“We never saw him until graduation in the summer.

He spent the rest of the school year being homeschooled.”

Unfortunately, popularity can disappear after one poorly made decision.

Image of an American football field showing yard markers 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50

Recently, redditoru/_ZoroX_asked ther/AskRedditcommunity to share how their “popular” classmates ended uplosing their status for good.

Here are the shocking stories they shared.

“They poured some chemicals on the football field to spell out our graduation year as a senior prank.

Wooden door with the word "PRINCIPAL" engraved, featuring a small rainbow pride flag sticker near the upper left corner

It killed the grass and ruined the soil under it.

The grass and soil on a football field are specific and expensive.

It cost tens of thousands of dollars to repair it on such short notice.

A solitary baseball player stands in a field, facing a stadium, wearing a uniform with the number 23

The school wanted to be lenient.

“He got caught cheating on the SATs and lost his college scholarship.

Now, he’s working at his dad’s car wash.

A Walgreens store's neon sign glows brightly against the night sky

Karma’s wild.”

u/xmimixcutiex

3.

“They had sex with the German foreign exchange student on the principal’s desk during a pep rally.

Broken glass bottle pieces scattered on the ground near a curb

Instant expulsion and the exchange student was sent back to Germany.”

u/Unhappy-Television91

5.

“The kid was kind of smart but an excellent multi-sport athlete.

A high school football quarterback wearing a uniform and helmet, number 12, is poised to throw the ball on a grassy football field during a game

He had a full baseball scholarship lined up for a state school.

I don’t know what happened to him, but I know he didn’t go to college.”

They got the address wrong and almost burned a family alive.”

Cadets in ornate military uniforms with white gloves and gold buttons stand at attention, one holding up a hand in salute

u/JumboDakotaSmoke

7.

“He had a full ride for a football scholarship at any school you could name.

One Friday night, he decided to rob a Walgreens with his buddies.

Two people running on a track, with only their legs and shoes visible

A few years later, I saw him working at McDonald’s.”

“He tried to hit me with his car, lost control, and put it in the ditch.

The cops came, realized he was under the influence and underage, and he lost his scholarship.”

A minimalist dorm room featuring two wooden bunk beds, each with desks and chairs underneath, and a window with blinds in the background

u/Then-Bed1001

9.

“He got drunk at a party.

He was charged, as an adult, with attempted manslaughter.

A park ranger is writing a ticket next to a car window. A person inside the car is partially visible in the foreground

This party happened the week before his 18th birthday.

He was never seen at school again and had his football scholarship to college revoked.”

The new kid had enough and pushed back, so John challenged him to a fight after school.

The fight was over hilariously quickly.

John was out cold, standing up.

Anyway, this happened in March, and we never saw John until graduation in the summer.

He spent the rest of the school year being homeschooled."

u/aussydog

11.

He took a shit on a teacher’s car and got expelled.

A year later, he was stabbed in a knife fight and ended up in jail shortly after."

He was one of the top football players.

He was dumb enough to think the coach’s daughter wouldn’t say who it was in the picture.

u/Mryan7600

13.

“Many years ago, he got a full ride to a military academy.

Then, he got two or three women pregnant either before or during his first year.

He had to drop out.”

“They vandalized the school with racist graffiti as a senior prank.”

u/DaedricWorldEater

15.

“This kid wasn’t necessarily popular, but he was on the verge.

He’d practice and practice and try out repeatedly, but he could never quite make the cut.

u/Migou8

17.

One of them was made valedictorian; the other was made salutatorian I forgot which was which.

Anyway, the brother in question went to some fancy college.

It’s not Harvard or anything like that, but it’s still prestigious.

Evidently, it was pretty successful until that point.”

She’d gotten in trouble for violating this order as well.

u/Karnakite

19.

“The best soccer player I faced in high school got a full-ride scholarship to an Ivy League school.

Note: Some responses have been edited for length/clarity.