Our time in school was (hopefully) full of learning and growth, but it is also inevitably full of that age-old part of socialization: rumors.
Redditor tall_hoplessromantic asked “What popular rumor in your school turned out to be true?” and people shared some fantastic stories.
(Some stories have been edited for brevity or spelling.)
1.
In high school: that the biology teacher was growing weed in the environmental lab. Supposedly he did it for 30 years without anyone noticing. No one could ever prove it though.
Later on, I was assigned to be the agent taking care of some of his financial matters, so I went to his house to have him sign some paperwork. He had a hydroponic setup there, so I asked him about the environmental lab. It was like Han Solo in The Force Awakens.
“It’s true. All of it.” Then he offered me a brownie.
2.
That one of the students was actually a cop. Turns out he was a cop and busted one of the actual students for selling handguns in school.
If you thought 21 jump street was unrealistic think again. Cop was a 33 year old male and undercover for like half the semester.
3.
In my Catholic (Jesuit) high school, one of the priests and one of the nuns were very close friends. We all loved them, and we could see that they were quite fond of one another (and they made a really nice-looking couple). We used to affectionately kid them about “meeting in the tunnel” between the convent and the rectory. A few years after my class graduated, they both left their Orders, got married, and had kids. We’re all happy for them.
4.
We had a dean who “retired” one summer. Turns out, he was busted in a huge prostitution/drug sting by cops. He had 2 prostitutes and cocaine in his apartment when he got rolled up; ended up pleading guilty to felony drug possession (a few others I can’t remember), and sentenced to 5 years of probation.
He was an advisor for the school’s Drug/Alcohol Task Force.
Nice enough guy. Really cool with all of his students, maybe too cool. Always seemed to have super red eyes.
5.
There was a rumor that a teacher had sex with whole basketball team turns out it was half of the team. Worst part is her son was on the team. Her husband ended up divorcing her and her son left with his dad[.]
6.
Second was that one of the kids hung himself on a swing set in a local park. They didn’t say who it was, and just thought it was a vicious rumor about the same guy… then four girls who were close to him came down the stairwell crying and ran out the front door and started heading in the direction of the park. It was confirmed around noon, we were sent home after lunch.
7.
Our freshman science teacher was a massive jerk to any girl, and would frequently throw the dress code book at girls for the slightest issue. Everyone said it was because he was pissed his daughter became a stripper… that ended up being true.
8.
In middle school, we had a “cool” Social Studies teacher. He loved the popular boys, especially the athletes, and not only ignored bullying in his classes of unpopular kids, he often took part in it. He also offered up his services for tutoring to these boys. Everyone always thought he was a child molester, except the popular boys who would threaten you if they heard you talk bad about him. When we came back to school at the beginning of 8th grade, he was gone. As was one of the more popular boys in school. He transferred to an insanely expensive private school. Turns out, sure enough, he was molested by the teacher several times during tutoring sessions at the teacher’s house. The school district agreed to pay to send the kid to private school as part of a settlement.
9.
Some girl had sex with her half brother, we all thought it was rumour until she got drunk at a party and told everyone.
10.
Girl I was in classes with all through elementary school and into Jr High (we were in the “gifted” class so we always had the same classmates) seemed oddly close to her brother.
In 9th grade she hid a pregnancy from everyone including her parents until the birth. She delivered the baby at home, and she and the brother killed the newborn and threw it into a dumpster.
The baby was his.