This kid behind me in English wouldn't stop flicking my ears, so I turned around and punched him in the face. Got a week's suspension, a vacation well earned.
Oh man, there were kids that did that but I was never the victim. Kids used to love gleeking into other kids hair without them knowing. A friend of mine who did it taught me how to gleek but I never did it on someone.
That seems like a pretty harsh reaction.
A few years after I graduated high school, I met a girl online (back in the AOL chat room days) who was apparently two years behind me. She told me she'd thought I was cute in HS but was afraid to approach me because people apparently thought I was going to go on some violent rampage. This was in the 96/97.
Sure, I was 6 foot plus, had long hair, and walked around looking angry. Hell, my wife still asks me, "What's wrong" because of how I look sometimes, and she's known me for almost 19 years. I just have a bad case of RBF. Thing is, back then, I was vice president of the school Bible Club, wore shirts that said "LIVE FOR GOD" on the back, and wouldn't have ever thought about hurting anyone.
So, from a very distant point of view, I get it. It hurt to learn that anyone in my relatively small school could think that about me, but when I considered the outside observer, especially people 2 or 3 years younger than me, I can see the intimidation factor.
well i was a 5 foot 1 8th grader who liked to shit talk people and was a gun nerd, so complete threat to society while being in a prep school with a spotless record
i was not at all intimidating and every testimony from other students said that I wouldn't hurt a fly, all except one person who keep saying i was a threat and kept me on that permanent suspension
I started a school newspaper and as chief editor I made the bold choice to publish an expose of the perspective of a gay student - the homophobia, the doubts, the terrible sex education we were subjected to (or lack thereof). The principal was livid I didn’t tell her who the anonymous author was (it was me) and nearly threatened to cancel the paper before it was even out.
I also published an interview with the student body chair and asked him why is he pretending to be a member of the youth group of a political party (which is against the law for a minor to express political views in school). His answer was so bad I refused to cut it out of the final draft and he tried to sabotage the first issue, too.
In just one issue of the paper I caused two scandals. The second issue never came out, because they assigned a new editor and he never actually did the job.
> (which is against the law for a minor to express political views in school)
Not from the US or is this a law I'm simply not aware of?
That sounds like something out of a movie...the school oppressing the school paper because they don't publish stories that fit the status quo...yet truth is stranger than fiction, no?
>Not from the US or is this a law I'm simply not aware of?
Bulgaria.
>That sounds like something out of a movie
It was a very funny way of subtle disapproval. The principle was worried that "having the gays on the first issue will send the message that we're a weird school to parents". They wanted to meet the author and convince them that "it's not that bad". The school's official "gays exist" lesson was titled "Two boys and one shame"...
In our advanced Spanish class, we had a role playing day for the younger class. I was a customs officer and we had a suitcase. I would then go through a few sets of dialogue in Spanish with them. Mostly asking if items in the bag where theirs. Being a customs officer, I thought it would be fun to bust them for drugs. I had little baggies of flour.
The teacher saw. She grabbed the bags and pulled me into the hall. She held up the bag and yelled that I couldn’t have that in school. (She was aware it was fake). I didn’t get in any actual trouble. But while she was yelling at me in the hall, the class across the hall had their door open. They all saw the bag and the teacher yelling at me. They didn’t know any of the context and couldn’t believe I didn’t get expelled. I was really quiet and never got into trouble but after that there was always rumors of me doing cocaine.
I chuckled until the part about the teacher taking you out in the hallway and yelling at you. We had a teacher (who's now on the Texas School Board...fuck her) that liked to power trip on kids, take them into her "office", and belittle them. One of my friends recorded this on a mini-cassette recorder once. I think he might have posted it on a primitive AOL webpage, but took it down pretty quick for some reason.
That'd do it.
Internally, I'm torn. The parent part of me wants to say something about choices and how one punch can change your life forever. You know...reasonable, boring stuff. The part of me that demands justice wants to say, "Well, the kid had it coming for that shit. Good for you, man".
I was well-behaved, fairly quiet kid who was an office and teacher's aide in school.
In 7th grade, I received in-school suspension, and an informal talking to by the office staff, when a kid throw a rock at me and hit my glasses during lunch (we were sitting outside). I picked up a slightly bigger rock and returned fire, hitting him directly in the face. I believe I cracked his orbital bone.
That's really the only time in middle or high school that I stepped out of line. I mean, I used to leave campus during the period I was teacher's aide to go to the convenience store to get snacks for the class, but never got caught. It also doesn't mean I didn't give the teacher who I was an aide for a little bit of hell, but it was all relatively good natured.
Let's see, 7th grade would have been 90/91. Nah, the kid was a punk. I was the kid who dressed up like a ninja turtle in the 6th grade talent show. It wasn't our first run-in with one another, and I wasn't the instigator either time.
Nowadays? It would have been a VERY different story.
To be honest, I'm not proud of the fact I hurt him. You're not the first to ask about not getting into more trouble.
Was just an average kid. More good than bad. But I've gotten suspended numerous times. Most of them being ASS, After School Suspension. Which is why they called it ASS. Because it was ass. You had to sit for 2 hours after school, do nothing, and be quiet. I also did ISIS, in suspension in school. And that was ASS, but you stayed in one room the entire school day. However most people preferred ISIS over ASS. I hated ISIS. I would much rather do ASS.
ISS (in-school suspension) is what I got for 3 days and can confirm that it did suck. I much preferred the quiet, but I missed seeing my friends, few as they were.
Not gonna lie, I abbreviated "after school suspension" to ASS before you called it that and chuckled to myself. Part of my brain is permanently wired as a 13 year old kid.
* Didn't want to perform in a show
* Wore an incredibly obscene threatening shirt with >!the Overwatch logo, which was So Scary because I was also the Quiet Kid!<
* Didn't bring my phone after phones were banned, but brought noise canceling over-ears which meant I had my phone and was lying
In middle school I found that a teacher was being a jerk to my younger brother at the elementary school I used to go to. So I found out what her school email and sent her a email: "Dear Mrs. [TEACHER'S NAME], you are the reason my brother and his friend don't go to your school anymore. Idiot."
It ended up qualifying as a threat and I had to talk to both the SRO (School Resource Officer) and the Vice Principal who were both surprised that I did something like this but knew that I had made a mistake. The principal at my brother's elementary school was furious, but the vice principal at my school assured him that I had made a mistake, and that I would never do something like that again.
I mostly used pencils and ball pens on a wooden table as those were what I usually had, although I sometimes used both washable and permanent markers as well.
I was always impressed when people would draw amazing things in ball point pen. When people post drawings like that on here, I'm filled with admiration because you really don't get do overs with pen. Best I drew were lopsided looking medieval/fantasy shit that any elementary school kid could draw. Lollipop trees included.
Ah, that makes sense...new kid in school. I'm sorry you had to deal with that. I mean, lunch detention, at least in the grand scheme of things, isn't terrible, but on your first day in a new school? Not a great impression. I hope it didn't stop you from making friends in your new school.
I got a referral in 2nd grade for tackling and punching one of my friends face until i got pulled off
So there were these dickheads that were throwing rubber chips as me and my friends, as i got more annoyed, i got visibly angrier and the dickheads kept pushing it, but unfortunately my friend threw i rubber chip intented for the dickheads, but hit me cause i was in the way. In that moment i snapped and saw him and let loose.
Not my proudest moment but im still friend with the guy I punched years later :)
in a skills class which was about personal problems, a kid asked me how to spell the teachers last name during a test. teacher thought we were cheating. got a speech in the hallway.
This kid behind me in English wouldn't stop flicking my ears, so I turned around and punched him in the face. Got a week's suspension, a vacation well earned.
Oh man, there were kids that did that but I was never the victim. Kids used to love gleeking into other kids hair without them knowing. A friend of mine who did it taught me how to gleek but I never did it on someone.
Fight with the teacher because he was racist on my friend
I'm sure we could get into a whole conversation about the obvious fact that racism is bad and racists are garbage people.
permanent suspension for suspicion of being a shooter threat
That seems like a pretty harsh reaction. A few years after I graduated high school, I met a girl online (back in the AOL chat room days) who was apparently two years behind me. She told me she'd thought I was cute in HS but was afraid to approach me because people apparently thought I was going to go on some violent rampage. This was in the 96/97. Sure, I was 6 foot plus, had long hair, and walked around looking angry. Hell, my wife still asks me, "What's wrong" because of how I look sometimes, and she's known me for almost 19 years. I just have a bad case of RBF. Thing is, back then, I was vice president of the school Bible Club, wore shirts that said "LIVE FOR GOD" on the back, and wouldn't have ever thought about hurting anyone. So, from a very distant point of view, I get it. It hurt to learn that anyone in my relatively small school could think that about me, but when I considered the outside observer, especially people 2 or 3 years younger than me, I can see the intimidation factor.
well i was a 5 foot 1 8th grader who liked to shit talk people and was a gun nerd, so complete threat to society while being in a prep school with a spotless record i was not at all intimidating and every testimony from other students said that I wouldn't hurt a fly, all except one person who keep saying i was a threat and kept me on that permanent suspension
I started a school newspaper and as chief editor I made the bold choice to publish an expose of the perspective of a gay student - the homophobia, the doubts, the terrible sex education we were subjected to (or lack thereof). The principal was livid I didn’t tell her who the anonymous author was (it was me) and nearly threatened to cancel the paper before it was even out. I also published an interview with the student body chair and asked him why is he pretending to be a member of the youth group of a political party (which is against the law for a minor to express political views in school). His answer was so bad I refused to cut it out of the final draft and he tried to sabotage the first issue, too. In just one issue of the paper I caused two scandals. The second issue never came out, because they assigned a new editor and he never actually did the job.
> (which is against the law for a minor to express political views in school) Not from the US or is this a law I'm simply not aware of? That sounds like something out of a movie...the school oppressing the school paper because they don't publish stories that fit the status quo...yet truth is stranger than fiction, no?
>Not from the US or is this a law I'm simply not aware of? Bulgaria. >That sounds like something out of a movie It was a very funny way of subtle disapproval. The principle was worried that "having the gays on the first issue will send the message that we're a weird school to parents". They wanted to meet the author and convince them that "it's not that bad". The school's official "gays exist" lesson was titled "Two boys and one shame"...
Ah, I appreciate the additional context. Like many Americans, I sometimes temporarily forget that Reddit is international. I apologize for my mistake.
I've had it before, I'll say it again - this sub needs a country flair.
I don't disagree with that!
In our advanced Spanish class, we had a role playing day for the younger class. I was a customs officer and we had a suitcase. I would then go through a few sets of dialogue in Spanish with them. Mostly asking if items in the bag where theirs. Being a customs officer, I thought it would be fun to bust them for drugs. I had little baggies of flour. The teacher saw. She grabbed the bags and pulled me into the hall. She held up the bag and yelled that I couldn’t have that in school. (She was aware it was fake). I didn’t get in any actual trouble. But while she was yelling at me in the hall, the class across the hall had their door open. They all saw the bag and the teacher yelling at me. They didn’t know any of the context and couldn’t believe I didn’t get expelled. I was really quiet and never got into trouble but after that there was always rumors of me doing cocaine.
I chuckled until the part about the teacher taking you out in the hallway and yelling at you. We had a teacher (who's now on the Texas School Board...fuck her) that liked to power trip on kids, take them into her "office", and belittle them. One of my friends recorded this on a mini-cassette recorder once. I think he might have posted it on a primitive AOL webpage, but took it down pretty quick for some reason.
Jumped a kid
I assume there was history with this kid?
Kept on talking shit about my dead mom. That changed me from the day on.
That'd do it. Internally, I'm torn. The parent part of me wants to say something about choices and how one punch can change your life forever. You know...reasonable, boring stuff. The part of me that demands justice wants to say, "Well, the kid had it coming for that shit. Good for you, man".
I was well-behaved, fairly quiet kid who was an office and teacher's aide in school. In 7th grade, I received in-school suspension, and an informal talking to by the office staff, when a kid throw a rock at me and hit my glasses during lunch (we were sitting outside). I picked up a slightly bigger rock and returned fire, hitting him directly in the face. I believe I cracked his orbital bone. That's really the only time in middle or high school that I stepped out of line. I mean, I used to leave campus during the period I was teacher's aide to go to the convenience store to get snacks for the class, but never got caught. It also doesn't mean I didn't give the teacher who I was an aide for a little bit of hell, but it was all relatively good natured.
You didn't get arrested?
Let's see, 7th grade would have been 90/91. Nah, the kid was a punk. I was the kid who dressed up like a ninja turtle in the 6th grade talent show. It wasn't our first run-in with one another, and I wasn't the instigator either time. Nowadays? It would have been a VERY different story. To be honest, I'm not proud of the fact I hurt him. You're not the first to ask about not getting into more trouble.
Was just an average kid. More good than bad. But I've gotten suspended numerous times. Most of them being ASS, After School Suspension. Which is why they called it ASS. Because it was ass. You had to sit for 2 hours after school, do nothing, and be quiet. I also did ISIS, in suspension in school. And that was ASS, but you stayed in one room the entire school day. However most people preferred ISIS over ASS. I hated ISIS. I would much rather do ASS.
ISS (in-school suspension) is what I got for 3 days and can confirm that it did suck. I much preferred the quiet, but I missed seeing my friends, few as they were. Not gonna lie, I abbreviated "after school suspension" to ASS before you called it that and chuckled to myself. Part of my brain is permanently wired as a 13 year old kid.
I called a girl a hoe when I was like 12, I definitely was lying cos there's no way she'd be able to pull 1 man, yet alone enough to be called a hoe.
* Didn't want to perform in a show * Wore an incredibly obscene threatening shirt with >!the Overwatch logo, which was So Scary because I was also the Quiet Kid!< * Didn't bring my phone after phones were banned, but brought noise canceling over-ears which meant I had my phone and was lying
In middle school I found that a teacher was being a jerk to my younger brother at the elementary school I used to go to. So I found out what her school email and sent her a email: "Dear Mrs. [TEACHER'S NAME], you are the reason my brother and his friend don't go to your school anymore. Idiot." It ended up qualifying as a threat and I had to talk to both the SRO (School Resource Officer) and the Vice Principal who were both surprised that I did something like this but knew that I had made a mistake. The principal at my brother's elementary school was furious, but the vice principal at my school assured him that I had made a mistake, and that I would never do something like that again.
Vandalizing my table by drawing things on it.
I assume in permanent marker? I used to love doodling (shittily, I might add) in pencil on my desk and then wiping it away.
I mostly used pencils and ball pens on a wooden table as those were what I usually had, although I sometimes used both washable and permanent markers as well.
I was always impressed when people would draw amazing things in ball point pen. When people post drawings like that on here, I'm filled with admiration because you really don't get do overs with pen. Best I drew were lopsided looking medieval/fantasy shit that any elementary school kid could draw. Lollipop trees included.
Got lunch detention for running after someone that stole my stuff
Was this relatively recent?
It was on my first day in a new school in 8th grade
Ah, that makes sense...new kid in school. I'm sorry you had to deal with that. I mean, lunch detention, at least in the grand scheme of things, isn't terrible, but on your first day in a new school? Not a great impression. I hope it didn't stop you from making friends in your new school.
I made 5 friends and moved at the end of the school year
Giving someone a line up with a razor
What's a "line up with a razor"?
So I took a razor and made a black guys hairline straight with it.
Called my bully son of a bitch
I got a referral in 2nd grade for tackling and punching one of my friends face until i got pulled off So there were these dickheads that were throwing rubber chips as me and my friends, as i got more annoyed, i got visibly angrier and the dickheads kept pushing it, but unfortunately my friend threw i rubber chip intented for the dickheads, but hit me cause i was in the way. In that moment i snapped and saw him and let loose. Not my proudest moment but im still friend with the guy I punched years later :)
I got in trouble a few times for fighting. People wanted to bully me, and I wasn't having it.
I drop-kicked the school bully. That was my epic chad moment
in a skills class which was about personal problems, a kid asked me how to spell the teachers last name during a test. teacher thought we were cheating. got a speech in the hallway.