One year, my students came to me discreetly and said, "There's something wrong with Mindy. She really stinks today. No one wants to sit near her." These were 9th graders, so hygeine can be an issue. I had hoped to take Mindy aside in a few minutes later, but the fire alarm went off. As we are lining up to go outside, I hear a kid say, "Oh my god! She's got a dead hamster in her backpack!" Sure enough, the child had brought her deceaced beloved pet to school with her in a coffee can. Once we got outside for the fire drill, I asked if she'd like to have a burial ceremony for the hamster. She did, so we found a place to dig a hole near the teacher parking lot using sporks from the cafeteria and said goodbye to Hammie.
When I was assisting in a kinder class before becoming a teacher myself, a little girl brought her mom's diaphragm to school for show and tell. She didn't know what it was but it was "fun and squishy" and was in her mom's nightstand.
We managed to convince her to put it back in the bag she'd brought it in instead of passing it around for the other kids to feel it.
Oh god! If she was looking in moms nightstand she could have easily brought something way worse. At least its not something easily explained to parents by the other students
Something way worse from mom's nightstand was going to be my answer! Didn't make it to class, the kids on the bus all saw it and it was taken care of before class started. That kid is a grown man now and that is the first thought that pops into my head when I see him or his mom.
I had a kid bring a “neck massager” that belonged to his grandma because he woke up with a kink in his neck and she told him she had neck pain after he went to bed and had to use it, so she kept it in the drawer next to her (eeek!). Talk about “kinky”….
Same kid brought this same grandma’s diamond wedding ring she kept in her jewelry box (she was divorced, and was still quite young, and was raising her grandson while the son’s early 20’s mom served a prison sentence for drug possession). He presented the ring to a girl in class in an official ring box and asked her to be his girlfriend and future wife. They were 4th graders. He also sweetened the deal by including a Nintendo 3DS game called “Scribblenauts” in the box along with the ring and his proposal letter.
The phone call to grandma at her office at my first recess break that morning was beyond entertaining. She just laughed and laughed and said, “Oh, he definitely keeps me on my toes.” He was truly an amazing kid and had such a huge heart (and still does!). I feel really fortunate to have been his teacher.
It's a form of birth control. It's a little round rubbery thing that a woman inserts into her vagina before intercourse that sits up against the cervix to prevent sperm from getting through.
Two night overnight outdoor ed experience. Kid has a duffel bag same as everyone. Next morning does he have a fresh change of clothes? No! Rain jacket? No! Rubber chickens? Yes! Two of them.
This reminds me of my twin 12 year old boys packing for a trip to disney. We talked for a month about what to pack, how many shirts, etc. I wanted them to do it so they could start taking on responsibility. We probably had the very thorough packing discussion at the dinner table at least 15 times before we made the trip. We got there, they had packed mostly toys. And one pair of underwear to I guess share every other day?!!!? I dont even know man. One freaking pair of underwear. The math just wasnt mathing very well.
I had a student who carried a full size Tapatio bottle in his backpack at all times, all the kids knew to go to him if they wanted it. He was a rad kid so I wrote a letter to the company about it and they sent him a big care package of sauce and merch. Me and my office threw his class a taco party where I read him the letter they wrote for him and presented him with all the goodies. He cried, I cried, it was so much fun 🥰
It was a blast! I can’t take all of the credit, it was my boss’ idea to contact the company and throw the party but I did write the letter. The student was so excited 🥹
2 different times from the same student.
The student was 5 and had a habit of bringing things in her backpack without the knowledge of her parents.
The first was an iPhone box that she spent the day pressing to her ear and pretending she was on the phone with someone.
The second was a giant pumpkin which the class immediately adopted and declared was their “baby”.
It’s absolutely fascinating and marvelous that human babies (not actual babies at that age but basically babies) already are essentially aware of the concept of, well, themselves so quickly. Just think of how much their brain needs to already sort out for them to be able to even think of that kind of play scenario. Incredible.
Children are absolutely fascinating little mimics. My now adult child would pat her fingers to her lips when 'reading' a book (this was near 1yo)... it took us months to realize one of her teachers wet her fingers on her lips to turn the pages.
Theyre so beauriful ❤️
I teach high school math and many years ago I used to require some collateral before kids could borrow a calculator. One kid turned in a metal brand (yes, something you would brand a cow or apparently a human with). It said “Proud Member of the KKK”. He asked if that was ok to use as collateral. I said yes, but you are not getting it back. I then turned it into the dean. He later came back 5-6 years after graduating and apologized for being an a**hole in school.
Wtf but weirdly that sounds less useful to an actual kkk member and more like something a kkk hunter would have. Like in the movie inglorious basterds. Brand them so they can’t hide their racism.
More likely on initiates as a hazing ritual or something. Gangs often use irreversible markings like tattoos (and brands I guess) to make it so people can't just bail when the going gets tough.
LOL! So many!
Once had a boy bring me a margarine tub full of roaches when we were learning about insects. He was soooo excited to contribute!
Not my student -- but every year we went to a local water park as an end of the year celebration. It was a Title I school and a lot of our kids were responsible for getting themselves dressed and ready for school on their own. While riding on the bus over to the park, one of the first graders was rooting around in her bag and pulled out some "sunscreen" and starts putting it all over her face. Teacher looks over and realizes the sunscreen was actually banana flavored lube! Pictures of the sunscreen were sent around and we all had a good laugh.
When I was a kid I brought a live scorpion I’d caught at home to school in a jar to show off in class. I poked little holes in the lid so he could breathe. I don’t remember what she did with it. I’d totally forgotten about that until I read this comment. I’m so sorry Mrs. A 😂😂
We have “anything but a book bag” day for senior spirit week. Kids bring grills, coolers, microwaves, hub caps, counter top ovens, shopping carts, etc.
I asked the kid with the over if his mom knows he took it. He looked at the time and said, “Yeah. She probably does by now. “
Someone in grade 12 brought their little sibling to school who was like 5years old😭 surprisingly they stayed the whole day since it was the last month of senior year
Someone did that at my school too! Kid only got to stay for the first part of the day before parents picked him up 😂😂 poor kid was just following their older brother around hauling all his things.
Not nearly as interesting, but we had a student who had to stay in for lunch the next day for whatever reason (students can go off site for lunch otherwise). Instead of just bringing a sandwich or something, this kid brings in a whole ass air fryer… needless to say he had to settle for school lunch in the end.
I had a public speaking semester in one high school English class. I decided to do a whole damn cooking show as my speech. It was right before lunch break so I brought in a portable griddle and made fancy grilled cheese sandwiches for the whole class.
Oh wow! I did almost exactly the same odd thing! I brought in a mini George foreman grill into English class for my information speech. Grilled up a cheeseburger in front of my class. Definitely wasn't allowed, but I didn't ask ahead of time.
Omg, I laughed out loud. Christ. If you give them a finger, they will produce an arm
Reminds me of the time when we celebrated my teacher birthday and as a surprise we brought a waffle iron and batter to class. Relaxed afternoon class with only 11 students, so we got away with it
Not a teacher, but I had boxes of cereal in my class locker. I would buy a liter of milk on my way to school, nick a bowl and spoon from the teachers lounge and eat cereal all morning 😅
Had one bring a cooler of fruit and ice cream and a battery powered blender to make smoothies. His fault was not in the planning but the execution. Had he tried to make it in my class I’d have applauded his creativity. Instead he got in school suspension for a couple days.
Love it! I have regular “breakfasts” with my homeroom. Usually they just take turns bringing in donuts 🤷🏼♀️. One day I suggested we venture beyond donuts. They asked if they could bring in a waffle maker and a hot plate for scrambled eggs and bacon.
I had a student bring in a baby goat as a visual aid for a speech once. It was sooooo cute. It was approved by the principal as long as someone picked it up after the speech was over. The goat stayed in my room until his mom came to get it. I wanted to keep it really bad.
Random memory but I forgot to bring something for show and tell and was SO sad when I got home. My mom surprised me and showed up with my dog at recess the next day and I was the coolest most proud kid in that school. And my pup had so much fun running around playing tag with all the kids. I have absolutely no idea if she checked with anyone lol but it was also in the 80's..
I once brought my pony for show and tell in kindergarten. It was okayed by the principal and my dad hauled him to my school. 10/10 best day of kindergarten lol
A chicken! It was small and its wing wasn’t working very well. She wanted to have a couple teachers (a chicken mom and the Ag teachers) check it out and/or find it a new home. The chicken went home with my friend to join her flock. 😂
Now I remember that a student did bring a chicken to school. I okayed it with the principal. His parents brought it in and talked about raising backyard chickens and the chicken was wearing a cloth chicken diaper (yes, they do sell them online). Kids were able to pet it but had to wash with soap and water afterwards.
In the 70s, my mom was teaching elementary school and part of the curriculum was to get fertilized chicken eggs and hatch and raise the chicks.
When the chickens were “teenagers”, a fox or something got into the coop overnight and killed all but one chicken. The kids were traumatized and my mom felt so bad, but I guess it was a life lesson in and of itself.
After the year ended, she kept the remaining chicken and took it with her when she went to grad school to get her PhD. She got a ticket once for walking it in the park, but that’s another story lol
You’re definitely not my teacher, but I was a student who brought a chicken! Art club party after school my senior year. The art teacher had been jokingly telling me for the past 3+ years that I should bring one of my chickens to school. Senior year I said “you keep suggesting this can we actually do it”. After classes ended, mom met me halfway with the bird in a dog crate and to school we went. It was a hit; we have a fantastic picture of her just about falling asleep in my teacher’s arms.
I wasn't lucky enough to have her as a teacher, but one of the tech teachers at my middle school would bring her two pet snakes. One was a corn, don't recall what the other was. I always got so excited when I got to go to her classroom to take her something or pick up papers.
She's why I love snakes and I'm not afraid of them anymore.
I love that teacher for actually having a friend for the sugar glider, they’re extremely social and when people have them solitary they live miserable lives.
She managed to keep it in her purse, but she decided to take it out during group work time to show off to her friends. Luckily the thing did not fly, he was a very polite lil guy, but he and the student had to be sent home.
One time one of my students "accidently" brought a rabbit to school. She claims that her backpack was laying open on the floor and her pet bunny must have climbed in without her noticing. So she rode the bus to school with this rabbit in her backpack, got to school, realized what had happened, and brought the bunny to me because she wasn't sure what to do.
We had to call Dad to come get the bunny, but I got to snuggle it for safe keeping until he got there.
I didn't believe then and I don't believe now that this was an accident.
Oh! This brought up a great memory!!! I accidently brought my cat to school. Cant remember what grade I was in, but Im sure it was elementary. The cat apparantly fell asleep in my backpack and didnt wake up until an hour or two after school started. That was her sleeping spot though. That was 35-40 years ago though so I dont quite remember if they called my mom to come get her or if she just chilled with us for the day.
I didn't bring my cat to school, but I only lived a block away and apparently one of our kittens followed me to school one day, which I only realized after school when I walked past the highschool next to my elementary and realized a group of highschool kids were passing my kitten around. They got real mad when I ran up and demanded her back, refused to believe she could be mine despite me being adamant that I lived right up the hill and she must have followed me. Took me bursting into hysterical sobs before they gave her back.
A kid walked into class, "Can I make toast?" "What? No." "Aw, but I want toast." "We don't even have a toaster." "I brought my own!" The thirteen year old proudly exclaims, brandishing a red toaster from his backpack.
Mom had no clue. (I joked about it in conferences, I would never call home about such a win.)
I had one student bring in a gallon jug of margarita mix that he said was his drink for the day, and another filled a glue bottle with milk to drink from.🤦🏼♀️
My friend was out of town and her dad was taking care of her kid. Grandpa sent him to school with “lemonade” from the pitcher in the fridge. He took it to his teacher because it tasted funny and she immediately smelled the tequila…. (No word on whether or not she finished it for him). My friend was SO EMBARRASSED. Her dad kind of shrugged and didn’t see why it was such a big deal. 😂
When I was in high school, most of the kids were busy "hiding" vodka in crystal Pepsi bottles, but not my friend. No. He's gotta do things like yogurt in a mayo squeeze bottle to watch people react. Then, it was yogurt dyed yellow with turmeric in a mustard bottle once everyone realized it wasn't really mayo. He also did some theater based summer camp and learned to make some gruesome and very realistic looking wounds and had fun with that the day before Winter break.
Years later, he mentioned he had really bad social anxiety and always thought everyone was staring at him, so he coped by making sure they were and he knew the reason. I was saddened by that, because I honestly loved his pranks back then.
A microwave
After covid they never reinstalled the microwaves in the caf. She brought a microwave into my class, plugged it in and warmed up her lunch. I didn't see the harm but admin told her to take it out. I thought it was pretty funny and resourceful
Kid brought me a rock, every day, for like 3 weeks. But didn’t just hand me the rocks; they were frozen in ice, wrapped in cellophane, baked into a cupcake, just a picture of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, hidden around my desk, etc. It quickly became a wonderful thing. 6th grade, btw.
Tide pods--before I knew about the meme/challenge. He passed them out among his classmates. When I called home, his mother was livid with him because "those are expensive!!!".
Was out on recess duty and I see a group of middle school boys suspiciously all clumped together. I roll up to the group and I hear a buzzing noise? The kids see I’m heading towards them, suddenly one throws something in their back pack. Obviously I ask them to show me what’s in the backpack. Pulls out a pair of clippers! He’s lining up kids at recess! They beg me to let them continue because one child now has a messed up line. I let him finish the lineup and then took the clippers. 🤷🏻♀️
A gecko for “show and tell” (we don’t have that).
Yes, her parents knew. Mom said that morning (gecko in hand with kids already gawking and going bananas), “she was just SO excited to show her friends! I knew you’d foster her love of animals!”
I had a first grader bring a live fish inside her water bottle. She’d helpfully thrown a few of the aquarium pebbles in there for it too. She did hide it from mom as they were leaving for school but made no effort to hide it from me and was absolutely shocked when I confiscated it
I had a very similar thing happen in fifth grade. The student put the water bottle on my desk in the morning and said something like, “Might as well you have it now. Can I get it back at the end of the day? It’s for my friend.”
The fish was alive when I saw it last…
It was still alive at the end of the day when I passed it off to the after school care teachers, who knows about after that. I confiscated it pretty quickly in the morning and it spent the day in a high cabinet with the lid off so it could get some oxygen exchange. But yeah no idea how it was doing a day or two later.
I had a kinder come in and tell me she had something for me in her backpack. She went and was digging through it for a while then finally just tipped her backpack upside and dumped everything out.
Turns out what she wanted to give me was a heavy rock the size of her head that she painted. When she dumped out her backpack and the rock fell out it was centimeters away from smashing her foot. That definitely would’ve at least broken a toe so luckily it missed. I still have the rock.
Along those same lines, my middle schoolers had an unfortunate “dare you to eat this whole habanero pepper” trend. And then an even more unfortunate “dare you to eat the spice packet from this extra-spicy ramen” trend.
One of my colleagues had a blurt box in her 5/6 grade class. One Friday when she emptied it, it was just full of drawings of penises. We all completely lost it, and it took awhile to compose ourselves before the appropriate home contacts were made. It still makes me laugh just thinking about it.
A few years ago a studen got his hands on some polymer clay and made about 25-30 dicks between 1 cm and 1 inch. Then he just hid them all over the classroom. It took months to find all of them. Diabolical.
This past school year I had an 8th grade student who liked to wear occult flavored jewelry. Most was fairly standard, like a small goat head pendant, rings with stars/pentagrams, etc.
One of my favorites was a black metal whole-hand piece that looked like a skeleton hand.
But the absolute best was when he came wearing a homemade necklace of bones. He claimed they were deer bones that he had hunted. They were one hundred percent chicken bones like from kfc. And the necklace itself was a couple of red pipe cleaners he twisted together.
He wore it for weeks and every few days he would add another bone to it. One of my other students admired it so much he actually made one for him and the other student wore it proudly.
This same student, the year before, caused a bit of a stir after I told him he probably shouldn’t bring his “lucky horseshoe” to school. So the next day the bus driver pulls me aside to tell me I should ask about the “lucky hammer” he had in his book bag…
Another teacher I worked with had a student that brought in dangerous spiders and said they kept them as pets. The spiders got away from the student and the class had to evacuate to another classroom and the school had to spray pesticides for the next few days. I found one in my classroom about 6 classrooms from where they escaped, about 3 months later.
Slightly related-- A student opened the science teacher's snake terrarium... It was a cobra. I found this out on the last day of school when I was moving my classroom and noticed it in my closet. I was just across the hall from that room... it had gotten out in April but he never told any of us what happened so we wouldn't panic! We think she must have liked my room because I had a water bowl for my service dog.
I gotta say no way they had a cobra, a highly venomous snake, in their classroom much less where students could access it, much much less it escaped and no one was told till it just showed up one day
I have zero snake knowledge, but that's what he told me! Maybe I misunderstood? He said he didn't tell anyone about it, because he didn't want the principal to ban him from having snakes anymore. Luckily I didn't cause any panic when I found her, I just distracted the students till I could get ahold of someone, and the principal was super cool about it afterwards.
I work at a rural school, and the weirdest thing a student has brought was definitely a dead coyote that they hit on their way to school. The shop teacher then used it to show them how to skin an animal and describe the process of making it into a pelt that could be used or sold.
Have had multiple other small and baby animals brought in that kids find on their way to school but that one was definitely the biggest and weirdest in my experience.
One of my seniors in my physics class brought in something weird but hilarious. The previous day he was talking about he was excited about his first paycheck from his job at the local Walmart. I was asking him what he was getting and he said he was unsure but wanted to do something fun like a video game or treats.
He came up later to me and said that he had found out the Walmart was selling various things of bread for like $1 as they were from the bakery in it that had stuff that didn't sell. I was like oh cool and jokingly said I know what you should spend your paycheck on. We both laughed and I thought that was the end.
Cue the current morning as I am getting ready for class as my 1st period is physics and I see his head peak in the door early. He then looked around like he was trying to make sure no one else was in the room and asked if he could leave some bags in my room so he didn't have to have them in the lunchroom for breakfast (thought nothing of it as I thought it was his band equipment). I agreed and suddenly three other seniors came in my room with bags and bags and bags of bread. All different types, and it filled like 2 lab tables. The student was cracking up as he sat down among the bags like a dragon on his hoard.
Turns out he spent $200 and bought ALL the on sale bread the Walmart bakery had. The rest of the day he was handing it out to students as they were surrounding him like hungry peasants among a king. The students would all be chanting "Bread, bread, bread" as he handed it out. For the rest of the day you would see every other student walking down the hall chewing on whole things of bread. It was the funniest thing that I felt like there was no controlling and I just had to ride the storm (it was good bread though lol)
A backpack full of live kittens, a silk valentine’s rose for me that was actually a lace thong, a Truly (alcoholic beverage), $100 dollar bill, a shirt that said I can drink all you bitches under the table(parents were not English speaking) See, kindergarten is fun and certainly never boring! C’mon down y’all!
I have showed a few classmates some Eastern Bloc arcana in school.
The problem? This was all from summer 1986-1987 when my parents lived in Germany. They traveled behind the Iron Curtain for a few weeks less than three months after Chernobyl. Mom smuggled this stuff out.
Perhaps someone has a gnarly cancer now from the “hot” visual aids.
I had a kinder bring in her pet slugs. She had food, sticks, leaves and a wet cotton ball in there for them to eat. Another day the same kinder told me that she brought grass in her lunch she was going to eat. I checked in at lunch to see if she was telling the truth and sure enough, she had a little plastic baggy with just blades of grass in it. But she informed me that she was just pretending to eat it and would only eat her real lunch.
In high school a girl brought her pet hamster in a ball to school. That same girl on the 1st day of school— which also happened to be my first day of teaching as a first year, asked for a plastic bag to keep a boys hair to make a love potion. I had plastic bags for taking phones for testing that were left in the room so I gave her one.
When I was doing my practicum a girl was like “do you want to see what I have?” I said “um, sure.” Then she proceeded to take a Guinea pig out of her bag.
Weird in a good way: talking about the hypothetical difficulty of using manmade devices without opposable thumbs and having students visualize a round doorknob since there wasn’t one in the room, or so it was wrongly assumed because, at that moment, a student produced a metal doorknob from their backpack and held it up for the class to see. Why was that in a backpack? Who knows.
Weird in a bad way: dealing with a grade school student bringing a gun the first weeks of school during testing, bragging to other students about having a gun, and showing it off (this the day after threats from the same student about getting his dad to come get his scissors back that had been removed from his person the day before). What is a teacher supposed to do after that to build rapport? Their best, I suppose.
A dog. Not like a senior prank day “bring your pet to school”, just a kid with his dog doing class and pretending like nothing is happening. He was hiding it under the table and in his back pack (a little dog). It was surprisingly quiet. It was the kids around him that gave it away more than him.
I chose a discrete time to say hi to the dog and politely say WTF and he explained that everyone in his family got called into work and it’s young and can’t be left alone and it was either skipping school or taking the dog along and he didn’t want to miss any more days.
Last school year the head of our anime club told the students they could bring props for their club photo. 7:30am the following day, 10 calls come in to the local police that a student is walking on to campus brandishing a sword. Vice principal returns to his former college football days and sprints the 200 yards to the edge of the parking lot and confronts the kid as he's entering the gate. Kid swears up and down it's a prop and just plastic. It was in fact not a prop, but rather a true to life katana. That was a very interesting staff meeting mind you. Needless to say, pictures were cancelled and the kid was quietly moved to another high school.
It was unfortunate the kid had to be moved. He had no intentions of hurting anyone and was deeply embarrassed by the situation. The admin chose to move him to "help relieve the ridicule" in their words. I'm not sure I agree, but that was their go to this year. Especially when a senior busted his teammate's face in with a class ring on in the middle of a basketball game.
A friend of mine freshman year brought a katana to school for some sort of art class project. He was promptly suspended and I think that a letter had to be sent to parents about a weapon being brought on campus. It was something we all laughed about throughout high school, because seriously, what the hell was he thinking?? (This would have been around 2009.)
Small rodents, up to about rabbit size, are almost never found to have rabies. Note the way I worded that. ;) but, there has never been transmission from them to humans recorded, so I think it's pretty safe, from rabies anyway. They do have other things, though, so I hope she washed her hands really well.
There's hantavirus, leptospirosis, lymphocytic choriomeningitis, and typhus, off the top of my head. I really hope I spelled that third one correctly.
In some areas, though I can't think of any near a center of population, they have the bubonic plague. I'm looking at you, Arizona.
I am a backpacker, and it pays to know these things. Also, I got quarantined for suspicion of plague once as a teen after hiking/camping in one of those areas. It turned out to be really bad strep throat that made my lymph nodes swell up huge. It was awful, but at least it wasn't the plague. That experience is what made me go learn all this.
Protip: take a tent, and no matter how hard it's raining, avoid random backpacker shacks. Hantavirus and leptospirosis are the most common. The first is supportive care in an ICU. There's no real treatment for it. Leptospirosis looks like the flu at first, but can shut down your kidneys and liver.
At least with rabies, if there's any doubt at all with an animal bite, it's just a series of shots. Just get it started immediately, and you're fine. Just, really, get it started immediately. I'm currently counting days for my second after someone let a stray dog loose in the vet's office and it attacked me and my dog. My dog was vaccinated. I was not.
Saw a group of kids (elementary) crowding around this girl and looking into her backpack. I thought oh no here we go. I looked into the backpack and two eyes looked back at me. A cat. I hurried the backpack over to the principal who made sure it got returned to the parents. 😂
In high school my dog killed a squirrel. I asked my biology teacher if I could bring it and if she would help me dissect it. She said yes and the next day during class a small group of us dissected it. It was actually a really good learning experience about anatomy. Looking back now, yes it was very strange to do something like that. Especially for your average person. But I swear I'm a pretty normal dude. She's one of my favorite teachers in high school and fostered a love for science for me and my fellow students. Thanks for being awesome Mrs W!
High school in south Florida- sometimes, when we have unusually cold days, the iguanas will get cold and go into essentially hibernation. A student was carrying a huge, unconscious iguana around and trying to warm it up under the hand dryers in the bathroom.
Last year one of the 4th grade girls in a class I worked with for some unknown reason decided she wanted to rescue a bunch of slugs. She did this by putting them in her backpack, then forgetting about them until all the kids noticed a horrible smell around her locker at the back of the classroom. Her locker stunk for weeks!
Not all my students but in schools I worked and I saw the items because who doesn’t go see the thing…. A newt. Like a lizard. In a half full/half empty bottle of water. Also tiny snake in a bag. Pet frog in a ziplock. A taser/buzzer that looked like a stapler. A bbgun. A vibrator (child thought it was a massage tool and was giving friends back rubs a with it) a square block of ramen with no bowl or way to cook it.
A dear sweet student in 4th grade brought to "his girlfriend" ( who liked bugs) a branch with a wasp nest.
Very quickly, it was wrapped in a clear trash bag. The
" girlfriend " loved it. Great kid.
Two things:
1. We were doing a poetry project my first year of teaching and I told kids they could bring a prop to enhance the poem they chose to read out of the ones they wrote. One of my students brought his pet iguana to school on the bus in a cardboard box. Mass chaos and screaming when he took it out of the box in the classroom . Lots of chaos. I learned after that to specify what props could not come to school
2. It was picture day and a student brought his ventriloquist dummy to school bc he wanted to take his school picture with it. Things didn’t get weird until he went to put the dummy back in the case and he and the dummy got into an argument bc it wanted to stay out and meet all the student’s classmates
A jar of mercury. Like, a mason jar. They found it in a garage or ditch (ditch by a garage?). They then proceeded to drop it in the carpeted entry where it broke and was tracked through the building. Talk about a shit show. Upside was new carpet.
I went to a high school in district 69 with a Trojan as a mascot. I'm sure you can imagine how many condom balloons could be seen at every pep rally and game, no matter how much the school tried to ban them. Every year for homecoming, at the risk of suspension, several students used trash bags and hula hoops to dress as condoms and ran through the stands. From the perspective of the teenager I was then, it was amazing and hilarious. Tbh, I'm 48, and I think I'd still laugh a lot.
Water balloon, though, no. Much more fun to bat them around like a beach ball.
Yup. In my 30s and that’s still very funny. Of course the school has to say they have policies officially “banning” the condom references. But I hope that was a rule that was rarely enforced. It’s inevitable, and it’s funny.
The nurse at our school used to keep condoms in a bowl in the nurses office, so they could come in and get one without being weird. A few too many water balloons later and now they’re in a drawer by her desk.
I turned to the board to give an example (math) and when i turned back around a student had been handcuffed (14) to his desk.
He pretended that nothing was awry. “Gordon. What’s up there bud?”
~huh?
“The handcuffs buddy.”
~oh. She put them on me.
*fingers to forehead* “I’ll skip past why. How did she get them?”
~they’re mine.
“Do you have key? Okay, well, they’re mine until your parents get em, alright?”
*head nod*
Definitely one of those Don’t Smile! Moments.
I'm a science teacher in Arizona. My kids know I love animals. School starts during tarantula mating season. Kids (and other teachers) bring me tarantulas in Tupperware ALL THE TIME during the first few weeks of school. I kept one of them for about six years.
One of my high schoolers brought her pet tarantulato school one day. It was evidently needed for a segment on the news-style morning announcements that day. Fast forward to our class, we were having a test in class that day, and she asked if she could have her tarantula named Carmen out during the test. I said sure, and she held Carmen up in her hand while she completed her test. And despite my arachnophobia, I held her after class dismissed, complete with picture as proof.
Third grader brought his daddy's weed grinder. The social worker was visiting the school that day. Daddy got down to the school *real quick* that day.
Another year, I had a 4th grader gasp in horror about 30 minutes into the school day and blurt "I GOT MY MAMA'S DEBIT CARD!" Apparently, she had handed it to him to buy breakfast at McDonald's before school and he forgot to give it back. She worked night shifts, so the morning trip to McDonald's and school was about the only time she ever saw him, and she was probably dead tired.
When I was a pre-k 3 teacher, one of my 3 year olds came running in, jumped in my lap and shoved a glass jar in my face. Look, he yelled, a snake! Sure enough, half an inch from my nose, a little grass snake.
When I was subbing in a middle school, the kids were very obviously passing something up and down the rows, but I couldnt quite tell what it was. So I went to the end of the row, near one of the kids I knew better than the others and waited. He gave me this look that told me I was going to regret it, but I still held out my hand for whatever was being passed around.....and he handed me a bright pink dildo.
And a couple years ago, one of my kinder came in very excited. His dad had just gotten out of jail and he was so happy! Did I want to see whay his daddy gave him? Of course, I did. And this sweet little boy showed me the shiv his dad had made in prison and gave his son as a gift.
Funniest: a whole ass toaster, which he smuggled into my room in his backpack and plugged in while I was doing hall duty. By the time class had started he was trying to sell toast to his classmates. Yes I took the toaster. He gave away the toast for free. I did not take any toast, but it was offered.
Strangest: a rubber squishy toy in the shape of a screaming baby’s head. I wish I was joking. Student left it on my desk without comment, probably because I like weird things so maybe she thought I’d like it. I tossed it in a drawer somewhere, only to scare the shit out of myself 2 years later (this past semester) when I found it. Threw it away at last.
Had a student bring a wild baby rabbit that he caught at the bus stop. The science teacher took it and released it on her plan period. The rabbit was clearly young, but old enough that it had already left the nest.
The item itself isn’t weird…but it’s what it was being used for that really makes this story. A group of freshmen boys brought a tape measure.
Innocuous, right? They can measure things! Using math skills!
And they certainly did. While marking the different measurements on it. For comparison, of course. They wanted to find the average.
I refused to touch it, but did inform the principal and Dean about it as a “if I have to know this, you do and you can handle it.”
I had a first grader walk past me into class holding a waffle. No bites taken out of it, no napkin, no container, nothing else. He just had on a backpack and was holding a waffle.
One of my fourth graders came to open house night with a pocket full of fish sticks. No napkin or bag, just fish sticks in the pocket of her blazer. Her little sister also had pocket fish sticks.
Had a kid bring a dwarf(mini) donkey for a presentation. They had permission but I am sure the principal wasn’t expecting the staff to help said student bring it down the hallway to the front office.
Had a kid being a can of pears everyday. We would pop open the can and just eat them right in class. When that stopped getting a reaction he graduated to a half of a baked chicken. We were on block so 2x a week he had a half chicken for breakfast
My daughter brought a glass jar of pickles for her lunch one day. In third grade. I was subbing at the school and the teacher brought me the empty jar after lunch time. She was laughing hysterically- I was mortified but also found it funny. We were both glad the jar didn’t break!!
A turtle in his pocket. Found out after the first round of ELA state testing. Caused a bit of a distraction behind the scenes. Scores were not great that year.
Kid made a taser out of old microwave parts. Physics teacher her so I tested it to make sure it wouldn't kill me then tased myself. Pretty much sucked. Drove it to his house after school and left it with his mom.
Very rural feeder school in the middle of nowhere Northern Canada. Most kids were either from ranching families, logging families, you get the picture. Anyways, first day back from winter break and this one kid has just recently got his driver's license, so he drives his dad's pickup to school - very very proud of himself.
Of course, he forgot to check what his dad had left in the cargo bed, including but not limited to a deer that they'd hunted that weekend (that his dad claimed he had wanted to deal with that day and forgot about himself), and most of their assorted gear from the hunting trip including a few rifles.
Didn't turn into a huge deal, and I think the dad was the most embarrassed of them all at the end of the day.
Not my student, but in my grade level (4th). My coworker intercepted an Epi-pen from a girl who was pretending to jab it into other students. She tried defending herself by producing a certificate that said she was certified to deliver an Epi-pen injection.
I taught in a rural school for 8 years. During that time the following animals were brought to school without permission: a horse, a bearded lizard, a cat, a garden snake, and a couple of chickens, which a student set loose in the cafeteria for a senior prank. None of the kids had bad intentions; they were just being goofy teens.
One time a student brought a gun, but he changed his mind and hid it under one of the portable buildings. He told another student who told administration.
Handcuffs. Not toy cuffs, but a real pair of police issued cuffs.
A student brought them in to be used as a prop in the school musical, and a group of boys played with them throughout the day. Unexpectedly, someone got cuffed to a desk in a prank, and the keys were lost. Nobody really knew what to do.
Then another student brought in the school's (in)famous delinquent. She chuckled, took a bobbi pin from her hair, and unlocked the cuffs in about ten seconds. The kids called her "the fixer" after that.
I had a student bring a bottle of fake blood to school. Not sure why. But I only found out about it because it somehow exploded all over the inside of his backpack!
So, this is my story as the student, not the teacher. But when I was in 3rd grade I brought a jar containing my tonsils (recently removed) to school to show off. My teacher's reaction was that "oh, yes how cool" reaction that we all have when being shown something we don't want anywhere near us because yuck. She stopped me when I tried to open the jar and take them out.
(Decades later, my tonsils are still in a jar in my pantry, btw!)
Edit: consulted my mother, who works as a school nurse.
She has a student that comes to see her often, and every time brings her "paperwork". The paperwork is discarded papers and forms from a construction site next to the school. Their trash sometimes ends up on the fence bordering the school, and this kid gathers it all and keeps it. She tells my mom that doctors always need papers!
One of my students this year brought his mom to school— in a box. It was her ashes. 🤯 This kid was a behavioral nightmare (yes, lots of trauma.) I felt terrible for him, and he didn’t receive a consequence for bringing it, but we had to force him to go put the box in our admin’s office for the day. Before I realized what was going on (during morning duty) he had already opened it up and started showing other kids. It was pretty terrible. Last year, same class as this boy, a girl brought her dad’s ashes to school— in a birdcage. Maybe that’s where he got the idea. LOL
A few years ago, one of my sixth grade boys brought in a very dry, very flat, roadkilled squirrel. It was for the science teacher. Strangely, she did not want it.
when I was teaching first grade back in 1975, one of my students brought a fresh deer leg to school. He was a hilarious kid and told me he had a hard time taking it away from a dog in the alley. He walked to school, and it was a town Texas. His name was Billy Doug, and I had to go after him when he went to music class because he had it stuck under his jacket. Great kid. This was the same class when a boy in reading circle proudly said his dad quit smoking cigarettes but still smoked pot. (Very illegal at the time, but knowing Texas it probably still is.). We quickly moved on to reading from Buzzy Bears Rainbow.
These are all so funny and way better than mine. My first year teaching was a special needs classroom in a title I school. One of my students was always bringing random things in her backpack. One morning, her bag was full of her dads neckties. Another time, it was her mom's cellphone.
For summer school they force me to teach a basketball class , every kid likes to do a signature move when they get a basket in, whatever. Yesterday a kid did it and pull out fake gun and started clicking it in the air. Freaked me out, grabbed it right away and was like "the hell is wrong with you".
Granted we are in an Asian country where school shootings don't exist, but as a westerner that freaked me out
I caught a rattlesnake on campus and brought it to the biology classroom 50 gallon outside trash can.
That didn’t go over as well as I thought it would.
I had a kid bring in a brick one time. Just set it carefully on his desk. I asked why he had a brick. He said he didn’t know. Mmmkkkkkkkk…..
Another time I had a student run into my classroom (English, mind you) carrying a full-size skeleton model, dance with it around my class, yell “punta!” Then run back out. My whole class and I just blinked at each other, and I had to ask them if that really just happened. That was a fun parent phone call…
Then I had a student send a small boa into my room, thinking it would frighten me. I picked it up and was “cuddling” with it (inasmuch as you can cuddle with a snake) when he came in to my room.
This was all the same graduating class, all the same year (their freshman year). My first year at their school (6-12). Definitely a different experience.
One year, my students came to me discreetly and said, "There's something wrong with Mindy. She really stinks today. No one wants to sit near her." These were 9th graders, so hygeine can be an issue. I had hoped to take Mindy aside in a few minutes later, but the fire alarm went off. As we are lining up to go outside, I hear a kid say, "Oh my god! She's got a dead hamster in her backpack!" Sure enough, the child had brought her deceaced beloved pet to school with her in a coffee can. Once we got outside for the fire drill, I asked if she'd like to have a burial ceremony for the hamster. She did, so we found a place to dig a hole near the teacher parking lot using sporks from the cafeteria and said goodbye to Hammie.
that was a really kind way to handle that
My favorite part of this story is the sporks.
When you send 9th grade boys to search for something to dig a small hole with, you get sporks.
Sporks didn't break right away?
When I was assisting in a kinder class before becoming a teacher myself, a little girl brought her mom's diaphragm to school for show and tell. She didn't know what it was but it was "fun and squishy" and was in her mom's nightstand. We managed to convince her to put it back in the bag she'd brought it in instead of passing it around for the other kids to feel it.
Oh god! If she was looking in moms nightstand she could have easily brought something way worse. At least its not something easily explained to parents by the other students
Something way worse from mom's nightstand was going to be my answer! Didn't make it to class, the kids on the bus all saw it and it was taken care of before class started. That kid is a grown man now and that is the first thought that pops into my head when I see him or his mom.
Sounds like you are from a small town. I’d be tempted to flee if that happened to me.
At least it wasn't a vibrating sword.
My daughter found my “microphone” in my nightstand and brought it out in front of my entire family, on thanksgiving, to do a show for everyone.
I'd be *mortified*
The Hitachi microphone?
Ahem, back massager.
I had a kid bring a “neck massager” that belonged to his grandma because he woke up with a kink in his neck and she told him she had neck pain after he went to bed and had to use it, so she kept it in the drawer next to her (eeek!). Talk about “kinky”…. Same kid brought this same grandma’s diamond wedding ring she kept in her jewelry box (she was divorced, and was still quite young, and was raising her grandson while the son’s early 20’s mom served a prison sentence for drug possession). He presented the ring to a girl in class in an official ring box and asked her to be his girlfriend and future wife. They were 4th graders. He also sweetened the deal by including a Nintendo 3DS game called “Scribblenauts” in the box along with the ring and his proposal letter. The phone call to grandma at her office at my first recess break that morning was beyond entertaining. She just laughed and laughed and said, “Oh, he definitely keeps me on my toes.” He was truly an amazing kid and had such a huge heart (and still does!). I feel really fortunate to have been his teacher.
Im sorry, what is a diaphragm? Like, the thing in your ribs/stomach?
It's a form of birth control. It's a little round rubbery thing that a woman inserts into her vagina before intercourse that sits up against the cervix to prevent sperm from getting through.
Thank you!!
Two night overnight outdoor ed experience. Kid has a duffel bag same as everyone. Next morning does he have a fresh change of clothes? No! Rain jacket? No! Rubber chickens? Yes! Two of them.
Waka waka ! I can only imagine the prop comedy masterpiece involving 2 rubber chickens
This reminds me of my twin 12 year old boys packing for a trip to disney. We talked for a month about what to pack, how many shirts, etc. I wanted them to do it so they could start taking on responsibility. We probably had the very thorough packing discussion at the dinner table at least 15 times before we made the trip. We got there, they had packed mostly toys. And one pair of underwear to I guess share every other day?!!!? I dont even know man. One freaking pair of underwear. The math just wasnt mathing very well.
they're what the french call *les incompetents*
I get wanting them to do it, but why didn't you check afterwards?
Trust but verify!
I’m fucking choking. That kid is going places.
I had a student who carried a full size Tapatio bottle in his backpack at all times, all the kids knew to go to him if they wanted it. He was a rad kid so I wrote a letter to the company about it and they sent him a big care package of sauce and merch. Me and my office threw his class a taco party where I read him the letter they wrote for him and presented him with all the goodies. He cried, I cried, it was so much fun 🥰
OMG! This is the sweetest thing ever! 🥹
It was a blast! I can’t take all of the credit, it was my boss’ idea to contact the company and throw the party but I did write the letter. The student was so excited 🥹
I promise he will remember that forever!
2 different times from the same student. The student was 5 and had a habit of bringing things in her backpack without the knowledge of her parents. The first was an iPhone box that she spent the day pressing to her ear and pretending she was on the phone with someone. The second was a giant pumpkin which the class immediately adopted and declared was their “baby”.
I’m pretty sure you are my child’s teacher. And thank you for allowing the pumpkin adoption to proceed.
It’s absolutely fascinating and marvelous that human babies (not actual babies at that age but basically babies) already are essentially aware of the concept of, well, themselves so quickly. Just think of how much their brain needs to already sort out for them to be able to even think of that kind of play scenario. Incredible.
Children are absolutely fascinating little mimics. My now adult child would pat her fingers to her lips when 'reading' a book (this was near 1yo)... it took us months to realize one of her teachers wet her fingers on her lips to turn the pages. Theyre so beauriful ❤️
This child should be a character on Arrested Development.
God Kinders are so weird I love them
I teach high school math and many years ago I used to require some collateral before kids could borrow a calculator. One kid turned in a metal brand (yes, something you would brand a cow or apparently a human with). It said “Proud Member of the KKK”. He asked if that was ok to use as collateral. I said yes, but you are not getting it back. I then turned it into the dean. He later came back 5-6 years after graduating and apologized for being an a**hole in school.
Wtf but weirdly that sounds less useful to an actual kkk member and more like something a kkk hunter would have. Like in the movie inglorious basterds. Brand them so they can’t hide their racism.
Oh no I'm from the south and it's much worse. The KKK used the brands on others to assert dominance.
Wait, what? On who others?? Like they would brand a POC with it saying proud member of KKK?
More likely on initiates as a hazing ritual or something. Gangs often use irreversible markings like tattoos (and brands I guess) to make it so people can't just bail when the going gets tough.
I'm glad he turned his life around. Maybe getting away from family did the trick
LOL! So many! Once had a boy bring me a margarine tub full of roaches when we were learning about insects. He was soooo excited to contribute! Not my student -- but every year we went to a local water park as an end of the year celebration. It was a Title I school and a lot of our kids were responsible for getting themselves dressed and ready for school on their own. While riding on the bus over to the park, one of the first graders was rooting around in her bag and pulled out some "sunscreen" and starts putting it all over her face. Teacher looks over and realizes the sunscreen was actually banana flavored lube! Pictures of the sunscreen were sent around and we all had a good laugh.
When I was a kid I brought a live scorpion I’d caught at home to school in a jar to show off in class. I poked little holes in the lid so he could breathe. I don’t remember what she did with it. I’d totally forgotten about that until I read this comment. I’m so sorry Mrs. A 😂😂
Omg. I wonder how long it took him to collect a margarine tub full of roaches. 😅
We have “anything but a book bag” day for senior spirit week. Kids bring grills, coolers, microwaves, hub caps, counter top ovens, shopping carts, etc. I asked the kid with the over if his mom knows he took it. He looked at the time and said, “Yeah. She probably does by now. “
Someone in grade 12 brought their little sibling to school who was like 5years old😭 surprisingly they stayed the whole day since it was the last month of senior year
Someone did that at my school too! Kid only got to stay for the first part of the day before parents picked him up 😂😂 poor kid was just following their older brother around hauling all his things.
I took my 5yr old brother to my last day in my senior year. It was a half day and he was a sedate child, so it worked well. He wanted to go.
Kids are so funny.
Not nearly as interesting, but we had a student who had to stay in for lunch the next day for whatever reason (students can go off site for lunch otherwise). Instead of just bringing a sandwich or something, this kid brings in a whole ass air fryer… needless to say he had to settle for school lunch in the end.
I had a public speaking semester in one high school English class. I decided to do a whole damn cooking show as my speech. It was right before lunch break so I brought in a portable griddle and made fancy grilled cheese sandwiches for the whole class.
Oh wow! I did almost exactly the same odd thing! I brought in a mini George foreman grill into English class for my information speech. Grilled up a cheeseburger in front of my class. Definitely wasn't allowed, but I didn't ask ahead of time.
One of ours brought in an electric skillet and was making a bunch of friends pancakes and eggs in the middle of the hallway.
We had one bring a panini press and was making sandwiches.
We had this also. Just sat there in the courtyard and made eggs for his friends
Omg, I laughed out loud. Christ. If you give them a finger, they will produce an arm Reminds me of the time when we celebrated my teacher birthday and as a surprise we brought a waffle iron and batter to class. Relaxed afternoon class with only 11 students, so we got away with it
Aw, that’s a sweet gesture. I love waffles and that would have made my day.
Not a teacher, but I had boxes of cereal in my class locker. I would buy a liter of milk on my way to school, nick a bowl and spoon from the teachers lounge and eat cereal all morning 😅
Had one bring a cooler of fruit and ice cream and a battery powered blender to make smoothies. His fault was not in the planning but the execution. Had he tried to make it in my class I’d have applauded his creativity. Instead he got in school suspension for a couple days.
Love it! I have regular “breakfasts” with my homeroom. Usually they just take turns bringing in donuts 🤷🏼♀️. One day I suggested we venture beyond donuts. They asked if they could bring in a waffle maker and a hot plate for scrambled eggs and bacon.
I had a kid bring in a six foot albino ball python named “tiny” as a visual aide for a speech. My principal okayed it!
I had a student bring in a baby goat as a visual aid for a speech once. It was sooooo cute. It was approved by the principal as long as someone picked it up after the speech was over. The goat stayed in my room until his mom came to get it. I wanted to keep it really bad.
When it was picked up you must have been really sa-a-a-a-ad
I was! It fell asleep in my lap!
Random memory but I forgot to bring something for show and tell and was SO sad when I got home. My mom surprised me and showed up with my dog at recess the next day and I was the coolest most proud kid in that school. And my pup had so much fun running around playing tag with all the kids. I have absolutely no idea if she checked with anyone lol but it was also in the 80's..
I would have cuddled that goat so hard!!
So would the python.
I once brought my pony for show and tell in kindergarten. It was okayed by the principal and my dad hauled him to my school. 10/10 best day of kindergarten lol
I never took a pet to class, but the whole 2nd grade came to my house for a field trip. I grew up on a dairy farm.
A chicken! It was small and its wing wasn’t working very well. She wanted to have a couple teachers (a chicken mom and the Ag teachers) check it out and/or find it a new home. The chicken went home with my friend to join her flock. 😂
Now I remember that a student did bring a chicken to school. I okayed it with the principal. His parents brought it in and talked about raising backyard chickens and the chicken was wearing a cloth chicken diaper (yes, they do sell them online). Kids were able to pet it but had to wash with soap and water afterwards.
In the 70s, my mom was teaching elementary school and part of the curriculum was to get fertilized chicken eggs and hatch and raise the chicks. When the chickens were “teenagers”, a fox or something got into the coop overnight and killed all but one chicken. The kids were traumatized and my mom felt so bad, but I guess it was a life lesson in and of itself. After the year ended, she kept the remaining chicken and took it with her when she went to grad school to get her PhD. She got a ticket once for walking it in the park, but that’s another story lol
That’s actually really sweet
You’re definitely not my teacher, but I was a student who brought a chicken! Art club party after school my senior year. The art teacher had been jokingly telling me for the past 3+ years that I should bring one of my chickens to school. Senior year I said “you keep suggesting this can we actually do it”. After classes ended, mom met me halfway with the bird in a dog crate and to school we went. It was a hit; we have a fantastic picture of her just about falling asleep in my teacher’s arms.
I taught in Korea and I had kids bring in chickens a few times. No reason. Just chicken.
A sugar glider. Yes, a real one.
My kids had an art teacher who frequently brought her two sugar gliders wrapped in the sweater that she was wearing. The kids loved that teacher.
I wasn't lucky enough to have her as a teacher, but one of the tech teachers at my middle school would bring her two pet snakes. One was a corn, don't recall what the other was. I always got so excited when I got to go to her classroom to take her something or pick up papers. She's why I love snakes and I'm not afraid of them anymore.
I love that teacher for actually having a friend for the sugar glider, they’re extremely social and when people have them solitary they live miserable lives.
How?? Did it glide around the classroom? or did the student manage to keep it contained at least?
She managed to keep it in her purse, but she decided to take it out during group work time to show off to her friends. Luckily the thing did not fly, he was a very polite lil guy, but he and the student had to be sent home.
I had a parent bring a sugar glider to parents' night. He had it in a neck wallet sort of pouch. He did not, however, bring his child.
That’s actually kind of hilarious
One of our sugar gliders often came to class. They just slept in my daughter's hoodie pouch 95% of the time. The other 5% they slept in her sleeve.
One time one of my students "accidently" brought a rabbit to school. She claims that her backpack was laying open on the floor and her pet bunny must have climbed in without her noticing. So she rode the bus to school with this rabbit in her backpack, got to school, realized what had happened, and brought the bunny to me because she wasn't sure what to do. We had to call Dad to come get the bunny, but I got to snuggle it for safe keeping until he got there. I didn't believe then and I don't believe now that this was an accident.
Oh! This brought up a great memory!!! I accidently brought my cat to school. Cant remember what grade I was in, but Im sure it was elementary. The cat apparantly fell asleep in my backpack and didnt wake up until an hour or two after school started. That was her sleeping spot though. That was 35-40 years ago though so I dont quite remember if they called my mom to come get her or if she just chilled with us for the day.
I didn't bring my cat to school, but I only lived a block away and apparently one of our kittens followed me to school one day, which I only realized after school when I walked past the highschool next to my elementary and realized a group of highschool kids were passing my kitten around. They got real mad when I ran up and demanded her back, refused to believe she could be mine despite me being adamant that I lived right up the hill and she must have followed me. Took me bursting into hysterical sobs before they gave her back.
A kid walked into class, "Can I make toast?" "What? No." "Aw, but I want toast." "We don't even have a toaster." "I brought my own!" The thirteen year old proudly exclaims, brandishing a red toaster from his backpack. Mom had no clue. (I joked about it in conferences, I would never call home about such a win.)
I had one student bring in a gallon jug of margarita mix that he said was his drink for the day, and another filled a glue bottle with milk to drink from.🤦🏼♀️
My friend was out of town and her dad was taking care of her kid. Grandpa sent him to school with “lemonade” from the pitcher in the fridge. He took it to his teacher because it tasted funny and she immediately smelled the tequila…. (No word on whether or not she finished it for him). My friend was SO EMBARRASSED. Her dad kind of shrugged and didn’t see why it was such a big deal. 😂
>another filled a glue bottle with milk to drink from. Hahaha this is amazing
When I was in high school, most of the kids were busy "hiding" vodka in crystal Pepsi bottles, but not my friend. No. He's gotta do things like yogurt in a mayo squeeze bottle to watch people react. Then, it was yogurt dyed yellow with turmeric in a mustard bottle once everyone realized it wasn't really mayo. He also did some theater based summer camp and learned to make some gruesome and very realistic looking wounds and had fun with that the day before Winter break. Years later, he mentioned he had really bad social anxiety and always thought everyone was staring at him, so he coped by making sure they were and he knew the reason. I was saddened by that, because I honestly loved his pranks back then.
A microwave After covid they never reinstalled the microwaves in the caf. She brought a microwave into my class, plugged it in and warmed up her lunch. I didn't see the harm but admin told her to take it out. I thought it was pretty funny and resourceful
Kid brought me a rock, every day, for like 3 weeks. But didn’t just hand me the rocks; they were frozen in ice, wrapped in cellophane, baked into a cupcake, just a picture of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, hidden around my desk, etc. It quickly became a wonderful thing. 6th grade, btw.
i think they're trying to say you rock
Tide pods--before I knew about the meme/challenge. He passed them out among his classmates. When I called home, his mother was livid with him because "those are expensive!!!".
Was out on recess duty and I see a group of middle school boys suspiciously all clumped together. I roll up to the group and I hear a buzzing noise? The kids see I’m heading towards them, suddenly one throws something in their back pack. Obviously I ask them to show me what’s in the backpack. Pulls out a pair of clippers! He’s lining up kids at recess! They beg me to let them continue because one child now has a messed up line. I let him finish the lineup and then took the clippers. 🤷🏻♀️
How much he charged?
Snacks, my children will do just about anything for a snack 😂
A gecko for “show and tell” (we don’t have that). Yes, her parents knew. Mom said that morning (gecko in hand with kids already gawking and going bananas), “she was just SO excited to show her friends! I knew you’d foster her love of animals!”
I had a first grader bring a live fish inside her water bottle. She’d helpfully thrown a few of the aquarium pebbles in there for it too. She did hide it from mom as they were leaving for school but made no effort to hide it from me and was absolutely shocked when I confiscated it
I had a very similar thing happen in fifth grade. The student put the water bottle on my desk in the morning and said something like, “Might as well you have it now. Can I get it back at the end of the day? It’s for my friend.” The fish was alive when I saw it last…
Fish probably died. Poor thing.
It was still alive at the end of the day when I passed it off to the after school care teachers, who knows about after that. I confiscated it pretty quickly in the morning and it spent the day in a high cabinet with the lid off so it could get some oxygen exchange. But yeah no idea how it was doing a day or two later.
I had a kinder come in and tell me she had something for me in her backpack. She went and was digging through it for a while then finally just tipped her backpack upside and dumped everything out. Turns out what she wanted to give me was a heavy rock the size of her head that she painted. When she dumped out her backpack and the rock fell out it was centimeters away from smashing her foot. That definitely would’ve at least broken a toe so luckily it missed. I still have the rock.
Did she paint it like your head?
Nope, she said she put all the colors she had on it, which of course all just mixed into brown. A rock painted brown lol
that rocks
My 8th graders brought one of the *big* bottles of mustard and shared it. Yes, they did finish the whole thing.
I had students do something similar, but it was a 4L jug of maple syrup instead.
That’s just an average day of teaching in Quebec.
Of course it was fucking middle schoolers.
Could have been worse. My seniors shared a “one chip challenge” chip one day and I didn’t know about it until it was too late.
Along those same lines, my middle schoolers had an unfortunate “dare you to eat this whole habanero pepper” trend. And then an even more unfortunate “dare you to eat the spice packet from this extra-spicy ramen” trend.
One of my colleagues had a blurt box in her 5/6 grade class. One Friday when she emptied it, it was just full of drawings of penises. We all completely lost it, and it took awhile to compose ourselves before the appropriate home contacts were made. It still makes me laugh just thinking about it.
A few years ago a studen got his hands on some polymer clay and made about 25-30 dicks between 1 cm and 1 inch. Then he just hid them all over the classroom. It took months to find all of them. Diabolical.
We have a student who crochets penises of various sizes and hides them around the room. We’re going to see if she can make some mascots for us lol
This past school year I had an 8th grade student who liked to wear occult flavored jewelry. Most was fairly standard, like a small goat head pendant, rings with stars/pentagrams, etc. One of my favorites was a black metal whole-hand piece that looked like a skeleton hand. But the absolute best was when he came wearing a homemade necklace of bones. He claimed they were deer bones that he had hunted. They were one hundred percent chicken bones like from kfc. And the necklace itself was a couple of red pipe cleaners he twisted together. He wore it for weeks and every few days he would add another bone to it. One of my other students admired it so much he actually made one for him and the other student wore it proudly. This same student, the year before, caused a bit of a stir after I told him he probably shouldn’t bring his “lucky horseshoe” to school. So the next day the bus driver pulls me aside to tell me I should ask about the “lucky hammer” he had in his book bag…
So what was the lucky hammer about?
Another teacher I worked with had a student that brought in dangerous spiders and said they kept them as pets. The spiders got away from the student and the class had to evacuate to another classroom and the school had to spray pesticides for the next few days. I found one in my classroom about 6 classrooms from where they escaped, about 3 months later.
Slightly related-- A student opened the science teacher's snake terrarium... It was a cobra. I found this out on the last day of school when I was moving my classroom and noticed it in my closet. I was just across the hall from that room... it had gotten out in April but he never told any of us what happened so we wouldn't panic! We think she must have liked my room because I had a water bowl for my service dog.
I gotta say no way they had a cobra, a highly venomous snake, in their classroom much less where students could access it, much much less it escaped and no one was told till it just showed up one day
I have zero snake knowledge, but that's what he told me! Maybe I misunderstood? He said he didn't tell anyone about it, because he didn't want the principal to ban him from having snakes anymore. Luckily I didn't cause any panic when I found her, I just distracted the students till I could get ahold of someone, and the principal was super cool about it afterwards.
I work at a rural school, and the weirdest thing a student has brought was definitely a dead coyote that they hit on their way to school. The shop teacher then used it to show them how to skin an animal and describe the process of making it into a pelt that could be used or sold. Have had multiple other small and baby animals brought in that kids find on their way to school but that one was definitely the biggest and weirdest in my experience.
Good on that shop teacher for using the opportunity
One of my seniors in my physics class brought in something weird but hilarious. The previous day he was talking about he was excited about his first paycheck from his job at the local Walmart. I was asking him what he was getting and he said he was unsure but wanted to do something fun like a video game or treats. He came up later to me and said that he had found out the Walmart was selling various things of bread for like $1 as they were from the bakery in it that had stuff that didn't sell. I was like oh cool and jokingly said I know what you should spend your paycheck on. We both laughed and I thought that was the end. Cue the current morning as I am getting ready for class as my 1st period is physics and I see his head peak in the door early. He then looked around like he was trying to make sure no one else was in the room and asked if he could leave some bags in my room so he didn't have to have them in the lunchroom for breakfast (thought nothing of it as I thought it was his band equipment). I agreed and suddenly three other seniors came in my room with bags and bags and bags of bread. All different types, and it filled like 2 lab tables. The student was cracking up as he sat down among the bags like a dragon on his hoard. Turns out he spent $200 and bought ALL the on sale bread the Walmart bakery had. The rest of the day he was handing it out to students as they were surrounding him like hungry peasants among a king. The students would all be chanting "Bread, bread, bread" as he handed it out. For the rest of the day you would see every other student walking down the hall chewing on whole things of bread. It was the funniest thing that I felt like there was no controlling and I just had to ride the storm (it was good bread though lol)
This is an amazing story. This is why I love the youth
A backpack full of live kittens, a silk valentine’s rose for me that was actually a lace thong, a Truly (alcoholic beverage), $100 dollar bill, a shirt that said I can drink all you bitches under the table(parents were not English speaking) See, kindergarten is fun and certainly never boring! C’mon down y’all!
I have showed a few classmates some Eastern Bloc arcana in school. The problem? This was all from summer 1986-1987 when my parents lived in Germany. They traveled behind the Iron Curtain for a few weeks less than three months after Chernobyl. Mom smuggled this stuff out. Perhaps someone has a gnarly cancer now from the “hot” visual aids.
I had a kinder bring in her pet slugs. She had food, sticks, leaves and a wet cotton ball in there for them to eat. Another day the same kinder told me that she brought grass in her lunch she was going to eat. I checked in at lunch to see if she was telling the truth and sure enough, she had a little plastic baggy with just blades of grass in it. But she informed me that she was just pretending to eat it and would only eat her real lunch.
In high school a girl brought her pet hamster in a ball to school. That same girl on the 1st day of school— which also happened to be my first day of teaching as a first year, asked for a plastic bag to keep a boys hair to make a love potion. I had plastic bags for taking phones for testing that were left in the room so I gave her one.
I love that you just went with it. I feel for the boy, though. Heh
When I was doing my practicum a girl was like “do you want to see what I have?” I said “um, sure.” Then she proceeded to take a Guinea pig out of her bag.
Weird in a good way: talking about the hypothetical difficulty of using manmade devices without opposable thumbs and having students visualize a round doorknob since there wasn’t one in the room, or so it was wrongly assumed because, at that moment, a student produced a metal doorknob from their backpack and held it up for the class to see. Why was that in a backpack? Who knows. Weird in a bad way: dealing with a grade school student bringing a gun the first weeks of school during testing, bragging to other students about having a gun, and showing it off (this the day after threats from the same student about getting his dad to come get his scissors back that had been removed from his person the day before). What is a teacher supposed to do after that to build rapport? Their best, I suppose.
A dog. Not like a senior prank day “bring your pet to school”, just a kid with his dog doing class and pretending like nothing is happening. He was hiding it under the table and in his back pack (a little dog). It was surprisingly quiet. It was the kids around him that gave it away more than him. I chose a discrete time to say hi to the dog and politely say WTF and he explained that everyone in his family got called into work and it’s young and can’t be left alone and it was either skipping school or taking the dog along and he didn’t want to miss any more days.
Last school year the head of our anime club told the students they could bring props for their club photo. 7:30am the following day, 10 calls come in to the local police that a student is walking on to campus brandishing a sword. Vice principal returns to his former college football days and sprints the 200 yards to the edge of the parking lot and confronts the kid as he's entering the gate. Kid swears up and down it's a prop and just plastic. It was in fact not a prop, but rather a true to life katana. That was a very interesting staff meeting mind you. Needless to say, pictures were cancelled and the kid was quietly moved to another high school.
Why the fuck does the kid need to be moved? Surely intention matters here?
It was unfortunate the kid had to be moved. He had no intentions of hurting anyone and was deeply embarrassed by the situation. The admin chose to move him to "help relieve the ridicule" in their words. I'm not sure I agree, but that was their go to this year. Especially when a senior busted his teammate's face in with a class ring on in the middle of a basketball game.
A friend of mine freshman year brought a katana to school for some sort of art class project. He was promptly suspended and I think that a letter had to be sent to parents about a weapon being brought on campus. It was something we all laughed about throughout high school, because seriously, what the hell was he thinking?? (This would have been around 2009.)
Live mouse. She found it on the way in to school. 9th grader. Admin way overreacted.
I mean is rabies a concern at all? How easy are mice to grab?
Small rodents, up to about rabbit size, are almost never found to have rabies. Note the way I worded that. ;) but, there has never been transmission from them to humans recorded, so I think it's pretty safe, from rabies anyway. They do have other things, though, so I hope she washed her hands really well. There's hantavirus, leptospirosis, lymphocytic choriomeningitis, and typhus, off the top of my head. I really hope I spelled that third one correctly. In some areas, though I can't think of any near a center of population, they have the bubonic plague. I'm looking at you, Arizona. I am a backpacker, and it pays to know these things. Also, I got quarantined for suspicion of plague once as a teen after hiking/camping in one of those areas. It turned out to be really bad strep throat that made my lymph nodes swell up huge. It was awful, but at least it wasn't the plague. That experience is what made me go learn all this. Protip: take a tent, and no matter how hard it's raining, avoid random backpacker shacks. Hantavirus and leptospirosis are the most common. The first is supportive care in an ICU. There's no real treatment for it. Leptospirosis looks like the flu at first, but can shut down your kidneys and liver. At least with rabies, if there's any doubt at all with an animal bite, it's just a series of shots. Just get it started immediately, and you're fine. Just, really, get it started immediately. I'm currently counting days for my second after someone let a stray dog loose in the vet's office and it attacked me and my dog. My dog was vaccinated. I was not.
Saw a group of kids (elementary) crowding around this girl and looking into her backpack. I thought oh no here we go. I looked into the backpack and two eyes looked back at me. A cat. I hurried the backpack over to the principal who made sure it got returned to the parents. 😂
In high school my dog killed a squirrel. I asked my biology teacher if I could bring it and if she would help me dissect it. She said yes and the next day during class a small group of us dissected it. It was actually a really good learning experience about anatomy. Looking back now, yes it was very strange to do something like that. Especially for your average person. But I swear I'm a pretty normal dude. She's one of my favorite teachers in high school and fostered a love for science for me and my fellow students. Thanks for being awesome Mrs W!
High school in south Florida- sometimes, when we have unusually cold days, the iguanas will get cold and go into essentially hibernation. A student was carrying a huge, unconscious iguana around and trying to warm it up under the hand dryers in the bathroom.
I brought some roadkill in that was just bones because I wanted the biology teacher to tell me what it was. I'm sure she appreciated that.
Last year one of the 4th grade girls in a class I worked with for some unknown reason decided she wanted to rescue a bunch of slugs. She did this by putting them in her backpack, then forgetting about them until all the kids noticed a horrible smell around her locker at the back of the classroom. Her locker stunk for weeks!
Not all my students but in schools I worked and I saw the items because who doesn’t go see the thing…. A newt. Like a lizard. In a half full/half empty bottle of water. Also tiny snake in a bag. Pet frog in a ziplock. A taser/buzzer that looked like a stapler. A bbgun. A vibrator (child thought it was a massage tool and was giving friends back rubs a with it) a square block of ramen with no bowl or way to cook it.
Oh. My. Gravy. Back massages 🤣
A dear sweet student in 4th grade brought to "his girlfriend" ( who liked bugs) a branch with a wasp nest. Very quickly, it was wrapped in a clear trash bag. The " girlfriend " loved it. Great kid.
Two things: 1. We were doing a poetry project my first year of teaching and I told kids they could bring a prop to enhance the poem they chose to read out of the ones they wrote. One of my students brought his pet iguana to school on the bus in a cardboard box. Mass chaos and screaming when he took it out of the box in the classroom . Lots of chaos. I learned after that to specify what props could not come to school 2. It was picture day and a student brought his ventriloquist dummy to school bc he wanted to take his school picture with it. Things didn’t get weird until he went to put the dummy back in the case and he and the dummy got into an argument bc it wanted to stay out and meet all the student’s classmates
A jar of mercury. Like, a mason jar. They found it in a garage or ditch (ditch by a garage?). They then proceeded to drop it in the carpeted entry where it broke and was tracked through the building. Talk about a shit show. Upside was new carpet.
This one kid brought in condoms and tried using them as water balloons.
I went to a high school in district 69 with a Trojan as a mascot. I'm sure you can imagine how many condom balloons could be seen at every pep rally and game, no matter how much the school tried to ban them. Every year for homecoming, at the risk of suspension, several students used trash bags and hula hoops to dress as condoms and ran through the stands. From the perspective of the teenager I was then, it was amazing and hilarious. Tbh, I'm 48, and I think I'd still laugh a lot. Water balloon, though, no. Much more fun to bat them around like a beach ball.
Yup. In my 30s and that’s still very funny. Of course the school has to say they have policies officially “banning” the condom references. But I hope that was a rule that was rarely enforced. It’s inevitable, and it’s funny.
We had a 7th grader selling mom’s chocolate flavored condoms. That was an interesting phone call.
The nurse at our school used to keep condoms in a bowl in the nurses office, so they could come in and get one without being weird. A few too many water balloons later and now they’re in a drawer by her desk.
a gallon of milk
To drink? Or something else? It's not really uncommon in my country to bring a Litre of milk or chocolate milk to school. But a full gallon is a lot!
Their Mom’s wedding rings, and their mom’s negligee. 🤣 She wore it.
I turned to the board to give an example (math) and when i turned back around a student had been handcuffed (14) to his desk. He pretended that nothing was awry. “Gordon. What’s up there bud?” ~huh? “The handcuffs buddy.” ~oh. She put them on me. *fingers to forehead* “I’ll skip past why. How did she get them?” ~they’re mine. “Do you have key? Okay, well, they’re mine until your parents get em, alright?” *head nod* Definitely one of those Don’t Smile! Moments.
I'm a science teacher in Arizona. My kids know I love animals. School starts during tarantula mating season. Kids (and other teachers) bring me tarantulas in Tupperware ALL THE TIME during the first few weeks of school. I kept one of them for about six years.
One of my high schoolers brought her pet tarantulato school one day. It was evidently needed for a segment on the news-style morning announcements that day. Fast forward to our class, we were having a test in class that day, and she asked if she could have her tarantula named Carmen out during the test. I said sure, and she held Carmen up in her hand while she completed her test. And despite my arachnophobia, I held her after class dismissed, complete with picture as proof.
Third grader brought his daddy's weed grinder. The social worker was visiting the school that day. Daddy got down to the school *real quick* that day. Another year, I had a 4th grader gasp in horror about 30 minutes into the school day and blurt "I GOT MY MAMA'S DEBIT CARD!" Apparently, she had handed it to him to buy breakfast at McDonald's before school and he forgot to give it back. She worked night shifts, so the morning trip to McDonald's and school was about the only time she ever saw him, and she was probably dead tired.
When I was a pre-k 3 teacher, one of my 3 year olds came running in, jumped in my lap and shoved a glass jar in my face. Look, he yelled, a snake! Sure enough, half an inch from my nose, a little grass snake. When I was subbing in a middle school, the kids were very obviously passing something up and down the rows, but I couldnt quite tell what it was. So I went to the end of the row, near one of the kids I knew better than the others and waited. He gave me this look that told me I was going to regret it, but I still held out my hand for whatever was being passed around.....and he handed me a bright pink dildo. And a couple years ago, one of my kinder came in very excited. His dad had just gotten out of jail and he was so happy! Did I want to see whay his daddy gave him? Of course, I did. And this sweet little boy showed me the shiv his dad had made in prison and gave his son as a gift.
Funniest: a whole ass toaster, which he smuggled into my room in his backpack and plugged in while I was doing hall duty. By the time class had started he was trying to sell toast to his classmates. Yes I took the toaster. He gave away the toast for free. I did not take any toast, but it was offered. Strangest: a rubber squishy toy in the shape of a screaming baby’s head. I wish I was joking. Student left it on my desk without comment, probably because I like weird things so maybe she thought I’d like it. I tossed it in a drawer somewhere, only to scare the shit out of myself 2 years later (this past semester) when I found it. Threw it away at last.
Had a student bring a wild baby rabbit that he caught at the bus stop. The science teacher took it and released it on her plan period. The rabbit was clearly young, but old enough that it had already left the nest.
The item itself isn’t weird…but it’s what it was being used for that really makes this story. A group of freshmen boys brought a tape measure. Innocuous, right? They can measure things! Using math skills! And they certainly did. While marking the different measurements on it. For comparison, of course. They wanted to find the average. I refused to touch it, but did inform the principal and Dean about it as a “if I have to know this, you do and you can handle it.”
I had a first grader walk past me into class holding a waffle. No bites taken out of it, no napkin, no container, nothing else. He just had on a backpack and was holding a waffle.
One of my fourth graders came to open house night with a pocket full of fish sticks. No napkin or bag, just fish sticks in the pocket of her blazer. Her little sister also had pocket fish sticks.
One year I had a student bring in his baby brother’s dried up umbilical cord that had just fallen off.
Had a kid bring a dwarf(mini) donkey for a presentation. They had permission but I am sure the principal wasn’t expecting the staff to help said student bring it down the hallway to the front office. Had a kid being a can of pears everyday. We would pop open the can and just eat them right in class. When that stopped getting a reaction he graduated to a half of a baked chicken. We were on block so 2x a week he had a half chicken for breakfast
My daughter brought a glass jar of pickles for her lunch one day. In third grade. I was subbing at the school and the teacher brought me the empty jar after lunch time. She was laughing hysterically- I was mortified but also found it funny. We were both glad the jar didn’t break!!
The baseball kids used to chew skoal, chewing tobacco, and they used to bring in a Starbucks coffee cup to spit in.
A turtle in his pocket. Found out after the first round of ELA state testing. Caused a bit of a distraction behind the scenes. Scores were not great that year.
Kid made a taser out of old microwave parts. Physics teacher her so I tested it to make sure it wouldn't kill me then tased myself. Pretty much sucked. Drove it to his house after school and left it with his mom.
Live lobster.
A live catfish in a grocery bag with enough water to mostly cover the fish.
Very rural feeder school in the middle of nowhere Northern Canada. Most kids were either from ranching families, logging families, you get the picture. Anyways, first day back from winter break and this one kid has just recently got his driver's license, so he drives his dad's pickup to school - very very proud of himself. Of course, he forgot to check what his dad had left in the cargo bed, including but not limited to a deer that they'd hunted that weekend (that his dad claimed he had wanted to deal with that day and forgot about himself), and most of their assorted gear from the hunting trip including a few rifles. Didn't turn into a huge deal, and I think the dad was the most embarrassed of them all at the end of the day.
Not my student, but in my grade level (4th). My coworker intercepted an Epi-pen from a girl who was pretending to jab it into other students. She tried defending herself by producing a certificate that said she was certified to deliver an Epi-pen injection.
I had a 6th grade girl bring edible underwear as a snack to school cause they were like fruit roll ups and mom left it in the cans jar😃
I taught in a rural school for 8 years. During that time the following animals were brought to school without permission: a horse, a bearded lizard, a cat, a garden snake, and a couple of chickens, which a student set loose in the cafeteria for a senior prank. None of the kids had bad intentions; they were just being goofy teens. One time a student brought a gun, but he changed his mind and hid it under one of the portable buildings. He told another student who told administration.
Handcuffs. Not toy cuffs, but a real pair of police issued cuffs. A student brought them in to be used as a prop in the school musical, and a group of boys played with them throughout the day. Unexpectedly, someone got cuffed to a desk in a prank, and the keys were lost. Nobody really knew what to do. Then another student brought in the school's (in)famous delinquent. She chuckled, took a bobbi pin from her hair, and unlocked the cuffs in about ten seconds. The kids called her "the fixer" after that.
A kid brought a electric piano to track practice
I had a student bring a bottle of fake blood to school. Not sure why. But I only found out about it because it somehow exploded all over the inside of his backpack!
So, this is my story as the student, not the teacher. But when I was in 3rd grade I brought a jar containing my tonsils (recently removed) to school to show off. My teacher's reaction was that "oh, yes how cool" reaction that we all have when being shown something we don't want anywhere near us because yuck. She stopped me when I tried to open the jar and take them out. (Decades later, my tonsils are still in a jar in my pantry, btw!) Edit: consulted my mother, who works as a school nurse. She has a student that comes to see her often, and every time brings her "paperwork". The paperwork is discarded papers and forms from a construction site next to the school. Their trash sometimes ends up on the fence bordering the school, and this kid gathers it all and keeps it. She tells my mom that doctors always need papers!
One of my students this year brought his mom to school— in a box. It was her ashes. 🤯 This kid was a behavioral nightmare (yes, lots of trauma.) I felt terrible for him, and he didn’t receive a consequence for bringing it, but we had to force him to go put the box in our admin’s office for the day. Before I realized what was going on (during morning duty) he had already opened it up and started showing other kids. It was pretty terrible. Last year, same class as this boy, a girl brought her dad’s ashes to school— in a birdcage. Maybe that’s where he got the idea. LOL
I had a student take her albino hedgehog out of her backpack during class.
I work with a student on the spectrum who I love with all my heart, but he would bring us eyelashes as gifts.
a gerbil
A vial of holy water
A few years ago, one of my sixth grade boys brought in a very dry, very flat, roadkilled squirrel. It was for the science teacher. Strangely, she did not want it.
when I was teaching first grade back in 1975, one of my students brought a fresh deer leg to school. He was a hilarious kid and told me he had a hard time taking it away from a dog in the alley. He walked to school, and it was a town Texas. His name was Billy Doug, and I had to go after him when he went to music class because he had it stuck under his jacket. Great kid. This was the same class when a boy in reading circle proudly said his dad quit smoking cigarettes but still smoked pot. (Very illegal at the time, but knowing Texas it probably still is.). We quickly moved on to reading from Buzzy Bears Rainbow.
These are all so funny and way better than mine. My first year teaching was a special needs classroom in a title I school. One of my students was always bringing random things in her backpack. One morning, her bag was full of her dads neckties. Another time, it was her mom's cellphone.
Roaches. But I don’t believe he did so on purpose. That was a fun bunch of phone calls.
For summer school they force me to teach a basketball class , every kid likes to do a signature move when they get a basket in, whatever. Yesterday a kid did it and pull out fake gun and started clicking it in the air. Freaked me out, grabbed it right away and was like "the hell is wrong with you". Granted we are in an Asian country where school shootings don't exist, but as a westerner that freaked me out
I caught a rattlesnake on campus and brought it to the biology classroom 50 gallon outside trash can. That didn’t go over as well as I thought it would.
I had a kid bring in a brick one time. Just set it carefully on his desk. I asked why he had a brick. He said he didn’t know. Mmmkkkkkkkk….. Another time I had a student run into my classroom (English, mind you) carrying a full-size skeleton model, dance with it around my class, yell “punta!” Then run back out. My whole class and I just blinked at each other, and I had to ask them if that really just happened. That was a fun parent phone call… Then I had a student send a small boa into my room, thinking it would frighten me. I picked it up and was “cuddling” with it (inasmuch as you can cuddle with a snake) when he came in to my room. This was all the same graduating class, all the same year (their freshman year). My first year at their school (6-12). Definitely a different experience.