, but he was decent and would never had done anything like that. He got his wife and his brother involved too, which was cool, we all got on really well. We had a lot of fun, it was great, and, amazingly for the first time at the Fringe, didn’t actually lose money! (I think we made like fifty quid between twelve of us, so we didn’t exactly make a profit either, but it was an amazing experience)

    Then his brother and his wife had an affair and ran away together

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      I love the fringe. Shame for him, he seems like a good guy and he didn’t deserve that.