We’ve all been there—getting in trouble for something that, in hindsight, was completely absurd. Maybe it was a weird school rule, a misunderstanding, or just bad luck. What’s the most ridiculous reason you ever got in trouble? Let’s hear your funniest or most bizarre stories!

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In fourth grade, i got in trouble for knowing what negative numbers were.



the math problem was something like 3-5=? and i had seen an odd squad episode on negative numbers the day before, so i put down -2 as my answer.

then one of the kids in my class who was looking at my paper(i'm pretty sure she was cheating because i always passed my math tests) and called the teacher over, and tattled on me putting down a negative number. when i explained my logic my teacher got mad at me, saying that i should have put down 0 and not -2, and she said, in her own words, "even though its correct, i'm marking it as wrong, because i haven't taught you guys negative numbers yet, have i? no i haven't, because you guys are supposed to learn them NEXT YEAR. so hopefully you learn your lesson on only using the methods that i've taught you to use, not the ones you learn on tv. actually, you should go clip down!"

so basically, i got in trouble for watching pbs kids and knowing what negative numbers were a year before i was supposed to learn them

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this is so incredibly dumb because the point of school is to LEARN and to CORRECT misconceptions. So it quite literally was that teacher's job to tell you the answer was not 0

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    When I was in the Army, Infantry, I was assigned staff duty. This is essentially the guy who sits at the front desk for the battalion and answers phones, or checks people in and out for leave. They also monitor people who have extra duty for getting in trouble. Well, one of the soldiers doing extra duty was assigned to landscaping work, and one of his jobs was making sure the lava rocks didn't get sunburned.

    I didn't know what that meant. So, when the soldier came in and told me the rocks were safe from sunburn, because it was cloud outside. I thought he was joking around. I let him go home...As it turns out, in order to stop the rocks from being sun burned, you had to turn each one over, one by one to keep them from drying and bleaching in the sun.

    I got another day of Staff Duty to ensure I inspected the rocks for sunburns.

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