Post #134533
2026-01-14 17:33 UTC
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@miguel@fedia.io 2026-01-14 18:17
Grade 6. I had the correct info on a book report (from the World Book Encyclopedia) but my teacher refused to accept them as correct. I "disrupted class" by telling her she was incorrectly giving me a D, and read the relevant passage from the encyclopedia. Sent to the principal, who said "You're right, we'll have your grade changed, but go have a seat out there for a bit and wait so she doesn't feel insulted" One of my truly radicalizing moments about speaking truth to power.
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@Sybilvane@lemmy.ca 2026-01-14 17:53
On 9/11 we were told something bad was happening in the US, but no details. The teachers decided there would be no class for the rest of day, instead we'd have in-class recess until school ended. We were not informed about what was actually going on, just told to play. I got in trouble for having fun while playing, because it was disrespectful.
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@gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 2026-01-14 17:37
Me and another kid got detention for fighting. At my house. On a Saturday.
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@Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 2026-01-14 19:44
I asked my French teacher what a comment he’d written at the bottom of one of my test papers said, because I couldn’t read it. Apparently it said: “Your handwriting is atrocious.” He refused to believe I wasn’t taking the piss out of him and I ended up having to ‘explain myself’ to the head.
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@cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-01-14 22:23
I beat a teacher at a typing test (speed, which is raw speed with mistakes subtracted; aka WPM, words per minute). He said it wasn't fair that I found a "better" way. Right fingers on Shift and Enter (and maybe right thumb on Space), and left hand doing the rest of the work. He said that's not the right way to type, even though he couldn't type as fast as me. So he took me to the office and said I cheated on the typing test. To pass the class, he made me learn the "normal" way of typing. So I did, and I beat him again, this time with office staff watching. This was in the early to mid-1990s. No computers, no phones, no Google. I don't envy today's kids.
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@justdaveisfine@piefed.social 2026-01-14 17:52
We discovered our teacher had a secret water bottle that was actually full of alcohol and called her out on it. She couldn't write us up for anything 'official' but we were suddenly getting written up for dozens of incredibly ridiculous things. I got written up for looking bored in class.
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@greenskye@lemmy.zip 2026-01-14 20:26
The reason isn't really silly, I get it, but the punishment was. In high school I spent *a lot* of time reading. Basically every lunch, every study hall period, etc. I read a fairly significant chunk of the library. Problem was that I also tended to read during boring lectures in class, which pissed off a couple of my teachers and resulted in not great grades. But all of their punishments were designed to punish people who hated to read. So my math teacher finally snaps and sends me to in school suspension... where I sit in a room and the monitor on duty is absolutely delighted that I sat there the entire day to read and even lets me go early for such good behavior. I was later kicked out of honors courses and put into a remedial study hall situation. Again with a monitor who was supposed to make sure people were actually studying. Only way to get out of this was ... a library pass. Where I could freely read whatever I wanted. Never did spend much time in study hall.
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@almost1337@lemmy.zip 2026-01-15 00:20
4th Grade - my friends and I used to fold up pieces of paper into 'guns' that we would play with. They basically looked like a big L. It was right when zero tolerance policies started to get implemented, so of course I got 3 days suspension for my paper. That same year another kid got the same for an action figure gun. 11th Grade - in computer science class all of our exams were written only. I finished my test early, then went to a computer to work on my coding project for that week. The teacher I guess first thought I was cheating on the test, so called me to the front to make an example of me. When she learned I had already turned in my test she changed the charge to using the school computers for non school activities. When I demonstrated that I was working on my project she changed again to say that using the computer was against the agreement we all signed at the start of the year regarding appropriate use of the school computers. I asked to see what part of the agreement I had violated, and she pulled out the sheet to show me. When that didn't back her up she again changed her approach, this time writing me up for Saturday detention for "not bringing my book to class". I went to the Vice Principal to contest the entire issue, but he just told me to go to the detention anyway. I ended up spending an hour cleaning marker off of the walls.
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@Soulphite@reddthat.com 2026-01-14 17:52
In the fifth grade we were doing some group project thing where we had our desks grouped together while we were working on it. There were probably four of us in each group. One of the girls (we will call her Ashley) in my group was acting wildly, and I blurted out loudly "Ashley is having an orgasm!" There was a pause of silence and an eruption of laughter and a scolding cry from the teacher calling me to her desk and out into the hall. She marched me to the principals office. I am utterly confused at this point. I sat outside the principals office for what felt like an eternity while my teacher and her were discussing what to do with me. They called me into the office and had my mother on the phone and handed the phone to me and made me tell her what I said. I am still so confused, and I asked them and they all told me what I said was highly inappropriate and I received a three day suspension for sexual harassment. You see, I did not know what this word I had said actually meant, what I was trying to say and mean was "spasm" but neither authority figures nor my mother believed me. If you're wondering if this was too harsh, this was in the bible belt south in the mid 90s. Not in an exactly progressive state in the US. Fuck those bitches, im still bitter about that!
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@dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2026-01-14 18:51
- Got in trouble for painting, or rather inking, a still life assignment in art class in black and white. - Was threatened with a zero and write up for "lack of effort" for handing in a typed book report at the end of the same class period in which it was assigned. Don't get mad at *me* because you assigned a book I'd already read and refused to allow me to choose another. - Threatened with expulsion after being called onto the carpet in the principal's office for a Very Stern Talk with a policeman present and everything for having a doodle of a benzene ring on the cover of my chemistry class notebook, because this was apparently "bomb making plans." A demonstration that the school issued textbook for this very same class was just chock-a-block full of not only this but illustrations of similar molecules was not received well by the administration ("backtalk") but ultimately I escaped unscathed. - Sent to detention for my first and only time for gainsaying my biology teacher during a tirade delivered to the class early in the semester on the topic of, "Microscopes are important because you can't see no cells with just your eyes [sic]," and I responded by not raising my hand per se, but rather holding up a hard boiled egg from my lunchbox. - Subsequently determined undetentionable during that selfsame detention due to the mandatory assignment therein, which was a photocopied form letter thing which was obviously designed to make you feel very very sorry and very very guilty about what you did with a writing prompt at the top demanding a minimum of three full paragraphs on the topic of, verbatim: "Explain why you are here." No further instructions. I started with the big bang and worked forward from there, and I got to about page four of meticulous blackletter script on both sides of each sheet of paper before the teacher supervising the detention room finally noticed (probably due to the bold text) and whisked one off of my desk, briefly skimmed it, and then threw me out. I was not allowed to keep what I had written. For all I know it's still pinned to the wall in the staff room, decades later. - The reason for the blackletter script was because I wrote everything with a mildly customized vintage Sheaffer fountain pen specifically to annoy that same teacher. I imagine this also annoyed several others, although one or two were appreciative. For instance, my 11th grade math teacher bribed me with extra credit by having me hand letter titles on things for her that she'd photocopy and use as handouts, or whatever. Numerous attempts were made to bring the hammer down on me for this in some form or another, none of which were successful. I have more. These are the most amusing ones. Yes, I was an incorrigible little shit when I was in school, mostly because I won't countenance bullies of any stripe. Being bullied by other kids is bad enough; If you're a teacher, do better.
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@ch00f@lemmy.world 2026-01-14 18:16
Changing a monitor's resolution from 1024x768 to something useable.
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@HurricaneLiz@lemmy.world 2026-01-14 18:29
I got a detention for looking at a teacher "weird" in 9th grade. I was the only one in detention and he stared at ME weird the whole time, then tried to block the door on my way out. I slugged him in the stomach to get by and he never reported it, so that confirmed the creepy. I got sent out to the hall whenever I had hiccups in 8th grade. They were too loud, apparently, and the teacher thought I was faking in order to disturb class.
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@Vanth@reddthat.com 2026-01-14 18:06
Catholic school with uniform including khaki pants. I started my period and bled thru. I swapped to sweatpants. Most teachers just figured I must have some reason and didn't bother me. A couple asked after it, one accepted my reason and offered to to let me out of class to have a little more time to cleanup or call home or whatever I needed to feel comfortable. The last one gave me detention for being out of uniform. School administration reversed it when they heard why I was being sent to detention. I was advised to just go to the main office if it ever happened again so they could help me instead of having to deal with each teacher myself.
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@papalonian@lemmy.world 2026-01-14 20:04
I've told this story before and I'll tell it again. 4th grade Teacher of the Year winner and current sitting member of the school board Mrs. S. had a strict rule when lining up after recess: "Straight line, no talking, no touching." The bell would ring, and we'd all run to our respective, numbered spots on the playground, in a straight line, without talking, and certainly not touching, one another. Then, Mrs. S. would walk out to us, and we'd recite the line: "Straight line, no talking, no touching." And she'd lead us inside. One day, returning from recess, the kid in front of me, Joe, was crying while standing on his number. Foolishly, I set my hand on his shoulder, and asked, "Are you alright?" Mrs. S. arrived just in time to rectify the situation. I watched as she strode up to me, staring daggers into my soul, and I yanked my hand off of my fellow student's shoulder, but the damage was done. Towering over me, inches away, she shouts to the class, "Class, what is the rule?" "Straight line, no talking, no touching." "Papalonian, what is the last part?" "No touching." "No... Touching." I received my first and only citation for the rest of my elementary school years. Ever thankful will I be for learning the lesson that empathy (towards someone I didn't even like) shall never be tolerated when the **rules** forbid it.
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@Lorindol@sopuli.xyz 2026-01-15 14:32
In the sixth grade I got my first detention ever because I picked up my baseball cap. We were on a field trip and we went to visit some museum in the capital by train. While we walked back to the train station, our teacher stated that "no one is to step out of the train before her permission or they will get detention". I was the last to get on the train and my cap hit the backpack of the classmate in front of me and fell out of the train doors. I instinctively turned around, leaned out whist holding onto a safety bar and picked my cap. And stepped back on board. I was a calm kid and had never broken any school rules or gotten into any trouble whatsoever. So when my classmates saw me putting one feet outside the train they simply flipped: "TEACHER, LORINDÓL STEPPED OUT OF THE TRAIN! YOU'RE GETTING A DETENTION!" I was utterly dumbfounded. My "friends" had betrayed me and the teacher was approaching and looking angry. With tears in my eyes I explained what had happened and reminded her that we still had more than 10 minutes until the train doors would even close. Her face went from angry to sad and she silenced my heckling classmates with a few strict words. She told me that we would discuss this when we were back at school. When we got back, everyone else got to go home and the teacher asked me to our classroom with her. "Lorindól, I'm very sorry. I have to give you detention because you did step out of the train, even if it was for all the right reasons. I understand you acted instinctively and did not mean to break any rules. But I must keep my word or it will lose it's meaning. As stupid as this sounds, the purpose of this detention is not to punish you. It's purpose is to show the others that my word is the law in this classroom, with no exceptions. I hope you can understand why I must do this." I thought about it for a while and said that I did. When I told my parents about the detention my dad couldn't stop laughing. "You finally get a detention and it's for NOTHING!" Mom was so angry that she wanted to call the teacher and make her call the detention off. I managed to talk her out of it and didn't hold any grudge against the teacher. I learned a lot about the world of adults that day.
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@truite@jlai.lu 2026-01-15 09:37
I needed to pee. I had to bring a doctor's note saying that, yes, I needed to pee.
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@OmegaPerseidTwitch@piefed.social 2026-01-14 18:00
I got in trouble for putting eye drops in a teachers coffee. I had the flu that day, the day before, and the day after. Got suspended for 3 days and told to write an apology letter. Rumors are fun my friends.
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@marighost@piefed.social 2026-01-14 20:23
I can think of two stupid ones right off the top. In my highschool freshman year, in our multimedia & webpage design (a very barebones graphic design/learn how to use Microsoft Office class), I got in sent out of class for doing all of my work at home (I used GIMP and a pirated copy of Sony Vegas at home). That same teacher also gave me a long lecture about viruses for visiting downloadmoreram.com. In middle school, maybe 6th grade, we were split into groups to do some group project. Everyone was talking, working on their posters, chitchatting, normal kid stuff. For reasons I do not know, I had like sat down and shifted weird, and my throat made a strange, quite loud, involuntary noise. Kind of like a weird yelp? I did not mean to make this noise, but regardless, everything got super quiet, and the teacher asked "who yelled?" I stood up, explained that I did not yell, and accidentally made that noise. Teacher didn't believe me and sent me to the office. I'm still confused about that one.
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@dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 2026-01-15 01:37
Sweet tap-dancing christ, this whole thread. If there's anything I've learned today, it's that some teachers are the most petty dictators that cannot tolerate being proven in the wrong, nor can handle having their decision making skills challenged. They're out there doing real lasting damage to people and their ability to think critically. It's almost enough to make me want to go into education, just to displace one of these tyrants. Sincerely, I'm sorry all of you had to go through any of this. Here's hoping you have support and find closure.
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@YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world 2026-01-15 09:57
It's a universal thing I think. So many little injustices that stay with us well into adulthood! I have two. One goes way back to when I was 6, some 42 years ago. We were on a field trip to a beach in the summer, which, given we live on a group of small islands, wasn't exactly imaginative, but I guess the teachers just wanted out of the classroom. Anyway, the task was to collect seaweed. I came back with a bit of kelp, with the 'leaves' missing, so I guess it looked a bit like wood. The teacher seems to think so, and insisted that it was just a wooden stick. It clearly wasn't, as anyone who paid the blindest bit of attention would know. My dog could tell the difference. Proof:  But she dismissed my weak protest and that was that. It was at that point, I guess, I learned a valuable lesson: some adults are fucking stupid. The other incident was when I was 9. I was a good, polite boy in school and was never cheeky. Anyway, at the end of each day, we had to stand and be quiet for 30 seconds before we could leave class. On this occasion I had the hiccups. The teacher held me back for half an hour and lectured me on respecting authority. She genuinely thought my hiccups, which are involuntary by definition, we're put on deliberately to provoke her. Needless to say, that reinforced the lesson I'd learned with the seaweed.
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@Jerb322@lemmy.world 2026-01-15 02:48
High school bathroom during lunch. 15 or so guys, handful smoking. Saw a guy making a smiley face on the ceiling with a cigarette lighter. It just leaves a soot mark that wipes away easily. No sooner do I attempt to do the same thing, the principal walked in and saw me... "YOU!" he yelled. "You're going to HQ!" Like he was a cop or something. Cops came, he said that he wanted me charged with attempted arson. He took the cops to the bathroom. When they came back, the cops were kind of laughing at the principal. Got charged with criminal damage to property, but it got dropped, because the mark could be wiped off easily.
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@mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2026-01-15 02:50
we were building a snow fort and I was punching a hole into a snow block next thing I know, a teacher is telling me I have to go inside because I punched a kid in the face I had to sit in detention, as like a first grader, and have the older kids guide me through it. I was so confused. pretty sure I was crying. no adult helped me, that I can recall. either this kid hated me and made some shit up, or they were so fucking stupid and enough of a little bitch that they walked right behind and stuck their face where I was repeatedly punching the snow and got hurt without me feeling the impact. and on that day, my mistrust of authority was born. no amount of insistence would sway them. I must be punished.
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@swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-01-15 05:15
I once got detention for not getting a practice test signed by my parents. I'd scored a 92, but apparently everyone else bombed, so they wanted everyone to get theirs signed, I figured that since I'd done well that it wouldn't apply to me. Oops.
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@HetareKing@piefed.social 2026-01-14 18:45
This was in elementary school. It was pretty cold, even inside, so I was blowing into the inside of my elbow to get warm air into my sweater. I'm not sure how, but I messed up the alignment or something and ended up making a loud fart noise. And without getting any opportunity to explain, I was made to stand in the hall.
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@smeg@infosec.pub 2026-01-14 20:55
I got beat up by a guy twice my size who was just in a pissy mood. "Participated in a fight, in school suspension"
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@Hapankaali@lemmy.world 2026-01-14 19:05
I was walking through the canteen with some classmates. One of them stole a sugar cube intended for coffee from the canteen. A teacher, apparently feeling Biblical, punished the whole group with an hour of detention.
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@DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2026-01-14 19:29
When I was in NYC schools, I used to play with rubber bands, and I'd fold paper into tiny "bullets" and I'd "slingshot" them at things for fun... I mean, I was like probably 9 years old and smartphones weren't even a thing yet and I had no DS like some rich kids in my class did (early 2010s for context). So, anyways, I was messing with ciphers with another kid, and we were in the same grade and same class in the afterschool program we went to, so we'd kinda pass notes to each other using the cipher, by slingshotting the piece of paper. So I was nearsighted. I can't aim properly. I was trying to aim like at that kid's desk, I accidentally hit the staff/teacher/volunteer (idk what he even count as, don't think they are officially licensed teachers, it's some non-profit program and there were a bunch of volunteers, probably doing it as community service hours for college or something)... dude got mad at me and I got in trouble, and because I was in a foreign country, I felt very vulnerable, I felt scared, and I just cried... The other time was like in a different afterschool program. I think it was like 3rd grade, and they played some holiday music around december, I remeber it feeling very like Christmas... but anyways, idk what happened, I think the music just triggered my sensory issues or something (I have no diagnoses of anything btw), so I just felt this sudden urge... so I went up to the smartboard thing and turned down the volume. The white lady teacher got so pissed at me, she marked my behavior chard to red (I think I remember she was also my homeroom teacher, so she had control over the behavior chart thing), red is the worst, yellow is a warning, green is good behavior. It wasn't even official class time, it was afterschool. Why does behavior outside school hours even count? So I couldn't go on school trips until I "behaved" again. Like... I just cried... Yes I cried very often... I was a scared little kid in a foreign country and had no idea wtf is going on. I remember being excluded from a lot of trips, and have no clue wtf was happening around me. Like... seriously I didn't even damage anything... the music was just hurting my ears... my sanity... Why yell at a 9 year old child that doesn't even speak much English? Fucking karen. So I kinda just feel very intimidated by teachers from that moment on. I think I vaguely remember a few dreams in my late teens, like way after my family left NYC, where I remember, in the dream, being trapped in an elementary school classroom, from where I was waking up so anxious...
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@TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 2026-01-14 18:02
Worked in school. One of the teachers gave a paper to be signed by the parent at a kid because he didn’t tie his shoes, which was ridiculous because he didn’t have time to get out of his winter clothes.
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@abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 2026-01-15 05:06
Zero tolerance era. Grade school (I think 4th?) I'm reading one of those books that's just like "Medieval History" with a bunch of pictures and the history on what the items was. (I think this one was about spies or James bond or something). Kid comes up to me actively reading and says "I was reading that, you took it from me!" Basically escalates it to "I'm gonna fight you" and starts sort of dragon ball z style punching me in the stomach a bunch of times really fast. Parents told me not to let that slide and to fight back, so I cock back and punch him in the face. Right as the teacher walks through the door. I was in 4th grade, I didn't deck the kid, but I did hit him. Whole deal, go to the office, explained what happened. "Zero tolerance, 3 day suspension" Dad asks what happened, explained, got 3 days off school at home fishing and playing video games. Best time I had at that school, also completely broke my faith in that system, so win win.
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@whelk@retrolemmy.com 2026-01-14 19:03
I got sent to the wall for going down the slide. I was never told why going down the slide was punishable this time, but thanks for teaching me to have a healthy mistrust of authority early in life
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@BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2026-01-15 13:07
During band, I left my trombone on the stand, and went into the instrument room to get something out of my case. When I returned and tried to play my horn, it was badly muffled. I tried to open it up with a blast, and a bunch of paper fell out. While I was gone, my section mates had torn up a piece of paper and stuffed it in my bell. It wasn't what they were hoping, the paper more fell out than blasted out, but I got the detention anyway, even though I was the innocent victim of a vicious prank. I survived. It was the trombone section, I was guilty of numerous other infractions I was never punished for.
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@klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol 2026-01-15 03:24
I was in second grade, it was for reading. I don't remember what book anymore, but it was age appropriate. I was just reading the wrong thing during reading time.
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@lorski@sopuli.xyz 2026-01-15 17:06
Calling my teacher a dog after he called me a horse. This is no joke, my mother was called in.
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@BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 2026-01-15 23:12
I was caught making out with my girlfriend. I should mention that this was an all-girl Catholic ~~cult~~ school in the early 80s. Not only was I _expelled_ but my parents moved us to a _different country_ because _they_ were so ashamed.
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@LeapSecond@lemmy.zip 2026-01-14 20:50
Not exactly in trouble but in middle school we got yelled at a lot for staying inside during recess. We were supposed to go outside and leave the hallways empty. For context, in winter the school turned on the heating (at a minimum) for about 2 hours out of the 6 we were there. The rest of the time the building had a similar temperature to outside. So we'd take advantage of those hours and, during recess, we'd just flock around the radiators in the hallways and stand there talking instead of freezing outside. Some teachers really didn't like that and made it their job to shoo us away.
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@starlinguk@lemmy.world 2026-01-14 20:28
We had a music teacher who, without fail, yelled "What's the point of this class? You can just as well leave" during every class. So one class, all of us left. We got detention and had to write lines. One of the girls had an entire box of scented pens in different colours and she put them all on a table. Then each of us wrote an entire page of stinky, multicoloured lines. I'm sure he didn't read them all but I bet he had a headache in no time.
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@Stegget@lemmy.world 2026-01-14 21:04
Principal threatened to expel me senior year because I was fidgeting with one of those switchblade-combs because it was a facsimile of a weapon. The only reason I had it was because we used it as a prop in the school play the week before.
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@kaulquappus@feddit.org 2026-01-14 22:30
It was in elementary school. We had a multiple choice test and we had to check the circles next to the right answers with an x. Instead, I put smiley faces in all the right circles and "frowny" faces in the wrong ones and was very proud of the whole sheet. I didn't really get into *trouble*, but the teacher was mildly upset and I think I had to go over it to do it the "right" way :(
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@SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2026-01-14 18:10
Grade 12. A few of us knucklheads heard there was a golden locker at North Toronto High school, the exact locker of Neil Young. So we rode up there on 3 motorcycles to see for ourselves. Got in trouble with principals at two schools and the local newspaper referred to us as a biker gang. 
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@chunes@lemmy.world 2026-01-14 20:25
got suspended for calling some kid a dickhead (who deserved it btw). Seems a bit harsh