‘What was the dumbest reason that you got in trouble for at school?’ – 24 people who absolutely did not deserve that detention

13.

‘Mine was for distributing a flyer around the school on OFSTED inspection day, that explained all the bad things that happened like fights, teachers making fake amazing lessons for the inspectors, and it also had a graph showing the levels of cocaine consumption of various teachers.

I very nearly got kicked out permanently for that, until I got taken to the head teacher’s office, who surprisingly found it hilarious and told me I would go far in life (which I haven’t but still) I’ll never forget the look on my ratty head of year’s face thinking I was gonna get screamed at only to be praised.’
–ok2888

14.

‘Someone in my secondary got in trouble for asking for a pen, though. She was always prone to laughing for the smallest reason so this set her off. The supply teacher, who until then had only said the three words he would be forever known by (do your work), then told her to stand in the corner and face the wall. He wanted to keep us behind after the bell as it was the end of the day but when he went into the storage cupboard we all barricaded him in and ran away. Never saw Mr Do-Your-Work again.’
–First_Folly

15.

”Smirking’ at my registration teacher. Someone told a joke just before the teacher entered the room and I was trying not to laugh whilst listening to her and maintaining what I thought was a straight face. Sadly no I was accused of smirking and got a punishment exercise…’
–Crookfur

16.

‘I was sent out of class once when I wasn’t even in school that day. Everyone was apparently being a bit raucous and the teacher shouted for me to get out, but I wasn’t there lol. My friend told me the next day when I was back in school.’
–masterofteabaggery

17.

‘Not having a blazer on under my coat. They had to ask me to take my coat off to find out if my blazer was on underneath which I thought demonstrates that it didn’t make any difference but I got a Saturday detention for it.’
–sv21js

18.

‘8th year and I think it was a German lesson. My friend and I had just watched the fourth season of Blackadder, and agreed that if one of us were asked a question by the teacher all we could answer was ‘wibble’. Of course, I was the first person in the class to be asked something. I replied ‘wibble’ to her four times in succession as she got angrier, my mate was dissolving in giggles, and the rest of the class were confused going on amused. I got lunchtime detentions for my wibbles.’
–demanufacture79

19.

‘I was standing in the playground eating my sandwich and a fight broke out between two boys probably 10-15m from me. I turned and faced their direction and kept eating my sandwich. A crowd gathered egging them on until the teachers came over and broke it up and took the boys away.

Then one of the teachers came up to me, poked me in the chest with her finger and said ‘I saw what you did you horrible little girl, you should be in just as much trouble as those boys’ then she stormed off. Zero idea what I was accused of.’
–missuseme

20.

‘Speaking Scots to other kids. I didn’t even know it WAS Scots, just that we spoke differently to each other. I was told it was ‘lazy’. The come Burns’ night, lo and behold, we’re learning poetry in Scots.

Growing up in Scotland in the 90s was confusing.’
–AtLeastOneCat

21.

‘I’m colourblind. In a geography lesson once we had to colour the sea in blue on a map, I coloured it in purple thinking it was blue and the teacher went mental. This was before I knew I was colourblind too so I didn’t know what to say. Was only about 8.’
–VictorAnichebend

22.

‘I messed up doing a Fosbury Flop in high jump. I mean, it’s hard and I fucked up the twist. So when I landed on my belly I laughed to hide my embarrassment and the PE teacher absolutely bollocked me in front of everyone for not taking it seriously. That teacher is the reason I’ve had a bad relationship with sport and exercise for 40 years. Fuck that nasty, squat little goblin.’
–Holiday_Cat_7284

23.

‘I tipped a full carrier bag of snow from the first floor onto a group of girls below on the ground floor only for them to obliviously walk away leaving a space for the head of year to walk straight into and catch a full Tesco bag’s worth of snow… he was furious and I got sent home.’
–IrvmeisterGeneral

24.

‘Walking into a classroom. Geography teacher sent me out without so much as looking at me when she walked in. Admittedly I was a twat in her class on a regular basis, but that day I hadn’t done anything.’
–BalthazarOfTheOrions

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