Dramatic events at school

[Marcella]

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The worst to happen that I can remember was in the school grounds, there was a horse chestnut tree, a pupil climbed up for the conkers only to fall down when he was nearly to the top, he was very badly injured and it took the ambulance men a long time to stabalise him before they could move him into the ambulance!.
He was never seen at school again, so I often wondered how he got on!...

The funniest was my headmistress, she always wore dark suits and always look quite sombre!.
One day as she was walking down the steps of the stage, she slipped and fell, showing a bright pink pair of bloomers, the whole assembly erupted in laughter and she didn't know where to put her face!.

[AmethystWitch]

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When I was in primary school, I think it must have been in a music lesson, we were all stood up in rows and the teacher was apparently (I hadn't been in the school long) one of those joker kinds, he started telling us what to do/sing or whatever but he suddenly just grabbed his chest and fell to the floor! All I remember is everyone laughing at him!!! I didn't know why but they thought he was joking around but after a few moments, we realised this wasn't a joke and someone just ran and got another teacher, he'd obviously had a heart attack and everyone was just laughing at him! It was awful, I think he was ok but that I'll never forget that.....

In high school, we were doing trampoling, this one girl got up, started jumping up and down, tried to do this special move and she must have slipped, she hit the trampoline with force and started screaming and crying! She'd broken her arm! Whether she'd hit the hard part of the trampoline I don't know but it didn't half look painful!


Another time in high school, my then boyfriend (M) had this massive argument with one of the teachers, the teacher took him outside of the mobile (we had a school and also several mobiles we had lessons in outside) and they continued to argue about something, I'm pretty sure the teacher poked M or something so he pushed the teacher into the mobile and somehow managed to shove his own elbow through the mobile's window! It was basically this huge bust up, M then got suspended, surprised he wasn't expelled! but people talked about it for ages after!! Everyone knew M had a temper, maybe the teacher played on it...dunno...mad lol

[Trickyvee]

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My high school was considered rough, but again not by today's standards. Generally people could be wild, but most people still seemed to have some level of respect for the teachers.

I do remember one incident when the whole school was in morning assembly and there was a girl who had been off for ages. She was right off the rails and suddenly appeared through the door at the front of the hall, either drunk or on drugs. She staggered over to the headmaster who was standing at the front and shouted "alright sir!" then wobbled her way up to the upstairs seats with a big grin on her face before sitting down like nothing was wrong. You could have heard a pin drop. Everyone was shocked.

[branny]

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I remember our teacher jumping out of the window to acost a trespasser on the roof in primary school.

Our secondary school had a reputation of being rough but when you got their the reality was different, then again in the late 70's nobody stole cars, drugs were unheard of in school and shock horror THREE girls in our year fell pregnant (it's 3 per class these days isn't it?). One of the girls lost her youngest aged 16 a few years back in a shooting which was big news locally. The only incidents I can recall as being dramatic were when some pupils got bored and went on strike. Quite boring really.

[Trickyvee]

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And not so dramatic, but in primary school there was a lot of concrete about. Can't believe we actually had concrete play structures built on a concrete yard and various sets of forbidden stairs. Whole place was an accident waiting to happen. Anyway it seemed there wasn't a day went by without someone falling off the concrete things/ down the boiler room steps and splitting their head open.

I never seemed to witness any of these falls and that phrase terrified me. I used to think people's heads actually split right down the middle into two halves . It was enough to stop me messing about.

[Richard1978]

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I remember there were a few false fire alarms at my school in a short time, including one when there was lots of snow on the ground.

[Trickyvee]

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We had a fire in high school once. The alarm went off and the teacher didn't send us out at first because it was always going off for nothing. Eventually we left but we were all sauntering along the corridor then we got to the top of the stairs and saw all this smoke in the adjoining corridor. At that point we all panicked (even the hard kids) and flung ourselves down the stairs, elbows and legs flying, everybody for themselves. It wasn't very exciting in the end. Someone had set fire to a bin in the toilet and it was out in seconds. Everybody got out unscathed.

[Richard1978]

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I remember during my first summer at secondary school there was a massive fight on the school field, complete with the large crowd chanting "fight!"

I was lucky to get well away before any teachers arrived, & anyone who was even watching it were put detention.

As I was walking home I overheard a converstion between 2 boys, one of whom had been asked to calm down someone who had been caught watch the above fight.

This apparently didn't go well as they got into a mental state normally reserved for demented chimps.

[tulip]

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Prepschoolboy,Spastic means something different.

Anyway let me see,at Primary school we had our dinner hall at the back of the playground.It was nestled inbetween the trees in a wooded area.We were suddenly told not to go there anymore.Now,I didn't have dinners,so I don't know if kids were escorted there at lunchtimes or it was out of bounds altogether.There apparently was a body found hanging from one of the trees,rumour has it that it was a murder.I remember for years afterward I couldn't look at my Primary one picture because it was taken there!

At high school one of our teachers went off the rails and my mate was in his class.He took the class to the school library and sat and meditated with some sort of scary statue thing!This was the guy who had a pet brick,he was an English teacher,and basically had his entire mental breakdown if front of half the school,he killed himself in the end!


tulip

[prepschoolboy]

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A boy in my class at prep school 'went spastic' (I know it isn't politically correct but it was what we called it a the time!) and threw a chair at the Headmaster, who taught us Latin. An hour or so later we saw him being carted off by his parents funnily enough never to be seen again.

[Richard1978]

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Another incident I can remember was when a couple of dodgy characters sneaked into the school grounds, found a bike that was unlocked in the bike sheds, & nicked it.

They were spotted in the act, & were chased over the school field by the classes using it at the time & into the woods behind, which made the whole event very farce like.

They dumped the bike there & ran off on foot.

I never heard any more about it, but as far as I know the bike was recovered alright.

[Marine Boy]

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I remember a bomb hoax at my school...

This remided me that after I'd left school, in the 90s I actually worked in a school. It was in Aldershot, an army town. As such we had two drills: the fire drill and the bomb drill! The difference was that the latter involved all the classes congregating MUCH further away - in a neighbouring field!

[Palazzo]

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Before it was knocked down you could just about make out my secondary school from my bedroom window. One summer evening all these alarms and sirens were going off all of a sudden, I took a look out my window and all you could see was smoke billowing from the direction of my school. Turns out that one of the science blocks had burnt down, to this day I'm not sure if it was actually determined how though. Either someone had done it on purpose or it was caused by something inside the building itself.

I can remember taking a look at the remains of the building itself the next day and being totally gutted at not getting a day off!

[Trickyvee]

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Someone in my year got knocked down by a drunk driver on the way to one of our exams. That was pretty dramatic, not to mention surreal as we were all pretty strung out anyway with it being one of the exams. It was right next to the school, so when we were going in all we could see was someone lying on the grass with people crowding around and all the teachers panicking. The victim thankfully lived to tell the tale, but it was all pretty horrific and at the time.

[Richard1978]

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I remember a bomb hoax at my school in the early 1990s, along with lots of false fire alarms because someone thought it was a good laugh to set them off every few weeks.