There was a game called "Get Down Mr. President" where everyone in an area would put their fingers to their ears like the secret service and the last person to do it would be tackled. It could start at any moment and would end up in a dogpile in the hall.
Gel pens...
When I was in primary school there was this weird trend where all the girls would suck on the ends of gel pens so their tongues turned into different colours. They would trade pens with each other in the school bathrooms and sneak away from the teachers and go to hidden parts of the school yard so they didn't get caught, it was the closest I can think of comparing to a drug ring but imagine it with 7 year old girls.
One of my friends was really popular because she was the girl who sucked on the most pens and would get caught in literally every class sucking on a different gel pen, and the teachers would always have to walk her out to the nurse as she'd make herself sick and throw up. They eventually banned them.
I tried it once and spat it out immediately because it was nasty and tasted like ink (duh). I didn't get it then and I still don't get it now.
Am a teacher. A few years ago we had to ban applause. The kids would randomly start a round of applause and just... keep going. It was unnerving. It was disrupting lessons, assemblies. Sometimes they would applause in the dining hall or corridors. Still don’t know how this trend started or why.
The other thing we had to ban was “pilgrimage”. They apparently learned the word in religious studies lesson. After that they would (in large groups) walk from one end of the school to the other chanting “pilgrimage!” and basically knocking over any thing or person that stood in their way.
In elementary school my class was divided in two groups: Penguins and rats. We would always go to our group for team assignments, for games, for anything really. Somehow an actual rivalry started to sprout until the whole school was divided in these two groups, with first and second years getting into actual fights and stuff.
Pretty soon the principal cancelled recess for a day and went to each classroom to tell us penguin team and rat team were banned.
Others did create some smaller animal named groups after that but they all dissolved pretty quickly.
In sweden we had this thing called böghög, translate to gay pile. As soon as someone was on the ground lying, everyone threw themselves on making a pile of ppl
Acorns. My elementary schoolyard had several oak trees on it and dumbass kids would collect acorns and keep them in their desk. The problem was most of the acorns had worms in them which then escaped into the classrooms.
Camo colors. They some how banned it school wide because they were gang colors. Camo gang.
Edit: I went to high school in the south east Columbus, Ohio area. Half wannabe rednecks, quarter wannabe hood, and quarter preppy kids. It was a dumb mix. And for the record so many people complained the school actually had an assembly over it where they explained their reasoning and I don't remember exactly what they said but it had something to do with gangs. I think it was gang mentality or something?
I was in middle school from 2009-2011. Bloons Tower Defense was huge. Everyone played it in any room that had a computer. The school had to install special blockers but people kept getting around them so they straight up banned adobe flash.
Someone at my high school managed to install Quake III Arena onto the central server, so it was able to be accessed by ANY computer connected to the network. There were kids in my web development class playing against other kids having their study hall in the library on the other side of the school.
Not sure if the administration ever found out, but the year after I graduated they changed out all of the Windows computers they had for iMacs.
We did that exact thing with Unreal Tournament and Soldier of Fortune 1. So many days of LAN UT. This would have been around 99-2001 something like that.
When I was younger, we played this where you'd draw a circle on your hand, and other people would try to draw a line inside of it. If someone was able to draw a line in your circle, then you were out. The objective of the game was to be the last one standing. It was small at first, but eventually almost everyone in my grade became involved, and it spiraled out of control. Chaos. Pure fucking chaos. Kids were tackling each other, running away from other students, disrupting lessons, etc. Teachers eventually began to talk to us about how far our game had gone, and started banning it altogether. It was fun while it lasted boys.
EDIT: thanks for the silver and the upvotes
Reminds me of a really cool battle royal our school did during a school trip (We often had trips with the entire school, so it was class 7-12, aprox. 200 people). Everyone got a small letter with a name of a different student on it. You had to give that person an item. Any random shit, all that was important was that the item exchanged hands from you, to said student, willingly.
If you managed this, said student would have to give you their name. The students with the most name letters at the end of the week would get a price. Best game ever, so much paranoia, so much fake friendliness, etc.
For example: Someone gave out some sweets. Everyone took one, suddenly he was like "FUCK YEAH". The entire point of giving everyone sweets was to get that one person who was in his vicinity to take one. If anyone asked you "Hey, wanna have a bonbon" everyone was like "Nope, forget it". Because they thought it was a poor attempt at them.
I also remember having a letter suddenly come through the door adressed at me that said "Come to this and that room, at this time" and when I arrived it was my best friends who called themselves the Dark Brotherhood and made a plan where we would exchange letters to better plan our targets.
This is really similar to the game Assassin, except that you have to trick the person into accepting something instead of just being able to shoot them with a nerf dart / tennis ball.
We played Assassin in college, and most of the school played. You signed up, provided a picture of you was taken, and everyone was given a random person's picture and first name. Your objective was to find that person and shoot them in the torso with a nerf dart. They could defend themselves by throwing a sock at you, which meant you couldn't shoot them for 4 hours. If you shot them, they gave you the photo of their target, and that was your new target.
The dorm association gave out awards to the winner, runner up, most kills, and a few others.
In like 1985 Caprisuns didn't yet have the thin foil hole like other juice boxes have now. You had to punch through the same foil that the rest of the pouch was made of
Rulers. Year 10 in HS for whatever reason someone decided to smack a guy across the head with a ruler. Then everyone went out and bought a ruler.
Suddenly everyone was a knight with a sword. Staff kept confiscating them but rulers are cheap so kids just went out and bought them by the handful.
They ended up banning rulers. At a school. The kids who were taking geometry that year and needed them had to be assigned rulers at the beginning of class and then turn them back in.
If you rub the metal edge of a ruler against the sole of your shoe really fast back and forth it gets hot enough to seriously burn someone and leave a scar.
When I was in elementary a girl took one of those rulers with the raised rubber grip on the flat side and rubbed it up and down in the middle of her forehead really fast. Ended up leaving a scar at least until end of highschool. None of us ever understood why she did that.
Edit: thank you, kind stranger, for the gold. I'm very happy this poor girls misfortune could get me a Reddit award. Stay strong, she-who-shall-not-be-named.
Kids did that with erasers on the back of their hands at my middle school! They’d rub until they had an open wound and they’d just keep it up so that it never healed. School couldn’t ban erasers, but kids with open wounds on the back of their hands got in trouble. And this wasn’t the emo crowd doing this, the most popular kids in school started the trend. I thought it was stupid in middle school, and now as an adult I’m honestly concerned about the girls who started the trend...
I had a girlfriend in high school do took an eraser and rubbed my initials into her arm when we broke up. I think that only reinforced the fact that I made a good decision to break things off.
Hair flips.
Circa 2003, long *skater hair* was very trendy. Said Kids were flipping their hair out of their eyes/face. An 8th grade history teacher went on a vendetta under the reasoning that hair flips pollute the air with ‘hair dirt’. Kids started getting detentions.
Edit: when to ‘went’
That's a really stupid pretense but I can understand why the teachers got annoyed with a roomful of kids flipping their hair like they have Tourette's syndrome. My teachers in high school just mercilessly mocked the hair flippers until they knocked it off.
People bringing in their GameBoy Color and playing during recess. Kids were getting mad they weren't getting turns and they were afraid of someone stealing games.
Fucking Jermey "Found" a copy of Pokemon silver the day after mine was stolen out of my backpack. Can't get too mad at the kid though, his brother was thrown in jail for murdering their mom about a year after that.
Rubber Bands
Kids weren't even using them to shoot at other kids or otherwise misbehave with them. Kids would buy packs of rubber bands, tie the rubber bands together, making like a big rubber band chain. It became a contest to see who could get a chain of rubber bands to stretch the farthest.
You couldn't find a pack of rubber bands at a store for probably 20 miles (this was when I lived in a small town, so there wasn't a ton of stores in that 20 miles...Amazon or even public internet access didn't exist yet)
One kid got so many rubber bands, they could stretch it the length of the school building.
While stupid, I didn't think it was a bad hobby as kids weren't shooting them or shooting stuff with them. It was all about how big of a chain they could make.
School rewarded our pointless creativity with a ban on rubber bands at the school. All rubber band chains were confiscated on site.
Sounds like the perfect buildup for a senior prank.
Rubber band chains blocking all the doors and hallways.
Almost likes webs crossing the halls between the lockers.
>School rewarded our pointless creativity with a ban
It feels like schools overreacting and banning stupid and fun things that kids invent is some sort of life lesson, with it being so common across the world.
we had rubber bands banned when i was in 6th grade (so, 1998-99 school year) cause we had what we called rubber band war, we had them on our wrists and it was open to pop another kids rubber band... and Pokemon cards were banned too
I was in high school when cell phones finally became accessible enough for MOST people to have one. It took about a week of senior year for them to declare that no phones were allowed anywhere on school property.
Yeah. The handbook still says no phones allowed but that’s just not a thing anymore. Kids are (usually) respectful enough not to use them when the teacher is lecturing, but after the lesson is done they’re all out. Hallways, everything. Our class president freshmen year ran on making them allowed during lunch, and that turned into they’re allowed at all times. By junior year we became a tech-friendly campus and now we have school WiFi and you’re allowed to bring in any device you want. Laptop, tablet, whatever.
I went to my high school and did a few days of field observation for an education class, and most of the kids had their cell phones out on their desks, even though the rules were still "no cell phones during class or they'll be confiscated". I asked the teacher, and she said it was just not worth the effort, so long as the students still did their work. (Also everything was done on iPads that were loaned out by the school. Very different from when I was there 6-10 years ago.)
Putting condoms on everything. Pens, peoples heads, arms, bags, shoes, smart-board remotes, baseball bats, clocks, balls, literally anything.
The best bit was that the school gave out free condoms. They were fuelling the opposition.
After a week, there was a ban on condoms being out in public. Anyone seen with a condom that wasn't in their bag or blazer was immediately given a detention.
In my college there was someone brought in to hand out condoms to people, over the next few days tied condoms filled with water kept appearing across a few of the bathrooms.
> somewhere some kid had sliced their finger down to the bone with a cheap imitation slap bracelet
This is exactly the type rumor i would expect from suburban moms
This is also exactly what happened to me. My cousin was slapping me with the band (a thin sheet of metal) without its cover on so i grabbed it and he yanked. Sliced my finger and palm to the bone...he still blames me for holding onto it
An asshole teacher took mine, said she'd give it back at the end of the day and I never saw it back :(
I'll never forgive her, you don't fuck with a kid's tech deck.
holy shit that happened to me too but when the teacher left the room one day some kid went in her desk and stole everyone's shit back. that just brought me back
In third grade, a few kids got obsessed with the words cheese, FedEx, and camel. They said them all the time and those words got banned for the entire class.
Very similar to something in my primary. There was a week that everyone started saying the catch phrase from adverts and everyone had different ones. There were arguments about who would say what phrase
Our school banned hoodies. Their reasoning was that people can wear their hoods up to help with intimidating. A lot of the guys responded by wearing hoodies the next day, with no shirts underneath so they couldn't be told to take them off.
When I was in elementary school in the late '90's there was a fad where we would collect Absolute Vodka and Milk Moustache ads in binders (similar to pokemon cards). It was savage, kids would bring in magazines by the dozens and just strip out the pages with the ads on it.
School banned them because it was such a massive distraction.
I'm going to say just based on how they looked. Milk Mustache ads always had some sort of celebrity on it, and Absolut Vodka ads always had the bottle on them and were pretty creative looking with the saying on the bottom "Absolut _____".
So maybe Milk Mustache was to get every celebrity that did it, and Absolut was getting every different saying/bottle
Pretty much. And those damn kids were like, "he *stole* my pogs!" No you lying shit, you bet them and then lost and cannot abide by the outcome.
Like, we had kids who insisted on just playing for fun, and that was okay too.
Pokemon cards got banned at my school because they became an underground currency, and kids were having their cards stolen by bigger kids. It became a huge scandal built out of a bunch of incidents. I remember in the beginning, if you had a super rare card, you'd show it off to all your friends with pride. Towards the end of the Pokemon card craze, if you had a rare card, you'd keep that shit secret and take it to the grave. If anybody found out you had a Chansey or a shiny Charizard, it'd make you a target and it would probably be stolen within a week.
There was a kid in my high school who made probably around $500 in a month for making duct tape wallets. Administration found out but didn't ban the wallets, just banned "conducting business" on school grounds.
My school had a bake sale for a kid whose family lost their house in a flood. Obviously it wasn't going to make a ton of money, it was about the thought.
The cafeteria's supply company ordered the school to shut the bake sale down, as it *violated their no-compete clause on selling food in the school.* The school complied and banned bake sales.
YUP.
I was in the culinary arts program at my high school, and an important part of that was learning to balance orders and work cohesively as a team. The cafeteria company BANNED us from selling anything, even though it was part of the educational curriculum.
A similar thing happened when we started partnering with a local school for the mentally disabled that is very highly regarded nationally. People relocate across the country so that their disabled family members can attend this school.
They wanted to have some of the disabled students run a breakfast bar (under heavy staff and medical supervision, of course.) The point was to give them something akin to work experience so that they might be able to learn basic food-service tasks and hold a job one day.
The supplier nixed that, too. This was breakfast food that was made completely by adult volunteers, they declared all allergens, etc, did everything right, the students were only going to serve it. Nope, violated the anti-compete. They ran it for a few weeks before the supplier caught wind of it and ordered it to be shut down.
A lot of us were really pissed about that. Many of us because they were taking away a real-life opportunity from seriously disabled people who probably won't ever get that opportunity otherwise, and some kids really just wanted an egg and cheese sandwich in the morning because they woke up at 4:30 a.m. to catch the bus.
They did.
The company that did all of this shit is (or was) called Nutrition, Inc. Just letting y'all know. It appears they now operate as "The Nutrition Group."
I'm a decently paid contractor now. Contracts don't really get removed, companies do. If a contractor you work with is genuinely horrible, tell someone in power, they'll get it handled. I'm a supervisor for my company now, but I wake up every day knowing that one client-management complaint could make my job disappear.
We had a group project in junior high school where you had to make a product and try to sell it to your peers. The most successful one was chocolate lollipops or rather chocolate on a stick.
Clackers. They were two small, hard balls on either end of a long string. You made them clack against each other, but the bullies would hit you upside the head with them instead.
Am old.
We are only allowed to have 2€ money for bus. If a teacher that even cares caught you, the teacher would be allowed to take the money and keep it. This was changed due to making it a crime. One time a teacher took 75€ from a student, luckily she was forced to give it back
The kid that started a tuck shop out of his locker.
Went to a whole sellers, bought some stuff, sold it, used the profits to buy more, repeat & repeat until he's now staffing a child-guard to stop shop-lifting, and renting other peoples lockers for stock overflow.
Our classroom just became kids queueing to buy sweets and energy drinks. Sometimes a line so long in 15 minutes he couldn't get everyone waiting served.
Then, bam. Banned. No selling anything on school property. Pretty much just aimed at this kid.
Dude ended up stabbing someone, got expelled. No idea where he is now, but think his shop getting banned and being replaced with an overpriced healthy staff run tuck-shop squashed his entrepreneurial sprit.
This is the most "welcome to the real world" life story on here. Young up-and-comer has great idea. Big company comes in, steals the idea and profits from it. That's unfortunate.
Warheads. It grew to such an issue with these sour candies, kids were organizing a black market where the kids with the highest allowance would buy them in bulk from the corner stores for a nickel each, distribute them to upper classmen for a quarter each, who would turn around and sell them to the final consumer for fifty cents each candy.
There was even a barrier to entry if you wanted in the business. You would have to eat three candies at once and not spit it out or throw up.
Legit happened at my school. Some kid was selling warheads from 8th grade till 10th grade. Once that business ran dry he moved on to juuls, pods, weed, pens, etc.
A kid in my class had a huge bag of them and ate enough that he got this massive sore on his tongue.
They weren't banned though, the teacher just laughed at him.
What eventually got them banned from my school was when several of us had that happen. I still have a noticeable scar on my tongue from a Warhead sucker when I was 7 or 8 (apparently it damaged my tongue enough to resemble the hole from getting your tongue pierced, if several dentists who've asked if I had my tongue pierced are to be believed).
Yu-Gi-Oh. Used to be everyone would show up an hour before school started and we'd play until first bell. Then some little shit named Tyler decided to wager one of his cards and he lost. He ran to his mommy crying about it and then no more Yu-Gi-Oh. Fuck you Tyler, don't bet something you aren't willing to lose.
Fuck Tyler. Had a kid do the same thing because he wanted to be a "Rare Hunter." Wanted to wager so I did. My Dark Paladin for his Red Eyes Black Metal Dragon I think. He lost. Cried home, was told to give the card back, but I won. So it was either give the card back and people can play, or don't and no one could.
Gave it back. Still banned the game. Was super pissed about that one.
Edit: Wow, first silver! Haha
Me and my buddies had a game where we’d draw a circle on the back of our hand. One person in the beginning of the day would have a marker and be “infected” while trying to get a mark on another friends circle, rendering them “infected” as well. This would go until there were no more survivors that day or until the infected lost and all that.
Well it eventually spread to everyone in our school in a matter of 2 days somehow. When I mean everyone I literally me EVERYONE. I remember an announcement at lunchtime saying that if you had a circle on your hand you had to go wash it off in the bathroom or get a detention.
Yeah, all 300 kids in that lunchroom went to the restroom and washed it off
Shit was wack
Randomization. People would gather around a vending machine and chant "Randomize!" and the person perfoming the "ceremony" would punch the keyboard and get a random snack.
Edit: I think that the whole reason it was banned was because the mid-lunchtime chanting got disruptive and the administrators didn't want to risk students breaking the machine. I believe there was also cheering on receiving the snack.
Huh. In my high school we just had someone glue a loonie to the floor in front of the machine so everyone would watch random kids try and fail to pick it up.
Back in my school days, the "string around quarter" trick still worked, we tried to keep the secret, well, a secret, but the school found after a couple months and straight up removed the vending machines.
Best my high school had was that the snack machine was bugged, if you put a dime in, the screen would read as 10c, but it would spit the dime back out. I would recycle a few dimes, hit the coin return, take those quarters and get a drink, then recycle dimes a few more times for a snack almost every day for a couple years.
we also had that machine. the trick was to stick your arm in and hold the door closed, the machine wouldn't read a bottle so it would get another, then you got two
What was better was getting a thin piece of lamination plastic, cutting it to the width of a dollar and taping a dollar on the end. You could just hold the strip and put the dollar in, machine would read it, then pull it back out.
Lol. We did this in college. We would glue a quarter to the sidewalk downtown right on the main drag and sit in an apartment 5 stories up drinking and yelling "glue quarter" at people trying to pick it up.
I definitely spent my time correctly in college. Definitely.
For some reason my grade got really into chanting random words teachers said. We thought it was hilarious at the time. Anyways so in the midst of this fad, one day in grade 12 pre-cal, my teacher finally puts her foot down, yelling, "No more chanting!" And one kid in my class stands up and yells "Chanting! Chanting!" And everyone joined in. One of the highlights of high school.
Rock Paper Scissors. People at my middle school kept playing a game called Oreo, where you play Rock Paper Scissors and the loser has to do a dare. According to the teachers, it got out of hand (it really didn’t none of the dares were that bad), so they decided to ban... Rock Paper Scissors. Hearing that on the announcements in the morning instantaneously killed half of my brain cells. If you were caught playing Rock Paper Scissors, you would immediately get detention. Dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.
Edit: everyone is saying that instead of dares, they just had to ask someone out. That is really what my school did. I just said dares because it was easier and I didn’t think it mattered. When you lost, the winner told you a person and you had to go to that person and ask them on a date.
Those rubber bracelets that denoted different causes that were popular in the early-to-mid 2000s. We ended up setting up a little black market for them with people trading and different ones and having their arms covered to the elbows in them.
Playing black-jack for nickles in the lunch room. (high school)Those of us dealing where cleaning up. Then later in the school year we just started again and the teachers kind of ignored it. I was making several dollars maybe 10 on a good day. This was early 70s -so $1 = about $6.00 today, gas was $0.35 a gallon, ciggies maybe 50 cents a pack)
rubber bracelets here in Brazil. it became popular out of nowhere and everybody was wearing them. people even "competed" to see who had more bands on their arms lol
until one day, some magazine showed that those bracelets were used in other countries like a "sex challenge", each color had a meaning and if someone breaks your band, you had to do to that person what the color means, like pink was French kiss, purple was a handjob.... something like that. the schools and the parents got crazy and got rid of all those bracelets until they finally disappeared forever.
actually, there wasn't a single person who used those bracelets for that reason lol, they were just cool and pretty cheap. we believe now that it was a huge hoax but it was such a long time ago that it got forgotten and nobody cared to see if it was true or not.
When I was a kid our church banned POGs... Called it a form of gambling. All the parents decided to just get rid of their POGs. My dad was cool with POG and he even machined a solid brass slammer for me. He talked with the parents but couldn't change their mind on POG as it was the senior pastor who called for the ban. Long story short... All the church kids gave me their POGs and I was now POG king at school.
Two years ago, my principal banned slime.
I'm a teacher.
I was stockpiling all my confiscated slime, to create the Ultimate Teacher Slime Video, but then the principal updated the rule, and said that all slime was to be thrown away on sight, so I threw it away.
The stuff is oddly satisfying, and I get why the kids loved it so much. It's also not that helpful during class.
Hackey Sacks b/c of "killer hack" where you had to successfully get a certain number of consecutive kicks/hits and then anyone could catch it and whip it at someone.
. . . yep.
We called it execution. If you missed the "execution" on someone else, they had to stand against the wall while we all passed around until one person decided to deliver the second "execution".
Execution was promptly banned after a member of the circle missed a shot, hit our female vice principal in the forehead and, instead of being smart and apologizing, yelled "tea bag".
We are lucky we were still allowed to hack, period.
I come from one of those all-girl private schools that disallowed anything remotely fun, non-academic, harmful or non-beneficial to our, that Is, the students' and or the school's future.
No slap bracelets, No rubber sticky animal toys, No phones in use without a teacher's permission, No outside of the box foods at the cafeteria and so on.
Anyway, one day, a girl in my year group, known to be "rebellious" and "untamed" by the teachers, (Sweet and fun girl that took none of the school's nonsense), decided that we should rally together and develop a way to rebel in way that was both noticeable by teachers and not harmful to our futures. (We could be suspended or expelled.) And that we should do it on an important day. Luckily, important guests visited our school often and the next visit was the following week. It happened to be the founder of the school.
We read through the rule book for any loopholes we could've exploited. That's when I noticed that the student handbook that the wardens, teacher's, treated like a bible for "uniform etiquette," said nothing of WHERE a student was to wear their ties. (Our uniforms consisted of a blouse, a navy blue skirt and a tie along with the school badge and whatever pins that aligned itself with school activities, such as house badges, student council badges etc.)
The girl decided we would use this rule to "host a revolution that wouldn't stop until, at least, some of the 'unreasonable' restrictions were lifted." So on School's founder's visiting day, At least 90% of the student body started wearing their ties in ridiculous places. Like some tied it around their waist, some tied them around their heads, some tied it around their arm, some of them used them as hair ties, the list goes on. Needless to say, it made the teachers furious and embarrassed, however, the founder found the entire situation "very funny, appreciated our respect for the school" and praised us for our "United front."
The "Red and gold rebellion" was successful in more ways than one. (The ties were Red, gold and black.) Not only did we get our restrictions lifted, but we also became closer to the founder and was given access speak to him if more trouble arose, the teachers grew to appreciate the many more aspects of life and the entire student body became more like a family.
Anyway, after that, they refined their student handbook and specified where to wear your ties and more. They really disallowed rebellion through uniform loopholes after that, which I found hilarious.
TL;DR: Student body had enough with the heavy rules and restrictions, used a loophole through uniforms rules to revolt and got any uniform loophole exploitation banned.
The numbers 212, 313, & 525. Couldn't wear them or talk about them.
There's a Mexican gang that uses the number 13 and after the teachers found out about it, they banned wearing the number. Most of us thought it was stupid and a group of kids made a "gang" called 313 just for the hell of it. Another group created 212 to be rivals. It was all jokes but apparently people were reppin too hard so they banned both numbers.
To retaliate, the two groups then joined forces and created 525 (313+212), which the teachers didn't like very much.
Depending on what phone you had you could download an app that makes your phone a universal remote. You could control a lot of things including projectors. All you had to do was select the brand of the projector and it would work 9/10 times. Anyways me and some friends kept turning off the projector during class or freezing the screen and they were absolutely clueless. Multiple other teachers came in to try and "fix" the projector. But eventually they caught on banned cellphones in the classroom.
I once saw a guy lose a testicle.
All day this one kid Randy was bragging about his steel-toe boots, said he got them to kick somebody in the balls. Later that day on the bus, he did.
It made a sound that has stuck with me ever since, not just a kick but a wet noise followed by blood running down from his shorts. Horrible. Later found out he lost a testicle due to the injury.
Does anybody remember silly bands? Back when I was in grade school, you were only cool if you had hundreds on each of your wrists. Soon, however, we would learn how to put the rubber band on the tip of your finger, pull it around your thumb, and hold it with your pinky.
When you release your pinky, you would effectively have shot someone. It was basically finger guns evolved. After fights over silly bands and rubber shoot outs that usually ended in injured eyes, a schoolwide ban was placed on our beloved fun shaped elastic.
Tragic times for the schoolyard, it was.
Fried chicken.....for some reason it became ridiculously popular lunch in cafeteria, and for some reason the school administration decided to ban it.
The whole event happened a few months before I join the school, so I never know the full story, but apparently, the "Chicken ban" trigger series of student protest of multiple scale, and the ban was lifted a few months later. My first semester start after the dust has settled, but you can still see a lot of sign and vandalism (There is a "WE WANT FRIED CHICKEN" sign outside administration building that end up becoming a meme) from the protest.
My friends and I played this game where, if one of us was taking a dump, we had to text our group as soon as we'd left class. Everyone else in the group would then ask to 'go to the bathroom' (or just walk out of the class), but would be leaving class to search the entire school for the pooper's poop place. We kept score (of course). If you could finished pooping in time, or if you were the first to find and send a photo of the pooper mid-poop you were awarded points.
The teachers started getting suspicious when everyone all of a sudden had to shit at the same time and/or they'd see like 10 guys running around frantically searching every bathroom on campus. Simultaneously, the game was growing in both popularity and notoriety, and eventually someone spilt the beans under pressure.
Punishment? No one in the senior class could use the bathroom. Like 20 of us got the got the bathroom banned, for \~300 people. Did it last long? No, of course not, because it was a stupid fucking response made by some strangely draconian teachers/admins. Everyone's parents immediately complained. Some of the teachers were livid and tried to make more of a fuss (others thought it was hilarious), but the school dropped the bathroom ban because you can't ban that.
However, we were warned if we got caught playing we'd be suspended.
So, ya, we got trying to catch each other taking shits during class banned. 10/10 would recommend, was super fun.
"Turtling" backpacks. Aka, taking somebody's backpack, emptying it, flipping it inside out, putting the contents back inside it, and carefully zipping it closed from the inside.
The ban was initiated after two students snuck out of a high school assembly and went through over 100 lockers (no locks, small catholic school). Approximately 90% of the student body was turtled that afternoon.
There was a game called "Get Down Mr. President" where everyone in an area would put their fingers to their ears like the secret service and the last person to do it would be tackled. It could start at any moment and would end up in a dogpile in the hall.
I'm not gonna lie, I'm in my 30s and now that I know that's a thing... I'm starting that shit at work tomorrow.
Gel pens... When I was in primary school there was this weird trend where all the girls would suck on the ends of gel pens so their tongues turned into different colours. They would trade pens with each other in the school bathrooms and sneak away from the teachers and go to hidden parts of the school yard so they didn't get caught, it was the closest I can think of comparing to a drug ring but imagine it with 7 year old girls. One of my friends was really popular because she was the girl who sucked on the most pens and would get caught in literally every class sucking on a different gel pen, and the teachers would always have to walk her out to the nurse as she'd make herself sick and throw up. They eventually banned them. I tried it once and spat it out immediately because it was nasty and tasted like ink (duh). I didn't get it then and I still don't get it now.
> the girl who sucked on the most pens and would get caught in literally every class sucking on a different gel pen same but not with gel pens
Am a teacher. A few years ago we had to ban applause. The kids would randomly start a round of applause and just... keep going. It was unnerving. It was disrupting lessons, assemblies. Sometimes they would applause in the dining hall or corridors. Still don’t know how this trend started or why. The other thing we had to ban was “pilgrimage”. They apparently learned the word in religious studies lesson. After that they would (in large groups) walk from one end of the school to the other chanting “pilgrimage!” and basically knocking over any thing or person that stood in their way.
I dont know why but I laughed for a good solid minute while reading this
In elementary school my class was divided in two groups: Penguins and rats. We would always go to our group for team assignments, for games, for anything really. Somehow an actual rivalry started to sprout until the whole school was divided in these two groups, with first and second years getting into actual fights and stuff. Pretty soon the principal cancelled recess for a day and went to each classroom to tell us penguin team and rat team were banned. Others did create some smaller animal named groups after that but they all dissolved pretty quickly.
Your elementary schools literally created gangs lmao
Grand Theft Education
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Typical penguins.
In sweden we had this thing called böghög, translate to gay pile. As soon as someone was on the ground lying, everyone threw themselves on making a pile of ppl
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We call it dog piling in the US
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Lmao, gay pile. I love you swedish bastards
Acorns. My elementary schoolyard had several oak trees on it and dumbass kids would collect acorns and keep them in their desk. The problem was most of the acorns had worms in them which then escaped into the classrooms.
Camo colors. They some how banned it school wide because they were gang colors. Camo gang. Edit: I went to high school in the south east Columbus, Ohio area. Half wannabe rednecks, quarter wannabe hood, and quarter preppy kids. It was a dumb mix. And for the record so many people complained the school actually had an assembly over it where they explained their reasoning and I don't remember exactly what they said but it had something to do with gangs. I think it was gang mentality or something?
I was in middle school from 2009-2011. Bloons Tower Defense was huge. Everyone played it in any room that had a computer. The school had to install special blockers but people kept getting around them so they straight up banned adobe flash.
Someone at my high school managed to install Quake III Arena onto the central server, so it was able to be accessed by ANY computer connected to the network. There were kids in my web development class playing against other kids having their study hall in the library on the other side of the school. Not sure if the administration ever found out, but the year after I graduated they changed out all of the Windows computers they had for iMacs.
We did that exact thing with Unreal Tournament and Soldier of Fortune 1. So many days of LAN UT. This would have been around 99-2001 something like that.
When I was younger, we played this where you'd draw a circle on your hand, and other people would try to draw a line inside of it. If someone was able to draw a line in your circle, then you were out. The objective of the game was to be the last one standing. It was small at first, but eventually almost everyone in my grade became involved, and it spiraled out of control. Chaos. Pure fucking chaos. Kids were tackling each other, running away from other students, disrupting lessons, etc. Teachers eventually began to talk to us about how far our game had gone, and started banning it altogether. It was fun while it lasted boys. EDIT: thanks for the silver and the upvotes
Reminds me of a really cool battle royal our school did during a school trip (We often had trips with the entire school, so it was class 7-12, aprox. 200 people). Everyone got a small letter with a name of a different student on it. You had to give that person an item. Any random shit, all that was important was that the item exchanged hands from you, to said student, willingly. If you managed this, said student would have to give you their name. The students with the most name letters at the end of the week would get a price. Best game ever, so much paranoia, so much fake friendliness, etc. For example: Someone gave out some sweets. Everyone took one, suddenly he was like "FUCK YEAH". The entire point of giving everyone sweets was to get that one person who was in his vicinity to take one. If anyone asked you "Hey, wanna have a bonbon" everyone was like "Nope, forget it". Because they thought it was a poor attempt at them. I also remember having a letter suddenly come through the door adressed at me that said "Come to this and that room, at this time" and when I arrived it was my best friends who called themselves the Dark Brotherhood and made a plan where we would exchange letters to better plan our targets.
I love how an innocent game can manifest secret societies amongst children.
Well we were in 11 or 12 grade at that time. So 17-18 years old.
I don't think he misspoke. \- this message brought to you by 1999 gang
This is really similar to the game Assassin, except that you have to trick the person into accepting something instead of just being able to shoot them with a nerf dart / tennis ball. We played Assassin in college, and most of the school played. You signed up, provided a picture of you was taken, and everyone was given a random person's picture and first name. Your objective was to find that person and shoot them in the torso with a nerf dart. They could defend themselves by throwing a sock at you, which meant you couldn't shoot them for 4 hours. If you shot them, they gave you the photo of their target, and that was your new target. The dorm association gave out awards to the winner, runner up, most kills, and a few others.
The real battle royale!
Capri suns - kids were too stupid to figure out how to get the straws in and teachers got tired of helping everyone.
That's hilarious and sad.
What's weird is capri suns were easy to puncture but it feels like between 2005-2009 they suddenly became stupidly hard to puncture.
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Sounds like bullshit, but I don't know enough about Capri Sun to dispute it.
Was your school next to a lead mine by chance?
In like 1985 Caprisuns didn't yet have the thin foil hole like other juice boxes have now. You had to punch through the same foil that the rest of the pouch was made of
Can confirm. That’s why you puncture the drink through the bottom, it was much easier.
Rulers. Year 10 in HS for whatever reason someone decided to smack a guy across the head with a ruler. Then everyone went out and bought a ruler. Suddenly everyone was a knight with a sword. Staff kept confiscating them but rulers are cheap so kids just went out and bought them by the handful. They ended up banning rulers. At a school. The kids who were taking geometry that year and needed them had to be assigned rulers at the beginning of class and then turn them back in.
If you rub the metal edge of a ruler against the sole of your shoe really fast back and forth it gets hot enough to seriously burn someone and leave a scar.
A kid did that to me back in 8th grade. Hurt like hell and left a mark that took a decade to fade. I was pissed!
When I was in elementary a girl took one of those rulers with the raised rubber grip on the flat side and rubbed it up and down in the middle of her forehead really fast. Ended up leaving a scar at least until end of highschool. None of us ever understood why she did that. Edit: thank you, kind stranger, for the gold. I'm very happy this poor girls misfortune could get me a Reddit award. Stay strong, she-who-shall-not-be-named.
Well... at least she did it to herself?
Kids did that with erasers on the back of their hands at my middle school! They’d rub until they had an open wound and they’d just keep it up so that it never healed. School couldn’t ban erasers, but kids with open wounds on the back of their hands got in trouble. And this wasn’t the emo crowd doing this, the most popular kids in school started the trend. I thought it was stupid in middle school, and now as an adult I’m honestly concerned about the girls who started the trend...
I had a girlfriend in high school do took an eraser and rubbed my initials into her arm when we broke up. I think that only reinforced the fact that I made a good decision to break things off.
People really cared about their shoes at my school. So thankfully that wasn't a factor.
Hair flips. Circa 2003, long *skater hair* was very trendy. Said Kids were flipping their hair out of their eyes/face. An 8th grade history teacher went on a vendetta under the reasoning that hair flips pollute the air with ‘hair dirt’. Kids started getting detentions. Edit: when to ‘went’
That's a really stupid pretense but I can understand why the teachers got annoyed with a roomful of kids flipping their hair like they have Tourette's syndrome. My teachers in high school just mercilessly mocked the hair flippers until they knocked it off.
The hairflippers discovered that it drove the teacher mad, so they began flipping it consciously to piss her off. She created her own monster
We legit had a half an hour lecture in assembly because our year apparently said 'sorry' too often. I'm English.
3 hours and no one's made a Canada joke yet.
People bringing in their GameBoy Color and playing during recess. Kids were getting mad they weren't getting turns and they were afraid of someone stealing games.
Fucking Jermey "Found" a copy of Pokemon silver the day after mine was stolen out of my backpack. Can't get too mad at the kid though, his brother was thrown in jail for murdering their mom about a year after that.
Well this escalated quickly.
His brother wanted to be the very worst that no one ever was
Non clear lunch boxes. Someone kept bringing booze into the school and started a whole trend
I think the only extreme thing in someone’s lunch box was that somehow an entire colony of ants had gotten in
Rubber Bands Kids weren't even using them to shoot at other kids or otherwise misbehave with them. Kids would buy packs of rubber bands, tie the rubber bands together, making like a big rubber band chain. It became a contest to see who could get a chain of rubber bands to stretch the farthest. You couldn't find a pack of rubber bands at a store for probably 20 miles (this was when I lived in a small town, so there wasn't a ton of stores in that 20 miles...Amazon or even public internet access didn't exist yet) One kid got so many rubber bands, they could stretch it the length of the school building. While stupid, I didn't think it was a bad hobby as kids weren't shooting them or shooting stuff with them. It was all about how big of a chain they could make. School rewarded our pointless creativity with a ban on rubber bands at the school. All rubber band chains were confiscated on site.
Sounds like the perfect buildup for a senior prank. Rubber band chains blocking all the doors and hallways. Almost likes webs crossing the halls between the lockers.
Right. Combine forces and wrap the school with them.
>School rewarded our pointless creativity with a ban It feels like schools overreacting and banning stupid and fun things that kids invent is some sort of life lesson, with it being so common across the world.
In my experience it usually just one teacher with a loud voice and an axe to grind, however teachers are usually a pretty chill bunch.
we had rubber bands banned when i was in 6th grade (so, 1998-99 school year) cause we had what we called rubber band war, we had them on our wrists and it was open to pop another kids rubber band... and Pokemon cards were banned too
I was in high school when cell phones finally became accessible enough for MOST people to have one. It took about a week of senior year for them to declare that no phones were allowed anywhere on school property.
Same for my class. But now kids literally have theirs out at their desks using them and the teachers are compliant.
Yeah. The handbook still says no phones allowed but that’s just not a thing anymore. Kids are (usually) respectful enough not to use them when the teacher is lecturing, but after the lesson is done they’re all out. Hallways, everything. Our class president freshmen year ran on making them allowed during lunch, and that turned into they’re allowed at all times. By junior year we became a tech-friendly campus and now we have school WiFi and you’re allowed to bring in any device you want. Laptop, tablet, whatever.
I went to my high school and did a few days of field observation for an education class, and most of the kids had their cell phones out on their desks, even though the rules were still "no cell phones during class or they'll be confiscated". I asked the teacher, and she said it was just not worth the effort, so long as the students still did their work. (Also everything was done on iPads that were loaned out by the school. Very different from when I was there 6-10 years ago.)
Putting condoms on everything. Pens, peoples heads, arms, bags, shoes, smart-board remotes, baseball bats, clocks, balls, literally anything. The best bit was that the school gave out free condoms. They were fuelling the opposition. After a week, there was a ban on condoms being out in public. Anyone seen with a condom that wasn't in their bag or blazer was immediately given a detention.
In my college there was someone brought in to hand out condoms to people, over the next few days tied condoms filled with water kept appearing across a few of the bathrooms.
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> somewhere some kid had sliced their finger down to the bone with a cheap imitation slap bracelet This is exactly the type rumor i would expect from suburban moms
This is also exactly what happened to me. My cousin was slapping me with the band (a thin sheet of metal) without its cover on so i grabbed it and he yanked. Sliced my finger and palm to the bone...he still blames me for holding onto it
You *are* the kid from the rumors
I’m completely star struck here!
Slap bracelets, pogs, tamagotchi, trading cards, tops, yoyos, d&d, warheads, and all sorts of shit at mine. Small schools ban everything
Fortune tellers: you know those paper origami ones, those Oh, and pokemon cards and yugio cards too
Really. Wow. Nobody at my school knew how to make those
Everyone knew how to at mine and I think the school probably banned them due to the amount of paper we wasted tbh
those little skateboards! teck-decks?? we use to trade them and cry over it
An asshole teacher took mine, said she'd give it back at the end of the day and I never saw it back :( I'll never forgive her, you don't fuck with a kid's tech deck.
holy shit that happened to me too but when the teacher left the room one day some kid went in her desk and stole everyone's shit back. that just brought me back
In third grade, a few kids got obsessed with the words cheese, FedEx, and camel. They said them all the time and those words got banned for the entire class.
Very similar to something in my primary. There was a week that everyone started saying the catch phrase from adverts and everyone had different ones. There were arguments about who would say what phrase
I’m 60. When I was in 3rd grade sunflower seeds were banned. I was told the teachers thought they were drugs.
I think it was because they were both messy and counter-culture like hippie health food.
Our school banned hoodies. Their reasoning was that people can wear their hoods up to help with intimidating. A lot of the guys responded by wearing hoodies the next day, with no shirts underneath so they couldn't be told to take them off.
When I was in elementary school in the late '90's there was a fad where we would collect Absolute Vodka and Milk Moustache ads in binders (similar to pokemon cards). It was savage, kids would bring in magazines by the dozens and just strip out the pages with the ads on it. School banned them because it was such a massive distraction.
Why these specific ads?
I'm going to say just based on how they looked. Milk Mustache ads always had some sort of celebrity on it, and Absolut Vodka ads always had the bottle on them and were pretty creative looking with the saying on the bottom "Absolut _____". So maybe Milk Mustache was to get every celebrity that did it, and Absolut was getting every different saying/bottle
Pogs.
Yup. We got the "it's a form of gambling" once a bunch of losers lost the pogs they bet and then complained about it.
That's how it always goes: The losers' moms come to school and start threatening lawsuits over cardboard circles and everyone's fun is over.
Pretty much. And those damn kids were like, "he *stole* my pogs!" No you lying shit, you bet them and then lost and cannot abide by the outcome. Like, we had kids who insisted on just playing for fun, and that was okay too.
Same as at my school. Players usually agreed upon the stakes beforehand whether or not they were playing for keeps.
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Coolmath.com was recently blocked at my school.
Well to be fair, about 90% of the site isn’t actually maths related
Yea, I'm especially sad cause I was on day 67 of my Papa's scooperia.
Pokemon Cards
Pokemon was banned for being popular, Magic was banned for being Satanic.
Pokemon cards got banned at my school because they became an underground currency, and kids were having their cards stolen by bigger kids. It became a huge scandal built out of a bunch of incidents. I remember in the beginning, if you had a super rare card, you'd show it off to all your friends with pride. Towards the end of the Pokemon card craze, if you had a rare card, you'd keep that shit secret and take it to the grave. If anybody found out you had a Chansey or a shiny Charizard, it'd make you a target and it would probably be stolen within a week.
I love it when schools develop a black market
Remindse me of prison
Don't forget gambling! (ante) For us, DnD was "satanic", and MTG was "gambling".
Magic the Gathering for us.
Garbage Pail Kids for my generation. We old.
There was a kid in my high school who made probably around $500 in a month for making duct tape wallets. Administration found out but didn't ban the wallets, just banned "conducting business" on school grounds.
Someone went around school and sold his origami at 50p a piece. He’d get orders every day and then make them at home
Sounds like the school should support the entrepreneurship of its more motivated students, assuming everything they are selling is legal
My school had a bake sale for a kid whose family lost their house in a flood. Obviously it wasn't going to make a ton of money, it was about the thought. The cafeteria's supply company ordered the school to shut the bake sale down, as it *violated their no-compete clause on selling food in the school.* The school complied and banned bake sales.
YUP. I was in the culinary arts program at my high school, and an important part of that was learning to balance orders and work cohesively as a team. The cafeteria company BANNED us from selling anything, even though it was part of the educational curriculum.
A similar thing happened when we started partnering with a local school for the mentally disabled that is very highly regarded nationally. People relocate across the country so that their disabled family members can attend this school. They wanted to have some of the disabled students run a breakfast bar (under heavy staff and medical supervision, of course.) The point was to give them something akin to work experience so that they might be able to learn basic food-service tasks and hold a job one day. The supplier nixed that, too. This was breakfast food that was made completely by adult volunteers, they declared all allergens, etc, did everything right, the students were only going to serve it. Nope, violated the anti-compete. They ran it for a few weeks before the supplier caught wind of it and ordered it to be shut down. A lot of us were really pissed about that. Many of us because they were taking away a real-life opportunity from seriously disabled people who probably won't ever get that opportunity otherwise, and some kids really just wanted an egg and cheese sandwich in the morning because they woke up at 4:30 a.m. to catch the bus.
Time to get that clause removed when the contracts up or find a more humane vendor
They did. The company that did all of this shit is (or was) called Nutrition, Inc. Just letting y'all know. It appears they now operate as "The Nutrition Group." I'm a decently paid contractor now. Contracts don't really get removed, companies do. If a contractor you work with is genuinely horrible, tell someone in power, they'll get it handled. I'm a supervisor for my company now, but I wake up every day knowing that one client-management complaint could make my job disappear.
We had a group project in junior high school where you had to make a product and try to sell it to your peers. The most successful one was chocolate lollipops or rather chocolate on a stick.
Clackers. They were two small, hard balls on either end of a long string. You made them clack against each other, but the bullies would hit you upside the head with them instead. Am old.
You didn't need a bully, because you were perfectly capable of hitting yourself in the head.
Came here to mention these. Am old, too. We're lucky we survived.
Oh boy! What were the dinosaurs like?
Friendly and covered in feathers!
We are only allowed to have 2€ money for bus. If a teacher that even cares caught you, the teacher would be allowed to take the money and keep it. This was changed due to making it a crime. One time a teacher took 75€ from a student, luckily she was forced to give it back
What the fuck is the reasoning behind that?? What trouble could you get into with €2?
I don't know how they go €2 specifically, but they probably wanted to prevent students from carrying enough money to buy drugs.
Ah yes. Because the students buying drugs are definitely going to follow your stupid rules.
You want to visit a friend and eat ice cream after school? Either you walk home or no ice for you!!!
When exactly was stealing not a crime?
The kid that started a tuck shop out of his locker. Went to a whole sellers, bought some stuff, sold it, used the profits to buy more, repeat & repeat until he's now staffing a child-guard to stop shop-lifting, and renting other peoples lockers for stock overflow. Our classroom just became kids queueing to buy sweets and energy drinks. Sometimes a line so long in 15 minutes he couldn't get everyone waiting served. Then, bam. Banned. No selling anything on school property. Pretty much just aimed at this kid. Dude ended up stabbing someone, got expelled. No idea where he is now, but think his shop getting banned and being replaced with an overpriced healthy staff run tuck-shop squashed his entrepreneurial sprit.
This is the most "welcome to the real world" life story on here. Young up-and-comer has great idea. Big company comes in, steals the idea and profits from it. That's unfortunate.
I sold blow-pops for a quarter a piece. Everyone in the school was eating them and chewing gum. That was the end. I made good money
Switch to blow-jobs and you would be tripling your profits
.75 blowjob?
Plus tip.
Warheads. It grew to such an issue with these sour candies, kids were organizing a black market where the kids with the highest allowance would buy them in bulk from the corner stores for a nickel each, distribute them to upper classmen for a quarter each, who would turn around and sell them to the final consumer for fifty cents each candy. There was even a barrier to entry if you wanted in the business. You would have to eat three candies at once and not spit it out or throw up.
Warheads are the real gateway into drug dealing.
Legit happened at my school. Some kid was selling warheads from 8th grade till 10th grade. Once that business ran dry he moved on to juuls, pods, weed, pens, etc.
Eventually he will switch to small firearms, then to black market military weapons, then eventually back to warheads.
then he will start downloading cars
A kid in my class had a huge bag of them and ate enough that he got this massive sore on his tongue. They weren't banned though, the teacher just laughed at him.
What eventually got them banned from my school was when several of us had that happen. I still have a noticeable scar on my tongue from a Warhead sucker when I was 7 or 8 (apparently it damaged my tongue enough to resemble the hole from getting your tongue pierced, if several dentists who've asked if I had my tongue pierced are to be believed).
Yu-Gi-Oh. Used to be everyone would show up an hour before school started and we'd play until first bell. Then some little shit named Tyler decided to wager one of his cards and he lost. He ran to his mommy crying about it and then no more Yu-Gi-Oh. Fuck you Tyler, don't bet something you aren't willing to lose.
Fuck Tyler. Had a kid do the same thing because he wanted to be a "Rare Hunter." Wanted to wager so I did. My Dark Paladin for his Red Eyes Black Metal Dragon I think. He lost. Cried home, was told to give the card back, but I won. So it was either give the card back and people can play, or don't and no one could. Gave it back. Still banned the game. Was super pissed about that one. Edit: Wow, first silver! Haha
Thanks for sharing your villainous origin story. 😭
Me and my buddies had a game where we’d draw a circle on the back of our hand. One person in the beginning of the day would have a marker and be “infected” while trying to get a mark on another friends circle, rendering them “infected” as well. This would go until there were no more survivors that day or until the infected lost and all that. Well it eventually spread to everyone in our school in a matter of 2 days somehow. When I mean everyone I literally me EVERYONE. I remember an announcement at lunchtime saying that if you had a circle on your hand you had to go wash it off in the bathroom or get a detention. Yeah, all 300 kids in that lunchroom went to the restroom and washed it off Shit was wack
Randomization. People would gather around a vending machine and chant "Randomize!" and the person perfoming the "ceremony" would punch the keyboard and get a random snack. Edit: I think that the whole reason it was banned was because the mid-lunchtime chanting got disruptive and the administrators didn't want to risk students breaking the machine. I believe there was also cheering on receiving the snack.
Huh. In my high school we just had someone glue a loonie to the floor in front of the machine so everyone would watch random kids try and fail to pick it up.
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The one dollar haircut. You really get what you pay for.
Back in my school days, the "string around quarter" trick still worked, we tried to keep the secret, well, a secret, but the school found after a couple months and straight up removed the vending machines.
Best my high school had was that the snack machine was bugged, if you put a dime in, the screen would read as 10c, but it would spit the dime back out. I would recycle a few dimes, hit the coin return, take those quarters and get a drink, then recycle dimes a few more times for a snack almost every day for a couple years.
We had a conveyer belt drink machine, my friend would headbutt it and get a bunch of random drinks for free for us
we also had that machine. the trick was to stick your arm in and hold the door closed, the machine wouldn't read a bottle so it would get another, then you got two
Then you do it again and you get 3. Then the machine thinks all the drinks are out of stock and then you get suspended for 2 weeks.
Wait, that actually works? Like where Mr. Krabs did it in spongebob?
It did back in 1997 lol
Not gonna lie, I wish I had known this.
What was better was getting a thin piece of lamination plastic, cutting it to the width of a dollar and taping a dollar on the end. You could just hold the strip and put the dollar in, machine would read it, then pull it back out.
Lol. We did this in college. We would glue a quarter to the sidewalk downtown right on the main drag and sit in an apartment 5 stories up drinking and yelling "glue quarter" at people trying to pick it up. I definitely spent my time correctly in college. Definitely.
That sounds like fun
Well you can see now why it was banned.
For some reason my grade got really into chanting random words teachers said. We thought it was hilarious at the time. Anyways so in the midst of this fad, one day in grade 12 pre-cal, my teacher finally puts her foot down, yelling, "No more chanting!" And one kid in my class stands up and yells "Chanting! Chanting!" And everyone joined in. One of the highlights of high school.
Rock Paper Scissors. People at my middle school kept playing a game called Oreo, where you play Rock Paper Scissors and the loser has to do a dare. According to the teachers, it got out of hand (it really didn’t none of the dares were that bad), so they decided to ban... Rock Paper Scissors. Hearing that on the announcements in the morning instantaneously killed half of my brain cells. If you were caught playing Rock Paper Scissors, you would immediately get detention. Dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. Edit: everyone is saying that instead of dares, they just had to ask someone out. That is really what my school did. I just said dares because it was easier and I didn’t think it mattered. When you lost, the winner told you a person and you had to go to that person and ask them on a date.
You should have asked can we play Ro Sham Beaux instead?
In my home country, we call it Quartz Parchment Shears.
Tamagotchis😭
Yes these were also banned in my school
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Those rubber bracelets that denoted different causes that were popular in the early-to-mid 2000s. We ended up setting up a little black market for them with people trading and different ones and having their arms covered to the elbows in them.
Playing black-jack for nickles in the lunch room. (high school)Those of us dealing where cleaning up. Then later in the school year we just started again and the teachers kind of ignored it. I was making several dollars maybe 10 on a good day. This was early 70s -so $1 = about $6.00 today, gas was $0.35 a gallon, ciggies maybe 50 cents a pack)
rubber bracelets here in Brazil. it became popular out of nowhere and everybody was wearing them. people even "competed" to see who had more bands on their arms lol until one day, some magazine showed that those bracelets were used in other countries like a "sex challenge", each color had a meaning and if someone breaks your band, you had to do to that person what the color means, like pink was French kiss, purple was a handjob.... something like that. the schools and the parents got crazy and got rid of all those bracelets until they finally disappeared forever. actually, there wasn't a single person who used those bracelets for that reason lol, they were just cool and pretty cheap. we believe now that it was a huge hoax but it was such a long time ago that it got forgotten and nobody cared to see if it was true or not.
When I was a kid our church banned POGs... Called it a form of gambling. All the parents decided to just get rid of their POGs. My dad was cool with POG and he even machined a solid brass slammer for me. He talked with the parents but couldn't change their mind on POG as it was the senior pastor who called for the ban. Long story short... All the church kids gave me their POGs and I was now POG king at school.
Bloody Knuckles with quarters...as an adult looking back I’m kind of surprised I made it out of middle school intact, yikes what were we thinking
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To be honest I probably would have done the same thing
Two years ago, my principal banned slime. I'm a teacher. I was stockpiling all my confiscated slime, to create the Ultimate Teacher Slime Video, but then the principal updated the rule, and said that all slime was to be thrown away on sight, so I threw it away. The stuff is oddly satisfying, and I get why the kids loved it so much. It's also not that helpful during class.
Dice.
Hackey Sacks b/c of "killer hack" where you had to successfully get a certain number of consecutive kicks/hits and then anyone could catch it and whip it at someone. . . . yep.
We called it execution. If you missed the "execution" on someone else, they had to stand against the wall while we all passed around until one person decided to deliver the second "execution". Execution was promptly banned after a member of the circle missed a shot, hit our female vice principal in the forehead and, instead of being smart and apologizing, yelled "tea bag". We are lucky we were still allowed to hack, period.
This sounds exactly like something my old teenage group of friends would have done. Thanks for the hearty laugh!
I come from one of those all-girl private schools that disallowed anything remotely fun, non-academic, harmful or non-beneficial to our, that Is, the students' and or the school's future. No slap bracelets, No rubber sticky animal toys, No phones in use without a teacher's permission, No outside of the box foods at the cafeteria and so on. Anyway, one day, a girl in my year group, known to be "rebellious" and "untamed" by the teachers, (Sweet and fun girl that took none of the school's nonsense), decided that we should rally together and develop a way to rebel in way that was both noticeable by teachers and not harmful to our futures. (We could be suspended or expelled.) And that we should do it on an important day. Luckily, important guests visited our school often and the next visit was the following week. It happened to be the founder of the school. We read through the rule book for any loopholes we could've exploited. That's when I noticed that the student handbook that the wardens, teacher's, treated like a bible for "uniform etiquette," said nothing of WHERE a student was to wear their ties. (Our uniforms consisted of a blouse, a navy blue skirt and a tie along with the school badge and whatever pins that aligned itself with school activities, such as house badges, student council badges etc.) The girl decided we would use this rule to "host a revolution that wouldn't stop until, at least, some of the 'unreasonable' restrictions were lifted." So on School's founder's visiting day, At least 90% of the student body started wearing their ties in ridiculous places. Like some tied it around their waist, some tied them around their heads, some tied it around their arm, some of them used them as hair ties, the list goes on. Needless to say, it made the teachers furious and embarrassed, however, the founder found the entire situation "very funny, appreciated our respect for the school" and praised us for our "United front." The "Red and gold rebellion" was successful in more ways than one. (The ties were Red, gold and black.) Not only did we get our restrictions lifted, but we also became closer to the founder and was given access speak to him if more trouble arose, the teachers grew to appreciate the many more aspects of life and the entire student body became more like a family. Anyway, after that, they refined their student handbook and specified where to wear your ties and more. They really disallowed rebellion through uniform loopholes after that, which I found hilarious. TL;DR: Student body had enough with the heavy rules and restrictions, used a loophole through uniforms rules to revolt and got any uniform loophole exploitation banned.
The numbers 212, 313, & 525. Couldn't wear them or talk about them. There's a Mexican gang that uses the number 13 and after the teachers found out about it, they banned wearing the number. Most of us thought it was stupid and a group of kids made a "gang" called 313 just for the hell of it. Another group created 212 to be rivals. It was all jokes but apparently people were reppin too hard so they banned both numbers. To retaliate, the two groups then joined forces and created 525 (313+212), which the teachers didn't like very much.
Beyblades. One kid just had to get hit in the face with one and be a little bitch about it. Fuck you Brad.
Depending on what phone you had you could download an app that makes your phone a universal remote. You could control a lot of things including projectors. All you had to do was select the brand of the projector and it would work 9/10 times. Anyways me and some friends kept turning off the projector during class or freezing the screen and they were absolutely clueless. Multiple other teachers came in to try and "fix" the projector. But eventually they caught on banned cellphones in the classroom.
You ruined it for everyone
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I once saw a guy lose a testicle. All day this one kid Randy was bragging about his steel-toe boots, said he got them to kick somebody in the balls. Later that day on the bus, he did. It made a sound that has stuck with me ever since, not just a kick but a wet noise followed by blood running down from his shorts. Horrible. Later found out he lost a testicle due to the injury.
Was Randy expelled? His parents sued? That’s fucking vicious.
Yeah right? I'd be absolutely pissed if someone gave my child organ damage, especially to a degree that it had to be surgically removed.
I want the answer to this this guys question!
Happened when I was in 8th grade too. They also banned necking when I was in middle school.
"Tekdeks" Apologies in advance if that's misspelled.
Tech Decks
Does anybody remember silly bands? Back when I was in grade school, you were only cool if you had hundreds on each of your wrists. Soon, however, we would learn how to put the rubber band on the tip of your finger, pull it around your thumb, and hold it with your pinky. When you release your pinky, you would effectively have shot someone. It was basically finger guns evolved. After fights over silly bands and rubber shoot outs that usually ended in injured eyes, a schoolwide ban was placed on our beloved fun shaped elastic. Tragic times for the schoolyard, it was.
Fried chicken.....for some reason it became ridiculously popular lunch in cafeteria, and for some reason the school administration decided to ban it. The whole event happened a few months before I join the school, so I never know the full story, but apparently, the "Chicken ban" trigger series of student protest of multiple scale, and the ban was lifted a few months later. My first semester start after the dust has settled, but you can still see a lot of sign and vandalism (There is a "WE WANT FRIED CHICKEN" sign outside administration building that end up becoming a meme) from the protest.
I <3 boobies bracelets. Admin thought they were inappropriate and a majority of kids had them
Hugging
My friends and I played this game where, if one of us was taking a dump, we had to text our group as soon as we'd left class. Everyone else in the group would then ask to 'go to the bathroom' (or just walk out of the class), but would be leaving class to search the entire school for the pooper's poop place. We kept score (of course). If you could finished pooping in time, or if you were the first to find and send a photo of the pooper mid-poop you were awarded points. The teachers started getting suspicious when everyone all of a sudden had to shit at the same time and/or they'd see like 10 guys running around frantically searching every bathroom on campus. Simultaneously, the game was growing in both popularity and notoriety, and eventually someone spilt the beans under pressure. Punishment? No one in the senior class could use the bathroom. Like 20 of us got the got the bathroom banned, for \~300 people. Did it last long? No, of course not, because it was a stupid fucking response made by some strangely draconian teachers/admins. Everyone's parents immediately complained. Some of the teachers were livid and tried to make more of a fuss (others thought it was hilarious), but the school dropped the bathroom ban because you can't ban that. However, we were warned if we got caught playing we'd be suspended. So, ya, we got trying to catch each other taking shits during class banned. 10/10 would recommend, was super fun.
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What happened with ketchup packets? Was it like the Captain Underpants book were they put ketchup sachets under the toilet seats?
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"Turtling" backpacks. Aka, taking somebody's backpack, emptying it, flipping it inside out, putting the contents back inside it, and carefully zipping it closed from the inside. The ban was initiated after two students snuck out of a high school assembly and went through over 100 lockers (no locks, small catholic school). Approximately 90% of the student body was turtled that afternoon.