At one point or another, most of us have probably gotten ourselves into trouble at school once or twice. Getting sent to the principal’s office, having your parents come down to school to talk with the teachers, etc. is not necessarily the best experience when you’re a kid. In fact, it is typically quite terrifying for most. But you do have to do something extra silly or irresponsible to even get to that point most of the time.
These people took to Twitter to share their stories of getting into trouble at school… for ridiculously silly reasons. From sparing lab frogs’ lives to getting detention for chilling at detention without having been sent to detention, here are 39 scenarios where people got into trouble at school because of something very silly. Scroll down to see the whole list and consider upvoting the entries that crack you up the most!
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Not a chance I would have go r to summer detention for that especially since you reported it.
For a lot of kids, school would eventually become kind of boring and repetitive. So it is no wonder why they constantly come up with ways to annoy each other or their teachers. Small acts of rebellion or silly stunts against the establishment that is school are not even necessarily bad as long as there is balance between acting up and being educated.
There is always at least one teacher at school who will seemingly go out of their way to scold or punish students for doing barely anything. But that doesn’t only count for school. That could also be your family member or your boss. So in a way, school does somewhat prepare you for life and dealing with real people outside one's safe bubble.
LMAO my teacher would shed tears of joy if she saw someone reading a quality novel
All in all, school is a place where people get ready for some important aspects of their lives. But a part of the learning process - the rebellion, the occasional prank, should not be met with complete shutdown and resistance. Instead, teachers should focus on educating their students, not pointing fingers at them for obscure reasons and calling it a day.
Kids don't realize that school don't legally have authority on them. Parents solely have. That school is not a prison, they are free to leave whenever they want, and that forcing anyone to stay somewhere against their will is unlawful imprisonment.
"biting someones calculator" hey new best friend wanna go be chaos together?
Is doing nothing in detention common in many places? Only time I was sent to detention (in France) was for skipping German class and they had us take a super difficult German test and convinced us it would count towards our grade. Then they revealed it was basically a university level test and that we couldn't have possibly completed it and it would never count.
Sure...I don't doubt that they could read but I'm pretty sure they don't kick kids out of preschool for being able to read. My son didn't get kicked out of his preschool for being able to read.
I would finish assignments early and do something else but my math teacher would make me follow along with the assignment anyway
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Someone literally whacked me in the back of the head with a chair in primary school and I got yelled at by the teacher because my scream of pain "scared the people outside of the classroom."
Once on the bus some kid was about to hit my little brother. So I shoved the little bastard. And I got in trouble for hurting a younger kid.
In third grade I got in trouble for not saying the Pledge of Alligence. First of all, dumb reason to get in trouble in the first place, and second, I did say the Pledge of Alligence, so the claim wasn't even accurate!
I had been living overseas with my family for a year and returned to my original school ¾ of the year in. On my first day back, I got into trouble for not doing the homework assignment; when I politely told the teacher that this was my first day back, she didn't believe me, and asked me if I was "up to my old tricks again" to which I truthfully replied "No." I was sent to the headmaster's office, very upset... That stupid teacher hadn't even noticed that I hadn't been around for the last 9 months of the school year.
I once told my class that the world was not a perfect sphere but more like this-and then squished a dodgeball a little to show the bulge in the center. The next day a student came back and yelled at me that the world wasn't flat and that she and her mom had "looked it up." A few years later she was online talking about how she proved to her teacher that the world wasn't flat. She is why I have trust issues with posts like this.
I was doodling while we were watching a video and the teacher took it away and told me to focus (even though I explained to her it was helping me focus). Jokes on her cuz I didn't focus the rest of the video. My parents were on my side and were not happy when I told them what happened.
My mouth was bleeding in so much that I put a paper towel in my mouth. I got put in detention because I wouldn't spit it out. (I had just come back from the dentist)
Back in fifth grade, I got really frustrated when playing softball in gym class and threw down the bat after striking out. Our gym teacher was a strict, stereotypical manly looking, macho woman with no patience for this type of thing and I have Asperger-like symptoms (and most likely have it) I was immediately ordered to stand in time out but I was tired and sat down--and was given a detention. (I was a good student and never got a detention before) I immediately stood up but to no avail. Still got detention. So I spat in her face. (Also something I've never done before) Hey, I was getting detention anyway. I still don't regret that. Also, at detention, I brought some things with me to keep busy, like a book because I didn't understand the concept of lunch detention.
Every day in 5th grade we got 15 min out of an hour to do some prework on our homework, so we could ask questions if we didn't understand it. At some point in these 15 min my teacher came over to check how my homework was coming along, because I never asked questions. He saw I was already miles ahead of my fellow classmates (about 3 chapters in math ahead). He took my homework I already finished and litterally teared it apart and said I had to start over and to get to the point every classmate was and not work upfront. The day after this incident our homework we had to do was checked and I got detention because my homework wasn't done on time (I couldn't finish 25 chapters in 1 night).
In first grade my head was banged against the wall by the nun because I forgot my lunch in the classroom. F'ing b***h.
When i was being bullied throughout first grade i got expelled because i was being bullied (i did nothing at all). For years i didnt tell my parents and for that time they believed that i was the bully. When it all came spilling out my parents were furious but it was too late.
I got in trouble for drawing on my homework all the time throughout middle school. One particularly terrible teacher marked points off of my test because of a stupid little doodle in the margin. I’m a graphic designer now, so I get to doodle all the time and get paid for it 👈😎👈
In high school (14-15 years old) me and a colleague got in trouble (kicked out of this particular teacher's class for the whole semester) because I was spell-checking my colleague book report before she handed it in. She had very low grades and was in danger of flunking because "your spelling is like a 3 year-old" - she was dyslexic! We both had to attend summer school to make up for the null grades we got for that class. That teacher was such a b***h!
One time my teacher in 2nd grade said there was no such thing as princesses and princes I HOPE she was talking about the Disney kind but I raised my hand and gave her the best explanation of a monarchy that I knew how as a 6 year old and I got in trouble for explaining that YEA princesses exist tf
I was at the table with 3 other people (who were talking) but I got in trouble...not them
I was in Prep, so 5 or 6 years old! Was sent to the Principal's office because a friend gave me 20 cents (Australian $$) and I bought a superdooper! Then I'm grade 1, the teacher gave us 5 seconds to sit down and the boy next to me was being silly so I grabbed his pants to make him sit down (I didn't want to stay in for little lunch!!) and ended up pulling his pants and jocks down. Everyone saw his private parts!! Then in year 7, a boy kept pulling my hair. I turned and told him if he did it again I'd punch him. He did... turns out it was the boy behind him!
I was around 10 years old and in a private school, it was a tiny school and the head mistress was our maths teacher, I was really struggling with long division and just couldn't grasp it, so I went to the her at the front of the class and begged her to help me, she grabbed my book out of my hand, scrawled HELP across the page and sent me downstairs to the smaller kids class to ask for help and to tell them all I was too stupid to work it out myself. I literally bawled because she made me do it. My mum tore her a new one a few days later!
Purple smoke. They claimed I was trying to blow up the chem lab (HS). No, I was just experimenting. Purple smoke is what you get if you add turpentine to iodine crystals. One of the few times my Dad stood up for me: I was reading "All Creatures Great & Small" and Dr. Herriot used this concoction to cleanse a horse's hoof. Now, in the book he cites using a "pinch" of iodine crystals & a dropper of turpentine. I used about 3 cups of iodine crystals and about a quart of turpentine. Yeah - Purple Smoke ensued & I almost got expelled. It took an entire weekend to get the film off the walls & ceiling. So now we use this phrase in the family for something planned that has gone terribly awry.
in primary school, I was pulled from break because I drew birds 'my own way' instead of drawing them as an m shape. The assistant teacher stuck up for me, saying it was good I was creative, but the teacher said I should 'follow orders' better. I was 6.
I got a 3 day suspension for skipping school. After that I waited a week and started doing it again.
I can't get over the narrow NARROW boxes some teachers live in! Many of these examples should be celebrated for their creativity, innovation, advanced knowledge, moral courage . . . (you get my drift)
I had a tutor in art college (UK) and she said maybe art 'wasn't my thing' i have a design degree now
I got kicked off the bus in kindergarten because I gave the bus driver the finger. I didn't know what it meant, some of the bigger kids pushed my fingers into position and told me to go show the driver. How was I supposed to know what I was doing??
Something happened, it was bad but I don't remember what it was, but I'm sure it still affects me to this day.
I got in trouble in kindergarten a thousand years ago, for singing 'wheels on the bus' louder than the rest of the class. I was enthusiastic! Nobody at home wanted to sing. So I got a timeout. I would have gotten away from it if my cousin wasn't in the same class as I was and delighted in telling my dad when he came to pick us both up. I didn't get dessert for 3 days! I'm still salty about this three decades later. Damn tattletale. Yes my cousin and I have been lifelong rivals.
Once I got in trouble because this kid flicked a booger on me and it was the last straw of teasing so I yelled at him and I'm the one who got in trouble.Thats one of many because I was quiet and kept to myself I didn't get in trouble unless it was something stupid. Like refusing to say the "under god" part of the pledge of allegiance. Or missing play rehearsal because I was in a car accident. Being bullied, being blamed for the whole thing and being accused of lying about the anxiety attack I was having. Oh yes those were good times.
In year 12 study hall we set up a poker den, playing for fruit loops. We got busted and got detention. I still remember the look on the detention teachers face when half the year 12 students rocked up and they didn't have enough seats.
The one and only time I ever skipped school was because I found an injured duck by the side of the road. Actually, I wasn't sure what it was at first, passed it, and went on to school. Went to first period, but couldn't stop thinking about the pile of feathers I had seen. I cut class and went back to check. Found that it was still alive, bloodied up like it had been hit by a car, and 100% wild. Wrapped it up in my coat because it was cold and there was snow everywhere, brought it home and smuggled in into our basement. I then promptly called my mom and told her what happened. She understood and let me keep the duck for a few weeks until it got better. The school also gave students about 3 tardies before it became an issue, and since I hadn't used any yet, it didn't really matter much anyway.
I got told off for yawning. I was 7 and it was one of the first days at a new school and I don't think I had really said anything at all to anyone yet. The teacher thought I was pretending to yawn because she was waiting for another student to answer a question and was teasing her. I did not have a good time that year.
I went to a Catholic grade school. When someone did something bad, some teachers would punish the whole class by making us write some sentence 1000 times on paper just like Bart Simpson does on the chalkboard. I refused once because I was tired of having to pay for some other kid’s stupidity and I got in trouble for it.
In fifth grade I got in trouble when I took back a Tupperware stencil that a classmate had stolen from ME. She told the teacher that I had stolen it from her and despite my mom producing the rest of the color-coded set (missing that one stencil) they made me give it back to the thief of a classmate.
I actually have a few but this one was a bit of a funny one. So in high school I was a bit of a slacker in most subjects but not in English class. I was ahead on our reading assignment so during class I brought in a different book and read that instead. Well my teacher wasn't happy about it and took my book from me until after class. Well this happened three days in a row however....on the third day I happened to stop by the library and get the same book so when she took mine....I pulled out the libraries copy. Yup you guessed it, got sent to the principals office. She didn't even give me back my book to read while I waited in the office!
I got a three day suspension, in fifth grade, when I snapped on the local bully, after he'd spent a week tormenting me. Kicked his books out of his hands (was aiming between the goalposts, but he jumped back), kicked him in the stomach (got him good with that one though, again, missed my target), was setting up to kick him in the ribs while he was on hands and knees heaving for air, when a teacher pulled me away. Bully got a week's suspension, I got three days.
In my high school, everyone was wearing T-shirts with beer, marijuana, ciggerettes, girls wearing REALLY short skirts, all sorts of stuff. Dad gave me a shirt with the Playboy bunny head on it, no words. I was called into the office. Principal called mom, told her to come to school & bring me a shirt. Prinicipal & I sat staring at each other - guess he thought I was going to be in trouble. Mom got there, thinking I was hurt or had an accident. He told her the shirt was unacceptable. She told me to go to class, did not make me change my shirt. As I’m walking down the hall I hear her yell, “YOU STOPPED MY DAUGHTER’S EDUCATION BECAUSE OF A SHIRT?!!” I didn’t hear the rest of the words, but I heard her all the way back to my class. Thanks, mom!
I was in 6th grade (12 years old) wearing a t-shirt that had a pic of the band members of Guns N Roses on it, and Slash was wearing a t-shirt that said Sh!t Happens. But the "I" was covered by his necklace so the full word wasn't there. I got sent to the principal for wearing a shirt w obscene language on it. My principal was 5'10" at the most, my Dad is 6'6". Guess who didn't get in trouble at home, had her suspension retracted, and who was also allowed to wear a t-shirt that had Bart Simpson on it saying, War is Hell, the next day without getting in trouble lol
I "borrowed" my uncle's white cowboy hat in HS, wore it slung down my back as I went to classes. During lunch study hall in the auditorium, I put it on. Teacher proctor in the balcony gave me detention for "distraction". I was mad, cause a classmate had on a neon pink & yellow Mondrian mini dress with matching beanie all day, and I was in study hall.
My sister got in trouble once for telling her teacher he has spelled Assess wrong. He argued and said that he was right and there were supposed to be a double s in the middle of the word. She went back and forth with him for a while before she finally caved and said "Yes. You're right there is a double s in the middle. That doesn't change the fact that you just wrote Asses on the board." She got detention separately for cursing and arguing with him.
Uf, in this post, public schools/private schools/alternative schools all sound like prison camps run by low-IQ sadists.
I've always had really bad anxiety and once in 7th grade my math teacher called on me to get up and solve a problem at the chalkboard, well I looked around at the entire class staring at me and had a panic attack, the teacher sent me to the principals office for "faking a fit to get out of classwork"
We had English class (foreign language) and kids were going wild screaming and shouting. Teacher couldn't maintain herself. She told me (1st row in front of her) to start reading from my book. I keep reading amidst chaos. Suddenly she starts screaming and turns to me and says "I told you to read, and you are playing mute" to which I told her that if she can't maintain order in class it's her problem, not mine. She took me to the principal's office and next day she apologized to me
Oh ho ho have I got a fun story for you. We’re outside at break and because the majority of the school was homophobic, i of course being me brought in a big rainbow flag. I got a lot of comments but one student kept coming up to me and asking to see my flag, obviously in a mocking way. He then tries to grab it off me, and punches me in the stomach. I punch him in the face and his glasses break, he runs away (with my flag) and throws it in the bin. The school got the police and I now have ‘assault’ on my record.
When I was about 6 or 7 I got in trouble for being too good at reading - I was reading The Hobbit by myself at home and didn't see why I had to 'read' glorified picture books at school. I would perhaps have benefitted from learning about being tactful when criticising!
We had this one guy he fought the English teacher like all the time (retrospectively all female teachers, but only she fought back) he was sent to principal like almost weekly. It went this far that they started with 5 min fights, and it ended with him saying 1 word or making 1 hand gesture and he had to go. They even wrote in his school certificate his disrespect against women. Which basically was a lowblow to find an apprenticeship or work later. But he had it coming. Alot was his upbringing, so I would say he was not 100% at fault, but he should have learned and adapted.
I was always sat up front by the chalk board w my back against the class bc I couldn't stop talking I'm 5th grade. I still would talk then they put me in the hall. I still talked bc now I was going to be rebellious until they sat me outside. I only did this on one class bc I hated that teacher he was a prick.
Girl tried to turn off my computer, becasue I guess talking to the girl next to me about school work was pissing her off? I blocked the power button, and she proceeded to twist my wrist, and I did NOT fight back, becasue I know the school system im in. I reported her, and guess what. I still. got. lunch detention. Same as her.
This entire thread is full of people who have apparently never made a mistake an d are always right and way smarter than anyone no matter their level of experience. These people are all clearly geniuses that should just do whatever they think is best because the first thing they think of is way better than any time tested example.
Another time I got in trouble for saying a classmates mother was weird. The woman was always dirty and stunk - i don't think she washed - and had a room in her house (I'd gone once for a birthday party) FILLED with old dolls. Like the real creepy possibly Chuckie type dolls that could possibly come alive and murder you. I did not enjoy that party.
When I was in preschool I got in trouble at least once a week for not wanting to have nap time. I just wanted to do art or read, not sleep! It got to the point they told me to just "lie there and act like everyone else"
One day in kindergarten I had a really bad cough so during naptime they had me sleep on a couch in another room. They didn't give me a pillow or a blanket so I was uncomfortable and cold. I got up to get some from the floor, got caught and got in trouble. Another time we had a "bring your favorite plushie to kindergarten" day and I got mine taken away for the entire day when they found out my plushie had a name. It was a red nosed reindeer plush so I had named him Petteri. FYI Rudolph is called Petteri in finnish. It was a completely innocent name. I was so sad when I had to be the only kid without a plushie the entire day.
In middle school, I got in trouble because a girl threw a wadded up piece of paper and hit me in the head. I got suspended from the bus for a few days because I got angry?? But the joke was on them because I had to stay after school for those days anyway for band practice, and my mom just had my older brother drop me off in the morning for a few extra bucks for gas (he was in high school). My mom was so pissed tho as it went on my "record." I was a damn good kid... didn't get me far tho.
i was a quiet kid in high school but still got sent to the dean for: refusing to included the 'under g-d' part of the pledge of allegience since it wasn't in the original; later refusing to say it at all after my lai massacre; staying bathroom too long when i had a period leak; telling a teacher he was rude for calling another student 'snotty'; demanding an apology from same teacher for calling me a name. btw, my family was/is military so it seemed that i was more aware of politics/the war than my peers or teachers so that also got me into trouble as i 'wasn't supposed to pay attention when i couldn't even vote yet'.
If people actually want their kids to have a good education they need to ask the Principal a few questions: (a) how many bullying incidents per semester? If the number is >1 then reject the school. (b) Do you impose any religious practices or deploy any? If the answer is "any" in any form, reject. (c) Do you allow advanced kids to learn at their own pace or do you hold them back for the dumb kids? If the answer is "hold back", reject the school. (d) Do you tolerate group punishment? If the answer is yes, reject. (e) Do you hold your teachers accountable for marks/scores? Or do you blame the kid? If the answer is "kid", reject the school. (f) Do you have specific rules about dresscode/hairstyles which are gendered or about aesthetics rather than practicality like sunburn avoidance? If so, reject. I could go on for hours. MOST schools are s**t and teach kids to be s**t and the cycle continues. Please watch "Another brick in the wall" by Pink Floyd. That is basically most schools.
Someone literally whacked me in the back of the head with a chair in primary school and I got yelled at by the teacher because my scream of pain "scared the people outside of the classroom."
Once on the bus some kid was about to hit my little brother. So I shoved the little bastard. And I got in trouble for hurting a younger kid.
In third grade I got in trouble for not saying the Pledge of Alligence. First of all, dumb reason to get in trouble in the first place, and second, I did say the Pledge of Alligence, so the claim wasn't even accurate!
I had been living overseas with my family for a year and returned to my original school ¾ of the year in. On my first day back, I got into trouble for not doing the homework assignment; when I politely told the teacher that this was my first day back, she didn't believe me, and asked me if I was "up to my old tricks again" to which I truthfully replied "No." I was sent to the headmaster's office, very upset... That stupid teacher hadn't even noticed that I hadn't been around for the last 9 months of the school year.
I once told my class that the world was not a perfect sphere but more like this-and then squished a dodgeball a little to show the bulge in the center. The next day a student came back and yelled at me that the world wasn't flat and that she and her mom had "looked it up." A few years later she was online talking about how she proved to her teacher that the world wasn't flat. She is why I have trust issues with posts like this.
I was doodling while we were watching a video and the teacher took it away and told me to focus (even though I explained to her it was helping me focus). Jokes on her cuz I didn't focus the rest of the video. My parents were on my side and were not happy when I told them what happened.
My mouth was bleeding in so much that I put a paper towel in my mouth. I got put in detention because I wouldn't spit it out. (I had just come back from the dentist)
Back in fifth grade, I got really frustrated when playing softball in gym class and threw down the bat after striking out. Our gym teacher was a strict, stereotypical manly looking, macho woman with no patience for this type of thing and I have Asperger-like symptoms (and most likely have it) I was immediately ordered to stand in time out but I was tired and sat down--and was given a detention. (I was a good student and never got a detention before) I immediately stood up but to no avail. Still got detention. So I spat in her face. (Also something I've never done before) Hey, I was getting detention anyway. I still don't regret that. Also, at detention, I brought some things with me to keep busy, like a book because I didn't understand the concept of lunch detention.
Every day in 5th grade we got 15 min out of an hour to do some prework on our homework, so we could ask questions if we didn't understand it. At some point in these 15 min my teacher came over to check how my homework was coming along, because I never asked questions. He saw I was already miles ahead of my fellow classmates (about 3 chapters in math ahead). He took my homework I already finished and litterally teared it apart and said I had to start over and to get to the point every classmate was and not work upfront. The day after this incident our homework we had to do was checked and I got detention because my homework wasn't done on time (I couldn't finish 25 chapters in 1 night).
In first grade my head was banged against the wall by the nun because I forgot my lunch in the classroom. F'ing b***h.
When i was being bullied throughout first grade i got expelled because i was being bullied (i did nothing at all). For years i didnt tell my parents and for that time they believed that i was the bully. When it all came spilling out my parents were furious but it was too late.
I got in trouble for drawing on my homework all the time throughout middle school. One particularly terrible teacher marked points off of my test because of a stupid little doodle in the margin. I’m a graphic designer now, so I get to doodle all the time and get paid for it 👈😎👈
In high school (14-15 years old) me and a colleague got in trouble (kicked out of this particular teacher's class for the whole semester) because I was spell-checking my colleague book report before she handed it in. She had very low grades and was in danger of flunking because "your spelling is like a 3 year-old" - she was dyslexic! We both had to attend summer school to make up for the null grades we got for that class. That teacher was such a b***h!
One time my teacher in 2nd grade said there was no such thing as princesses and princes I HOPE she was talking about the Disney kind but I raised my hand and gave her the best explanation of a monarchy that I knew how as a 6 year old and I got in trouble for explaining that YEA princesses exist tf
I was at the table with 3 other people (who were talking) but I got in trouble...not them
I was in Prep, so 5 or 6 years old! Was sent to the Principal's office because a friend gave me 20 cents (Australian $$) and I bought a superdooper! Then I'm grade 1, the teacher gave us 5 seconds to sit down and the boy next to me was being silly so I grabbed his pants to make him sit down (I didn't want to stay in for little lunch!!) and ended up pulling his pants and jocks down. Everyone saw his private parts!! Then in year 7, a boy kept pulling my hair. I turned and told him if he did it again I'd punch him. He did... turns out it was the boy behind him!
I was around 10 years old and in a private school, it was a tiny school and the head mistress was our maths teacher, I was really struggling with long division and just couldn't grasp it, so I went to the her at the front of the class and begged her to help me, she grabbed my book out of my hand, scrawled HELP across the page and sent me downstairs to the smaller kids class to ask for help and to tell them all I was too stupid to work it out myself. I literally bawled because she made me do it. My mum tore her a new one a few days later!
Purple smoke. They claimed I was trying to blow up the chem lab (HS). No, I was just experimenting. Purple smoke is what you get if you add turpentine to iodine crystals. One of the few times my Dad stood up for me: I was reading "All Creatures Great & Small" and Dr. Herriot used this concoction to cleanse a horse's hoof. Now, in the book he cites using a "pinch" of iodine crystals & a dropper of turpentine. I used about 3 cups of iodine crystals and about a quart of turpentine. Yeah - Purple Smoke ensued & I almost got expelled. It took an entire weekend to get the film off the walls & ceiling. So now we use this phrase in the family for something planned that has gone terribly awry.
in primary school, I was pulled from break because I drew birds 'my own way' instead of drawing them as an m shape. The assistant teacher stuck up for me, saying it was good I was creative, but the teacher said I should 'follow orders' better. I was 6.
I got a 3 day suspension for skipping school. After that I waited a week and started doing it again.
I can't get over the narrow NARROW boxes some teachers live in! Many of these examples should be celebrated for their creativity, innovation, advanced knowledge, moral courage . . . (you get my drift)
I had a tutor in art college (UK) and she said maybe art 'wasn't my thing' i have a design degree now
I got kicked off the bus in kindergarten because I gave the bus driver the finger. I didn't know what it meant, some of the bigger kids pushed my fingers into position and told me to go show the driver. How was I supposed to know what I was doing??
Something happened, it was bad but I don't remember what it was, but I'm sure it still affects me to this day.
I got in trouble in kindergarten a thousand years ago, for singing 'wheels on the bus' louder than the rest of the class. I was enthusiastic! Nobody at home wanted to sing. So I got a timeout. I would have gotten away from it if my cousin wasn't in the same class as I was and delighted in telling my dad when he came to pick us both up. I didn't get dessert for 3 days! I'm still salty about this three decades later. Damn tattletale. Yes my cousin and I have been lifelong rivals.
Once I got in trouble because this kid flicked a booger on me and it was the last straw of teasing so I yelled at him and I'm the one who got in trouble.Thats one of many because I was quiet and kept to myself I didn't get in trouble unless it was something stupid. Like refusing to say the "under god" part of the pledge of allegiance. Or missing play rehearsal because I was in a car accident. Being bullied, being blamed for the whole thing and being accused of lying about the anxiety attack I was having. Oh yes those were good times.
In year 12 study hall we set up a poker den, playing for fruit loops. We got busted and got detention. I still remember the look on the detention teachers face when half the year 12 students rocked up and they didn't have enough seats.
The one and only time I ever skipped school was because I found an injured duck by the side of the road. Actually, I wasn't sure what it was at first, passed it, and went on to school. Went to first period, but couldn't stop thinking about the pile of feathers I had seen. I cut class and went back to check. Found that it was still alive, bloodied up like it had been hit by a car, and 100% wild. Wrapped it up in my coat because it was cold and there was snow everywhere, brought it home and smuggled in into our basement. I then promptly called my mom and told her what happened. She understood and let me keep the duck for a few weeks until it got better. The school also gave students about 3 tardies before it became an issue, and since I hadn't used any yet, it didn't really matter much anyway.
I got told off for yawning. I was 7 and it was one of the first days at a new school and I don't think I had really said anything at all to anyone yet. The teacher thought I was pretending to yawn because she was waiting for another student to answer a question and was teasing her. I did not have a good time that year.
I went to a Catholic grade school. When someone did something bad, some teachers would punish the whole class by making us write some sentence 1000 times on paper just like Bart Simpson does on the chalkboard. I refused once because I was tired of having to pay for some other kid’s stupidity and I got in trouble for it.
In fifth grade I got in trouble when I took back a Tupperware stencil that a classmate had stolen from ME. She told the teacher that I had stolen it from her and despite my mom producing the rest of the color-coded set (missing that one stencil) they made me give it back to the thief of a classmate.
I actually have a few but this one was a bit of a funny one. So in high school I was a bit of a slacker in most subjects but not in English class. I was ahead on our reading assignment so during class I brought in a different book and read that instead. Well my teacher wasn't happy about it and took my book from me until after class. Well this happened three days in a row however....on the third day I happened to stop by the library and get the same book so when she took mine....I pulled out the libraries copy. Yup you guessed it, got sent to the principals office. She didn't even give me back my book to read while I waited in the office!
I got a three day suspension, in fifth grade, when I snapped on the local bully, after he'd spent a week tormenting me. Kicked his books out of his hands (was aiming between the goalposts, but he jumped back), kicked him in the stomach (got him good with that one though, again, missed my target), was setting up to kick him in the ribs while he was on hands and knees heaving for air, when a teacher pulled me away. Bully got a week's suspension, I got three days.
In my high school, everyone was wearing T-shirts with beer, marijuana, ciggerettes, girls wearing REALLY short skirts, all sorts of stuff. Dad gave me a shirt with the Playboy bunny head on it, no words. I was called into the office. Principal called mom, told her to come to school & bring me a shirt. Prinicipal & I sat staring at each other - guess he thought I was going to be in trouble. Mom got there, thinking I was hurt or had an accident. He told her the shirt was unacceptable. She told me to go to class, did not make me change my shirt. As I’m walking down the hall I hear her yell, “YOU STOPPED MY DAUGHTER’S EDUCATION BECAUSE OF A SHIRT?!!” I didn’t hear the rest of the words, but I heard her all the way back to my class. Thanks, mom!
I was in 6th grade (12 years old) wearing a t-shirt that had a pic of the band members of Guns N Roses on it, and Slash was wearing a t-shirt that said Sh!t Happens. But the "I" was covered by his necklace so the full word wasn't there. I got sent to the principal for wearing a shirt w obscene language on it. My principal was 5'10" at the most, my Dad is 6'6". Guess who didn't get in trouble at home, had her suspension retracted, and who was also allowed to wear a t-shirt that had Bart Simpson on it saying, War is Hell, the next day without getting in trouble lol
I "borrowed" my uncle's white cowboy hat in HS, wore it slung down my back as I went to classes. During lunch study hall in the auditorium, I put it on. Teacher proctor in the balcony gave me detention for "distraction". I was mad, cause a classmate had on a neon pink & yellow Mondrian mini dress with matching beanie all day, and I was in study hall.
My sister got in trouble once for telling her teacher he has spelled Assess wrong. He argued and said that he was right and there were supposed to be a double s in the middle of the word. She went back and forth with him for a while before she finally caved and said "Yes. You're right there is a double s in the middle. That doesn't change the fact that you just wrote Asses on the board." She got detention separately for cursing and arguing with him.
Uf, in this post, public schools/private schools/alternative schools all sound like prison camps run by low-IQ sadists.
I've always had really bad anxiety and once in 7th grade my math teacher called on me to get up and solve a problem at the chalkboard, well I looked around at the entire class staring at me and had a panic attack, the teacher sent me to the principals office for "faking a fit to get out of classwork"
We had English class (foreign language) and kids were going wild screaming and shouting. Teacher couldn't maintain herself. She told me (1st row in front of her) to start reading from my book. I keep reading amidst chaos. Suddenly she starts screaming and turns to me and says "I told you to read, and you are playing mute" to which I told her that if she can't maintain order in class it's her problem, not mine. She took me to the principal's office and next day she apologized to me
Oh ho ho have I got a fun story for you. We’re outside at break and because the majority of the school was homophobic, i of course being me brought in a big rainbow flag. I got a lot of comments but one student kept coming up to me and asking to see my flag, obviously in a mocking way. He then tries to grab it off me, and punches me in the stomach. I punch him in the face and his glasses break, he runs away (with my flag) and throws it in the bin. The school got the police and I now have ‘assault’ on my record.
When I was about 6 or 7 I got in trouble for being too good at reading - I was reading The Hobbit by myself at home and didn't see why I had to 'read' glorified picture books at school. I would perhaps have benefitted from learning about being tactful when criticising!
We had this one guy he fought the English teacher like all the time (retrospectively all female teachers, but only she fought back) he was sent to principal like almost weekly. It went this far that they started with 5 min fights, and it ended with him saying 1 word or making 1 hand gesture and he had to go. They even wrote in his school certificate his disrespect against women. Which basically was a lowblow to find an apprenticeship or work later. But he had it coming. Alot was his upbringing, so I would say he was not 100% at fault, but he should have learned and adapted.
I was always sat up front by the chalk board w my back against the class bc I couldn't stop talking I'm 5th grade. I still would talk then they put me in the hall. I still talked bc now I was going to be rebellious until they sat me outside. I only did this on one class bc I hated that teacher he was a prick.
Girl tried to turn off my computer, becasue I guess talking to the girl next to me about school work was pissing her off? I blocked the power button, and she proceeded to twist my wrist, and I did NOT fight back, becasue I know the school system im in. I reported her, and guess what. I still. got. lunch detention. Same as her.
This entire thread is full of people who have apparently never made a mistake an d are always right and way smarter than anyone no matter their level of experience. These people are all clearly geniuses that should just do whatever they think is best because the first thing they think of is way better than any time tested example.
Another time I got in trouble for saying a classmates mother was weird. The woman was always dirty and stunk - i don't think she washed - and had a room in her house (I'd gone once for a birthday party) FILLED with old dolls. Like the real creepy possibly Chuckie type dolls that could possibly come alive and murder you. I did not enjoy that party.
When I was in preschool I got in trouble at least once a week for not wanting to have nap time. I just wanted to do art or read, not sleep! It got to the point they told me to just "lie there and act like everyone else"
One day in kindergarten I had a really bad cough so during naptime they had me sleep on a couch in another room. They didn't give me a pillow or a blanket so I was uncomfortable and cold. I got up to get some from the floor, got caught and got in trouble. Another time we had a "bring your favorite plushie to kindergarten" day and I got mine taken away for the entire day when they found out my plushie had a name. It was a red nosed reindeer plush so I had named him Petteri. FYI Rudolph is called Petteri in finnish. It was a completely innocent name. I was so sad when I had to be the only kid without a plushie the entire day.
In middle school, I got in trouble because a girl threw a wadded up piece of paper and hit me in the head. I got suspended from the bus for a few days because I got angry?? But the joke was on them because I had to stay after school for those days anyway for band practice, and my mom just had my older brother drop me off in the morning for a few extra bucks for gas (he was in high school). My mom was so pissed tho as it went on my "record." I was a damn good kid... didn't get me far tho.
i was a quiet kid in high school but still got sent to the dean for: refusing to included the 'under g-d' part of the pledge of allegience since it wasn't in the original; later refusing to say it at all after my lai massacre; staying bathroom too long when i had a period leak; telling a teacher he was rude for calling another student 'snotty'; demanding an apology from same teacher for calling me a name. btw, my family was/is military so it seemed that i was more aware of politics/the war than my peers or teachers so that also got me into trouble as i 'wasn't supposed to pay attention when i couldn't even vote yet'.
If people actually want their kids to have a good education they need to ask the Principal a few questions: (a) how many bullying incidents per semester? If the number is >1 then reject the school. (b) Do you impose any religious practices or deploy any? If the answer is "any" in any form, reject. (c) Do you allow advanced kids to learn at their own pace or do you hold them back for the dumb kids? If the answer is "hold back", reject the school. (d) Do you tolerate group punishment? If the answer is yes, reject. (e) Do you hold your teachers accountable for marks/scores? Or do you blame the kid? If the answer is "kid", reject the school. (f) Do you have specific rules about dresscode/hairstyles which are gendered or about aesthetics rather than practicality like sunburn avoidance? If so, reject. I could go on for hours. MOST schools are s**t and teach kids to be s**t and the cycle continues. Please watch "Another brick in the wall" by Pink Floyd. That is basically most schools.
