# 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:** 15\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2021, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-school-scandal/941728/121 "2021-05-16T11:20:50Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > In seventh grade, a kid in my class snuck a bottle of booze in during lunch and spent the afternoon taking sips from it In first grade, a friend’s son snuck in a bottle of _whiskey sours mix_. No alcohol, but he didn’t know that. He shared sips with everyone at lunch, thinking they’d all get hammered. The teacher found out and was mortified. My friend eventually calmed the teacher down, repeatedly pointing out there was no alcohol consumed. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2021, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-school-scandal/941728/122 "2021-05-16T11:38:42Z")
Wow, that is nuts (the weed incident). A massive overreaction, of course. I’m sorry. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-school-scandal/941728/123 "2021-05-28T09:12:00Z")
I know I’m late to the thread, but I wanted to add a couple after reading. In junior high/middle school, one of my classmates went home after school and found his dad hanging dead in the living room. He was out of school for a couple weeks. When he returned, he didn’t want to talk about it to anyone, but you could tell he was having a hard time. A few weeks later, his mother came home and found him hanging dead in the same spot as his dad. Total waste of a nice guy and I can’t help but wonder if he had the help available to students now, that maybe he could of worked his way thru it. Old days sucked in a lot of ways. In high school, a student disappeared. Just a middle of the class student. not in any cliques or clubs. I didn’t know him by name, but I saw him enough to recognize him. A few days later he was found dead 70 miles _upstream_ in a river. Details are murky, but I remember he had head wounds and his pockets were full of rocks. It was ruled suicide, but I don’t think it was ever explained how or why a carless guy went 70 miles away, filled his pockets with rocks and jumped in a river when he lived about 6 blocks away from the same river. > [@digs](#): > > Oh, I went to a tiny college in Michigan, so not much, just the President of the school murdering his daughter-in-law… who was cheating on her husband with his father. This one is fucked up. The remarriage so soon for the husband, and reconciling with his dad a couple years later just muddle things up more. > [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > My chemistry teacher married one of his students soon after she graduated. I wonder if we hear about these things and sex with students because they are common or because they are uncommon? Because they sure make the news a lot. > [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > He was also the coach of the girls’ basketball team. Yep, he was having sex with one of the students on the team. This seems very common too. I was seeing a woman who was a gymnast up until college and her high school coach was had been arrested molesting/having sex some of the gymnasts. He rolled out the old “it was consensual” line but some were under the 16 year old age of consent and the others said they were forced into it. Considering the guy was a 50 year old guy that was probably 150 pounds overweight, I don’t think the girls were clamoring after his affections. > [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > The class president of 1977 – between graduation and the 5 year reunion – stole all the funds for the reunion, converted them into drugs and had himself a high time. No reunion That’s a lot of dedication on his part. He had a five year plan and he stuck with it. Many people lack that kind of resolve. 🙂 > [@TriPolar](#): > > Nothing worth noting when I was in school but my son was friends with this guy who made headlines for a [song he recorded about a teacher](http://www.mtv.com/news/1443545/students-version-of-hot-for-teacher-gets-an-f/) That’s not fair, we need to see the lyrics to judge. > [@Ashtura](#): > > One of the girls at our school allegedly had to go to the ER for masturbating with a frozen hotdog. Maybe we went to the same school at the same time, we had this rumor too. My sharp as a tack teenage mind said “why use a frozen hot dog when there are bananas and carrot sticks. And how did she get a frozen dog anyway?” > [@bobot](#): > > I attended Catholic schools from first grade through high school graduation. The scandals there were… you know. That thing you’re thinking… that’s the one. Was this the Father Sarducci Find- a the Pope-a In The Pizza scandal? > [@Gyrate](#): > > On the other hand, I went to Penn State in the 1980s, so… yeah, definitely some stuff going on there we all learned about later. It was known on the board, of course, as the Great Paper Towel Tube scandal. > [@silenus](#): > > Male gym teacher marrying 2 TAs after graduation (sequentially, not simultaneously) - check Why was he even let near another TA after the first one? How far apart were they? > [@Saintly\_Loser](#): > > That’s not scandalous. I mean, only _one_ teacher/administrator at your school had a bottle in his desk? Please. That’s nothing Yes, I’ve learned from TV that anyone who has a proper desk has booze stashed in it. Cop, teacher ,lawyer, judge. Booze all around. > [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Indeed. One pictures the dog considering it to be a chew toy, covered in peanut butter. 😬 No kidding! I know kids are sex crazy but geez, please use a little caution. > [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > … and that boy turned out to be Ron Jeremy. Now you know, the Rest of the Story. > [@JoseB](#): > > 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. You are a better man than I. Congrats on the way you’ve dealt with a horrible incident. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-school-scandal/941728/124 "2021-05-28T12:25:08Z")
> [@mordecaiB](#): > > That’s a lot of dedication on his part. He had a five year plan and he stuck with it. Many people lack that kind of resolve. 🙂 Good one. ---
**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 28, 2021, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-school-scandal/941728/125 "2021-05-28T16:20:51Z")
> [@mordecaiB](#): > > I wonder if we hear about these things and sex with students because they are common or because they are uncommon? Because they sure make the news a lot. I personally know two women who married their teachers (no, the marriages didn’t last) and a third who admitted an affair with one. My local school board is currently waiting on an investigator’s report on allegations that the high school administrators covered up a series of allegations against teachers from 25 years ago. My guess is it was always a lot more common than we knew about. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-school-scandal/941728/126 "2021-05-28T19:16:48Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > I personally know two women who married their teachers (no, the marriages didn’t last) and a third who admitted an affair with one. My local school board is currently waiting on an investigator’s report on allegations that the high school administrators covered up a series of allegations against teachers from 25 years ago. > > My guess is it was always a lot more common than we knew about. And before the last 15/20 years, it was all male teachers. Lately it seems like the female teachers are making a run for the lead. It’s no longer acceptable to shrug off female teacher/ male student as “Boy, what a lucky guy! I wish that happened to me!” Maybe it’s the sexist pig in me, but I don’t really understand what the women teachers are getting out of this kind of thing. For some men, experience means nothing, lack of experience may even be a plus. I don’t think most of them want to spend long nites by the fire reading poetry to the hot cheerleader/band geek . To them, I think it’s more like “Holy crap! Look at me, I’m banging a hot teenager!” Kind of the “just let me put it in somewhere” attitude. The women do seem to want to have long talks etc. But the sex ends up being quickies ( with high schoolers maybe very quick) in a car or hidden in the classroom. Where is the satisfaction in that for her? It’s like being in high school again. ---
**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 28, 2021, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-school-scandal/941728/127 "2021-05-28T20:56:37Z")
> [@mordecaiB](#): > > And before the last 15/20 years, it was all male teachers. At my high school our student council president got a teacher pregnant. She was married at the time, got divorced, and married the student. I’m pretty sure they’re still married, almost 40 years later. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-school-scandal/941728/128 "2021-05-28T21:14:21Z")
Apparently, there is nothing new under the sun. The more things change… ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-school-scandal/941728/129 "2021-05-28T21:30:46Z")
Not my school, but my niece went to school with Vili Fualaau (Mary Kay Letourneau). ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-school-scandal/941728/130 "2021-05-28T22:39:04Z")
Maybe this would be better discussed in the fetish thread 😁 ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-school-scandal/941728/131 "2021-05-28T23:22:07Z")
Good point! It would fit in there perfectly. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2021, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-school-scandal/941728/132 "2021-05-29T04:48:15Z")
A year or two after graduation, one of my classmates (that I’d known since the 4th grade or so) was found dead in the parking lot of his workplace. He had a bullet wound in the back of his skull. His wallet was open on his body, and his bank and credit cards were missing, along with any cash he may have been carrying. The coroner ruled his death a suicide, despite there being no gun at the scene. One of the responding officers was someone that my dad, a career firefighter, knew on a better-than-professional basis. I got the story from him one night when he was at my father’s house playing pool and drinking. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2021, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-school-scandal/941728/133 "2021-05-29T19:49:03Z")
Depending on who or what you believe, Gary Cooper (Grinnell College, class of '26) rode or walked a stolen horse up the stairs to the top floor of one of the dorms. He left school early but not because of the horse incident. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2021, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-school-scandal/941728/134 "2021-06-06T09:35:09Z")
When I was 24 I dated a woman who was 44 and apparently her thing was dating college aged men, I know she dated an 18 year old once. Since I eventually asked her why she dated so young she claimed that younger men despite being largely inexperienced were “quicker to reload” so to speak than older men and that they also tended to be much more gracious and romantic to older women than men her age or up to 10 years younger then her. I imagine female teachers going after students probably feel similar. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2021, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-school-scandal/941728/135 "2021-06-06T21:23:27Z")
Phys Ed teacher. Her parents were good friends with my parents, so one year, we got invited to a Christmas party at her house. In one room, she displayed a sizeable collection of Mardis Gras beads. At a class reunion, gossip stated that she had had an affair with the football quarterback. Our German teacher was a Holocaust survivor. One day, one of her students came to class dressed in an SS uniform. The principal was not amused. We never saw him after that. One of the teachers had a daughter enrolled in the school. She got pregnant. So, because of her scandal, he had to move to a different school. It sucked. He was one of the best math teachers we had. One day, one of the Spanish teachers got married to a Filipina mail-order bride. As far as I know, it did not affect his career, but it caused a LOT of gossip. A couple of years after I graduated, one of the teachers got arrested for sleeping with a student. At a class reunion, several women said that he never made a pass at them, but he did have a really creepy vibe. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-school-scandal/941728.md?page=6)