Weirdest School Closures???

I know of a school that got closed because a student put lots of salt in the heating system, which for some reason made it break, thus allowing them all to go home
 
What do you know we had a bomb threat to the Engineering building. (So many enemies :p)

Didn't feel real for me, some guy came in and said "Evacuate the building there is an explosion at 12, this is no drill". No roads were blocked off and most of the students were outside the building, I got far enough away to get a good view but as expected 12 went past and nothing happened. Got the rest of the day off anyway.
 
Hehe :) TBH my day off didn't matter much as I only had another half an hour left plus I was working on a project so I actually wanted to stay!
 
our's will never have a bomb threat lol.
 
Tasmanian schools miss out on bomb threats. Tasmania misses out on bomb threats in general, probably because our largest building is probably Myer and that's only three storeys.

Anyway, my weird school (or at least class) closure would be one time when in Science in the last period of the day. We had a really odd teacher, that had so many little quirks about him that I could write a book on him, and one of the things he decided to do one class was instead of using a watch, use one of the scientific stopwatches and set the timer for 55 minutes (the length of the class). Seemed like a fair enough plan, except he left the room with the stopwatch just sitting at my table. Being an experimental sort of kid, I decided why not see how this timer works. Unfortunately I pressed the wrong buttons and "accidentally" cut 30 minutes off the time. When he came back into the class, not long after, the timer went off. He just looked at the stopwatch with a look as confused as a fish who had just sprained his ankle, and then let us go 30 minutes early, oblivious to the fact that he had just given us a 25 minute class. Nobody objected, it was only Grade 8 after all.

we didn't go school for 2 days because someone broke the heater.
May I ask why? Unless this school was in Antarctica, I'd imagine the show must go on...
 
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Something about schools in the UK having to be over a certain temperature.
 
When my new school was being built, we missed 2 more weeks, one reason due to a pigeon infestation

Joke is they are still there! Like pigeon poo in parts of the school
 
I had two extra weeks of the summer holidays in 2001 because my school burnt down to the ground! It just had to be the year I made the decision to leave my work there...
 

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