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What are proper reasons for students to get detention in the educational system? Recently a school district in Texas made it allowed for students to get detention for almost anything. I personally think detention should be about and be focused on behavior.

I once got detention for laughing, granted it was at my vice principal while me and a female student pointed at his bad toupee, but I was wrongly convicted.

I instigated a minor revolution once. It was really nothing, but you know, they have to have scapegoat for everything. Got detention for that.

I am starting a petition because of my school's unfair detention rules. :soap:

I got detention for forgetting my folder for ELA.

Mind you, I actually had the folder, but didn't have it sitting on my desk (we didn't even use it that class)

Fighting.



Does this suprise anyone?

What are proper reasons for students to get detention in the educational system? Recently a school district in Texas made it allowed for students to get detention for almost anything. I personally think detention should be about and be focused on behavior.
students could always get detention for just about anything, so long as it is in the handbook. What, specifically, is the issue?

Detention is usually one of the early stages in the discipline cycle

I once got detention because I disrupted class when it was announced that we were being let out due to snow.

Fighting.



Does this suprise anyone?

Who won?

I got detention only once. For being late to classes, 5 times.

Who won?

Usually me. Either that or no one did.

I hate answering these questions, because it makes me sound like Im bragging. My fighting is not something Im really very proud of now that Ive matured a bit.

Usually me. Either that or no one did.

I hate answering these questions, because it makes me sound like Im bragging. My fighting is not something Im really very proud of now that Ive matured a bit.

But what if the guy was a real asshole? At least you have the pleasure of beating up a real asshole. "Yea, I kicked him down a few pegs."

Fighting was the main reason at my school too - I once got it for stabbing a kid in the thigh with a compass during maths class. But it was always the soft option because the school still had the cane as the 'weapon of last resort'.

Detention came in two flavors. Nice relaxing detention in a classroom. And horrible gym detention where you'd be made to go outside and run around in the snow and shit like that. One time a kid got pleurisy. That caused no end of enjoyable drama.

Such were the joys, eh?

Passing notes in class
Talking in class

But what if the guy was a real asshole? At least you have the pleasure of beating up a real asshole. "Yea, I kicked him down a few pegs."

My fights were ussally total "guy fights" though. Wed kick the snot out of each other, and be friends the next week. Really, it was my temper and moodiness. I know, shocking right?

With the jerkoffs? Yeah, they were fun at the time. Now that Ive matured, I kinda wish I had dealt with them differently. 9/10 times the actual fight could have been avoided.

Oh well. Such is life. And Junior High/High School.

Funny thing was, my parents never cared about me fighting, so long as I didnt go looking for them. Which I rarely did.

*beats up someone for looking at him funny*

Inciting disobedience (several times)
Disrespect (many, many times)
Use of profanity (once)
Fighting (several times, detention + counseling)

I've abandoned most of these over the years. I haven't used profanity verbally in about 15 years, oddly enough. Makes me laugh to think of myself as a vulgar 10-year old. I got the profanity-related detention for licking the messages off of Valentine's Day hearts and replacing them with expletives in neat block print. Don't tell me that ain't funny. :p

I got one for not standing during the Pledge of Allegiance. (Once.) Considering that I was in an ROTC classroom with two thirty year+ veterans, I understood that one.
The others were for tardies, profanity, and, once or twice, disrespect to a teacher.

I received detention for having 2 elder brothers, when a reputation you never had precedes you, you're almost forced to become a troublemaker if only out of resentment for being treated as a troublemaker.

An English teacher once gave out the essay assignment - What has XX school ever done for you?

I went on a rip, quite eloquently it appears since I received an A but still ended up in the Headmasters office asking why I had a problem with the school.

"Did you not read the essay?", I replied, detention for cheek.

On that, we had a game where we'd kick a ball harder and harder each turn at the school wall, where sooner or later a window would be broken, a teacher once came running down crying, "What are you doing, are you trying to break a window?"

"No", I replied, "the whole point of the game is to NOT hit a window", detention.

I wasn't a bad kid, I always had good grades, I might have had a bit of a mouth on me but it was always intended as good humour, I was just seen as 'a problem' from the day I arrived.

We did not, and do not have, detention in our schools.
And teachers don´t "discipline" with the ruler anymore either.

It is the wrong way to go about it, in my opinion.
Having a talk with the student often suffices.

I've had detention for skipping school, not doing homework, not doing assignments, breaking the uniform code, hiding underneath a car during a game of hide-and-seek, and for generally being a bad bad girl.

Hanging around the bike racks looking tough.

We'd always play a game called Red Ass during recess and if you were dumb enough to throw the tennis ball up on the roof of the school, you'd wind up being the one who had to shimmy up the drain pipe to go get it and a detention in the process. So you either got good at the game or had trouble sitting through detention.

I've had detention for skipping school, not doing homework, not doing assignments, breaking the uniform code, hiding underneath a car during a game of hide-and-seek, and for generally being a bad bad girl.Excellent, when can we meet? ;)

Detentions flow like water, here. We get them for whatever the teacher thinks we need them for. It's really annoying.

I wasn't a bad kid, I always had good grades, I might have had a bit of a mouth on me but it was always intended as good humour, I was just seen as 'a problem' from the day I arrived.

I was exactly the same.

I've got for: fighting, skipping class and being late. All in junior high.

I got detention every day between like 4th and 5th grade because I never had my homework, or my books, or my pencils, or XYZ.

I'm a lazy git was probabaly the reason why I got detentions the most I guess (who seriously sets homework for the next day?) course its always better than fucking vindictive bastards not letting me have a mufti day with everyone else!

but now that I'm out of school I feel that kids should suffer for whatever the teacher likes because it will build some lovely character :wink:

Never doing my homework / repeatedly being late to my lessons. Got decent A-Levels and just got a First in my first uni exam, though, so didn't do too badly.

Behaviour, mostly, and missed homework. I got a couple of detentions for drawing "Inappropriate things" (doodling-for some reason, most schools think naked women are obscene or something), I got a few for disrupting the class (including twice contradicting a "History Teacher" and backing it up with legitimate source material.)

A bunch of Detentions for missed homework assignments. a few for "guy fights", one or two suspensions for SERIOUS fights (I was small, they weren't, I wasn't just going to 'take it'.)

and a Detention-followed-by-counseling because of a 'suicide plan' I submitted as a creative writing assignment.

Gaddamn it, I thought the pole was what I got detention for! Arr, damn you bad behaviour!:tongue:

But really, out of school time, the school has no right to hold you in whatsoever, so please school, GTFO my watching TV/NSG time.

I got detention for spitting off a balcony, nasty I know, but I was just trying to hit the light sticking out above the door... Heh, a teacher threatened me with detention for using his first name, but we're on good terms. However, countless detentions on the homework front, "impositions" for uniform. I did get suspended once for swearing at a teacher, when I was 9 or 10. She was fucking with me though, so it's all worth it.

Never doing my homework / repeatedly being late to my lessons. Got decent A-Levels and just got a First in my first uni exam, though, so didn't do too badly.

wait till you start working for a living :p

But really, out of school time, the school has no right to hold you in whatsoever, so please school, GTFO my watching TV/NSG time.

you should set fire to the school so you can spend all day on nsg! >.>

wait till you start working for a living :p
Aye at which time I'll just kick everyone's arse at that instead.

wait till you start working for a living :p



you should set fire to the school so you can spend all day on nsg! >.>

Hm, I wonder if prison has wifi?:p

What are proper reasons for students to get detention in the educational system? Recently a school district in Texas made it allowed for students to get detention for almost anything. I personally think detention should be about and be focused on behavior.

What's detention?

What's detention?
Having to stay back after school.

Having to stay back after school.

Can't say I ever heard of that ever...

Can't say I ever heard of that ever...
Aye, but then you get Sitzenbleiben, which is at least 20% more brutal a punishment.

Aye, but then you get Sitzenbleiben, which is at least 20% more brutal a punishment.

Well, I did that twice. It's not so much punishment, it's a second chance to reach the level of knowledge required to move up to the next grade.
It makes sense, in my opinion.

I turned the teacher into a newt.

...what? She got better.

Aye at which time I'll just kick everyone's arse at that instead.

too bad work has absolutely nothing to do with work nor anything education :p

Hm, I wonder if prison has wifi?:p

nah you will prolly get juvenile or military school at which point you make your fortune as a glue dealer

*encourages entrepreneurship in todays youth*

Well, I did that twice. It's not so much punishment, it's a second chance to reach the level of knowledge required to move up to the next grade.
It makes sense, in my opinion.

good lord I would still be in the 9th year :eek2:

too bad work has absolutely nothing to do with work nor anything education :p
Aye, I know, that's where my high levels of charisma combine with my intelligence to get me pals with those who'll keep me in a job :)
good lord I would still be in the 9th year :eek2:
Nah they'd just move you down the school system :tongue:

Aye, I know, that's where my high levels of charisma combine with my intelligence to get me pals with those who'll keep me in a job :)

its Austin Powers :D

*cue dance routine*

Talking, missing homework, not having a 2B pencil(??? Yes, it still astounds me), beating the shit out of someone.

failing a test twice. twat of a teacher should have helped me understand his stupid fucking subject rather than just punishing me for him being a shit teacher :headbang: i really didn't like him...

never turned up for it though, didn't go see them about not turning up for it... it kinda went away after that lol

same year i got put on daily report for doing no work, i think

I got quite a few detentions along with a more stringent punishment called an 'in-school suspension'. Let's see... disrupting classes, hallway mischief(apparently while there's no specific school rule against watermelon bowling, it was still frowned upon), and after the Principal realized that I was using the unplanned event of being thrown out of the locker room naked as an opportunity to wander into a carefully selected classroom and cause a disruption, it was decreed that I would have to go to the main office or face detention. I tested that rule once.

Anything else? Hmmm... I was one of five students in an in-school suspension for starting a food fight because none of us would admit to starting it, so we all got punished. ... It was me. :D

I am a teacher, and I would NEVER give detention to any of my students. If they're misbehaving badly enough I feel they should be punished, then I call the parents and explain the misbehavior to them and let them deal with their child. If it's repeated, I call my admin and tell him I've already talked to the parents. If it's repeated a third time, or was massively dangerous at any point, I call the deans to remove the child who may end up being suspended (which is not cool, they have to go to a suspension room and do all their school work there).

I once got detention not because I misbehaved, but because I had an asshole teacher who couldn't deal with the one class clown in the gifted/accelerated program, so when he cracked wise once too many times, she put the whole class on two weeks detention. Even the clown said, "Miss, that's not fair, suspend me instead," and she said, "Well, since no one can get through to you, maybe the rest of the class can keep you in line so they don't get detention again."

Biiiiig mistake. You don't put one of the four smartest classes in detention for no reason and expect them all to beat the shit out of class clown...

1) We set all our watch alarms to go off... three seconds apart.
2) We each made a dozen paper airplanes, and every time she turned her back, 40 of them would be launched.
3) Each time she ran for the deans, we would be angelically writing down our notes quietly in our seats.

It got to the point that the dean came to see us because not one other teacher in the school had a problem with us... when he found out what was going on he told us that as of that moment we were not to report to detention anymore, but if he heard one SQUEAK about us misbehaving we'd have him to deal with and it would be MOST unpleasant. We agreed to his terms. ;)

I never got detention. In fact, I was that kid who always went and told on those being naughty so that they got detention on the basis that the teacher might like me more and give me a better grade. It balanced out the times when I annoyed teachers by responding to any bullying targeted towards me with hysterical rants and screaming. I honestly have no idea why I was unpopular in school :p

I am a teacher, and I would NEVER give detention to any of my students. If they're misbehaving badly enough I feel they should be punished, then I call the parents and explain the misbehavior to them and let them deal with their child.

I always thought as a kid that people phoning my parents would be a bigger deterrent than detention, but they never thought of that.

1) We set all our watch alarms to go off... three seconds apart.
2) We each made a dozen paper airplanes, and every time she turned her back, 40 of them would be launched.
3) Each time she ran for the deans, we would be angelically writing down our notes quietly in our seats.

Haha, that's what happens when you put angry geniuses in a room together.

I never got detention. In fact, I was that kid who always went and told on those being naughty so that they got detention on the basis that the teacher might like me more and give me a better grade.

Some people never forget that. Someone who was a few years below me at my school used to do that quite a lot apparently, last year he ran into a couple of thugs who used to go there and was hospitalised. It was in the local news and everything.

I never got detention. In fact, I was that kid who always went and told on those being naughty so that they got detention on the basis that the teacher might like me more and give me a better grade.
You disgust me.

You disgust me.

:( Stop being mean, or I'll tell on you!

Having to stay back after school.

Not necessarily after school, there's lunchtime ones as well.

Some people never forget that. Someone who was a few years below me at my school used to do that quite a lot apparently, last year he ran into a couple of thugs who used to go there and was hospitalised. It was in the local news and everything.

Wow. Thats really pathetic holding a grudge that long. Well, I don't live in the same area, and I doubt they'd recognise me, so I remain confident in my safety. The people at my school were assholes, they deserved it anyway, they only got punished for things they did, so its not like I did them an injustice.

I am a teacher, and I would NEVER give detention to any of my students.

what ever happened to the old "my job is to teach my joy is to fuck you about" :(

responding to any bullying targeted towards me with hysterical rants and screaming.

good god its every girl I dated age 12-17

Not necessarily after school, there's lunchtime ones as well.

don't forget the dreaded Saturday

Never.

Though I once got detention but didn't stay, I forgot I had to and so did the teacher.

what ever happened to the old "my job is to teach my joy is to fuck you about" :(

That's called paedophiles, not teachers.

don't forget the dreaded Saturday

Did you go to a state or private school?

don't forget the dreaded Saturday

The Breakfast Club?

what ever happened to the old "my job is to teach my joy is to fuck you about" :(
Funny enough, I love to teach DESPITE being fucked about by a few teachers. I always say, my inspirations are:

My parents, who both taught in public schools for a combined total of sixty-someodd years before me...

The extraordinary teachers whom I will never forget (Yes, Mrs. Gould, Ms. Bay, Mr. Bassell, I'm looking at YOU)...

And the shit teachers whom I won't name out of kindness and the Christmas spirit, who made my life just that much more unpleasant. They inspire me to be NOTHING like they were.

I got quite a few detentions along with a more stringent punishment called an 'in-school suspension'. Let's see... disrupting classes, hallway mischief(apparently while there's no specific school rule against watermelon bowling, it was still frowned upon), and after the Principal realized that I was using the unplanned event of being thrown out of the locker room naked as an opportunity to wander into a carefully selected classroom and cause a disruption, it was decreed that I would have to go to the main office or face detention. I tested that rule once.

Anything else? Hmmm... I was one of five students in an in-school suspension for starting a food fight because none of us would admit to starting it, so we all got punished. ... It was me. :D
YOU? In detention!? I don't believe it!!!


welll... maybe I do. Must have been fun to be an authority figure with you around... they probably couldn't figure out whether to laugh or cry.

Back in elementary school, I was (repeatedly) forced to stay in during recess for missing homework. I never thought that was particularly fair, but then, with the (lack of a) grading system to better punish me, I guess it made sense.

To answer the poll question: behavior only. Bad grades should be disincentives in themselves.

Other than a few class detentions, which are ridiculous in themselves, I only had one detention myself and that was for sending messages on the school computers while I should have been working on these language worksheets. Not like I was the only one doing it, and the teacher certainly should have guessed that putting us in a computer room and saying, 'Get on with your work', would not lead to actual study for most of the period. However, I turned up after school and cleaned her overhead projector.

i mainly avoided detention (sometimes literally), though once i got suspended for not agreeing to walk myself to the dean's office. i figured that they should either take me there themselves or let me finish my lunch in peace.

I got a lot of detentions, fighting, spitting, calling people names, offensive language, stealing, being high, the list of charges goes on ... (i had some issues) ... I missed a year of school but then I really mellowed out and worked hard for grades 11 - 12. Went to Uni and became a total geek and still am.

I instigated a minor revolution once. It was really nothing, but you know, they have to have scapegoat for everything. Got detention for that.
The time I instigated a minor revolution, I didn't get detention. I got concessions.

I got a lot of detentions, fighting, spitting, calling people names, offensive language, stealing, being high, the list of charges goes on ... (i had some issues) ... I missed a year of school but then I really mellowed out and worked hard for grades 11 - 12. Went to Uni and became a total geek and still am.

You know you can be a geek and a bad boy too? It works for me!:D

IIRC I got at least 5 detentions when I was at school, which are as follows;

Middle School

1. Lunchtime detention, I was with a group od kids legging it back across the school field when we realised that lunchtime was about to end...only 2 minutes late and we still got a detention which I didn't bother going to.

2. After school detention after turning round and beating the living crap out of a guy who had bullied me for the past 3 years. Probably a bad idea in itself as it was a wet lunchtime and the classroom was two doors down from the staff room.

Its also the cause of a 5 hour long blank in my memory which I can't remember anything...though everybody left me alone after that.

3. Another lunchtime detention, everybody had focused their attention on my sister following the incident above. One day I happened to be in the wrong place where my sister was being bullied by a bunch of girls, tears streaming down her face and all that. So I did what any brother would do...


...legged it!

Though my sister got her teacher to give me a detention for that.:mad:

High School

4. Lunchtime detention yet again, this time for not completing some English homework. Ticked me off a bit since a.) I struggled with English and b.) I had been rushed to hospital and so didn't get a chance to even think about doing any homework that day.

5. After school detention, stabbed some girl in the arm with a pen.

Was having a very foul day that day.

I got lunchtime detention once for swearing at somebody in class ("No SHIT, Sherlock!") Funny enough I was agreeing with them on how much I failed at life.

Funny enough I was agreeing with them on how much I failed at life.

Bad tactic. Trust me, it makes them hate you more, and makes you seem like a weak yes man. I used to do that until I was 12/13, then just argued and fought back all the time with bullies/morons. I showed them.

1) We set all our watch alarms to go off... three seconds apart.
2) We each made a dozen paper airplanes, and every time she turned her back, 40 of them would be launched.
3) Each time she ran for the deans, we would be angelically writing down our notes quietly in our seats.

It got to the point that the dean came to see us because not one other teacher in the school had a problem with us... when he found out what was going on he told us that as of that moment we were not to report to detention anymore, but if he heard one SQUEAK about us misbehaving we'd have him to deal with and it would be MOST unpleasant. We agreed to his terms. ;)

This is why my school had gym detention and the cane. So you'd learn to respect authoritah.

Also, when this sort of thing goes on, students miss the most important lesson that school can teach: that authoritah is arbitrary, incompetent and cruel, but you just have to put up with it for the time being anyway. Infinitely more valuable than poetry.

All my detentions in high school were for playing soccer in the hallway.

That, and the time I gave the assistant principal a lecture on first amendment rights in an assembly

Swearing...For the last time, bloody is not a swear word!

selling test answers normally.

Swearing...For the last time, bloody is not a swear word!

I got one for saying what the Hell in a lesson. Beat that.

selling test answers normally.

There's an un-normal way of selling them?

I got one for saying what the Hell in a lesson. Beat that.

I feel like I've become involved in a game of detentions chess. Hmm...well I once heard my headteacher shout out shit and run out of his office.

There's an un-normal way of selling them?

as in selling test answers was the normally way to end up in detention.

I feel like I've become involved in a game of detentions chess. Hmm...well I once heard my headteacher shout out shit and run out of his office.

That's not a detention, but hey. My turn. I got punched in the face by someone who was 5'9, 5'10, when I was about 5'2, 5'3. I punched him in the face, smacking his head against the wall. I then continued to hit him until he grabbed my hands. I grabbed his hair and pulled it down to knee him in the face. Before I could we were pulled apart. A teacher was watching through a window the whole time. She did nothing.

That's not a detention, but hey. My turn. I got punched in the face by someone who was 5'9, 5'10, when I was about 5'2, 5'3. I punched him in the face, smacking his head against the wall. I then continued to hit him until he grabbed my hands. I grabbed his hair and pulled it down to knee him in the face. Before I could we were pulled apart. A teacher was watching through a window the whole time. She did nothing.

Well on the final day of school I fought my headmaster. Okay it was in inflatable sumo suits, but still I fought him!

Well on the final day of school I fought my headmaster. Okay it was in inflatable sumo suits, but still I fought him!

I think mine beats yours.

I think mine beats yours.

We should really get a referee to determine this.

Heh. Some of the things people have been put in detention for saying remind me of the following exchange with a teacher.

My form teacher in Year 7 (first year of secondary school, so I must have been 12) was a total bastard (well, he was French). To set the scene, I was upset, and went to my form teacher looking for a friendly, sympathetic ear. An error of judgement. His reply, and I'm quite sure this is verbatim, was 'don't be a sissy, sort it out yourself, I don't want any crybabies in my class. Now piss off'

My riposte? Something none-too-subtle along the lines of 'What the fuck was that for a response? Why don't you go get hit by a bus, you useless French c*nt?' before storming out. I didn't get detention, and he never targeted me again in class. Mainly because I had a whole class of witnesses to him breaking all the school's guidance on how to deal with bullying. Oh, and I recently heard he's died quite young, so maybe there's some justice in this world after all. I'm not bitter, honest. I just hope he's in a world of eternal pain at a constant temperature of 1000 degrees centigrade.

I think mine beats yours.

We should really get a referee to determine this.

No Names wins hands down!

No Names wins hands down!

Don't call me that.

We should really get a referee to determine this.

Look up.

No Names wins hands down!

In that case I declare Adunabar Detention Chess Champion 2008!

In that case I declare Adunabar Detention Chess Champion 2008!

Yay! Wait, is that good?

Usually me. Either that or no one did.

I hate answering these questions, because it makes me sound like Im bragging. My fighting is not something Im really very proud of now that Ive matured a bit.

Wow, this is matured for you? :p ;)

Performing a rear naked choke on a kid who had irritated me for three years, causing him to pass out, and rupturing blood vessels in both eyes. Lucky it was the last day of school before I left.

I remember another time. I was a Junior in high school. I got into a fight with a red-headed girl in the lunch room - hair-pulling, scratching, the usual.

I remember another time. I was a Junior in high school. I got into a fight with a red-headed girl in the lunch room - hair-pulling, scratching, the usual.

Why mention her hair colour?

Performing a rear naked choke on a kid who had irritated me for three years, causing him to pass out, and rupturing blood vessels in both eyes. Lucky it was the last day of school before I left.

And all they did was irritate you? Wow.

Why mention her hair colour?


These many years later, it's the only thing I remember about her.

These many years later, it's the only thing I remember about her.

Who won?

Never got detention here, the teachers don't really care much if we swear much.
I love swedish schools, we can say f*** in the classroom if we want and noone cares!
Infact one of my friends has written stuff like "f***ing communists" and stuff in the end of essays and one time... the teacher recited the whole thing infront of the class, even the last part.
He got the highest score possible on it.

Never got detention here, the teachers don't really care much if we swear much.
I love swedish schools, we can say f*** in the classroom if we want and noone cares!
Infact one of my friends has written stuff like "f***ing communists" and stuff in the end of essays and one time... the teacher recited the whole thing infront of the class, even the last part.
He got the highest score possible on it.

Good old Sweden. I'd love to go there.

A number of academic transgressions, and nothing else. They worked as well; an excellent measure to check any number of offences.

I got a detention one time because I was tardy to my first class. Mind you, it was the first time I had ever been late to school in Lord knows how long I've been in school, I make all-A's, it was raining like none other that day, and traffic was a mess...

Never got detention.

I've gotten detention for:

-Telling a fellow pupil not to demonstrate how far she could push her eyeballs out.
-Jumping a locker bank
-Missed Homework (Multiple Times)
-Informing a fellow pupil of what Flan (the dessert) is.

Who won?

The teachers. Funny thing is, I can't even remember what the fight was about.

I was too cool for detention, they only gave me ISS. For being a few minutes late.

I only got detention once for skipping class, which I did regularly, and I didn't show up for the detention, someone did me the favor of covering, either that or they didn't care that I didn't show.

And I also told on people, like some have mentioned here, mwahaha. Except I did it anonymously when possible. I did it to annoy the hell out of the wannabe anti-hero rebels, not to gain points with teachers.

I was once caught siphoning gas out of the driver training cars at night.

Well... sort of... we weren't caught in the act and we denied the gas cans were ours... so all they could really nail us for was being on the campus at night (it was fenced). Woulda probably been hauled off in cuffs if security had come by about fifteen minutes earlier...

Got three weeks of work detention for that one (had us hoeing weeds on a hill behind the school).

I guess that sort of dates me, they haven't had work detention or drivers training in high schools in California for years...

Oh yeah.... I also got stuck cleaning the cafeteria for a couple of days when we staged a duel in one of them.... pies at ten paces. Sometimes the administrators have no sense of humor...

should or did? "students or self".

i don't remember why i was ever 'disciplined' in school, but i have absolutely not doubt in my mind, that the few times i ever did, was over something political i personally felt morally obliged to, and proud to have.

as for why anyone anywhere "should" ever be disciplined, that comes down to making a pain in the ass of themselves. (WITHOUT a damd good political/social conscous reason for doing so. if they have one, they probably deserve a medal for being heros)

YOU? In detention!? I don't believe it!!!


welll... maybe I do. Must have been fun to be an authority figure with you around... they probably couldn't figure out whether to laugh or cry.

Yep. It's hard to imagine, but I was a bit of a class clown back then. ;)

Back in elementary school, I was (repeatedly) forced to stay in during recess for missing homework. I never thought that was particularly fair, but then, with the (lack of a) grading system to better punish me, I guess it made sense.

To answer the poll question: behavior only. Bad grades should be disincentives in themselves.

Indeed. I got many detentions and even an in-school suspension for missed homework when I was in high school. I thought it was absolutely ridiculous, as the zeros I got on my assignments should have been punishment enough. They were bullshit busywork assignments anyway, and in retrospect I am quite glad I didn't waste my time on them.

I got detention for forgetting to bring 12 cents in library fines, asking for a pencil during study hall and because a teacher thought I was cheating during an exam despite the fact I'd already turned in the exam paper and was just sitting waiting to be let out of the examination room.

Mainly pissing around, occasionally stuff a bit more serious like swearing at teachers. By the end of my time at my old comp we tended to get away with most things, which was cool. Except once me and my mates in my old science class got dragged up before one of the deputy heads for lobbing a coin at a teacher, when it actually was one of the chavs in the class. Thankfully, she knew it wasn't us, so we didn't get anything from it, although the real perpetrator got suspended for a while.

Mainly pissing around, occasionally stuff a bit more serious like swearing at teachers. By the end of my time at my old comp we tended to get away with most things, which was cool. Except once me and my mates in my old science class got dragged up before one of the deputy heads for lobbing a coin at a teacher, when it actually was one of the chavs in the class. Thankfully, she knew it wasn't us, so we didn't get anything from it, although the real perpetrator got suspended for a while.

Heh, I threw a calculator at a teacher once. She just tossed it in the bin.

I was never very good at maths.

Indeed. I got many detentions and even an in-school suspension for missed homework when I was in high school. I thought it was absolutely ridiculous, as the zeros I got on my assignments should have been punishment enough. They were bullshit busywork assignments anyway, and in retrospect I am quite glad I didn't waste my time on them.

Yeah, wish my parents shared that view.:(

Detention.

My favourite class at school.

Now where do I begin?

Well let's see rocking up late, getting permission to go to the toilet then being found 10 minutes later playing handball with a couple of friends in the yard, not doing homework, general mucking around with a couple of partners in crime. What else?

Well actually one time me and a mate we decided to have a sword fight, it started off with rulers on the way to class but once inside the classroom (the class was Home Ec so we were in the kitchens) we pulled out two massive knifes and started having a sword fight with them. About a minute later we noticed that the whole class had gone silent we looked over and saw everybody staring at us including the teacher who stuttered the words "get out now" later that day we got called into the Year Level Coordinators office and got ourselves a Saturday detention each.

We had fun that Saturday our job was to clean up the tables in the classrooms of one of the wings and the desks in the two lecture theaters of that wing. What we ended up doing was having a 'spray-and-wipe" fight using our bottle to shoot at each other as we ran over tables, ducked behind desks and did commando rolls to ensure we weren't hit.

There are other stories I could tell but I don't remember them all.

Gaddamn it, I thought the pole was what I got detention for!

You mean it wasn't? *checks* Bugger.

I instigated a minor revolution once. It was really nothing, but you know, they have to have scapegoat for everything. Got detention for that.

I got something similar.

It was puring with rain, and I mean pouring we were drenched through in a couple of minutes. It was the start of lunch and all the kids were under what cover wee couold find (which wasn't much). The classrooms were locked and the teachers were having a good time in the staff room. A buch of us wanted to get into the library, however, they had locked the doors and told us we weren't going to be allowed in.

We started chanting and banging on the door, myself and a couple of friends of mine picked up rocks and started rocking the roof. Well that was it a couple of teachers who were sitting in there having a chin wag with the two old decrepit bitchy libararians came out and scattered us myself and a friend were the only two who were blamed for the whole mess and both ended up with detention and had to write a page on what we did wrong. Mine ended up being a page on how I was used as a scapegoat for the actions of others.

I once got it for stabbing a kid in the thigh with a compass during maths class.

Same, one of the things I would do if someone pissed me off was a good compass in the arm or leg. I had one with a long and sharp point.

There was one more time I got detention and it happened under strange circumstances.

We had an English teacher and she was a bitch and hopeless and just terrible. Every one of her students in all her classes hated her. Well anyway one assignment we got given to do was to pick a book on our own and read it and then we would have various assignments that would go along with that. Now I had just started reading a book titled "The Gun Seller" and had read the first chapter. The first assignment was an easy one it was a piece of paper that had various questions such as "Title", "Author", "What is on the front cover" etc. Not having brought the book to school I filled it out and handed it in, when I did so she said I had read the book before and I should pick another. I told her that I hadn't read it before and I am handing this one in.

Well anyway the next lesson we got these questions back and they were marked. I was given 14/20, which was unacceptable as I had answered the questions in full including those that required long answers e.g "What do you think the book is going to be about?". I went up to her at the front of the class and asked her to explain the mark and why I had been given a poor one. She replied it is because you are lying to me about not having read it before and I know that you have. This pissed me off because I knew I hadn't read it before save the first chapter. I started to walk away but turned around and yelled at her "You think you know but you don't. You're a fucking bitch", this caused me to be sent outside for the remainder of the lesson. And that was the end of that, or so I thought.

About two weeks later I handed in the second assignment for that book. The assignment was to write a diary entry from the perspective of the main character on the events that had happened in the first chapter. I did so and handed it in without a second thought. The problem was, however, that the main character had beaten someone to death, this person he had beaten to death just happened to have the same surname as this teacher.

So the next day during afternoon care group (or whatever it was called, the end of the day we are packing up getting ready to leave), I am told to go see the Vice Principal not having done anything really bad for the past week (a record I assure you) I assume it is nothing to worry about. I waltz in and see the year level coordinator and my parents sitting in there having a chat. At this point I know I am in deep shit (if they have called my parents in, it is bad) and I am stressing wondering what the fuck I have done. I eventually get called in and this assignment is shown to me. I jump out of my seat saying I can explain and show them that it is just a coincidence (lucky I had the book on me).

It turns out she thought the assignment I had handed in was a death threat, and I was about to see myself getting two weeks in school suspension. As I could show that I had done it without thinking and was not an attack on her I got away with that. I did receive a Saturday detention for calling her a "fucking bitch", but hey truth hurts.

I did enjoy the attention I got for calling her a bitch to her face. I had people coming up to me from all year levels shaking my hand proclaiming me as a legend and whatnot. Yes I enjoyed that I became a legend of the school in my own right and praise being heaped on me. Now that I am older I wouldn't say that I would enjoy it that much but to be honest she did deserve it, and not just for what she did to me what she did to all of her classes. She got better after that incident as our class had to sit around and talk about her to the principal and vice principal and she must have been talked to a bit.

It was good when it was stated that she would not be returning the following year. A girl in our class went running through the school proclaiming the good news tp anyone who would care to listen.

And speaking of listening now that I have spent 15 minutes telling you this story somebody better read it.

Nah. I've gotten detention twice. because I'm smart enough not to get caught.;)

Nah. I've gotten detention twice. because I'm smart enough not to get caught.;)

But sometimes the fun is being caught. I should start up a thread on shit we did at school but never got caught. Again where do I begin, perhaps the fish incident or the chemistry test or even the year 9 camp debacle.

Wait I just thought of another thing I got in trouble for.

It was during our year 8 camp and one night we were sitting in the Mess hall eating our dinner when I started flicking peas around the place. One hit the back of the head one of the teachers. Instead of getting dentetion I had to sweep and mop the entire floor of the mess hall and clean all the tables and all the plates and untensils.

Not a fun 2 hours I can tell you.

Bad tactic. Trust me, it makes them hate you more, and makes you seem like a weak yes man. I used to do that until I was 12/13, then just argued and fought back all the time with bullies/morons. I showed them.

Really? I find it freaks them out more often than not. Maybe cause I live in a rich suburb or something.

Fighting.



Does this suprise anyone?

Fighting. Convincing a girl it would be a good idea to take off her panties in the middle of class for return later. That actually earned me an in school suspension. I have a couple of others as well. I deserved detention for both and took my consequences.

Convincing a girl it would be a good idea to take off her panties in the middle of class for return later.

Awesome.


As an aside, my High School had the worst fighting policey evah. If you were involved in a fight, no matter what, every party involved got suspended. Sounds reasonable right? Not in practice. You could seriously be walking to class, minding your own business, and some guy could randomly come and punch you right in the face, and before you even hit him back, it could get broken up, and you both would get suspended, even though you didnt do anything but get punched.

This was terrible in practice, because it made me actually inflict harm on whoever started a fight. If Im going to get suspended no matter what, why wouldnt I retaliate?

I also got a Saturday School (Breakfast Club style) once for fighting outside of school, off school grounds. The kids mom called the deans and told them I beat the snot out of her little boy (because shes a bitch). We both got satuday schools. Which, actually Saturday school was actually kind of fun. I had a book report due for my Gothic Lit class the following Friday, and I was reading Dracula so I just read that for 2 hours straight.

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