Stephanie Barnes
11. Chemistry bonds
My chemistry teacher was rumored to have married one of his ex students. Ended up being true, but he had a long successful career at our school. Was the swim team coach for a long time. Was at my kids swim meet today. He’s still there volunteering 30 years later.
12. Chicken fights
My history teacher/tennis coach made moonshine and hosted cock fights in his barn. I ended up becoming friends with his son and it was all true.
13. Mob ties
The principal was a member of the mob.
14. Whiskey business
That my high school history teacher was putting whiskey in the 2-liter bottle of Pepsi he carried around everyday. He was caught trying to buy liquor for some senior girls and it resulted in a car chase we all watched. The police had to pull out the spike strips to catch him.
15. Teachers hooking up
That the (married) drama teacher was bonking the (substantially younger) art teacher.
He swore blind that not only was it not true, anyone believing it was should report it to the Head because it was so unprofessional.
Then a few years later they had a baby.
16. Lead in the water
Our high school tap water was dark brown and we weren’t allowed to bring our own waterbottles or get filtered water from the cafeteria without paying $3. We sent hundreds of emails asking the school board to look into it, but they said it was fine. In my senior year, a student did a science fair project on the illegal amount of lead in the tap water, forcing the school to investigate and fix all the taps.
17. Drugs for sale
For years before I got to my high school there was a rumor that the Admin Assistant (guy you went to when you got in trouble) was doing drugs, selling drugs, and confiscating from students without turning over to the police. Well about five years or so after I graduated he got busted a couple towns away for possession of cocaine with intent to distribute.
18. WWII links
That our High School had an extensive network of underground tunnels and shelters left over from WWII.
Sure enough, not long after I graduated, they were renovating one of the weight rooms that was either at basement level or partially-underground, and they found an entire walled off room stocked with supplies from the early Cold War era that no one had remembered.
19. Rocketman
One of my geography teachers did a sextape with his wife. He played Rocketman.
20. Whatever it takes…
Due to budget cuts or something all of our metal and woodwork shop machines were to be taken away and replaced with worse versions. The shop teachers and drama teachers that were in the building at the time didnt like this idea, so they hid all the machines in a false wall somewhere in the building. The people came to pick them up and they told them that people had already come to pick them up and that they were late. They did some looking around and couldent find the machines and gave up. A few years and 1 principle later they brought the machines back out from behind the walls.
And that’s how the smallest school high school of our district with only around 450 students became the best school in the district to learn metal and woodwork.
