What was your first school detention for?

[LaraMN]

I hit Brian G____ in the head with my beret, in the recess line. Some asswipe narked on me. I also got time-outs in Kindergarten for chasing and kissing Eric Somethingorother, for hiding on top of a tall file cabinet, and for poking people during nap time.

[LeftyMom]

1. Failure to do my homework and dropping the f bomb.

Whaddayaknow, I'm still foul mouthed and lazy. :D Guess the detentions didn't work. :shrug:

[LaraMN]

5. It starts early!

:scared:
I always lost my homework. I could be holding it one second, and the next, I had lost it. I'm still that way, as well. I'm very flighty.

I also have the foul-mouth curse. My Dad curses enough to make a person blush, and my Mom swears, but not quite as heinously. There was never any hope for me.

[asthmaticeog]

Wow, I can't remember.

There were so many, but it's sad that I've forgotten my first. God, I'm a cad.

[Dave Reynolds]

2. I never had one.

I'm such a goody-goody.

I did get a paddling in grade school once for throwing a rock at the school, though.

[xmas74]

3. Probably talking.

Wait-it was for reading in class. I was in third grade and had finished my math work. I got a book out of my desk and started reading it. My teacher took the book away and informed me that it was not time to read. I showed her my math homework and she said that I could do some more problems since I had finished the first set. I didn't think it was fair and asked her why the others didn't have to do them.
I got a detention for that. I had to stay after and write an essay about why I should use my time wisely.
I'd forgotten about that.

[LaraMN]

7. Because reading is a waste of time?

If you got you math done that fast, I'm guessing you didn't need extra practice, huh? That is simply unjust. Unjust!

[xmas74]

46. They didn't want to mess w/ someone who finished first.

That's just the way things went at that time. The teacher was close to retirement (I think she retired the next year) and didn't want to mess w/ anyone.
Besides, she knew if I finished my book I would ask to go back to the library. I spent a lot of time in that library.

[Lavender Brown]

4. I only had one - for not getting a permission slip signed.

How lame. :P

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. I never got one either

Though in high school I did get called to the vice principal's office twice for smoking on campus.

The second time, it occurred to me that there was a dichotomy in the rules: If you were sitting in your car in this particular parking lot, you were off campus. But if you were smoking in your car in the same parking lot, you were smoking on campus.

Miss Drewes didn't appreciate my grasp of logic. :blush:

[LaraMN]

10. *Snort!* We went out in the woods to smoke,

and we had open campus for lunch. It was a beautiful arrangement.

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. Not walking 3 mi to school when I missed the bus and had a broken pelvis.

Though that detention I actually never had to serve, due to the INSANE phone call my mom made to the school.

(though my pelvis was no longer broken at the time, it had just healed, and the doctor said that I was not to be on my feet any longer than necessary to get from class to class (and no stairs; elevator only) - I called into the school, like a good citizen, to say that I missed the bus and wouldn't be in and they told me I'd have detention; when mom came home, I told her, and she went FUCKING BALLISTIC on the fascists in charge of my junior high).

That moment (and a few others dealing with the school with my injuuries) was when I learned that most authority figures are very small people inside, that most teachers are useless self-centered fearful incompetent pieces of shit, and that our education system couldn't give a fuck about education and is far more interested in making us pliant, rules-following sheep fit for corporate consumption and republican/nazi patriotic flag-waving bullshit.

Thank God for that moment!

[LaraMN]

15. I think I learned that the year I had the teacher who gave us gigantic

word-search puzzles every chance he got. He was deathly afraid of any of us being unoccupied for a millisecond. He also said, "What the H ?" all the time. Like we didn't know what the "H" stood for. We were twelve years old.:eyes:

[Rabrrrrrr]

30. Dumbasses.

While I do not believe fully in the old canard that "those who can, do; those who can't, teach", I will agree that about 80% of the time with teachers that is true.

And when you get to the public schools, that goes much higher, because so many of the truly good teachers go to the private schools where they earn more.

Thank God, though, I *did* have a few teachers who were truly capable and wonderful and felt it their calling to teach in public schools and try to dispell the republican-created-education-systenm bullshit.

[LaraMN]

35. Yep. I had some wonderful teachers along the way, as well.

I've actually heard from a few of them in the years since I graduated. Kind things some of them said to me still resonate, many years later. The good ones really can have an amazing amount of influence. I'm ashamed of how our government regards them.

[Shine]

9. I never got one.

I was actually shy back then.

[johnnie]

11. That's like asking

"When was the first time you drank water?"

[GOPisEvil]

12. I never got detention!

O8)

[LaraMN]

16. WAY too many of you people ar responding thusly!

I thought maybe one in twenty people would be on the O8) team!

[GOPisEvil]

17. Well, I got in trouble for talking in class periodically, but no detention

I guess I know my limits. :rofl:

[Rabrrrrrr]

19. You were expelled what.. 6 minutes into your first day of Kindergarten?

:evilgrin:

[GOPisEvil]

24. 5, but I spent a minute waiting for the principal.

:D

[Rabrrrrrr]

25. Oh, that's right - california peggy went out at 4 minutes

so she got the principal first.



on edit: it's so embarrassing, but I spelled "oh" wrong!

[GOPisEvil]

27. Yeah, she's a bad influence.

[Rabrrrrrr]

37. She's terrible. She actually pushed me to invade Poland

back in '39.

[LaraMN]

39. Well, at least you know ONE American who wouldn't

forget Poland.

[sleipnir]

13. An attempted bloodless coup of the afternoon kindergarten class.

Our morning class was trying to consolidate power and force the teacher to bargain for economic benefits. We figured staging a coup and overthrowing the elitist afternoon class would be a good way to jump start negotiations. Sadly, it turned out pretty damn bad. I was detained indefinitely, with no trial, no access to a lawyer, until a representative of my choosing was able to repatriate me back to my home block, after which I was tortured at the hands of my own people....the horror...the horror...

[flvegan]

14. I NEVER got a detention. Yes, be surprised.

I never got caught...errr, I mean...I never did anything that would warrant one.

Guess I've stayed under the radar for quite some time.

[LeftyMom]

50. It's the eyes, dear.

People with big blue eyes can get away with nearly anything, because they do that innocent look so well.

[flvegan]

51. Really?

In that case, check your inbox...

[LeftyMom]

52. Nothing from you in my inbox.

:shrug:

[flvegan]

53. Check again...

[LeftyMom]

54. Now *that* was detention-worthy.

:evilgrin:

[Oeditpus Rex]

18. Almost forgot — I got busted for PDA once

Boy, was I proud.

[jakefrep]

20. Taking revenge on a bully...

...I whacked him upside the head. And I didn't just get any old detention, I got a full-blown Saturday School.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

21. Oh, I remember THAT well.

:evilgrin:

Sixth grade. Math class with my total bitch of a teacher. We're loud, annoying, per usual. She says, if we don't raise a hand before speaking, we get detention.

Smart-ass me asks if that would be an hour's worth, or only half-an-hour.

:D :D

Oh, and for those of you who are curious, it WAS only half-an-hour.

:evilgrin:

:rofl:

[Joey Liberal]

22. I slammed a bully on the playground in the 2nd grade

Got yelled at by my pyscho teacher. All she saw was me slamming the bully.

[ZombieNixon]

23. Actually, I never got detention. Ever.

I did, however, get in-school suspension for one day for fighting in PE in 7th grade. Man, did I ever hate middle school.

[LaraMN]

31. MIddle school is the WORST!

Girls that age are mean as shit, too. Lucky for me, I was taller than most of them.

[ZombieNixon]

34. Lucky for me, I became a black belt at age 12.

Also, the guy I beat up a) started it and b) was immensely unpopular as a bully. Plus, I was seen as über-geek until then, until word got out that I creamed Kevin, at which point my social star shot up. Who says violence doesn't get you friends? :D

[KitchenWitch]

44. In school suspension sucks!

I got full suspension, so I stayed home and got high all day!

[Left Is Write]

26. I never had detention.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

28. I called my 9th grade art teacher a bitch. Which she was.

A couple of years later I got sent to the principal's office for laughing at my Latin teacher, who strongly resembled a chicken.

[LaCrosseDem]

29. I punched a fundy in the mouth

we both got suspended.

[SofaKingLiberal]

32. Setting the class pet on fire.

J/K

I believe my first detention was for being late, not doing assignments, cursing, throwing things, breaking something, or stealing another kids lunch. In elementary school, I had what some teachers referred to as a behavior problem. :P

[AngryAmish]

33. I almost got kicked out of first grade the first day

Steve Rosener stole my ball so I bit him. I drew blood.

[LaraMN]

38. You were a biter!

:rofl:

[AngryAmish]

41. I was small

What did you want me to do? It was my f'n ball.

[LaraMN]

42. I'm not saying I don't approve!

Heck, I don't care if you bite people NOW; you're not MY kid! :toast:

[mvd]

36. I can't remember any detentions

One time the whole class was held after school in 6th grade. I came close a couple times in high school to getting demerits for being late for class. The halls of my high school were very crowded, so sometimes you'd be late without trying to be.

[jus_the_facts]

40. Skippin' class....

....spent an hour extra every day for most o'my junior year. :blush:

[LaraMN]

43. Well didn't that defeat the purpose of skipping?

:rofl:

I had a three-hour block for half of my senior year that I skipped almost daily.
I had an hour of study hall, an hour of photography; independent study, and then lunch, so I just checked into study hall and then left (nobody kept track of us once we signed in.) It was rough!:P

[jus_the_facts]

47. I eventually got suspended for a couple days for skippin' detention too...

...lucky for me the principal thought I was a riot so he just humored me with more detention! :D

[DanCa]

45. I was getting bullied so when nothing was done

I slamed a locker shut on one of the kids heads. Note it was five to one and I got in trouble for it.

[LaraMN]

48. Sounds a bit like our foreign policy.

I once had a locker next to guy who punched me in the shoulder (HARD) every time he saw me. It wasn't appreciated and I didn't laugh. I finally hauled out and punched him back. Then he asked me out. :eyes: I told him "Fuck no! You're an asshole!"

[bleedingheart]

49. I beat the shit out of this one girl and her brother...

after he tripped me when I was getting off the bus.

never again did they tease this violin playing geek again...