What's the Scariest Thing That's Ever Happened to You at School?

What's the scariest thing that's ever happened to you at school?

My first detention....which I was given for the crime of not turning something optional in (That teacher was a bitch). Back in those days I got a lot of awards and attention for being a well behaved/non rowdy student. So seeing that for the first time scared me...

The worst part was that the woman who watched over the detention kids knew me and knew full well that I didn't belong there.

edited 6th Jan '16 8:21:59 PM by Bleddyn

Just us or the entire school? Because I was part of a bomb scare in Elementary School that freaked everyone out pretty bad.

Turned out to be false alarm, but there were cops, bomb squads, everyone was removed from the building, made the news, it was a best day spent at home watching Nickelodeon ever.

Imagine balancing a crucible of flaming molten sulfur with a set of tongs not quite fitted for it when a classmate bumps into you.

Even worse, accidently walk head first into some girls bosom.

Admittedly I am short and I don't care about that area very much so I got away with that. Still a embarrassing experience....

I guess there were a couple of bomb threats, but nothing ever happens in them besides someone getting expelled afterwards anyway, so not very interesting. (Side note, it's amazing that bomb threats in schools just register as uninteresting these days.)

Now, when my sister was in high school, a deer lept and crashed through one of her classroom windows while she was in class. It pretty much died right away because deer, amazingly, can't survive without most of the blood being drained from their bodies due to massive glass shards in them.

I think we were supposed to be wearing some protective smocks, but the prof. was like "Nah, goggles are fine enough." Luckily the worst that happened during that class was a few minor hcl burns and some girl touching a lit magnesium strip for a millisecond.

edited 7th Jan '16 3:35:30 PM by carbon-mantis

Seeing what looked like a mushroom cloud rise above the hills that separated my home village of Neilston from the town of Paisley. A whacking great big billow up top, then a quickly rising stem joining it. I was only ten or so at the time, and I was terrified. As this was back in the 70's and we were still neck deep in the Cold War.

One time I slipped down some stairs.

Just small stuff here, like fire drills at inconvenient times.

What is it with schools and having fire drills in unpleasant weather?

I remember an incident where I wasn't paying attention to what was going on in the gym. This was sometime in 2012. I was just looking for anything interesting on the floor. I overheard one word that I'm sure won't leave my head for the next year. It rhymed with sock, and it was associated with a certain Acrofatic. I then looked up, and saw... Oh my God... I can't describe the horrors to you... It's... Just too serious!! I know the rest of you might not be freaked out by this, but I sure was. It was enough to send me running for the locker room!

Quite a lot of horrible stuff happened to me. A toss-up between the day that I was being bullied so bad I had to be sent home because I had a nervous breakdown, or the week or so a bully was extorting money from me.

Well, my second week of freshman year of high school had a legit bomb/shooting threat. I stayed home that day, faking illness, because I didn't feel like going. Next day I learned of the thwarted plan the previous day.

I wasn't in the school at the time, but during my Junior year in high school, I found out there was a shooting threat in my old high school. I ended up frantically messaging a friend to ask her if things were going alright.

Turns out, it was bullshit anyways and nobody died.

In eighth grade, there was a lockdown for over four hours. None of the teachers knew what was going on other than that there was suspected to be a shooter in the school. You could hear SWAT team guys going up and down the halls, police sirens, and the aide peeked through the window in the door and reported they had assault rifles. As you can imagine, everyone was on the edge of a panic attack.

It turned out to be a false alarm later. A seventh grader had told a teacher that a boy had shown him a gun in the boy's bathroom, but after the police showed up and couldn't find anyone, the kid confessed he had made it all up. Afterwards, they let us all go home, but they had failed to contact parents about the situation, so it was basically mayhem as kids ran all over looking for siblings and waiting for rides or the bus. I grabbed my brother, and we blew that popsicle stand.

Second scariest was the time I gave a presentation on LGBT rights. I have pretty bad stage fright, and was still in a rather transparent closet. This one kid started heckling, and I basically had a meltdown in front of the class. The teacher gave me an A out of pity.

There was this campaign of awareness concerning this statement: that every thirty-three seconds or minutes (I don't remember the exact unit of time or amount), someone dies while texting and driving, if my memory serves me well.

To illustrate that message, at least a few students volunteered to wear black clothing and tape their mouths (probably representing the dead drivers that texted while driving), while a loud gong was blasted over the intercom every thirty-three minutes (again, I'm not so sure). I heard someone scream in the hallway (or somewhere else), possibly becoming one of the black-clad marauders against their will.

I got to the roof and nearly slipped off.

On a not-at-school but school-related note, having a high-speed head-on collision with another skier who I'd already ran into earlier on that morning when I was on a trip to Aurach bei Kitzbühel back in the Eighties. Lots of blood on the snow and two tetanus jags I still can remember in places I'd rather not mention.

School lockdowns always freak me out because they almost always happen around noon, when my mother is taking a nap at home.

There was a tornado drill last year, it was just right out of town. Although you would not have heard it coming over the laughter after the principle said that students should "assume the position". Aka face the wall and cover your head.

edited 12th Feb '16 5:14:04 PM by Halogirl2016

I almost fell out of a second-floor window. Not only the window in question had only one pane instead of two, but it was improperly mounted.

The glass fell out, but thanks to my lightning reflexes I managed to hold to the frame.

This kid was threatening to beat this older girl up, so I told him the older girl could easily beat him up and he started bawling and told the teacher on me.

She then proceeded to make me the bad guy and be an insensitive bitch in general. The story eventually got straightened, but Lord, that was scary for a kid who never got in trouble. I spent like an hour with my head buried in my lap crying.

I was home-schooled through High School, but a girl at my college committed suicide by jumping off a flight of stairs. A lot of fear went around before they confirmed the cause of death. It was made worse by their bizarre decision to cancel classes the day after it happened instead of the day of, keeping students on campus with a potential murderer. -_-;

When I was in high school, there was a kid (whom I never met) who killed himself by jumping into a train. His suicide note was deemed to be a threat, so the whole school was on lockdown, the entire local police force (and if I wasn't mistaken, even the Department of Homeland Security) patrolled our campus, and we were "evacuated" (which was really just leaving school early, as nobody except for the one suicidal guy died without hurting anyone else).