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Gym teacher ran a friend of mine to death right in front of me. He had a brain aneurism. That was when I was in fourth grade.

I had a highschool chemistry teacher that failed two whole semesters of students with botched and terrible curriculum management with substitute teachers that had no instructions. The teacher had his wife diagnosed with late stage terminal cancer but was a year away from retirement. The lack of any reasonable safety nets for such a terrible situation wrecked many students lives mine included. How the whole situation was handled was so bad I hated anything academic related.

I've got a lighter story to add to the thread. One girl in my school apparently wrote a letter to the parents of one of her friends, saying a bunch of stuff about her, slagging her off etc.

Nobody outside her group of friends knew (or cared) about it, but the teachers decided to hold an assembly about it, not mentioning any details but saying "if you know anything about this, talk to us". Of course the Streisand effect came into force and we were all talking and speculating about it. I'm still not fully sure of the details, and I find it crazy how the teachers decided that this drama between friends needed to be blown up into a big Incident.

US here, but I figure it might be okay considering the typicality

In Jr high, a teacher got called to the office for something, and left the classroom.

Three boys began teasing one of the girls. Eventually, it turned into sexual bullying, like calling her slut, how she wanted to do things with them. Despite other students telling them to stop, it progressed to them groping her, which was when two students took off running. For whatever reason, they went to the office instead of the next occupied classroom.

Before any adults got word of what was happening and got there, the three boys had stripped the girl of her shirt and bra.

A small fight broke out when other boys finally stepped up, and that delayed things enough that adults got there before the fight ended, so nothing else happened to the girl. Like what happened wasn't bad enough, but the boys had been talking about escalating to rape.

This did not end well for the boys, though. All of them faced criminal charges and were convicted.

However, the girl's family decided that, once that was finished, they were going to move away. She had great parents, and they made sure she had access to therapy. Last I heard, she was doing well in life.

I was friends with her brother, and there were plans made should those boys not face legal consequences.

It was a much smaller town back then, so the scandal of it was huge. It actually ended up with some policy changes regarding how to handle things when a teacher needs to leave the room.

There was a big scandal at secondary school when it was exposed that a group of school staff and teachers had been stealing school funds. They had some scheme going involving fake invoices for school supplies and building maintenance that never existed.

Quite a few heads rolled for that, even the headmaster left soon after despite not being known to be involved.

One teacher got taken away due to operation Yew Tree.

Another I heard about a couple of years ago. I was chatting to a colleague in London who it turns out happened to have went to my high school up north, but several years after I'd left. Apparently the maths teacher I had in 1999 ran off with a 16 year old student. Not entirely sure when that happened though.

Less at the school, more to do with a handful of female students. A would-be rapist im a balaclava would lurk in the woods between the train station and the town, late in the evening. A few times he'd leap out, grab a lone student, but before he'd do anything would let out a slightly disappointed moan as he jizzed in his own pants from the excitement, then would let them go, and trot despondently back into the woods.

A few girls reported this. All said it was a horrible, terrifying experience, but anyone they told would usually laugh with relief.

Exchange student got shanked and died. No one was charged with a crime, perpetrator unknown. Suburban setting, so was very shocking.

A girl got assulted walking to school in year 10 or so. Never heard any more about it, but there was a lot of concern in the air over it for a while.