SPACE
Towards the end of my last full year in school, the program I was in held a car wash fundraiser. At one point a minivan came along, and one of the teachers made the mistake of asking me how tall I am. Exhibiting my quickest thinking to date, I promptly stood up straight and held my hand palm-down over the top of my head.
We were supposed to be doing an in-school marching band rehearsal at our football stadium, but the gates were locked. The percussionists got the bright idea of climbing over the fence and just passing their instruments to a guy on the other side. The guy who played bass 1 successfully got his instrument over the fence, but when he tried to get himself over the fence, he fell, and in the process tore the crotch of his pants open. He ended up taping his pants shut using tape mooched off of the auxiliaries.
Then there was the guy who, during an after-school band rehearsal, had a pack of dry ramen in his pocket and randomly took bites out of the brick of noodles as though he was eating a sandwich or a Poptart. Remarkably few people commented on the bizarre scene.
I could go on all day with marching band stories.
"Jack, you have debauched my sloth."
Obsessive Fangirl
One time in english class we were discussing story format (resolution, climax, etcetera) and a student asked "What was the climax again?" and suddenly A CAR DROVE BY PLAYING VERY HAPPY SOUNDING SPANISH MUSIC
3 microphones forever
I'll always remember this time when my sister was writing a paper on Mexico with a partner who clearly had put no effort in - the section on language opened with something like "In Mexico, they speak Mexican". Thankfully, if I remember right, since she and her "partner" were supposed to write sections separately, they didn't get the same grade.
In high school, my group of friends generally got in a little early and hung out in the cafeteria before class. Somehow it became a tradition that every time we did this, we would start our school day by singing the Mentos jingle together.
Another high school one: One of my friends had a story about how when he first transferred, he kept hearing this mysterious staff member he'd never met being called by full name over the intercom several times a day. He assumed this had to be the most important person who worked in the school, since he was needed so many places every day. It was, of course, the school janitor. We then sort of started considering him an Almighty Janitor. Said friend had also wrote the janitor into a fantasy story as a wizard of some kind, so he could of course wield the "Janitorial Staff".
edited 26th Jun '12 11:46:03 PM by MikeK
Earth is the only planet inhabitable by Nicolas Cage.
In 7th grade, my science teacher would somehow manage to derail half his science-related lectures into anecdotes about his wife. Most of them were pretty innocent, but in the first week or so of school, we were doing some warmup exercise involving measuring heart rates, and he began telling us about your heart rate being affected by what good shape you were in. Then, this happened:
Teacher: Now, I'm not in such good shape, you know, but my wife... oh, man, she runs marathons, and does yoga, and lifts weights, and she's so strong... I mean, she can completely beat me in leg wrestling. Sometimes I've done that with her before...
He went on like that for a while, and then caught himself before he went any farther. Also, there was another time where he was talking to one of his students' mothers and started comparing the rolls she was selling to boobs. ("Well, I call them 'double-breasted rolls' because when you bake them, they just, you know, pop up like...") I was the only other person in the room, trying really hard not to crack up.
edited 16th Aug '12 6:56:44 PM by professorquirrell19
… one day all of us will die but – a this is the important thing – we are not dead yet.
Our former (
) principal once let a bunch of students duct tape him to a wall. I'm still not entirely sure why.
edited 19th Aug '12 7:56:35 PM by czhang
HELLOTHERE
In french class we kept throwing crayons and paper airplanes out the window when the teacher wasn't looking.
...this was freshman year
I want flies in on a dragons!
So, I go to a school for kids with learning differences. Some of the kids are pretty bizarre, and so are the teachers.
Some memorable quotes from my school:
Guy: Why don’t you like me?
My Boyfriend: Because you’re a freshman.
Guy: -points to friend of mine and my boyfriend- What about him? He’s a freshman.
Friend: I TASTE LIKE HAM!
Teacher: How many of you are good at picturing things?
Boyfriend: I AM! I once pictured the science teacher in drag, as Santa, and you as—
Teacher: OKAY I DON’T NEED TO KNOW THE SPECIFICS.
Oh, and one time my english teacher had us crabwalk to the science room while saying "CRABCRABCRABCRAB".
What about you, fellow tropers? What weird things have happened at your school?
edited 25th Jun '12 1:53:20 PM by thepowerofdisney