Weird Things That Teachers Confiscated From Students

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Eric Lund
Jan 19, 2022 2:00 PM EST

A lot of us had to spend over a decade in school, and over the course of that formative period, we saw a lot of weird junk go down. School is boring, so naturally, things got spiced up with the appearance of secret fish tanks, homemade chemical products, and sometimes even bees. Hey, kids are resourceful. And sometimes teachers just want to take stuff. It's no surprise that some weird stuff got confiscated by teachers.

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    Font - Cathy-the-Grand - 1 day ago 27e9 & 9 More My mom has had stories about what's she's confiscated from lower elementary aged students (K-3). The usual prank items like woolie cushions, sure. But one time a student was playing with this weird box. The box was locked. So she couldn't put it in the confiscated bin. She put it on top of a cabinet. About an hour later, it starts ringing. Furiously. It took some doing to get the box open. Turns out, this kid's parent was a professional chef. So t
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    Font - Luka-the-Pooka · 1 day ago Preschool teacher here. I had to convince a 4 year old that his mom's wedding ring should go into a special box on the front desk instead of on the finger of a six year old girl he had a crush on. Later he brought in his dad's car keys, and a bottle opener.
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    Smile - Nocreativeability · 1 day ago 2 4 33 @ My wife is a teacher and one of her first graders brought her 2 hard seltzers because her mom said they're good after a long day and she deserved them
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    Font - Polyfu :kery · 1 day ago The weirdest one was definitely the fish in a vase they found during locker checks. It was in an unassigned locker someone had added a lock to. Inside was a live Betta fish in about as large a vase as you can fit in a locker. Fully decorated. Someone had clipped a little book light to the top of the vase presumably so fish wasn't in the dark all the time. No one claimed to know whose if was or how long it had been there so it lived in the coaches office for at lea
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    Mammal - groviegroves · 1 day ago a S A dead squirrel. I taught preschool at the time.
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    Font - Piogre · 1 day ago · edited 19 hr. ago O 95 & 7 More When I was in fifth grade there was an active market in live bees. Some kids figured out that the weight of the average fifth grader briefly stepping on a bee, in the grass, would stun it for about a minute without actually killing it. They started going out in teams to scout bees on the field, stun them, and carefully scoop them into plastic sandwich bags -- they'd then sell them to other students who'd release them in classrooms to wa
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    Font - SepSev7n · 1 day ago In third grade, I once had my entire deck of only- holographic yugioh cards confiscated from me for playing with them during break time too much with friends. I was told I'd be able to get them back when I graduated school (6th grade). I said okay, not totally understanding what was going on. I forgot about them completely (though I still kept a vested interest in the TCG for a few more years, like into 5th grade) until 9th grade. I went back and asked my old 3rd grad
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    Organism - Bangbangsmashsmash - 1 day ago 2 My mom always told the story about my brother bringing a signed picture of Richard Petty to his class and telling everyone he was his Dad (1-2nd grade maybe) but that everyone forgot because the next kid pulled out an antique gun
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    Rectangle - CageyRabbit - 1 day ago 2 3 Most dangerous: a knife from an 8th grader. Most annoying: different school than above, but a wifi jammer and a USB killing device from an 8th grader.
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    Smile - ymmit389 · 1 day ago O3 S Someone in my class had their phone taken because their Siri went off and said "What do you need from me Slut?"
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    Font - gina_renee · 1 day ago not a teacher but i watched quite a funny confiscation while in detention as a sophomore in high school. i was reading a book just trying to make the time go by when our vice principal (who was monitoring detention that day) stepped out for a moment. all of a sudden i hear a cracking sound and i look up from my book to see a broken egg on the floor. the few kids in the room look around at each other confused, nobody owns up to it, and nobody knows who did it because
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    Font - finally, this kid throws one last egg, but unfortunately the VP looked up from his papers right as he threw it. he walked over to the kid's desk, asked him what he thought he was doing, and the kid goes "just cracking jokes." VP holds out his hand and the kid reveals an entire carton of eggs from under his sweatshirt and hands it to him. VP looked so unphased that i honestly wondered what else that man has seen. i was honestly glad i got detention that day.
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    Font - fletchindubai - 1 day ago Not a teacher but this is the worst thing I had confiscated... It was 1984 and I was 9 years old. Back then it was common for parents to buy loads of fireworks for November 5th in Britain - Guy Fawkes' Night. I got a load of them on around November 1st and emptied them into a cardboard toilet roll that I'd sealed up at one end. Made a fuse from blue touchpaper and stuck it in, then used masking tape to seal the top. I was 9 years old. I took it to school and was
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    Font - CrimbusIsOver - 1 day ago S Never confiscated anything but when I worked as a kindergarten teacher in China, I'd see kids (4, 5 & 6 years old) come in with the wildest shirts and hats. Those ones you see that say things like, "I smoke crack a fck btches", "I'm not gay but $20 is $20." etc
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    Font - Snoo-65144 - 1 day ago O S Not a teacher, but I'm half deaf and my music teacher took my hearing aid and refused to accept that it wasn't an earbud. Then he yelled at me for the rest of the class for not playing in tune (couldn't exactly tell how well I was playing since I could hear it)
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    Smile - totally_void · 1 day ago S Not a teacher but my 7th grade homeroom teacher confiscated my private journal AND read it. There's nothing more disappointing than losing respect for elders as a child.
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    Font - Billy-tee · 1 day ago Napalm! Some kids were into petrol/gas sniffing but found it hard to transport and keep hidden so they learnt how to make napalm so they could carry it hidden in their bags. I had to lock down the whole school and get hazmat in to dispose of it. And how did they find out how to make it? They asked one of the science teachers and he told them.
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