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People Describe The Absolute Worst Student From Their High School

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Everyone looks back on their high school experience differently.

Some wish they could relive it all over again, while others are more than happy to put it all behind them and seldom, if ever, look back on it.

Of course, no matter if they look back on high school with pleasure or disdain, everyone has a few memories of their classmates.

Particularly the one who always seemed to be getting into trouble.

Constantly landing themselves in detention and, in more severe cases, landing themself in trouble with the authorities.

Some of these students thankfully grew out of their bullying days and have grown and learned to treat others with respect and kindness. Others were not so lucky, and still found themselves getting into trouble long after their school days were over.


Redditor Damned-scoundrel was curious to hear about the absolute worst students people knew in high school, leading them to ask:
"Who was the worst student in your high school, & what did they do that was so bad?

The Beginning Of The End...

"There was a kid who walked up to the pencil sharpener and set the substitute teacher's hair on fire from behind her with a cigarette lighter and then claimed sparks had flown out of the light switch."

"Yeah."

"He's in prison for other stuff now."- isfrying

Lucky The Room Was Empty...

"I knew a lot of sh*tty people back in school, but I think the guys who dropped a whole desk out of a third-story window onto some kid qualify as the worst, purely because I think that qualifies as an attempted murder."- WixedEcho

Doesn't Exactly Scream True Love...

"The boy that put a pipe bomb into another kid's locker because he talked to the girl the original boy liked."

"He went to a juvenile program and then disappeared."- dreamermom2

The Demon Student Of High School...

"A girl at my school took the ashes of her recently deceased grandfather."

"Baked it into cookies and handed the cookies out amongst her classmates."

"Nine students had eaten them before she revealed the urn and told them what she did."- FiddlerofSticks

What A Waste, So Close To The End...

"He put LSD in a teacher's drink and they tripped."

"12th grade, he got arrested as he should have."- Amy_OZ

How Did He Even Get The Job?

"Not me, but my daughter and her female friends in 9th grade."

"There was a boy who was disturbed who was making threats to the girls in his classes."

"The girls told me he had photos of dead animals he'd killed."

"Anyway, for whatever reason, my daughter felt like telling me about it for the first time well into the school year, like in November or so."

"I had no idea this was going on until then."

"I called the teacher first, who was a man, and he was afraid of this kid."

"Teacher said to call the principal and gave me his number."

"Principal said, and I quote: 'Lady I have 1200 students to deal with on a daily basis'."

"'I can't be worried about whether your daughter is safe at school'."

"Which was the wrong thing to say, bc it obviously pissed me off."

"He said that he put this kid and my daughter alone in a room and told them to essentially kiss and make up."

"Called the superintendent next, who was incredibly bowled over by the incompetence of the principal."

"He told me to call the police."

"Which was too late because I had already taken my daughter and 3 of her friends to the police to make reports and file for a restraining order."

"The next day the principal called to apologize, from the phone in the superintendent's office."

"The kid was removed from the classes with all of these girls, which was next to impossible."

"And less than a week was removed from the school."

"I think my daughter said that he's in prison now."- floridianreader

Some People Can Turn Their Lives Around

"Not the worst student but craziest thing to happen was freshman year this kid got caught using a keylogger to steal teacher's gradebook logins to sell grade changes."

"He was also stealing credit card info."

"Ran into him a few years ago and he actually graduated Harvard and is in real estate now."- AbortionCrow

Bad Decisions Have Consequences

Bullied other kids mercilessly."

"Stole cigarettes & alcohol from shops, to sell to other kids for cash he'd use to buy weed."

"A few years after high school him and 2 of his closest mates were hooning in their sh*tbox on the highway, playing Chicken."

"It was night time and they had their lights turned off, and they were driving on the wrong side of the road with the intent to make other people flinch & dodge before they had to."

"Other driver didn't even know they were there & just drove a straight path."

"So because of that the other driver obviously didn't dodge or deviate, forcing them to flinch and they dodged off the side of a road, right into a huge Gum Tree."

"All 3 killed instantly 140+kmph impact on a hardwood tree."

"Small rural area so the whole town grieved over the 'tragic loss of 3 young lives' but single kid who grew up around them knew better than to call it a tragedy."

"Glad the other driver didn't see them & suffer their fate."

"Gladder that they're gone."- Pharya

Some People Simply Never Learn From Their Mistakes

"One of the rich families kid was just 100% incapable of driving safely at all."

"We're talking at the age of 16 has already totaled 3 cars."

"His parents kept giving him new ones, not cheap ones either, Acura RSX, VW Golf, Subaru WRX."

"The VW and Acura he did nothing but crash them into trees while he had his DRIVING PERMIT - not even a license."

"The First WRX he had a passenger in it and decided to hit another tree."

"Passenger broke his neck but was fine."

"3 months later, parents got him his second WRX."

"Was doing 70+ in a 45 back road with a 2 girls in the car."

"Swerved to avoid a truck pulling into a road, clipped the back corner, spun the car sideways and got T-boned by a box truck/Uhaul."

"Everyone died."

"It was sad but I'm more outraged at his sh*tty parents."- Saturn_5_speed

One never knows the kind of person your classmates are going to grow up to be.

Though sometimes, you can't help but appreciate that you were right about your instincts to avoid certain people.

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