how much detention did you get in school?
on day and it was bogus.
shareNever. I was a goody two shoes, straight A's, on the soccer and wrestling teams.
shareI got a lot of detentions. I don't remember the specific reason for any of them, because they were so minor / commonplace. I specifically remember the reasons for my suspensions though. For example:
My sophomore year in high school, early in the year, in Mr. Stickney's math class, a freshman named Josh, a rich preppy kid, was sitting behind me and started kicking my chair for no apparent reason. I barely even knew who he was. I turned around and looked at him, and he just smirked, and a minute or two later he started kicking my chair again. I thought to myself, "Who does this jackass think he is?"
That continued for the entire 45-minute class, and I didn't say a word about it. Mr. Stickney was one of the few teachers in high school who I respected, and I didn't want to disrupt his class. But when the bell rang and we stood up to leave, I turned around and punched him in the face. He started to fall backwards but the crowd of other kids reflexively caught him and stood him back up, so I punched him in the face again. At this point, Mr. Stickney -- a big guy who was also the high school wrestling coach -- had made his way through the crowd, got between us, grabbing us both by the shoulder, and shouted, "Both of you... to the office... now!"
In the office I told the principal what happened, and I got a 3-day suspension. Josh admitted to kicking my chair all through class, and he got a detention for that. I never had any problems with that buffoon again.
A couple years later I was sitting with my best friend Corey (R.I.P.) after school in the cafeteria while he was catching up on some homework, and someone was surreptitiously throwing pennies here and there around the room. Corey didn't pay any attention until one landed on our table right in front of him. Corey was one of the biggest and strongest kids in school, and had a violent temper. He had recently been suspended for walking into someone else's class-in-progress and proceeding to beat up on some kid named Shawn who he had a beef with. The teacher, Mrs. White, kept her door locked for the rest of her teaching career after that, and when new students would ask her why, she would tell the story of the time that Corey came barging in, and how it took three male teachers to get Corey off of Shawn.
Corey looked up and announced loudly, "Whoever's throwing pennies, I'm going to kick their ass." The whole room went silent, and after about 30 seconds, some preppy chick named Kelly who had a highly inflated sense of self-worth, spoke up and said in a smartass tone, "I was throwing the pennies... are you going to kick my ass?" Without missing a beat, Corey said, "No, but I'll kick your boyfriend's ass." I turned around to see who he was talking about, and it was Josh (lol). His face went white as a ghost, and he didn't say a word. Kelly tried to argue with Corey's logic: "Why would you kick his ass for something I did?" Corey wasn't interested in arguing; he just said, "Throw another penny and see what happens." She didn't throw another penny.
lmfao that penny story is funny
shareI got recess detention once in elementary school and I was very upset, I was such a goody two shoes.
sharePretty regular. All the cool kids were in detention. Detention took place after school, it was like an extra study hall period. And then you got to ride the late bus home which was always a riot. Late bus was full of the rebels, the theater kids, and the shop kids. They all knew how to party.
shareNone. I was to deep in clinical depression to act out.
I don't even know if my schools had detention, and odds are they didn't. This was a school full of rich kids, with a few regular middle-class kids like me who were treated like losers, and the rich kids got away with murder. I mean, they distilled alcoholic drinks in chemistry class (teacher didn't mind), they used and sold drugs, date raped, plays with daddy's guns (one kid died), broke all the traffic laws, etc. When someone actually stole a car and drove it into the school pool as a "senior prank" there was a lot of talk about consequences, but nobody was ever named or punished. I don't remember any of these assholes ever having to deal with any consequences, and that explains a lot about today's rich fuckers.
Never did, not even once. Didn't want the hassle of the fallout from school, and from home. Too much risk, too little reward.
shareLots. It wasn't a behavioral issue though, but instead from being late. As little as a minute late would get you detention. And then I would often skip it, which would lead to an extra day.
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