What was the strangest reason you got in trouble in school?
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I was ahead with reading during Dutch class.
We often had classical reading exercises where one student is tasked to read a text and at some point another student would be pointed at to take over. I was a pretty fast reader at the time and class was soooooo slow, and I figured I wouldn't be called upon, because I had to do it the week before already, so I was ahead quite a bit in the text and there was 1 sentence that got repeated in the text.
You can guess the rest, I get called upon, my neighbour whispers the first few words of that one repeated sentence and I start reading from the wrong instance that sentence appeared. The entire class confused.
Got me detention that day.
That happened to me every time. I'm sure the teacher knew I read ahead so he just did it to embarrass me. It's so weird, though, why punish someone for reading?
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I scratched my balls because they were itchy and got sent to the principal for touching myself. I was in 1st grade.
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I got in trouble at multiple points for reading books during recess/bringing them to lunch. For some reason, it made some teachers really upset. It wasn’t even that they were school library books - just that I wasn’t supposed to have books at recess or something.
What was really ridiculous was the troubled teen facility/alternative “school” I went to (as a punishment for tattling on my mom for all of her drugs/attempting to kill myself because she was a psycho bitch I couldn’t escape from).
They would punish me for things that “happened” at home, so she would tell them that I cussed/fought my sister/did drugs.
The absolutely insane thing though: I wanted to watch Fight Club. My mom had friends over and was drinking, I asked her permission to watch the movie, she gave me permission, I watched the movie (I had read the book so many times, fell in love with it as a silly teenager.)
The next day, she was angry that I had taken advantage of her being drunk by tricking her into letting me watch the movie. (Big thing with her - getting punished retroactively because she didn’t mean to give me permission for something.)
So I was sent to school with my “stoplights” being all red.
We had to come up with “goals” that we would work on to improve ourselves at the school. I genuinely thought I had done something wrong, so I made my goal “not to ask my mother for permission to do things when she is drinking.”
This lead to consequences. We had a meeting, where I was told saying things like that was dangerous, implied my mom was an alcoholic (the bitch had DUIs!!! My siblings and I used to show off how good our lungs were by starting the car because it had a fucking breathalyzer), and that I could be taken away and put in foster care.
I lost my “progress” in my levels, and spent a week in the red with no privileges - because my mom was a fucking oxy popping lush.
This is the “funny” story there. What they did in retaliation to my allegations of sexual abuse was far worse.
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I got thrown out of class for borrowing a pencil.
Didn't understand then, don't understand now.
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I got thrown out of class for borrowing a pencil.
Didn't understand then, don't understand now.
Sharing resources is SOCIALISM
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Sharing resources is SOCIALISM
sharing is caring
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I got in trouble at multiple points for reading books during recess/bringing them to lunch. For some reason, it made some teachers really upset. It wasn’t even that they were school library books - just that I wasn’t supposed to have books at recess or something.
What was really ridiculous was the troubled teen facility/alternative “school” I went to (as a punishment for tattling on my mom for all of her drugs/attempting to kill myself because she was a psycho bitch I couldn’t escape from).
They would punish me for things that “happened” at home, so she would tell them that I cussed/fought my sister/did drugs.
The absolutely insane thing though: I wanted to watch Fight Club. My mom had friends over and was drinking, I asked her permission to watch the movie, she gave me permission, I watched the movie (I had read the book so many times, fell in love with it as a silly teenager.)
The next day, she was angry that I had taken advantage of her being drunk by tricking her into letting me watch the movie. (Big thing with her - getting punished retroactively because she didn’t mean to give me permission for something.)
So I was sent to school with my “stoplights” being all red.
We had to come up with “goals” that we would work on to improve ourselves at the school. I genuinely thought I had done something wrong, so I made my goal “not to ask my mother for permission to do things when she is drinking.”
This lead to consequences. We had a meeting, where I was told saying things like that was dangerous, implied my mom was an alcoholic (the bitch had DUIs!!! My siblings and I used to show off how good our lungs were by starting the car because it had a fucking breathalyzer), and that I could be taken away and put in foster care.
I lost my “progress” in my levels, and spent a week in the red with no privileges - because my mom was a fucking oxy popping lush.
This is the “funny” story there. What they did in retaliation to my allegations of sexual abuse was far worse.
sounds like the perfect family (/s)
why are there so many mentally ill mothers out there. probably has something with "capitalism makes people insane" or sth. at least that's my explanation. i hope you're doing better now. at least getting away from her.
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I scratched my balls because they were itchy and got sent to the principal for touching myself. I was in 1st grade.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]sth similar happened to me. that might sound unhinged but i wish that teacher a particularly cruel death.
(i am still being very emotionally affected by it.)
teachers explaining to kids that their bodies are not ok and that they should feel shame for themselves is definitely not something we need. i just think it would be karmic if that teacher suffered difficulty.
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Myself and a friend decided to share a cigarette in the toilets one day. This was fairly common practice way back then. You'd get someone to look out and they would cough if a teacher was coming. It wasn't flawless but it has a high success rate.
So we're utterly destroying one cigarette between the two of us as quickly as we can and there's a cough followed by loud banging on the door. We're rumbled.
"OPEN UP. I KNOW YOU'RE IN THERE"
So we open the door, sheepishly.
"WHAT WERE YOU BOYS DOING IN THERE?"
Now we're both confused and look at each other. I timidly reply:
"Smoking, sir"
"WELL I HOPE THAT'S ALL YOU WERE DOING"
and the man stormed off. We couldn't believe our luck. Smoking apparently A-OK once you're not being gay.
the fact that it's so important to them that you're not being gay already tells you:
(1) that apparently, being gay is a phenomenon widespread enough that it concerns them.
(2) that there's an evolutionary benefit to it that these people are trying to ignore (or are at the very least unaware of). because otherwise they wouldn't be so biased against it.
idk whether these thoughts/observations can help you, but they help me because they remind me that it's the teacher that's being out of balance, not you. and also that you're not alone with this.
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Barred from the school computers for Responsible disclosure of a security laps in the school computers.
Turned out of you open Encyclopaedia Britannica application and select the open document window it brings up the regular windows open file dialogue window. If you pressed the up folder enough times you went from your local profile to the folder on the server that contained every users files and you had full read right privileges in all student folders.
I reported it to the it desk and was barred from using the school computers for a month for hacking the school computers.
When the letter was sent home about it dad wanted to know what I had done so I told him and he thought, yea you did the right thing I'll call the principal and get this sorted.
Dad use to be the treasurer of the parent teacher committee so he knew the school admin quite well. My teacher for computer studies got a note from the principal the next day that I was permitted to use the computers again.
something similar happened at my school. you could read all the other student's user profiles through the file explorer. it was useless though because the students had no interesting stuff stored on their profiles (i checked). when i finally told a teacher, he tried to act as if he hadn't heard, because he correctly guessed that it would mean more work for him (to fix the insecure system). i would have been really excited if you could have accessed teacher's profiles that way, though.
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That happened to me every time. I'm sure the teacher knew I read ahead so he just did it to embarrass me. It's so weird, though, why punish someone for reading?
50% of teachers are sadists, though. unfortunately.
