Fact is stranger than fiction. We’ll stand by that statement until the world ends! Many movies and TV shows about school life aren’t able to hold a candle to the real-life situations teachers have to deal with nearly every single day.
Redditor u/DarkPonyAssassin recently started up a very interesting (and confusing!) r/AskReddit thread about the craziest and most bizarre reasons why educators had to send a student to the principal’s office. Scroll down to check out some of the weirdest teacher stories. They're a mix of hilarity and some really worrying behavior.
Bored Panda reached out to the author of the thread, u/DarkPonyAssassin, and they answered a few of our questions.
#21

Jesus my mom. There was a stench in the classroom but they couldn't figure it out for months. A boy was making POOP balls in his desk. Rolling up his turds and putting them where pencils would go on the sides. She has completely blacked out this whole thing.
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61points
#22
My moms been a teacher for many years. Apparently one of her middle school students had been coming in day after day just absolutely filthy wearing the same dirty clothes. She notifies the office and they talk to her and the parents. Apparently the family has been living in an RV with no running water (I’m not sure if this is due to homelessness or what-we’re in a rural area and it’s not uncommon to see people living this way). The school offers to let the girl shower at school and they even have a special “shop” of sorts (free to the students of course) for clothing and things like hygiene items. The only issue is the school needs the parents permission to let her shower there at the school and the parents won’t grant it. I’m not sure why. And yes CPS has been notified several times, but they must be deeming the family’s dwelling habitable in some way, though I’m not sure how the parents are getting away with such horrid obvious neglect. My mom says the kid is just so sweet but she smells bad and looks even worse and she’s afraid the bullying will start soon :/ the area I live in is absurdly poor and very rural so sadly such instances are not unusual.
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#23

Not a teacher, but my dad was a bus driver, and one day, this kid gets on the bus, sprinting, and nearly knocks himself out on the chair. When my dad goes over to see what's happened, he realises the kid had no pants on. The mother, who drove off in her car extremely quickly, had literally sent this poor kid to school with no pants on. My dad got a student he knew really well to sit next to this kid and comfort him, and also make sure everyone else wasn't a******s. My dad, when he finally got to the school, walked this kid into the office and asked for a spare pair of pants. Poor kid. That mother was an a*****e.
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55points
#24
2 stories:
taking a test, a student sighed and I smell alcohol on his breath. Asked him if he'd been drinking... he said no he had liquor flavored gum...I said at can I have some... he said he'd left it in his car.. go to the office and tell them you need to go to your car. Called to make sure he stayed at school and didn't drive off
Again during a test a student decided he wanted to see what would happen if he put a paper clip in an outlet, there was a flash, the paperclip clip flew across the room and my clock shorted out. Had a quick lesson about electrical current, then off to the office
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55points
#25

Kid in boarding tried to cook a whole raw chicken with like 5 minutes in the microwave. A whole chicken.
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54points
#26

One student bit another student in the arm. He was shocked that I kicked him out because he was "just playing". He left teeth marks in her arm.
This was a 9th grader.
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53points
#28
Caught a kid playing LoL on his laptop during evening study. Moved to confiscate it (per school policy) and he slammed it shut, leapt onto the table, dashed over several computers like a f*****g spider to the window and tossed his own damned laptop outside. We were on the third floor so of course it shattered.
It wasn’t the last time he smashed his own property rather than give it up for an evening. He was 17 at the time.
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51points
#29
My wife is a high school teacher. She was teaching a lower-level math class, and she had a student who was probably too smart for the class, but too lazy (or too "cool") to take a harder class.
One day, out of boredom, he was throwing his pencil up at the ceiling. On the third or fourth try, it got stuck. So he threw a pen to try to dislodge it. Didn't work. He then threw his notebook at it. Missed again.
So he stands up on the desk-chair-combo, takes his notebook, jumps in the air, and swats at the pencil. Pencil fell to the floor.
He lands on the desk, which (if you remember those desk-chair-combos) is not supported by the chair's center of balance. He falls off the desk and lands on the floor.
Oh wait, did I mention the lock box on his ankle? I think I left that out. The lock box pops off and lands on the floor.
He looks for a second, says "OMG Mrs Hymie0 I have to go to the office the police are coming to get me," grabs the lock box, and sprints out the classroom door.
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50points
#30
7th grader in north Philly went into the teachers “lounge” (which was a small room that had a fridge and a table that sat 4-6 teachers) took a teachers meatball hoagie out of the fridge and threw it down the fire exit stairs.
This kid had 12 pages of single space 10pt times new Roman of write ups in power school. Never got expelled, just wasn’t allowed to enroll after 8th grade. This kid was a complete a*****e.
This kid had 12 pages of single space 10pt times new Roman of write ups in power school. Never got expelled, just wasn’t allowed to enroll after 8th grade. This kid was a complete a*****e.
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