Power went out for like a whole day then they found a fried rat chomped into the power cable

A girl got killed by a school bus.

She had been cheating on two different guys, and they found out while on the bus. They started to fight, and the driver pulled over to kick them off. While the driver was pulling away, she decided she wanted to watch the fight. So she forced the doors open on the (now moving) bus, and jumped out. Apparently this was a semi-regular thing for her to do.

What wasn’t regular is that, upon landing, she tripped and rolled under the bus. The rear wheels ran over her head, and she was killed.

The school offered a day off of classes and free grief counseling for the students who were affected. Suddenly, everyone who had ever passed her in the halls was her best friend. It also started a “careful that you don’t get hit by a bus” trend among students, where pretty much any activity was countered with some form of “make sure you don’t get hit by a bus!” Going to basketball practice? “Don’t get hit by a bus on your way to the locker rooms!” Need to go to the library? “Make sure you don’t get hit by a bus on your way!”

It peaked when a student asked a teacher to go to the restroom. She was always a very prim and proper type. She quickly answered “yes, just don’t get hit by a bus on your way.” She quickly realized what she had just said, and looked horrified, which just had us all rolling.

I heard some stuff that was worse happened after I left (girl brought a knife in her bra, someone turned on the gas in the chem lab) but during my time was the Ketchup Incident.

I guess the lunch monitors felt that students were taking too much Ketchup at lunch and “wasting” it, so they started monitoring it - two pumps, no more. Well, the guy I had a crush on (funny cool rebel type, in a band, all that) decided to bring Ketchup to school to share. He got in school suspension for some amount of time, and there were kids caring signs, and I remember a few times chanting, “Free (guy’s name)”. He became a folk hero of the oppressed student. They eventually reinstated full Ketchup privileges, and it was all because of him. At least, that’s how I remember it.

A few years later, dumb ass senior boys glued the sports trophies to the floor of the gym and got in huge trouble.

Probably not "the incident" anymore, since it was almost 30 years ago now and no one left there likely remembers.

But a couple of years after I graduated, one of the kids who was a couple of grades behind me sneaked into the school at night, lit a bunch of candles on the floor of the chemistry lab and turned on all the gas taps and put towels under the doors so that the room would fill with gas starting from the top to the bottom. (I guess his chemistry class came in handy since he was smart enough to know that gases float to the top, giving him time to escape.

He went to Juvie for a while I believe, and then ended up living a pretty normal life. Last I heard he had been one of the people listed for the doomed-to-never-actually-happen "100 settlers on a one way trip to Mars" project. Haven't heard anything about him lately since I long ago deleted Facebook and so have no real contact with the people I went to highschool with anymore (just like the old days and I love it)

edited - Sorry, thought he was short-listed. But he was cut before the short-list was announced. Edited to change.

Beverly Hillbilly type drove past a football team member's family garage sale and called them n-words and n-word lovers.

He was slow-rolling by so one of the player's (white) friends, the team captain as it happens, reached through the window and came pretty close to yanking him out of it before he managed to get away.

It's a fairly conservative county but also very rich and they like to keep the ugliness (and the history of redlining) on the DL so he got expelled and some of the football team broke his arm later. Tragically, despite him naming names, they all had alibis and parents who could afford lawyers.

Also tragically, his parents could afford to send him to a very nice military school that probably looked better on his college application anyways. However, he was dumb as shit regardless, so they might have just sighed and accepted he'll have to be the boss's idiot son for a career.

Fairly interesting expression of socio-economic conflict and human tribalism all around, honestly. Some of the guys who broke Beverly Hillbilly's arm have said some pretty racist shit on Facebook since then even if they weren't so crude, but their teammate was in the tribe so to speak and therefore someone outside of it, and a social outcast to boot, had to punished for attacking him.

A mom broke up with her boyfriend. He returned later and killed her 3 kids, then her, then himself. The oldest son was in my class.

I wasn't great friends with him, but I knew him well enough to feel bad about it. So many people who hated him pretended to be sad for attention.

• The "week of fights" as it was later called, where we went on soft lockdown four days in a row due to community violence. First time was because a guy with a crowbar was trying to break the front door windows of the school to get in. His brother or something was going to fight someone and I guess he wanted to be there to help. The other times were also due to fights involving members of two families if I recall correctly, it was really weird.
• One student threw a textbook of another student on the roof of the school, who just so happened to be affiliated with some gang. He and his brother beat him up outside my bus, where a well-placed punch sprayed blood on my window.
• Star basketball player decided it would be a good idea to commit armed robbery the day before graduation.
• A twitter account was created that would post the name of a senior girl and their "rank" in terms of "hotness" a few times a day. No one could figure out who was behind the account, although I think there was a shortlist of potentials.
• Another twitter account was created that looked like the school district's official twitter page, which posted that school was canceled due to snow. Well about half the kids believed it and didn't show up, so the school was a total ghost town that day, and none of the teachers did any real teaching since most of them had so few students

Kids step dad found an unfired mortar while working on base. Kid brought it to school and dropped it in the band room. Thankfully no one died, but there was still a shrapnel ring in the room when i graduated a few years later.

We had Shitler. Someone kept defecating in the boys washroom and drawing swastikas on the walls with it. The staff couldn't figure out who it was, and started closing down washrooms. At one point there were only 1 or 2 men's washrooms open - and Shitler still struck again. No one ever found out who it was.

Yes Prep Southeast campus (charter school does 6th - 12th grade).

The school decided to experiment with separating the boys and the girls in 6th grade.

The result was the 6th grade boys started a secret fight club with money involved in the restrooms, and some high schoolers were managing it. It was found out after a boy's head broke a sink.

The girls got very slightly better grades though.

Other than that, the usual also happened; corruption, fraud, teachers doing pedophilia and ephebofilia, etc.

Not my school, but one nearby. It smelled like gas in chemistry class and some idiot student thought it would be a good joke to flick a lighter. There actually was a gas leak and he set it on fire, injuring himself and a bunch of classmates. I don't remember if anyone died.

There were quite a few, though ironically most of the "incidents" at my school were ones that happened at the neighboring public school that leaked over to my school.

I did cause a scare once though. I was the student tasked with helping with the yearbook. Where I live, we have a tradition called "most likely to", where we make questions in the yearbook under a "most likely to _______" format and we nominate classmates to those positions. For example, one section might say "most likely classmate to graduate from Yale", or another might say "most likely classmate to start a cult", stuff like that. This is a well-known tradition. What I didn't know is that inserting one that said "most likely to do a school shooting" was a baaaaaad idea. I thought it was just another entry, but I didn't think maybe the people would panic and I'd be put in in-school suspension. Fortunately my only time in in-school suspension and thus the only time I've had to wear suspenders (they add suspenders to the school uniform of suspended people).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fab_Five:_The_Texas_Cheerleader_Scandal

They made this movie about it.

I actually knew a couple of those girls and they weren't nearly that bad.

Someone opened the soap dispensers and put doodoo in them.

So, once I saw the beginning of a fight. Which was stopped after like a minute by the guard ladies.

Yeah, my school was tame as hell.

A day before I got in a guy set fire to the trash in the chapel. So I befriended him immediately!

THE black kid brought a gun to school to shoot his girlfriend for breaking up with him. That really helped to reduce racial stereotypes.

Two guys swam to school. The school was located on an island in the river Rhine, one of the busiest waterways in Europe.