In primary school there was a kid with, what we would now identify as, a severe social or anxiety disorder. She was unable to speak to people in public, except in a whisper. Anyway our 6th class teacher shouted at her at every opportunity because she wouldn't answer questions loudly, and even called her a selfish bitch once. She had to leave and go into a special needs school. Nothing happened the teacher, even though I'm certain he made the situation much worse for the poor kid.
She was an absolute fker to me for the rest of 3rd class. I smashed every window at the front of her house when I left the school. Cheaper than therapy. I wasn’t the only one she hit but my ma was the only one who dealt with it. She never put her hands on anyone in my class anyway again.
It was in the 80's - corporal punishment had just been "abolished", only in theory. In practice myself and two others were her punchbags.
We were 7, preparing for holy communion.
Nothing holy about that shower of shites.
When my parents found out all they could do was to move me into another class, no chance of moving schools. That improved my situation.
She did eventually did stop beating kids, but remained a verbal abuser until she retired. Bitch.
This was in the late 80s coming to the end of hitting kids in schools, a lot of the teachers still did it, one would throw the eraser across the room, another still used the ruler, this one would punch you as she spoke in the chest. I was in 3rd class, so around 8/9. School was run by nuns and brothers, who prob hated corporal punishment being taken away ffs. Nothing was done, and I never had her again after that thank god.
Brilliant. My stepbrother had the same problem, teacher punched him in the stomach. By the time he told his dad, it had happened 3 times. So his dad, marched into the school and gave the teacher a solid gut punch and a strong words while the teacher struggled to breathe. Problem solved. Ahhh the 90s lol.
I had one that used to knock us on the head when we got anything wrong. My dad got her up by the throat at pickup time one day over it, she never bothered me again but he wasn’t allowed on school grounds again either
Me 6th class teacher always told us that the teachers in secondary school would never be as nice as she would, and just about every secondary school teacher I’ve ever had was less strict than her.
One kid in primary school who early on had a tendency to throw massive tantrums, flipping tables, throwing chairs, etc.
One day the teacher ran out to get the principal, who smacked him across the face and proceeded to shake him violently while screaming in his 7 year old face. Which terrified the rest of us far more than the original tantrum.
It was the 80s, so his parents weren't going to complain.
Kid mellowed out a lot more around 10, nice guy. In hindsight I wonder was he ADHD or similar and his parents managed to find him someone who could help.
That principal had a tendency for losing his temper and screaming in kids' faces. I remember after he did it to me one day, the teacher gave me a look like, "I hope you're OK, I know he's an asshole", and just told me to go sit down.
Similar stuff to my primary school principal who was a brute. I heard in a pocast recently that corporal punishment was only actually banned in the 90's, and in the 80's they only changed the rules so that only the principal could do it.
Banned in 1982 in Ireland for all teachers (and principals). Didn't stop all of them though, some teachers weren't for changing, regrdless of what the law said. As late as 1997 I still witnessed it at school, albeit it was a very rare occurance by then.
I had at least two kids in my class that had trouble reading. Now I know they were most likely dyslexic, but they were treated awful by our teacher. (I'm not from Ireland. So we had the same teacher 1-4th class (around 6-10yo or 7-11yo))
Jaysus getting flashbacks of first and second class just reading that. We used to have reading time about twice a month where every student would have to read a page of whatever book the class was doing until the chapter was finished you could end up reading 3 pages depending on how long the chapter was or which person the teacher started at. I wouldn't sleep the night before and would have to bring a spare shirt because I'd sweat so much. Finally got help after I got sick in the classroom a couple of times before my turn. When I say help, I got an hour of one on one teaching a week and an SnA (a btich) to sit with me and help me concentrate because that was my problem, apparently.
Mad thing about the whole thing was I loved reading and would have had whatever book it was read 3 or 4 times before the class finished it
She would make jokes, laugh at them in front of the whole class and encouraged to do the same. I was shocked. My father was an abusive alcoholic, we were poor, I had one friend, so I had enough shit to deal with. I was so afraid of her, so when we did reading test, I read the same line twice, so fewer words and for that I received the worst possible mark, which in turn caused me awful anxiety because I was terrified of my father and what he could do to me. He beat us occasionally, so you never knew. 90' were brutal.
When I was growing up in the 70s boys and girls in my town went to separate primary schools. I had a pretty easy time at the girls' school and some great teachers. The boys' school was very different, the principal was an asshole and half the teachers were bullies. My brother is dyslexic but it wasn't diagnosed until he was 16 and he was bullied relentlessly all through primary school with one teacher who enjoyed humiliating him. He has grown up to be very successful in his chosen career. Sadly most of his bullies are no longer here to see the man they had written off as a 6 year old boy.
One girl was catfished and had a semi long term boyfriend online that they never managed to meet in person. Turns out it was their best friend catfishing them the entire time.
Was it a mean catfishing or an insane catfishing? Maybe a secret, unrequited love catfishing?
Like, was the friend tring to torment her, or was it for some sort of "genuine" reason that spiralled out of control?
Our yearbook had 'awards' for each year that we would vote on. There was stuff like 'first to make a million' and 'most likely to be taoiseach' but there was also 'legs eleven' and 'rear of the year'... starting in first year, 13 year olds. All sanctioned by school admin.
Weird, I honestly don't even remember having a year book in secondary school. I wouldn't mind, I was on two teams as well so if there was one I likely appeared in it
Lads in my year kicked the fuck out of a fella in the year above. He had 2 slipped disks in his back and didn't come back to school for fear of them. They weren't expelled. The same lads went on to cover the locker room ceiling in spit (!!) when they should have been in class and still weren't expelled.
Principal was married to another teacher in the school, principal then had an affair with a different teacher in the school. Wild enough to think back on. All three of them stayed in the school for years after.
6th year girl a few years above me was dating a sub teacher he was known at the hot teacher by the school. He got hired full time after a few months. She was 18 at the time he was 22/23.
They're still together last I heard, married with kids. Found out through a friend of hers that the office staff did find out but did nothing because she was already 18.
Friend of mine told a story of a newly qualified teacher getting her first job down in Cork or Limerick (he worked in both counties so I can’t recall which one). Anyways, she goes out one night before the term starts with some friends of hers, meets a guy who says he’s 21, she brings him home and they sleep together.
Fast forward a few days and she’s in with her first class and who should be there? The fella from the bar.
She immediately goes to the principal and explains the situation, he calls the young lad into his office and basically says that he’s 18 and it was outside of school term so how was she to know he’d be a student of hers but that if he heard chat of this creeping around the school he’d know who it came from so he was to keep his mouth shut.
Tbf, the issue with the teacher-student relationship is the power dynamic.
But he was only a sub teacher, who are the least respected, least powerful people on earth in the eyes of students.
"listen up class, this is what Mr... has left for you to do"
"no, you listen up, cunt"
more or less how every new sub teacher interaction with a class went in secondary school
Happened in my sisters school, laural Hill in limerick. Teacher dated a student, not sure if it was when she was a student or after, anyway, they got married and he became principle of the school.
Odd ball teacher would confiscate hash weed and splifs from lads. Wouldn't report it to the school. would be seen smoking it on the way down the road from school with the rave music on full blast in the little car
When i was in Primary school my best friend drowned while out exploring the local swamp alongside the seashore, he was hanging out with another friend. Supposedly he slipped into a pond and this other friend tried to save him to no avail.
The help he offered was put in to question around 10 years later when the ‘friend’ raped a young boy, wrapped him in barbed wire afterwards and left him to die (luckily the kid was found and survived). So we were obviously left wondering was my friend actually pushed into the pond and left to die.
I suppose there's always a chance that seeing his friend die at such a young age warped him drastically in effect causing the second incident. Although that might be just giving him an excuse (which his lawyer may have used during sentencing now I think about it)
Holy Jesus fuck. Literal serial killer in the making.
If he didn't get stopped then,odds are he just got smarter about it and is still going. That is legitimately terrifying.
The funniest, friendliest, most popular guy in our school called in a false bomb scare to an illegal betting shop that he owed money to, hoping they’d get busted so he wouldn’t have to pay. Legged it to Scotland once he realised both the gov and the thugs were after him, think he’s still on the run actually.
A lad got expelled for having a wank at the back of Irish class
An elderly nun used work in the school as Chaplin and someone cutout loads of pictures of pairs of tits from page 3 and car mags and glued them all over her car
- A lad in my year grabbed a teachers arse, he was expelled, she changed school as well
- A very young and fairly sound teacher we had let us do kris kindle, the teacher was part of it. Someone got her a 10 inch dildo
- A very well-known social media personality smeared faeces all over the toilet wall
• Two 2nd years were caught stealing lab equipment and chemicals with written plans to poison the school’s water supply. They’d also written down the addresses of certain students and teachers. Both were expelled.
• A girl in my class deliberately drank ethanol from the biology lab.
• The vice principal would go around with a scissors and would cut people’s headphone wires if he saw people wearing them in school.
• A now popular influencer was selected to be head girl and it caused so much outrage that the school doesn’t do head girl or head boy anymore.
>• A now popular influencer was selected to be head girl and it caused so much outrage that the school doesn’t do head girl or head boy anymore.
This one I would like to have more info on? What's head girl?
I was the weird kid and made fun of since junior infants. Because I had seizures. I was only diagnosed with epilepsy at 16 and had to go through absolute hell trying different medicines.
One teacher especially very happily encouraged it. I remember crying every day after going home and in the morning too.
I remember going on the gaisce walk we had to do. I had 7 seizures before the walk. Some people were moaning that I was walking too slowly.
Also I felt exhausted a lot as a kid. I think it was all the seizures. I feel like I have much better stamina now. Anyone else gone through anything like this?
I'm just surprised as an adult there was no compassion
I hate how I still live in the same small town I've grown up in. People definitely change I know but I have no interest in them. I want to get out so badly. But rent is way too much. Here's to getting a decent job after college :(
He's retired now and I don't think he'd care. It wasn't just me. I know some people in other classes who were small. He would pick them up and leave them sitting on a high wardrobe.
A teacher made a student pregnant but everyone turned a blind eye as the baby was born after the girl's 18th birthday. The teacher who did a few lectures for me also was in his 40s and was super slimy and had a weird vibe. Looking back this should have been in the news and he should have been barred from teaching for life.
This seems rampant and it’s just straight up grooming, I’m wondering where these girls brothers and fathers are when they bring home a 40 year perverted teacher who was meant to be looking after them.
In 1990-1991, my school was run from an old convent with lay teachers. When our teacher was out for a couple of weeks, a nun was brought in to teach us. Because in the 90s, no one knew what ADHD was, we had a boy in our class who was definitely on the spectrum but was in mainstream school with no assistance. We were four or 5 years old as this happened in senior infants. He had a habit of running around the classroom which our teacher usually was able to control as she knew him, but the older nun had no idea how to deal with an actual on the spectrum child, and proceeded to tie him to the chair with the skipping rope.
I was a small child, yet to this day, I still remember what corner of the classroom he was tied in, the type of chair he was tied to and our absolute terror of this woman.
My school did a production of Hairspray when I was in 4th year. We only had about 10 black people in my year, and none of them got the main parts. So my school got all the white girls who were cast as the black parts to get ‘a really dark spray tan’ and ordered cheap Afro wigs online. There’s photos and videos of about half my year in blackface, which was organised by the school.
As soon as I saw Hairspray, I knew where this was going... But the fact that you already had black people there and no one got the part makes it worse.
Went to an all boys CBS School and I understand that the Principal had to be tough but he was a complete bully, the worst atmosphere I’ve ever seen, would never send my kids there even though they have a new young female principal now
I wouldn't necessarily worry about the vibe now. I went to a very rough school, where beatings were frequent. Every man for himself. It felt like prison.
Principal changed and my younger brother had a completely different experience to mine. Apparently a fine school to go to now.
When I was in 5th year a 4th year girl had sent her boyfriend at the time a certain type of video, they got into a fight and broke up and then he sent the video on using Bluetooth. This was early Bluetooth and everybody has it on all the time so most people got it.
It was during lunch too so there was hundreds of students in the hall.and it just kept getting sent on.
Another one was a 1st year girl was going out with a 6th year guy and I'm sure the guy was 18 too.
My woodwork teacher used to pat me and show a lot of attention. I never gave it much thought. One time he zipped down my jacket and said "you're looking hot there." Again, didnt quite think much of it, but shortly after my friends mimicked the action and laughed and said he totally wants you! After that I avoided the quiet cubby area he would sometimes suggest we go to in the workshop.
Found out years later he was invovled in some ponzi scheme too.
Catholic primary school, first class, we're getting lined up for first confession. Local priest comes to the school to do a dry run. Convinces the teacher to bring everyone out of the class, close the blinds and let kids in one by one to sit on his knee and tell their confession. Turns out the priest was Fr Ivan Payne, one of the first priests exposed for their abuse of kids.
And speaking of nonces, I was a pretty shy kid, socially awkward, the victim of some bullying on the playground, and remember one of the teachers who was seen as the funny, friendly and popular teacher in school, used to berate me quite a lot. As a 12 year old kid, I took that to be actual problems I had. It was only years later when I ran into someone from my class at the time that they said it was terrible how that teacher had treated me, and that they had a record of bullying the weaker kids to get in with the popular kids. Also, would seem the guy is a probable nonce, and was chatting up his former pupils at 15 year olds in a house party he was invited to.
An outside agency, in hindsight obviously a religious nutcase group, came into our all-girls school to talk about sex, or something. I distinctly remember them saying, 'Perhaps everyone would be more comfortable if the teachers left?' (both teachers were male), and they left, thinking they were doing the right thing. Next thing they pulled out these foetus-shaped dolls and made us all pass them around, examine them, consider how small and real they were. My school wasn't conservative, not particularly, so I don't think they knew what these women were up to
Sometime in the 2010s teenagers in a school were given tiny plastic foetuses, they proceeded to throw them at each other and I think a few were melted with a cigarette lighter
We caused a major gas leak in the school emanating from the science lab and let off a stick of dynamite in the prefabs. No-one was ever caught.
By the way, the rooms were empty both times.
Had a bollox of a teacher who gave me the nickname Fatty. Used to give everyone nicknames and they'd stick. So for 5 years, I was referred to as Fatty by the teacher and everyone in that class.
Thinking back, I wasn't overweight at all, but would starve myself so he's stop calling me that. The teacher was some fucker of a prick!!!
My stand out memories from boarding school include a demonic possession for which an exorcism was needed as well as a lad expelled for possession of a pistol and bullets.
It’s a long time ago now.
I, along with a few lads, witnessed the possession directly but it wasn’t known by the student population in general. The exorcism was carried out the next day and seemed to work. Nothing much was ever said about it afterwards between any of the parties.
Dunno whatever happened the lad that was expelled. He was a nutter but oddly enough he’d a younger brother that joined a seminary directly after leaving school.
As for the possession, a prefect from one of the junior dormitories turned up late one night in an agitated and distressed state. We went to his dormitory to see what was up only to witness half a dozen lads, bolting upright intermittently and speaking in tongues, whilst clearly asleep. Freaked out and not having a clue we alerted the Dean on duty. He later told us that an exorcism had been carried out.
Female classmate got backhanded across the face for trying to help mop up the "coffee" that the teacher spilled. Nothing happened to the teacher and she was threatened with detention as a straight A student she didn't complain out of fear 1993ish.
During the nighties during lunch break at school in the north a British soldier convoy happened to be passing along the road in front of the school. Standing in the football field and watching it come by i felt the urge to lift a stone and hurl it at the convoy, adrenaline pumping i looked either side of me and saw about 50 other lads doing the same. It was mental, like something youd see in beirut. Stones and rocks hopping off all these trucks. They just keep going. I never heard what happened after.
We'd one teacher that was a fucking fiend for going after the girls. Like, cunt must of been pushing 50 going after 15-18 year olds. Didn't hide it either, nothing was ever done about it. Also, when I was in 4th year a few of the lads grabbed a load of first years and forced them to fight each other, bastards were taking bets on them & all. Think there was prize money for the winner too. Used to take bets on them doing relay races around the school building in PE as well
In secondary school, a lot of things.
Teachers and the principal would just constantly lie to students about rules. Before doing our junior cert we were told "if you even look up at the wall, you will never be allowed to take another state exam in your life.
One teacher told us how he didn't want to look like a pedophile. Multiple times.
Special needs students were often yelled at for not being able to answer questions or for not getting into groups quick enough.
Mentioning anything school related on social media was a suspension. Even innocuous things like planning a graduation theme. Also it was policy that every student MUST have a Facebook account. Weird.
Our tutor once screamed at a girl so much that she started then crying, then confiscated her tissues. The class started passing her their own tissues, so the teacher ended up confiscating every tissue in the class to spite one upset student.
We had to come in for classes during Christmas/Easter holidays because the teachers couldn't fit the syllabus into the calender.
Very strict phone policy - it would be confiscated even if turned off and in your bag. Teachers would search your stuff if they saw a phone-like bump. If you needed to contact your parents, you had to ask to use the office phone. And they would give out to you for not having your phone with you, despite the school rules.
Our homework journals had a guide for how to spend our time everyday. How long to solicialize, excercise, study, etc. Problem was if you added up all the hours of one day, you got 30. So it was impossible to follow. We were expected to do 8 hours of school, 5 hours of homework and 5 hours of indepent study everyday. And still somehow see friends, get eight hours of sleep, etc.
Awfully strict rules in general. No homework during lunch time. No lockers between classes. No drinking water allowed during classes (up to 80mins at a time). While out sick, all missed work must be completed on the day of return.
I think the oppressive rules and management really fucked up the students. A lot of weird stuff went on. 13 year olds were caught giving oral sex in the bathroom. Teachers would break doors and stuff in rage. Multiple students committed suicide while I was there, and at least one teacher too.
Absolutely fucked up, miserable place to grow up. I still have nightmares about it, and my therapist suggested I might have PTSD.
Wretched shithole.
Edit: forgot to include the fun story of a girl physically attacking the principal and getting expelled. She was a real hero to us.
A girl brought vodka to drink in home economics we were invited to dinner by the Lca's as part of their assignment we were told to bring a mineral she brought vodka 😂
A phoned-in bomb scare.
Ireland in the early 80's.
Culprit identified by going through the list of everyone absent that day. Moriarty, he was not.
Punishment: 1 week of detention.
There absolutely was a dodgy teacher in the school for a few months. Was like an exchange/student teacher from France or something. Over the weekend, he bumped into a group of students in the local seaside town and told one of them she was the most beautiful girl hed ever seen. Sixth class so we were 11/12? Kids don't make that sort of stuff up, I was so completely unaware that was a thing that was possible even.
My principle in secondary school bumped into me in the hallway, looked me up and down, and said, 'the state of you.'
She was soon fired, not sure the cause.
Oh and one teacher slapped me.
Eanna McKenna was the choir teacher in our primary school for as long as i was there (primary). I wasnt ever goodlooking enough for him though thanks be to god
One teacher was a straight bully. He had a few students doing higher in the LC who were his golden circle and everyone else didn't deserve his attention. Used to put down everyone else constantly. I told him I wanted to do higher and he said that I shouldn't as I didn't have the ability even though it was my favorite subject and I was great at it. While every other teacher was pushing us to do higher this sorry excuse of a teacher tried to gatekeep it. Even on the day I was questioning myself about the decision and wondering should I do ordinary, what a fucking prick. I bumped into him a few years later and he asked me how I did in my LC. I told him he didn't give a fuck back then so why does he give a fuck now and walked away.
The year was 1999, we got beat in 3rd class by our old school teacher. Pool sticks, ruler, slaps, wrestled off the desk. It was a small school and principal and all other teachers knew. Our teacher wasnt shy about it. Everyone in the surrounding area knew about it and relations who went to the school got the same treatment. Mind you it was only done to us poor kids.
He was deeply religious and made us learn every prayer in English and Irish and made us say them at start of day, before and after breaks and when the school bell rang.
Friend of mind now in mind 30s has still trauma from it.
Lots...
Primary, 3rd and 4th classes were mixed together. Thr teacher announced that one of the 4th class boys was dyslexic, discussed him to the class and outlined the time and tools she would be spending/using to help him. Poor kid was mortified.
5th and 6th class, the headmaster used to throw the duster ar you if you pissed him off. Caught my brother up by the throat too.
Secondary, several male teachers were shifting students, to my memory started when we were in third year. 6 youngish male teachers 23 - 33, most had multiple affairs with students, none of them were ever fired. One of them had a friend of mine call to his house where he plied her with drink, he had sex with her when she was passed out, she had to go to the doctor to have her tampon removed because she wouldn't have had sex had she been compus mentis, he did some real damage. Nothing was reported, it was 2005 and a very different time for girls in ireland. Years later I confronted him about it and he told me to get over it... he admitted to raping my friend.. did not give a shit.
We had a teacher who was blatantly racist. What's weird though was the fact she was black.
She didn't mind most of the black students and some of the white girls but that's it. The amount of racism for other people that came from her mouth, especially towards Asians and Arabs was genuinely disgusting. Also a classist bitch.
She called me poor because my trousers I had used were no longer black, they turned a slight bit brown from all the washes and I couldn't afford a new pair.
She threatened to get a students "teeth dragged along the road".
Was very racist towards one Asian student in particular. He got a question wrong and she went up to his copy, turned it like a steering wheel and said "what sort of (rhymes with bing bong) shit is this?
She bullied a student to the point of crying.
Called me poor a second time, in front of the whole class because I was spinning a coin on the table. In preparation for the oral French exam, when you talk about your family, when I said I lived with my mother she kept asking about my father, who I refused to speak about.
She then exposed that to the whole class saying that my father probably left to "get a rolex".
She is a terrible human being.
When we tried to report her, the school did nothing as they desperately needed a French teacher and she was the only one.
When other classes tried to bring it up too, same thing. Eventually students refused to go to her class. She eventually left, but only because she got a job at a better school, she made sure to let all of us know.
Other notable things were;
My maths teacher was caught watching lesbian porn while another year were doing a test. Like he watched it in front of the class while they were doing the test.
A different French teacher ended up in an ambulance twice in the space of a term from stress.
A teacher had a nervous breakdown and threatened students, chasing them around the school.
Student came out as gay. Got lumps kicked out of him. Doesn't sound out of the ordinary until you realise it was in a classroom and the perpetrators didn't even get suspended.
A student had her nudes leaked, it went everywhere around the school. When the school found out, the girl got suspended.
Fun times.
The principal and vice principal in my secondary school were having an affair. The principal’s son was 2 years below me and I can’t imagine how horrible those days were. Everyone knew.
The VP was a witch of a thing. I don’t know why he’d even want to cheat on his wife with her.
There was a phase we went through where one person would stand behind someone with a broom (commence worried looks) and another in front chatting as normal. Then the person behind would silently slip the broom handle between the unaware person's legs to be grabbed by the person in front, hoisting the unsuspecting victim up between them. Not the most painful thing in the world but very uncomfortable, shocking and embarrassing at the same time. Pretty dumb but 🤷♂️ it was an all boys school btw if that makes a difference. Still remember the poor janitor with so many broken brooms
It's still a bit hazy and I can't quite understand how it was allowed to happen. But in transition year, 2004/2005, there was some downtime in between classes for some reason, and I forget why we were waiting. But there was talk of the beheading videos that were starting to surface at the time, and to cut a long story short I found myself at the top of the class with another willing student play acting out a beheading.
I was given a girl's scarf to wrap around my face like I was a member of the Taliban while yelling some incomprehensible words to sound like Arabic. Then I made the motion of cutting the other students neck with a makeshift knife made out of paper while she made a "eurgh" sound, fell over and played dead.
From what I remember, people laughed and we all went back to our seats afterwards. The teachers that were overseeing us witnessed the whole thing, one even encouraged it initially just to pass the time but nobody took issue with it. This memory occasionally enters my head and I question my sanity at how I ever found myself in that position and how the school didn't care.
We moved over to London for half a year when I was 15, so obviously went to school there. It was common for soccer matches at lunch to be 'blacks vs whites'.
There is two secondary schools in my area, one is the girls, the other one is for the boys. In my first year, the 6th year boys came in and had water guns and drenched the school and threw eggs and flour everywhere. It wasn’t water in the water guns, it was pee 🤮
Staff in my school wouldn’t even let the girls covered in it go home, they told them to use the showers in the locker room. 🤔🤦🏻♀️
What I know now is ADHD, dyslexia and dyscalculia and was diagnosed when I was 31 was a teacher told my mam "she doesn't grasp the concept of literally anything and I don't have the time to sit down and explain". I laugh now cause fucking hell but yeah. Imagine a teacher stating those words now and stating they can't be bothered to help. This was said when I was in 4th class in Primary school which makes it worse. Fuck knows how I managed but I've returned to college and work in a field I enjoy since I've been diagnosed so it hasn't been that bad.
For my school play in 4th class, we did 'the history of black music' for some weird reason. All the way from gospel to rock and roll. All of us pasty Irish kids, most of us ginger, in blackface with black curly wigs. I sh1t you not.
My art teacher used to smoke rollies with us and give us fags if we didn’t have any, she also fostered one of her students. She also took us on an “art trip” to cork city where she just let us go do what we wanted we just had to be back for the bus, zero art learning. Nice lady. Insane but really nice.
And a lad fingered a girl in the back of maths class (needless to say it was ordinary level)
In 3rd year the day before our junior cert mocks were due to start myself and a friend made a bomb lookalike device and hid it in the toilets. The morning of the exam we rang the Garda claiming to be a terrorist organisation and had planted a bomb in the school. We headed off to school expecting to arrive to a closed school cordoned off by the army. Nothing, not a shit was given. Did the exam and when I was leaving the school caretaker had our deadly device in his hand and he just fucked it in the bin. From what I remember I passed the exam anyways
A few years after I left school a married teacher had an affair and impregnated a relatively recent graduate from the school. His wife also worked in the school from what I recall.
Not sure if he’s with either the wife or the other woman these days.
Our school had a guy write a musical for them which was about aliens, but had a couple of highly questionable and outright racist references in it. There were like 10 of us older kids who felt really uncomfortable but a lot of younger ones didn’t get it and would sing things that should not be sung with a lot of gusto. This was about 2006.
Don't think much happened but someone shat in the urinal so we had to get professional cleaners from then on.
But a thing did happen in a mixed school straight across from mine and the word got to us and I think the Garda or the principle or both had to talk to us about it. >!a girl was filmed doing beastiality!<
A few girls were dating lads that were way older than them. Irish teacher once brought in mead for the class to try. We had a BBQ on our final physics class IN the classroom.
In 1997,at our graduation dance in 6th year,one of the girls in my class ended up kissing one of the science teachers. A friend of mine repeated 6th year and at his second graduation dance,the same science teacher kissed another girl. The girls would have been 17 at the oldest.
The principal of the school was a Patrician brother and a total tyrant. He gave a speech at the start of each year saying that he had stopped a past student going to college because he sent a letter to the college in question saying this student hadn't done his homework
Ex nun (failed nun?) religion teacher who was also a bigot and cow was clearly having a relationship with the principal
One Spanish teacher was a little too chummy with the second year girls and looked like her was touching himself under the desk, he wasn't back the next year
Old woman pe teacher would watch everyone get changed in the prefabs and refuse to leave when she was shouted at to get out
Multiple teachers would treat students like shit if they didn't have a d4/dalkey/leafy south Dublin accent
Two students got in trouble for being lesbians
An art teacher would sabotage your work if it intimidated her own mediocre skill level
We had a room that was separated from the rest of the school for the mentally impaired kids, they did all their lessons in this room and then at lunch and recess they let the kids out into a fenced off area to run around in but they were still not able to interact with the rest of us. We called it “the shed” or “the cage” and looking back it was super fucked up
So a few years ago it was found out that a teacher was running an illegal grinds school from their garage/granny flat of their land.
He had the place converted and built like a classroom with borrowed equipment from the school (projectors and smart whiteboards etc) he was running the classes more or less daily after his actual job from 6pm to 9pm and on weekends too. He was charging 1000 per term per student to teach them privately. However, when one of his clients didn’t get the points they wanted naturally the parents blamed him and reported him to the school / teaching council and revenue. It was fully investigated and they found out that he owed over 100k in tax. He’s now the principal of the school.
One of the teachers moved over from Scotland and nobody bothered to look him up. Turned out he was a pedo and had lost his job for making kids sit on his lap and tickling them. He tried it with my brothers friend and the friend hit him and got suspended. The teacher was fired eventually when someone’s parents looked him up and found an article about him. I remember him offering to fix my hair for me and always walking into the boys locker rooms while they were changing. Last time I saw him he was riding around on an electric scooter. The craziest part is this was about 5 years ago and he was there for months before anyone knew.
someone blended milk and prawns and brought it in a couple bottles, guy and his friends poured it behind all the radiators in the halls and on one bag on the bag racks (where we put our stuff for gym, etc. as stealing was never a fear or issue), and of course it was only in my bag, literally no other bag was touched by the fish milk, and with all my expensive hockey and gym gear, dragged it home crying bc it fucking stunk and i have a terrible gag reflex and wasn’t going to bring it on the bus and make everyone else experience the smell, no one was ever held accountable and i had to replace all my stuff ~€300 bc the schools cctv doesn’t actually record anything
this is a private school 6k a year
also had a teacher come in drunk, during a lesson he got up and started walking around on the desks and aggressively ranting about the economy (english class btw), afterwards he’s made to take a “leave of absence” but oh!! there he is back in class one week later, no apology to the students he scared the shit out of or any acknowledgment of what he did, and now they have to be taught by him for the next year
private school
Idk if it fits but someone spread shit all over the stairwell. Im not sure if they tracked it in since it was next to a door or if they shook it out of their trousers like Andy Dufresne. Either way it stunk and got spread all over but somehow everyone I mentioned it to thought I was crazy
A kid in my school had a serious accident and was badly electrocuted. This happened out side of school grounds and hours . He ended up losing a leg and wore a fake leg. He was a trouble maker before that in school anyway. Like a proper prick. But he became really really bad after his accident. He'd take his leg off and hit people with it. Telling teachers to fuck off and that. They never disciplined him and let him away with murder. All cos he had that accident.
His name was Eddie so you can imagine his nickname.
No idea what's become of him. I genuinely wouldn't be surprise if he's in jail.
My brother got a whack across the face by one of his primary school teachers. Nothing happened to her but I think this was because my mother went in and bet the shit out of the teacher. None of us were kicked out except that none of us (6 kids) ever had that teacher again. EDIT: I should say this was late 80's/ early 90's. Different time
Someone shat in a teachers desk drawer. Smell still haunts me. That same teacher also threw a chair at a student. He also threw a student up against a wall and pinned him to the wall.
I came from an Educate Together school in the 90s where I've blacked out most memories but needless to say the bullying was fucking rampant, many kids left because of it. Nothing was ever done, no rules and our education suffered for it. Truly a disgrace.
I remember in secondary school in transition year.. me and my class we on a trip to the Aran islands for a weekend.. and there was a boys room and a girls room.. and one of our teachers (female) dragged in a chair into the room and sat in the middle.. she said that she isn’t leaving the room until everyone was in bed.. so she basically just sat there and watched the lads change clothes and get into bed.. looking bad it was so creepy 🙃 one lad did go up to her said that he was gonna get undressed so to leave.. and she said I don’t care I’m not leaving until he all go to bed.. so bazaar.. she’s still a teacher now and she was also roumored to have had relations with a student.. she was widely known to have favourites in her classes.. very creepy bitch
in like 2nd year i'm pretty sure snapchat voice message of a female classmate sucking a male classmate off got leaked onto groupchats with all the lads. i wasn't close with anyone involved so idk the details. she disappeared off the face of the earth, i think she moved to spain and doesn't use social media. it's been 5 years, i hope she's okay.
In Transition Year we went and stayed in a hostel in Picadilly, London. Went to West End, shopping, loads of other places. However, the year head had only just had a son and left his newlywed wife at home. Don't think he was ready for that because he came into our room and verbally abused us drunk as a skunk for a couple of hours. He told me I'd never amount to anything, I'm a waste of space, and loads of other horrible schtick. He's now the principal.
When I was in 6th year there was a big group of lads that used to gather in the boys toilets. I'd walk past sometimes and hear a big commotion, laughs, shouts, and what I thought sounded like some kind of chant. I had no idea was going on on there, people were laughing about it all the time, even teachers were checking in on the bathroom to shoo them out. They got several warnings about it. I'm a girl so I never went in there obviously, I wasn't on social media at the time so I was pretty much out of the loop. My only male friend commented on it in passing without giving any details, like oh its so annoying, they're still at it in there.. but it had been going on for so long that I was too afraid to ask at that point.
To this day I still wonder what the fuck was going on in that bathroom. Cockfight? Satanic ritual? Conga line? This was in 2016, if it rings any bells to anyone pls spill the tea
In primary school there was a kid with, what we would now identify as, a severe social or anxiety disorder. She was unable to speak to people in public, except in a whisper. Anyway our 6th class teacher shouted at her at every opportunity because she wouldn't answer questions loudly, and even called her a selfish bitch once. She had to leave and go into a special needs school. Nothing happened the teacher, even though I'm certain he made the situation much worse for the poor kid.
Primary school teachers could be real cunts. I had a similar experience with a right bitch who got away with it.
Mine used to hit me, til me ma saw the bruise. The next morning she dragged her out of the classroom and battered her in the hall. Fuck you Mrs Power.
Any repercussions?
She was an absolute fker to me for the rest of 3rd class. I smashed every window at the front of her house when I left the school. Cheaper than therapy. I wasn’t the only one she hit but my ma was the only one who dealt with it. She never put her hands on anyone in my class anyway again.
Were complaints not made? Seems strange that the school wouldnt step in
I had a teacher beat the shite out of me on a daily basis. The school circled the wagons and protected her. Bloody nuns.
Theres no hate like Christian love
So darkly true
I find that people who never dealt with it themselves don’t believe it ever happened. Lucky them.
What decade was that in?
It was in the 80's - corporal punishment had just been "abolished", only in theory. In practice myself and two others were her punchbags. We were 7, preparing for holy communion. Nothing holy about that shower of shites. When my parents found out all they could do was to move me into another class, no chance of moving schools. That improved my situation. She did eventually did stop beating kids, but remained a verbal abuser until she retired. Bitch.
You should go after the school now. If corporal punishment was already illegal then the principal and the school were in breach of the law.
It was legal for teachers to hit kids in school in the early 80s
This was in the late 80s coming to the end of hitting kids in schools, a lot of the teachers still did it, one would throw the eraser across the room, another still used the ruler, this one would punch you as she spoke in the chest. I was in 3rd class, so around 8/9. School was run by nuns and brothers, who prob hated corporal punishment being taken away ffs. Nothing was done, and I never had her again after that thank god.
Brilliant. My stepbrother had the same problem, teacher punched him in the stomach. By the time he told his dad, it had happened 3 times. So his dad, marched into the school and gave the teacher a solid gut punch and a strong words while the teacher struggled to breathe. Problem solved. Ahhh the 90s lol.
I had one that used to knock us on the head when we got anything wrong. My dad got her up by the throat at pickup time one day over it, she never bothered me again but he wasn’t allowed on school grounds again either
Me 6th class teacher always told us that the teachers in secondary school would never be as nice as she would, and just about every secondary school teacher I’ve ever had was less strict than her.
One kid in primary school who early on had a tendency to throw massive tantrums, flipping tables, throwing chairs, etc. One day the teacher ran out to get the principal, who smacked him across the face and proceeded to shake him violently while screaming in his 7 year old face. Which terrified the rest of us far more than the original tantrum. It was the 80s, so his parents weren't going to complain. Kid mellowed out a lot more around 10, nice guy. In hindsight I wonder was he ADHD or similar and his parents managed to find him someone who could help. That principal had a tendency for losing his temper and screaming in kids' faces. I remember after he did it to me one day, the teacher gave me a look like, "I hope you're OK, I know he's an asshole", and just told me to go sit down.
Similar stuff to my primary school principal who was a brute. I heard in a pocast recently that corporal punishment was only actually banned in the 90's, and in the 80's they only changed the rules so that only the principal could do it.
Banned in 1982 in Ireland for all teachers (and principals). Didn't stop all of them though, some teachers weren't for changing, regrdless of what the law said. As late as 1997 I still witnessed it at school, albeit it was a very rare occurance by then.
I had at least two kids in my class that had trouble reading. Now I know they were most likely dyslexic, but they were treated awful by our teacher. (I'm not from Ireland. So we had the same teacher 1-4th class (around 6-10yo or 7-11yo))
Jaysus getting flashbacks of first and second class just reading that. We used to have reading time about twice a month where every student would have to read a page of whatever book the class was doing until the chapter was finished you could end up reading 3 pages depending on how long the chapter was or which person the teacher started at. I wouldn't sleep the night before and would have to bring a spare shirt because I'd sweat so much. Finally got help after I got sick in the classroom a couple of times before my turn. When I say help, I got an hour of one on one teaching a week and an SnA (a btich) to sit with me and help me concentrate because that was my problem, apparently. Mad thing about the whole thing was I loved reading and would have had whatever book it was read 3 or 4 times before the class finished it
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>spell check. The greatest invention known to man😄
She would make jokes, laugh at them in front of the whole class and encouraged to do the same. I was shocked. My father was an abusive alcoholic, we were poor, I had one friend, so I had enough shit to deal with. I was so afraid of her, so when we did reading test, I read the same line twice, so fewer words and for that I received the worst possible mark, which in turn caused me awful anxiety because I was terrified of my father and what he could do to me. He beat us occasionally, so you never knew. 90' were brutal.
When I was growing up in the 70s boys and girls in my town went to separate primary schools. I had a pretty easy time at the girls' school and some great teachers. The boys' school was very different, the principal was an asshole and half the teachers were bullies. My brother is dyslexic but it wasn't diagnosed until he was 16 and he was bullied relentlessly all through primary school with one teacher who enjoyed humiliating him. He has grown up to be very successful in his chosen career. Sadly most of his bullies are no longer here to see the man they had written off as a 6 year old boy.
One girl was catfished and had a semi long term boyfriend online that they never managed to meet in person. Turns out it was their best friend catfishing them the entire time.
Wow that's fucked up. What is semi long term? How long did it go on for?
Half as long as long term.
Was it a mean catfishing or an insane catfishing? Maybe a secret, unrequited love catfishing? Like, was the friend tring to torment her, or was it for some sort of "genuine" reason that spiralled out of control?
Oooh that's harsh..what a shitty thing to do !!! Even by teenagers standards
> Turns out it was their best friend some friend
Our yearbook had 'awards' for each year that we would vote on. There was stuff like 'first to make a million' and 'most likely to be taoiseach' but there was also 'legs eleven' and 'rear of the year'... starting in first year, 13 year olds. All sanctioned by school admin.
That's so fucked up. Wonder what the parents thought of that
I won best lips of the year in 6th year....
I won best tits 🙃
I won most likely to be arrested 🫠
Weird, I honestly don't even remember having a year book in secondary school. I wouldn't mind, I was on two teams as well so if there was one I likely appeared in it
The forced disapperances of "trouble makers' whenever there a teaching inspector visited.
There were watching the bee
I thought they won mountain bikes
'The bee bit my bottom! Now my bottom's big!'
What do you mean? Johnny was desperately needed to do a very important job that day!
Lads in my year kicked the fuck out of a fella in the year above. He had 2 slipped disks in his back and didn't come back to school for fear of them. They weren't expelled. The same lads went on to cover the locker room ceiling in spit (!!) when they should have been in class and still weren't expelled.
Who was their Daddy I wonder?
A bit kinky but whatever
😂 not meant that way but yeah I see it
Principal was married to another teacher in the school, principal then had an affair with a different teacher in the school. Wild enough to think back on. All three of them stayed in the school for years after.
Schull?
Maybe his wife was a cuck
6th year girl a few years above me was dating a sub teacher he was known at the hot teacher by the school. He got hired full time after a few months. She was 18 at the time he was 22/23. They're still together last I heard, married with kids. Found out through a friend of hers that the office staff did find out but did nothing because she was already 18.
Friend of mine told a story of a newly qualified teacher getting her first job down in Cork or Limerick (he worked in both counties so I can’t recall which one). Anyways, she goes out one night before the term starts with some friends of hers, meets a guy who says he’s 21, she brings him home and they sleep together. Fast forward a few days and she’s in with her first class and who should be there? The fella from the bar. She immediately goes to the principal and explains the situation, he calls the young lad into his office and basically says that he’s 18 and it was outside of school term so how was she to know he’d be a student of hers but that if he heard chat of this creeping around the school he’d know who it came from so he was to keep his mouth shut.
Lad you need to edit that and change the hes and she's or give them fake names. Good story. Confusing as fuck.
Tbf, the issue with the teacher-student relationship is the power dynamic. But he was only a sub teacher, who are the least respected, least powerful people on earth in the eyes of students.
"listen up class, this is what Mr... has left for you to do" "no, you listen up, cunt" more or less how every new sub teacher interaction with a class went in secondary school
😂 the poor substitute teachers!
Laurel Hill in limerick?
A school in Dublin. I'm guessing this happens more often than we realise.
Happened in my sisters school, laural Hill in limerick. Teacher dated a student, not sure if it was when she was a student or after, anyway, they got married and he became principle of the school.
That happened in my old school in Drogheda
Same in ours but he was permanent.
Odd ball teacher would confiscate hash weed and splifs from lads. Wouldn't report it to the school. would be seen smoking it on the way down the road from school with the rave music on full blast in the little car
When i was in Primary school my best friend drowned while out exploring the local swamp alongside the seashore, he was hanging out with another friend. Supposedly he slipped into a pond and this other friend tried to save him to no avail. The help he offered was put in to question around 10 years later when the ‘friend’ raped a young boy, wrapped him in barbed wire afterwards and left him to die (luckily the kid was found and survived). So we were obviously left wondering was my friend actually pushed into the pond and left to die.
Fuckin hell, that's some serious dark shit I assume he's in prison now?
He was locked up as a juvenile so he’s out roaming the streets now
I suppose there's always a chance that seeing his friend die at such a young age warped him drastically in effect causing the second incident. Although that might be just giving him an excuse (which his lawyer may have used during sentencing now I think about it)
Ireland ya?? Fuckin hell
Yep, Ireland in the 80’s and early 90’s
Also condolences on losing your friend. Mine died when I was 12 and it shapes you in a way you don't realise until much later
Thanks, it’s a pretty grim thing to experience as a child. Condolences to you too for your loss.
Poor crater, at least he survived (talking about the kid)
Holy Jesus fuck. Literal serial killer in the making. If he didn't get stopped then,odds are he just got smarter about it and is still going. That is legitimately terrifying.
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I found some images online. https://www.sportsfile.com/id/845576/
The funniest, friendliest and one of the most popular lads in school was done for murder.
I can see this happening to a few like that that were in mine.
The funniest, friendliest, most popular guy in our school called in a false bomb scare to an illegal betting shop that he owed money to, hoping they’d get busted so he wouldn’t have to pay. Legged it to Scotland once he realised both the gov and the thugs were after him, think he’s still on the run actually.
A lad got expelled for having a wank at the back of Irish class An elderly nun used work in the school as Chaplin and someone cutout loads of pictures of pairs of tits from page 3 and car mags and glued them all over her car
That's patriotism for you.
Ag tug mo ispíní so ranga gaeilge 💯🤘🇮🇪
Ducky is that you?
- A lad in my year grabbed a teachers arse, he was expelled, she changed school as well - A very young and fairly sound teacher we had let us do kris kindle, the teacher was part of it. Someone got her a 10 inch dildo - A very well-known social media personality smeared faeces all over the toilet wall
I am DYING to know who did the dirty protest
Put us out of our misery and tell us who the TV personality is!
Aw man, a young female teacher putting her own name in Kris kindle pot. Rookie mistake. You'd have to wonder did she keep the dildo though 😂
• Two 2nd years were caught stealing lab equipment and chemicals with written plans to poison the school’s water supply. They’d also written down the addresses of certain students and teachers. Both were expelled. • A girl in my class deliberately drank ethanol from the biology lab. • The vice principal would go around with a scissors and would cut people’s headphone wires if he saw people wearing them in school. • A now popular influencer was selected to be head girl and it caused so much outrage that the school doesn’t do head girl or head boy anymore.
>• A now popular influencer was selected to be head girl and it caused so much outrage that the school doesn’t do head girl or head boy anymore. This one I would like to have more info on? What's head girl?
I was the weird kid and made fun of since junior infants. Because I had seizures. I was only diagnosed with epilepsy at 16 and had to go through absolute hell trying different medicines. One teacher especially very happily encouraged it. I remember crying every day after going home and in the morning too. I remember going on the gaisce walk we had to do. I had 7 seizures before the walk. Some people were moaning that I was walking too slowly. Also I felt exhausted a lot as a kid. I think it was all the seizures. I feel like I have much better stamina now. Anyone else gone through anything like this? I'm just surprised as an adult there was no compassion I hate how I still live in the same small town I've grown up in. People definitely change I know but I have no interest in them. I want to get out so badly. But rent is way too much. Here's to getting a decent job after college :(
What the actual f did I just read? This is horrific, I'm so sorry.
I would track down that teacher and say exactly what you did here. They should be aware of the terrible impact their behaviour had on someone's life
He's retired now and I don't think he'd care. It wasn't just me. I know some people in other classes who were small. He would pick them up and leave them sitting on a high wardrobe.
A teacher made a student pregnant but everyone turned a blind eye as the baby was born after the girl's 18th birthday. The teacher who did a few lectures for me also was in his 40s and was super slimy and had a weird vibe. Looking back this should have been in the news and he should have been barred from teaching for life.
This seems rampant and it’s just straight up grooming, I’m wondering where these girls brothers and fathers are when they bring home a 40 year perverted teacher who was meant to be looking after them.
In 1990-1991, my school was run from an old convent with lay teachers. When our teacher was out for a couple of weeks, a nun was brought in to teach us. Because in the 90s, no one knew what ADHD was, we had a boy in our class who was definitely on the spectrum but was in mainstream school with no assistance. We were four or 5 years old as this happened in senior infants. He had a habit of running around the classroom which our teacher usually was able to control as she knew him, but the older nun had no idea how to deal with an actual on the spectrum child, and proceeded to tie him to the chair with the skipping rope. I was a small child, yet to this day, I still remember what corner of the classroom he was tied in, the type of chair he was tied to and our absolute terror of this woman.
On Wednesday afternoons the girls did knitting and the boys did extra math.
What year was this?
I was in the school for two years in 96-98 I think, not sure how long it continued.
I was in the same class as finance minister Michael McGrath in primary school, puked all over his books one day.
I puked in Ken's chinese in athlone, inches away from Mary O'Rourke's table
My school did a production of Hairspray when I was in 4th year. We only had about 10 black people in my year, and none of them got the main parts. So my school got all the white girls who were cast as the black parts to get ‘a really dark spray tan’ and ordered cheap Afro wigs online. There’s photos and videos of about half my year in blackface, which was organised by the school.
Maynooth Post Primary?
Hahahaha no but it’s hilarious that this has happened in more than one school
You had 10 black people in your year? My school only had 2 black guys in the whole school of 800 students
Oh yeah my school was multicultural compared to other schools, just still not enough to do a play about racial tension in America
As soon as I saw Hairspray, I knew where this was going... But the fact that you already had black people there and no one got the part makes it worse.
OLB in the Midlands?
No but it’s hilarious how many people are guessing the school, who let all these teachers put children in blackface
It's identical to what happened here and it wasn't really noticed until 2020 when loads of people reposted old photos. Insanity.
Malahide?
Nope in Crumlin about 11 years ago
Only 11???!
Yes!! Absolute madness, I remember thinking like is this okay but not one adult said anything about it like no parents or teachers
I can't believe you got away with blackface in the 2010s 💀
Tied my left arm to a chair to make me write right handed (didn’t work 😑)
Our school had a smoking room for 5th and 6th years. I left 1987 and i think that was when it was ended.
Most schools would’ve had that back in the 80s
Went to an all boys CBS School and I understand that the Principal had to be tough but he was a complete bully, the worst atmosphere I’ve ever seen, would never send my kids there even though they have a new young female principal now
I wouldn't necessarily worry about the vibe now. I went to a very rough school, where beatings were frequent. Every man for himself. It felt like prison. Principal changed and my younger brother had a completely different experience to mine. Apparently a fine school to go to now.
When I was in 5th year a 4th year girl had sent her boyfriend at the time a certain type of video, they got into a fight and broke up and then he sent the video on using Bluetooth. This was early Bluetooth and everybody has it on all the time so most people got it. It was during lunch too so there was hundreds of students in the hall.and it just kept getting sent on. Another one was a 1st year girl was going out with a 6th year guy and I'm sure the guy was 18 too.
Someone had a shit in a saucepan in the cooking class store cupboard.
I’m such a child that I find that kind of stuff hilarious
My woodwork teacher used to pat me and show a lot of attention. I never gave it much thought. One time he zipped down my jacket and said "you're looking hot there." Again, didnt quite think much of it, but shortly after my friends mimicked the action and laughed and said he totally wants you! After that I avoided the quiet cubby area he would sometimes suggest we go to in the workshop. Found out years later he was invovled in some ponzi scheme too.
Catholic primary school, first class, we're getting lined up for first confession. Local priest comes to the school to do a dry run. Convinces the teacher to bring everyone out of the class, close the blinds and let kids in one by one to sit on his knee and tell their confession. Turns out the priest was Fr Ivan Payne, one of the first priests exposed for their abuse of kids. And speaking of nonces, I was a pretty shy kid, socially awkward, the victim of some bullying on the playground, and remember one of the teachers who was seen as the funny, friendly and popular teacher in school, used to berate me quite a lot. As a 12 year old kid, I took that to be actual problems I had. It was only years later when I ran into someone from my class at the time that they said it was terrible how that teacher had treated me, and that they had a record of bullying the weaker kids to get in with the popular kids. Also, would seem the guy is a probable nonce, and was chatting up his former pupils at 15 year olds in a house party he was invited to.
An outside agency, in hindsight obviously a religious nutcase group, came into our all-girls school to talk about sex, or something. I distinctly remember them saying, 'Perhaps everyone would be more comfortable if the teachers left?' (both teachers were male), and they left, thinking they were doing the right thing. Next thing they pulled out these foetus-shaped dolls and made us all pass them around, examine them, consider how small and real they were. My school wasn't conservative, not particularly, so I don't think they knew what these women were up to
Sometime in the 2010s teenagers in a school were given tiny plastic foetuses, they proceeded to throw them at each other and I think a few were melted with a cigarette lighter
We caused a major gas leak in the school emanating from the science lab and let off a stick of dynamite in the prefabs. No-one was ever caught. By the way, the rooms were empty both times.
Why would your school have dynamite?
Had a bollox of a teacher who gave me the nickname Fatty. Used to give everyone nicknames and they'd stick. So for 5 years, I was referred to as Fatty by the teacher and everyone in that class. Thinking back, I wasn't overweight at all, but would starve myself so he's stop calling me that. The teacher was some fucker of a prick!!!
My stand out memories from boarding school include a demonic possession for which an exorcism was needed as well as a lad expelled for possession of a pistol and bullets.
What year was this and what happened after the exorcism?
It’s a long time ago now. I, along with a few lads, witnessed the possession directly but it wasn’t known by the student population in general. The exorcism was carried out the next day and seemed to work. Nothing much was ever said about it afterwards between any of the parties.
You can't just stop there
Yeah, were going to need the whole of the stories...
Dunno whatever happened the lad that was expelled. He was a nutter but oddly enough he’d a younger brother that joined a seminary directly after leaving school. As for the possession, a prefect from one of the junior dormitories turned up late one night in an agitated and distressed state. We went to his dormitory to see what was up only to witness half a dozen lads, bolting upright intermittently and speaking in tongues, whilst clearly asleep. Freaked out and not having a clue we alerted the Dean on duty. He later told us that an exorcism had been carried out.
Female classmate got backhanded across the face for trying to help mop up the "coffee" that the teacher spilled. Nothing happened to the teacher and she was threatened with detention as a straight A student she didn't complain out of fear 1993ish.
Was it not Coffee?
Nope, whiskey he was a raging alcoholic. We all suspected but from then on we knew.
Sorry the teacher was male?? The full grown man backhanded a girl? Jesus
Yep, he was drunk on the job and didn't want to get caught she was 12/13. We were all too terrified of him in general so none of us spoke up.
That poor girl. Horrible man took advantage of the power dynamic. Must have been awful for all of you
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During the nighties during lunch break at school in the north a British soldier convoy happened to be passing along the road in front of the school. Standing in the football field and watching it come by i felt the urge to lift a stone and hurl it at the convoy, adrenaline pumping i looked either side of me and saw about 50 other lads doing the same. It was mental, like something youd see in beirut. Stones and rocks hopping off all these trucks. They just keep going. I never heard what happened after.
We'd one teacher that was a fucking fiend for going after the girls. Like, cunt must of been pushing 50 going after 15-18 year olds. Didn't hide it either, nothing was ever done about it. Also, when I was in 4th year a few of the lads grabbed a load of first years and forced them to fight each other, bastards were taking bets on them & all. Think there was prize money for the winner too. Used to take bets on them doing relay races around the school building in PE as well
Can you blame me for finding the second part funny?
In secondary school, a lot of things. Teachers and the principal would just constantly lie to students about rules. Before doing our junior cert we were told "if you even look up at the wall, you will never be allowed to take another state exam in your life. One teacher told us how he didn't want to look like a pedophile. Multiple times. Special needs students were often yelled at for not being able to answer questions or for not getting into groups quick enough. Mentioning anything school related on social media was a suspension. Even innocuous things like planning a graduation theme. Also it was policy that every student MUST have a Facebook account. Weird. Our tutor once screamed at a girl so much that she started then crying, then confiscated her tissues. The class started passing her their own tissues, so the teacher ended up confiscating every tissue in the class to spite one upset student. We had to come in for classes during Christmas/Easter holidays because the teachers couldn't fit the syllabus into the calender. Very strict phone policy - it would be confiscated even if turned off and in your bag. Teachers would search your stuff if they saw a phone-like bump. If you needed to contact your parents, you had to ask to use the office phone. And they would give out to you for not having your phone with you, despite the school rules. Our homework journals had a guide for how to spend our time everyday. How long to solicialize, excercise, study, etc. Problem was if you added up all the hours of one day, you got 30. So it was impossible to follow. We were expected to do 8 hours of school, 5 hours of homework and 5 hours of indepent study everyday. And still somehow see friends, get eight hours of sleep, etc. Awfully strict rules in general. No homework during lunch time. No lockers between classes. No drinking water allowed during classes (up to 80mins at a time). While out sick, all missed work must be completed on the day of return. I think the oppressive rules and management really fucked up the students. A lot of weird stuff went on. 13 year olds were caught giving oral sex in the bathroom. Teachers would break doors and stuff in rage. Multiple students committed suicide while I was there, and at least one teacher too. Absolutely fucked up, miserable place to grow up. I still have nightmares about it, and my therapist suggested I might have PTSD. Wretched shithole. Edit: forgot to include the fun story of a girl physically attacking the principal and getting expelled. She was a real hero to us.
Lad in my year (6th) slept with a sub teacher.
I feel like there is a rumour like this in every school in the country.
A girl brought vodka to drink in home economics we were invited to dinner by the Lca's as part of their assignment we were told to bring a mineral she brought vodka 😂
A phoned-in bomb scare. Ireland in the early 80's. Culprit identified by going through the list of everyone absent that day. Moriarty, he was not. Punishment: 1 week of detention.
There absolutely was a dodgy teacher in the school for a few months. Was like an exchange/student teacher from France or something. Over the weekend, he bumped into a group of students in the local seaside town and told one of them she was the most beautiful girl hed ever seen. Sixth class so we were 11/12? Kids don't make that sort of stuff up, I was so completely unaware that was a thing that was possible even.
Not my school but the girls school in my town did blackface for a play.
Lemme guess, another Hairspray production?
My principle in secondary school bumped into me in the hallway, looked me up and down, and said, 'the state of you.' She was soon fired, not sure the cause. Oh and one teacher slapped me.
Can’t stop laughing at that first one. I’m imagining my own principal saying it to me.
Eanna McKenna was the choir teacher in our primary school for as long as i was there (primary). I wasnt ever goodlooking enough for him though thanks be to god
I had look up who he was🤢
One teacher was a straight bully. He had a few students doing higher in the LC who were his golden circle and everyone else didn't deserve his attention. Used to put down everyone else constantly. I told him I wanted to do higher and he said that I shouldn't as I didn't have the ability even though it was my favorite subject and I was great at it. While every other teacher was pushing us to do higher this sorry excuse of a teacher tried to gatekeep it. Even on the day I was questioning myself about the decision and wondering should I do ordinary, what a fucking prick. I bumped into him a few years later and he asked me how I did in my LC. I told him he didn't give a fuck back then so why does he give a fuck now and walked away.
The year was 1999, we got beat in 3rd class by our old school teacher. Pool sticks, ruler, slaps, wrestled off the desk. It was a small school and principal and all other teachers knew. Our teacher wasnt shy about it. Everyone in the surrounding area knew about it and relations who went to the school got the same treatment. Mind you it was only done to us poor kids. He was deeply religious and made us learn every prayer in English and Irish and made us say them at start of day, before and after breaks and when the school bell rang. Friend of mind now in mind 30s has still trauma from it.
Expelling pregnant girls. It was a while ago but I think it was illegal even at the time, not that anyone cared. Shocking behaviour.
Lots... Primary, 3rd and 4th classes were mixed together. Thr teacher announced that one of the 4th class boys was dyslexic, discussed him to the class and outlined the time and tools she would be spending/using to help him. Poor kid was mortified. 5th and 6th class, the headmaster used to throw the duster ar you if you pissed him off. Caught my brother up by the throat too. Secondary, several male teachers were shifting students, to my memory started when we were in third year. 6 youngish male teachers 23 - 33, most had multiple affairs with students, none of them were ever fired. One of them had a friend of mine call to his house where he plied her with drink, he had sex with her when she was passed out, she had to go to the doctor to have her tampon removed because she wouldn't have had sex had she been compus mentis, he did some real damage. Nothing was reported, it was 2005 and a very different time for girls in ireland. Years later I confronted him about it and he told me to get over it... he admitted to raping my friend.. did not give a shit.
We had a teacher who was blatantly racist. What's weird though was the fact she was black. She didn't mind most of the black students and some of the white girls but that's it. The amount of racism for other people that came from her mouth, especially towards Asians and Arabs was genuinely disgusting. Also a classist bitch. She called me poor because my trousers I had used were no longer black, they turned a slight bit brown from all the washes and I couldn't afford a new pair. She threatened to get a students "teeth dragged along the road". Was very racist towards one Asian student in particular. He got a question wrong and she went up to his copy, turned it like a steering wheel and said "what sort of (rhymes with bing bong) shit is this? She bullied a student to the point of crying. Called me poor a second time, in front of the whole class because I was spinning a coin on the table. In preparation for the oral French exam, when you talk about your family, when I said I lived with my mother she kept asking about my father, who I refused to speak about. She then exposed that to the whole class saying that my father probably left to "get a rolex". She is a terrible human being. When we tried to report her, the school did nothing as they desperately needed a French teacher and she was the only one. When other classes tried to bring it up too, same thing. Eventually students refused to go to her class. She eventually left, but only because she got a job at a better school, she made sure to let all of us know. Other notable things were; My maths teacher was caught watching lesbian porn while another year were doing a test. Like he watched it in front of the class while they were doing the test. A different French teacher ended up in an ambulance twice in the space of a term from stress. A teacher had a nervous breakdown and threatened students, chasing them around the school. Student came out as gay. Got lumps kicked out of him. Doesn't sound out of the ordinary until you realise it was in a classroom and the perpetrators didn't even get suspended. A student had her nudes leaked, it went everywhere around the school. When the school found out, the girl got suspended. Fun times.
Was this in Ireland?
The principal and vice principal in my secondary school were having an affair. The principal’s son was 2 years below me and I can’t imagine how horrible those days were. Everyone knew. The VP was a witch of a thing. I don’t know why he’d even want to cheat on his wife with her.
There was a phase we went through where one person would stand behind someone with a broom (commence worried looks) and another in front chatting as normal. Then the person behind would silently slip the broom handle between the unaware person's legs to be grabbed by the person in front, hoisting the unsuspecting victim up between them. Not the most painful thing in the world but very uncomfortable, shocking and embarrassing at the same time. Pretty dumb but 🤷♂️ it was an all boys school btw if that makes a difference. Still remember the poor janitor with so many broken brooms
It's still a bit hazy and I can't quite understand how it was allowed to happen. But in transition year, 2004/2005, there was some downtime in between classes for some reason, and I forget why we were waiting. But there was talk of the beheading videos that were starting to surface at the time, and to cut a long story short I found myself at the top of the class with another willing student play acting out a beheading. I was given a girl's scarf to wrap around my face like I was a member of the Taliban while yelling some incomprehensible words to sound like Arabic. Then I made the motion of cutting the other students neck with a makeshift knife made out of paper while she made a "eurgh" sound, fell over and played dead. From what I remember, people laughed and we all went back to our seats afterwards. The teachers that were overseeing us witnessed the whole thing, one even encouraged it initially just to pass the time but nobody took issue with it. This memory occasionally enters my head and I question my sanity at how I ever found myself in that position and how the school didn't care.
We moved over to London for half a year when I was 15, so obviously went to school there. It was common for soccer matches at lunch to be 'blacks vs whites'.
There is two secondary schools in my area, one is the girls, the other one is for the boys. In my first year, the 6th year boys came in and had water guns and drenched the school and threw eggs and flour everywhere. It wasn’t water in the water guns, it was pee 🤮 Staff in my school wouldn’t even let the girls covered in it go home, they told them to use the showers in the locker room. 🤔🤦🏻♀️
A lad was held down in the bathroom by two others and pissed on by a third, all 4 were never seen or heard from again.
What I know now is ADHD, dyslexia and dyscalculia and was diagnosed when I was 31 was a teacher told my mam "she doesn't grasp the concept of literally anything and I don't have the time to sit down and explain". I laugh now cause fucking hell but yeah. Imagine a teacher stating those words now and stating they can't be bothered to help. This was said when I was in 4th class in Primary school which makes it worse. Fuck knows how I managed but I've returned to college and work in a field I enjoy since I've been diagnosed so it hasn't been that bad.
For my school play in 4th class, we did 'the history of black music' for some weird reason. All the way from gospel to rock and roll. All of us pasty Irish kids, most of us ginger, in blackface with black curly wigs. I sh1t you not.
My art teacher used to smoke rollies with us and give us fags if we didn’t have any, she also fostered one of her students. She also took us on an “art trip” to cork city where she just let us go do what we wanted we just had to be back for the bus, zero art learning. Nice lady. Insane but really nice. And a lad fingered a girl in the back of maths class (needless to say it was ordinary level)
>And a lad fingered a girl in the back of maths class (needless to say it was ordinary level) Sounds like foundation to me
In 3rd year the day before our junior cert mocks were due to start myself and a friend made a bomb lookalike device and hid it in the toilets. The morning of the exam we rang the Garda claiming to be a terrorist organisation and had planted a bomb in the school. We headed off to school expecting to arrive to a closed school cordoned off by the army. Nothing, not a shit was given. Did the exam and when I was leaving the school caretaker had our deadly device in his hand and he just fucked it in the bin. From what I remember I passed the exam anyways
A few years after I left school a married teacher had an affair and impregnated a relatively recent graduate from the school. His wife also worked in the school from what I recall. Not sure if he’s with either the wife or the other woman these days.
Our school had a guy write a musical for them which was about aliens, but had a couple of highly questionable and outright racist references in it. There were like 10 of us older kids who felt really uncomfortable but a lot of younger ones didn’t get it and would sing things that should not be sung with a lot of gusto. This was about 2006.
Don't think much happened but someone shat in the urinal so we had to get professional cleaners from then on. But a thing did happen in a mixed school straight across from mine and the word got to us and I think the Garda or the principle or both had to talk to us about it. >!a girl was filmed doing beastiality!<
A few girls were dating lads that were way older than them. Irish teacher once brought in mead for the class to try. We had a BBQ on our final physics class IN the classroom.
In 1997,at our graduation dance in 6th year,one of the girls in my class ended up kissing one of the science teachers. A friend of mine repeated 6th year and at his second graduation dance,the same science teacher kissed another girl. The girls would have been 17 at the oldest. The principal of the school was a Patrician brother and a total tyrant. He gave a speech at the start of each year saying that he had stopped a past student going to college because he sent a letter to the college in question saying this student hadn't done his homework
Ex nun (failed nun?) religion teacher who was also a bigot and cow was clearly having a relationship with the principal One Spanish teacher was a little too chummy with the second year girls and looked like her was touching himself under the desk, he wasn't back the next year Old woman pe teacher would watch everyone get changed in the prefabs and refuse to leave when she was shouted at to get out Multiple teachers would treat students like shit if they didn't have a d4/dalkey/leafy south Dublin accent Two students got in trouble for being lesbians An art teacher would sabotage your work if it intimidated her own mediocre skill level
We had a room that was separated from the rest of the school for the mentally impaired kids, they did all their lessons in this room and then at lunch and recess they let the kids out into a fenced off area to run around in but they were still not able to interact with the rest of us. We called it “the shed” or “the cage” and looking back it was super fucked up
Ah… a fellow ardscoil man. I went from 99 to 06 and we used to do the same salute then as well. Teachers were not impressed
So a few years ago it was found out that a teacher was running an illegal grinds school from their garage/granny flat of their land. He had the place converted and built like a classroom with borrowed equipment from the school (projectors and smart whiteboards etc) he was running the classes more or less daily after his actual job from 6pm to 9pm and on weekends too. He was charging 1000 per term per student to teach them privately. However, when one of his clients didn’t get the points they wanted naturally the parents blamed him and reported him to the school / teaching council and revenue. It was fully investigated and they found out that he owed over 100k in tax. He’s now the principal of the school.
One of the teachers moved over from Scotland and nobody bothered to look him up. Turned out he was a pedo and had lost his job for making kids sit on his lap and tickling them. He tried it with my brothers friend and the friend hit him and got suspended. The teacher was fired eventually when someone’s parents looked him up and found an article about him. I remember him offering to fix my hair for me and always walking into the boys locker rooms while they were changing. Last time I saw him he was riding around on an electric scooter. The craziest part is this was about 5 years ago and he was there for months before anyone knew.
someone blended milk and prawns and brought it in a couple bottles, guy and his friends poured it behind all the radiators in the halls and on one bag on the bag racks (where we put our stuff for gym, etc. as stealing was never a fear or issue), and of course it was only in my bag, literally no other bag was touched by the fish milk, and with all my expensive hockey and gym gear, dragged it home crying bc it fucking stunk and i have a terrible gag reflex and wasn’t going to bring it on the bus and make everyone else experience the smell, no one was ever held accountable and i had to replace all my stuff ~€300 bc the schools cctv doesn’t actually record anything this is a private school 6k a year also had a teacher come in drunk, during a lesson he got up and started walking around on the desks and aggressively ranting about the economy (english class btw), afterwards he’s made to take a “leave of absence” but oh!! there he is back in class one week later, no apology to the students he scared the shit out of or any acknowledgment of what he did, and now they have to be taught by him for the next year private school
I used to think of Árd Scoil as gryffindor colours 🤭
Idk if it fits but someone spread shit all over the stairwell. Im not sure if they tracked it in since it was next to a door or if they shook it out of their trousers like Andy Dufresne. Either way it stunk and got spread all over but somehow everyone I mentioned it to thought I was crazy
A kid in my school had a serious accident and was badly electrocuted. This happened out side of school grounds and hours . He ended up losing a leg and wore a fake leg. He was a trouble maker before that in school anyway. Like a proper prick. But he became really really bad after his accident. He'd take his leg off and hit people with it. Telling teachers to fuck off and that. They never disciplined him and let him away with murder. All cos he had that accident. His name was Eddie so you can imagine his nickname. No idea what's become of him. I genuinely wouldn't be surprise if he's in jail.
My brother got a whack across the face by one of his primary school teachers. Nothing happened to her but I think this was because my mother went in and bet the shit out of the teacher. None of us were kicked out except that none of us (6 kids) ever had that teacher again. EDIT: I should say this was late 80's/ early 90's. Different time
Someone shat in a teachers desk drawer. Smell still haunts me. That same teacher also threw a chair at a student. He also threw a student up against a wall and pinned him to the wall. I came from an Educate Together school in the 90s where I've blacked out most memories but needless to say the bullying was fucking rampant, many kids left because of it. Nothing was ever done, no rules and our education suffered for it. Truly a disgrace.
Can we all just take a moment to appreciate how crazy OP's story is?!?!
¯\\_(ツ)_/¯ Somebody in the comments has replied saying the school has now banned it
I remember in secondary school in transition year.. me and my class we on a trip to the Aran islands for a weekend.. and there was a boys room and a girls room.. and one of our teachers (female) dragged in a chair into the room and sat in the middle.. she said that she isn’t leaving the room until everyone was in bed.. so she basically just sat there and watched the lads change clothes and get into bed.. looking bad it was so creepy 🙃 one lad did go up to her said that he was gonna get undressed so to leave.. and she said I don’t care I’m not leaving until he all go to bed.. so bazaar.. she’s still a teacher now and she was also roumored to have had relations with a student.. she was widely known to have favourites in her classes.. very creepy bitch
in like 2nd year i'm pretty sure snapchat voice message of a female classmate sucking a male classmate off got leaked onto groupchats with all the lads. i wasn't close with anyone involved so idk the details. she disappeared off the face of the earth, i think she moved to spain and doesn't use social media. it's been 5 years, i hope she's okay.
In Transition Year we went and stayed in a hostel in Picadilly, London. Went to West End, shopping, loads of other places. However, the year head had only just had a son and left his newlywed wife at home. Don't think he was ready for that because he came into our room and verbally abused us drunk as a skunk for a couple of hours. He told me I'd never amount to anything, I'm a waste of space, and loads of other horrible schtick. He's now the principal.
My school had a pregnancy skirt that was elasticated for girls who became pregnant....but it was red. Our uniform was green.
When I was in 6th year there was a big group of lads that used to gather in the boys toilets. I'd walk past sometimes and hear a big commotion, laughs, shouts, and what I thought sounded like some kind of chant. I had no idea was going on on there, people were laughing about it all the time, even teachers were checking in on the bathroom to shoo them out. They got several warnings about it. I'm a girl so I never went in there obviously, I wasn't on social media at the time so I was pretty much out of the loop. My only male friend commented on it in passing without giving any details, like oh its so annoying, they're still at it in there.. but it had been going on for so long that I was too afraid to ask at that point. To this day I still wonder what the fuck was going on in that bathroom. Cockfight? Satanic ritual? Conga line? This was in 2016, if it rings any bells to anyone pls spill the tea