School days punishments?

[ohiosmith]

In grade 10 I was expelled for threatening my English teacher.

In grade nine I was suspended for two weeks for skipping the first month of classes. :rofl:

In grades seven through nine I was transfered to three different schools.

In grade six I was paddled an average of three times per week for various and sundry infractions.

In grades one through five I received innumerable spankings, expulsions, reprimands, and warnings.

You can look it up.

PS What does "incorrigible" mean?

[TOhioLiberal]

1. I think...

...that if I look up the word 'incorrigible' I'll find your picture next to it! :rofl: :7

[Left Is Write]

2. I never got punished in school.

No suspension, no detention, no notes sent home to my parents, nothing.

[MichiganVote]

3. It means they're glad you're gone

[MichiganVote]

4. dupe

[Ariana Celeste]

5. mostly just suspensions

for (drum roll please) skipping school. i got a lunch detention one time in 6th grade because my little boyfriend and i had a running 'thing' where we talked shit to each other for laughs- our teacher knew we were kidding but our substitute didnt. we had to stay in during lunch and write each other apologies. i got an after school detention once in 9th grade for forgetting my history book one too many times. i got to leave early though because the other kid that got detention that day was late, and the teacher had told me to tell him to do some such job while she was gone. anyways he didnt do it because he thought i was lying, and when she came back, she made him stay the rest of his time + the remainder of my time and i was let go. in my 3rd sophomore year (that sounds awful doesnt it?) i got a couple of saturday school detentions that i skipped, so, i got (drum roll please) suspension. eventually i just dropped out.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

6. Two detentions, one in 6th, one in 7th, for sassing my respective math teacher each year.

I never had much respect 1)for incompetent math teachers, and 2)for the "because I said so" justification.

That's the only official wall I've come up against. This year I had a proto-detention for calling somebody "kick-ass." It was silly; if I'm going to spend 20 minutes after school for swearing, it should be for a nice stream of extremely derrogatory profanity, not a petty semi-complimentary one. :7

[dajoki]

7. In 9th grade...

first day of school, I got sent home because my sideburns were too big.:shrug:

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. I never got caught, and I never did anything to draw attention to myself,

crime-wise (that is, I showed up for school, played the game, and did publicly what I had to do to avoid trouble; then did all my shit on the side in a way that i wouldn't get caught, and that even if I did, "It couldn't have been me!")

Oh, man, we did some good stuff.

[evlbstrd]

9. Paddlings, detentions, the usual.

But there was the creative.
Teacher has you face the chalkboard (prefereably in a classroom of kids at least one grade above yours) and draws a circle in front of your eyes. You are told to put put your nose in that circle. Stay.

[Scooter24]

10. I was arrested for truancy

because I was shopping during a school day. However, I wasn't enrolled in that school district. x( I was with a friend on spring break and we were visiting his Grandparent's in Alabama for a few days. I guess the officer was doing some sort of truancy sweep, so he picked us both up. I didn't have my ID with me so he ended up taking us both back to the school.

Let's just say my parents were furious and I think I still have the several letters of apology from that incident.

[Nevernose]

13. Now, to be fair:

Truancy is a total obsession of mine. I've got several master's theses topics ready to go, in fact.

Did you know that in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for instance, when an effective truancy program involving normal law enforcement was instituted, the daytime burglary rate dropped by slightly more than 60 PERCENT?

(Normal law enforcement -- street cops -- isn't often used in larger districts, ironically those districts with more crime, because of manpower issues)

Think about: almost two/thirds of daytime burglary could be eliminated by making kids go to school.

And how was the cop supposed to know? You're the one who didn't have your ID with you. What was he supposed to do? And was it, ultimately, anything more than an inconvenience?

Find a juvenile DA and ask them the following questions: How many hard-core criminals do you see? The kind that are 17, ready for the adult system, and get caught with armed robbery, serious assault, or other really severe crimes? How many of their records begin with abuse/neglect as a young child, then move to truancy charges, and then move to more serious crimes? It's damn near all of them.

We've got to find these kids and get them the help and the skills they need as early as possible, and if the occasional kid on Spring Break who was out of town visiting his friend's grandparents is occasionally inconvenienced, well, then that's just life.

[Scooter24]

15. I'm in agreement for the most part...

I wasn't upset. At first I was just frustrated, but once we got there and a few calls were made, we all had a good laugh. The officer was even kind enough to take me and my friend out for lunch afterwards before taking us back home.

However, our parents saw things a bit differently and after all was said and done, received a few letters of apology. Both of our fathers are lawyers, so I'm sure there were a few stern calls made that day.

I never went to public school so I'm not personally aware of how truancy effects the school system. I went to a NYC private high school where most parents pay close to $120,000 for their child to attend and where truancy was practically a non-existent problem. I guess I was a bit more naive back then, so I don't see this as anyone's fault.

[Nevernose]

16. At private schools you have to redefine "truancy"

I've got a friend who worked for several years as a private school teacher. Her biggest frustration? Kids who were truant but whose parents didn't think they were truant. "I pay good money to this school! Why is my kid failing?"

"Well, sir, with all due respect, the grading period is only nine weeks long, and you took your daughter on a ski vacation in Switzerland that lasted for five of those six weeks."

Of course, public schools see a different kind of truancy. The stereotype, not altogether unearned, is that, "Brenda had to stay at home so someone could watch the littler kids when they come home." Or maybe, "But who's going to watch Brenda's kid?"

The similarities come with statements like, "Oh, Brenda was tired/sick/not feeling well/run-down so I told her that she didn't have to go to school that day." Not much different than the Switzerland excuse, and just even more common.

The primary reason I haven't switched from public to private schools (I live in a district where the salary is commiserate) is the parents.

In my admittedly limited experiences, it's the same problems with different faces.

And, to be fair once again, I still turn to my native "redneck" voice when I need to. I'm still using those different faces (and stereotypes) to my advantage.

"Fishin' license? What's that? Wait a minute here: you trayin' ta tell me that I need a puhrmit ta FISH!?!"

"Wayhl, sur, I don know nuthin about that. Here I am, jus' a spaydin along, and the next thang I knows is that there's a lights a'whirlin' behind me. Is there a rayson Eye'm a-under the Ay-rest?"

Or, the ultimate redneck comeback, guaranteed to defeat any officer of the law: "Huh?" Given the correct nuance, and repeated ad infinitum, repeating the word "huh?" incessantly will derail all but the most dedicated of law enforcement.

[conscious evolution]

24. Huh!! I know that one

I used that and the dumbass southern redneck act several times when I lived out west.Only got one ticket out of about 10 or 15 stops.

[pokerfan]

11. Three paddlings

Two of them in front of the class, one in the Principal's ofice. It was damned hard to not cry but I wasn't going to give anyone the satisfaction.

[reyd reid reed]

12. I had to write standards

more often than I can count.

When I was in the sixth grade, I got called to the principal's office and got paddled. AND had to write "I will not talk when somebody else is talking." 500 times.

The day of my high school graduation, I got a call from the assistant principal first thing in the morning (last day of classes had been a few days earlier). He wanted to suspend me for skipping the fourth quarter of Algebra II.

:eyes:

That's about it for me.

Toldja I'm an angel.

O8)

[Nevernose]

14. The dean had my mom on speed dial

Oh, my poor parents! It must have been such a nightmare for them! They were good parents, I love them dearly and we're very close now, but as a teenager, there were so many other problems that I was often an afterthought.

The ironic thing is, these days I'm a teacher, and I'm the one handing out the punishments. I don't hand out that many, because I don't really need to. Yes, I work at a pretty bad school where discipline problems are the norm, but I found out in my first ten minutes that if you want love, tolerance, and respect, you have to be the first one to give it, and once you start giving it, you can't ever stop. No matter how much you want to choke the little monsters sometimes. A lack of pretentiousness helps, too.

And thank god for the punishments. In all seriousness, if it weren't for the constant harping, lecturing, detentioning, phone-calling, and occasional handcuffing, I would be in a much worse place today, and I certainly would not have graduated high school. Sure, I had a 1.6 GPA, but it was on time and with all honors/AP classes.

Without a lot of positive reinforcement at home, getting punished was one of the few ways I had to gain self-esteem; getting punished was one of the few ways I ever saw that someone cared about me.

Most of us incorrigible ones end up corrigible after all. But for some of us it just takes longer.

[Oeditpus Rex]

17. Once, I was sent to the vice principal

for sitting in my car during lunch, listening to the stereo. I was off-campus.

Later, I was sent to the other vice principal for smoking in my car in the same parking lot. I was on-campus.

I don't think they appreciated the dichotomy.

[FloridaJudy]

18. I got detention a few times in High School

For skipping the mandatory prep rallies. I had ducked into the library to read instead.

So they gave me detention ----- guess where! What was that old line about Brer' Rabbit begging not to be thrown in the briar patch?

[skygazer]

19. In grade school, it was "the Bench"

We had to go sit on a bench outside the Principal's office. And for some reason, that was terrifying.

Once I got to high school, I was assigned detention nearly every day for skipping one class or another but I only went to detention once. So about every third week, they'd suspend me for a couple of days for not going to detention. Three days off, that's how I saw it. :bounce:

When I was a Junior, I got suspended for a week for organizing a walkout that turned into a sit-in involving about 200 students (in a school with about 800 in all). It was in protest of the bogus firing of a very popular teacher - when we were threatened with police action, I called both local radio stations and the newspaper who came galloping out.

Made the front page that day. :)

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

20. Very smart of you to call the media. nt

[Strawman]

21. Detentions for skipping, one suspension for fighting

A pink slip for starting a food fight in grade school.

A pink slip for tresspassing in some person's yard to retreive a ball in grade school. (Three pinks slips in a year and you'd get expelled from my Catholic grade school)

A chewing out by a vice principal for mooning people on school trips that turned out to be a practical joke on me in high school (that would never fly these days).

[alarimer]

22. I got sent home from KINDERGARTEN once

I guess I was being a pain or something but in reality the teacher was an asshole. She wouldn't let me read (I learned at age 3 or 4) because in her world, kids in kindergarten did not read. I didn't fit the program I guess. LOL. Traumatized me for life, she did.

[pdx_prog]

23. I changed schools between my 9 and 10 grade years

My first day of my sophmore year I got busted matching coins in the bathroom during study hall with a kid I had literally just met 10 minutes before that. We were standing there holding coins between our thumb and first fingers ready to match them when the basketball coach walked in. He asked us both if we were matching coins.....the other kid said no but I said yes. We had to report to his office at 1:00 or something like that and he gave us both 3 licks with a very worn in 1" thick wooden paddle. He said he gave the other kid 3 licks for lying but he gave me 3 for telling.....lol. I received licks from just about every male teacher in that school through the years and laughed them off later but when this guy layed into your ass you would just about come up off the ground when that paddle hit.

They initiated a 3 day detention if you got caught smoking in the bathrooms.....I was caught about 30 minutes after it was announced and spent 3 very lovely days at home.

[conscious evolution]

25. First day in first grade

I got detention
In the spring of that year I got arrested for the first time for throwing smoke bombs onto the little league field.
It kinda went downhill from there.

[Gormy Cuss]

26. You people were a bunch of troublemakers.

Me, I talked my way out of everything and in high school that was a lot of talking.
;)

[Adsos Letter]

27. well...in first grade our teacher asked

"are we all ready to stand and say the Pledge of Allegiance". Not appreciating the rhetorical nature of her question I loudly called out "No" while everyone else was saying "yes, Mrs. Pugh". It sorta' went downhill from there...

[dropkickpa]

28. Various talking to's in elem school

for talking back and/or fighting.

Many many in-school suspensions in middle school for talking back/fighting/reading in class. Being the smallest kid in school with big blue eyes and a well honed skill at whipping up big ol' crocodile tears saved me from out of school suspensions.

I got suspended 2 times for smoking on school grounds, and MANY calls home/suspensions for cutting class. Yeah, a suspension was REALLY effective, I didn't even have to get up and pretend to go to school. I got suspended for drinking on a school trip (I was 18 and it was a trip to Toronto). I ended up pretty much dropping out senior year as I only had 1 academic class and 6 electives, and only stayed through the fall because of soccer. I went to a month of dropout school the next year and got my diploma with the corect year and my Advanced classes certificate (fulfilled the requirements for that by the end of sophmore year). I also received 3 awards for our school literary magazine, was on stage crew, newspaper, and art club. I was the kid your mom hated to have you hang around, a true bad influence (got most of the people in my class high/drunk for the first time, all the nerds).