27 of the dumbest things people got into trouble for in school
It seems that random punishments and injustices were commonplace.
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https://twitter.com/matociquala/status/1109782058870734848
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I got detention for being 5 minutes late because I was in a car crash. https://t.co/RC41GU5lCV
— taha (@KhanStopMe) March 23, 2019
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I got a detention for sneezing… https://t.co/qD2ajcya5A
— ethan (@ethannestor) March 22, 2019
18.
Refusing to turn the lights back on after watching a film on energy conservation.
— Don Carpenter (@BrakDBarbarian) March 21, 2019
But some people simply deserved it.
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My classmate asked me to give him answers to an exam. I wrote it on a 10 peso bill and pretended to pay him the money I owe him. My teacher caught us because of course who settles their debt during an exam. https://t.co/NRYoPRISSM
— Hunghang Flashbacks (@HHFlashbacks) March 24, 2019
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https://twitter.com/janhopis/status/1109389636583989248
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And others defied categorisation.
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In 4th grade my friends and I were convinced a classroom they didn't use was haunted, and soon the whole school believed it.
We got called to the principal's office and she wanted to take us around to all the classes to announce to the kids that the classroom wasn't haunted https://t.co/uVoUcqNgEn
— Jenny Nicholson (@JennyENicholson) March 21, 2019
23.
I told my History teacher that I thought the IRB was the IRA's second team… https://t.co/I9uOhuk0yP
— Ross O'Carroll-Kelly (@RossOCK) March 22, 2019
24.
Went to the bathroon during class in the 5th grade, and since I was by myself I noticed that there was a super awesome echo in there. So I started evil-laughing "MUAAAAHAHAHAHA" because it sounded cool.
— SonOfOrpheus (@SonOfOrpheus) March 21, 2019
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https://twitter.com/jayasax/status/1109539210153865216
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got yelled at in front of my entire seventh grade English class for "reading too many Dickens novels" and talking / acting like a comically pretentious Victorian gentleman.
— the library haunter ❄ (@SketchesbyBoze) March 24, 2019
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In art class, my friends drew a picture of a tornado destroying a house. I penciled in a farmer yelling, "Ma! It's a fuckin' twister!" Because the whole table was giggling, the teacher found out. I had to stay after class for 30 mins and pretend to feel bad about what I had done.
— Vâchon Esprit de l'Escalier (@Vachon98) March 21, 2019
The Verge’s Senior Editor, Tom Warren, got into trouble for a weirdly benevolent offence.
hacking our schools servers to upgrade all Windows 98 machines to Windows ME https://t.co/ahheKQx5RZ
— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) March 22, 2019
They probably should have thanked him.