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At the time it may have felt like the most important thing in the world, but most adults probably look back at their school days with some degree of humor. Teachers going on power-trips on the most ridiculous things, dramatic stakes that were not really that important, rules, norms and behaviors that, in retrospect, are just funny.
Someone asked “What is the dumbest thing you got in trouble for at school?” and people shared their most hilarious stories. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites and be sure to share your thoughts and experiences in the comments section below.
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#1
Not me but one of my best friends. Was drinking a Snapple at lunch and it slipped out of his hand and shattered. 100% an accident.
But the new vice principal lost her s**t and went off on him accusing him of throwing it as a weapon. He got suspended and his parents had to pull him out of school. He was shocked and crying (dude was NOT a trouble maker, one of the smartest kids in our class at that).
Until about two days later the vice principal checked the security tapes that obviously clearly showed him dropping it by accident. Lots of apologies but he was obviously more than upset. At graduation I heard him tell her to go f**k herself when she was shaking hands and handing out diplomas. Only time I heard him seriously swear. .
Přemek Marek 1 year ago
Easier and the vice principal was sure she was the smartest person ever and knew everything without checking. I have met a few people like this in education.
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27RatsStackedInATrenchcoat 1 year ago
Had a friend in maybe 7th grade drop a piece of cheese from a lunch table onto the ground. The vice principal gave him a 3 day lunch detention, I swear that woman hated kids for some reason.
Sue User 1 year ago (edited)
I was a big nerd in elementary school. I also weighed about 60 lbs at 12 years old. I was called into the vice principals office. I had lost a book the week before and i thought i was going to get a lecture about being careless. Apparently they had found the book ripped in half. Anyone who knew me knew me knew i loved book and also would never have the strength to do that. I didnt argue, just paid for a new book.
Cjay 1 year ago (edited)
This smells fake to me, or at the very least written by the person it supposedly happenned to.
woodswhispers 1 year ago
I dunno, all of my schools and my sibling's schools had security footage that miraculously disappeared when something like a fight or a teacher acting inappropriately happened, so I honestly don't think it's too out there.
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#2
I mooed when my grade 8 teacher called us cattle as we left the gym. Two detentions.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
Depends on what they had been doing. This is middle school.
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Pewpie Diaper 1 year ago (edited)
In 10th grade, during the Pledge of Allegiance (cue grumbling from the non-U.S. citizens), the two teachers in the room were giggling about something unrelated, and I began to say the pledge a little louder to call their attention to it. They both looked at me like I'd spouted a third arm and then notified the Principal that I'd be paying him a visit for "Disrespecting the Pledge of Allegiance." I got a two day, out of school suspension. Eat $h!t Mrs. Ellis.
Seadog 1 year ago
I've never understood why it's so hard for anyone to comprehend that a non-citizen is not going to pledge allegiance to OUR flag. Anyone in the education system that can't understand this has no business in our education system.
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Javelina Poppers 1 year ago
I attended a catholic grade school and every morning after the Pledge of Allegiance we all said in unison, "Good morning Sister Mary Roberts". Me being in the back row muttered, "Mornin Bob"............I'll be damned if she didn't hear me and made my life hell for a month.
#3
I drank water from the fountain next to the classroom door. When the bell rang, I turned to walk in and my 7th grade English teacher slammed the door in my face. I stood around hella confused and knocked and I could hear her taking attendance. Mind you, I had already put my stuff inside. After she took attendance she let me in and told me she marked me tardy for not being inside when the bell rang. Asked her how I was late when she'd seen me walk by her desk and put stuff down and then turn to go to the water fountain, and instead of answering me she just wrote me up for ISS for "being rude." It was the first time I'd even been punished in school for anything.
To top it off, when I told my mother what happened amd being sent to in school suspension, she made me get in the car and drove back to the school. Turns out because of my sickle cell anemia and the need to stay extra hydrated, I'd had a standing note in my file from my pediatric specialist noting that I was to always have the ability to get water when I needed it. My mother verbally dressed down the Principal, VP, and that teacher for what seemed like forever.
Jacob Ross 1 year ago
The magic words were "sickle cell." That is a disease that affects Black people almost exclusively. Studies show Black students get far less leeway than White students.
#4
Blowing my nose. I had a horrible cold so I kept needing tissues and the teacher yelled at me and gave me a detention. So next day I stuffed my bra FULL and aggressively dug in there anytime I needed one.
Sunny Day 1 year ago
I sneezed once in 4th grade. Put my hand over it and everything. The kid in front of me should be forever thankful for that. I ended up with a palm full of snot still stringing from my nose, and had to walk to the teachers desk for a tissue, with my hand still up to my face. (Also asked permission to go to the bathroom to wash my hands)
Brazen 1 year ago
I was an in school math tutor when I was in grade 12. The girl they had me tutor in class had a really bad cold one day. She kept asking the teacher if she could be excused to go to the bathroom to blow her nose. After the 3rd time he yelled at her for missing so much of the class, but still let her go. She walked back in with about half a roll of toilet paper all bunched up and put it on her desk. Made him furious, and it took all I had to not laugh really loud at it.
Seadog 1 year ago
I have severe allergies so I can relate to the nose blowing. No one ever seemed to have an issue with it though. They had more of an issue with the absenteeism due to illness related to those allergies. The worst was my senior year. I was out for 7 weeks straight. I returned just in time for final exams. I never would have made it if it weren't for my best friend and his sister bringing me work to do at home and they'd take it back the next day. Thankfully my teachers were on board with this process.
#5
Kid in my high school got suspended for drinking…with his parents…on vacation…in a country where he was doing it legally…again, WITH his parents. Came back from vacation with a picture of him drinking a beer with his folks at dinner. Teacher saw it, reported him. Boom, 5 day suspension. Explanation: “the rules of the school supersede those of the outside world.”.
Ria C. 1 year ago
Maybe this type of rule was meant for things like bullying and used them as an example that is applies to all things outside of school. But the more likely scenario is the admin are just an aholes with god complexes.
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ZuriLovesYou 1 year ago (edited)
"The rules of the school supersede those of the outside world"? Are you sure that was a school and not a cult?
Dee Rutherford 1 year ago
That’s stupid. You were on holiday, with your PARENTS, not at or near the school. Really stupid school.
David 1 year ago (edited)
My HS also housed the school district's superintendent office at the time. The dude was a power tripping a-hole. And I don't say that as an angry teen. A good friend was a teacher and I knew what the teachers privately thought of him. One day I parked (legally) on the side of the road near the school. I get called up because he is demanding I move my car. I moved it, but with a bit of attitude (I flipped a U-ie). He then tells me I can't drive my car for a week. Not "don't bring it to school for a week", literally I can't drive it for a week. I had a job at the tractor shop up the road and it was way too far to walk home from work. There was no way I was going to obey that. So I blew it off and just parked at my work for a week. School employees that think they control you outside of school are ridiculous.
Nancy Whiting 1 year ago
I'd be talking to my lawyer and going before the school board for that.
Seadog 1 year ago
I don't know about all states but, unless it's changed, in Virginia, a parent can give their underage child alcohol in the privacy of their own home. America has the worst education system in the world and Virginia is at the bottom of the barrel and yet the only kid I ever heard of getting in trouble at school for underage drinking was one kid that got caught drinking a pint of Jack Daniels IN CLASS.
_-DungeonKeeper-_ 1 year ago
I hate to be that panda (jk my word ocd is unaliving me) but it's "supercede."
#6
Public nudity. I was in a locked bathroom stall and I was peeing.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
Did the person that 'caught' them get reported to child protecting for looking? I'm tempted to stop reading this list because all my comments will be 'that's ridiculous'...
María Hermida 1 year ago
What really makes me furious is parents don't do anything. If any of these kids were mine, I would make such a big scandal the stupid teacher in any of these stories would need to find a new profession.
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Kayci Styles 1 year ago
How exactly does the person that handed down this decision use the bathroom stall for its intended purpose without exposing some amount of nudity?
Bookworm 1 year ago
Even if they did - a locked bathroom stall would be the appropriate place to do that. I've ducked into bathroom stalls to scratch an itch on my leg that I couldn't roll my jeans up far enough to get to. Sometimes you just need to briefly remove clothing even if you're not using the actual toilet.
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#7
For drinking water in class without asking the teacher.
Luke Branwen 1 year ago
No teacher should have right / authority to deny children basic human needs like drinking or going to the toilet. "It disrupts the class!!!!" my a$$. If your class can be disrupted by a student quietly doing their thing, then your class must be excruciating.
justme 1 year ago
The going to the bathroom one is more to keep track of where the kids are for safety reasons. I never tell them no but I do want them to ask or tell me so I know where they are if an emergency should happen. I have a bathroom pass they can just grab and show me so I can nod and acknowledge that I have seen them. It works for my class.
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#8
Had a teacher who I really didn't get on with in secondary school, and I swear it got personal
I got detention for the following crimes:
*being last in the queue to collect a textbook
*taking my jumper off
*sitting in an alleged sarcastic manner
*getting full marks for homework (allegedly should have been near impossible to do)
*asking for homework not to be given for the next day as I was working that night.
Giles McArdell 1 year ago
Reminiscent of "Not the Nine O'clock New"'s PC Savage sketch - "Being politically motivated north of Watford", "Walking on the cracks in the pavement", "being in possession of an offensive wife" etc etc
PFD 1 year ago
My thoughts went instantly to exactly that. "Loitering with intent to use a pedestrian crossing" and so forth.
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Grace Note 1 year ago
I got sent to the headmistress's office for smiling sarcastically. I was genuinely just smiling. That teacher hated me.
#9
For responding “no” in elementary school when the teacher asked “are we all ready to move on the next step?”.
Luke Branwen 1 year ago
But was the kid being a lil $hit, or genuinely struggled with whatever was being taught? Either way, no reason for serious trouble.
Xenia Harley 1 year ago
My friend's daughter had a kindergarten teacher that yelled at her for saying a rock was a living thing. Clearly poor teaching, but sure, let's blame the kid! She really did not understand the concept, when her mom later questioned her. That's just poor teaching.
Bartlet for World Domination 1 year ago
And did we all recognize the Netherlands from the map in the back?
#10
I threw a snowball...during a snowball fight...that the teachers started. It was my senior year of HS and I had recently committed to play baseball in college. The teacher who tried to give me detention said I should be smart enough to know not to partake in the fight because I threw too hard and someone would get hurt. (A) I had just lobbed the snowball up in the air and (B) WTF? He was quickly overruled by several other teachers.
Luke Branwen 1 year ago
One of The Incidents™ at our elementary school was when a couple of guys from my class were throwing icy snowballs, one of which hit and injured a young (like 2nd grade) girl. Their punishment was to rewrite the school rules, by hand, several times. They were done somewhere at the end of the school year.
#11
Whispering “stop it” to a kid who kept throwing paper balls at me. I guess the sub thought I was a troublemaker because I was in the back of the room? I got sent to another class for the rest of the period to set an example.
Jokes on him, I was the “smart kid” and sending a big nerd out of the room doesn’t really send a useful message to the class.
keyboardtek 1 year ago
I went to catholic elementary school. The nuns were notorious for punishing me because I told the bully to stop doing his c**p. He never got punished once. The lack of compassion and understanding in religious schools is sickening.
LinkTheHylian 1 year ago
All schools are like that. My school wasn't religious and the only time any kids who bullied me were punished was when I was the one in a six-on-one fight. And of those six only two were suspended, for a day. The rest just had to apologise, which I was forced to accept.
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#12
Literally got a 2hr after school detention for saying “what” bc I didn’t hear the teacher.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
But you should have said 'pardon' like...not even most retired people would these days...
David Martin 1 year ago
I once got detention for not coming to a detention I did not have the previous day. Monday, legitimate detention, name up on the board, I went. Tuesday, name isn't erased, I think nothing of it...like an idiot. Wednesday, "I see your name up here, why don't you have a detention slip signed for showing up yesterday?". Detention. As I'm leaving, I asked to "Please erase my name"...teacher tells me not to mouth off to her like that
meow point1 1 year ago
One of my teachers never went that far, but she was one of those "say pardon instead of what" people too. My grandpa took it a step further and told me to say pardon instead of "What *did you say*?" Not just plain what -- "What did you say?"! Like in what universe is "What did you say?" rude!?
nuberiffic 1 year ago
"what?" Is a pretty rude response though. Add to that, it's likely you've been told not to say it. I'd like to hear the teachers side
#13
Reading my own copy of Romeo and Juliet in the library while we were studying it instead of a school library copy.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
Betting the school library edition had the naughty bits of R&J edited out.
Scott Rackley 1 year ago
I took French all 4 years of high school and got nearly fluent in it between that and trips. We were reading The Count of Monte Cristo in English class and almost got in trouble for bringing my French version of the book (I read it the previous year in French 3). I did have to get a little snarky and said, "You do realize this is the original version? Dumas was French, he didn't write it in English."
Upstaged75 1 year ago
When I was a Freshman (first year) in high school my Spanish teacher caught me doing math homework during his class and proceeded to throw my text book and paper out of the window. We were on the top floor. He was known for doing weird/crazy stuff but was actually a really good teacher. The event became legendary in our school. :)
Data1001 1 year ago
Reminds me of when we were doing regular weekly assignments on some Dickens novel (can't recall which one) to read several pages and then report on them, and one week my report was very different from the rest of the class, so my teacher asked if I read the same pages as everyone else, and I said I had. Then she asked me to show her my copy of the paperback. Turns out at the time I had no idea what "abridged" meant, but I found out that day, lol.
#14
I kid you not, I got in trouble for LITERALLY HAVING A SEIZURE
They banned me from all football games because I “traumatized the students” by having a grand mal. Also nobody was around ?? It was after the game when almost everyone left, I stayed behind to meet up w a friend.
But the VP walked by during my seizure and I s**t you not she tried to yell at me right then and there (I’ve been told) but the paramedics told her to leave.
Anyway. I was banned from all future games, not allowed to participate in any extracurricular for the rest of the year, and for three days detention.
That VP and I go wayyyy back she hates me and it’s mutual 💀.
Ariana Hoffman 1 year ago
Oh my god. Once I got in trouble for pouring water from my brand new plastic water bottle that I hadn't dranken out of yet into my friends water bottle during P.E.
Ariana Hoffman 1 year ago
Oh my god. Once I got in trouble for pouring water from my brand new plastic water bottle that i hadn't dranken out of yet into my classmates water bottle in P.E.
#15
I was in the hospital for five days. When I came back, I was unable to keep up with all the work I missed and my high school expelled me.
cherry~ 1 year ago
@Jonas they were in the hospital. They had no choice to do homework or not to do it. And in high school, losing 5 days can be a LOT of homework! Most teachers would be reasonable and understand the situation, while this clearly wasn't the case.
Seadog 1 year ago
I got lucky. Teachers were more than willing to send all my work via my best friend and his sister. I was out for 7 weeks, returned just in time for final exams.
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The only class I ever got an F in (ever) was a HS metal shop class. And I didn't know I got an F. I was out for an abdominal surgery. Because of that one project didn't get completed. So my good grade in the class became an Incomplete, which after some time reverted to an F. I never knew that until after it was done. It was close to graduation and I had enough credits to graduate. So not a big deal in the big picture of life - but it kind of torqued me that the only fail I ever had in all my years of schooling (even some college after) was due to an emergency medical situation.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago (edited)
I was absent for large portions of year 7 (though not enough for my parents to be taken to court) and didn't do a lot of work and all I had to do was sessions with the wellbeing coordinator. They usually took place when I would have been in peer support sessions, which I hated, so I was happy to go. It's pretty hard to expel students from state/public schools in Australia.
Becca not Becky 1 year ago
I feel like there's information missing here. I missed way more school than that for a surgery and they arranged for a tutor to help me get caught up. Was OP in their final year and just didn't meet graduation requirements? Even then, a doctor's note should have been enough to excuse the student and allow for arrangements to help them catch up.
Nylah 1 year ago (edited)
the AUDACITY! dont you know UNCONCIOUS students can STILL DO HOMEWORK?? why did you choose to go to hospital during SCHOOL TIME???? if you iss even a DAY of school, you MUST clearly use your SPECIAL STUDENT POWERS to f*****g PAUSE TIME and DO THE F*****K ING WORK!!!!!!!!!!! /s
Lee Banks 1 year ago
Missed about a month for major surgery. Despite being a straight A student (who would have easily still passed), I was told two months before graduation that I'd have to repeat the year. That would've looked horrible for college. Dropped out and got a 4.0 GED. Wish I'd done it sooner. Hope all turned out well for you!
Ben 1 year ago
I wonder if this was the whole story. When I was in hight school 5 days of work consisted of watching a few videos and a worksheet or two.
Papa 1 year ago
Five days in your high school sounds like an hour or two in mine.
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#16
I got in trouble for calling my dad after school to organize a pickup. We were not supposed to use our phones on site, no exceptions. My dad was pretty pissed that he had to park and come to the principal’s office.
KittyGaming 1 year ago
I say it should be fine after final bell, since you need to call your parents/partner/whatever
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
This I can understand. We weren't allowed to use phones at school either and if we needed to get picked up or anything, we had to go to the school office to call (though of course many people called from their mobile secretly). This is due to child safety, because the school needs to know which students are on site and if you organise rides yourself there is a high chance you won't bother to sign out before leaving.
nuberiffic 1 year ago
...so you broke the school rules and you're surprised you got in trouble?
Seadog 1 year ago
There's a big legal side to this one. Forcing a student off school grounds to use their phone AFTER school hours places the school in a bad position should something happen to that student. Can you imagine the school system having to explain to a judge why that student was harmed or killed only because they had to step off the safety of the school property to make a call for their ride? I've known a few judges that would bury them for such a thing.
#17
We were practicing for our year six graduation and the teacher asked if everyone understood where they were meant to stand. I said no, because, well, I didn't understand. I got lunch time detention for being "purposely insubordinate".
Emie N. 1 year ago
Now THAT is a great question. I don't understand these ridiculous teachers either.
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Michael Largey 1 year ago
I'd give the teacher a detention for redundancy. Insubordination is always on purpose. Oh, since it's redundancy, two detentions would be appropriate.
#18
OOooohhh i will take the cake with this one.
So i got in trouble, and got a weeks worth detention because, and here it comes....
Because i didn't talk back to a teacher while another student was. They where going at eachothers throats while i sat there quietly trying to not garther any attention. Afterwards he called me a sneaky bastard (best translation i could think off). And the other guy didn't get in any trouble.
Now i can hear you asking what did i do for him to mad at me? Because i didn't speak up. That's why i got a weeks worth of detention...
Blyss Blyssylb 1 year ago
I got an "F" on a Earth Science midterm in the 7th grade. So the teacher, Mr. Garrett, explains to the class, "There are only 10 questions on the mid term. Real simple questions, All of you should pass." The 10th and final question read as follows, "Explain to me your own theory on how the dinosaurs became extinct. It can be anything, NO matter how Outlandish (EVEN IF YOU SAY IT WAS THE FLINTSTONES WHO CAUSED THE DINOSAURS TO BECOME EXTINCT)" So I wrote, "Climate Change, Disease, Astroid, and Man (North Carolina Parakeet, Do-Do, Carrier Pigeon, etc...)" I was the only one who got an "F" and he humiliated me in front of the entire class and then tried to make me change my answer. When I refused to change my answer, he had me expelled. I was always a good student in his class with "A's and B's". I was never disrespectful nor disruptive, until he had my expelled.
ENSJ 1 year ago
I had what they called a "social tracking card"; because the school is a community and I was antisocial in their eyes (undiagnosed ASD, CPTSD and just plain shy and having very different interests than my classmates who were younger than I was by that time). I called them out on it, that they would give me marks on that card for basically not being disruptive (not talking to others in class while class was ongoing etc) and getting detention for that s**t.
#19
Playing Magic the Gathering at the lunch table. The teachers thought it was “gambling”.
Stannous Flouride 1 year ago
Silly. Everyone knows it's Witchcraft and used to summon the Dark Lord. /s
Joe Standford 1 year ago
That’s rock music at least it was for my school in the 80s
Load More Replies... Huddo's sister 1 year ago
We were banned from playing uno in the school library because apparently we were too enthusiastic (we weren't loud and there was barely anyone else in the library). No one was allowed to play uno there for the rest of the year.
Rayne OfSalt 1 year ago
MtG originally did have gambling. The og rules and cards included an ante mechanic, where you and your opponent had to put the top card of your deck into a separate pile that the winner of the game would get ownership of.
Orange Panda 1 year ago
Huh, my classmates and I used to play poker in German class with chips during morning announcements.
Luke Branwen 1 year ago
Reminds me how I used to play Yu-Gi-Oh with a classmate, luckily nobody has prohibited us from doing so 😅
#20
My kindergarten teacher sent me for a timeout (that reason was legitimate) and placed me in the art supply closet for it. Got in more trouble for playing with the art supplies but my defense is your honor what was she expecting?
Jonas Fisher 1 year ago
"Supply closet" is the name for the room (often with windows and a desk or two) where art materials and tools and even finished artworks are stored. It's not a tiny, dark, claustrophobic space.
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ENSJ 1 year ago
I got in trouble a lot for staying inside trying to read books during recess. The one time they did finally force me out, some other students got into the classroom and rewired something so that not a single laptop had internet (needed for smartschool). After that happened (took them hours to find out what went wrong), they never seemed bothered by me staying in that classroom.
#21
I dropped out due to ableism and mistreatment by staff. I was gossiped about by the assistant principal when she thought I was gone, my English teacher was verbally abusive, and the school psychologist refused to evaluate me for autism because a non-mental health professional, some random staff member, said I made eye contact. Then, my parents were blamed for not knowing about resources we were never informed about and we’d been seeking help for…Oh, I don’t know, A DECADE. I had mental breakdowns all the time at school and have been invalidated for my severe anxiety since I was around 8. Rather than helping me, I was constantly scolded even though I did nothing that should get me in trouble. I was made to feel wrong for my mere existence for the majority of my days in school and rather than helping with the 504 plan or IEP, they basically labeled me an enigma and forced me to fend for myself. Since dropping out, my dreams have come true. I’m a professional musician now and I’m a lot happier too.
OneWithRatsAndKefir 1 year ago
Ohh boy; I was one of those stereotypical ‘high-functioning girl who masks too well’. If I had been forced to rely on my teachers, both primary and secondary, for an ASD diagnosis, I wouldn’t have one! The strange thing is my secondary school even said they had put in a referral for an ASD assessment in (probably) my third year after some behavioural troubles, but it never happened (I honestly doubt if they ever actually made one). I only got diagnosed a few years later because the lockdown caused my mental health to plummet and circumstances revealing, ‘hey, so you DO actually have that ASD!’.
Depressed Lesbian(she/they/he) 1 year ago
Same. I was diagnosed at 3 thank god.
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JP Doyle 1 year ago
I can really relate to this. I have Tourette's back before anyone had ever heard of it and went thru Elementary, Junior High and half of high school before I got the diagnosis. I got many expulsions and detentions for defending myself against the bullies. The Administrations excuse? I provoked the bullies with my tics...
#22
The clothes I wore didn't meet their standards. I went to a school where at least 80% were rich kids, and my parents broke their budget to pay for our tuition, so we didn't have the money to buy the right clothes.
I had my older sisters' cast offs, and I did manage to sew some clothes for myself, even though I just figured it out on my own, so I wasn't very good at it. They couldn't even afford to buy me the material or patterns to sew more clothes. It was really embarrassing!
Dragon mama 1 year ago
Some schools near me use a very simple uniform code and I love it. Khaki pants and a polo shirt (blue or white) can be found a million places. They get the benefits of a dress code without the huge expense
Lee Banks 1 year ago
Yet classism I'm still sneaks in. Don't have the name brand version? Obvious hand me down? Can't wash as often as you should? Still a pariah.
Load More Replies... Huddo's sister 1 year ago (edited)
This is why I support school uniforms, although the prices for them have jumped in the last 15 years, even for schools in low socio-economic areas. When I was at school, we even had annual second hand uniform sales, but then they cancelled them. A few years later, when my sister was there, they got a new principal who wanted the school to basically be a private school, without the fees, so overhauled the uniform (even brought in blazers) and chose a more expensive uniform company. My sister ended up using funds from a charity to purchase hers. Only good thing that principal did was bring in unisex uniform options and that took a lot of campaigning by students and parents association.
Rayne OfSalt 1 year ago
I support them to a degree. I was sent to a school that required everyone in senior year to wear a blazer and long pants every day (you could take the blazer off in class, but had to wear it at all other times, including travelling to and from school. some of us had 2 hour trips each way). I'm sure you can imagine how that went in a queensland summer.
Load More Replies... Seadog 1 year ago (edited)
I too went to school, before 10th grade, with the sons and daughters of most of the doctors, lawyers and big business tycoons. They all thought they were so much better than me because of mommy and daddy's money. Surprise. That money didn't buy them the life of laziness they thought they'd have after school and now they're working for a living. I began working retail at the age of 7, so working for a living after graduation was just a day in the life for me. By my senior year, I was operating my own business. They on the other hand had to suddenly learn what life in the real world is like. I can count on one hand the number of them (that I know of) that went on to run their own business. I never quite figured out where the kids got their snobbiness from. I've met/known most of their parents over the years and they're nothing like that.
#23
Out of nowhere in 11th grade, I got pulled out of class by the principal and was told that “they knew I hacked the school’s firewall.” They said some kind of proxy had been run off of my student login and was accessing…..
Facebook. I was being threatened with expulsion because someone had bypassed the firewall to go on Facebook.
Long story short, I ended up asking the librarian for help, and she was able to see that all of the logins came from a classroom that I had never been in.
Some people in the programming class (there was only one) randomly started getting into other peoples’ student logins and loading something from a flash drive to bypass the firewall, and yep, go on Facebook.
She stood up for me to the principal, and I was off the hook. I never heard if the people who’d actually done it were caught.
Years later, that principal saw me at the grocery store and tried to come up and be buddy buddy with me. I told him to f**k off and walked away. Legit the only time I’ve ever been mean to a school employee, but that was beyond ridiculous. Certain grudges are worth holding.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
When I was in year 12 there was one guy who had managed to bypass the firewall to use sites like facebook on the school computers and his laptop. I think he charged people to do the same on their devices. I didn't have a laptop or facebook at the time, or any real need to use any blacklisted sites so I'm not 100% on the details.
SDLT010 1 year ago
My school blocks all YouTube videos in the entertainment or gaming category. Several videos my teachers have tried showing us to help explain a lesson or how to do something have been blocked by this.
Load More Replies... Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
That last part was really satisfying lol just imagining the look on the principal's face when OP told him to f**k off 😂
#24
Drawing a hamster smoking a cigarette.
David 1 year ago
Yeah but that's gateway and needs to be nipped in the bud, doesn't it? Next you'll be drawing a hamster smoking a J, then one shooting up H. Soon it will be rat kings sharing multi-hosed hookah pipes. Where does the insanity end?
#25
I was always in trouble because my pants were "too tight."
Look, I had a 25 inch waist and a big a*s - the only way those f*****s were staying up was if they werw tight across my a*s.
Brenda 1 year ago
When my daughter was in 1st or 2nd grade, I got a call from the school asking me to bring another pair of pants for her. As I had just folded laundry, I grabbed a pair of sweats. Then,when she came home, she had a note for me from her teacher saying that she was breaking the dress code. Because she had on leggings. She was very thin with very long legs. The only pants that fit her were leggings. I paired them with tunic tops, which came down past her butt. Told the teacher this. The next day, another call (I wasn't home to bring her anything) another note. Responded with the same answers. Third day (again, not home), the note threatened suspension if it happened again. I raised hell with the school in the morning. You buy her clothes, you can decide what she wears! Turns out the no leggings rule was intended for HS students. I demanded an apology to both myself and my kid.
Seadog 1 year ago
Ever notice other students rarely complain about what someone wears, especially if it fits, it's always the adults, usually male. Now think about that a minute. It really tells you a lot about what kind of people are staffing the schools.
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Huddo's sister 1 year ago
This is why I refused to wear the school pants (Australian state school so we had uniforms). I tried them on and to get them tight enough on my waist they ended up too tight on my thighs (not sure how, they weren't unusually large). I got away with wearing non-uniform pants in the same colour for a little while but then the principal had a crack down on that and I never wore pants to school again. I froze through Melbourne winters in a skirt, without tights or knee-high socks because I hated the feel of them but made it through.
Rayne OfSalt 1 year ago
melbourne winters in a skirt with no tights or high socks? good lord lass, are you a demi-god?
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Filling up my water bottle at a water fountain. It was in between classes when every student was walking from one class to the next. If i remember correct i was given detention or possibly even suspension.
Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
Wtf? Nothing wrong with filling a water bottle from the fountain. Kids do it all the time at the schools I teach at. It's a given.
#27
Yawning.
To be fair, I sound like a Whoose (whale/moose), and this was in study hall. I get yawn streaks that can last 10+ yawns in a row. I can’t really stop it, and the teacher wouldn’t let anyone leave the room for the period.
Reading the word yawn, hearing someone yawn, someone says yawn, or just thinking about yawning makes me yawn. I can’t escape it.
If a serial killer was chasing me and got tired, I’d be dead in minutes because they’d find me wherever I was hiding.
People look at me like I’m crazy; this cryptid howl out of a tiny girl, louder than you’d think capable from such a small lung capacity.
I wish I was joking. I can’t even count how many times someone’s gotten mad, told me to shut up, all because of several very loud bellowing yawns in quick succession.
I’ve been yawning even as I type this. It’s hard to see the keyboard when all you can do is yawn.
I can’t even use voice to text, it would come out as gfidnrjtjddnfndirejgdbej.
Btw, this is all true and even my kids yell at me to shut up 😅.
trash panda 1 year ago
Here!! I found this one off google, idk if it meets your expectations tho lol :) whoose-66d...ab6f2f.jpg 
BookFanatic 1 year ago
Actual, respectful question. Can whooses (I love that!) seriously not control the volume of their yawns? I always thought they were just jerks who couldn't be bothered.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
I got in trouble for yawning once, and I sound nothing like a whoose. I was new to the school and really shy, yet the teacher thought I was pretending to yawn because it happened when we were waiting for another student to answer a question. It pissed me off, but of course I wouldn't speak up to her about how unfair it was. I just hated pretty much every moment I was in class for the whole year. I was only 8 and already not handling the move well.
Renée Parry 1 year ago
I haven't stopped yawning reading your post. Didn't your classmates yawn too?
Whoopdeedoo 1 year ago
Ok, the yawning thing happens to me. I also have those weird burping sounds. It sucks. I'm sorry.
#28
Telling a teacher he was giving me a headache because he was just yelling while teaching.
Jonas Fisher 1 year ago
Teacher here. If the class is being loud, or there is a lot of noise in the vicinity, or I'm just trying to get the class pumped up, I can be loud. If a student -- in the middle of my explaining something about the subject -- interrupts with some snide "Can you keep it down? You're giving me a headache," I'd be tempted to hand out a detention, too.
CrazyKnitter 1 year ago
I would think that tone is incredibly important here. I get headaches from loud noises and can't always remember to phrase things politely when it's happening, but I always sound distressed, not disrespectful.
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#29
There's this local festival every year in spring in my town. My 9th grade girlfriend and I spent all weekend outside at this festival that year. She got a bad sunburn. The following Monday morning we were in the Commons area of the school hanging with friends before class started. I was standing there blowing in her sunburnt shoulders. Harmless. A teacher walked around the corner and saw me and took us both to the vice principal's office and had us wrote up for public display of affection. He said I was standing there kissing on her neck and feeling her up. Me, her, and 2 of my friends told the vice principal what was happening and she acted like she understood and dismissed us both. No write up or anything. About an hour or so later we got called back to the office at separate times. She got off with nothing and I was given 2 days of asr (3 hours detention after school).
Also not me but a friend of mine got a 1 hour dentition after school one time for saying "poopy in my pants" lol.
Wendy Neumeyer 1 year ago
My daughter was suspended for 3 days in kindergarten for calling a bully Mr hmm hmm poopy head!
#30
I got kicked out of 6th grade English class for trying to woo a girl by quietly reading lines to her from a paperback copy of The Hobbit. .
Jonas Fisher 1 year ago
This seems fair. Completely distracted and trying to actively distract another student during class.
Bookworm 1 year ago
Kicked out of class seems like a lot unless it was a repeat offense, though. I read (to myself) in class a lot in elementary school. The most that ever happened was the book being temporarily taken away.
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Toasted Applesauce 1 year ago
Honestly that would totally work on me. I hope she appreciated it
Luke Branwen 1 year ago
I hope they're together tho. Not a big fan of Tolkien, but this sounds hella romantic.
#31
So when we were learning about the holocaust, we split into groups with fill in the blank sheets where we had to listen to videos for the sentences on the sheet and fill in the missing words.
On one of the videos, we kept having to rewind it because the sentence was a list of items, and the guy in the video honest to god mumbles the last word so quickly we cannot hear what he said.
After rewinding for the fifth time we started laughing because all we needed was the final answer and the guy says complete jibberish.
The teacher thought we were laughing about the subject matter and would not listen to what we were trying to explain to her. We sat in the hallway the rest of the period.
That was 15 years ago and I still don't know what the final word was.
Bored Trash Panda 1 year ago
I have always been one to write the truth and not leave out the horrible details of history when it came to school essays. In an essay about the Holocaust, I wrote that the bread that was made for the people in the camps was made out of dirt, saw dust, and ashes from the people that were cremated (which is the truth, even cited my sources from respectable historians) and my teacher marked me down for it saying they didn't use ashes and I shouldn't lie like that. I took my paper to the principle with print outs of all my sources and he made her change my grade.
#32
I got in trouble for wearing a light sweater. Dress code said sweaters were exempt from being tucked in. They said it wasn’t thick enough to be a sweater and ended up changing the rules because of me.
A friend of mine got sent to the principal’s office for tossing a paper ball in the trash. It’s not like he tossed it over anyone either, and he made the shot. Luckily the principal realized how dumb the teacher was.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
I wore a jumper basically every day during the 'winter' terms when I started high school, so I could avoid tucking in my button up shirt. I was so happy when they brought in long sleeved polo shirts, because these didn't need to be tucked in. Mind you, I got cold so easily, chances are I would have wanted to wear the jumper for much of that time anyway.
Seadog 1 year ago
Changing the rules. Yeah. My youngest ended up only needing 4 credits to graduate, 2 junior classes and 2 senior. Thanks to the stupid block system the schools adopted in the late 90's, he figured out he could take the junior classes first semester and the senior classes 2nd' semester and graduate a year early. School said he couldn't do it. He said "watch me" and did it. They couldn't stop him, he was taking the required courses and in an established order. He just really had to put his mind to it. The following year the school system actually passed a rule stating that no one could graduate early. And now they have the "no child left behind rule" so they're handing out diplomas to kids that can't even read or write because all you have to do to graduate is show up, and even that has it's limits. Welcome to Virginia, the worst education system in the world.
KittyGaming 1 year ago
I have a teacher that says not to throw things, unless you make it, he's cool
#33
I am deaf in one ear and have major ADHD. It has got me in trouble more times then I can count in school.
Biggest one I can remember was Grade 11 Advanced English, I was originally seated in the back corner of the class. After a few weeks the teacher got pissed and made me sit in the very front of class. Actually within a few feet of her desk as she thought I was ignoring her on purpose.
So I moved there and just worked my butt off all year.
We got assigned a novel and I read the entire book that night as I could devour books in hours.
Next day I asked the teacher for all the questions for the entire book as I had finished the book. She was furious as apparently she had explained to everyone we would do a chapter a week and I just simply didn't hear her.
So I had to wait an entire semester to finish the book.
It was a really horrible time for me.
Stannous Flouride 1 year ago
That happened to me all the time. I would get all my books completely read through within a few weeks of the beginning of the semester. And then, of course, I was bored (and often acted out). Only two of my teachers in 11 years were smart enough to just get me more to read.
Seadog 1 year ago (edited)
Let me read what I want to read and I'll get so wrapped up in it I'll suffer a bit of shock when I walk out into the real world while my brain reboots. My problem was, they always wanted us to read some c**p I simply can not read. It's just words on a piece of paper. I could not get into the story at all. And the stories in the school books themselves were the absolute worst. Considering how little work I actually did and still passed, says a lot about the person I am today.
Load More Replies... CrazyKnitter 1 year ago
I HATED it when teachers made you do chapter by chapter. I was a bookworm and could devour a book in a few hours. I usually didn't even notice when the chapter ended, so I'd suddenly realize that I was 10 chapters ahead and be shocked. I also read a LOT, so the chances that I had already read a book were high, especially if they were popular, classics or interesting enough. I had a great grade 9 English teacher, and I told her that I had already read the books she was teaching us and she worked with me for any questions that wanted us to guess what would happen. I had a teacher next who got mad at me because I had been assigned the same exact book in 5th grade (so I hadn't even just read it for fun) and knew what was going to happen.
Anonymouse 1 year ago
I had that happen and my teacher was SO excited that I liked to read he gave me a list of books and I would pick one and he would bring it to me and once I finished reading I would get the next one. Went through an entire college class worth of books in 11th grade.
Bookworm 1 year ago
In 8th grade, we read Freak The Mighty... one painfully slow audio book chapter at a time. I'd reread the entire book in the time it took the rest of the class to listen to one chapter. I must have read through that book 30 times, and I was thoroughly sick of it pretty fast. Colored my opinion of the book to this day, which is kind of a shame since it's not really that bad, just not... riveting. Especially when read very slowly to a bunch of teenagers as if we were incapable of reading it ourselves.
#34
Not doing one small assignment when they had already loaded me down with work.
My grandpa was hospitalized during his battle with cancer (he lived to die of old age many years later). I had been at the hospital until it had become necessary to take me home so I could go to bed. As it is, I didn't get in bed until 10:30; I had managed to get the rest of it done while at the school, between one free moment and the next. The majority of it was for this subject.
I just missed this one. I had no inclination to stay up until 11:00 and finish it. I thought they'd understand, but this incident was when I realized I had "Officer Kirk" for an assistant principal. He gleefully paddled me. I managed to backhandedly insult him on the way out. I survived him.
#35
(5th grade maybe) Needing to use the bathroom. Teacher absolutely refused to let me go. I'm sitting there squirming and shaking and in pain because I can't hold it. Finally said to hell with it and ran out the room because I wasn't going to p**s myself. After class she gave me a scolding about not listening and a bunch of other BS. Probably wanted to give me a write up or something but knew my parents would lay into her for denying a bathroom break.
Luke Branwen 1 year ago
Once again, denying a student or an employee a bathroom should be very, very illegal.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
I clearly recall the time in 7th grade when I sat crying at my desk during a math test because the teacher wouldn't let me use the bathroom. I REALLY had to go but I was afraid of getting in trouble. I wish I had been brave enough to just walk out! She did eventually let me go once she saw that I couldn't even complete the test, but it shouldn't have come to that.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 1 year ago
I had a student with IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome). I gave him a seat by the door. I told him "If you have to go, catch my eye and go. If you can't catch my eye, go anyway." Worked fine.
#36
5th grade. Teacher hated me because I questioned her so much. I literally had gotten 100% on every single test we took so far that year. Realistically I should have been moved ahead a grade. Anyway, three missing assignments in a week was considered a detention. She had a requirement that every single test had to be signed by a parent regardless of the score. I had forgotten to do this one day, so I had three tests that were all 100%, unsigned, and she gave me a detention for it.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
I bet the parents loved having to sign things every time a test was done
Judy Reynolds 1 year ago
My daughter once asked her father to sign something, and her teacher said "That's not an adult signature". I signed it again, and added a note that was the signature the bank accepted. (it was a long time ago, when people had to use checks.)
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#37
In third grade I was paddled for drawing 3 'w's (with rounded bottoms) and showing them to a few folks saying they were butts.
In 4th grade we were having a lesson that introduced the concept of bartering. I turned to a girl and asked something along the lines of what would people do back in the day when they needed personal items like condoms. I'm not sure of her response, if she even gave one. She did, however, go home and tell her parents. The next day I was questioned on saying condoms and was once again paddled.
I received an amazing education from that school system overall but, jesus christ, growing up in the bible belt(southern, USA) is f*****g stupid sometimes.
Kitty 🥀 1 year ago
I’m sorry, but he shouldn’t have asked a girl about condoms in the 4th grade. That’s inappropriate. Imagine being that girl.
Bookworm 1 year ago
Yes, but this post makes it sound like OP wasn't punished for the inappropriate remark - which, yeah, would basically be sexual harassment if the kids were just a bit older (a 10-year-old probably wouldn't understand the sexual implications as well as, say, a 12-year-old), and that should have been made very clear to him. He was just punished for saying the word 'condom.' Typical.
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#38
Coughing. In seventh grade we went through a stretch where we weren’t allowed to make any noise in the cafeteria after we were done eating. If you sneezed, coughed, or sniffed you were sick and shouldn’t be there at all. I coughed and was given a choice of swats or detention. Took the detention because the swats would’ve come from the gym teacher. F**k you Mr. Cross.
LavenderHippoInAJar 1 year ago
Okay, this is just dumb. Sometimes your nose just tickles or you have allergies and that doesn't mean you're sick or shouldn't be at school!
Seadog 1 year ago
I have allergies and once coughed so hard I pulled the muscles in my back that support my head. I could barely move the next day and spent about 6 weeks in a whiplash collar and wore a tens unit to get the muscles usable again. I wasn't sick or contagious, just something set me off into a coughing fit. And as fast as it started, it stopped, like someone flipped a switch. Bu the damage was done.
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Wearing a hoodie. Teacher said warmth made kids (I was 15) too sleepy.
#40
One time my friend bought me a “tig ol bitties” shirt and I wore it. It was baggy and not revealing but because of the words they made me take it off. I told the principal I didn’t have another shirt except the spaghetti strap I had on underneath. He told me that was fine lol. So, they opted for me to wear a spaghetti strap that my tits were practically hanging out of, over a shirt with a silly phrase.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
I don't really understand why schools would opt for having to control things like this, rather than just having a uniform.
Seadog 1 year ago
Principal was sending a message alright and it wasn't the words on the shirt. If he wasn't a perv he would've just told you to turn the shirt inside out. Your principal and teachers find your shirt offensive, they would have a coronary if they saw the shirts we used to go out of our way to wear. Mine was on the milder side, it said "I could be a handsome prince but I like being a horny toad". Every time I wore mine a friend wore his that said "Save a tree eat a beaver". Needless to say there was a picture on both shirt to support the saying. Our teachers weren't a bunch of pansy snowflakes, they all laughed
#41
I once got in trouble for climbing onto the roof of the girls dorms. I was into parkour as a kid and thought it looked like a good climb. This all was legitimate reasons for me to get into trouble. however the teacher who caught me knew my mom (who was also a teacher at the school) and knew she wouldn't really care about me climbing about after school, even onto the girls dorms. So she told my mom that I tried to bribe her to get out of trouble which I never did. My mom however called her out on her BS saying that she knows I love money too much to bribe someone.
Seadog 1 year ago
Guy in class got kicked out of class for climbing through a window. He climbed out to get something (I don't remember what, a book maybe) and the teacher walked in 3 seconds before he was all the way back in. A couple years later same kid got kicked out of study hall for farting. Funny thing was it wasn't the act that did it. The monitor called his name and he said "what? I only farted." That's when he got thrown out. Needless to say everyone was on the floor with laughter by then.
#42
I got kicked out of the school computer lab for trying to make a game.
I’m now a professional game developer.
René Sauer 1 year ago
I mean, was making a game part of the lesson the teacher was trying to teach?
#43
Saying the word “hell” in class.
KittyGaming 1 year ago
I go to a catholic school, saying the word hell in proper context is fine, like when you are talking about the place
#44
Putting on a temporary tattoo.
Brenda 1 year ago
Family got henna tattoos while at a local Renaissance Festival. Youngest put hers on her upper arm near her shoulder so It would be covered at school. On Monday they tried to give her detention after a teacher (not hers) saw it while she was scratching during lunch. Yeah, that didn't happen
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
We weren't allowed even temporary tattoos allowed to show according to our uniform policy. I remember one time I had one that wasn't high enough on my shoulder to be hidden by my sleeve, but I must have worn a jumper during school hours. On the way home a guy gave me the nickname 'rebel' because he saw it which, as a very shy 14 year old, made me feel good at the time :)
#45
I got a referral (not good) for not doing my homework in english, so I placed it into my one folder. I went to my next class, history.
I had the homework for that class, but it wasn't very good.. anyway, teacher comes around to inspect all of our work, and I realize my referral is in plain view. I was embarrassed, so I slid it behind some other papers so no one would see.
My teacher saw me hide it, got mad, and gave me another referral for attempting to hide important documents from her.
#46
My sister was in grade 5 and I was in 2nd. Same school. She "married" me to my boyfriend and they wanted to suspend her and also said we couldn't talk to each other at school anymore. My mom was pissed and straightened them out.
#47
I was thrown out of class and given a detention for getting picked on.
A persistent s**t kid kept kicking my desk whenever the idiotic math teacher turned his back to write on the blackboard. I told the kid several times to stop without causing a further scene.
CrazyKnitter 1 year ago
My husband got suspended for being punched in the face in middle school. The kid who punched him? No trouble, because the teacher knew his parents. I knew my now husband then and he was a good kid.
Bored Trash Panda 1 year ago
It pisses me off that the kids getting bullied get into trouble for standing up for themselves while the bullies don't get any punishments. When my son was in Kindergarten some little s**t kept pinching the back of his arm and after several times of my son telling him to stop, pushed the other kids arm away. Nothing violent or anything, just pushed it away. But because the teacher only saw my son do that, he got into trouble. I raised hell when I heard the whole story.
#48
I once got detention for going to the bathroom. For the first half of the year, my teacher just let us leave, but the day I was out, she apparently gave everyone passes they had to use.
I didn't have them, so when she asked me for one, and I said I didn't have them, she told me I couldn't go. I went anyway, and when I came back, she gave me those passes and 20 minute detention. I cleaned up her room after school.
René Sauer 1 year ago
Yeah, I would have told her to talk to my mom first about that and left on time at the end.
#49
A bunch of idiots went into the bathroom at the same time and locked the door behind them during the ACT test break (Arizona requires all juniors to take the ACT). They were suspected of cheating on the test. I was also accused of cheating. I was not in that bathroom.
It was actually a surprise to most of the teachers that I was held there. My mom threatened to sue the school over it. I graduated in my junior year and my mom pulled my sister out of that school.
#50
I said “Jesus Christ” and got a detention in high school. Yay private school….
Luke Branwen 1 year ago
Fun fact: "Saying God's name in vain" originally wasn't referring to saying "Oh my god" or similar things, but using your faith to justify hate, bigotry and intolerance. This is, of course, overlooked by today's conservative "Christians".
Jess Smith 1 year ago
fun fact: anyone who, unprompted, loudly proclaims their piety and/or declares themselves to be a Christian out of the blue is not one.
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Not wearing socks to gym class! My parents just laughed.
#52
Nothing.
I was called to the principals office with my best friend and the principal said something like, “I know what you too were doing at lunch time. I got the reports. That is unacceptable.. yadda yadda yadda.” We were at the mall next door eating pizza the whole time. Not sure what her deal was.
#54
Pop rocks. I ate some right before a pop quiz and they were going off in my mouth when the room fell silent. The kids around me started laughing and they told on me lol. He failed me on the test and I had to sit outside the class the remaining hour. I just enjoyed my pop rocks.
#55
I got detention because the teacher told us not to speak. Then a guy came into class late and the teacher ignored him, so he asked me what we were supposed to be doing and I whispered back to him. She started shouting so I told her that I was explaining the work and she just said it doesn't matter I have detention.
Fellfromthemoon 1 year ago
I guess the teacher intended to punish the guy who arrived late by retaining information, and later asking the guy questions related to the task that he couldn't make.
#56
Had a teacher who really didn't like me (fair, I was always late with my homework). Well, in class one day and hand in the stuff for that day but not the stuff I'd gotten an extension for (extension was due that day). Well class goes as usual, but the next day I get told to come in early to see my house master, usually a sign you're in deep s**t, not the sort of thing not having your homework does.
So I turn up at like 7am to see her (hated me too - no real reason) and the original teacher is in the office with her. He says I skipped class that day, I say no I didn't I've got the notes and the handouts to prove it. His argument was "Well I'd decided that if you didn't hand in the work that day I'd put you on report, and I didn't so you mustn't have been there". After 10 minutes of back and forth, showing the notes etc. they finally concede that *maybe* there was a mistake (he'd been so surprised by me handing something in that he forgot) and I wasn't going to get detention for it.
Then have to engage in a 10 minute argument that my house master wants me spending every free period in the library supervised by the librarian studying. I have to point out that classes that can get pretty loud there and distracting, and I have access to the "cadet room" as a senior cadet (cadets is kind of like scouts but with a military spin, the room was where we had meetings and kept all the uniforms etc.) and the room was silent and easy to focus in. Plus it's unfair to punish me for something that never happened.
So basically I had to get up at 5am to get to school to get scolded for something I didn't do, which even when they conceded it may not have happened they still tried to punish me.
#57
Balling up my sandwich bag after lunch and popping it. I got hit. I lived next door to the school, asked to use the bathroom, but ran home and told my mom the teacher beat me. (She hit me with a wooden paddle). My mom beat her a*s. It was glorious.
Panda Bear 1 year ago
It’s reasonable to punish a kid for popping a sandwich bag. It not reasonable to hit them
Upstaged75 1 year ago
Really? For popping a bag? A reprimand would have been sufficient - it's not like they did anything awful.
Load More Replies... Seadog 1 year ago
I did that every day for years. It wasn't a large room and it was really loud. On a good day I could make it go quiet for a few seconds. Not once did anyone ever tell me to stop, not even the kids that didn't like me (which was most of them). Popping that bag was one of the few things I did that they did like me for. Some days they'd ask for my bag so they could do it too.
#58
Getting in a fight where the kid jumped my brother.
#59
Went to the bathroom, dude stole my eraser, I asked for it back, and when he wasn't looking, I took it back, then he went and complained, principal's office and parents called for that.
#61
Typo on a computing class, accidentally typed "s**t key".
Luke Branwen 1 year ago
That's something that should be laughed off. To this day, I remember my elementary school teacher saying "The king $hat out an emmisary" instead of "sent out", we all had a good laugh about it.
#63
Kid in my class (mixed first grade and second, I was first he was second) told me to stomp as hard as I could on his foot, and he wouldn’t feel a thing. We were standing in line to go out for recess. So I (being a easily influenced 7 or so year old) did.
And then the teacher noticed and thought I was bullying the kid. So I got sent to the principals office and even though I tried to explain the circumstances, I still had to stay in from recess and write something (I don’t remember what) to the kid and the principal or teacher or smthn.
#64
Onetime I wore a shirt that showed my stomach so they made me pull up my shorts so it would cover my belly, then I got in trouble cause my shorts were to short smh.
#65
6th grade on the bus after school, before it started even going anywhere, I went up to my twin brother and pretended to kiss him and he backed off but it was all a joke. because in 6th grade I acted all gay n stuff. I got a major referral, cps called on me, and a person who had to follow me and watch me for most of the year. Thank god that principle was fired.
#66
I got suspended for misgendering someone. Even if it was rude I never met the person in my life. They could have been nicer and just corrected me but no they started freaking out and cursing at me and guess who gets in trouble, me.
Luke Branwen 1 year ago
I call BS on this one. There could be an exception, but every single trans person I've met would first calmly correct someone using wrong pronouns, and get upset only if they insisted on using the wrong ones. This sounds like someone who loves making the "Did you just assume my gender????" jokes playing victim.
CrazyKnitter 1 year ago
I've actually met people who do this, so it's not unheard of. But you are right in the fact that usually it's someone who has no connection to the trans community.
Load More Replies... René Sauer 1 year ago
yeah, that. I am not gonna ask first what you are, I will use what best fits your looks. If I am wrong, just correct me and I will go along with it. No need to go apeshit.
Nylah 1 year ago
personally, im pretty sure im agender or cassgender. as a default, people refer to me as she/her, as i was born with a uterus, but if they call me he/him or they/them, i really dont care. also with neo pronouns, as long as i know thats what they refer to me as (just to avoid confusion), i really dont care
#67
For going to Bulbapedia, a Pokèmon wiki, in science class. I still don't get that one.
René Sauer 1 year ago
because you should pay attention to the class, not goof of on the internet.
KittyGaming 1 year ago
Pokemon "promotes evolution" thats probably why, dude technically speaking small forms of evolution do exist like a georaff (can't spell) getting a longer neck, that's real but monkey to human isn't (Christian)
KittyGaming 1 year ago
Edit: Pokemon is a fine game becides it was made in Japan and they have different beliefs, it's fine man it's just a game
Load More Replies... #68
3 days of ISS for reading during math time in 6th grade. Guess what I did for 3 days straight in ISS.
Stardust she/her 1 year ago
You shouldn’t be reading other material when they’re teaching in class
Bartlet for World Domination 1 year ago
Guess what I did up until 6th grade. I paid attention, and when I got it, I read. Great grades. Thankfully the school understood that reading is better than not reading.
Load More Replies... #69
I got sent to the office in middle school for eating a lollipop the DAY AFTER Halloween!!
I literally called out my teacher like, ‘B***h! You can’t expect kids to come back after HALLOWEEN without candy!!’
And then this other time, (maybe it was that same year too) the principal had me removed from the talent show for working on my comedy routine for like 5 minutes during a STUDY PERIOD!! I mean, I know I had other work to do but COME ON!! 😡😡.
KittyGaming 1 year ago
I agree, it's the day after a holiday all about candy and you expect kids not to have candy ready for the trading, wow man
The explanation 1 year ago
Personally I wouldn't want to trade a snickers for a half eaten drumstick lolly. They got told off for eating in lesson, (and probably swearing at the teacher) which is fair
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Crescent 3 1 year ago
In 3rd grade my teacher, Mrs. Penn, called for a conference with my parents because I wouldn't eat the macaroni and cheese at lunch. My Mom didn't drive and my Dad worked second shift at his factory job, so they had to cut into his sleep time to come up to the school. Mrs. Penn was upset that since we were paying for lunch, my refusing to eat the mac and cheese (which, for some reason, they always served with peanut butter sandwiches) was wasting money. My, loving and gentle mother wanted to slap her. Instead, she said: "He doesn't like macaroni and cheese. He doesn't eat it when I make it at home. What makes you think he'll eat the slop you serve here? It's our money. If it's wasted, it's wasted." Then stormed out. They came home and Dad got about an hour of sleep before going to work.
Grazina Strolia 1 year ago
I was screamed at by my 5th-grade teacher because she forgot me. On the first day of school, she had us all line up in the front of the class, and she'd call us one by one and assign us a seat. She got through everyone else, and I was the last person standing. She had her back to me. When she started talking about opening our textbooks, we all realized she'd forgotten me. And there was more than one empty seat, so I couldn't even just go sit. So I said "Excuse me?" from behind her. She FLIPPED OUT. WHY ARE YOU INTERRUPTING ME? WHY AREN'T YOU SITTING? WHAT ARE YOU STILL DOING THERE??? Everyone in the class was telling her she'd skipped me. I guess she was embarrassed, because she went out of her way to make my year miserable. She called me a "troublemaker", and anytime anyone near me did *anything* wrong, she'd take points off of *my* grade. Not theirs. The only way I passed 5th grade was because of her extra-credit handwriting assignments. I did them ALL. Each one worth 5 extra points.
kissmychakram 1 year ago (edited)
I got detention at age 14 or so (44 years ago!) for eating in school uniform. It was on a Friday, a couple of hours after school let out and I was visiting my grandparents when an ice cream van drove down their street. My granny sent me out to buy some, a teacher walking past saw me lick one and gave me detention. Eff you Mrs Jillings, you old bag. It still smarts.
Violent Doll 1 year ago
Junior year of high school. Our school had a big, bronze memorial plaque out front with names of former students who had been killed in war. I and two of my besties got called down to the principal and accused of stealing this plaque. The thing must have weighed 500 pounds and was firmly mounted on a stone frame. I don't even know how we would have stolen it (or why we would want to). They threatened us with the police and everything. Two days later they found out the plaque had been taken for a scheduled cleaning, which they had forgotten about. Never got so much as an apology.
ByeFelicia 1 year ago (edited)
In 6th grade history, I got in trouble by Mrs. Carmen for typing my study notes up on my computer and printing them out. Apparently they looked too 'professional' and the teacher assumed I was cheating and had stolen them even though it wasn't for a test.
Ellinor 1 year ago
One day (at 8 years old) I was talking about wanting an overalls and one of the teacher heard me and started crying (like a 45 years old grown woman). Turns out in French the word "overalls" looks a lot like the word "s**t", and the teacher thought I was calling her that. I was punish and my mother was called to the principal's office to discuss about my concerning behaviour. (the teacher was my neighbour and she was really mean to me from that day to the day I moved to another town, 5 years later.)
BookFanatic 1 year ago
I was one out of 13 students (all 17-18 yrs old) sent to the Dean's office. Because I asked the substitute teacher why he'd kicked out over half the class within the first 20 minutes. I strolled down to the office and joined the queue of kids. Dean comes out, looks around, laughed, and said "did you guys stage a riot?" Nope. We were all "insubordinate" for asking questions related to the material. Dean rolled his eyes and escorted us all back to class.
TheReader19 1 year ago
So legit question, please don't angry down vote me. But; is there something fundamentally wrong with the American education system? Most of these seem to be from America and don't make any sense. I'm not saying kids aren't little shirts, (I definitely was); but the pettiness and the punishment make no sense. How can you get in trouble for legally drinking in a foreign country when you return home?
Liz The Biz 1 year ago
Way back in the 1980s I had a pencil holder, sharpener and eraser all in one (the spines were the holder, the nose was the eraser and the back end was the pencil sharpener). One day I was using it to sharpen my pencil when my teacher came marching over, shouted at me to stop messing about and confiscated it. I tried to explain that I was just sharpening my pencil so I could get on with my work but she wouldn't listen.
Crescent 3 1 year ago
In 3rd grade my teacher, Mrs. Penn, called for a conference with my parents because I wouldn't eat the macaroni and cheese at lunch. My Mom didn't drive and my Dad worked second shift at his factory job, so they had to cut into his sleep time to come up to the school. Mrs. Penn was upset that since we were paying for lunch, my refusing to eat the mac and cheese (which, for some reason, they always served with peanut butter sandwiches) was wasting money. My, loving and gentle mother wanted to slap her. Instead, she said: "He doesn't like macaroni and cheese. He doesn't eat it when I make it at home. What makes you think he'll eat the slop you serve here? It's our money. If it's wasted, it's wasted." Then stormed out. They came home and Dad got about an hour of sleep before going to work.
Grazina Strolia 1 year ago
I was screamed at by my 5th-grade teacher because she forgot me. On the first day of school, she had us all line up in the front of the class, and she'd call us one by one and assign us a seat. She got through everyone else, and I was the last person standing. She had her back to me. When she started talking about opening our textbooks, we all realized she'd forgotten me. And there was more than one empty seat, so I couldn't even just go sit. So I said "Excuse me?" from behind her. She FLIPPED OUT. WHY ARE YOU INTERRUPTING ME? WHY AREN'T YOU SITTING? WHAT ARE YOU STILL DOING THERE??? Everyone in the class was telling her she'd skipped me. I guess she was embarrassed, because she went out of her way to make my year miserable. She called me a "troublemaker", and anytime anyone near me did *anything* wrong, she'd take points off of *my* grade. Not theirs. The only way I passed 5th grade was because of her extra-credit handwriting assignments. I did them ALL. Each one worth 5 extra points.
kissmychakram 1 year ago (edited)
I got detention at age 14 or so (44 years ago!) for eating in school uniform. It was on a Friday, a couple of hours after school let out and I was visiting my grandparents when an ice cream van drove down their street. My granny sent me out to buy some, a teacher walking past saw me lick one and gave me detention. Eff you Mrs Jillings, you old bag. It still smarts.
Violent Doll 1 year ago
Junior year of high school. Our school had a big, bronze memorial plaque out front with names of former students who had been killed in war. I and two of my besties got called down to the principal and accused of stealing this plaque. The thing must have weighed 500 pounds and was firmly mounted on a stone frame. I don't even know how we would have stolen it (or why we would want to). They threatened us with the police and everything. Two days later they found out the plaque had been taken for a scheduled cleaning, which they had forgotten about. Never got so much as an apology.
ByeFelicia 1 year ago (edited)
In 6th grade history, I got in trouble by Mrs. Carmen for typing my study notes up on my computer and printing them out. Apparently they looked too 'professional' and the teacher assumed I was cheating and had stolen them even though it wasn't for a test.
Ellinor 1 year ago
One day (at 8 years old) I was talking about wanting an overalls and one of the teacher heard me and started crying (like a 45 years old grown woman). Turns out in French the word "overalls" looks a lot like the word "s**t", and the teacher thought I was calling her that. I was punish and my mother was called to the principal's office to discuss about my concerning behaviour. (the teacher was my neighbour and she was really mean to me from that day to the day I moved to another town, 5 years later.)
BookFanatic 1 year ago
I was one out of 13 students (all 17-18 yrs old) sent to the Dean's office. Because I asked the substitute teacher why he'd kicked out over half the class within the first 20 minutes. I strolled down to the office and joined the queue of kids. Dean comes out, looks around, laughed, and said "did you guys stage a riot?" Nope. We were all "insubordinate" for asking questions related to the material. Dean rolled his eyes and escorted us all back to class.
TheReader19 1 year ago
So legit question, please don't angry down vote me. But; is there something fundamentally wrong with the American education system? Most of these seem to be from America and don't make any sense. I'm not saying kids aren't little shirts, (I definitely was); but the pettiness and the punishment make no sense. How can you get in trouble for legally drinking in a foreign country when you return home?
Liz The Biz 1 year ago
Way back in the 1980s I had a pencil holder, sharpener and eraser all in one (the spines were the holder, the nose was the eraser and the back end was the pencil sharpener). One day I was using it to sharpen my pencil when my teacher came marching over, shouted at me to stop messing about and confiscated it. I tried to explain that I was just sharpening my pencil so I could get on with my work but she wouldn't listen.
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