Class clowns

[dragonbat2006]

Setting: North-central Ontario, present day, Grade 9

Comments

[anonymous]

I once had a student, on April's Fool's day, climb up on the lockers before class and lie across the top of them with a blanket over them, to hide. Pretty scary stuff, as the lockers were six of seven foot off the ground and not very steady

[dragonbat2006]

The deliberate slowness does sound like something right up my character's alley! Thanks!

[springdragonfly]

Back in high school, one of my classmates dressed as our biology teacher for Halloween.

Actually, because of a technicality in the school rules, students could wear costumes to school any day as long as it didn't break other parts of the dress code (at least half the face was uncovered, proper length for pants/skirts, etc). Subject relevant dress ups could be good. Also putting up pictures of a celebrity all over the classroom. That was done to the German teacher one time.

[dragonbat2006]

Ooh! the costume isn't something my character would want to do right now, but I can see that happening down the road. Thanks!

[springdragonfly]

Glad I could be of help.

[beccastareyes]

So, this is a story from my grad school in physics/astronomy, but would probably work for high school biology with some changes. It is a bit of a prank, but it's in the amusing rather than mean-spirited or dangerous

[dragonbat2006]

Thank you!

[corvideye]

A friend of mine was in a small discussion class that only needed a few of the desks and chairs in the room. The following class was large and needed all the furniture. Between periods, the students in the first class liked to create sculptures by stacking all the unused furniture against the wall, as high as they could, and distributing lamps and books artistically within the structure. The next class would have to reassemble the room before they got started--highly irritating. The teacher in the first class had a wicked streak of humor, so after a while she would stay and play artistic director, telling them where to put a potted plant etc. for aesthetic effect. You could perhaps modify this for lab equipment etc., or building structures out of all the textbooks.

[dragonbat2006]

Thank you! Won't work for this scenario, because it's her teacher she wants to annoy, not the one next period... but I do like and may find a way to use!

[jamoche]

Pick something about the teacher's personality or approach to teaching that's annoying and exaggerate it. My company loves to put up motivational sayings and hand out pep-rally-ish chatkas - bumper stickers, badge holders, etc. I'm the one who'll replace them with Demotivator posters, or mock the "D-Team" (no, seriously) bumper sticker with a riff on the A-Team intro ("...and if you can't, there's always the [D-Team bumper sticker]")

And nobody *ever* guesses it's me.

A little background, then...

[dragonbat2006]

This is a school for kids training to be superheroes and kids in need of learning self-defense, escapology, etc. because they are friends/family of superheroes and therefore constantly targeted by supervillains. Think: What if Hogwarts also held classes for muggle family-members so that they'd have some way of defending themselves from Dark Wizards (or surviving a bit longer until the good wizards showed up

[sabotabby]

The last school where I taught had an unspoken tradition that the graduating class organized pranks in June. The two most memorable ones were