Reaction To The Australian High School Experience

[@craigroaring]

During woodwork class (shop a), we were throwing little chips of wood into the fan when the teacher was momentarily away. One of the students decided to one up us all by throwing a chisel into the fan. It went through the window leaving a small hole in the glass.

[@tksmith2961]

I can imagine everyone scattering and ducking for cover when that happened..! The blackboard dusters were the projectile of choice at my school (yes, it was a long time ago...).

[@craigroaring]

@@tksmith2961 It happened so fast and the chisel was through the window before anyone could react, and the reaction was pretty much silence. The guy who threw it looked like he was in shock.

[@heatherwickstead7980]

One of our sons set a tall gum tree sapling in concrete in the middle of the school oval. It happened overnight so it was there to greet staff and students as they arrived in the morning!

[@fionabarrie9697]

Wow, Dinkum Dunnies! Haven’t seen that for years! 😂😂😂

[@theworstguyinvic]

Muck Up Day was easily the most fun (but most chaotic) day of the year. On my Muck Up day, my year level went absolutely mental. During the day, my school had two concerts for the years 12s, which were created and MC' entirely by the students. We also got to dress up in silly costumes as well (i.e. people dressing up as William Wallace, Big Bird, Spiderman, etc.) One for junior students (Years 7-9) and the other for senior students (Years 10-12). However...well let's just say we had some...creative ways of entertaining ourselves. This included: - Graffiting/De-Facing the School's Intranet System - Students (the ones who had a licence) parking right behind the teachers cars after they parked, so they couldn't get out. - Putting Beer Bottles under the Muck Up Day Concert stage and leaving rubbish all over the corridors. - Blowing Air Horns in random classes during classtime. - Wrapping younger students in plastic wrap - Throwing toilet paper all over the school All the Year 12 students were also planning to gender swap the uniforms (boys wearing girls uniforms and vice versa...but the teachers found out and threatened to cancel Muck Up Day). One student even went as far as to smash and destroy one of the teacher's cars. Which was definitely too far. It got so bad that the teachers threatened to cancel the senior students concert if we didn't start cleaning up our mess...to an extent. A mate of mine from the Year level below me said they really ramped up the restrictions on Muck Up Day because of the chaos we put them through during our Muck Up Day celebrations. If my Year Level didn't have such a strong academic performance in VCE Studies (40 of our year level got ATAR scores over 90 - which is conisdered exceptional), we'd probably be banned from every coming back to the school. lol Anyway long story short...Muck Up Day can be pretty wild. Still the most fun I've ever had!

[@FionaEm]

Went to school in sub-tropical Brisbane. Ceiling fan? What ceiling fan?! We just sat and sweated until it was time to go home 😂

[@karenlittle8041]

Yes I can relate to this very well. Unfortunately we never got sent home because it was too hot!

[@blackdog6969]

Nearly blowing up the science labs, throwing a table at the teacher twice (once by accident), breaking the pc restrictions to install games (IT and maths teachers beat us to it to have LAN parties), IT got in trouble for having an automated nerf turret that shot the principal and I can neither confirm nor deny that the metalwork classrooms were used as weapons factories. This barely scratches the surface of what we got up to but end of each term, we also held weeklong Halo tournaments on the projectors Edit; the best one was a teacher dared us to make napalm

[@Melody35120]

On our muck up day we had students come in early in the mourning and place buckets of water balloons around the school as well as glitter along the fans so that when they turned them on it went everywhere and covered the students and teachers while they were still wet, hopefully. we also had some of the older looking students dress up as some of the teachers and some of them looked similar at the end of the transformation. We wanted to cover the floor of the hallways in the dehydrated potato mixture that would 'inflate' (for lack of a better word) as students threw all the water balloons around, however that would be a waste of food and we weren't trying to annoy the cleaners, they were nice people.

[@JudeAussie]

Who hasn’t chucked anything at the ceiling fan? 😂

[@heatherwickstead7980]

Me ... 😔

[@Fiona-zc6oz]

No fans in my day

[@matthewbrown6163]

Chalk & Rubbers (Erasers) into fans - a few squash balls into the blades LOL. The old grab a bag & pass it down to chuck it out into the corridor LOL.

[@OneStar-76]

We broke 2 fans with 1 basketball. Do the maths

[@abelard817]

For us it was a substitute teacher and a pair of scissors that ended up in the blackboard right next to the poor subs’ head

[@taoistauditor1483]

My wife learn't how to get a PlayStation as a tax deduction. She became a programmer.

[@TheMyfanwy100]

Fans don’t actually cut it anymore, just too bloody hot in summer when school goes back in Jan,Feb and March. Air conditioners are replacing them.

[@GraceW-jx3ll]

I remember one of the years above me tried bringing a goat to school but they found out and just ended up picking them out😂 so they just had to walk along the streets with the goat on a leash

[@shezza66]

We didn’t have fans but had access to gas heaters in every classroom.Note I am old. Someone would put some powder out of the fireworks in the heater and wait for the teacher to show up and turn it on where there would be a bang and a large amount of smoke. We were still allowed to smoke when I went to school and they had a designated area among the trees next to a national park. Not great during an Australian summer. At my kids school they had to look out for teachers when smoking on the oval. Not for smoking but the teachers bumming a smoke. I had permanent Saturday, recess, lunchtime and when school broke up at lunchtime at the end of term detention. This was to write lines. I once write extra and had them in a folder and when she said I had to do say 200 of these I opened my folder and gave them to her. This just got me further detention.

[@stefanie.elinor]

Look up Chris Lilley - some of the footage in that video is from his TV shows which are set in the fictional Aussie high school Summer Heights High - hilarious.

[@Fiona-zc6oz]

I think he already has? Lilley attended my Sydney Primary school several years after I left. That school was always big on music and drama

[@nineteen96]

yeah nah, only like two of these was somewhat familiar. then again i graduated a decade ago.

[@surgeon1016]

A kid in our school had a parent who was a realestate agent so they got one of those sale signs took pictures of the school put it on the sale board and put the school up for sale

[@GavTigerRacingOz]

I'm almost 60 and we did the fan thing among other's lol and muck up day was there but not what it's grown into now.

[@JudeAussie]

@@GavTigerRacingOz same here! Almost 60, did the fan thing and muck up day was pretty tame. I went to a girls school so we had a reputation to uphold lol.

[@megs4193]

England and Tasmania have a lot in common 😄😄😃👍.

[@Fiona-zc6oz]

What's a fan? None in the 60s, 70s even in 45C heat. We did have Muckup Day at the end of High Scl. They weren't called Substitute teachers back in the day...an Americanism?

[@heatherwickstead7980]

@@Fiona-zc6oz Yes. They were emergency teachers!

[@FM-jg1yr]

​​@@heatherwickstead7980there was actually a different term for them we had in NSW...'relief teacher'

[@seonagthomas]

My cousin talked his whole class into waging it to go surfing! Don’t think he was at that school after that, but I always wonder what the teacher’s reaction was wondering where his class were

[@Jeni10]

Thank God I never knew ANYONE like this guy when I went to school - Catholic School, where we learned about our faith, we learned self discipline and where there were consequences for our actions. I have never committed any crime, even in high school. We had morals and ethics we still live by.

[@margaretbamford7176]

Catholic morals and ethics? Ever heard of child abuse and coverups at the highest levels? Paedophiles moved from school to school when people complained? Do whatever you want then pray for forgiveness, isn't that how it works?

[@Jeni10]

@@margaretbamford7176 No, and it’s not what we teach. The sins of men are their sins, they are held responsible. In Australia, those men are all in prison. The world has new moral issues now, the woke agenda.

[@Fiona-zc6oz]

LOL

[@bulldogravenwolf]

G'day Guys and Gal's I'm 52 years old Fart. When I went to school, we had to cop the cane 😂 6 of the best. The head master would have you hold out and beat you. We got it, Dailey, so we got usster it. So we would laugh 😂 at him so we got 6 more 😅😂 it was like a bage of onur. 😂😂😢

[@lucysteiner4556]

I don’t know how to send suggestions but you should get on to the comedy group Sooshi Mango. Try New Tears Day Celbrations from around the world. Anyway- there are lots of them.

[@julieannecarlson6507]

Oh yes, the fans😂 throw a ruler and see who gets it!

[@alwynemcintyre2184]

School fans must be an east coast thing, got the crap beaten out of me by my old man when I got caught shoplifting, vaping didn't exist when I went to school we'd smoke in the middle of the oval to avoid teachers, messing with a student teacher was a quick way to get a beating from my old man, I went to high school so long ago that we had corporal punishment, didn't make it to year 12 so have not idea about muckup day.

[@eclecticapoetica]

Muck up day- we had a legendary leader in our year 12 who got everyone to save rolls of toilet paper for months. On the night before our last day at school we wrapped the whole school in toilet paper! It was a work of art! They knew who the ringleaders were but they couldn’t expel anyone as we were leaving school that day anyway, 😂😊

[@Wylie77]

Love watching your videos mate as someone who was born in australia with scottish parents i get the best of both worlds haha

[@venderstrat]

Loved being a teen in Australia.

[@petersaxby9302]

My years muck up day was the last the high school allowed. It sure was memorable and I think the whole school spent a full day cleaning up afterwards

[@jimwebster5320]

Had my music exam on muck up day. Rocked up to school, smoked a massive joint, then we went off to the exam. I can't remember the grade we got, but when we got back to school, the whole year level had been kicked out because about 10 or 20 guys decided to go streaking through the school, so I didn't get a to have one.

[@kevo6190]

Yep. Threw a bottle of red paint at a fan and didn't really think it through. Looked like a scene from Saw 😂😮 To not be expelled (last straw type situation) I had to come in on weekends and plaster ,prep, paint the classroom and sand and lacquer all the desks and furniture... My teacher told me to thank him because I will learn a trade in prison and he was giving me a leg up🤣 Smart arse

[@megs4193]

In Tassie we didn't have fans either, we did have morons though 😄😃 at 15 I'd prefer talking to teachers, because i was engaged in highschool. But if someone came to me about being bullied ooooh, it would be like bringing your mother to school. I'd go into full logical lecture mode infront of everyone. And all 5foot of me got away with it. I'm glad i had adhd at school. And no internet. Only private schools in Hobart have Saturday detention 🤔. Imagine what being an American highschool kids feel like. Mind you, I haven't been in school since 1985 😄😄😃. A school like that would turn me insane. Just no...not even at 12, i was born an adult. No.... there's not enough money to make me want to be a teacher. And that was before the internet, ugh 🤦‍♀️😄😃❤.

[@shaneb4612]

Back in High school, ages ago. I had a teacher, would come find me & pull me out of class just so he could bum smokes off me. He would walk me to the back of the assembly hall & we would light up. Other teachers would get involved, at the end of year 12 I think I had 3 teachers pulling me out of class for ciggy breaks. I suppose that why, my education suffered. Smoking is BAD! don't smoke. I wish I hadn't started smoking when I was 15yo.

[@samanthafairweather9186]

The fans are useless in Summer. They just move the heat around more!! 🥵 We used to pinch our bunga's from Woolies back when they kept the smokes on the shelves next to the checkout! Most days, we'd wag school, and take off into Campbelltown. But we'd have to make sure to get back just before school got out, cause if you missed the bus, you had a 35 km walk home to Warragamba! Due to al these activities, I never made it to muck up day. I was expelled halfway through year 10! Yep, I'm old!

[@fionabarrie9697]

Saturday detention is usually a private school thing. One not mentioned is the plastic chairs which conspired to collect the sweat from ones arse ‘til we prayed that upon standing, we wouldn’t look like we’d pissed ourselves! Everly, pure evil. 😢

[@AlphaGeekgirl]

Every kid in my class bought 2 kg of icing sugar (powdered sugar) to school and we filled a huge garbage bin with all the packets, and then we started grabbing handfuls and throwing at each other and the teachers and then someone got the fire hose out…

[@985y95thj]

I was probably year 10 at the time and it was the year 12's muck up day. I remember finding a goat tied to a toilet in the middle of our school yard done by another school at like 3am in the morning.

[@RavingNut]

I used to throw Paper plains at the ceiling fan and try to get the center fold of that plain caught by the blade. Either that fan was shut off almost right away to get it to release it or it would be near an hour of turbulent paper noise for the full lesson.

[@H3ZZAA]

HOOOOOOLLYYYYY the fans went hard

[@Just-Incredible420]

Hahai grow up with the cane I still remember getting the sixers 6 of the best an fingertips didn't count an if u flinched it was another 6 on the other hand u certainly don't forget them ice cold mornings trying to warm up ya hands cos u knew wat was coming as soon as the bell rang infront of every1 at the morning assembly

[@cupcakecandy-candy]

fuck yea!

[@heatherwickstead7980]

Our private girls school ended up on the front cover of 'Truth ' newspaper 50 years ago!

[@justicelut]

My claim to fame in high school was that I got the cane from every teacher who was authorised to give it!

[@alittlecreepywhenyou]

My muck up day was a masterclass. We had this one bloke who'd created this circuit in a double adapter that we put on the siren for period changes. So that when it was activated it wouldn't turn off, as we'd ran an extension to another power source. The biggest problem was getting onto the 3rd story roof at 2am in the morning to install it. We were idiots, and I'm surprised no one died. It ran for more than 3 hours from when it was activated at the start of the next day. I could hear it from my house xD We Gladwrapped all the teachers' dunnies and bootpolished all the handrails on the stairs. The usual shit like that. We replaced all the sugar in the teachers' Lounge with Salt. And installed stink bombs under the office chairs which would activate when someone sat on them. We'd pre-arranged to have a set of keys cut for the admin building. As our homeroom teacher was involved, she was fantastic and provided us with several of the ideas. Then when we had access to all the classroom keys, we replaced all the whiteboard markers with permanent markers.

[@FromTheGong]

Would make a legitimate comment but why bother, this bloke never reads them anyway. We are just viewing numbers to him.

[@heatherwickstead7980]

Other people do though!!

[@Fiona-zc6oz]

Not true

[@FromTheGong]

@@Fiona-zc6oz Why didn't he reply to this then?

[@grannym2880]

​@@FromTheGongNeedy much?