Weirdest words your school has banned

[@NameQ777]

One of my teachers banned the word “can’t” because she wanted you to believe in yourself. It was a good idea on paper, but there were some weird situations.

[@cat21860]

I am not able to can go to your basketball game on Saturday, it’s my dad’s birthday.

[@thesupervideogamenerdmore3171]

​@@watchmychannelorelse OK, so 1+1 does equal 3.

[@tylazermk8271]

That's a bad idea on paper too, honestly.

[@ShenDoodles]

"You can't eat the sun." "WHO THE FUCK SAID THAT?!"

[@puredemon5926]

"Henceforth, I am unable to can." If only this meme was around then.

[@milster08]

Not exactly a ban, but I’m pretty sure the word “quiche” was put on a “don’t bring this up in front of this class” list because some people insisted it was pronounced “kesha” and it caused a lot of arguements

[@myboatforacar]

Thought it was because of this joke "The beautiful waitress comes up to the table and asks if they are ready to order. Man looks up from the menu, smiles and says, 'Can you get me a quicky?' The waitress slaps the man in the face and stomps off. Man sits there in shock as the person in the next booth leans over. 'It's pronounced quiche'"

[@invurret9533]

I get pronouncing it "keche" but how do you get "kesha"? There is no reason to call it that.

[@onyxstewart9587]

When I was about 14 I got into a huge argument with my mum over how to pronounce quiche that resulted in her not speaking to me for days

[@Mk41n]

@@onyxstewart9587 you're supposed to pronounce it "keesh"

[@digitalunity]

@@Mk41n _Keeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh!!!_ Had to be done

[@wes7580]

In elementary school, we collected and traded gel pens with weird inks like spiraling colors, glow in the dark, etc. One day, my group got caught trading pens instead of doing group work, and the teacher lost her cool and ended up banning pens. We all had to use pencils. It only lasted about a week until kids started using pens again. I don't think the teacher did anything about it because she probably realized how silly it was to ban pens at school.

[@Likiita]

I had a teacher ban mechanical pencils. He was also the same nutjob who called me stupid for getting a A- on a test.

[@tealisbored]

Lmaoo, why would they ban PENS??

[@TheNamesArif]

that's actually cool! I want a pen with cool colours too

[@wibblywobblytimeywimeygender]

No wait somebody else's school did this too? no way I thought mine was the only one who banned pens (and mechanical pencils)

[@thatsexyganon5648]

We weren't allowed to use pens for anything in my school, so I guess I kind of understand the reason. Doesn't make it any less silly though.

[@PaulGaming19]

My Primary school banned saying “Fortnite” because it “encourages gun violence”. Therefore, everyone started calling it “Two Weeks” instead.

[@NotCCR]

Lol get it? Because 2 weeks are a fortnight and it's a homophone of Fortnite

[@SkyMurphy77]

My 5th grade teacher has banned two words in her class: Frick and Fortnite

[@2-Way_Intersection]

​@@SkyMurphy77that just sounds like thursday

[@bencenagy5459]

Call of duty, Insurgency Sandstorm, Pubg and every other shooter ever:

[@NotCCR]

Ah yes Even Counter Strike: Global Offensive (CSGO)

[@vulturesmusic1617]

I remember a kid in Year 7 got the word “Romania” blocked on all computers, as he was Romanian and trying to show where the country was to someone else on Google maps. Consequently the teacher banned it as they weren’t doing work, but forgot to unban it.

[@MisterFribble]

I have this image in my head now of someone filling out a get-to-know-you where the question is "if you could go anywhere where would it be?" And being unable to answer it because you can't type Romania

[@Pewie.]

Meanwhile in Romania

[@jockeyfield1954]

bruh, they stole the world romania from us

[@georgiykireev9678]

@@MisterFribble This would've been a problem if there was a single human on Earth that wanted to travel to Romania out of all countries

[@carriegould7560]

Will someone explain to my American ass what year 7 means?😅

[@ef1876]

My school banned the word button last year... apparently it was being used to (and this is a direct quote) “propagate bullying amongst pupils”. This did not in any way affect bullying, nor did it prevent people from saying the word button. What it _did_ do was start a school wide trend of a) using button as an insult, and b) bursting into fake tears as loudly and obnoxiously as possible in response. It annoyed the hell out of faculty but what were they gonna do? Ban it a second time?

[@theoriginaldrdust]

you’re a button

[@somerandompatriotsfan4415]

What?

[@smorfmello6305]

I guess you were pushing all the teachers’ buttons

[@pixelpaw1725]

I love this. I love this so much. XD

[@jg6551]

@@smorfmello6305 literally nobody asked, you button

[@schrodinger1374]

Not a word, but most of my high school science teachers banned the phrase “mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell” because they got so sick of people bringing it up in biology. Edit: apparently some of y’all forgot that you can phrase the same information in different ways. “Mitochondria are organelles that provide energy to eukaryotic cells” we weren’t deprived of an education lol

[@YourLocalAnonAccount]

Lmao how ironic-

[@mintw4241]

The circle is complete

[@lawrenceduan816]

Haha the turns have tabled

[@kutakachicky]

​@@lawrenceduan816 wat

[@exodust3114]

Then what is the mitochondria I ask you if not the powerhouse of the cell then what

[@ItsAcerplayz]

The word "womp womp" is banned in our school because everyone would yell it at the weirdest times and they are also yelling "womp womp" at teachers...

[@Anotherdawgthatiscrispy]

Womp wo- oh... wait.

[@bencenagy5459]

I'd make the ceiling into a Jackson Pollock painting if that was my school experience.

[@satanslittleprince]

@glitterrkissess based

[@Steel645]

@glitterrkissess ABSOLUTLY the amount of Fortnite and Roblox kids I see going around and saying it at random is just annoying

[@MightDeleteAcc]

Honestly that is a pretty good reason to ban the word "womp womp"

[@fayzandt9789]

In elementary school, my teacher banned the word “potato” since everyday, some other friends and I brought potatoes to school and treated them as pets. We talked about the potatoes everyday, and when the word got banned, we started called them brown carrots.

[@gneu1527]

call them edible gold

[@ibrasome4492]

@@gneu1527 to be fair, gold itself is edible

[@martabachynsky8545]

"Dirt apples". That is the literal translation of the French "pomme de terre". Yeah, "terre" means "earth", but earth is another word for soil or dirt.

[@feenik99]

I wish all potatoes were carrots

[@mackenzie7738]

@@feenik99 i wish all carrots tasted like potatoes

[@ultimateninjaboi]

I love how half of these are teachers being idiots trying to "stop," some kind of code word. And the other half are entirely reasonable "the kids wouldnt stop shouting 'pickle rick,' so i banned the phrase in my class."

[@SuperJman1111]

@e No one cares about your ip grabber bot

[@ethanlam9072]

PICKLE RICK

[@joobtheboob]

Morty, I turned myself into a Cucumber because the word Pickle is banned at your school! I'm Cucumber Rick!

[@stage4-postawarenesslucidi963]

Mouse eat a mouse

[@emeraldjinx7434]

my class always had the word pinapple banned for them in less than 3 months in primary school

[@XxCastlegirl_07xX]

At my middle school, we weren’t supposed to say the word “dice” because it was associated with gambling. We said “numerical rolling cubes” instead. Nobody actually followed or inforced this rule, but we joked about it all the time lol.

[@swaggyfelix7243]

Should’ve called them click clack math rocks 😔

[@user-ry4ip9ps9x]

Same in our school

[@zerocolonthree]

omg me too, ofc nobody followed that rule, it was just something that was on work sheets and stuff

[@davidpaul6290]

I used to roll the numerical rolling cubes, feel the fear in my enemie’s gelatin visual sensory spheres.

[@realdonutking123]

math rocks

[@Abstract_zx]

schools banning words will backfire every time. My school did a whole ass campaign against using the word "Retarded" for obvious reasons. "The new R word is Respect". "You're so respected", "Stop being so respected", etc. became a running joke from that point forward.

[@thentertaineronyoutube]

This Reminds Me Of The Second Version Of "Object Terror" From December '15

[@InvalidOS]

granted like. that word is definitely not a word you should be using. but middle schoolers aren't going to listen to that

[@Abstract_zx]

@@InvalidOS my point is that telling them not to say a word isnt going to stop kids from using an implication of disability as a way to insult people.

[@InvalidOS]

@@Abstract_zx yea

[@mar420.74]

​@@Abstract_zx that's funny, yeah i get what you mean because im autistic and i thought uhh are you restarted was kind of funny because i went to a school strictly w kids needing extra help and once i realized "regular people" (jus t nobody that's neurodivergentt) just started saying it just souly to be douces it was bumming. to hear about yet'll still be said

[@Th3Sp0ng31]

The story about the word "Christmas" being banned before December reminded me that around December a family friend's kid, who is still in school, had a lesson about inappropriate words. Just a few days later they were planning the Christmas assembly and the teacher said "we can now say the C word" obviously meaning Christmas. The kid proceeded to scream out a word that was not Christmas.

[@Teuflisch.]

Lemme guess at your Christmas party you call it "jesuss' Birthday"

[@Th3Sp0ng31]

That has never occurred to me

[@SuperJman1111]

How old was this kid?

[@number1zonvip]

that is amazing

[@deletedOM]

I would try so hard not to laugh

[@nohbodhi1120]

My school didnt ban words but my 7th grade science teacher did. He had 2 entire poster boards hanging on the wall with words that were banned. One day the entire class decided to we were only going to speak in banned words so he made all of us sit outside for the entire hour. One of my fondest memories

[@beek.4860]

What were the banned words? I am so intrigued.

[@rickster111]

Yeah what are the banned words lol

[@hatkid9368]

WHAT WERE THE BANNED WORDS???? I NEED TO KNOW

[@thesupervideogamenerdmore3171]

​@@hatkid9368 I wouldn't be surprised that "Math is better" was banned.

[@goodboi1725]

@The Super Videogame Nerd MORE bro math is literally a part of science what are you on

[@isaakvandaalen3899]

This is a great demonstration of how attempting to control people's speech will not actually stop them from saying what they wanna say, they'll just say it differently.

[@nova-wo9lr]

yeah it's the same for a lot of different things too

[@TL_7Gaming]

@@aaronzaharias9110 Or doesn’t, won’t, not going to do that, etc.

[@stuckonaslide]

schools are a prime example of how suppressing free speech just doesn't work.

[@Anyting9OnTopGrrr]

@@TL_7Gaming i doesnt do the work miss, its too hard

[@TL_7Gaming]

@@Anyting9OnTopGrrr Oof.

[@H1x0n]

My school banned the word “gyatt” honestly I don’t blame them

[@pentagonanimates]

w school

[@Antifearn]

Back in the day, my elementary school banned the word “underwear” because everyone was obsessed with that “what are you doing under there” trick where you respond with “under where?”, and the principal considered it to be bullying. We had to use “special undergarments” instead. (Edited for extra specific details. Thx for 3k likes!)

[@xiennta]

That joke... is so genius..

[@raphielle.]

@@xiennta It's not genius. It's been around literally forever.

[@KestrelDC]

It amazes me the weird ideas some people have about bullying and what it is. Like…. apparently friendly, playful jokes and puns that have no insults involved are just not ok lmao. These people seriously need to learn the difference between bullying and friendly banter/playful teasing. Especially since this is literally the tamest, most innocuous thing possible lmao.

[@FiSH-iSH]

my uncle tried to pull that one on me, but i accidentally avoided it out of having pavlov’d myself into avoiding such tricks as a young child

[@Dexter2017]

Ha! You said underwear!

[@The_Unknown_Wanderer]

My high school principal banned the word "petition" because a petition started and spread to the whole school for ending the yearly projects we had because it was negatively affecting students' health and driving some to contemplate or attempt s-cide. So rather than address the fact the yearly projects were hurting everyone's health, they just banned us from saying the word "petition" or starting one. They even pulled everyone that signed it aside one by one to try and figure out who started it. Those that did know, never snitched.

[@mandon7661]

Damn that’s… really fucked ip Edit: aw shit

[@The_Unknown_Wanderer]

@@mandon7661 he was eventually replaced right before my senior year. And while the new lady wasn't the greatest, she was at least and improvement.

[@havanadaurcy1321]

Snitching can save lives.

[@The_Unknown_Wanderer]

@@havanadaurcy1321 snitching would have harmed those students trying to put a stop to something that was hurting us all.

[@NoriMori1992]

Wtf, that's some Professor Umbridge shit right there.

[@Plasma476]

My school banned the word “snitch” cause the snitches who snitched were getting called snitches, so they snitched about being called snitches. So the vice principal made it a profanity on school grounds lmao

[@sAmukavIeira09]

damn what a tongue twister

[@tripplea_3338]

This just broke my mind

[@hollyhayes9640]

I have 0% of an idea of what you just said. I Approve©. 😂

[@planescaped]

I'm glad I was in highschool right before social media took off and usage of the internet became ubiquitous and normal. The good ol' days. We had no banned words beyond the obvious, teachers weren't paranoid of memes and the internet and suffering from severe FOMO towards anything the students were up to. Really it was the best of times, we had the interwebs, but it was still just that thing nerds used. The rise of Facebook changed everything.

[@PixEII]

Why does this remind me of when “female dog” was banned from my school cause it means bitch in Spanish 💀

[@TheREALwymario]

There was a book we read in 3rd or 4th grade called Frindle that more or less laid out why banning words is pointless and counterproductive. I'm guessing these faculty never read it.

[@bonkers622]

i HATED this book so much. i had to read it in 5th grade

[@dryer1901]

Schools should ban words in general. Instead, students should have to speak in interpretive dance

[@FlurryPie0]

*YES*

[@coyotix]

no

[@elitecereal]

I agree, lets start a protest.

[@Lizzbizz15]

@pastellastar I would just leave

[@beth5627]

have ye heard of Waldorf-Schools? These are german schools with stuff like that and I only know them because every one shits on them for sucking so much

[@theamonginator6737]

One of my greatest achievements was singlehandedly fuelling a schoolwide ban of the word "plonker"

[@monkeydoespride]

I'd love to hear more

[@un_of_earth]

Please elaborate

[@galaxygorl]

HOW?!

[@Nat_the_Chicken]

Idk guys, seems obvious to me how one would go about getting the word "plonker" banned

[@sad_cheese67]

i still think about this please tell us more

[@spectralumbra1568]

I remember when that jelly bracelet ban happened pretty much everywhere because teachers thought wearing colorful pastel jewelry was somehow done to show gang allegiances/advertise sexual desires/advertise the types of drugs kids were looking to buy. Of course none of this was true. A lot of the time they were a popular item to give away for supporting a charity event. Including a charity that was run by my school. My school literally gave out jelly bracelets for a charity event and then said students weren't allowed to wear them because it promoted gang violence, like come on.

[@flameofmage1099]

How old were you?

[@chloesibilla8199]

1. That sounds like THEY were the ones with dirty minds 2. That sounds like it would just give kids ideas

[@Frick8375]

Sounds like that school was run by a bunch of morons

[@0BucketMask0]

They've said this about literally every bracelet collecting fad that's ever happened, all the way back to the 90s and further. Apparently kids arent allowed to wear nice things for no reason.

[@gentrydean3789]

Wow. Just WOW. Way to see the worst in everyone with I assume no evidence whatsoever.

[@bc1448]

One of my teachers banned the words “quandale dingle” because one kid said it so much that it was driving her insane

[@NotCCR]

That's good, we don't want any brainrot

[@stormtendo]

She must not know the lore lol

[@rowan404]

In middle school, one of my teachers banned "blue whale" because we kept talking about that app that was making people commit suicide and it wasn't a "school-appropriate" conversation topic. Also, the word "nyeh" was banned because some of us tried to make it into a language and one of the teachers complained that we sounded like dogs barking at each other. Unfortunately, though, this led to me referring to it as "the n-word" in front of my mom, and she was horrified that I wanted to say _the n-word._ Edit: A lot of people were asking me to teach them the Nyeh language, so I explained it in a reply.

[@waffler-yz3gw]

teach me the nyeh language please

[@TheRealSuperKirby]

Papyrus was the inventor of the nyeh language

[@hourshandhacker4194]

"Nyeh" means no in most slavic languages

[@girlbuu9403]

I read that as "she was horrified you couldn't say the n-word" Based mom.

[@indigowendigo8165]

Okay, the blue whale thing is understandable but the nyeh one is just retarded like most of these. :p

[@nexforreal]

My school banned the word "Cocomelon" for the class because we all shouted it out after our transition bell. The transition bell sounded like the Cocomelon intro. Basically our English teacher was the one who caused that, and basically she considered it "inappropriate for school" and "distracting" for some reason. Like the entire class would say it. *One edit: They only banned the word generally. They still let us watch cocomelon during lunchtime/breakfast lmfao*

[@zoyadulzura7490]

That's adorable. Kids coming up with silly little stuff like that helps fight against the drudgery of a school run by humorless adults.

[@weirdgenderfluidperson2269]

@Earth ball 🌎 That's sad. No one was able to say "Hello" to Owen.

[@justanocto]

my school did something similar, tho i don't know if the word was banned or not because people just stopped saying it eventually and I didn't look into it. i wonder if we go to the same school

[@nexforreal]

@Earth ball 🌎 lmfao i feel bad for the owen whos probably gonna get into your school

[@nexforreal]

@@justanocto that was the exact same for my school wth?!?!

[@Venusflytrap-f2z]

My school had the word "clown" banned back in that weird time period where people would dress as clowns and linger in the woods and such. It was said to be "scaring kids" so they completely banned any mentions of clowns or media involving it. My one teacher played a goosebumps movie on Halloween and had to make us absolutely swear that we wouldn't rat on him, since it featured a clown.

[@liyfee]

@@Skeletonman21 wrong comment

[@tacothedank]

@@liyfee lmao

[@pearloyu2928]

BAHAHHAHA

[@neztech.]

same thing happened in my middle school at the time but we just referred to them as "circus animals"

[@evanreloadingbazookagaming1699]

Loved that teacher bro

[@Scott_Sterlingisgoated]

My Middle School German teacher banned the word "Skibidi Toilet" but only for 8th Graders.

[@NotCCR]

They have to use "Skipping toilet"

[@spongebobmusicuhg3420]

Good. We don't want any more Gen Alpha zombies.

[@NotCCR]

Clash of Clans "Heheheha" We sure don't need them just like Sensist2011

[@Incineration72]

W teacher ngl

[@Hydra2054]

Finally, peace has been restored.

[@TheMandalorianPadawan]

I was in a middle school German class and one of the characters in our textbook was named Eva Schmidt. One of the guys in my class insisted that one of his exes was named Eva Schmidt and the name became a bit of an inside joke among the kids in my class. In one of the audios we used for listening practice, this girl introduced herself saying, "Hallo, mein Name ist Eva Schmidt." One of the guys ripped the audio from the CD and, a week later, presented to our class his greatest achievement yet: a 1 hour loop of "mein Name ist Eva Schmidt." Eventually this obsession with Eva Schmidt got so crazy that our teacher purposely did not assign any assignments that included that character and she tried to ban the name for a week. The guys complied and did not speak the name inside the classroom, but outside the classroom, it was almost as if every female human on the planet was named Eva Schmidt because that's literally what they called everyone. So yeah, there's my story.

[@Exlyyn_]

Hi! Long time no see! That’s a hilarious story btw!

[@TheMandalorianPadawan]

@@Exlyyn_ oh my gosh I haven't seen you in foreverrrrr I didn't expect to see you here!!!

[@The0Stroy]

To peev everyone even more - when they banned Eva Schmidt - change her surname to Braun and look as teachers loss their minds about nazis in school XD

[@bearddethe2nd583]

What's up with you two?🤨

[@cabbage2329]

@@bearddethe2nd583 Exlyyn_•? Yeah, that's actually Eva Schmidt. You didn't know?

[@squeaktheswan2007]

I once went to a school that banned the word "hate" in hopes of encouraging students to be more positive. It sucked because the school had people screaming in the hallways, cockroaches in the rooms and rules so strict that it felt like some sort of saccharine prison. I hated it there.

[@kystyldydog4190]

Do elaborate, this sounds like an interesting story

[@squeaktheswan2007]

@@kystyldydog4190 Yeah, it was nuts. It was supposed to incorporate therapy and it was because I was misdiagnosed with some crap that I know this. They didn't allow students to date each other or see each other outside the school even though the oldest students were in their 20s because they didn't want students to hate each other when they went back to class. They also kept students during the summer and had 12 students of varying ages in each class. Even though they would award toys and stuff to kids that made it to higher ranks based off of behavior, most of the rules were so strict that nobody likes it there anyway. Like,, I knew one kid that kept "failing" because he refused to participate the swim classes. He only did this because his hair would get wet if he did. It sucked.

[@Portoman1923]

@@squeaktheswan2007 what the hell

[@squeaktheswan2007]

@@Portoman1923 Yeah, it was insane. It was a misdiagnosis, too, so I spent a year with those creeps for nothing. It still pisses me off.

[@mitspeithetc]

This reminds of a school that a friend in a discord server im in used to go to that had padded rooms and some other sus shit

[@YinYangWarrior1]

Not a word, but eye rolling was banned at my middle school. It was added to the list of "violent actions", so you'd get the same level of punishment as getting into a fist fight for rolling your eyes.

[@ragingcheese1444]

Big bruh moment

[@beano9503]

VIOLENT ACTION????????????

[@nijgaming410]

If I went to that school I would literally just do it more often. I wonder how Mom with asked if I got detention for rolling my eyes

[@nijgaming410]

I don't feel like editing my last message speech-to-text is stupid

[@YinYangWarrior1]

@@beano9503 Yep. My school had this long list of "violent actions" that was set up after placing a zero-tolerance policy due to a fight that occurred. Spoilers: the "fight" that caused the policy was just two kids poking each other on their shoulders, non-stop, after being told to stop repeatedly. Then parents got involved somehow, and that leads to the stupid list being placed and strictly enforced. To be fair, half the list had stuff that you'd expect to be there, actual fighting, tripping and shoving with the intent to make someone fall hard, that sort of thing. But the other half of the list was just crap like swearing, rude and mocking gestures, things that aren't actually violent just... rude. And all but some of the most (actually) violent actions were met with the same level of punishment. The eye-rolling was what I remembered the most because I got detention for a week for rolling my eyes. Once. TL;DR The list was utter garbage and was only the tip of the iceberg as to why the middle school years were the worst of my childhood.

[@WolframTitanite]

My school banned the word "Caprisun" because we had a school wide argument about whether they were a Juice box or a Juice pouch

[@h03strippin]

juice pouch all the way

[@windowcreeperbird9669]

That's a werid argument cuase doesn't all of the marketing call it a juice pouch?

[@pancakeswafflesplustoast]

What about koolaid pouches

[@Evoimations]

Why can't it be both?

[@cjsplace9565]

juice pouch

[@samstuff499]

My brother said one of the 3rd grade classes banned the word “stuff” because it was lazy. It was one of a few words in the “word graveyard” where lazy words were banished. You wouldn’t like go to detention, but the teachers dod seem a little annoyed.

[@ralexis5657]

In my old school we couldn’t say “thing”

[@Beanie26]

in my eight grade ela class we were not supposed to use traits like "good" "bad" "angry" ect. becasue they were not "strong descriptors"

[@rileylittleraven]

In middle school, we weren't allowed to use "stuff" in any kind of essay, paper, etc because it was considered lazy, but also uncultured/uneducated, or something to that effect. "Things" was where the bar was set for acceptable replacements. I don't think it extended to speaking aloud, unless it was something written first. Honestly, what was far more "uneducated" of them was thinking preteens should be given a taste of how the picking part of The Lottery by Shirley Jackson would feel like irl...the kid who got the black dot freaked out in terror, because of *course* he did.

[@liamtgreat]

But ur name

[@simmirros]

I had the same thing

[@Me_whenthe]

One of my teachers banned the word "true" in all of her classes because whenever anybody said anything the boys in the back would say true. It eventually evolved to the boys saying true to other boys trues, and the teacher got so fed up she banned the word and if anyone said it they had to run a lap of the oval.

[@weirdgenderfluidperson2269]

Wait. If the teacher banned the word "true", does that mean you guys didn't do "true or false" questions in that class?

[@Me_whenthe]

@@weirdgenderfluidperson2269 yeah, we did have true and false questions in class, but were never allowed to call out the answers for them 💀

[@TheTrueBrawler]

@@Me_whenthe I'm surprised she didn't rewrite exams to turn them into "False or Not False" questions.

[@elonmust6844]

Affirmativs

[@airraverstaz]

@@TheTrueBrawler Isn't that a double negative?

[@eyekandi]

My school told us the word “eyeball” was a bad word. We were in preschool. It is still funny looking back on it. I don’t know what they were thinking.

[@LeeM22]

I'm guessing they were thinking, "what if we got all these preschoolers to say 'eyeball' instead of something actually bad?"

[@rockhoggaming]

i thought u said my school said eyeball was a bad word... i was just like "what the actual fk are these teachers rarted???" until i read L M's reply causing me to reread ur comment. lmfao i guess im the one thats rarted

[@littletimelord2755]

@@rockhoggaming ya misspelled maximum intelligence… twice

[@itzsj7760]

@@littletimelord2755 you*

[@Jhu_-cz4nj]

@@itzsj7760 *youre’

[@ephraimiscool000]

One kid in my 6th grade math class would not stop randomly yelling the word ‘hamburger during class. Eventually they just banned the word entirely because of how annoying it was lol

[@digitalunity]

The only word related experience I recall is that two of my classmates were talking about getting hot flashes as in the medical concept, but our Spanish teacher must've had some pretty low views of all of us because her assumption was hot flashes as in seeing people expose themselves, and they're hot... That was a hell of thing to hear her freak out and then the two students were like "Yeah? What are you on?"

[@memez_r_life6692]

I read hot flashes and immediately assumed it was about post-PMS, not about people being provocative. Just how?

[@stage4-postawarenesslucidi963]

What is that?

[@memez_r_life6692]

@dsfasf I know, I was just saying that it's odd to immediately assume people had the horny when talking about hot flashes.

[@GuyFromJupiter]

"Did you just blow in from stupid town?"

[@theoldproject7394]

spanish chicks are very provacative during there 20s so those words would have meant something else for her entirely.

[@danifoxx7469]

One of our grade 8 French assignments was reading a children’s book about a clown named zozo. The class became so obsessed that everyday people would literally be chanting about zozo, anytime someone misbehaved they would blame it on the fictional zozo. They treated the poor teacher so terribly she pretty much did nothing the rest of the semester. The word zozo was banned in her class only when it was my specific class of students. She retired that year and me and a friend made her a zozo cake

[@SouthRails]

The alpha version of Bozo 💀

[@kystyldydog4190]

Reminds me of fuckin super lapíz from Spanish class

[@eilir_adron]

holy shit

[@frozerus]

the fact zozo is a demon is so funny

[@Zeke_R]

Wait a damn minute….. My nickname is zozo!

[@dragicmagic9870]

Not exactly the same thing, but in my school, our writing teacher had a list of "banned words" that she didn't want us to overuse in our writing. Words included "good," "great," "thing," "stuff," "nice," etc. It was funny because we tried to use those words as much as possible in casual conversation. My friend grabbed a bunch of pencils and said "these things are nice" and we thought it was the funniest thing

[@terrotorotbart8319]

Same. On our list was "fun, said, then (only use once!), scary" and one other... All year the teacher got us to behave by threatening to put "good" up there too.

[@raij465]

Banning overused and non-descriptive words in writing is good teaching. But in regular speech, it’s controlling.

[@terrotorotbart8319]

Yeah. Got to agree with you with that.

[@qwertyuiop.lkjhgfdsa]

@@raij465 no it isn't, if you actually want to be a writer then at the very least you shouldn't use fancy words to describe speech, it should come across in the speech itself

[@mozzfio]

great stuff, nice thinking

[@YourNeighbourhoodPreppy]

They banned the word Fortnite in my 4th grade class because kids would scream at each other saying “FORTNITE SUCKS” or “FORTNITE RULES” before class started

[@andreibaciu7518]

This is actually teaching kids a valueable lesson for when they grow up. Censorship is arbitrary and serves no purpose but to make the authority feel better about themselves.

[@anonymousfilipino3232]

exactly. it has just only now occured to me however that this happens not just on Twitter, or the internet in general, but in REAL LIFE too? so stupid and ridiculous. get this: the teachers spend more time focusing on trivial things like banning random words, to make themselves FEEL like they're doing something productive, instead of actually using that same time to ACTUALLY do something productive.

[@andreibaciu7518]

@@anonymousfilipino3232 yeah it's been happening irl since speech itself has been invented it's not new. The only sort of censorship that i understand is the commonly agreed kind. Like how we all agree not to say obscenities in public even though there's no written rule saying you shouldn't.

[@namelessnightingale8991]

Had us in the first half, not gonna lie

[@ForeverHobbit]

same kids that are promoting cancel culture on twitter? LOL they are part of the problem

[@alexandermaresov4257]

Not only. I've been a part of kids' sites as a kid, and I'm so glad swearwords were censored there.

[@echoesofcrows]

it's insane how so many schools do stuff like ban words and objects that are harmless to "deal with bullying" when they totally ignore ACTUAL bullying and threats... like yeah let's ban the word "croissant" but that senior punching that freshman is totally fine

[@kinorris1709]

The posters, don't forget the bullying posters. It's so important to have those posters up, despite them literally doing nothing to stop bullying.

[@Fuji086]

And _God_ _forbid_ the bullying victim stand up for themselves. They'll be treated _worse_ than the bully who'll get off scott free because their parents are the school's rich benefactors or something.

[@19TheFallen]

@@Fuji086 I remember turning around and decking this guy full on in the face in the middle of class one time......Prior to this, he and I rubbed off on each other wrong, and he used to bully me. Neither of us got in trouble, and nothing ever came of it, except for him coming to respect me after that, and wanting to be friends! The world works in mysterious ways.......

[@TrafficConeOrange]

@@19TheFallen At least he apologised, apologies work the best.

[@tubester358]

@@19TheFallen they do say men like to talk with their fists lol. Honestly, the only people I've ever fought in primary school were friends, and I haven't fought anyone since, now being a uni grad (maybe I should to make more friends)

[@jemcat5125]

My old science teacher said the phrase “coming across” SO MUCH. He said it so much that I counted 49 times in one hour. People started mimicking him till he banned it, and learned to stop staying that too.

[@dumbass5077]

Also funni 69 likes

[@Evanxbdlt]

Same thing with my old maths teacher who kept on saying "a certain number" and people also started mimicking her. Only difference is that the word never got banned

[@king_of_dairy_queen3416]

At least the teacher followed the rule instead of just making the students not allowed to say that when he is

[@squippites7356]

Theres a group of four girls in my physics class who say “girl-“ at each other constantly, i tallied about 26 “girl-“s in one class

[@cockichioumaigod2805]

My mom says "ok" a lot when teaching (most Malaysians do that tbh) but she got a whopping 57 ok's per hour 💀

[@Spirit_1.0]

My 4th grade teacher banned the word "gay" because 2/3 kids kept saying "1, 2, buckle my shoe, 3, 4, bucklsome more, 5, 6, nike kicks, 7, 8, ALFIE'S GAY!" And Alfie also said it, jokingly.

[@antagonizingprotagonist8721]

A friend of mine went to a school with a crazy long list of words you couldn't say. These included "poprocks" "Billy bum" "jomama" and "snickers." There were so many more, but when she graduated, she wrote a poem of all the words that were banned just to annoy the teachers.

[@DvirPick]

This is some George Carlin type shit.

[@doggiedock]

The Snickers one is kinda understandable

[@rubberduct2938]

@@doggiedock how?

[@gustavoazevedo1676]

@@rubberduct2938 I think it could be mistaken for the n-word

[@twitchypaper1391]

@@gustavoazevedo1676 so?

[@harptastic]

In middle school, my school’s library banned the word “chungus” because kids kept randomly shouting it. There were literal riots over this and some kids were sent out of the library for days

[@greenteaslug4676]

Is it wrong that I find this hilarious

[@Klabbity_Kloots]

@@greenteaslug4676 No.

[@acat5338]

Not a word, but my Jr. High banned backpacks. Yes, backpacks. Their reason was because quite a few kids kept multiple books in their bags and parents would complain that their bags were too heavy so they just outright banned backpacks. The reason why kids kept so many books in their bags was because they didn’t have time to go to their locker due to the time in-between classes only being 5 minutes. And in many cases if their locker was on the other side of the school, it was literally impossible to go grab their books before class without being late. So kids just started doing the same thing, but carried all their books in their hands instead. To this day over a decade later I still think 90% of adults are absolutely moronic. They actually thought that banning the solution would fix the problem.

[@ivycantthinkofaname4303]

my school banned backpacks as well because "people trip on them" .-.

[@savalioanananimus]

Lol

[@BoraHorzaGobuchul]

Come to think of it, in some other countries they have textbooks of reasonable size which can be humped in a backpack without incurring lasting injury. So many foreign schools don't even have lockers. When I was an exchange student in the US, I for some reason had problems with the rotating knob combination lock they had on lockers, so I didn't really use it and that wasn't great. Turned out most classes had "backup" textbooks for those who forgot to bring one so turned out I could use them instead of bringing mine. 5 min breaks between classes and 55 min long classes are unreasonable, too. Anyways, because of that in most our classes last 10-15 minutes of class were actually sort of free time. I ended up doing home assignments in that time so that I didn't have to do them at home.

[@ApolloMcrib]

Lol they didn't ban back packs for the reasons they told you. They didn't want you little shits shooting up your school bullies. This backpack ban started back in 1999 after Columbine.

[@gabrielsfilms2086]

omg same-

[@TMSandTDfan]

One kid yelled another kids home address in science

[@owl2587]

The boys in German class got “biscuit” banned because they would shout it at each other, in English, at random times in class. And this one, with good reason: I had a teacher whose last name was Daigel, and if the word bagel was even uttered in their classroom you had to bring them a bagel the next day or else it was a detention. Middle school was fun.

[@joeda900]

Alright that Daigel-Bagel stuff sounds hilarious

[@onesadtech]

That Daigel person is genius honestly, turned an annoyance into free bagels. 😂👌

[@lunanote-cassettemeower]

the second one is really funny since my dog is named Bagel, I would just bring in a picture of him to give to the teacher and say "there. a Bagel. ya happy?"

[@Just_A_Skrungly_Animator]

"Thy must bring Daigel a Bagel"

[@randomnessunlimited6265]

@Hi-tide gaming You don't?

[@Annamations3110]

Our school banned the word "Branden" cause it apparently influenced "lets go Branden" stuff, funniest part is, the kid named Branden started going by "Biden". It was so funny at the time (until they banned talking about politics)

[@agent_sus3273]

Banning a name? Sounds like they didn’t think that one through.

[@rob3rtbigtoegaming431]

@@agent_sus3273 agreed

[@beanmann000]

They could’ve just banned the phrase instead?

[@AlexRodriguez0407]

It's like the universe bends around that kid just so no one can say his name

[@applesplashwarriorcats8339]

What did people call him after Biden? lol

[@Klabbity_Kloots]

The school computers banned the word "proxy" as a search term to the point of not being able to search it up on Google Dictionary. This made it quite difficult when we were learning about proxy wars in history class.

[@floppavevo5920]

Why did they ban it? That's an incredibly odd thing to ban.

[@vladnuke]

@@floppavevo5920 back before smartphones came preloaded with 1000000+ games to play, kids would use crappy free proxy sites to override the school’s banned website list to go on flash game websites instead of doing whatever they were supposed to do in the computer room

[@jasonstarrising]

@@vladnuke I still do that

[@michaelturk7237]

@@vladnuke 'Memba hopping onto also-ran Flash sites because they always banned Miniclip and Kongregate? I 'memba.

[@theairisamagician830]

@@michaelturk7237 remembet vs memba which is better

[@acelynn4166]

My middle school banned the word "Monkey".... It was because they finally figured out what term the word was used for. Didn't stop people from saying it by "accident" then acting like they forgot it was banned in a joking manner

[@joshuaquinones9760]

Remember when Monkeys were animals and not an unfunny comedy word?

[@NotCCR]

Gorilla: 😏

[@peppermintpilk]

My school’s mascot was a tiger, and yet tigers were banned from being looked up on the internet for wallpapers on our chromebooks! Heck, our OWN BAND’S WEBSITE was banned! Those were strange times

[@princesspixel3151]

Then how are you supposed to support your school spirit?! That’s just plain stupid… no, scratch that. That’s ADVANCED STUPIDITY

[@secondBAR]

The Tony the Tiger porn was too much for the school to handle

[@girlbuu9403]

@@secondBAR "None of you are free of sin" ~Tony the Tiger, 2014

[@FlurryPie0]

@@girlbuu9403 Lol

[@woobgamer5210]

reminds me how for the NVQ Music Practioners grading, our teacher uploaded videos onto KZbin of our performances KZbin was a blocked site on the school's network until my last year of secondary, preventing us from even looking at our performances on school computers

[@cefirodewinter9086]

My school did not ban any words that I recall, but since they started banning bringing any toys or stuff to the recesses I decided to make paper airplanes, obviously having nothing better to do everyone started doing the same, but somehow the school became so allergic to kids having fun in their free time that they banned them as well

[@WarTie]

Well frick your school then

[@lavenderotaku2481]

Then why even have recess?? Like if you don’t want your children being “distracted” during free time then just cut out the middle man. If the airplanes or toys were a distraction outside of recess I can see why this might have been done, but good lord that sounds awful.

[@kiplingwasafurry1108]

Something similar happened when my 6th grade math teacher banned origami in her class which went to the point of ripping up a kids paper crane in front of his face. But she didn’t know that the reason why origami cranes were so widespread is because the English classes were reading a book about a Japanese girl who was dying of cancer and to cope with it she made origami cranes, and they other teachers were encouraging their students to make them too.

[@TheBiggestMoronYouKnow]

adults hating fun....what great teachers 🙄

[@joeda900]

Literally 1984

[@Quikily]

I got banned from saying “plagiarism” in a class because the teacher was actively copying his lectures from Wikipedia while we were doing assignments.

[@WarhawkTalon]

Depending on how good the principal/school board was, this could have gotten interesting if you had kept saying it. How would he punish you without his plagiarism becoming known to his superiors?

[@clown2657]

Did u tell the principal

[@FamusJamus]

Would've been funny if he used a vandalised Wikipedia article by mistake. Now I think about it, vandalised Wikipedia articles should make for a good video.

[@gamingwithpinkster640]

Changing the math curriculum so 21 is never an answer is wild

[@ShinyPM]

The word "moist" was banned at my school because it made two of the staff members mildly uncomfortable. A few months later they banned the word "dank" because of one of it's definitions was basically just moist

[@minignoux4566]

dank critikal

[@autumn_sunday]

I mean, just listen to the word. It sounds like if the sound "Squish" was worse.

[@tomcorteil]

Now how are we going to talk about Dankpods in class

[@noamsoleil2610]

@@minignoux4566 how does it translate to "thank you"???

[@minignoux4566]

@@noamsoleil2610 wat

[@deathsythelui]

There's a great underlying truth here about censorship: rarely is it done to actually benefit the oppressed or marginalized, but is instead utilized by those in power to silence things they find bothersome and/or simply don't wish to understand.

[@pajamas720]

Ahh yes. Just dont let the media or twitter hear it or they'll be "cancelling" you to the end of time

[@diegoxavier9107]

I mean, if I was an underpaid, underappreciated social worker who had to drill mathematic formulas into a group of pubescent children who screeched the word "legume" every couple minutes, I'd want to make them shut up, too

[@christiancinnabars1402]

Diego Xavier "underappreciated" I, too, go to work every day so I could be appreciated by everyone around me. And if I don't get my fix, then I _immediately_ go and take out my anger on children. 100%.

[@ultimateninjaboi]

@@christiancinnabars1402 i dont think you understand what "underappreciated," means in this context...

[@Spartan322]

​@@ultimateninjaboi Nobody deserves to be appreciated for a job, that's not the point of a job, if you want appreciation, don't work for money, especially in regards to children. As an aside why the hell does anyone expect children, most especially young boys, to not be intentionally annoying, us men are especially well designed for this purpose, its a biological necessity made worse by the lack of activity in the classroom.

[@thewatcher9237]

'Roasted' was also banned in my school, causing people to switch to 'Sautéed', 'Stewed' and other cooking related words. Very fun times.

[@UltraVioletLite]

"Bro just got cooked" "Aboslutely boiled"

[@pillowmint4622]

that actually makes it funnier since the term "roasted" is a bit overused, so I'mma give this one to the teachers.

[@TheRealSuperKirby]

@@UltraVioletLite totally grilled.

[@d.zzycosmos]

@@TheRealSuperKirby completely stir-fried.

[@me-dc8pj]

I'm just imagining some random 11 year old going "omg bro you just got SAUTÉED" and it's the funniest thing ever

[@i.strawberi]

my school didn't ban words, they banned bringing water to PE.. WHAT???

[@NotCCR]

just bring pepsi

[@i.strawberi]

@@NotCCR good idea

[@lllllllllllllllllllllllllIllI]

Coconut wa-.. Inner fluids? While I don't know if it's true, supposedly pepsi ain't that much hydrating, while coconut liquids I know are more hydrating than water

[@NotCCR]

@@lllllllllllllllllllllllllIllI 🤓

[@NotCCR]

@@i.strawberi Dont listen to the nerd below your reply.

[@weepingkoopa2862]

My teacher banned the word "Sorry" cause she thought people were using it as an excuse to get away with stuff. That rule only lasted one semester. I think it's cause we all this one girl who was very prone to apologizing started saying, "Sorry. I mean not sorry"

[@weepingkoopa2862]

Also, this same teacher forbade corrections after I corrected this one kid when he confused canopy(top layer of a forest) with Caterpie from Pokemon.

[@SpaceWafflerYT]

"oops fuck you"

[@cash_182]

worse than mines💀

[@palmberry5576]

@@weepingkoopa2862what grade was this lmao

[@wypmangames]

@@weepingkoopa2862 this is something you can and should by all means use against the teacher when he/she tries to correct anyone on anything

[@astralspeck838]

My social studies/band teacher was banned from saying the word “door” because we where talking about philosophy and he used an analogy that in his words “broke some brains”. A group of student wrote up a contract and had him sign it.Literally the best teacher I’ve ever had

[@TheMaxGuy]

for some reason i connected this story to wayside school where they banned the word door and had to say goozack instead

[@lunathedumpsterfire]

@@TheMaxGuy THATS WHAT I WAS THINKING-

[@MortalAnonymous]

@@TheMaxGuy OMG same! If it were my school, I totally would have done that too. Wayside crew unite!

[@Tht1lemon]

@Max Plays *"GOOZACK HANDLE GOOZACK BATHROOM GOOZACK FRONT GOOZACK BACK GOOZACK TRAIN GOOZACK"* The list goes on

[@Tht1lemon]

Oops I put some in the wrong order^^^^^^^^^^

[@thebudgieadmiral5140]

My elementaty school german (native language) teacher banned the use of the words "and" and "then" during our class story time sessions. She reasoned that these words were poor form in sentence transitions, and she wanted us to use more creative words like "thereafter". We'd even get punishment if we used them too much. This rule lasted the entire year.

[@scarlettboggs3193]

Your teacher essentially banned good grammar and understandable sentences.

[@yigitylmaz3609]

My middle school science teacher also banned the word "thing" because of the same reason. It is literally a joker word for my native language which you can use it for every noun you don't remember at the moment. When we talk to him if we say that word he just simply ignores us saying "not thing!"

[@loserletty]

Sort of similar, our teacher said we could only use commas twice, and the word "and" once in our writing times, no matter how long our writing was for the whole year.. we didn't get punished, but it was *frustrating* edit: but it was helpful to get more words in our vocabulary.

[@jessirocks-yd2eo]

one of my elementary school teachers used to fail our written assignments if we used the word "said". I think she wanted us to use a variety of descriptors, but all this did was have every student use the wrong words to describe speech because we had to keep thinking of new ones after she added the rule that we can't use any descriptor more than twice

[@Kattyedits422]

My teacher in year 4 banned the word "said" while writing. She wanted us to use more creative words instead

[@pinkiepieisliterallyme]

in 5th grade my teacher banned the words “bean sway” because it sounds like the Chinese words for “shut up” which everyone kept saying 💀

[@gudmansal3468]

it barely sounds like it

[@Boccpikmin456]

I remember my Greek school teacher banned the use of “what the hell” and her reasoning was “do you know who you bring into the conversation when you say that?” And so one kid started saying “what the heaven bro”

[@ShadowNinetales]

I can just imagine the teacher saying that and some atheist kid not having a clue what she means and looking over at a classmate like "...You mean Helen?" I just say that because in primary school I had zero religious background and had absolutely no idea who all these songs we had to sing in assembly were about, or why some old lady got angry that I didn't feel like joining in and just sat there. In hindsight it's kinda wild that all the kids were expected to be part of this regardless of their background or knowing anything at all about the context of it, I'm only 25 but I'd imagine they've had to start rethinking this policy by now. I don't know his religious identity for sure but I had one classmate whose last name was literally Islam, it's entirely possible he wasn't crazy about having to sing Christian hymns in assembly either (my friend Kelsey McDonald called him Tariq Is Ham for a joke and he retaliated with jokes about McDonald's restaurant, because we were kids with zero background knowledge about these things)

[@thebackyardbugs]

In preschool I got in trouble for saying “hey!” after some kid slapped me, and in kindergarten people had an argument about whether the word “stupid” was a bad word or not and I think they ended up banning the word for the rest of the year

[@livelybubbs6242]

Did the kid that slapped you get in trouble?

[@bbaugher2419]

@@livelybubbs6242 probably not, given how shitty most schools are about punishing the victim for reacting, rather than punishing the bully for attacking 😩

[@user-BadUsername]

@@bbaugher2419 I got punished and sent to ISS bc I was “upset” in sixth grade after some kid broke my arm and I was being bullied that year, and no that kid did not get punished for breaking my left arm in front of the math teacher

[@bbaugher2419]

@@user-BadUsername reading that makes me so mad on your behalf 👿

[@retrodarktrooper6372]

@@user-BadUsername I assume he was a ni- Okay but seriously, ONLY minority kids get away with this shit, at least around here, because faculty don't want to appear 'racist' and would rather just overlook CLEAR INFRACTIONS

[@Matth3w-wil]

in elementary school the phrase “its eleven twenty one!!!” got banned in a specific period, i think it was for science class. The reason for this being was because the side teacher of the class saw that nobody was really paying attention to the lesson on the screen so instead of saying a threat of how we will fail or just letting us not pay attention. She instead got everyones attention by eventually making up the phrase “its eleven twenty one!!!” out of nowhere while teaching the lesson but she said it in a goofy way. Eventually that phrase became repeated a-lot in the goofy way of course but it was overused and eventually the teachers got tired of it so they banned it and if you were caught saying it you would lose “class cash”. class cash wasn’t just some way to say “I’m a very good kid and most likely a nerd” no this stuff was used to get small rewards in classrooms, homework passes, school event admittance fees, and also on every Friday if your last class was over you could pay a fee of class cash and enjoy the rest of the 10-25 minutes before dismissal doing free-time activities but if you didn’t have the class cash then those minutes before dismissal were made to feel like prison. You couldn’t talk, draw, read or do anything that would be a fun past time, instead you were forced to do homework or if you already finished it then you had to “study” which absolutely nobody did because who tf is actively studying for such easy classes. Anyways back to earlier though. I said the banned phrase one time in the class and there was a substitute teacher in there who was familiar with the banned phrase so when she heard me she fined me for 200 class cash!!!!! I didn’t say it because i was still on that stupid joke, i said it because it was the actual time and some kid asked me what time it was and i tried to plead with her “miss look it really is 11:21” but she wasn’t having it. I was devastated, with that much of a fine i would go broke and in debt, i wouldn’t be able to buy class snacks or participate in special events and id also end up no longer being able to have fun Fridays because i would be in prison until i could make up my debt and prove i was a good person. Though i had luck on my side because that substitute teacher wasn’t just there for a day, she was there for most of the year because the real science teacher broke her hip a while ago. You may be wondering where the good part comes in and well on a after school day in my cool english teachers class room i ended up talking about my fine and it seemed i wasn’t the only person who got absurdly fined by that substitute teacher, other people did too and talked about the reasons they got fined and with that the English teacher had heard enough and because the substitute wasn’t there for after school the english teacher went into the science room for herself and saw how many people got fined with absurd amounts of money so she took the bin of class cash and gave everyone there their amount of fined money so us kids could pay off the fines. Ima be honest that day the English teacher stopped that madness i felt like i just robbed a bank or something when i got that cash. That teacher was very cool but in terms of the substitute you still are a “upside down pear” as the kids would call you behind your back.

[@choppership465]

chad english teacher

[@achoo3001]

@@DS-18 worth the read imo

[@Seven-8]

@@DS-18 TL;DR Balls

[@STB4G]

​@@DS-18 TL;DR Teacher banned a time theres a currency in school they said that it was that time when it was actually that time she fined them for school money and put in detention a lot of people were fined and in detention during detention, the english teacher entered and gave the money back to everyone and they all lived happily ever after except the teacher that fined the whole class

[@foxtrapandendo7541]

this has to become a movie

[@JohnShamir]

At my elementary school, 3rd grade, we got banned for saying croissant, why? Because kids pressed the moon button on your computer and it would turn off, and they claimed it looked like a croissant, so me and my friends made fun of it.

[@Aviedya]

They never banned the word, but my old history teacher would always use the phrase “playing chess” instead of “having sex” when referring to what people in history would do with their concubines, or anything involving sex really. Just whole rooms of women wanting to play chess. Needless to say, those who were in the chess club were suddenly made fun of quite a lot. (Mind you this was not in America, and we did not have any after school clubs, there was just a chess club for people interested in that. Before this, being in the chess club was seen as a cool thing because you had to be good at math.)

[@lilacmoon6]

Oh my god. My high school history teacher would do the same thing with the phrase “playing checkers”

[@Aviedya]

@@lilacmoon6 lmao oh no! Mine was at least in the ~3rd or 4th year of school so we were super young still

[@huguesdepayens807]

18 naked cowboys wanting to play chess at Ram Ramch. 18 naked cowboys on their knees wanting to play chess.

[@elmerthiendoesgames9061]

Now I'm imagining a biology teacher doing this.

[@JoshDoes]

Don't have to be good at math for chess? What?

[@AdmiralKarlDonuts]

My elementary school English teacher banned the word "kill". Since we can no longer use it in essays, we boys began to use more creative and gruesome ways to describe the action until she banned this too.

[@ellisdee5304]

Hey, my school once banned kilometer, because some kid kept drawing "Kill-O-Meters" on his tests in Math Masters.

[@mr.jitterspam9552]

@@ellisdee5304 epic shit

[@ellisdee5304]

@@mr.jitterspam9552 we banned the metric system, take that Europe!

[@YooranKujara]

She slaughtered the word

[@eyesofthecervino3366]

Did Casual Geographic go to your school?

[@rusty_shower_head5123]

My school in 6th grade Banned the word " tree. " Why? We had an entire fledged cult consisting of 5,6,7, and eighth graders Practically sitting in two specific trees: most of there bark was skinned off, so Bassically they looked like red irritated flesh: even it's sap was red. The teachers got too tired of people chanting " blood tree "

[@EEEEEEEEmmy]

BLOOD TREE 🩸🌲

[@PlagueMoo]

Blood tree lol

[@The_Artist_Official]

BLOOOOOD TREEEEEEEEE

[@mickipou]

BLOOOD TREEE

[@TerrariaTree]

:(

[@DefNotEnder]

I did have a dream where my school banned XDDCC. I am homeschooled and XDDCC was an option for Pomni’s name in TADC it didn’t mean anything

[@Anotherdawgthatiscrispy]

Reminds me of that one dream where there was a limit to listen to a specific song because that song was controversial. Vicetone - Nevada in the cover art of Cash Cash - overtime if you are curious.

[@josephschubert6561]

I like how most of the reasons for banning the words were because students were being disruptive with them. So instead of punishing the children for obnoxious behavior, you just make them be obnoxious with a different word.

[@SuperJman1111]

A dfferent, and probably more annoying word

[@typicallyusual6984]

Or alternatively, just suck it up and deal with it like a grownup because kids are always going to find ways to be obnoxious. (As long as it isn’t bullying another kid ofc. Banning toast because it made that girl cry is the only one among these that was acceptable.)

[@kenshiro1719]

@@typicallyusual6984 SUcK It UP oh boy I wish you never become a parent

[@rachelowens4871]

Squid game to tentacle activities, pain

[@angelzz.wings0]

my high-school recently banned the word "orange" because a fight broke out two weeks prior to this weird word ban decision and people legit started throwing oranges they found in the dining hall. And from then on whenever someone said the word orange the teachers looked like they were having Vietnam War flashbacks. They even changed the school menu to no longer serve oranges.

[@aleeshagilbert1009]

Wow. That is fantastic. I’d put stickers with the word orange all around school if I had the chance.

[@Earth2McKay]

Pathetic

[@savalioanananimus]

Bruh

[@BoraHorzaGobuchul]

@@aleeshagilbert1009 many schools have video surveillance nowadays. Good to counter thefts and bullying, bad for the free spirit though.

[@lunarsystem]

vitamin war flashbacks

[@SeerIncYT]

i did an art club with some guy who had an obsession with pointing out everything around him was flammable. the word "bomb" was banned in three weeks- the final straw was him telling us about how to make a bomb out of bananas update: we're still very good friends. he was actually the coolest person in that club tbh.

[@beek.4860]

So, how DO you make a bomb out of bananas?

[@SeerIncYT]

@@beek.4860 something to do with the potassium being reactive? he never really got to finish unfortunately, but he has various other methods of making bombs with everyday items for an affordable price

[@lagsov5102]

I feel like everyone has the demolitions expert friend

[@iamgod4174]

​@@SeerIncYT nah but why did he wanna make bombs

[@SeerIncYT]

@@iamgod4174 science is his speciality and honestly i think he just wanted to tell everyone cool science facts with a 5 minute craft twist

[@letmelivelifeinpeace]

In my school, since some kid cried when we said "skibidi" to him, if u say the word at all, you get a 30 minute detention, people ended up saying it to him more after that. Bullshit if you ask me.

[@NxxtLife]

Heheheheeee

[@NotCCR]

Just say "ski bidet" what could go wrong

[@drake4138]

This brings me back, not a word, but in middle school we managed to get every playground game imaginable banned, from football to damn tag. At one point the teachers banned jump ropes because two people would hold them up and we would all line up and see how high we could jump. Got to the point where we were hurling ourselves face first over the rope before they were taken away. In a brilliant display of disregard for authority, we just picked up one of my friends at both ends and jumped over him. Now THAT got us is a ton of trouble.

[@FleshPanopticon.]

May I ask why they banned every game?

[@Jaded8insomnyac]

You picked up your friend like they were a log of friking wood!?

[@iwantabigpiece]

Must be a lanky friend

[@konnerredtwitch]

What if that school banned friends🤣💀

[@iateyourfather92]

I wish my school banned football in 3rd grade. Whenever we went outside the players got the ball and ran and kicked kids out of the playground constantly fight and everybody got hurt. I remember the boys harassing the girls not letting them pass so they can go to the bathroom. They never banned football, it kept going until the end. They were so obsessed with football that when a teacher asked a girl to hold a ball the leader (biggest jerk) shouted “she’s a girl how will she hold the ball?!” I had no nerves anymore so I said “shut the f- up and stop acting like a gangster, if you came face to face with someone to fight you would faint”

[@Post_Stall_Maneuver]

In my 7th grade math class, the words "easy" and "hard" were banned. The teacher said it was judgemental to others who didn't have the same math mastery as you. Best part is that every time someone said the word, we'd jokingly get all worked up about it, even if the teacher said it on accident. She never punished anyone though, she just reminded the person who said the word not to say it.

[@christinasophiapaterno9022]

She sounds less like she wants censorship and more like she is affected by what some students have said to students who weren’t as apt in math. She doesn’t sound too bad.

[@730KCool]

i remember in 4th grade we couldnt say easy for the same reason so we had to say something along the lines of easy in my opinion

[@zombieslayer1468]

"difficult" "trivial"

[@fantasticgood5403]

They didn't ban the word "Medium" tho, You should've taken advantage of that

[@HarvestHaunter]

We were always supposed to say “doable” instead of easy.

[@TheRealNathMath]

My old school once banned the word “cheesy chips”: one particular person was obsessed with the word. Instead, we had to say “sliced potato covered in certain dairy product”

[@sophiaredwood5825]

BAHAHAHA this is so extra and I love it

[@mydearestthomas8594]

ah I love my sliced potato covered in certain dairy product

[@theunderstatement6842]

@@mydearestthomas8594 i like sliced dairy covered in certain potato product

[@Saddsol]

@@theunderstatement6842 You sir terrify me

[@ayoutubecommenter7494]

That's rather hilarious asf 😂 I would learn and chant it

[@butterslimevideosxd403]

My school banned the word carrot because they thought it was a code for something

[@CCABPSacsach]

One day, there will be a friend group that would randomly yell the word “the” in class, then when the teacher tries to ban it, they find they can’t ban the most common word in the English language.

[@jo4337]

The shock on her face

[@ChaosRat5]

@@jo4337no that word is banned you can’t say the most common English word

[@raditudesydney]

@@ChaosRat5 you just say ye bannned word 💀💀💀

[@savalioanananimus]

Lol thethethethethethethe

[@BoraHorzaGobuchul]

You could imagine you come from country where native language has no articles and speak English language without using them. It is like writing without using vowels, at times incnvnnt, bt stll rcgnzbl nd wrks fn.

[@dumdumdoogon1896]

A kid at my school got screamed at for saying the word “rage”. She was laughing while being yelled at by the teacher

[@shadowcatgamer2521]

She brought out the rage in her teacher and then laughed at her work. The absolute power.

[@echomikoart]

She's fucking metal! I bet she earned an achievement for that.

[@thedudeatthesea5727]

this kid is gonna go places

[@hollyhayes9640]

*The English dictionary doesn't like this comment.* (😂)

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

The irony

[@thedieselman5968]

When I was in middle school, the word “boot” was banned. Reason? One of our teachers thought it was related to someone having a foot fetish. In context it was an inside joke we made when anyone was saying goodbye.

[@NotNaudiz]

Sounds like that teacher was doing some hardcore projection.

[@A_Buster9693]

should've just changed it to shoe or anything related to boots

[@uponeric36]

@@NotNaudiz Honestly hella creepy they would even ban a word for supposedly "relating to a fetish" like what coming to their mind when a middle schooler says "boot?"🤢

[@christiancinnabars1402]

hexRelay Schools banning ponytails type of energy right there.

[@chloesibilla8199]

She's the one with a dirty mind

[@aditya_aquarius]

My 6th grade tech banned the word “like” because she wanted us to stop saying it 500x in every sentence

[@josiahkruse1180]

When I was in school our Chemistry teacher thought it'd be hilarious to have the word "pencil" banned and asked us all to help get it banned. Our entire 7th period tried to get it banned. Eventually toward the end of the year we succeded and now my old Middle School says "writing utensil" or "pen". God Bless you Mr.Widmeier.

[@voidbite]

thats actually hilarious

[@theskiypdee]

Based chemistry teacher

[@UltraVioletLite]

Writing U-Pen-Sil

[@mayamaya6182]

@@UltraVioletLite I want one of the kids to say this and when the teacher asks what they just said, just say "i said writing utensil, wyd 🤨"

[@ZAC_GEO]

Next time try to get them to ban the word "the" since its the most common word in the english language

[@beezleboss2099]

I remember when we had a new maths teacher. She didnt know our names, so we had to handcraft paper nameplates in the shape of a triangular prism. Because they always looked like Toblerone, my friend wrote "Toblerone" on it instead of his actual name, so when the Teacher asked him for it, he always responded "Toblerone". Later that day, when she called his actual name, he always corrected it to "Toblerone", resulting in her getting so pissed off, that she banned the word for our class, threatening everyone with two ours of detention when ever using it again. At the end of the year, one of our classmates left the school, and some other teachers had bought her a goodbye present. It was at exactly that moment, when the maths teacher showed up. You cannot imagine the way her smile faded as she saw that it was a fucking Toblerone.

[@FiSH-iSH]

masterfully trolled

[@Toaster0]

I feel kinda bad for her but cmon bro, banning a literal chocolate..???

[@totallynotaferret]

I fucking hate her

[@avert_bs]

That's so stupid that it's beautiful

[@sophiaredwood5825]

BAHAHAHA THATS SO PERFECT

[@starspices]

My old middle school didn’t outright ban any words, but it DID almost ban clapping. Kids kept randomly clapping for some strange reason during lunch and when the principal interrupted lunch one day to address it, the same exact kids clapped so loudly that he had to grab the counselor’s lunch monitor microphone

[@DREAMREAL69]

My school only banned the word “Momo” and “Baldi” (the creepypasta and the game)

[@auroraackley227]

The word "bites" was banned in my school. As in the phrase: "This bites!" The meaning for it in the case, for those who dont know, was basically a kid replacement for the phrase: "This sucks!" Which we were also not allowed to say. Saud "This bites!" in class anyway as I didn't care and when I got reprimanded for it I snapped around and blurted out "This fucking sucks! There you like that better?" Because the teachers reaction was as if I swore when I hadn't so I figured I might as well swear so I earned that reprimand. The teacher didn't much like it but people could use swear replacements again after that so win win. Oh I didn't get into much trouble except for a lunch detention as if they had called my mother for that they would have either just been laughed at or she would have torn them a new one for calling her over something so stupid.

[@ShadowNinetales]

Haha nice one, taking a bite out of those stupid rules. When people treat swear substitutes as if it's the same as the swear, they are missing the point so badly. Adults might know what it's a replacement for, but some kids won't know, and it's literally there to prevent them from saying the more vulgar version. People gotta say something when they get frustrated, after all! Side note, 'sucks' gets said in so many G-rated shows now that any connotation of 'sucking' something vulgar seems to have been lost, at least to some people. There were moments in school where me and my friends would get told off for saying something we genuinely had no perception of being a 'rude word' (that sucks, we're screwed, etc). Language is always evolving I guess.

[@auroraackley227]

@@ShadowNinetales Oh so true!

[@ACoolDonke_TheAbsoluteReal]

Lmao! I wish I had the guts to do that

[@GuitarRocker2008]

Was your school the school from Recess?

[@auroraackley227]

@@GuitarRocker2008 lol I know right? Thats why I hated that show it was to damn relatable!

[@UndiagnosedGarbage]

My Highschool banned the word "Golf Cart" because everyone joked that's where the entire school budget went into since the staff used them to ride around in. There was an entire storage room full of them and even more they brought after a fundraiser, so it only solidified the belief.

[@chloesibilla8199]

Wow , that's corrupt as hell

[@lavenderotaku2481]

Ah yes let’s raise money for the *school* to improve our *school* so it can be a better *school* for our students and faculty. Hm. Wonder how that went. Edit: Wait isn’t that kind illegal? Like couldn’t the parents or whoever have sued because their money from the “fundraiser” wasn’t being used to improve facilities for the students?

[@UndiagnosedGarbage]

@@lavenderotaku2481 They fixed up like a few things. Like for examples repainting a building or something here and there and would say that's what the money went too. Anyone who questioned it got ignored. Friend group did the math though, we knew they were lying but not much we can do or prove.

[@lavenderotaku2481]

@@UndiagnosedGarbage Huh that sucks. Sorry about that, funny that you all did the math though.

[@ZAC_GEO]

Tbh that probably is where most of the budget went so maybe its not that they didnt like the joke they just didnt like being called out like that

[@zoyadulzura7490]

These are hilarious. Adults tend to overreact to kid behaviors sometimes, though (and underreact to the ones that really matter). Trends die. If an adult makes a fuss over kids using a word too much, it'll just make the kids want to use it more, and as these stories show, kids will find a way to use the word without actually using it. If the teacher just ignores stuff like this (as long as no individuals are actually getting targeted and it's not otherwise exclusionary, like racist language), kids'll get bored and it'll just dissipate on its own.

[@meatball7669]

True. Although, some of the teachers were justified in banning words because they were actually being used disruptive and annoying ways.

[@Blwbelle]

Yeah other schools banning this shit meanwhile students are aloud to just call people n**as and f*gs all the time..

[@nightmarekitsune1473]

my sister got sexually assaulted several times, basically a bunch a guys went, "she's got a fat ass, i gotta touch it" and boom, she got threatened by an ex friend of hers, who proceeded to spread rumors about her all over the school, (if anything, my SISTER should've been the one spreading rumors cuz of all the crap that girl and her family have put her through,) while my school banned the word monkey ._.

[@FPOTUSOBAMA]

Too true

[@jinxtanjams3619]

Those same adults will berate the current generation for being "too sensitive"

[@AidanMacdonald-nl7fl]

I love how you pronounce the stupid random collections of letters perfectly! 😂

[@JankPods0201]

Same.

[@HermioneGranger-yq6he]

My cousin told me his school banned the words "Morbius" and "Morbin" because 90% of the school would either say "It's morbin' time" or anything related to Morbius with that word in the sentence. Let's just say, so many people used the word anyway that the teachers ultimately gave up after a week and a half.

[@LoganBakerBL]

Say Mobius instead

[@Qaptyl]

⁠@@LoganBakerBLno. do not comply with unjust laws.

[@snowy_the_wolf]

69 likes, nice! istg tho if someone likes the original comment imma be pissed

[@crypticlol]

They didn't morb :(

[@salamantics]

@@Qaptylschool isn’t a government, these are rules not laws.

[@SovietMemes]

In 2018, my school I went to had some ridiculous rules including banning going to the bathroom at all at one point. But when it came to words (remind you these are teenagers) they banned not only swear words, but "replacement words" spanning from frick and fudge down to heck and gosh. I remember in the class of a teacher who I literally heard say stuff like Hell and Goddamnit sent me to the office for saying "Gosh". Needless to say I left that school before the year ended. (Also Fortnite was banned and they banned the replacement word "Fork Knife" as well and I even got in school suspension for saying it 💀)

[@TheHibbyAo]

Good choice

[@Ascension721]

The bathroom thing is very common in the uk

[@inkylynx2777]

Just so you know, those "replacement words" are called minced oaths! Goshdangit to heck is a minced oath of goddamn it to hell!

[@SovietMemes]

@@Ascension721 in the US that's actually against the law I'm still surprised that the school is around

[@ausername7470]

If you lived in the US you could've pulled a power move like I did and brought a lawsuit against them and only drop it if they publicly apologized and admitted they were too strict. I was dubbed The Bathroom Warrior after that, so glad I eventually dropped out and just got my GED. They cared more about etiquette and absolute obedience then actual education.

[@rachelradloff4079]

In my elementary school, they tried to ban the word "Bow". This was purely due to the cult-like religion I had created in kindergarten which surrounded the Rainbow god Bow. We just started saying stuff like Lord of Colors, Sky Lord, The Bright One, etcetera... Parents became concerned about that and the fact that kids got punished for mentioning hair bows as well. The ban didn't last long and we were soon back to chanting in circles on the playground -- much to my teachers dismay.

[@fishyflop1893]

It wasn't banned but this reminds me of the time I brought a sign language book to school. My friends and I were looking through it and found hamburger. So we would just walk around and just sign chant hamburger. Basically, it's just cupping your hands slightly. putting them together like if you were grabbing someone's hand, and flipping it back and forth. It was great and we still do it sometimes.

[@rachelradloff4079]

@@fishyflop1893 Cool! I’m partially deaf, so I totally get the fun of signing at school. Lol. I used to use sign to insult people when they were rude to me, but I also tend to sign while I speak sometimes. One time, I was told to stop making gang signs by my teacher. I told her it was sign language, and she said I shouldn’t use it at school. I responded by saying, “It’s a language that is part of Deaf culture. If you have a problem with students speaking in different languages, then you take it up with every bilingual family in this school.” I went to the principal for it, but it was worth it. My parents came in with a representative from the state that specialized in assisting students with disabilities. The school didn’t bother me about it again.

[@nope.thankies]

"I've been involved in a number of cults both- as a leader and a follower. You have more fun as a follower.. but you make more money as a leader."

[@geraldjoeexploring8595]

laudate dominum et saluatorem nostrum

[@geraldjoeexploring8595]

@@nope.thankies "but you make more money as a leader." wait you make money off of it, also, no blood donations?

[@Just_Cosmo_And_Sprout]

If the word “Macarena” gets banned at your school.. don’t worry you can say macaroni

[@ringcat69]

I remember the word "savage" got banned from my elementary school because it basically became a social status where kids would do delinquent things to rack up "savage points" (one kid stole a bunch of markers for like 20 savage points) and the school decided to ban every mention of it. It didn't really work though as my elementary kids were monsters...

[@greenteaslug4676]

SAVAGE POINTS 😭😭😭😭

[@achoo3001]

lmaoo i wanna hear more stories about this

[@zoyadulzura7490]

I'd imagine that banning a word would just rile the kids up more. Clearly, using the word "savage" wasn't the main problem.

[@AlexRodriguez0407]

I just imagine a leaderboard of who has the most savage points and kids on the constant grind to be the number one

[@lua2wood]

@@AlexRodriguez0407 sigma savage point grindset

[@jammersdescotch]

My elementary school banned "valentine" because it was "too early to start romantic relationships." We got a laugh out of them making us say "Friendship Day."

[@scottishcheese13]

Lmao, that is some next level THX 1138/Equilibrium type shit

[@Aimi_Kaneko]

People do realize that Valentine’s Day isn’t just about romantic relationships right???

[@jonesblack1742]

@@Aimi_Kaneko tf are you talking about? what else is it about?

[@Aimi_Kaneko]

@@jonesblack1742 All kinds of love. Romantic love, familial love, intimate love, platonic love. Stuff like that. It’s not completely about romance in my opinion

[@jonesblack1742]

@@Aimi_Kaneko your opinion does not have any relevance. Valentines day is very clearly about romantic love solely

[@liamjohnson4287]

In my middle school, they banned the phrase "goofy ahh", and every time someone said it, they took them outside and made them hug 10 trees. One time someone was allergic to the caterpillars on them, and went to the hospital.

[@yorktheporkcrafter3221]

goofy ahh bozos

[@ClassikSprites]

This is what we like to call "bad management", like, you should check if the student is allergic to anything relating to nature like, pollen, bugs, etc.

[@robloxfunni8542]

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[@Mooved096]

Imagine going to the hospital just because you said “goofy ahh”

[@zabunga]

@@robloxfunni8542 I think it's a more "gentle" way of saying goofy ass

[@_m1ch43l_4ft0n_]

We got banned from saying burger king because 1 period kept singing the theme song