50 People Look Back On The Biggest Scandals That Rocked Their High School Years

It was the mid 90s and It was a huge deal at my Catholic school. The editors of our school news paper were ordered not to print a LBGT article by the administration. They printed the paper with the article included but redacted. They did a sit in in the main hall of the school, Tape over their mouths with censored written on it. 30 years later and I can still see them sitting there. .

Teacher in middle school went out on leave to have a baby. Her replacement was so liked that they hired him on to be a constant teacher's aid, and if someone called off, he was the first sub for any class.

It was also his first job at a school, right out of university, so he was as young as he could be. A lot of the middle school girls (12-15 years old) looked up to him as a "mature hottie." I heard some disturbing things.

You can probably see where this is going.

Two girls got into a rather violent fight, clothing was ripped, hair was ripped out, blood was drawn, this wasn't just knuckles to faces until someone stopped, they were fighting to k**l.

Turns out he was sleeping with both of them, and they both thought they could keep him all to themselves until they turned 18 and got married. So, instead of getting mad at him, they got mad at each other for moving in on what they viewed as "their man."

Shortly after the fight was stopped, the principal sat them down and asked them to work backwards down the timeline to figure out who started it. So the dude was walked out in handcuffs less than 15 minutes after the fight started.

A kid k**led himself after being bullied for being gay.
One of the girls who bullied him is now a sports reporter and reality show host.
Every time I see her on TV I gag.

Ultra conservative, very homophobic and xenophobic, super egotistic US government teacher. Encouraged people to debate with him, then when he was losing the debate he'd send the students to the office. He couldn't be fired because he had tenure and they'd need a really good reason other than him being a super selfish a****t. Not even the teachers liked him.

He bragged about his wife and kids all the time, taught things as if they were undeniable fact because he had documentaries to "prove it," and it was super easy to distract him from actually teaching because all you had to do was ask him about his life and he'd spend the entire 40-minute lesson talking about...himself.

He left his wife and kids for a man.

14 year old kid slipped in the shower and died. I didn’t know him but sometimes I remind myself of it. Crazy how fragile we can be.

Married Science teacher/girl's basketball coach was sleeping with a senior on the bball team. He later divorced and then married the senior. Then he went on to become the county’s school superintendent.

There was one gal who cheated on her senior chemistry finals and snapchatted the answers to her story. Someone snitched and she got suspended. The ironic thing is that she had the reputation of being like the A+ student and I think was close to valedictorian. She was actually supposed to speak at graduation but they didn’t let her.

Baseball coach got fired for making the moves on some of his team members.

This was one of those “so obvious” situations with more red flags than the Chinese embassy.

He was known to shower with the team.

He hosted unchaperoned pizza parties after baseball games at his house and liked to wrestle the players shirtless after showering….

There was an awful lot of wrestling and showering involved.

This was back in the 1980s. Of course there was no announcement or communication. He just “wasn’t there anymore” one Monday morning and nobody said a word.

A chemistry teacher got sacked because after repeatedly warning one particular student about wearing his safety glasses, she taught him a lesson by spraying him in the eyes with a chemical solution.

Me, having a baby senior year. The scandal lives rent free in my home.

A girl poured cologne in the music teacher's water bottle and dude almost died.

1) The athletic director and superintendent were embezzling funds from our massive sports program. They were caught because they were exchanging text messages on their school issued phones calling students racial slurs and saying sexist things.
The text messages ended up coming out in court and exposed many teachers' personal business, including affairs and illnesses, etc.

2) Our school board was being defrauded by a law firm for millions of dollars.

3) The previous superintendent had also stolen from the school district and gotten caught.


Meanwhile, there were several school buildings that were like, crumbling. We were rationing art supplies and sharing books while they were STEALING from us!

4. A really well-liked and popular teacher was criminally charged for sleeping with a student. People were fighting about it for weeks.

My high school Civics teacher went inside the school building on the last day of school and was never seen again. There is video footage of him walking into the building from the teacher's parking lot, but he does not appear on the video footage from the inside of that very entrance. It’s like he literally disappeared while entering the building. He was also my junior and senior year homeroom teacher, and everyone thought it was super weird that he wasn’t in the classroom because he always got there extra early, even for the teachers. Since I knew we had to have attendance submitted to the office or we would all be counted absent, I went down the hall and told one of the other teachers so he could take our attendance.

But yeah, he was never seen or heard from again. The police did a huge investigation and I heard (but I don’t know for sure) that the FBI got involved. As far as I know, he didn’t have any skeletons in his closet, not even a parking ticket, no enemies, no particular reason to disappear. He just suddenly stopped existing best anyone could tell. That was back in 1997.

EDIT: I’m not sharing the details of this case due to hometown politics. I don’t live in the town anymore, but I’m still in touch with a lot of my friends from high school. Some of those friends are police officers and many of the town’s residents don’t want their town known for this. I personally disagree, but I’m being respectful of the overall population’s wishes. If my lack of detail causes you to doubt my story, that is unfortunate, understandable, and well within your rights. I’m not going to provide any more information. Have a good day.

The cheerleader and math teacher that had a thing going on. They very openly hung out and flirted during school. The kids were aware they were seeing each other outside of school, not sure if the adults knew. He married her the day she turned 18, *while she was still a student*.

The shocking part? There was no scandal. No one said a f*****g thing about it, no consequences for the teacher at all.

The disappearance of all the mouse trackballs from the computer lab.

We had two guys from school rob a Taco Bell and one of them ended up murdering another student who had been working that night.
A good kid lost his life, a buddy of ours got 25 to L and the dude who committed the murder got life without parole.
Another kid who was the “get away driver” went on the run for almost 15 years.
It was just a messed up situation all the way around. So many heart broken parents, family members and friends.

This girl had a baby and then decided to throw it in the dumpster. She never got in trouble but isn't alive today, by her own doing. Terribly sad for everyone around her.

We had a bmx bike riding show held in our gym for some self-esteem message, and they made an announcement at the beginning to the tune of "We are riding full speed in the hallway before entering the gym so we can do our tricks. We don't have breaks on our bikes, so do not cross in front of that door for any reason." They made the announcement a couple times because they were so worried about a student not listening. The show came to a halt when the yearbook teacher got absolutely rammed when she crossed in front of the door to get a better picture. Someone got it on video and put the clip to "wrecking ball"... it went viral around our school.

This was back in 1981/82. Our married assistant principal was having an affair with a student, and everyone knew it.

Once she graduated, he left his wife, moved in with the former student, and got her a job at the school.

Everyone was stunned that not only did he keep his job, but he was able to get her a job.

It finally came to light that the principal was stealing money from the school budget, and the assistant principal was blackmailing him.

1994/1995 my last year of highschool, I had a classmate who aspired to be in politics. He wore a business suit and tie every day to school (this was a public HS, we didn't wear uniforms) Anyway, he was a major conservative in a very liberal leaning area. His personalized license plates on his car were some variation of REPUBLICAN, like RPBLICN. At least once a week his plates were removed from his car as a prank and hidden around campus for him to find. It pissed him off obviously but most of us just found it hilarious. ¯⁠⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯.