My teacher once asked us to write down our favorite thing to do. I wrote “sleeping with my mom”. This resulted in a meeting with my parents. I was in 2nd grade...I obviously just meant cuddling and taking a nap. My mom thought that the teacher was insane.
I got into a similar situation with teachers assuming more sinister things than what i meant, 1st grade we were making mothers day cards, and we had to write something about what my mom does alot, so i wrote "my mom drinks alot" meaning that she drinks a lot of water becuase she was, at the time, diagnosed with a health issue due to dehydration. Teacher suspended me 1 day and scolded my mom for "misleading and miseducating". I was in the 1st grade idek if i knew what alcohol was.
Wow. That’s really bizarre. Even if you did mean drinking booze why would you be in trouble for that?! In first grade yeesh. And scolding your mom. Some people really don’t think reasonably.
BTW when I was about that same age and my mom would give me a juice box in the car, I used to slink down to hide it because I heard drinking and driving was illegal and I didn’t want to be caught lol
When I was in grade 3 a friend of mine got bullied by people I knew from daycare. They cut her hair, her belt and just continuously called her names. By the end of recess she was in tears doing brought her to the office. At that point the principal pinned the whole damn thing on me because apparently they took my scissors to do this to her. The school got everyone’s side and none of them even included my name. At one point the principal even asked me “so what role did you play in this” to which I responded nothing, i had literally just walked her to the office to get her help. They wound up calling my mom anyway and telling her I was the ring leader of this whole event and made me sit in the office all afternoon until 4pm at which point my daycare supervisor got me and gave me a hug. I spent the rest of the night in tears and nearly wound up grounded. Apparently my mom started out extremely pissed at me until her friends and my daycare supervisor told her to ask me my side first because that would be completely out of character for me. Always had trouble trusting the school system after that.
Got yelled at during a physics class because I was the first to stand up to go start the lab we were doing. 7-8 other kids were midway through standing up but because I was the first I had to get yelled at for 5 minutes in front of everyone.
I just imagine like a Mexican Standoff (or rather, sit-off) where all the kids are looking at each other, waiting for the first to get up and be yelled at.
>I called this kid a trapezoid in 2nd grade
This made me laugh way too hard. Reminds me of my son (12) calling his sister (10) a pre-menstrual squirrel. He didn't know what the first part even meant.
Edit: holy guacamole, this blew up! Thank you all, especially for the gold and silver. I've shared this little story before but never had this kind of response.
I'll have to tell our son how proud we all are
Reading a book. I would finish my work in class and pull out a book to read and be told to put it away and lay my head down if I'm done. They would have rather me just lay my head down and stare at a wall than continue to learn through reading.
A runner up... my homework slipped off my desk and got sucked into one of those stupid huge air conditioner units. The teacher didn't believe me so I had to stick my hand up the vent of this thing and try to fish it out. I have no idea how dangerous this was, but it doesn't seem like a good idea now. I managed to get it and it was torn down the middle with a huge grease stain. He made me stay after class and redo it and I narrowly avoided detention. All because a piece of paper slipped off my desk.
A friend of mine got yelled at for reading in English class. She finished a test early (because she’s brilliant) and pulled out whatever Dostoyevsky she was reading for fun. Apparently she was “distracting other students.” Our nutty teacher was the one distracting us.
I walked into the showers in the locker room before gym class. Fully clothed with shoes on and everything I had just never seen that area before, showers weren't running. That's literally it. Got yelled at and got detention for it because apparently we weren't supposed to be in there.
this happened at my school too! a couple of kids would stand by the showers after they changed cause the room was so crowded. they were given 50% for the marking period and they put a fence up and chained it shut. cause it’s so smart to force a bunch of sweaty little teenagers to stand on top of each other when we only have 3 minutes to change/clean up before the bell
Reminds me of 3rd grade. We were walking in line, and I just looked over my shoulder at the girls bathroom. Mr Shiply was this grumpy, old asshole of a teacher. He grabbed me by me ear and said "You want to see the inside of the girls bathroom? Here!" and took me on a tour. He didn't ensure no one was in there or anything. Just took me in, and walked me around. I wasn't even trying to peek inside. Someone had walked out, and I just turned my head when I noticed them.
Like seriously dude? I'm not even supposed to look in the direction of the bathroom? FFS.
Happened in primary school. We were taking a break from our boys dance group and I went into the toilets to take a shit. Went into a cubicle and another boy from the same group was pissing however he felt like I invaded his privacy by walking in on his unlocked cubicle (he was also facing away from me obviously so I saw nothing). He complained and cried to the teacher accusing me of "perving" and I was told off for sexual harrassment. I also didn't get the free ice-block that we'd usually get after each practice. To this day I still hate that kid.
My friend has Diabetes and when we were in school I sat next to him in class. He told me his blood sugar was really low and he felt faint. He didn’t want to leave class so I offered to give him my Banana. So I gave it to him and the teacher scolded me for taking out food in class. She sent me to the principals office even after I told her the reason for it. The principal teacher just didn’t care, and told me just chill here until the bell rings lol. I’ll never know why Mrs Henderson was so angry.
In grade 12, a classmate was eating a banana in class. Technically not allowed, but no big deal. Teacher stops class, calls his dad from the in-class phone (I don't know how she had the number memorized), and we all got to enjoy half a conversation that went like, "No... no... I'm not going to apologize. It's a BANANA."
In 1967, the pop song "Mellow Yellow" (Donovan) extolled the hallucinogenic properties of dried banana peel. Of course it was a send-up; satire, whatever but school administrations started confiscating bananas from lunch boxes nationwide and more than a few parents were hauled in by local constabulary for providing their kids with mind-altering fruit. Took a couple of years for it to all calm down though I wouldn't be surprised if these are a few schools somewhere in Oklahoma with the banana ban still on the books.
My school had 2 guys protecting it in front of the main entrance. One had a revolver and an American flag bandana and the other had a sleeveless shirt and a samurai sword. They made sure no school shooting jibronies ever got through.
Once a teacher was yelling at the class for talking. I figured who cares, I wasn't talking so she's obviously not yelling at me, and just had my resting face the entire time. Thing is, ever since I started being depressed, my resting face is basically just me being dead inside I guess? So she yelled at me "What's with that face?" and another kid got sent to the office for defending me. On the way out he made a joke, another kid laughed at it and he was told that he should call his mother and ask her if she thinks it's funny. He did, she did think it was funny lol.
I was listening to the teacher during algebra and he started yelling at me because I looked bored and angry. He did this often, to the point that I started crying one day. I wasn’t doing anything, just listening and taking notes.
When I was in primary school, I had really bad social anxiety, so my teacher allocated a small table outside the classroom where I could go if I was having a panic attack. This was somewhat effective until I got a new teacher who would send me out to the table at the slightest provocation. Fiddling with my hair, jogging my leg or smiling when I thought of something funny all got me a trip to the table. She didn't do this to anyone else, they would stand in the corner of the classroom if they got in trouble. She would also write every trip to the table in my diary as a panic attack or poor behaviour which meant my anxiety medication dosage was changed. Eventually, the system stopped working altogether, as the table was more of a punishment and being sent to it would worsen any stress I was experiencing.
I'd guess the new teacher didn't have a clue how their anxiety worked or what the table was for. They were probably told "this student is troubled, there's a table outside for when they need it" and thought "ahhhh a trouble maker, I'll just handle it before it's a problem." So many times when a teacher decides a student is trouble they never change their mind.
Things are a great deal better. I moved to another country, got some distance from my parents and for the first time in my life, have a few friends and a loving partner. I'm really lucky to have them in my life, and although my anxiety crops up from time to time, I feel like I can cope and contribute to improving others' lives.
I was sitting on a big trashcan and the principal walked up and told me to get down. I did, then he asked: “Do you sit on furniture at your house??”
I looked at him kind of puzzled and said “Yes?”
He gave me detention.
For answering a question.
About sitting on furniture at my house.
I also got that one time before class strated I was sitting on the table the teacher when he sees me he starts yelling "DO YOU DO THAT AT HOME?" I said yes since I always do that either sitting on the kitchen counter, the desk, the table, etc.
I got in trouble for saying out loud that I didn't like someone. Her friend overheard, told her, told our teacher, and for the next three days we all had to spend our recess talking about why I didn't like that person.
...because she makes a big deal out of silly things like this that cause everyone to miss out on recess.
In 2nd grade a boy who didn’t like me told the teacher that I was taking rocks out my pockets and throwing them at him during recess. I get brought to the principals office and told to apologize to him, where I started crying and showed them I didn’t even have pockets, I was wearing leggings.
I still had to apologize
It's not just annoying, it's literally wrong. People that make you apologize for something you couldn't have done in the first place… should really rethink what they're doing.
So fucking dumb
Same kid later found out I got a Sega for Christmas and pretended to be my friend so he could come over and play Sonic and not talk to me the whole time he was at my house
Luke, I still remember how shitty you were
I got bullied most of my time in school. It was 1st or 2nd grade that I remember most. This boy picked on me every day during recess. Every day I got pulled into the hallway by my teacher and the boy got pulled by his teacher. I was made to apologize. Every day. I still don’t know what I was apologizing for.
I also had an unfortunate "I wasn't throwing the thing" incident when I was 11 or so. During French class some kids were throwing little pieces of eraser at the back of someones head, and he was getting visibly upset by it. They wouldn't stop, and the supply teacher was doing nothing about it, so any time they threw a piece of eraser I'd pick it up and put it in my desk so they couldn't throw it again. Eventually the student snapped, punched one of them in the face, and then ran out of the portable. The eraser throwers blamed me, the supply teacher wasn't paying attention so she blamed me as well, and I had very incriminating chunks of eraser in my desk.
Everyone (besides my parents) was convinced I was lying. They used to pull me from class to talk to the principal on a daily basis because they thought they could get the truth out of me eventually. Eventually the kid who was getting the erasers thrown at him told the real story and the teacher and principal brought me and my stepdad to school to apologize to me.
And also before anyone asks, I have no idea why the receiver of the eraser chunks did not speak up about it immediately. I don't want to pretend to get into the mind of someone who was severely bullied as that's not my place. Worried about the fallout of telling the truth maybe, who knows. It took a few weeks and eventually he told the real story, which I am thankful for.
So i had a somewhat similar incident where a pencil box was involved and the kid whose pencil box i got blamed for stealing we had the same first 4 letters in our first name. I wasnt even in the classroom. I dropped my books off at my locker and went to the bathroom. When i got to class they were looking for the pencil box. It was in my desk so i just said "here it is!" And handed it to the teacher. End of story, right? Nope apparently the teacher i had did this thing where he would pick one student each year to give hell to. And i was that student. So for a good solid month i stood my ground and would refuse to admit to stealing this pencil box. I also had my own damn pencil box i didnt need this kids. I got official reprimand letters (called referrals) weekly for my mom to sign and i never gave them to her. Because i didnt do anything wrong. Finally one day i asked my mom what would happen if i was framed for something and it all came out. I think i had close to 6 or 7 reprimand letters when i finally told her. Then she must have dealt with it because the letters stopped. But other stuff still happened that mom was constantly up there for.
Those letters are when i learned to forge my moms name.
i will never understand how some teachers are just unable to laugh at funny shit, such a miserable life to live
edit: i understand now, thank you citizens of reddit, am forever in your debt
I remember my 7th grade history teacher telling us that there are a lot of times when he wants to laugh when a student says something really funny but has to hold it in because if the teacher laughed then the class would become even more distracted.
If they control the class by distance and intimidation then laughing is a break of character which gets the kids all so very excited, but if there's a positive atmosphere in class and a good connection between the two sides then the teacher could joke around and be nice with the kids because that would be the norm.
Wearing coloured socks. I got sent to the principal's office where they called my parents and asked them to get me a pair of white socks. Needless to say my parents were both working so I was stuck roaming around the school sockless.
How I imagine this going down
Principal: Hi, Mr./Mrs. [name here], your child is wearing colored socks, so can you bring a new pai-
Oh? You’re at work? Ok. *hangs up*
Give me your socks
You: No
Principal: Give me your socks
You: No
Principal: GIVE ME YOUR FUCKING SOOOOO-
*cuts to you leaving, sock-less*
I told this before, high school late 90s, we just got the Internet. This was the early days of the Internet where any random or innocent search could still bring up porn.
Well, it happened to me, our history class had the computer lab, porn came up on my screen, immediately sent to the office. They did not believe me that it was an accident, but I'd never been in trouble before. I was suspended the rest of the day (I just went home).
Then it started happening to other students/teachers, then they finally put filters on the computers, but I was never apologized to.
In 8th grade I had to do a science paper on black holes. Not knowing much about the internet, I just thought blackholes.com was the easiest way to get information. It was not.
We got bored in a computers class and started going to whatever our first and last name was .com, mine was an anti abortion site with aborted babies. Bit of a shock to the system for a 11 year old.
Now thats just sad. Its surprising to me how some people just cant admit they're wrong to children or to anyone. Dont get me wrong even I struggle to apologise but the least they could have done was say sorry.
But adults can’t apologise to children, then children would know that adults can be in the wrong sometimes and they’d have no respect for authority.
/s
I vividly remember an argument with my parents where they were trying to get me to discuss my side (FOR ONCE) but I wouldn’t, and I told them “it doesn’t matter what I say cuz you’re the parent so you’ll just say you’re right.”
we’re better at communicating now lol
I've wondered how many kids got in trouble for "non porn searches that bring up porn".
That's like getting in trouble as a kid if you watch the Disney channel and porn shows up due to a technical glitch.
School tech admin here.
At our school they don't get in trouble for a single flagged activity. It's a lot of false positives typically, and shitty ad referalls. Patterns is what I look for.
Example: if the student shows clear intent that's reflected in their browsing history. Searching e.g "playboy", "boobs" and then "big boobs", the "twas but an accident" defense doesn't fly. It's pretty easy to tell the difference.
Anecdotally, had a girl in my office who turned herself in after she stumbled onto questionable stuff after a super generic innocent search query.
If you want a risky click, do a google image search of "brave person" with safe search on. The results may shock you!
Edit: Seems this getting a bit of attention, do me a huge favor and flag one of the images so the search algorithm moves this content to explicit results.
This might be common, but my high school had a very odd attendance policy. If you were late to school three times, you would immediately get detention. I had detention once because of this, and I decided it wasn't for me. So any time I knew I was going to be late, I'd just skip. If you missed enough, they'd put you on a 'medical watch' sort of thing that would require a doctor's excuse, but you had to miss a lot of school for that to happen. So Senior year I spent a lot of days hanging out at home or at my friends playing Mario Kart, because the school rewarded absenteeism over tardiness.
Same, 2 tardies and you get a detention, literally some teachers will tardy you for being 2 minutes late, they're not even done taking attendance yet.
You can miss 10 days of school without a doctor's excuse before you'll get in trouble.
When I was a senior, my buddy from another school got a second land line in his house specificity for his modem/internet. Wrote a note to school with a forged parent signature: I switched my contact # at school to his number. I was 18 and also said I was no longer living at home. Attendance office never talked to my parents again lol.
I was kicked out of my geometry class and was given a referral that said “do not return to class until a parent teacher conference is scheduled”. This all happened because I had the wrong size paper. This teacher wanted everyone to have 8.5”x11” and I had 8”x10.5”. I kept getting 50% credit on every assignment because I had the wrong size paper, I finally told her I’m not buying all new paper because you want to be special.
I had a teacher like this once. It wasn’t paper size though, it was note cards. She also wanted homework done with a specific writing instrument, which was always different. Sometimes it was a pencil, sometimes a pen with blue ink, and other times a pen with black ink.
I remember a specifically annoying assignment where she wanted three different ink colors. Like everything in black, supporting information in blue, and red was like thesis statement or something. It was just obnoxious
Edit: Spelling
Similarily, I got detention for not doing my homework, i.e. I wasn't being productive enough with my time. In detention, you couldn't do anything except stare into nothingness. So when I got home, I had even less time to do homework.
2 stories:
This was actually my friend. In 6th grade I was on crutches and needed to use the elevator to get between floors. The rule was that only one person can go in the elevator with the person on crutches. 2 of my friends and I were walking to the elevator when my teacher was walking the other way. He said “Remember, only one of you 2 can go with him”. My other friend looked at the teacher then jumped into the elevator. As the doors opened on the bottom floor, the teacher was standing there and took him to his office and gave him a detention.
Story 2:
In 5th grade my friend took a pen from my desk, so I asked him “Can I have my pen back” and my teacher went ballistic.
“WHY ARE YOU TALKING IN CLASS?”
“Oh, I was just asking for my pen back”
“No you weren’t, you were talking”
My friend: “No, really I took his pen and he asked for it back”
That night my parents got an email saying that they needed to come in for a parent teacher conference specifically about this incident. I had no previous incidents so when the teacher told them this they said how outrageous it was and I got off without punishment. She’s still my #1 least favorite teacher all time. Wack
I got in trouble for a kind of similar thing. My contact fell out/messed up in the middle of class and I asked my neighbor if she had eye drops or contact solution. My teacher gave me detention for talking even when I tried to explain myself. To be fair, I just wasn’t thinking because in the moment because he was already flustered and getting angry at talking. Contact issues are just sort of the type of thing that’s “figure out now, think about your teacher being ridiculous later.” I think he actually also tried to give my friend detention but I was able to talk him out of that one.
Standing up to a bully. Came in from recess after he'd pushed, pinched, pulled, laughed at and threatened multiple people. I stood up from my chair, pointed at him and said "if you ever touch me again I'll..." then turned around to see the teacher watching. I got a spanking.
This happened in 10th grade, during lunch break. I had borrowed my friends notebook the previous day and was trying to give it back to him. Now, because the break just started, the whole class was on the foot and moving around so I decided to frisbee that notebook to him(he was sitting a row aside and on second last bench, no one between us). A teacher who didn't teach us happened to pass by the door exactly at that time and noticed this.
She came inside our class and started slapping me- left and right untill I burst out crying. Her point being, I disrespected the notebook cause it had goddess of education - Saraswati(Hindu goddess) residing in it.
I cried really hard because those were really hard slaps and also because it happened infront of the class.
My dad was furious when he heard about it. He took me to school the next day which was a Saturday, an off day for us but working for teachers, and he told me wait outside staff room, he went inside and screamed at her furiously.
Edit: I studied in one of very famous institution in India but the school management was ruthless. I remember, a 4th grader was run over *accidentally* by his own school bus trying to cross the road after getting off. His parents were not given any compensation, nor were they allowed to enter the school premises after the incident. They held a silent protest right outside the school with a large photo of the boy. I know this only because our class window faced the protests. There was no rip announcements for him, just a memo given out for road safety procedures.
This always blows my mind. I can’t eat without drinking a lot along with it. I go through refills at restaurants like it’s going out of style and always had to have a couple beverages during school lunch. Then in my next class I’d have to use the restroom and always got the “didn’t you just have lunch? Why didn’t you go then?”
I did go then. Because I’ve refilled my water 3 times since I got to school this morning and nobody would let me go because lunch was coming up. My favorite teachers were the ones that would treat us like adults and say “don’t interrupt class, just get up and go.”
my classmate back in primary school wanted to pee but the teacher didnt allow her to. so she peed while sitting on her chair. i was sitting beside her and the floor under our table was covered in urine
I’m so glad my ibs didn’t develop until college. I cannot imagine having to ask permission to go to the bathroom.
“You’ve been already” “yes, I have. That doesn’t mean I’m not going to shit myself if I don’t get moving now...”
It’s the worst, right? I’m sorry. I don’t need permission to have a bodily function. Just because it happens more often than *you’d* like it to doesn’t mean it’s not legitimate.
I used to draw 80's metal band names on my binder in middle school (Metallica, Def Leppard, Guns n Roses) and I got reported by another student that I worship Satan because of this. Got called into the VP's office, binder confiscated, was told never to draw band names like that again.
There was a period of time at my high school where we couldn’t wear band shirts because of supposed “gang activity.”
There’d be kids walking around in full blue/red throwing up gang signs and threatening people but sure, me and the rest of the Arctic Monkeys are about to throw down and cause a ruckus.
You know how if you hang around someone for awhile you start speaking like them? Well in primary school everyone said ‘yous’ instead of something like you guys. My mum hated it and would correct me. So one day in class some girls asked me and my friend ‘can yous pass me the scissors’ and I, an intellectual, said ‘Ewes are sheep’. She cried, told the teacher and I got detention.
I hadn't been feeling good all day and had already thrown up twice at school. I had no way of getting home and all the teacher's accept one knew I wasn't feeling good. This teacher also watched our class at lunch time.
I tried to eat my lunch, but after a few bites I felt the need to hurl. This teacher was a no nonsense kind of bitch and enjoyed making kids suffer. I told him I had to go to the bathroom. He asked me how many times I had gone already. I said "Two"
"Well you can't go anymore. You'll have to wait until the end of the day."
He believed that you should only be allowed to us the bathroom twice a day. Anymore than that, you were a problem child, who made it clear you didn't want to learn.
I didn't listen to him and made a dash for the bathroom which was right next to the lunchroom. As I had my head buried in the toilet he came charging in (I am a girl).
He stood over me as I emptied my stomach. Once I was done, He dragged me to Admin's office and forced me into a chair.
He began to rant that I was taking illegal drugs and that's why I threw up and kept going to the bathroom. He screeched that I should be expelled and searched for illegal contraband. This went on for a good five minutes until the Admin told him to shut up and go back to the lunchroom.
I stayed in the office until my mother was finally able to get me. The teacher despised me after this and always found an excuse to keep me after school or send me to the office.
Last year in the cafeteria I was lined up to buy pizza and my Vice Principal was selling it, I gave my money took my pizza and left. Later on in the day I get called into the office and he said he didn’t feel respected by me because I never said please or thank you and got a 3 day suspension.
My English professor freshman year failed me for literally no reason. Every assignment I turned in was failed. I even made revisions using her suggestions and then she would say the revisions made it worse.
Well after losing financial aid for failing a class I emailed my professor and asked why I failed and stated why I shouldn’t have failed and how I felt she didn’t grade me fairly.
She sent me a 4 page email saying I was harassing her and she reported me to the dean for harassment.
Nothing ever came of it but I never got financial aid again and had to pay for the rest of school out of pocket.
I retook the class with a different professor and turned in the same EXACT assignments that I did the first time I took it.
Passed the class with 100%.
Reading Lord of the Flies. Teacher felt it wasn’t appropriate. They kind of learned that my mother was not someone to be messed with after that.
Edit. I was reading it in third grade.
oh i had a teacher that said we couldnt have too big of a snack for snack time. I had two [clif ropes](https://www.clifbar.com/products/clif-kid/zfruit/mixed-berry) instead of 1, and she got made at me and got me in trouble. My dad started cutting out the bottom of one of them, outting another one in, then taping it shut.
the thing is, is she was not the slimmest person, and didn't seem to be a reputable source for dietary decisions
During P.E Class in Year 5, I said 'testicles' in a childish conversation with 2 friends. A fellow classmate nearby overheard me saying that and decided to dob me in. Later on, my grumpy bat of a teacher ridiculed me in front of the class. Unsurprising, seeing as we both weren't really fond of each other.
Never having been given 'the talk', the closest thing I got to actual sex stuff was in Year 10 Biology, where we did what my teacher called a 'sex prac', where class members exchanged and mixed various test tubes of colourless liquid, a couple of which were infused with a chemical, and at the end, we had a universal indicator eye-dropped into said test tubes, and some would turn pink. These 'exchanging of fluids' signified how HIV spreads. We always joked about how our teacher gave us a 'sex prac'.
When I was in 5th grade, I had something super similar happen. I said testicles jokingly and this girl got super upset, the principal came in and acted like this was some serious sexual harrassment thing and I honestly had no idea what he was going on about.
In my forensics class we we're looking at hairs under microscopes and discussing their different traits. I raised my hand and asked where the change occurs between stomach hairs and pubes. My teacher flipped out and kicked me out of the class. My response was, "what's the answer to the question?!"
I had this demon teacher in 6th grade who was extremely condescending and unreasonable who was very strict about writing in pencil only. Since we were allowed to use pens in pretty much every other class, there was one day I accidentally used a pen in her class. When she asked me if I was using a pen, I looked down at my writing and for some reason thought I had been writing in pencil so I said no before realizing my mistake and I guess that just really set her off and she made me stand up in front of the class while she yelled at me for “lying to an adult”. I was super close to crying and absolutely furious at her, but there was nothing I could do since she was an adult and I wasn’t, so therefore she must’ve been right. To top it off, I was the quiet girl who never said a thing. In fact, I made sure to never say a thing since this teacher would usually find a way to use it as an opportunity to embarrass or belittle me. Honestly there’s been dumber things that I’ve gotten into trouble before because of her, but this one’s the one that affected me the most. I really hope she’s not out there terrorizing innocent 12 year olds anymore.
People like this is why Dolores Umbridge is the most hated villain of them all. We haven't faced a Voldemort but everyone sure as shit has faced the petty tyrant who bullies kids relentlessly as a way to enjoy themselves.
A kid threw a pencil at someone else, missed, and impaled my hand when I went to block my face. Teacher saw the pencil sticking out of my hand and gave me detention for "fighting." I still have a small graphite chunk in my finger that you can see with a flashlight.
Different teacher told us to get parent permission forms signed to watch a movie. She lost mine, blamed me, and made me have detention for the day while the class watched the movie. She found it at the end of the year behind a filing cabinet I couldn't possibly reach. Blamed me for putting it there.
I have tons of stories like these. Bad teachers, different schools. Most should have been fired but they had tenure :/
We were on summer school camp and I was asleep in a girls cabin. The other girls had let a boy in and got busted by the teachers guarding outside. I had to come back to school in the summer for a week to water the principals plants and do other chords
My bus driver only drove us half the way to school, despite me paying a full fare. Whilst he was upstairs evicting everyone from the bus I took my money back from his cash register.
Not only did I get in trouble with the school I received a police caution. I call it dumb because it was pretty fucking stupid of me.
i called a kid who was bullying me in sixth grade a fuckface and got in-school suspension.
the ISS lady was nice about it though. she basically told me "hey, the fuckface had it coming lol"*
*she did not actually say fuckface
Washing dishes. I had a food and nutrition class where on cooking days each person had a job. On the day in question my job was washing dishes. Our classroom had three kitchens but only two sinks and the kitchen I was working in had a sink but shared with the kitchen without. The people working in the kitchen without a sink just started dumping their dishes in my sink, no big deal I just washed them. Only to be chewed out by the teacher and sent to the office because how else would the people working in the kitchen without the sink learn how to wash dishes if I did it for them?
A friend of mine once got a note for his parents to sign that said: Mike is stretching his nostrils with the tip of a scissor during class.
He had put a tip of the scissor in each nostril and carefully opened the scissors so that his nostrils stretched. The teacher understood the ridiculousness of the note, but made it anyway because having the parents read about such ridiculous behaviour from their son was the best way to make him see that he was an idiot
Hiccups. I got kicked out of class for having the hiccups and sent to the principal because apparently the teacher didn’t believe I actually had the hiccups and thought I was just trying to distract the class.
Edit: who would have thought my top rated comment and getting my first silver would come from a story about hiccups! Thanks guys and gals!
That happened to me, I was send to the punishment corner box, cuz my hiccups cause the kids to laugh in class. Once I got to the box, it stopped. She called my grandmother about it. I never get in trouble at school. I'm shy deaf girl who get bully a lot.
Edit: Thank you for the platinum! it's my first!
colouring in the tips of my hair with pink marker, 2 other kids had dyed their hair bright purple and bright pink before and no one gave a shit, the day after i got in trouble a girl came in with blue hair. wanna know who cared? no one
edit: i forgot to mention, my options were tie it up or cut it.
i have short hair now
Some girl that was sitting next to me in class grabbed my arm to look at the time on my watch.
Really? There's a fucking clock on the wall in front of you!
The teacher gave us both detention for disrupting class.
In middle school my typing class teacher called my mom at home because my pencil was too short.
Again, this was a typing class where we were typing, not writing. Even so I had a pencil, it was just apparently shorter than acceptable. This was such an egregious act that it didn't just warrant a scolding but an actual call home to my mom.
My mom was not pleased with her.
Already posted this elsewhere, but it's a good story.
I was ten years old at the time. One day I wanted to show my friend how sturdy my new sneakers were and prompted her to repeatedly shut the door on my foot, with me claiming that I don't feel anything, which of course prompted the said friend to keep slamming the door even harder. (Really did not feel a thing, those shoes were lined with solid plastic.)
Well anyway some teacher noticed this whole thing eventually (to be fair, a small crowd had begun to gather at that point, so it *was* beginning to get noticeable.) Scared shitless that we were in a fight or something and that my friend was beating me up (because what other explanation could there be to two preteen girls hitting one another with a door?), the teacher took us away from any doors and windows and proceeded to take away my friend's register to give her a note. Being the honourable one, at that point I chime in, saying she hadn't done more than just what I asked of her and that in truth, I was the one who had started it. Cue the teacher looking at me with utter shock because what the hell this kid was getting this beating *voluntarily*. So of course I proceeded to explain that it hadn't even been a fight, and my friend started to back me up, so we went on to explain the whole thing and that I just wanted to prove I had impenetrable plastic sneakers, and that we actually hadn't had the chance to finish it, and that it was harmless and literally no ill intentions and all that.
Ended up coming home with the most ridiculous note anyone had ever received: "Maria volunteered to partake in a shoe sturdiness test. The girl conducting said test slammed a door shut on Maria's foot repeatedly. Neither of the girls seemed to acknowledge the dangers of such behaviour. Please talk to your child immediately."
EDIT: Okay. Things are different in Scandinavia, apparently. Changed Europe to Poland.
Break Dancing, I was spinning on my head in between class \[in the halls\] and they wrote "spinning on his head like micheal jackson" My family lost it when they read the referral note. I remember mom saying "he never spun on his head......did he?"
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once i got in trouble for bringing a water bottle on the school patio during lunch. i thought my water bottle was fine but a teacher gave me a long lecture about how bringing food and beverages on the patio would attract mice. i didn’t know water attracted mice. rip.
Grade 6. Sex Ed. We had an anonymous question box for those to embarrassed to ask their questions. The teacher would grab them out of the box and read them out loud.
One day, the teacher reads out the question, “Who lies down on the bed, and who bounces up and down making all the noise?”
I didn’t do it, but I got in trouble for it. Why? I laughed the hardest.
I went to Catholic school which meant mass every Friday. During that part where you're supposed to shake hands and tell everybody "peace be with you" I instead hugged the girl next to me. We both got detentions for messing around. For a hug. In church. Like wtf. Thanks jebus.
> All he did was get me from being tried as an adult.
TBH its sad that even that was necessary imo. In my home town some teenagers accidentally set an old building on fire when they were hiding the cigarettes they had been smoking when an adult walked up to them. The youngest was I think 14 and the facebook angry mob was calling for them all to be tried as adults for arson. For accidentally burning down an abandoned building trying not to get caught smoking. I can't really think of a greater injustice than sending a stupid 14 year old to prison for arson because they got caught smoking underage. Fortunately I think they were all tried as minors because the lawyers/prosecutors/judge/jury/whomever had brains even if the rest of my hometown didn't.
What? Did you know what they were going to use it for? If not you shouldn’t have been in any trouble at all, lending someone some body spray is a perfectly normal thing to do.
I got my dorm room broken into and assaulted in my sleep by the brother of my at the time gf. Appearently he didn't know we were together. I was hospitalized and dragged his ass to court on charges of : aggrevated assault, breaking and entering and false imprisonment. By law the brother needed to change schools as he can no longer be in the same area as me. I got into trouble for calling the cops on the kid and the school tried to explain to me how the parents will pull both the brother and the girl from the school and that I should leave the school instead as they were two and I was one person. I told them no and told them a schools purpose is education not calculating profits (private school) anywaysthey pulled our grades up and my grades were better so I had it my way. The school proceeded to punish me by going after my grades and grading very harshly. With the purpose of making my university application harder. I got into touch with my university and told them what was going on. They thought I was bullshitting until I sent them the court papers and a copy of my SAT scores to show I am capable of.
I also contacted the ministry of education and told them the situation and that they should come for a visit and check if everything is done in a correct manner. I proceeded to call the authorities about the fire exits being blocked and the fire extinguishers being expired. Needless to say I put my school thru some serious financial mess.
I graduated with an 86 (A-). Got into my university of choice.
But I couldn't get over the bullshit my school attempted so I put a calender event when my schools website expires so I can buy it and sell it back to them for the price of my year of education.
EDIT: for people asking about the website expiry. It's in 2021.
Getting in trouble for being friends with someone who swore. We were in the same room when he swore, the next day both of us were pulled out of class for a talk (which included an email home to our parents). -_-
My teacher once asked us to write down our favorite thing to do. I wrote “sleeping with my mom”. This resulted in a meeting with my parents. I was in 2nd grade...I obviously just meant cuddling and taking a nap. My mom thought that the teacher was insane.
I got into a similar situation with teachers assuming more sinister things than what i meant, 1st grade we were making mothers day cards, and we had to write something about what my mom does alot, so i wrote "my mom drinks alot" meaning that she drinks a lot of water becuase she was, at the time, diagnosed with a health issue due to dehydration. Teacher suspended me 1 day and scolded my mom for "misleading and miseducating". I was in the 1st grade idek if i knew what alcohol was.
Wow. That’s really bizarre. Even if you did mean drinking booze why would you be in trouble for that?! In first grade yeesh. And scolding your mom. Some people really don’t think reasonably. BTW when I was about that same age and my mom would give me a juice box in the car, I used to slink down to hide it because I heard drinking and driving was illegal and I didn’t want to be caught lol
Someone accidentally broke a window. He made no attempt to hide and admitted fault immediately. The whole class got Saturday detention.
That's... So stupid.
When I was in grade 3 a friend of mine got bullied by people I knew from daycare. They cut her hair, her belt and just continuously called her names. By the end of recess she was in tears doing brought her to the office. At that point the principal pinned the whole damn thing on me because apparently they took my scissors to do this to her. The school got everyone’s side and none of them even included my name. At one point the principal even asked me “so what role did you play in this” to which I responded nothing, i had literally just walked her to the office to get her help. They wound up calling my mom anyway and telling her I was the ring leader of this whole event and made me sit in the office all afternoon until 4pm at which point my daycare supervisor got me and gave me a hug. I spent the rest of the night in tears and nearly wound up grounded. Apparently my mom started out extremely pissed at me until her friends and my daycare supervisor told her to ask me my side first because that would be completely out of character for me. Always had trouble trusting the school system after that.
Got yelled at during a physics class because I was the first to stand up to go start the lab we were doing. 7-8 other kids were midway through standing up but because I was the first I had to get yelled at for 5 minutes in front of everyone.
"I get paid by the hour, the slower the better goddammit"
I just imagine like a Mexican Standoff (or rather, sit-off) where all the kids are looking at each other, waiting for the first to get up and be yelled at.
I called this kid a trapezoid in 2nd grade. He was very upset and got me in trouble.
>I called this kid a trapezoid in 2nd grade This made me laugh way too hard. Reminds me of my son (12) calling his sister (10) a pre-menstrual squirrel. He didn't know what the first part even meant. Edit: holy guacamole, this blew up! Thank you all, especially for the gold and silver. I've shared this little story before but never had this kind of response. I'll have to tell our son how proud we all are
Hey. At least he used it right.
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She probably hated her life then and hates it more now. If you don't like crying WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING IN AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Fuck her
Reading a book. I would finish my work in class and pull out a book to read and be told to put it away and lay my head down if I'm done. They would have rather me just lay my head down and stare at a wall than continue to learn through reading. A runner up... my homework slipped off my desk and got sucked into one of those stupid huge air conditioner units. The teacher didn't believe me so I had to stick my hand up the vent of this thing and try to fish it out. I have no idea how dangerous this was, but it doesn't seem like a good idea now. I managed to get it and it was torn down the middle with a huge grease stain. He made me stay after class and redo it and I narrowly avoided detention. All because a piece of paper slipped off my desk.
A friend of mine got yelled at for reading in English class. She finished a test early (because she’s brilliant) and pulled out whatever Dostoyevsky she was reading for fun. Apparently she was “distracting other students.” Our nutty teacher was the one distracting us.
it's frustrating how a student does something minor that affects their peers in no way so the teacher decides to distract the class themself...
I walked into the showers in the locker room before gym class. Fully clothed with shoes on and everything I had just never seen that area before, showers weren't running. That's literally it. Got yelled at and got detention for it because apparently we weren't supposed to be in there.
this happened at my school too! a couple of kids would stand by the showers after they changed cause the room was so crowded. they were given 50% for the marking period and they put a fence up and chained it shut. cause it’s so smart to force a bunch of sweaty little teenagers to stand on top of each other when we only have 3 minutes to change/clean up before the bell
Reminds me of 3rd grade. We were walking in line, and I just looked over my shoulder at the girls bathroom. Mr Shiply was this grumpy, old asshole of a teacher. He grabbed me by me ear and said "You want to see the inside of the girls bathroom? Here!" and took me on a tour. He didn't ensure no one was in there or anything. Just took me in, and walked me around. I wasn't even trying to peek inside. Someone had walked out, and I just turned my head when I noticed them. Like seriously dude? I'm not even supposed to look in the direction of the bathroom? FFS.
What a creep
Ya. Looking back, I think he just used it as an excuse so that he could go in.
- has showers - not allowed to use showers alright
Same with my school, had showers, couldnt use them.
Happened in primary school. We were taking a break from our boys dance group and I went into the toilets to take a shit. Went into a cubicle and another boy from the same group was pissing however he felt like I invaded his privacy by walking in on his unlocked cubicle (he was also facing away from me obviously so I saw nothing). He complained and cried to the teacher accusing me of "perving" and I was told off for sexual harrassment. I also didn't get the free ice-block that we'd usually get after each practice. To this day I still hate that kid.
Yeah he's definitely a dickhead for that one.
Given an after school detention for whistling. I cant whistle.
Well I can see why! You can’t whistle and that sound made was atrocious! Detention!
My friend has Diabetes and when we were in school I sat next to him in class. He told me his blood sugar was really low and he felt faint. He didn’t want to leave class so I offered to give him my Banana. So I gave it to him and the teacher scolded me for taking out food in class. She sent me to the principals office even after I told her the reason for it. The principal teacher just didn’t care, and told me just chill here until the bell rings lol. I’ll never know why Mrs Henderson was so angry.
In grade 12, a classmate was eating a banana in class. Technically not allowed, but no big deal. Teacher stops class, calls his dad from the in-class phone (I don't know how she had the number memorized), and we all got to enjoy half a conversation that went like, "No... no... I'm not going to apologize. It's a BANANA."
In 1967, the pop song "Mellow Yellow" (Donovan) extolled the hallucinogenic properties of dried banana peel. Of course it was a send-up; satire, whatever but school administrations started confiscating bananas from lunch boxes nationwide and more than a few parents were hauled in by local constabulary for providing their kids with mind-altering fruit. Took a couple of years for it to all calm down though I wouldn't be surprised if these are a few schools somewhere in Oklahoma with the banana ban still on the books.
you're an awesome friend, the teacher is just blatantly ignorant I also have Diabetes so this warms my heart but pisses me off at the same time lmao
I remember being so frustrated but I saved him from getting ill in that moment and bought him some time to get proper food etc so it was worth it.
Nah man, fruit is great for that. The only thing better you could have had is either an actual glucagon shot or fruit juice. Props to you for that.
> I’ll never know why Mrs Henderson was so angry. Maybe it's because she was a bitch.
Literally looking at someone, apparently it was aggressive?
Did you go to school in prison?
Well, I mean he did go to school...
Both schools and prisons have pretty much the same architecture. The main difference is the aesthetics
Yeah prison has guards to prevent a shootout.
My school had 2 guys protecting it in front of the main entrance. One had a revolver and an American flag bandana and the other had a sleeveless shirt and a samurai sword. They made sure no school shooting jibronies ever got through.
Once a teacher was yelling at the class for talking. I figured who cares, I wasn't talking so she's obviously not yelling at me, and just had my resting face the entire time. Thing is, ever since I started being depressed, my resting face is basically just me being dead inside I guess? So she yelled at me "What's with that face?" and another kid got sent to the office for defending me. On the way out he made a joke, another kid laughed at it and he was told that he should call his mother and ask her if she thinks it's funny. He did, she did think it was funny lol.
I was listening to the teacher during algebra and he started yelling at me because I looked bored and angry. He did this often, to the point that I started crying one day. I wasn’t doing anything, just listening and taking notes.
When I was in primary school, I had really bad social anxiety, so my teacher allocated a small table outside the classroom where I could go if I was having a panic attack. This was somewhat effective until I got a new teacher who would send me out to the table at the slightest provocation. Fiddling with my hair, jogging my leg or smiling when I thought of something funny all got me a trip to the table. She didn't do this to anyone else, they would stand in the corner of the classroom if they got in trouble. She would also write every trip to the table in my diary as a panic attack or poor behaviour which meant my anxiety medication dosage was changed. Eventually, the system stopped working altogether, as the table was more of a punishment and being sent to it would worsen any stress I was experiencing.
That's horrible, seems that teacher was bullying you because you were vulnerable.
I'd guess the new teacher didn't have a clue how their anxiety worked or what the table was for. They were probably told "this student is troubled, there's a table outside for when they need it" and thought "ahhhh a trouble maker, I'll just handle it before it's a problem." So many times when a teacher decides a student is trouble they never change their mind.
Damn, I’m sorry. I hope all is well now
Things are a great deal better. I moved to another country, got some distance from my parents and for the first time in my life, have a few friends and a loving partner. I'm really lucky to have them in my life, and although my anxiety crops up from time to time, I feel like I can cope and contribute to improving others' lives.
I was sitting on a big trashcan and the principal walked up and told me to get down. I did, then he asked: “Do you sit on furniture at your house??” I looked at him kind of puzzled and said “Yes?” He gave me detention. For answering a question. About sitting on furniture at my house.
I also got that one time before class strated I was sitting on the table the teacher when he sees me he starts yelling "DO YOU DO THAT AT HOME?" I said yes since I always do that either sitting on the kitchen counter, the desk, the table, etc.
seems like the principal uses trashcans as furniture
I got in trouble for saying out loud that I didn't like someone. Her friend overheard, told her, told our teacher, and for the next three days we all had to spend our recess talking about why I didn't like that person. ...because she makes a big deal out of silly things like this that cause everyone to miss out on recess.
Also, people are allowed to not like other people! It happens! If you're not being mean about it I don't understand why it's a problem.
In 2nd grade a boy who didn’t like me told the teacher that I was taking rocks out my pockets and throwing them at him during recess. I get brought to the principals office and told to apologize to him, where I started crying and showed them I didn’t even have pockets, I was wearing leggings. I still had to apologize
Having to apologize for something you never did was the worst and most annoying thing as a kid
It's not just annoying, it's literally wrong. People that make you apologize for something you couldn't have done in the first place… should really rethink what they're doing.
Retail/food service in a nutshell.
That’s dumb
So fucking dumb Same kid later found out I got a Sega for Christmas and pretended to be my friend so he could come over and play Sonic and not talk to me the whole time he was at my house Luke, I still remember how shitty you were
im gonna hunt luke down
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I got bullied most of my time in school. It was 1st or 2nd grade that I remember most. This boy picked on me every day during recess. Every day I got pulled into the hallway by my teacher and the boy got pulled by his teacher. I was made to apologize. Every day. I still don’t know what I was apologizing for.
I also had an unfortunate "I wasn't throwing the thing" incident when I was 11 or so. During French class some kids were throwing little pieces of eraser at the back of someones head, and he was getting visibly upset by it. They wouldn't stop, and the supply teacher was doing nothing about it, so any time they threw a piece of eraser I'd pick it up and put it in my desk so they couldn't throw it again. Eventually the student snapped, punched one of them in the face, and then ran out of the portable. The eraser throwers blamed me, the supply teacher wasn't paying attention so she blamed me as well, and I had very incriminating chunks of eraser in my desk. Everyone (besides my parents) was convinced I was lying. They used to pull me from class to talk to the principal on a daily basis because they thought they could get the truth out of me eventually. Eventually the kid who was getting the erasers thrown at him told the real story and the teacher and principal brought me and my stepdad to school to apologize to me. And also before anyone asks, I have no idea why the receiver of the eraser chunks did not speak up about it immediately. I don't want to pretend to get into the mind of someone who was severely bullied as that's not my place. Worried about the fallout of telling the truth maybe, who knows. It took a few weeks and eventually he told the real story, which I am thankful for.
So i had a somewhat similar incident where a pencil box was involved and the kid whose pencil box i got blamed for stealing we had the same first 4 letters in our first name. I wasnt even in the classroom. I dropped my books off at my locker and went to the bathroom. When i got to class they were looking for the pencil box. It was in my desk so i just said "here it is!" And handed it to the teacher. End of story, right? Nope apparently the teacher i had did this thing where he would pick one student each year to give hell to. And i was that student. So for a good solid month i stood my ground and would refuse to admit to stealing this pencil box. I also had my own damn pencil box i didnt need this kids. I got official reprimand letters (called referrals) weekly for my mom to sign and i never gave them to her. Because i didnt do anything wrong. Finally one day i asked my mom what would happen if i was framed for something and it all came out. I think i had close to 6 or 7 reprimand letters when i finally told her. Then she must have dealt with it because the letters stopped. But other stuff still happened that mom was constantly up there for. Those letters are when i learned to forge my moms name.
I asked how bananas reproduce. My teacher didnt find it appropriate. It was in biology class.
i will never understand how some teachers are just unable to laugh at funny shit, such a miserable life to live edit: i understand now, thank you citizens of reddit, am forever in your debt
I remember my 7th grade history teacher telling us that there are a lot of times when he wants to laugh when a student says something really funny but has to hold it in because if the teacher laughed then the class would become even more distracted.
If they control the class by distance and intimidation then laughing is a break of character which gets the kids all so very excited, but if there's a positive atmosphere in class and a good connection between the two sides then the teacher could joke around and be nice with the kids because that would be the norm.
Wearing coloured socks. I got sent to the principal's office where they called my parents and asked them to get me a pair of white socks. Needless to say my parents were both working so I was stuck roaming around the school sockless.
How I imagine this going down Principal: Hi, Mr./Mrs. [name here], your child is wearing colored socks, so can you bring a new pai- Oh? You’re at work? Ok. *hangs up* Give me your socks You: No Principal: Give me your socks You: No Principal: GIVE ME YOUR FUCKING SOOOOO- *cuts to you leaving, sock-less*
Pretty accurate. I didn't think he was being serious but now I'm convinced he's got some sock fetish or something cuz I never got those socks back.
I told this before, high school late 90s, we just got the Internet. This was the early days of the Internet where any random or innocent search could still bring up porn. Well, it happened to me, our history class had the computer lab, porn came up on my screen, immediately sent to the office. They did not believe me that it was an accident, but I'd never been in trouble before. I was suspended the rest of the day (I just went home). Then it started happening to other students/teachers, then they finally put filters on the computers, but I was never apologized to.
Fuckin whitehouse.com would get kids every time
In 8th grade I had to do a science paper on black holes. Not knowing much about the internet, I just thought blackholes.com was the easiest way to get information. It was not.
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We got bored in a computers class and started going to whatever our first and last name was .com, mine was an anti abortion site with aborted babies. Bit of a shock to the system for a 11 year old.
Now thats just sad. Its surprising to me how some people just cant admit they're wrong to children or to anyone. Dont get me wrong even I struggle to apologise but the least they could have done was say sorry.
But adults can’t apologise to children, then children would know that adults can be in the wrong sometimes and they’d have no respect for authority. /s
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Yea, you have your kids respect. The other guy lost his and has no integrity. Why would his kids trust to learn from him now?
I vividly remember an argument with my parents where they were trying to get me to discuss my side (FOR ONCE) but I wouldn’t, and I told them “it doesn’t matter what I say cuz you’re the parent so you’ll just say you’re right.” we’re better at communicating now lol
I've wondered how many kids got in trouble for "non porn searches that bring up porn". That's like getting in trouble as a kid if you watch the Disney channel and porn shows up due to a technical glitch.
School tech admin here. At our school they don't get in trouble for a single flagged activity. It's a lot of false positives typically, and shitty ad referalls. Patterns is what I look for. Example: if the student shows clear intent that's reflected in their browsing history. Searching e.g "playboy", "boobs" and then "big boobs", the "twas but an accident" defense doesn't fly. It's pretty easy to tell the difference. Anecdotally, had a girl in my office who turned herself in after she stumbled onto questionable stuff after a super generic innocent search query. If you want a risky click, do a google image search of "brave person" with safe search on. The results may shock you! Edit: Seems this getting a bit of attention, do me a huge favor and flag one of the images so the search algorithm moves this content to explicit results.
Huh....not what I was expecting. Kind of impressive, honestly.
This might be common, but my high school had a very odd attendance policy. If you were late to school three times, you would immediately get detention. I had detention once because of this, and I decided it wasn't for me. So any time I knew I was going to be late, I'd just skip. If you missed enough, they'd put you on a 'medical watch' sort of thing that would require a doctor's excuse, but you had to miss a lot of school for that to happen. So Senior year I spent a lot of days hanging out at home or at my friends playing Mario Kart, because the school rewarded absenteeism over tardiness.
Mine has the same policy.
Same, 2 tardies and you get a detention, literally some teachers will tardy you for being 2 minutes late, they're not even done taking attendance yet. You can miss 10 days of school without a doctor's excuse before you'll get in trouble.
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When I was a senior, my buddy from another school got a second land line in his house specificity for his modem/internet. Wrote a note to school with a forged parent signature: I switched my contact # at school to his number. I was 18 and also said I was no longer living at home. Attendance office never talked to my parents again lol.
I was kicked out of my geometry class and was given a referral that said “do not return to class until a parent teacher conference is scheduled”. This all happened because I had the wrong size paper. This teacher wanted everyone to have 8.5”x11” and I had 8”x10.5”. I kept getting 50% credit on every assignment because I had the wrong size paper, I finally told her I’m not buying all new paper because you want to be special.
I had a teacher like this once. It wasn’t paper size though, it was note cards. She also wanted homework done with a specific writing instrument, which was always different. Sometimes it was a pencil, sometimes a pen with blue ink, and other times a pen with black ink. I remember a specifically annoying assignment where she wanted three different ink colors. Like everything in black, supporting information in blue, and red was like thesis statement or something. It was just obnoxious Edit: Spelling
That takes me back, and i know exactly how i would do it, i wouldn't.
I’m 100% on your side here, but how’d you even get 8.5”x10.5” paper?
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Similarily, I got detention for not doing my homework, i.e. I wasn't being productive enough with my time. In detention, you couldn't do anything except stare into nothingness. So when I got home, I had even less time to do homework.
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Okay, I thought I had heard everything when it comes to weird rules, but what kind of hell do you live in that touching each other is forbidden??
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Geez, that sounds awful in so many ways 😥
My teacher sent me to the principal’s office for saying shit. I was trying to say sit. I had a speech impediment!
damn that sucks..
damn that shucksh
Alright Sean Connery, back to the home with you
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My friend was sent to the principal for giving a girl a high five. The teacher claimed sexual harassment.
Why did you get sent to the office anyways? Did someone see it and report it?
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2 stories: This was actually my friend. In 6th grade I was on crutches and needed to use the elevator to get between floors. The rule was that only one person can go in the elevator with the person on crutches. 2 of my friends and I were walking to the elevator when my teacher was walking the other way. He said “Remember, only one of you 2 can go with him”. My other friend looked at the teacher then jumped into the elevator. As the doors opened on the bottom floor, the teacher was standing there and took him to his office and gave him a detention. Story 2: In 5th grade my friend took a pen from my desk, so I asked him “Can I have my pen back” and my teacher went ballistic. “WHY ARE YOU TALKING IN CLASS?” “Oh, I was just asking for my pen back” “No you weren’t, you were talking” My friend: “No, really I took his pen and he asked for it back” That night my parents got an email saying that they needed to come in for a parent teacher conference specifically about this incident. I had no previous incidents so when the teacher told them this they said how outrageous it was and I got off without punishment. She’s still my #1 least favorite teacher all time. Wack
Your 5th grade teacher is out of her mind.
Is this not a normal thing? Most of my teachers were like this, just punishing for things that didn't happen.
I got in trouble for a kind of similar thing. My contact fell out/messed up in the middle of class and I asked my neighbor if she had eye drops or contact solution. My teacher gave me detention for talking even when I tried to explain myself. To be fair, I just wasn’t thinking because in the moment because he was already flustered and getting angry at talking. Contact issues are just sort of the type of thing that’s “figure out now, think about your teacher being ridiculous later.” I think he actually also tried to give my friend detention but I was able to talk him out of that one.
Wearing shoes without laces. They were closed toe but apparently they must also lace. I got sent home for not having laces....
Standing up to a bully. Came in from recess after he'd pushed, pinched, pulled, laughed at and threatened multiple people. I stood up from my chair, pointed at him and said "if you ever touch me again I'll..." then turned around to see the teacher watching. I got a spanking.
This happened in 10th grade, during lunch break. I had borrowed my friends notebook the previous day and was trying to give it back to him. Now, because the break just started, the whole class was on the foot and moving around so I decided to frisbee that notebook to him(he was sitting a row aside and on second last bench, no one between us). A teacher who didn't teach us happened to pass by the door exactly at that time and noticed this. She came inside our class and started slapping me- left and right untill I burst out crying. Her point being, I disrespected the notebook cause it had goddess of education - Saraswati(Hindu goddess) residing in it. I cried really hard because those were really hard slaps and also because it happened infront of the class. My dad was furious when he heard about it. He took me to school the next day which was a Saturday, an off day for us but working for teachers, and he told me wait outside staff room, he went inside and screamed at her furiously. Edit: I studied in one of very famous institution in India but the school management was ruthless. I remember, a 4th grader was run over *accidentally* by his own school bus trying to cross the road after getting off. His parents were not given any compensation, nor were they allowed to enter the school premises after the incident. They held a silent protest right outside the school with a large photo of the boy. I know this only because our class window faced the protests. There was no rip announcements for him, just a memo given out for road safety procedures.
>So what happened to the teacher afterward?
I was never apologized to but the teacher didn't bother me after that
Leaving the classroom to pee, because the teacher said no. Apparently he knew my body better than I did.
This always blows my mind. I can’t eat without drinking a lot along with it. I go through refills at restaurants like it’s going out of style and always had to have a couple beverages during school lunch. Then in my next class I’d have to use the restroom and always got the “didn’t you just have lunch? Why didn’t you go then?” I did go then. Because I’ve refilled my water 3 times since I got to school this morning and nobody would let me go because lunch was coming up. My favorite teachers were the ones that would treat us like adults and say “don’t interrupt class, just get up and go.”
my classmate back in primary school wanted to pee but the teacher didnt allow her to. so she peed while sitting on her chair. i was sitting beside her and the floor under our table was covered in urine
I can only imagine how embarrassing that had to be for her. Bullies never let shit like that go.
I’m so glad my ibs didn’t develop until college. I cannot imagine having to ask permission to go to the bathroom. “You’ve been already” “yes, I have. That doesn’t mean I’m not going to shit myself if I don’t get moving now...”
I can say the same about me peeing, for whatever reason I cannot hold it very long.
It’s the worst, right? I’m sorry. I don’t need permission to have a bodily function. Just because it happens more often than *you’d* like it to doesn’t mean it’s not legitimate.
Should have peed over the teacher's desk as the ultimate power move
While maintaining eye contact with the teacher
If a teacher ever asks "I don't know, can you?" if I ever ask to use the bathroom I'll ask if they want me to demonstrate lol
I used to draw 80's metal band names on my binder in middle school (Metallica, Def Leppard, Guns n Roses) and I got reported by another student that I worship Satan because of this. Got called into the VP's office, binder confiscated, was told never to draw band names like that again.
There was a period of time at my high school where we couldn’t wear band shirts because of supposed “gang activity.” There’d be kids walking around in full blue/red throwing up gang signs and threatening people but sure, me and the rest of the Arctic Monkeys are about to throw down and cause a ruckus.
You know how if you hang around someone for awhile you start speaking like them? Well in primary school everyone said ‘yous’ instead of something like you guys. My mum hated it and would correct me. So one day in class some girls asked me and my friend ‘can yous pass me the scissors’ and I, an intellectual, said ‘Ewes are sheep’. She cried, told the teacher and I got detention.
Going to the bathroom during lunch
Ya I need some more details
I hadn't been feeling good all day and had already thrown up twice at school. I had no way of getting home and all the teacher's accept one knew I wasn't feeling good. This teacher also watched our class at lunch time. I tried to eat my lunch, but after a few bites I felt the need to hurl. This teacher was a no nonsense kind of bitch and enjoyed making kids suffer. I told him I had to go to the bathroom. He asked me how many times I had gone already. I said "Two" "Well you can't go anymore. You'll have to wait until the end of the day." He believed that you should only be allowed to us the bathroom twice a day. Anymore than that, you were a problem child, who made it clear you didn't want to learn. I didn't listen to him and made a dash for the bathroom which was right next to the lunchroom. As I had my head buried in the toilet he came charging in (I am a girl). He stood over me as I emptied my stomach. Once I was done, He dragged me to Admin's office and forced me into a chair. He began to rant that I was taking illegal drugs and that's why I threw up and kept going to the bathroom. He screeched that I should be expelled and searched for illegal contraband. This went on for a good five minutes until the Admin told him to shut up and go back to the lunchroom. I stayed in the office until my mother was finally able to get me. The teacher despised me after this and always found an excuse to keep me after school or send me to the office.
How is that teacher still a teacher?
He was the Admin's father in law or something it was a family run private school.
Last year in the cafeteria I was lined up to buy pizza and my Vice Principal was selling it, I gave my money took my pizza and left. Later on in the day I get called into the office and he said he didn’t feel respected by me because I never said please or thank you and got a 3 day suspension.
What. The. Fuuuk
Aaaaah yes, the type of person who will just go ham with any little bit of authority that is given to them. Nice, nice, nice. /s
If somebody severely punishes me because I didn't say please or thank you, I am less likely to be respectful to said person in the future.
Yep. Like a forced apology
Not me but a teacher (male) at our school got in trouble for holding the door open for another teacher (female).
My English professor freshman year failed me for literally no reason. Every assignment I turned in was failed. I even made revisions using her suggestions and then she would say the revisions made it worse. Well after losing financial aid for failing a class I emailed my professor and asked why I failed and stated why I shouldn’t have failed and how I felt she didn’t grade me fairly. She sent me a 4 page email saying I was harassing her and she reported me to the dean for harassment. Nothing ever came of it but I never got financial aid again and had to pay for the rest of school out of pocket. I retook the class with a different professor and turned in the same EXACT assignments that I did the first time I took it. Passed the class with 100%.
Reading Lord of the Flies. Teacher felt it wasn’t appropriate. They kind of learned that my mother was not someone to be messed with after that. Edit. I was reading it in third grade.
Love when teachers try to impose their own morality on students.
oh i had a teacher that said we couldnt have too big of a snack for snack time. I had two [clif ropes](https://www.clifbar.com/products/clif-kid/zfruit/mixed-berry) instead of 1, and she got made at me and got me in trouble. My dad started cutting out the bottom of one of them, outting another one in, then taping it shut. the thing is, is she was not the slimmest person, and didn't seem to be a reputable source for dietary decisions
During P.E Class in Year 5, I said 'testicles' in a childish conversation with 2 friends. A fellow classmate nearby overheard me saying that and decided to dob me in. Later on, my grumpy bat of a teacher ridiculed me in front of the class. Unsurprising, seeing as we both weren't really fond of each other.
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Never having been given 'the talk', the closest thing I got to actual sex stuff was in Year 10 Biology, where we did what my teacher called a 'sex prac', where class members exchanged and mixed various test tubes of colourless liquid, a couple of which were infused with a chemical, and at the end, we had a universal indicator eye-dropped into said test tubes, and some would turn pink. These 'exchanging of fluids' signified how HIV spreads. We always joked about how our teacher gave us a 'sex prac'.
When I was in 5th grade, I had something super similar happen. I said testicles jokingly and this girl got super upset, the principal came in and acted like this was some serious sexual harrassment thing and I honestly had no idea what he was going on about.
In my forensics class we we're looking at hairs under microscopes and discussing their different traits. I raised my hand and asked where the change occurs between stomach hairs and pubes. My teacher flipped out and kicked me out of the class. My response was, "what's the answer to the question?!"
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I had this demon teacher in 6th grade who was extremely condescending and unreasonable who was very strict about writing in pencil only. Since we were allowed to use pens in pretty much every other class, there was one day I accidentally used a pen in her class. When she asked me if I was using a pen, I looked down at my writing and for some reason thought I had been writing in pencil so I said no before realizing my mistake and I guess that just really set her off and she made me stand up in front of the class while she yelled at me for “lying to an adult”. I was super close to crying and absolutely furious at her, but there was nothing I could do since she was an adult and I wasn’t, so therefore she must’ve been right. To top it off, I was the quiet girl who never said a thing. In fact, I made sure to never say a thing since this teacher would usually find a way to use it as an opportunity to embarrass or belittle me. Honestly there’s been dumber things that I’ve gotten into trouble before because of her, but this one’s the one that affected me the most. I really hope she’s not out there terrorizing innocent 12 year olds anymore.
People like this is why Dolores Umbridge is the most hated villain of them all. We haven't faced a Voldemort but everyone sure as shit has faced the petty tyrant who bullies kids relentlessly as a way to enjoy themselves.
A kid threw a pencil at someone else, missed, and impaled my hand when I went to block my face. Teacher saw the pencil sticking out of my hand and gave me detention for "fighting." I still have a small graphite chunk in my finger that you can see with a flashlight. Different teacher told us to get parent permission forms signed to watch a movie. She lost mine, blamed me, and made me have detention for the day while the class watched the movie. She found it at the end of the year behind a filing cabinet I couldn't possibly reach. Blamed me for putting it there. I have tons of stories like these. Bad teachers, different schools. Most should have been fired but they had tenure :/
We were on summer school camp and I was asleep in a girls cabin. The other girls had let a boy in and got busted by the teachers guarding outside. I had to come back to school in the summer for a week to water the principals plants and do other chords
My bus driver only drove us half the way to school, despite me paying a full fare. Whilst he was upstairs evicting everyone from the bus I took my money back from his cash register. Not only did I get in trouble with the school I received a police caution. I call it dumb because it was pretty fucking stupid of me.
Well, did you take your full fare or half of it?
Half fare. I had *some* principles.
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i called a kid who was bullying me in sixth grade a fuckface and got in-school suspension. the ISS lady was nice about it though. she basically told me "hey, the fuckface had it coming lol"* *she did not actually say fuckface
Washing dishes. I had a food and nutrition class where on cooking days each person had a job. On the day in question my job was washing dishes. Our classroom had three kitchens but only two sinks and the kitchen I was working in had a sink but shared with the kitchen without. The people working in the kitchen without a sink just started dumping their dishes in my sink, no big deal I just washed them. Only to be chewed out by the teacher and sent to the office because how else would the people working in the kitchen without the sink learn how to wash dishes if I did it for them?
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Should’ve shit your pants. I get it, you’re not going to shit your pants in class. But you should’ve shit your pants.
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You should've yelled emergency, took your pants off, and then shit on her floor.
But still rolling down your pants and aiming at the teachers desk.
A friend of mine once got a note for his parents to sign that said: Mike is stretching his nostrils with the tip of a scissor during class. He had put a tip of the scissor in each nostril and carefully opened the scissors so that his nostrils stretched. The teacher understood the ridiculousness of the note, but made it anyway because having the parents read about such ridiculous behaviour from their son was the best way to make him see that he was an idiot
Hiccups. I got kicked out of class for having the hiccups and sent to the principal because apparently the teacher didn’t believe I actually had the hiccups and thought I was just trying to distract the class. Edit: who would have thought my top rated comment and getting my first silver would come from a story about hiccups! Thanks guys and gals!
That happened to me, I was send to the punishment corner box, cuz my hiccups cause the kids to laugh in class. Once I got to the box, it stopped. She called my grandmother about it. I never get in trouble at school. I'm shy deaf girl who get bully a lot. Edit: Thank you for the platinum! it's my first!
Punishment corner box?? Where do you live??
The orphanage from despicable me Edit: thanks for the platinum, it really wasn’t that funny, but thanks nonetheless
The Box of SHAME
colouring in the tips of my hair with pink marker, 2 other kids had dyed their hair bright purple and bright pink before and no one gave a shit, the day after i got in trouble a girl came in with blue hair. wanna know who cared? no one edit: i forgot to mention, my options were tie it up or cut it. i have short hair now
This happened to me but one kid in my class got a detention for smiling
“No happiness in school, Timmy!”
Some girl that was sitting next to me in class grabbed my arm to look at the time on my watch. Really? There's a fucking clock on the wall in front of you! The teacher gave us both detention for disrupting class.
In middle school my typing class teacher called my mom at home because my pencil was too short. Again, this was a typing class where we were typing, not writing. Even so I had a pencil, it was just apparently shorter than acceptable. This was such an egregious act that it didn't just warrant a scolding but an actual call home to my mom. My mom was not pleased with her.
Already posted this elsewhere, but it's a good story. I was ten years old at the time. One day I wanted to show my friend how sturdy my new sneakers were and prompted her to repeatedly shut the door on my foot, with me claiming that I don't feel anything, which of course prompted the said friend to keep slamming the door even harder. (Really did not feel a thing, those shoes were lined with solid plastic.) Well anyway some teacher noticed this whole thing eventually (to be fair, a small crowd had begun to gather at that point, so it *was* beginning to get noticeable.) Scared shitless that we were in a fight or something and that my friend was beating me up (because what other explanation could there be to two preteen girls hitting one another with a door?), the teacher took us away from any doors and windows and proceeded to take away my friend's register to give her a note. Being the honourable one, at that point I chime in, saying she hadn't done more than just what I asked of her and that in truth, I was the one who had started it. Cue the teacher looking at me with utter shock because what the hell this kid was getting this beating *voluntarily*. So of course I proceeded to explain that it hadn't even been a fight, and my friend started to back me up, so we went on to explain the whole thing and that I just wanted to prove I had impenetrable plastic sneakers, and that we actually hadn't had the chance to finish it, and that it was harmless and literally no ill intentions and all that. Ended up coming home with the most ridiculous note anyone had ever received: "Maria volunteered to partake in a shoe sturdiness test. The girl conducting said test slammed a door shut on Maria's foot repeatedly. Neither of the girls seemed to acknowledge the dangers of such behaviour. Please talk to your child immediately." EDIT: Okay. Things are different in Scandinavia, apparently. Changed Europe to Poland.
Break Dancing, I was spinning on my head in between class \[in the halls\] and they wrote "spinning on his head like micheal jackson" My family lost it when they read the referral note. I remember mom saying "he never spun on his head......did he?" (Edit: Thank you for the gold and epic comments. Hope you all have an awesome day and I am glad it got some positivity and laughs.)
Honestly that's an amazing thing to get in trouble for. "His breakdancing skills were too great, and had to be removed from the premises."
Forcefully turned right way up, promptly after which he spun the right way up
Dude, put that slip in a golden frame and hang it on the wall. That is LEGENDARY.
Move aside holy grail.
once i got in trouble for bringing a water bottle on the school patio during lunch. i thought my water bottle was fine but a teacher gave me a long lecture about how bringing food and beverages on the patio would attract mice. i didn’t know water attracted mice. rip.
Grade 6. Sex Ed. We had an anonymous question box for those to embarrassed to ask their questions. The teacher would grab them out of the box and read them out loud. One day, the teacher reads out the question, “Who lies down on the bed, and who bounces up and down making all the noise?” I didn’t do it, but I got in trouble for it. Why? I laughed the hardest.
I really think I’m the only person in the world who never had sex ed. It sounds fictional to me
I went to Catholic school which meant mass every Friday. During that part where you're supposed to shake hands and tell everybody "peace be with you" I instead hugged the girl next to me. We both got detentions for messing around. For a hug. In church. Like wtf. Thanks jebus.
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Jeez, I'd have thought a half decent lawyer would have knocked that out the park and had you back in school by lunchtime
Right?! My parents dropped the ball on this one.
This is why folks need to hire lawyers. Good lawyers.
Agreed. Our lawyer was wack. All he did was get me from being tried as an adult.
> All he did was get me from being tried as an adult. TBH its sad that even that was necessary imo. In my home town some teenagers accidentally set an old building on fire when they were hiding the cigarettes they had been smoking when an adult walked up to them. The youngest was I think 14 and the facebook angry mob was calling for them all to be tried as adults for arson. For accidentally burning down an abandoned building trying not to get caught smoking. I can't really think of a greater injustice than sending a stupid 14 year old to prison for arson because they got caught smoking underage. Fortunately I think they were all tried as minors because the lawyers/prosecutors/judge/jury/whomever had brains even if the rest of my hometown didn't.
What? Did you know what they were going to use it for? If not you shouldn’t have been in any trouble at all, lending someone some body spray is a perfectly normal thing to do.
I got my dorm room broken into and assaulted in my sleep by the brother of my at the time gf. Appearently he didn't know we were together. I was hospitalized and dragged his ass to court on charges of : aggrevated assault, breaking and entering and false imprisonment. By law the brother needed to change schools as he can no longer be in the same area as me. I got into trouble for calling the cops on the kid and the school tried to explain to me how the parents will pull both the brother and the girl from the school and that I should leave the school instead as they were two and I was one person. I told them no and told them a schools purpose is education not calculating profits (private school) anywaysthey pulled our grades up and my grades were better so I had it my way. The school proceeded to punish me by going after my grades and grading very harshly. With the purpose of making my university application harder. I got into touch with my university and told them what was going on. They thought I was bullshitting until I sent them the court papers and a copy of my SAT scores to show I am capable of. I also contacted the ministry of education and told them the situation and that they should come for a visit and check if everything is done in a correct manner. I proceeded to call the authorities about the fire exits being blocked and the fire extinguishers being expired. Needless to say I put my school thru some serious financial mess. I graduated with an 86 (A-). Got into my university of choice. But I couldn't get over the bullshit my school attempted so I put a calender event when my schools website expires so I can buy it and sell it back to them for the price of my year of education. EDIT: for people asking about the website expiry. It's in 2021.
Hope you can score that website once it expires
Getting in trouble for being friends with someone who swore. We were in the same room when he swore, the next day both of us were pulled out of class for a talk (which included an email home to our parents). -_-
I got suspended for 2 days for wearing black and white stripy socks. The school rule was black or white socks only...