# What was YOUR school scandal? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 10, 2021, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-school-scandal/941728 "2021-05-10T02:07:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-school-scandal/941728/101 "2021-05-12T05:55:37Z")
The main one that comes to mind is when the new drama teacher (age 25) was found having sex with one of my graduating class (age 18-19). There was also a big deal about the band director getting fired that year, with half the band quitting in protest (even though most had no problem with his replacement who had taught them in junior high). However, I didn’t learn any details, and was one who stuck it out. There’s the kid who made a bomb threat because some football players kept bullying him. There were the girls who got drunk on a choir trip and got expelled, which was unexpected as their parents are rich and contributed a lot to the PTA. Other than that, there are rumors about female teachers being flirty with the male athletes and various stories about people getting drunk in the junior high parking lot. And a few teen pregnancies, one of which involved a college student father. ---
**Author:** ![mistymage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mistymage/32/459_2.png) [@mistymage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mistymage)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-school-scandal/941728/102 "2021-05-12T13:48:45Z")
In my junior year there was a suicide by one of the popular “rock band” boys. Rumor was it was autoerotic asphyxiation gone wrong. Something more shocking than scandalous also happened my junior year. Back then the local police had a cadet ride along program. One of my friends was sitting in the passenger seat of a patrol car while her officer ran into the station. Some nutjob came walking up the railroad tracks and shot and killed her. He thought she was a real cop and he was pissed at the police. They found him later that night dead by suicide. ---
**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-school-scandal/941728/103 "2021-05-12T14:25:32Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > Sure, but accusations like that can stick. Good one! 😀 ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-school-scandal/941728/104 "2021-05-12T15:09:57Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Finally, a couple of dudes (one of whom went on to a successful career as a MLB pitcher) were caught by some girls putting peanut butter on their dicks senior year and letting a German shepherd lick it off. Of these four stories, this is the one that’s still talked about most among alumni to this day, but it also strikes me as possibly just a ridiculous rumor. I’ve heard a lot of woman/peanutbutter/dog ULs, , but this is the first I’ve heard of with guys. But I think the ladies could be fairly confident that the dog would limit itself to just licking. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-school-scandal/941728/105 "2021-05-12T15:21:10Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > I’ve heard a lot of woman/peanutbutter/dog ULs, , but this is the first I’ve heard of with guys. But I think the ladies could be fairly confident that the dog would limit itself to just licking. Indeed. One pictures the dog considering it to be a chew toy, covered in peanut butter. 😬 ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-school-scandal/941728/106 "2021-05-12T15:24:41Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > That was the last anyone ever saw him. He apparently got dressed, left the school and kept going, nobody knew where. There was of course an investigation, but they never found any trace of him. … and that boy turned out to be Ron Jeremy. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-school-scandal/941728/107 "2021-05-12T15:28:26Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > one of whom went on to a successful career as a MLB pitcher Please tell me it was [Boof Bonser](https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bonsebo01.shtml). Because it would so fit with his ridiculous name. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![veryfrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/87869e/32.png) [@veryfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veryfrank)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-school-scandal/941728/108 "2021-05-12T15:39:18Z")
I grew up in Ottawa, and right across the river is Hull, QC. Ontario had at the time a legal drinking age of 19 and Quebec’s was 18 (no idea if that’s changed as I’m both in my 40s and a teetotaler so I haven’t followed up). Hull also had a lot of bars that were pretty lax in checking IDs (“Does one of your legs touch the ground? Welcome in.”) and it was not at all any kind of secret that there was an exodus of high schoolers across the bridges every weekend. Seriously, I knew a lot of 14 year olds with alcohol issues. My HS also used to hold school dances off site at rented halls or hotels, which would invariably get trashed, as chaperoning was lax and kids would smuggle in the hooch. The winter festival dance in my Grade 10 year went down in school history for the number of ambulances called when a hotel ballroom was decimated by hundreds of drunk teenagers. One guy fell through a plate glass window, others managed to pull down chandeliers while slam dancing piggybacked. Literal blood on the dance floor. That was the final straw, but I’m still baffled at how long this went on for before the administration stepped in. There was some other stuff during my years there: rumours of a teacher picking up students (in Hull, both parties being drunk), the time the school newspaper published an article by a student espousing holocaust denial (the school treated it as a “teachable moment” and brought in concentration camp survivors for an assembly), pretty typical stuff, I imagine. ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-school-scandal/941728/109 "2021-05-12T20:52:11Z")
There was a guy in my high school class who was, shall we say, “slow.” He was older and had obviously been “held back.” He was this big dumb guy, and not a friendly sort either. Somewhere along the line he was expelled for, believe it or not, taking a dump in the backstage area of the auditorium. I don’t know what the story was, but there were others involved and he wasn’t the only one expelled. It was really hushed-up and few people heard about it. That was the last we heard of him until… Several years later, in 1975, he was arrested by the Park Police and questioned by the Secret Service for lurking outside the White House, armed with a loaded handgun. It was determined he posed no serious threat to then-President Ford. He was charged with a misdemeanor of some kind and released. You can still find the story in the New York Times archives by doing a Google search. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-school-scandal/941728/110 "2021-05-12T21:18:38Z")
> [@XOldiesJock](#): > > Several years later, in 1975, he was arrested by the Park Police and questioned by the Secret Service for lurking outside the White House, armed with a loaded handgun. It was determined he posed no serious threat to then-President Ford. Man, was there anyone in 1975 who _didn’t_ try to shoot President Ford? ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-school-scandal/941728/111 "2021-05-12T21:34:26Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Man, was there anyone in 1975 who _didn’t_ try to shoot President Ford? Seems that way. And as politicians go, Gerry Ford was one of the nice guys! ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2021, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-school-scandal/941728/112 "2021-05-13T01:21:08Z")
Not likely; the poster specified “successful.” ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2021, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-school-scandal/941728/113 "2021-05-13T16:07:37Z")
Hmmmm. Plenty. Elementary school: A gym teacher ( failed at making the NFL cut for the Eagles ) was relentless in his bullying and physical abuse. I witnessed him call an African-American girl a " black bitch “. Nobody else saw or heard this… I said something to him a few days later about , " I heard what you said to xxx”, and he looked around fast then shoved me against the wall and pounded his fingertip into my chest, whispering to me that nobody would ever hear about it. The next school year he grabbed a boy by his arm and yanked him so hard that he broke it. In gym class. 20 kids shocked and silent. Kid went to the E.R. Parents were told he fell running in gym class. Net result? Teacher was transferred to the Jr. High. As recently mentioned in another thread, the H.S. drama teacher sexually abused boys. He groomed them, gave them parts in the plays and musicals. And abused them. Nobody knows. When I was in the 8th grade a kid was caught dealing heroin out of his locker. Died of suicide in H.S. a few years later. Then, there was Glenn. Glenn’s parents were both locally famous doctors. His older siblings were respected doctors. He abused drugs and alcohol and in H.S. went unconscious while at a party. Woke up when the cops arrived. They took him to the police station. Put him in a cell alone. Where he hung himself with his shoelaces. That one caused a bit of a fuss but hey, one didn’t shine the light too brightly in the 1970s. Cops suffered not one bit. And Glenn was dead ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2021, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-school-scandal/941728/114 "2021-05-13T20:00:51Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > > [@XOldiesJock](#): > > > > It was determined he posed no serious threat to then-President Ford. > > Man, was there anyone in 1975 who _didn’t_ try to shoot President Ford? [brag] [A student from _my_ school](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeaky_Fromme) actually got life in prison for it!! [/brag] (out on parole now) ---
**Author:** ![JoseB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/joseb/32/1530_2.png) [@JoseB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseB)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2021, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-school-scandal/941728/115 "2021-05-13T20:15:34Z")
In my case, I was involved in the scandal in question. As a student, I was the target of rather hard bullying, and when I was 13, other students in my class hanged me by the neck with the rope from the window blinds. Fortunately they apparently realized just in time what they were doing and took me down. I had a purple mark in my neck for the following couple of weeks. Things became rather hot afterwards. My father was a doctor and after his rage subsided he made sure to document absolutely everything, up to and consulting with a forensic doctor friend of his as to what had happened to me, and have him draw an official report on it. The two “leaders” of the group who hanged me were expelled, my father entertained the thought of starting some legal action against my high school (didn’t do it in the end), there were heartfelt apologies of my teachers to my father and myself, there were school-wide student assemblies with the teachers giving speeches on the inappropriateness of hanging your classmates, and the whole thing ended up become part of the lore of that high school. I finished my studies there, mostly because of stubborness: I was not going to allow anybody to chase me away from somewhere. I managed to overcome the whole thing, and leave it in my past. Time passed, and one day I heard from one acquaintance that one of my tormentors from that day had fallen in with bad companies, ended up becoming a heroin addict, and had recently died of an overdose. I didn’t feel elation or a sensation of “good riddance” at the time; it is not a nice way to go and it is never nice that somebody dies. I also did not feel particularly bad about it. A small pang of pity that somebody had managed to throw their life away, but little more. ---
**Author:** ![Yogeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yogeekgirl/32/4129_2.png) [@Yogeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yogeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2021, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-school-scandal/941728/116 "2021-05-13T20:16:15Z")
Hmmm. I tried my best to be wallpaper in high school, so if anything really scandalous happened, it would have to be way out there for me to know. : ) I did go to Berkeley High School in the late 80’s and we were a regular stop for the Grateful Dead each year. (City theater on campus). I do remember our school hosting Odetta the folk singer for an all school assembly one year and the student body got in trouble because somebody threw an orange at her while she was performing.(IIRC, whoever it was missed. We also were allowed off campus for lunchtime, and school grounds are really close to the downtown area. One day, a woman decided to jump off a bank building, and I’m kind of glad I missed it. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2021, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-school-scandal/941728/117 "2021-05-14T18:02:39Z")
> [@JoseB](#): > > school-wide student assemblies with the teachers giving speeches on the inappropriateness of hanging your classmates I’m going to Hell, but damn, this phrase made me laugh! ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2021, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-school-scandal/941728/118 "2021-05-15T23:45:40Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > My chemistry teacher married one of his students soon after she graduated. And my English teacher married the band teacher. > > Pretty tame by today’s standards, but fifty years ago it was scandalous Heh, one of my _classmates_ married the band teacher, And another classmate that I was friends with married the boys’ vice-principal…who had to wait for a divorce first. Both dudes were seriously repulsive to me. Oh, and a friend in _junior_ high got pregnant at 13. Both sets of parents forced them to marry. She returned to high school in her senior year, became a cheerleader and one of the homecoming princesses. At our 20 year reunion, I was somewhat surprised that they’d stay married, both went to college, got good jobs, and had a couple more kids once their jobs were stable. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2021, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-school-scandal/941728/119 "2021-05-16T02:56:17Z")
In seventh grade, a kid in my class snuck a bottle of booze in during lunch and spent the afternoon taking sips from it every time the teachers turned their backs. By the end of the day he was completely drunk. Yeah, he died young. ---
**Author:** ![echoreply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/echoreply/32/3641_2.png) [@echoreply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/echoreply)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2021, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-school-scandal/941728/120 "2021-05-16T03:57:29Z")
One of the students, who nobody (except her) knew was pregnant, gave birth in one of the bathrooms. I think a history teacher delivered the baby. It made the national news. That baby is in his 30s now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-school-scandal/941728.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-school-scandal/941728.md?page=7)