Some people peak in high school. Others remember it as the worst experience of their lives. Depends who you ask, but for most students, their sentiments about high school are quite negative. According to a national 2020 Yale study, 75% of high school students said so, often associating their high school experience with tiredness, boredom, and stress.
Bored Panda has scoured the internet and found the most infuriating experiences from schools that people have shared over the years. We’ve got all levels: elementary, middle, high school, and even college and university – unhinged things, it seems, don’t choose their victims by their age.
#1 I Let My Son’s Teacher Borrow The Penguin Sculpture I Made And She Left It In A Windowsill For 6 Months
I spent several hours moulding and painting this penguin. It was lightweight, rubbery and pretty indestructible, so when my son asked to bring it to school for show and tell I figured the worst that could happen would be it getting detached from the base, so l obliged. His teacher liked it so much she asked to “borrow” it to use as a decoration in her classroom. She told my son she’d give it back at the end of the year. This is what he brought home. Apparently, her chosen place to display it was in an east-facing window.
I worked so hard on this thing and was so freaking proud of it. How it looks now is exactly how I feel: deflated.
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#2 Perfectly Good Books Thrown In Trash
When perfectly good books are thrown away in the trash instead of donated to the underprivileged kids at the school they belonged to. California is a Joke. The principal at this school approved this and instead of letting the kids have these she decided to throw them away. At least donate them. This made me sick to my stomach. Also just happens to be book fair week…
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#3 My College Labs Have Been Canceled Until Further Notice. And I Was Not Included On The Mass Text. No Wonder There’s No One Here
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#4 Our School Library Keeps Getting These Kids Books With Crappy AI Art As Donations
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#5 Found This Growing In My University Shared Bathroom
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#6 My Sister Is A Teacher And She Wasn’t Happy With The Picture The School Chose For Her
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#7 At My School Cafeteria, I Just Want To Have Lemon Water… If Only They Cut The Lemons
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#8 The State Of My Classmate’s School Owned/Assigned iPad
They’re probably going to be shocked when they have to pay for the damage, too.
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#9 Can’t Use Bathroom Without Chromebook. I’m In High School
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#10 “Virtual Reality Enables Students To Go On A Field Trip Without Leaving Their School”
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#11 My Lil Sister’s School Assignment. Written And Handed Out By The Teacher, And Sis Has To Find The Answers
She can’t even figure out what half of these questions even mean.
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#12 I Have Been A Music Teacher For The Past 5 Years, Received This Email Today From Principal Saying I Am No Longer The Music Teacher
She comes to my room after I had a 30 minute meltdown telling me it was an April fools prank…
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#13 I Got An Email Saying I Was Accepted Into My Dream School, Turns Out It Was A Mistake
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#14 Accidentally Locked Myself In A Room With No Doorknob In School
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#15 Someone Decided To Remove The Tips From All Of The Pool Cues In My College’s Lounge
The lack of respect some people have for the school-provided equipment is so infuriating. Every once in a while, something different is destroyed in one way or another. Detipped cues, ping pong paddles smashed to pieces, sticks snapped in two… There’s a new foosball table and I’m genuinely surprised it hasn’t been beaten to bits yet.
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#16 My School Used AI In The Yearbook
It’s just infuriating because I know, and they know, how many talented artists we have in school. They have included art from students in previous Yearbooks, and they have included some in this one too! And yes, these are only a couple (maybe three, I’m unsure of one of those images, hence why I didn’t post it here) of AI images from like, 15 in total, but diluting them with AI later in the book just feels insulting.
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#17 A Delicious School Lunch
I went for second rounds at the school buffet and this is what they gave me.
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#18 The Bathroom Stalls At My College
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#19 School Does Some Renovations. New Outside Area Has The Tables In A Lower Section Surrounded By A Step Up Of Pavement. Guess What Happened When It Rained
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#20 The Bring Your Own Potato Bar Hosted By My School For Teacher Appreciation. At Least They’re Providing Plates
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#21 German School In A Nutshell
This is the only big toilet at school. Got another one but with just 2 toilets and you have to walk across the school to use it. German school in a nutshell.
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#22 Sticker My Son Got In School. I Have So Many Questions
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#23 Location Of A Bench At My School
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#24 The Size Of The Mirror In My Driving School
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#25 Rotten Kids Trashed The Bathroom
I work in a museum and a guest notified me that a school group did this to the boys bathroom TWICE today. How rude. I felt bad for the day porter who had to clean this is he’s so sweet.
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#26 This Floor Alignment
This is The floor at my school. The only place where the alignment is off, further in the corridor the alignment is perfect.
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#27 No Shoes For A High School Graduation?
That sums it up. Dude showed up sans shoes and left after his kid got his diploma sans shoes. He didn’t have any with him. Weird.
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#28 Bathrooms Are Always Closed At My School Because Half Of The Students Are Dumbasses
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#29 Bathroom Passes In USA School. I Mean, I Get It. Kids Take Advantage… But Seriously?
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#30 This Elementary School Class Award My Friend’s Poor Kiddo Got. Super Sweet
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#31 This AI Sign Taped To The Door In Our Art School
And it’s not even good AI, and this is an art school where the vibes are pretty anti-AI imagery. They teach graphic design here, they could have a student make one!
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#32 Spelling At School. “Show It To Say It” Communication Tool At An Elementary School
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#33 School Food Managed To Bend The Fork. Swedish School Food Is Free, But It Isn’t Good
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#34 My View Of My Son During His Last Middle School Band Concert Of The Year
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#35 This Is The Most Crazy Thing I Have Ever Seen
No wonder everyone is getting sick. Even me, who never gets sick.
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#36 I Hate My School
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#37 This “Women In Mechanical Engineering” Showcase At My University
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#38 This Map In My School’s Elementary Library
Because all of Eastern Asia and the Pacific Islands are apparently under China’s control.
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#39 My School Renovated The Hallway To Our Classrooms
I teach at an arts-based high school & the powers that be decided to renovate the hallway/rotunda space outside our classrooms- which is great cause it was a little grungy & dated. This is one of the corners leading from the hallway to the bathrooms. I … I have feelings about their choices.
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#40 I’m So Annoyed With School. Someone Did This To My Locker After Losing A Game
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#41 Quality Exit Sign For The Cam Lab In My Schools Machine Shop
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#42 Health Teachers Banned Word List
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#43 I’m Just A Student, Why Me? (Stolen Escooter In Broad Daylight In A University)
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#44 The Amount Of AI Art That Was Used In My Schools $100 Yearbook This Year
This was after students had offered to draw the photos instead. Apparently, the yearbook director was insistent on using them.
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#45 When You Get One Formula Wrong In Our Weekly Tests At My School They Make You Write It Out 150 Times. I Have 4 More Of These To Do
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#46 My School Doesn’t Have Water In The Vending Machines And All The Water Fountains Are Closed
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#47 My Little Brother’s Middle School Schedule. He’s Having Such A Hard Time Remembering When Periods Start And End. Why Are The Times This Specific?
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#48 This Vending Machine At My High School
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#49 My School “Renowned” For Its Art Program Just Posted An AI Photo On Insta Instead Of Having Someone Design One
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#50 In Case Of Fire Remember Your High School Locker Combo
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#51 Loose Outlet Cover At School
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#52 A Power Outlet At My School. At Shoulder Height, Perfect For Gouging
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#53 Sucks To Be 15-17 I Guess
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#54 My College Made Me Pay 96 Dollars For This “Lab Kit”. There’s Nothing In Here Worth More Than 5 Bucks, And The Whole Thing Probably Costs Less Than 20 Bucks. They Also Included A Pen
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#55 My Kindergartener’s School Supply List
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#56 This Is The Inside Of My Child’s Homework Folder… Provided By The School. At What Point Has Consumerism Gone Too Far?
Yes I know the school likely needs to raise money and this accomplishes that and helps the students, and so on. But come on… Inside a homework folder?
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#57 School Fundraising Chocolate… Wth Happened To The Size Of Them!?!?
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#58 My Kids School Charged Us $30 A Person For A Texas Roadhouse Dinner
So every year, the Idea schools have a ceremony dedicated to athletes and their achievements. Last year they charged $20 a person for a Texas RoadHouse Dinner. We had steak and tea with sides. Not bad. This year they told us $30 a plate. Not a word was spoken until everybody was in line and we found out it was strictly chicken. Burnt, and dry chicken.
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#59 These “Desks” At My University. Can’t Even Sit And Use The Desk Properly
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#60 My College Had It’s Annual Sports Meet Organized And Not A Single Students From 4000+ Turned Up Excluding Volunteers And Participants
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#61 This Letter I Got From My Son’s School Today About His Earrings. He’s About To Be 11 In 5th Grade. Girls Are Permitted To Wear Them Though??
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#62 My So’s Teaching Material For Black History Month
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#63 Task Manager Is Disabled On School Computers
If anything stops working then I’m doomed…
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#64 $5.68 For Barely Any Noodles And Missing Seasoning Packets
bought this overpriced ramen from the school store right before they closed since i’m working late tonight and left my dinner at home. thank the gods i have half a fist full of plain ramen with no oil or seasonings to satiate me.
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#65 This Is Our Schools Fire Exit
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#66 There’s Maggots Falling From The Ceiling At School
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#67 Won A Gift Card At School, It’s Expired
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#68 The Wall Clock In My Old Elementary School’s Gym
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#69 So Called Asian Cuisine At School Cafeteria
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#70 Can You Spot The Mistake?
This is on the wall in the lobby of my kid’s school.
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#71 The Amount Of Leg Room On School Bus Seats
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#72 My School Admin Blocked My Extensions
I updated my computer and it disconnected from the Internet. I didn’t have the password so I went to the tech guy. He took 30 minutes to do whatever he did and now my extensions are blocked.
I understand if the cause viruses but I didn’t have a problem with it. The only reason I took it to the tech guy was because I didn’t have the wifi password.
WHY???
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#73 These Desks In My College
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#74 Emergency Eye Wash Station I Saw In A School
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#75 My University’s WiFi Has Been This Fast For The Past Week
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#76 School Pizza Had Bones In It. I Paid 2.75 For This????? I’m Not Gonna Make It Past 30
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#77 Misplaced Wall Tile In My School Bathroom
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#78 Stairs Are Like This Scattered Around My School
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#79 They Said Our Lockers Were Very Clean
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