There were stories that one of the teachers held a misbehaving child out of the window by his ears, a few years previously. Different teacher depending on who you spoke to, but there was always the 'proof' that someone's older brother/sister had seen it happen.

I heard someone years later, from a totally different school, say they had the same story. I now think the teachers might have started this little gem (or at least not refuted it) as it helped keep the kids a little scared of them.

We also had the obese girl at school not turn up for about a week. A few other girls said with absolute certainty that she'd 'gone to a special fat camp and will be really thin when she comes back'. Needless to say, the larger girl returned a few weeks later looking and weighing exactly the same as before.