15 of the World’s Weirdest Schools

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5 – Santa Claus School,

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  • If you want to round out your resume you might consider getting a qualification from the Charles W. Howard Santa Claus School.
  • Established in 1937, this is the Princeton of Santa Claus schools and is dedicated to upholding the traditions, image and history of Saint Nick.
  • Students will learn Santa dress code, correct Santa etiquette, and how to safely interact with live reindeers. Rudolph hates it when you honk his nose, so don’t even think about it!
  • The school is in Michigan, so if you’re from the North Pole you could probably go there and feel right at home.

4 – Maharishi Schools,

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  • These schools are for students who are tired of learning practical stuff like maths and English.
  • Maharishi schools preach transcendental meditation and promise that students here will develop clairvoyance, invisibility and levi-freaking-tation.
  • The schools claim to offer a nice, normal, balanced curriculum, but also insist upon mandatory twice-a-day meditation sessions. Advocates of the school claim it is ‘scientifically proven’ to make you psychic. But I bet they already knew I was gonna say that.
  • The guru who founded these schools was once linked to The Beatles until they canned him for stealing and behaving inappropriately.
  • How this school attained taxpayer funding is a mystery. It seems pretty cultish, with children being promised magic powers so long as they go home and convert their parents to transcendental meditation.

3 – Hamburger University,

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  • Yes, this is actually real: McDonald’s built a school. Unfortunately, its purpose isn’t to train people in the fine art of hamburger-making. That’s still covered in the first five minutes of new employees’ on-the-job induction. Kind of misleading, I know.
  • What the Hamburger University actually does is offer training in restaurant operations. It’s basically a college for restaurateurs. Five thousand students attend each year, with many graduating to management positions.
  • The school has nineteen full-time professors. However, it’s unclear if they teach in-character as Ronald McDonald.
  • Seems like a pretty cool place, and rumour has it the degree you get at the end comes in a colourful box with a toy.

2 – Stadium School,

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  • Most schoolkids today spend more time staring out windows than actually learning. This isn’t surprising because science teachers speak in monotonal gibberish. Here’s a roughly translated example: ‘The boring bore boring relies on the bla-bla boring boring and hugggh unbearably dull to bla boring uninterestiiiiing.’
  • But if you thought it was hard to concentrate in your school, spare a thought for students at Argentina’s River Plate School. This school is located in the home stadium of one of Europe’s most prominent soccer teams, so many students spend their time watching their favourite players pass and perform scissor kicks when they should be passing notes and misusing scissors.

1 – Boat Schools,

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  • In Bangladesh, floods are common occurrences, and they regularly leave citizens without access to clean water, electricity, or other necessities.
  • Since it’s difficult for schools to stay open during these times, a local non-profit organisation came up with a super solution: they created schools that can walk on water just like Jesus.
  • There are a hundred of these boat schools. Each one is solar-powered, and comes with laptop computers, internet access and a library full of waterproof books that you can read in the bath.
  • The boat schools also function as school buses, meaning school literally comes to the students. 70,000 kids have benefited from this initiative since 2002.

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