Its time for.. HOW UNDER-FUNDED IS YOUR SCHOOL?

[VMK_MagicalLadee]

Today.. probably the best story EVER.

My friends class.
HAD A BAT IN IT. XD

The teacher screamed and jumped on the desk (Its a guy) and then the bat flew out the door.
Im sorry.

Thats just TOO GOOD.


Any animal or insane school stories?

[HSMndLKfan92]

My school is only 3 years old.

[::Snow_White::]

In our cooking class we always had mice running around in the lights. The long kinda clear lights. You could see them running around.
Then one of our teachers told us they had tons of bugs crawling around.

[VMK_MagicalLadee]

Mine's 40. :lmao:

[imabrat]

Nope.
It's only in it's 2nd year.
State of the art EVERYTHING,except the cirriculum. :rolleyes:

[Damhsa04]

It's not disgusting or anything. But by the end of the year like most of May and all of June we have absolutly no paper.

[XxCuriosityxX<3]

ROFL.
I have no crazy stories like that but my schools 51 years old. XD

[BabyPiglet]

HOW UNDER-FUNDED IS YOUR SCHOOL?

My school is well-funded. We're pretty comfortable, but not rich.

- Have you remembered I'm homeschooled yet?

[WDWLIGHTNINGZ]

My school is okay, we have some buildings which are 20 years old and then the 'old building' is at least 60... I think. I think we are okay not blazing rich but enough for several computer rooms which actually work and 2 nintendo wii's (which, btw - I have never tried at school). In the old building there is a mouse trap in every classroom.

[VMK_MagicalLadee]

shhh, you don't count. :P

[TinkBellGrl421]

we have to walk outside to get to our classes cause my school is under construction

[Princess_Dot]

well im at a private prep school...so its pretty well funded. They just put the funds in all the wrong areas, imho.

Seriously we NEED a new auditorium, but nooo they put new hard-wood floors in both gyms...then replace both of them a year later. :confused3

[JulielovesDisney]

In my 8th grade science class, a bird somehow got into the ceiling. It flew out in one of the air flow ducts and kept flying at the window. My teacher grabbed it and let it out through a window. It was funny.

And in my elementary school, some of the classrooms had sinks in them, and we always had centipedes in there. It was sooo gross.

[Rockstar mentality]

HEhehehe we had birds in our classs roms once casuse theres nests all over the place outside and we have the windows open

[Cassidy]

My friend Rachel found a cockroach in her locker.
She sprayed some seriously-nasty smelling vanilla stuff on it.
Yikes.
My teacher told me to kill it.
I said, " Go get a janitor "
She said, " Geh. Fine. "
The JANITOR got scared.
She's a girl. And very small and wimpy. Lol.

Then Rachel said

" Cass, you know cockroaches lay eggs? "
and I said..
" Yep. Betcha have some in your backpack!"

She ran. Screaming her head off.

[Ms.Squeakers]

Hah.
Ghosts.

Literally.
Doors open and close themselves.
I get fingerprints on my back of things trying to push me down the steps and I KNOW NO ONE IS THERE.

What else...

Oh yeah.
We had paper shortage.
So we all were FORCED to bring in paper or else people would call home to our family's.

What else.
Oh yeah.

My science teacher started describing things but making sure it was educational ex :

Okay class perfect example of a hypothesis..


"IF our school had enough money THEN we would be doing the lab that the county says that we should do."


xD

We haven't done a lab in ...forever.


I could go on forever....

[DisGirlAllie]

Today.. probably the best story EVER.

My friends class.
HAD A BAT IN IT. XD

The teacher screamed and jumped on the desk (Its a guy) and then the bat flew out the door.
Im sorry.

Thats just TOO GOOD.


Any animal or insane school stories?
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My old elementary school is located near this big woods place. Bunches and bunches of wild animals there. So in fifth grade I was sitting in science class bored to tears. All of a sudden, this long green snake proceeds to literally climbs in through the window. My teacher (a large, overweight male) screams like a little girl (no joke) and jumps on his desk all the while yelling for the police. His colleagues never let him live it down.

[DisGirlAllie]

Hah.
Ghosts.

Literally.
Doors open and close themselves.
I get fingerprints on my back of things trying to push me down the steps and I KNOW NO ONE IS THERE.

What else...

Oh yeah.
We had paper shortage.
So we all were FORCED to bring in paper or else people would call home to our family's.

What else.
Oh yeah.

My science teacher started describing things but making sure it was educational ex :

Okay class perfect example of a hypothesis..


"IF our school had enough money THEN we would be doing the lab that the county says that we should do."


xD

We haven't done a lab in ...forever.


I could go on forever....
:lmao:

[DisneyGirl625]

My school is in pretty bad shape we have roaches (EEEEK!!!!) and rats. Our teachers even joke saying "don't leave food rappers we dont want to leave food for the pets". Its pretty disturbing.

[disneydance]

Our school is only in it second year except for the gym and the band room and they completely renovated those areas and theres lots of areas in the school where theres a garbage can because it leaks water and they dont have enough money to fix the roof also today in the band room we found that the tiles are shift and about to fall down on us

[BabyPiglet]

shhh, you don't count. :P
:rotfl:

[STOPxmickeytime]

Our school is maybe fifty years old?
But it's in really good condition and well-funded.

The only annoying thing is that the Board of Ed doesn't recognize girl's lacrosse as a sport, so we have to fund it ourselves.
I mean, it's not a problem, just the concept is annoying.

[WDWLIGHTNINGZ]

shhh, you don't count. :P

Discriminator! :p

[MrsSparrow..]

Umm I'm not sure exactly how old mine is, but I know definately part of our school was bombed in WWII. So it's pretty old. We're a really poor school as well. We don't even have lockers! Everyone has those old-fashioned desks with the ink holder as well (no we don't write with ink anymore :)).

-:hippie:Ashleigh

[Ms.Squeakers]

You lucky ducks.
My school is 77 and counting, thats why there are ghosts in it.
Its freaky deaky.
BUT.
That was my elementary school
I have no idea my midd school is..
but its underfunded.

They wasted money buying like a thousand smart boards and then we don't have money to buy for the importance.
Smooth move Buddy's...smooth...

[topaz_onyx]

Our schools over 70 years old, some tiles fell off the roof!!

[WDWLIGHTNINGZ]

Our schools over 70 years old, some tiles fell off the roof!!

That happens buildings of any age - tiles fell off our neighbours house and it's only 3 - 4 years old.

[VMK_MagicalLadee]

Oh and my school has Asbestos.. everywhere.

Its in the ceilings, but our teachers said dont worry, as long as no one moves it, you arent going to die. :lmao:

[BabyPiglet]

Oh and my school has Asbestos.. everywhere.

Its in the ceilings, but our teachers said dont worry, as long as no one moves it, you arent going to die. :lmao:
WOW.

[VMK_MagicalLadee]

LOL! I know, it's a little disturbing.

There was a ceiling panel missing in my ceramics class one day, and I screamed, "WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE'.

Then the teacher informed us that the asbestos were not on that "particular" panel. XD

[Axel]

We just got a new school built this year, but we're very underfunded.

The old school was 74 when we left and now it's the middle school. There was asbestos just about everywhere in the "old" wing- including several of my classrooms. There weren't enough class rooms so we had portables outside and we had to leave the building to get to them (even in the winter when it was like...-10).

The new school is currently leaking like crazy. in like 8 classrooms there are super industrial sized trashcans that are rapidly filling with water. It's insane and annoying. The sewer also backs up sometimes into the bathrooms.

My school's nickname is "San Quentin High" (San Quentin being a maximum security prison in California). We have cameras everywhere, the doors lock after 7:30 (when homeroom starts) and if you're late you have to walk around to the front entrance to get in. If you're late on a Thursday (we start and hour later becuase of teacher's meetings) then it's an automatic detention. If you wear a hat, it's a detention (or, in some cases an internal suspension). Gum is not allowed in the cafeteria. We can't have anything but water outside of the caf. and we can't eat in classrooms (we used to be able to so long as it was ok with the teachers). We can't carry backpacks without a medical note from our doctor (I've got one). The windows only open 4 inches because they don't want us climbing out (there's a way around that, though and all the teachers use it). We have no air conditioning for the spring/summer/fall months and it gets to be about 90 degrees on the top floor. I had v-ball pre-season in august and one day it was 92 degrees in the gym (first floor). One of the girls passed out from the heat and exercise despite taking regular water breaks every half hour. We have very little heat, too. The average room temperature is 55 degrees. But there's a way around it (you can't adjust the thermostats- they're controlled by one main thermostat in the janitor's room, which is locked at all times). All you have to do is place a wet paper towel over the thermostat and it tricks it into thinking the room is colder than it should be, so it pumps in more heat. And the school is extremely sterile-feeling.

Granted, we do have a new gym, a new student-run restaurant, a new band room and auditorium, 2 computer labs plus a mini-lab in the library, a new library, new auto and woodshop rooms as well as a new metalshop classroom (they used to be all combined), a new early childhood education room (complete with one-way glass for observing the pre-school), new art rooms, and our science rooms are all really nice now (plus, the windows open- they put new windows in the old building's science rooms and they didn't open! Really bad when you're working with chemicals).

[VMK_MagicalLadee]

We just got a new school built this year, but we're very underfunded.

The old school was 74 when we left and now it's the middle school. There was asbestos just about everywhere in the "old" wing- including several of my classrooms. There weren't enough class rooms so we had portables outside and we had to leave the building to get to them (even in the winter when it was like...-10).

The new school is currently leaking like crazy. in like 8 classrooms there are super industrial sized trashcans that are rapidly filling with water. It's insane and annoying. The sewer also backs up sometimes into the bathrooms.

My school's nickname is "San Quentin High" (San Quentin being a maximum security prison in California). We have cameras everywhere, the doors lock after 7:30 (when homeroom starts) and if you're late you have to walk around to the front entrance to get in. If you're late on a Thursday (we start and hour later becuase of teacher's meetings) then it's an automatic detention. If you wear a hat, it's a detention (or, in some cases an internal suspension). Gum is not allowed in the cafeteria. We can't have anything but water outside of the caf. and we can't eat in classrooms (we used to be able to so long as it was ok with the teachers). The windows only open 4 inches because they don't want us climbing out (there's a way around that, though and all the teachers use it). We have no air conditioning for the spring/summer/fall months and it gets to be about 90 degrees on the top floor. I had v-ball pre-season in august and one day it was 92 degrees in the gym (first floor). One of the girls passed out from the heat and exercise despite taking regular water breaks every half hour. We have very little heat, too. The average room temperature is 55 degrees. But there's a way around it (you can't adjust the thermostats- they're controlled by one main thermostat in the janitor's room, which is locked at all times). All you have to do is place a wet paper towel over the thermostat and it tricks it into thinking the room is colder than it should be, so it pumps in more heat. And the school is extremely sterile-feeling.

Granted, we do have a new gym, a new student-run restaurant, a new band room and auditorium, 2 computer labs plus a mini-lab in the library, a new library, new auto and woodshop rooms as well as a new metalshop classroom (they used to be all combined), a new early childhood education room (complete with one-way glass for observing the pre-school), new art rooms, and our science rooms are all really nice now (plus, the windows open- they put new windows in the old building's science rooms and they didn't open! Really bad when you're working with chemicals).

:lmao: :rotfl: :rotfl2:

Oh yes, I'm sure us children can rapidly climb through a 5 inch open window.
Cause you know, THE TEACHER WONT NOTICE. :rotfl:

[Axel]

:lmao: :rotfl: :rotfl2:

Oh yes, I'm sure us children can rapidly climb through a 5 inch open window.
Cause you know, THE TEACHER WONT NOTICE. :rotfl:

Exactly. Because we're so going to climb out the THIRD FLOOR WINDOWS!

At my middle school I had an english teacher who wouldn't let us look out the windows because she was afraid that the newspaper down the street would take a picture of the school and that it would look like we were trying to escape (mind you, her class was on the 4th floor...). We also couldn't walk with sharpened pencils (she did that for us), scissors, or anything, really. And whenever we went to the bathroom we had to be "like a thief in the night".

[VMK_MagicalLadee]

That almost made me fall on the floor.

"CAREFUL CHILDREN, THE WINDOWS ARE OPEN, I DONT WANT YOU TO TRIP AND ACCIDENTALY FALL OUT THE 5 INCH SPACE."

xD

[Axel]

That almost made me fall on the floor.

"CAREFUL CHILDREN, THE WINDOWS ARE OPEN, I DONT WANT YOU TO TRIP AND ACCIDENTALY FALL OUT THE 5 INCH SPACE."

xD

lol. If you pop the bottom pane out of place and fold it up, they open to about 3 feet. It's so nice that the teachers know how to do that.

[VMK_MagicalLadee]

Well, even so.
If these teachers are properly teaching their students, these kids should know not to jump out of windows. First, second or third floor ones. XD

[imabrat]

We just got a new school built this year, but we're very underfunded.

The old school was 74 when we left and now it's the middle school. There was asbestos just about everywhere in the "old" wing- including several of my classrooms. There weren't enough class rooms so we had portables outside and we had to leave the building to get to them (even in the winter when it was like...-10).

The new school is currently leaking like crazy. in like 8 classrooms there are super industrial sized trashcans that are rapidly filling with water. It's insane and annoying. The sewer also backs up sometimes into the bathrooms.

My school's nickname is "San Quentin High" (San Quentin being a maximum security prison in California). We have cameras everywhere, the doors lock after 7:30 (when homeroom starts) and if you're late you have to walk around to the front entrance to get in. If you're late on a Thursday (we start and hour later becuase of teacher's meetings) then it's an automatic detention. If you wear a hat, it's a detention (or, in some cases an internal suspension). Gum is not allowed in the cafeteria. We can't have anything but water outside of the caf. and we can't eat in classrooms (we used to be able to so long as it was ok with the teachers). We can't carry backpacks without a medical note from our doctor (I've got one). The windows only open 4 inches because they don't want us climbing out (there's a way around that, though and all the teachers use it). We have no air conditioning for the spring/summer/fall months and it gets to be about 90 degrees on the top floor. I had v-ball pre-season in august and one day it was 92 degrees in the gym (first floor). One of the girls passed out from the heat and exercise despite taking regular water breaks every half hour. We have very little heat, too. The average room temperature is 55 degrees. But there's a way around it (you can't adjust the thermostats- they're controlled by one main thermostat in the janitor's room, which is locked at all times). All you have to do is place a wet paper towel over the thermostat and it tricks it into thinking the room is colder than it should be, so it pumps in more heat. And the school is extremely sterile-feeling.

Granted, we do have a new gym, a new student-run restaurant, a new band room and auditorium, 2 computer labs plus a mini-lab in the library, a new library, new auto and woodshop rooms as well as a new metalshop classroom (they used to be all combined), a new early childhood education room (complete with one-way glass for observing the pre-school), new art rooms, and our science rooms are all really nice now (plus, the windows open- they put new windows in the old building's science rooms and they didn't open! Really bad when you're working with chemicals).


You just described my school!

Minus a few details,but our schools sound EXACTLY the same. The windows only open about 6 inches,no climbing out. Controlled air/heating. VERY sterile,white everything! But we've got state of the art desks,chairs,cabinets,yadda yadda yadda.

[joepic]

When I was in 9th grade, seniors (as a prank) let two bats loose in the hallway. It was hilarious.

[Sparx]

My school misuses its funding. we have terribly outdated text books, bad computers, etc, but we got AMAZING tables in the cafeteria. :rolleyes:

[Saintzgurl]

We just got a new school built this year, but we're very underfunded.

The old school was 74 when we left and now it's the middle school. There was asbestos just about everywhere in the "old" wing- including several of my classrooms. There weren't enough class rooms so we had portables outside and we had to leave the building to get to them (even in the winter when it was like...-10).

The new school is currently leaking like crazy. in like 8 classrooms there are super industrial sized trashcans that are rapidly filling with water. It's insane and annoying. The sewer also backs up sometimes into the bathrooms.

My school's nickname is "San Quentin High" (San Quentin being a maximum security prison in California). We have cameras everywhere, the doors lock after 7:30 (when homeroom starts) and if you're late you have to walk around to the front entrance to get in. If you're late on a Thursday (we start and hour later becuase of teacher's meetings) then it's an automatic detention. If you wear a hat, it's a detention (or, in some cases an internal suspension). Gum is not allowed in the cafeteria. We can't have anything but water outside of the caf. and we can't eat in classrooms (we used to be able to so long as it was ok with the teachers). We can't carry backpacks without a medical note from our doctor (I've got one). The windows only open 4 inches because they don't want us climbing out (there's a way around that, though and all the teachers use it). We have no air conditioning for the spring/summer/fall months and it gets to be about 90 degrees on the top floor. I had v-ball pre-season in august and one day it was 92 degrees in the gym (first floor). One of the girls passed out from the heat and exercise despite taking regular water breaks every half hour. We have very little heat, too. The average room temperature is 55 degrees. But there's a way around it (you can't adjust the thermostats- they're controlled by one main thermostat in the janitor's room, which is locked at all times). All you have to do is place a wet paper towel over the thermostat and it tricks it into thinking the room is colder than it should be, so it pumps in more heat. And the school is extremely sterile-feeling.

Granted, we do have a new gym, a new student-run restaurant, a new band room and auditorium, 2 computer labs plus a mini-lab in the library, a new library, new auto and woodshop rooms as well as a new metalshop classroom (they used to be all combined), a new early childhood education room (complete with one-way glass for observing the pre-school), new art rooms, and our science rooms are all really nice now (plus, the windows open- they put new windows in the old building's science rooms and they didn't open! Really bad when you're working with chemicals).

My school is almost exactly the same except aur windows open approximately two feet and there are wire screens over all of them...yup...our jail has better lunches. All the school lunches on movies where a fat lady with a beard drops gray goop onto your tray and yells "next!" is our reality.

[jasmine1991]

our school pretty much has it bad. its so old that we have cieling(sp?) tiles that are dryrotted and you can see some really cool grafitti from like the 80's or something and a sign that says "smoking barrier, no smoking past this point" :lmao: with so many smoking laws today its hard to believe that there was an actual designated smoking area in my school

[PrincessEeyore]

My town has 9 elementary schools, 3 middle schools, and 2 public and 1 private high schools. You'd think with the millions of kids we have, we'd have some decent funding. My high school is like 40+ years old and looks like it should be 100+. This summer they redid the auditorium, built a senior parking lot, and built on site tennis courts. The auditorium was in perfect shape, redoing it was a HUGE waste of money. The tennis courts and senior parking lot were needed though, so that was a good decision at least. 2 years ago they added a two story, 20 classroom addition to our school because its wayyyy to over-crowded! (even with all the schools we have) But the school doesn't know how to spend the money where its needed. Our science labs are as old as the school, the lockers are all broken, bent in, beat up, grafittied, glued shut, jammed, or don't even have a place to put your lock. Some even have wooden panels for doors. The bathrooms are disgusting, covered in grafitti, ceiling panels are falling, the toilets leak, and the sinks barely work. In most of the upstairs classrooms, the ceilings leak, and the roof tiles are falling. We have heat and air condition, it just always seems to be broken. A lot, if not all, of the windows can't open because they're jammed and a bunch of them have broken panels with duct tape holding them together. There's like two classrooms that have windows that are jammed open! I feel really bad for whoevers in those rooms now in the winter. Our schools wasted so much money buying wall mounted projectors and smartboards that feed off of these brand new computers via wifi. Half the teachers don't even know what wifi is, let alone how to use it! So they we're mostly a huge waste of money until the old teachers retire and the new ones figure out how to work them! Like 4 years ago, they installed cameras EVERYWHERE in my school, in the classrooms, hallwalls, entrences, gyms, outside, everywhere. BUT, they've never been turned on because no one has come in to connect them!!!!!! I think the best waste of money though, has to be the 20, 24in Mac computers they bought. The classes aren't allowed to use them for a computer lab, the only class that can use them is the computer software class, which there is only one class! No one takes the class so these stupid Macs are only used for one period! The biggest waste of money ever! :rolleyes: I LOVE MY SCHOOL!!! :rolleyes:

[Saintzgurl]

thats so stupid!

we have at least one computer in every class and about three computer rooms. I thought we were bad off. I feel better now.

[PrincessEeyore]

we have at least one computer in every class and about three computer rooms. I thought we were bad off.

We have 3 computers in all the new addition rooms, and 5 in the science labs, and like 6 computer labs or something so I don't really get why they needed to waste the money for the new ones.

[Saintzgurl]

We have 3 computers in all the new addition rooms, and 5 in the science labs, and like 6 computer labs or something so I don't really get why they needed to waste the money for the new ones.

I dont know, people are wierd like that.

[princesskelz]

There was a rat in the lunchroom at our old school:scared:

[AmandaSparks730]

Crappy roof-moldy and black and GROSS
Mice in some of the home-ec rooms
Welfare lunch meat
Run-down, bad. Great in academics, one of the top High Schools in the state academic-wise, but just HORRIBLE on the inside.

Did I mention that at one of the elementary schools, a panel from the ceiling fell off and almost HIT someone?! :scared1:

[PurpleDucky]

Our school is okay
We wasted money on automatic paper towel dispensers and automatic foamy soap things.
And the whole high school had to buy a macbook for 2k, when in the business world, they use PCs
The macs have caused so many suspensions and couple expulsions. This year is by far the worst, behavior wise.
Last year, we built a young child care facility. The bottom floor is newborn - PREK4
On the top floor is the conference room and 5 highschool classrooms
In the old building, we don't have carpet, we have this ugly tile thing that was under the carpet. The carpet was taken out because it got too dirty and gum was all over it. I never saw the carpet though.
Our lunches are decent, it's all cooked an hour before lunch. And it doesn't have bugs or any crap like that in it. The food is really pricy though. When I came to that school in 7th grade the hot lunch was $2.50 and now it's $4.00

[tinkerbelle22]

Funny, this conversation just came up in Fiddler on the Roof rehearsal at my school a few hours ago. We literally have 50 girls and about 20 boys in the whole cast, and us 50 girls are in a dressing room the size of a small closet. It stinks, it's cramped, and it's hot. And no one has ever done anything about it! Also, we don't have AC, just heating, and sometimes the furnace or whatever it's called leaks. It's weird. My school (high school) was built around 1920-something...so it's quite an oldie. My English class looks like it's from the 20's. Just the tiles and the ceilings and all that. The elementary school was really old too, but they tore it down the year after I graduated from it and built an amazing, high-tech, incredible one. My brother's in that school, lucky him. The middle school is eh. It's tiny, so there's not much to be bad about it. But the budget in my school district is ridiculous. We never have enough money for stuff, not just the school play, but other stuff.

[OneTreeHill]

In my middle school, some girl had a mouse in her locker. It was gross.

[emmalou]

Yeah, my school is pretty underfunded, but for sure not the worst. In the bathroom, there were huge holes in the ceiling, so right now we have pieces of cardboard boxes taped up on the ceiling with duct tape. So attractive.

When it rained last week, the roof of the gym/auditorium leaked all over the stage. There was a 15 ft. puddle in the dead center of the stage.

Our non-academic departments (like drama and art and wood shop) have a budget of like $300 for the entire year. That's like $2 a kid.

It's a running joke in our school about how our school is so poor that we have no money to buy paper. (We do buy some paper, of course, but it's not enought to last a month)

Our desks break ALL the time, but we don't have any money to buy new ones, so you just hope you don't get put in one of the broken ones.

The other day, we watched a film strip from 1970. The old kind of film strip, like a slide show. Fun stuff.

I don't know if this is normal, but we don't have electric pencil sharpeners. We have those old hand crank ones that are like 40 years old.

For our science classes, we're supposed to do lots of labs, but we only do like 2 or 3 a year.

We no longer have our report cards mailed home because postage costs too much.

Oh and of course we have mice scurrying around the class and ants everywhere. Although, we have been pretty good about getting exterminators lately.

No A/C. And we're very very lucky when the heater works, but for some buildings it just doesn't work at all.

Our grass is brown because we have no money to water it.

As for textbooks, we're not as bad as our neighboring school. They don't even have enough textbooks for a class. There are only 5 or so for each class. That's terrible.

We have caution tape all over school around broken things and refurbishment projects that didn't have enough funding to finish.

The faucets in our PE lockers are all rusty and give only the tiniest stream of water. Most of the bathroom stall doors are broken off or don't lock.

Oh! Just yesterday, our principal goes on the intercom during 5th period and says, "Uh... Good afternoon. Sorry for this intrusion, but we would just like to inform all students and teachers that all bathrooms are closed. Our water system backed up in all of the bathrooms school wide. We are working on fixing it all. But for the rest of the day, anyone who needs to use the restroom can use the Porta-Potties out on the baseball fields. Thank you. That is all." Can you just visualize the situation in the bathrooms?!?! EW.


Okay. Crazy animal story. I was in wood shop and there is a door that is open to the street. (The only place in the school that isn't completely locked up.) So we're just sitting in class. And this out of no where this big black labroador just walks into class. I guess he had gotten out and had just wandered into class. He was really friendly. So we got him some water and adopted him for the day. He was so nice and let him pet him and everything. We found the owner right afterschool and returned him.

Oh and another day, a old student was visiting my teacher and in the middle of a conversation, he whips a ferret out of his big jacket. It was his pet of course. He let us pet it and stuff, but it was just so random.

In cooking class, we were going to use bread crumbs for something one day. So we measured out all the ingredients and the bread crumbs. And when one group took a scoop full of bread crumbs, there were all these maggots in the bread crumbs. SO GROSS. We didn't cook that day.

WOW. I went on for quite a while. I never knew there were so many things wrong with my school.

[MrsSparrow..]

Lol at the tiles falling down. In my history classroom, like 10 panels are missing from the ceiling and when you look up, you see a set of stairs.

I remember first realising how under-funded our school was when our boiler started leaking. It kept comming from the ceiling and for about 2 months, noone fixed it and every room had a bucket.

-:hippie:Ashleigh

[Babyjustrun]

My school is actually a pretty old school, but it's only been a high school since like.. 2000?
It's been renovated in several places and it's probably one of the nicer HS's in my district ( I can't stay school, my K-8 school is the nicest). It's not underfunded in any way really.
No insane stories =(

[pigletgirl]

The bathrooms at my highschool were SOOO gross.:sick: Its like they never cleaned them, nor did it seem like they never took out the containers either.

But where I'm at now, they keep them decent. Although I would NEVER EVER go into the shower without flip-flops.

[Babyjustrun]

The bathrooms at my highschool were SOOO gross.:sick: Its like they never cleaned them, nor did it seem like they never took out the containers either.

But where I'm at now, they keep them decent. Although I would NEVER EVER go into the shower without flip-flops.

Oh god.
Our bathrooms suck. It's not a lack of janitors (although they have been threatening a strike because some freshman boys decided it would be fun to finger paint with poop fourth period), it's more or less.. crappy toilets.
I mean the first floor ones don't flush strong enough to always get the toilet paper down. And I don't know if it's the flushes, or the people who use them, but most of them usually don't look like they were flushed. They either have pee, tons of menstrual fluid (THAT is probably the most disgusting thing I've seen in there) or poop.
And then, you get out to wash your hands, and there's no soap. It takes weeks for soap to be replaced.
There's one hand dryer upstairs, and one downstairs. The one downstairs doesn't even work.

[CheezDoodle]

The brand new building was recently flooded (Dunno how that happened, though) and the whole thing smells like moldy feet.

The bathrooms never work and always smell like poop. And there is never any toilet paper, soap, or paper towels either.

We eat outside at crappy plastic picnic tables in an old, in ground pool that has been filled in with mulch.

Also. There's a dog that lives at the school, and sleeps in the nurse's office on the uncomfortable cot thing. So, if you're sick and need to lay down, too bad. Once I was sick with a 103.5 fever and that stupid dog wouldn't move for me to lay down. And at lunch it gets let out and pummels people and steals their lunches. It's a big golden retriever.

Quite a few rooms have no AC. And this is Florida we're talking about.

In the middle of the field there's a big rusted out ramp that leads to no where. Kids just congregate on it. And it one corner of the field there's a whole bunch of plastic pipe that kids build things with.

[Casey <3's you]

in my elementary school, we always had roaches in our classrooms and almost all our teachers were girls so from like 1st grade on one of the guys had to kill them. :lmao:

[♥DizzyDizney♥]

Well, my school was built last summer, so it's about a year old
and a family of mice started living in our school. Sometimes we see mice in our class :D
My teacher was scared to death

[laura_<3]

My college is very, very old. My uncle, who is in his 50's went there as a teenager. The money the college recieves goes towards the Marine and Engineering part of the college and not the subject part of the college (such as Maths, English, Sciences etc.) that I am in. It's so bad to the point that the electricity in our part of the college frequently cuts out. It's worse in the winter when it gets darker earlier, we can't see much then.

[Damhsa04]

Crappy roof-moldy and black and GROSS
Mice in some of the home-ec rooms
Welfare lunch meat
Run-down, bad. Great in academics, one of the top High Schools in the state academic-wise, but just HORRIBLE on the inside.

Did I mention that at one of the elementary schools, a panel from the ceiling fell off and almost HIT someone?! :scared1:

One of my teachers had to go to your school for a meeting one day and she's allergic to mold and she was so sick afterwards. She couldn't breath. She told my class she's never going back there for another meeting again.

[bookworm93]

we have a pretty oldish school but we recently got a new lobby/gym/adutorium! According to my physics teacher a snake escaped and went into the air ducts and such and when they would open drwaers and things you'd see mice bones and stuff. Well about 20 years ago they found the snake skin and it was HUGE!!!! but they think the snake is dead beacuse he hasn't been seen or given singns in Forever!

[The_Ryno]

No funny animal stories, but one of the science teachers has a Massagua Rattlesnake and I knew about it, but one day I walk back into the back room where he keeps about a dozen snakes, and I hear the rattle. It doesn't sound like its in its cage, but on the other side of the room, I froze until I made sure it was in its cage.

We have also out grown a pretty new( 8 or 9 year old) school, built for 1000 kids (was a small district, was one of the fastest growing districts in the state at one point) and need like $50million for the add ons they want to do.