Corruption pretty much. The director of the school would constantly pocket a lot of the public funds sent to school and then offload the cost of whatever that money was supposed to go to onto students.
One of my favorite examples of this is this tradition where last year students before graduating are supposed to leave something to the school, and our class was asked to buy new tables, with other classes having to do something stupid like that as well.
I still see the school in the news from time to time being involved in some new corruption scandal lol
At least while I was going to school there, my high school’s football team never won a single game.
- student brought a bb gun to class and fired it at the japanese exchange teacher
- graduating year kids decided to “prank” a pregnant teacher by covering the stairs to her office in slippery material (eggs, iirc)
- another graduation “prank” was to let horses out of their field; they got onto train tracks and, well … no more graduation pranks
- history of teachers and staff sexually abusing students
- graveyard full of dead monks
wait this was a private catholic school nvm
Really didn’t expect “graveyard full of dead monks” to be the least shocking thing in a list today.
Someone burned down the portable houses in the back used for extra classrooms
Wow, and I thought the guys that broke into and pissed all in the halls of our high school were going wild.
One of the older toilets used in a couple of the old school buildings (demolished for a newer one after I graduated) was permanently closed because it became so full of shit.
It was a toilet on a separate building, that was used for a couple of old buildings (one from the 1930’s if the local oral history is to be believed), and another one from the 1970’s. The stench was so unberable that the classrooms near it were also abandoned.
Oh, the school wasn’t infamous for that. I think, pushing shit aside, it’s so wonderfully mediocre that it didn’t really have anything it was famous or infamous for.
It is one of the katholic schools where priests raped school children. AFIK it happened years before I went to that school though.
Many of the classrooms were old Army barracks buildings. The people of the county were notoriously cheap and wouldn’t ever pay for a new school until it literally started dropping chunks of plaster and cement in the classrooms. Yet, the basketball court was one of the best around.
Having people of color, which automatically qualified it as “ghetto”. We were under-resourced, and it seemed a lot of the talented kids moved to attend a rival school instead. We routinely got our asses kicked in academics and sports.
We had shootings and my locker-mate died in a motorcycle accident. This was in the 90s, so… the usual by today’s standards?
One teacher threatened another with an axe
The water we drank was long suspected of being contaminated with nuclear munitions production run off from WW2, ie there were nuclear waste disposal fields right next to the rural water supply and the school. I grew up wondering if some Tromaville scenario would eventually play out in real life.