Rural Public School Things:
1. When your class is really quiet, and then you hear some wailing banshee scream across the hall and nobody does anything about it but a few people chuckle.
2. When there’s a hole in the ceiling or a pipe or something and nobody fixes it for months, and everyone just sort of adapts to it.
3. That one toilet that doesn’t flush properly that people still use.
4. Sometimes there’s a microwave in a teacher’s room that nobody’s allowed to use because some kid exploded something in it like ten years ago and ruined it for everyone.
5. The kid that rides a unicycle to school instead of a bike.
6. The drama/choir/band kids that you KNOW are drama/choir/band kids despite never having seen them perform.
7. The girl’s volleyball team that is somehow always composed of tall, leggy valkyrie warriors.
8. That one legendary time that one kid did that thing and something exploded.
9. Reoccurring public safety violations everyone is a litle concerned about but nobody really does anything to fix.
10. Occasional animal infestations.
11. Somehow there’s something on the ceiling and nobody knows how it got there.
12. That one room that’s probably not allowed to exist.
13. The substitute that should have died 50 years ago but still shows up to teach nothing and mumble about weird shit.
14. Sometimes there just isn’t any paper towel.
15. Unexplained objects that appear overnight and just become a normal thing.
16. The year you were instructed to bring your own glue sticks and crayons to a final exam, worth 25% of your grade.
17. The class you failed even though you got a 80% on the final.
18. “Okay class, we’re out of _______ again.”
19. Okay so the school board did something stupid that’s wasting our time but we’re just going to roll with it
20. There’s been a wad of gum stuck to the fountain for 6 months and nobody’s taken it off because nobody wants to use it anymore anyways.
21. The water’s brown today but it’s probably fine
22. That one day the gym teacher gave up completely
23. The one cafateria special that nobody’s ever ordered.
24. Some guy wore a T-shirt with a pot leaf on it so he has to wear a sweaty gym pinnie till final bell.
25. The red, yellow, blue, and green pinnies that probably haven’t been cleaned, fixed, or replaced since 1978 that are supposed to be ‘one-size-fits-all’ yet somehow don’t fit anyone
26. Ocassional ‘bear/mountain lion/stoned guy wandering the grounds with what is either a bong or a gun so stay inside kids’ warning on the PA
27. The gym teacher is tired today so the whole class is released into the woods for an hour and a half of murder tag.
28. The power goes out randomly for hours at a time but nobody’s allowed to go home because some kids live in the fricking forest.
29. That big clique of plaid guys whose parents are loggers so they wear forestry gear every single day.
30. Nobody turns the heat on until february and they don’t put the AC on until September.
31. Every once and awhile someone brings a dead thing to school and it’s chill.
32. Everyone knows that guy that got mauled by a bear a few years back.
33. Going on field trips and being told to pick a buddy and huddle in groups because you don’t hear mountain lions coming until they get you and they aim for the stragglers.
34. That 12 year old that brings a big stick everywhere but it’s not weird because they walk home alone and there’s a ram loose.
35. Occasional farm animals loose on the road in front of the bus; constant chants from the back to 'run it over’.
36. Sometimes someone lights something on fire and that’s not great
(via whoopsrobots)