Top Ten Worst Reasons to Get Detention
Isn't hugging a way of showing you like someone and have a positive relationship with them? What if they were choking, and you had to hug the thing choking them out?
What?! How stupid! What's worse? Having a fistfight with a bully in school or hugging your friend in a sign of sympathy and/or friendship?
I never knew you could be suspended because of this. What damage comes from hugging?
This happened to someone who was playing like his pencil was a gun and got sent out.
A 7-year-old boy was suspended for throwing an imaginary grenade while playing.
What? You make me feel like I am the best in the world!
This is a great reason to get detention! Just kidding, this isn't even a choice, it's just who you are.
You have to be a robot and accept everything teachers say, otherwise, detention! Which is stupid because they also say not to be afraid of being yourself.
This should be the first one on the list. It's hard enough being yourself as it is.
Isn't school supposed to be about learning? If being yourself helps you learn, then JUST DO IT.
An eleven-year-old boy got detention for farting loudly on the school bus.
Oh no, that kid has bodily functions?! Instant detention.
Laughing is human nature, so unless it's very repetitive and annoying, we shouldn't give detention.
Why give someone detention for this? Stupid, really. My teacher is strict and usually enjoys singling me out for it anyway.
Because of this and other offenses, a Cambridge college gave over 700 detentions in one day.
Now that is just stupid. It's not your fault unless you planned it.
A girl once went outside of school premises to buy lunch. The fear of being told off sent her into cardiac arrest, and she ended up hospitalized.
A six-year-old boy was given detention for making a gun gesture with his hands and saying pow. He was accused of threatening a fellow student.
This is dumb! In 2013, an 8-year-old in Florida got suspended just for making a gun gesture with his hands!
I did this in like 2017 and got in trouble because it resembled a gun.
In elementary school, it's understandable to an extent, but high school teachers really need to get over themselves. They're just words, and everybody there is either a teenager or a grown adult.
Some teachers really need to get a grip on themselves. Not everything goes your way, and the world isn't fair to everyone. It is what it is, as most people like to say.
Well, swearing in front of kids isn't really good, but I still think you should at least have a second chance.
An eight-year-old boy got detention after refusing to get a haircut. One of the school's uniform rules was for no boys' hair to be below the ear.
No. Just no. I go to school to learn, not to change my physical appearance for people I couldn't care less about.
Some schools have dress codes that are rather sexist.
Tom Bosley, 16, breached his school's health and safety rules after he ate an apple outside of a designated area. After refusing to attend his detention, he was threatened with expulsion.
So a perfectly healthy fruit isn't allowed, but McDonald's, pizza, chips, and pop are? *Facepalm*
Oliver Adams, 16, prevented a suicide attempt after sneaking out of school to buy some fries. The school said they were very proud of him, but still gave him a detention.
THIS. IS. DUMB. The sneaking out would be understandable, but the kid stopped someone from killing themselves.
Are you serious?! What are you supposed to do then? Pull a Logan Paul, record it while laughing, and post it on the internet for views? Shaking my head.
This is real, and it's stupid. I got detention for having my hoodie on, on a cold, windy day.
Ya know what? I rule this school, so I think I'm gonna throw anyone who wears a hoodie into detention.
I got a 4-hour Saturday detention for wearing a hoodie in P.E. (gym class).
They should get in trouble if they're doing it on purpose to be funny, but having them arrested over it is way too extreme.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested for burping in gym class.
Today, I got a detention because a bully kept harassing me, so I told them to shut up. I got detention for 30 minutes at lunch! The worst part is that the bully didn't get detention.
For standing up to someone, you get detention!
My friend accidentally went into the girls' restroom because he didn't see the sign. He ended up in detention for supposedly intentionally stalking, even though it was clearly an accident.
So by that logic, I can't listen to a completely appropriate metal song, but I could listen to a rap song promoting drugs? As long as they're not blaring the music out loud, it shouldn't be that big of a deal what they're listening to.
What?!?! How is that bad if they have headphones in?
So we can't listen to the music we want?
Unfair, right? Ask my fourth-grade teacher.
Yeah, instead of going to jail, we get detention for a week and then kill another.