Detention. No one wants to be there, but you have to serve the consequences for something bad you did some how. For these people what they did was totally worth spending time in detention for a couple hours.
You Gave Me Five Minutes…
“Really, really short tempered teacher. I pissed her off, and she asked me if I would like to teach the class instead. She said I have 5 minutes. I just said, ‘Class dismissed!’ and everyone ran out of the class. I stood there with a sh-t eating grin and she with a scowl. This was in 6th grade and I felt like an absolute bada– at the time…A few kids were hesitant at first but eventually they scurried out because the teacher was staring at me furiously. Oh and I didn’t get to go outside for recess for a few days because of this” (Source).
A Drumstick Is a Drumstick
“11 year old me thought it would be hilarious to take chicken drumsticks along to music class instead of my actual drumsticks. Bits of chicken flying around a drumkit, a class hysterically laughing, a red-faced angry music teacher and I later found myself in detention. From memory, no significant damage was caused to the drumkit. It was a ratty looking thing that had needed heads replacing for many years before 11 year old me came along anyway. 5 years on from the ‘chicken drumstick incident’, I began earning a living from playing drums, but my days of using chicken ended age 11. 16 years later, people from that class still bring up the ‘chicken drumstick incident’ in conversation with me.” (Source).
I Do Believe He Said He Had to Pee
“I had a teacher who would not let anyone go to the bathroom the entire year, so the last month of school, my friends and I got so fed up with it I decided to take action. I brought an extra change of clothes hidden in my backpack and drank three bottles of water at lunch. During class that afternoon, I asked the teacher if I could use the restroom, and of course, she responded with the usual ‘no,’ so I said ‘ok’ and just pissed all over myself and the desk. I had an extra change of clothes so it was only uncomfortable for a little bit. The look on her face was worth it. Now she lets any and everyone go to the bathroom as needed. You’re welcome America! Basically I pissed all over myself during class at school to make a point to the teacher to let people go to the bathroom during class” (Source).
You Called the Principal a WHAT?!?
“I once instigated a whole revolution in my (catholic) school. We had an horrible math teacher that nobody liked, when he took vacations they brought a substitute teacher that was really great, so we did a petition with signatures from students of all grades, for then to keep her as the official teacher. I was the head of the movement so I went to the principal with the ‘document’ to show our efforts. She laughed at me and told to get the h-ll out of there because students don’t have the right to demand such things. I went back to class crying (7th grade) and my classmates became really angry that the principal had treated me like that so everybody got out of the class, started to call the other students in all classes to join then and they did. At the end of it, everybody stood at the street in front of the school yelling that the principal was a b-tch. I was in serious trouble after that but totally worth it” (Source).
I Got In Trouble for Eating My Vegetables
“I went to a K-8 Catholic school. Our school lunches were pitifully small, same portion for 1st graders as for 8th graders. The lunch ladies understood that the portions were small and would often let students get second servings, which they were otherwise going to throw out. I went to get some extra salad. Rather than giving me an additional serving, they just gave me the remaining, heaping mound of cheap iceberg lettuce drenched in Italian dressing. It was seriously probably several pounds of salad. I had no intention of eating the entirety of it, but a teacher caught me eating the leftovers and said I had ought to finish it otherwise it would be so wasteful. At that point it became a competition to prove her wrong. I had to stay probably an extra 10 minutes to finish munching down the pile of salad. When I finished the teacher called me a pig and gave me a detention for some arbitrary reason. I relished in the look of her disgust and gleefully took the detention” (Source).
A Funny Thing Happened on the Detention Slip
“In 8th grade I hit my friend in the balls in front of a teacher. On the detention slip I was written up for ‘Attacking another students scrotum.’ My mom even got a laugh outta that one (Source).
Skip One Day, Get Two Days Off!
“Got a day of in-school suspension once for skipping a class I didn’t feel like going to. So I got to miss it the following day as well!” (Source)
Taking Matters Into Your Own Hands
“After being bullied a lot between the ages of 8-14 I finally snapped when as I was ‘walking away’ from a bully he said ‘Keep Rolling Fatboy’ in front of a girl I liked. I turned around in a blinding anger and hit him so hard I broke a few bones on my hand and his nose, he fell back and landed in a puddle of mud and started crying. Fast forward to sitting outside the headteachers office after I was reported for fighting, and out comes my favourite teacher who apparently saw the whole thing and fought my corner meaning the only punishment I got was a weeks of lunchtime detentions. I was never bullied again after that incident and I just wish I had done it sooner.” (Source).
Let’s Get Literal, Literal
“Math Teacher: And using this we’ll just be able to throw our calculators out the window and do without them. Me: Finally! throws calculator out window” (Source).
Bart Simpson in the Intro
“In elementary, I got detention because I got the last word in a snowball fight. By bringing one into the classroom in my coat pocket and throwing it at my friend. Spent lunch recess writing ‘I will not throw snow in school’ 1000 times for a few days. But totally worth it” (Source).
Freedom, Sweet Freedom!
“In my school there was a rule that if the teacher didn’t show up within 10 minutes we were allowed to leave. So once while waiting for our German teacher the whole class decided to leave after 8-9 minutes. We start walking and then suddenly we spot her behind us and the whole class just starts running away from her and down the stairs. She runs after us while yelling German obscenities at us… We escaped but everyone got a detention” (Source).
In Trouble for Standing Up for Herself
“I was a freshman in high school, and still a (religious) virgin. I was asked why I was waiting to have sex until I was married. I answered with several reasons including that I didn’t want to end up with STD’s. A nearby girl, who didn’t really care for me, assumed I was trying to say that I didn’t want to end up like her and threatened to shoot me. I calmly told her to shut her mouth. Both of us were threatened to be suspended. She cried and asked for forgiveness from the principal. I sat in his office with a straight look on my face insisting ‘shut your mouth’ was a sufficient response to a death threat. Because she cried and I didn’t. I was suspended. She was not” (Source).
Ferris Bueller’s 50 Days Off
“Okay story time. I went to a strict technical school. Like you always had to sit at the same spot in the cafeteria, no talking, nothing other than bread and beverages on the table (no schoolwork/laptops/phones). These were just some of the rules during midday. However once you were in 5th or 6th year (17-18 years old) you were allowed to leave and were taken off these lists. I went to the secretary of the school one day to discuss some initiatives we were starting in the school in terms of soccer tournaments during the week etc. He got a call and left the room for 2 minutes. The lunch forms were open on his computers. I took my and some of my friends’ names off. Next week we slipped out of the campus and we were free. It felt like we’d escaped prison. It took them 2.5 months to notice. Longer if it weren’t for a new person to be added to our class. I got 1 day of detention in return for 50 days on the loose. Boy was it worth it…” (Source).
By Being Late, He Was Early
“Moved to a new high school which had classrooms that were not laid out in a standard way. They had a no tolerance tardy policy. Show up to class 30 seconds late? Detention. You’re a new kid and can’t figure out where the classrooms are? Detention. First day I racked up 7 detentions. Sh-t keeps going on. I figure out detention in this school is just a 45 minute study hall where I can get my homework done in a quarter of the time it takes me to do at home. And because I played sports, Saturday detention was waved for me. Now worst case scenario is that I spend a minimal amount of extra time at school and my homework is done in record time. Guess how my tardiness improved under these circumstances? Principal calls me in at the end of the semester or year, I forget. He asks me ‘are you trying to wallpaper your house with detention slips?’ I explained the situation, which went over well because I had straight As and no other behavioral stuff. Principal points out that it is literally impossible for me to complete the detentions I have before I graduate. End result: I get excused from ever getting a detention for being tardy for the rest of high school” (Source).
Funny, Yet Not Funny
“I go to an all boy private school. We played Boys Town (has girls also), a school that is for kids who are trouble makers, got kicked out of school, don’t have a stable home life ect. During a football game they shouted ‘we have girls’ we replied with ‘we have parents.’ The entire senior class received detention” (Source).
Not Your Normal Word Processing Program
“I installed NES emulators on all the school computers in the lab. The next class of 3rd graders were very distracted during their typing class. I was a freaking hero” (Source).
I Got a Teacher Fired After My Detention
“I was in 8th grade and our gym teacher picked one student per class to make his personal b–ch. I wasn’t having any of it so everything he tried I was able to one up him. His final straw was when we were throwing frisbees and he threw one at me. At the last second he said ‘Soti! Heads up!’ expecting me to get hit in the face. I don’t know it happened but without looking I grabbed it, spun around and whipped it back at him fast enough and hard enough to give him a bloody nose. He sent me to the principals office where she while laughing her a– off had to give me a 3 day suspension due to ‘attacking a teacher.’ I found out 2 years later that he was fired from his job after that year due to multiple students from several years coming forward and claiming physical and verbal abuse. So it was totally worth it to get that a–hole out of teaching” (Source).
I’m Eating My Chocolate Whether You Like It or Not
“Ate a Cadbury’s Creme Egg in full view of the teacher, despite him telling me not to start eating it after unwrapping it or I would get detention. The entire egg went into my mouth in one go as we kept eye-contact. No regrets” (Source).
Such Language From a Vice Principal
“In high school, my dad dropped me off out front after all the buses had left. Vice principal was being an a–hole for no reason and giving my dad sh-t for ‘parking’ in a bus lane (when in fact he had not violated any rules). It was clear the VP was trying to pick a fight. After a brief heated exchange, my dad drove off, and I heard the VP mutter ‘a–hole’ under his breath. I stood in front of the building, waited for the VP to turn around and see me, held up a brazen middle finger, and walked inside, ignoring his demands that I stop. I proceeded to dodge detention until I was pulled from class. Basically I flipped off vice principal in front of the school. Felt great” (Source).
Turnabout Is Fair Play
“Some kid was stealing money out of the locker rooms every day after school while sports teams were practicing. I skipped cross-country practice one day and hid in the shower area in an attempt to catch them.After waiting for over an hour, I finally heard someone enter. I didn’t know what I would be up against so I had taken my belt off as some sort of make-shift weapon (just made me feel safer). I hear the sound of velcro separating, and I knew I had finally caught him. I ran out to the locker area, and he flung the wallet in his hands away and immediately pretended to be opening a lock on the locker. The culprit was this tiny 8th grader (junior high was connected to the high school). As he sat there fumbling with a lock, I just stood and waited. Finally, when it was clear to him that he wasn’t fooling me, and that he didn’t know the combination of the locker he was trying to open, he looked up at me. I started yelling at him, telling him how many people wanted to kick his a–. The wallet he was opening was one of my friends, who was in open gym close by. I told him to wait there unless he wanted trouble, and got my friend. Ultimately, we started trying to extort the money he had stolen over the last few weeks with threats, because we were concerned that if we turned him in we wouldn’t see a dime. Finally the kid turned himself in, because he didn’t have any of the money left, a way to make the money, and was legitimately concerned we were going to hurt him. The discipline lady said something I’ll never forget, ‘you just can’t do that. I’m glad you did, but you can’t take the law into your own hands. I’m sorry, but I’ve got to give you detention for this.’ She asked why I didn’t turn him in, so I answered her honestly. She asked us to get a list together, and made the parents pay up. All-in-all, totally worth it! Basically, I caught a kid stealing and extorted money from him rather than turning him in. (Source).