20 Outrageous School Horror Stories, or Why You Should Consider Online Classes

posted by Mark on March 2nd, 2009

We’re not saying that brick-and-mortar schools are a bad choice for your education, but there are certain sticky situations that can be avoided if you were to choose an online school…

Teacher Snorts Cocaine in Class

Lewiston, New York: Joan Donatelli, a 59-year-old retired teacher, spent her retirement years knitting, substitutue teaching and snorting cocaine. Unfortunately, she decided to combine the latter two one day while substituting in a fourth-grade class. Two students reported to police that they saw her repeatedly dip a pen cap into a plastic bag full of white powder and snort it as they sat less than five feet away. Police confronted Donatelli at her home, and she confessed. She was sentenced to 100 hours of community service — presumably not involving children.

Conflict Resolution Teacher Attacks Student

Greensboro, North Carolina: Maybe rookie high school teacher Robert Bullard wasn’t the right man for the job of leading a life skills class that included conflict resolution. Less than three months into his term, he resigned after physically attacking a 14-year-old student, punching him in the face several times before other students pulled him away. Bullard pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault and was sentenced to 150 days in jail and placed on probation for five years. It turns out that he had a previous criminal record for breaking a man’s arm with a trophy. We’re guessing it wasn’t a Teacher of the Year trophy.

Students Forced to Clean Third-Story Windows…From the Outside

Beijin, China: Many students have to wash chalkboards, desks and the occasional window at school, but one elementary school in China is taking the chore of window washing to the extreme by having kids wash windows up to three stories high by balancing on a four-inch-wide ledge without any safety equipment whatsoever. School officials claim it promotes bravery. Others say it promotes death.

Teachers Stage Fake Gun Attack

Murfreesboro, Tennessee: Less than a month after the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting rampage, teachers leading a group of 70 sixth-grade students on a field trip to a state park decided that the time was right to play a prank on the kids by telling them that a mad gunman was on the loose. For five minutes, the students lay on the floor and hid under tables, panicking, crying and praying as a teacher, dressed in a hooded sweatshirt, pulled on doorknobs and knocked on windows to scare the kids. The students were eventually let off the hook, but their parents weren’t amused. The teachers apologized, claiming that the ordeal was designed to teach the kids how to react a similar situation. Lesson learned: never trust a teacher.

Students Replace Vending Machine Apple Juice With Urine

Palm Harbor, Florida: A high school freshman who frequented a school vending machine was surprised one day to find that the apple juice he normally drank had a foul smell and taste. Apparently, two bored yet mechanically gifted fellow students had broken into the machine, stolen a bottle of apple juice, replaced the liquid with their own urine and placed the bottle back inside. Tips led police to the offenders, who confessed and were arrested. The entire machine was replaced. Just in case.

Principal Flings Poo at Child

Toronto, Canada: Elementary school principal Maria Pantalone, 49, pleaded guilty to tossing feces at a child because she “couldn’t take it anymore.” Although the child wasn’t one of her students, she was suspended (with pay) and mandated to stay away from children under the age of 16 before being transferred to another school. The real tragedy, however, is that due to a media ban on the case, we may never know who’s poo it was and how it came into her possession.

Teacher Simulates Gorilla Sex on Student

Lexington, South Carolina: Drama teacher Harold Skinner could at the very least be accused of being overly “dramatic” when, as part of a lesson on improvisation, he grabbed a male student from behind and “dry humped” him repeatedly with his pelvis, simulating what was supposed to be gorilla sex. The student failed to see the wacky humor and reported the incident to the police, who arrested Skinner on a charge of simple assault and battery.

Mother Bakes Ex-Lax Cookies for Daughter’s Teacher…Who Gives Them to Class

Skowhegan, Maine: Julie Hunt, 43, apparently had beef with her 13-year-old daughter’s teacher, so she helped her make cookies containing crush Ex-Lax pills, with a note reading “We made these cookies especially for you, hope you enjoy them.” Finding the cookies on her desk, the teacher, as teachers are apt to do, gave the snacks to her class. (Presumably, the girl was “full” at the time.) When the students became ill, the plot was exposed. Hunt was ordered to perform 50 hours of community service for the prank.

Student Sent to Jail Because of School Error

Greensburg, Pennsylvania: Fifteen-year-old Cody Webb was arrested for phoning in a bomb threat to his high school’s student hotline at 3:17 AM one morning. School officials knew that they had the right person because they traced a hotline call at that exact time to Webb’s phone. The only problem was that the school had forgotten to set its clocks that morning to Daylight Savings Time; Webb had actually made his call an hour earlier, at 2:17 AM. Unfortunately for him, school officials didn’t realize their mistake until he’d spent 12 days in a juvenile detention facility.

Teacher Watches Porn in Class

Phoenix, Arizona: A high school photography teacher forgot the number one rule of viewing inappropriate material on your computer at work: make sure you’re not hooked up to a projector. That’s exactly what happened to the hapless instructor as he took time out from his lecture to view bondage videos on his laptop. Unfortunately for everyone involved, his class was also privy to his fetish, and reportedly, he was so “into it” that he didn’t notice for a full 20 minutes, even when students commented. In a related story, the school is now looking for a qualified photography teacher.

Marlboro Sponsors Student Uniforms

KunMing Province, China: A sad side effect of China’s increasing openness to capitalism and Western businesses: school uniforms emblazoned with corporate sponsorships. Even sadder: one major sponsor is Marlboro.

Teacher Gives Student a Hickey in Class

Missoula, Montana: One day, for no explained reason, high school business teacher Dan Kucera put a male student in a headlock and sucked on his neck, causing a bruise. He was charged with misdemeanor assault and resigned, claiming he “made a stupid mistake.”

Student Sets Self on Fire During Fire Safety Class

Chandler, Arizona: Tragedy and irony collided when a first grader decided to play with a cigarette lighter as his teacher read the class a book on fire safety. He received minor to second-degree burns on his back.

Teacher Moonlights as a Prostitute

Bellefontaine, Ohio: Fourth-grade teacher Amber Carter, 35, had a spotless 13-year record in education until it was discovered that she had a side job…as a prostitute. To make matters worse, she skipped class to meet a client, using a school computer to arrange the meeting. In her defense, she still has a spotless record as a prostitute.

Principal Kisses Students’ Feet…And Likes It

Lorain, Ohio: It all seemed innocent enough: private school principal Robert Holloway makes a bet with three 14-year-old students on a friendly student-teacher volleyball game, and if he loses, he has to pay the students $15 and kiss their feet. He did so, but ended up kissing the boys’ feet 50 TIMES each. Creeped out, the students told their parents, who notified the authorities, who in turn found 400 foot fetish photos on Holloway’s school computer. He resigned and later received two years’ probation for “sexual imposition.”

Teacher Refuses to Shave Until Bin Laden Is Captured

Ephrata, Washington: Depending on your point of view, middle school science teacher Gary Weddle, 46, is either patriotic or insane. Maybe a bit of both. And probably marginally unhygienic. Since the September 11 attacks of 2001, he has vowed to avoid shaving until Osama bin Laden is caught, “even if I get buried with it.” Years later, his beard is still going strong. His wife is not as pleased with his determination as he is.

Teacher “Homicide Insurance”

Washington, DC: Sign of the times: the National Education Association now offers teachers “unlawful homicide” insurance, worth $150,000 if they’re murdered on the job. They receive only $50,000 for accidental deaths.

Gym Teacher Takes Student Bribes to Excuse Them From Class

Pensacola, Florida: Middle school gym teacher Terence Braxton, 28, took bribes from his students for four months, allowing them to sit out of class for $1 per day. When a parent caught wind of the scheme, Braxton retired and was charged with felony bribery, receiving three years’ probation and 300 hours of community service. Only six of his students pressed charges, claiming to have paid him around $230 total. It’s presumed they were all nerds.

Students Cross Raging River on Zip Line to Get to Class

Fugong, China: The next time your grandfather rambles on about walking to school in the snow uphill both ways, show him this story. For years, nearly 500 students from a small Chinese village had to cross a 600-foot-wide raging river on a zip line every day just to get to and from school. Parents typically accompanied the smaller kids, but once they turned FIVE, they were on their own. After a TV show profiled their tribulation, enough money was raised to build a slightly sturdier rope bridge.

Biology Teacher Asks to Study Students’ Sperm

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: A high school biology teacher asked three students to “take one for the team” and masturbate so that the class can study sperm under a microscope. Despite the scientific ramifications, they refused.

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hedpe09
hey id just like to say something about the dude with the beard, you’re gonna have it until the day you die im afraid, as bin laden? was, on the day of the 9/11 attacks, safe and secure being treated in an american embassy hospital, he did not cause the attacks, it was the american government itself, the towers fell from explosions from within side the towers, the pentagon was hit by a cruise missile, the american government doesnt want you to know about it but ive seen the proof and i know the truth, its time america opened their eyes and realised
Krista
Oh man those are all messed up!
My 6th grade Gym teacher was terrible! We once had to split in to small groups of 4 for valley ball. I wasnt on any team and when she asked me why I told her all of the kids said I sucked. Later she was watching me and came over and said “No wonder no one wants you on their team…you do suck!”. Thats not the only thing. In the same year we had to take partners. Me and 1 other kid didnt have a partner yet. He said he didnt want to be my partner cause i was fat. She said yes thats true and let him be on his own. Soo f-ed up!
Mike Everyman
During my freshman year of high school, a gym teacher was caught by a bunch of students masturbating to hardcore pornography in his office before going to teach a class. He resigned in shame before he could be fired. I didn’t help that his name was Mr. Mayo.
and so…
to leftoversushi: your biased ! or some little prep in a small town living off daddys money. Or perhaps lucky enough to grow up in these later years where laws were actually enforced.
Growing up in the late 70′s and 80′s was a cruel time for many of us, teachers had the right to beat and utterly humiliate the children at any given. I’ve seen so much that I could fill pages. All done to no consequence. From Psychology teachers molesting girls to PE teachers beating kids with bats – gang riots – heroine – organized crime – all of it intertwined within the school system and authorities of a typical middle class town.
yes, it’s much better now and most of these stories here are mere humor to me.
http://aceonlineschools.com Peter
@ Ura Krappy:
Whoa, mellow… Ever hear of a list article? They’re supposed to be funny. Well whatever you do with yourself, you should probably stay away from Cracked.com. For your own health.
nananana
my middle school health teacher used to be a PE teacher, and apparently, he watched the boys pee and made the girls pick up pens. when I was in his health class, he danced in front of my desk. I can never hear “Rind Of Fire” by Johnny Cash ever again. *shudder*
Ten
Jay – the kid didn’t make the bomb threat. Some other kid made the bomb threat, but because they had their clocks wrong, they ended up tracing the call to that kid instead of the one who really did it.
Kevin
i had a teacher get fired for having sex with students . . . her son who attended the rival high school fifteen min away in the small mountain towns of northern arizona then threatend to kill the students who participated in the sexual actions with his MOTHER !!!! It was an on going thing and later the case pulled up she had been buying students alcohol that whole school year, there was also a rumor of her having an affair with the phys. ed director who was married with two kids in the school, one senior one sophmore !!!! Good Ole Show Low AZ !!!!! Go Cougars
bs
bull fucking shite
hinged_elephant
If there are no sources, don’t believe a word of it.
Stesha
I had an English teacher who was suspended for beating a kid with a baseball bat… we knew he was a hothead but that was a surprise
lewax00
I had a teacher that tried to accuse me of slander because I corrected her in class (and I was correct, I had multiple sources to back me up including from right out of the text book we were using). Not to mention a few other detentions for correcting teachers.
Got a detention once for no reason at all, the teacher even said so. She said something along the lines of it being my turn, which is so unfair to everyone else who didn’t get a turn.
Had a math teacher who was a former Christian missionary, who preached about how Disney is evil and is responsible for all the evil in today’s society.
The principal at a school I went to constantly went out of her way to harass
me. She wasn’t directly fired, but the school refused to renew er contract for the next year.
I went into the nurse one day because I was having difficulty breathing. She told me to “stop faking it” and sent me back to class. Ended up in the emergency room later that day.
And that’s not even all of it.
katie
When I was in 10th grade one our guidance counselors slammed a kid up against a wall and split his lip and eye open. He slammed the kid up against the wall because he had his hat on and he was told to take it off. When he said no he was slammed against the wall and he got punched. I actually had to testify in court about it because I saw it happen. He was fired and had to pay the kid and his family a lot of money.
Megan
A biology teacher at my high school was fired for growing marijuana in his garage claiming it was an “experiment”. He was also known to sell to students and come high to class. Then another science teacher was asked to take her retirement early because some students found a vibrator in her desk drawer that had gone off several times.
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I saw these referenced at http://www.SubliminalMessages.Com and couldn’t stop laughing. Thanks for the smiles.
Gormless
I remember the first week at Catholic High School (waaaay back in the mid 70s) where our new Religious Education teacher (who doubled as an Art teacher) started the lesson with “if any of you have read Chariot of the Gods you’ll know that Jesus was probably a spaceman…” he then went on to talk about this for an hour. Cue 30 traumatised 13 year old christians and a new RE teacher for the next week..
It’s the only RE lesson all my friends still remember :-)
Flora
That last one about students donating sperm is just normal in my class. Although I’m a college student studying medical technology, everything happened the same way. My teacher asked our three male classmates to masturbate in a comfort room beside our laboratory classroom while we girls waited for them. It was pretty hilarious, but the guys were good sports.^_^
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that was weird and insane…
RageAgainstTheRobots
Well I’ve got a doozy of a list here, and I’m not even finished Highschool yet!
In Grade 3 my Teacher had confiscated and later thrown out one of my favourite books because I was reading it in Class.
Grade 6 I had my Teacher call my mom into a conference, and for TWO hours, lectured her about how much of a failure I was going to be and that I would die alone.
My Grade 7 Teacher has been Arrested 3 times. Once of Indecent Exposure to a Minor, and Twice of Sexual Assault.
He was fired, but I’m not sure if he was charged for the latest Sexual Assault Charge.
Grade Eight the class EA Harassed me and then had me suspended when I told him to bite me. Luckily he was made t apologize at the risk of losing his job and we later got along.
My Gr. 8 Teacher walked out one day and never came back, it took the school 3 days to realize we had no teacher.
The Replacement Gr. 8 Teacher threw my desk at me while we were watching an 80s Cartoon of The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe because I commented that Mr. Tumnus looks like Satan (He was a goatman painted Red, can you blame me?)
In Gr. 9 My Religion Teacher kicked me out of class after 3 days because I told him to take his politics outside of the class and refused to acknowledge his title as ‘Dr.’ because its’ a P.H.D in Theology.
My Gr. 9 Geography Teacher showed my class how to give good punches to the kidney and instructed us to give someone next to us one if they didn’t pay attention. A bunch of kids later gained up on one kid during lunch to practice, he had to go to the hospital.
This same Teacher also beat me with my textbook because I fell asleep in class due to Insomnia, told the kids he paired me up in a group with that when we’re out in the park he won’t know if they do anything to me because he’ll not be around the area. (Kinda giving them the Ok to beat the living shit out of me as I’m not the most likable of Students.)
My Gr. 10 Math and Science Teacher didn’t know how to teach either subject, resulting in a 60% failure rate in her Math Class and a 30% failure rate in her Science Class. I passed Science, Math was another Story.
Instead of getting me help for Math, she kicked me out of her class because she thought I was unteachable, after two weeks the Resource Teacher finally talked her into putting me back into her class, but I was never able to catch up.
The Two Geography Teachers in my Highschool are always stoned, its a known rule among the students that if you’re caught with weed, you better hope its one of them, you’re guaranteed to get away with just your weed confiscated because they keep it for themselves.
The Brother to My Gr. 9 Religion Teacher I had for Gr. 10 Religion, is perhaps even worse, lying about basic facts of history, science, and politics to prove his views in the classroom that aren’t even related, I finally had enough and dropped his class midway. He sometimes tries to trip me if he walks past.
I’ve only My Senior year and an extra semester of Catch up. I could probably double this list by the end of that.
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@ Rage: wow, you just provided an entire sequel to this article. I hope you’re blessed from this point on with cool college professors and extra-organized college roommates. At least the rest of the world isn’t like high school, unless you’re in Orange County.
becca
I was born and raised in Greensburg, PA (bomb threat boy story) and now live about 15 minutes from Greensboro, NC (Conflict resolution teacher) I think i’m moving to Alaska (no stories from there, right)?
MOOOOO
-Rage
we had to watch three different versions of Lion Witch and the Wardrobe, mr.tumnus definately did look like satan
Adam
Haha, one of my teachers smashed a metal tray into my face and chipped my tooth when I was younger. Of course, it was accident.
Anon
My brother got punched in the face after school by a teacher when he was a freshman. Coincidentally the camera in that hallway just happened to not be on that day lol (coverup anyone) He paid for it though.
Alybug
WOW! I live in Pensacola, FL! I’ve never heard of that story, though….
MM
In my 9th grade PE class we were made to go outside and run around the track for a certain amount of time. A lot of the kids didn’t take it seriously and walked instead. When we got back inside, our teacher lectured us on how “We weren’t following directions and being lazy” and such. Then she pointed at a rather large (but extremely nice) girl in our class named Elizabeth, and said, “I can see why someone like Elizabeth would walk, but for the rest of you, it’s unacceptable!” I’m pretty sure my jaw dropped open. I couldn’t believe she said that. Poor Elizabeth must have felt horrible! A teacher should never single out a student because of their weight. I really, really wanted to confront our teacher after class about what she had said, but chickened out last minute because she was so mean and I was scared of her. Even now, four years later, I still regreat not confronting her.
Also, my sixth grade block teacher was fired because she was found stashing booze in her desk and apparently kept showing up to work drunk. I do remember that her eyes were always bloodshot and she always seemed disoriented. I just thought she was a ditz, I had no idea she was drunk.
At that same middle school, one of the male PE teachers told my friend to take off his yarmulka saying, “I won’t have any of that Jew stuff at MY school!” There was a huge uproar, and he got a verbal slap on the wrist, but no actual punishment of any kind.
In my 10th grade weights lifting class, our male teacher always stood right behind us girls when we did the squats. When he was showing everyone where to do their excercises, he said, “Ladies, you can do your hip twists right here next to my desk.” Needless to say we stayed far, FAR away from his desk. The final straw was when he actually stroked my hair one day. My hair was all the way down to my butt at the time. I immidiately told my counselor, but she told me that he was “Just from an older generation” and to ignore it. I quickly transfered to another class.
It would seem that the moral of the story is to be wary of PE teachers.
Noah
This isn’t too terrible, but still…
In 3d grade, my teacher made the class run laps if one person angered him. If you slacked off, he made the whole class write a sentence 500 times. Even worse, in the winter (it gets really cold here) he would not let us put on a coat.
aasetron
first of all, im sorry most of you had a horrible time in public schooling but, all in all it works for most students. think…if you where left allone with your mother or one else person to teach you…how would you get the personal skills to acctually talk to someone other than that person?
brandon
wow thats nuts i had a teacher who sent pic of his penis to a girl…. that girl happens to my ex even look up sitting bull middle school gym teacher arrested
Jens
In Denmark a Biology teacher also asked for volunteers for a sperm donation for study purpose, And with no issues about it at all.
Paul French
Reading all your superfail comments about how you had “this and that” happen to you while you were in school is hilarious. I’m in school to become a teacher now, and I can tell you that you probably deserve to be in these online classes. Face it. You fail. Failed at the public school system of America, which is a joke, I’ll admit. However those teachers that you gloried in antagonizing with your prepubescent bullshit are hard-working, compassionate people, and It’s not that THEY couldn’t teach you, It’s that YOU wouldn’t learn. Enjoy minimum wage kids.
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Willima Watsun
This is entirely BS
Bea
My 8th grade English teacher showed us the scars from her boob job. With the boys right up in the front row. She also told me I’d fail and work as a prostitue forever. She called me and my friends “nerds” and “bitches”, before laughing and telling us to calm down. She was fired at the end of that year :D
Shuffle
To Paul French.
Your job is (or soon will be) to teach a huge variety of kids, including the retards, fuck-ups, lazies and bullshitters. If they end up in minimum wage jobs, you fail harder than them, because you never found away of making your learning environment engaging.
Last year the 30 young men and women from my tutor group 26 managed to get a place in a decent university, and all passed their A-Levels with A-C grades.
One of the students took a job immediately as an understudy in a solicitors, one went off to do a coaching qualification, and the other 2 went on to jobs in IT and music.
My class were random students in a public sixth form college.
kanak
how can a man live without shaving ??????????and how can his wife survive of it?????????
( teacher refuses to shave)
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I like the teachers, because it is a very noble profession, I think the students should respect teachers.
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Well-played.
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This article shows just how many dysfunctional people are in the schools, and it barely makes mention of the massacres that happen every now and again. There’s a movement going on for the “separation of school and state,” and it makes one wonder if it might be an idea to finally abolish the public school system. They always have been a toxic environment, and now that there are so many alternatives, it might be time to finally save the billions of dollars that they cost every year.
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I’ve never been one to defend public schools, but that has to be the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard in my entire life.
Buck Sexington
The only reasons why you should take online classes are to get ahead in curriculum and/or avoid extreme social problems. Excluding yourself or your child from public schooling PURELY out of fear of ridiculous stories highlighted by the media is irrational, unless you aren’t a fan of childhood memories.
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