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Have you ever gotten or tried to get in-school suspension on purpose?
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BoosterDuck
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there's no such thing as permanent records
Same.
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Kind of surprised at all of the people in this thread who think that ISS/OSS/Detention actually matters or affects your life in any capacity.
I've never gotten it on purpose. I got it once, and I literally don't remember what I even did anymore. Was in detention constantly for being late to school. Got OSS a couple of times for violating dress code, and once for "threatening" a girl. (All that really happened was I got so mad I said "ugh I'll fucking kill her" to a buddy of mine on the bus and someone overheard it.)
I still got into my college of choice. And have two degrees. It literally doesn't matter.
I've never gotten it on purpose. I got it once, and I literally don't remember what I even did anymore. Was in detention constantly for being late to school. Got OSS a couple of times for violating dress code, and once for "threatening" a girl. (All that really happened was I got so mad I said "ugh I'll fucking kill her" to a buddy of mine on the bus and someone overheard it.)
I still got into my college of choice. And have two degrees. It literally doesn't matter.
Nope, never had an suspension, in school or out of school. Think I had detention once in middle school but I can't remember.
Days like field days or days I knew they were going to have mass assemblies I tries to convince my parents to stay home from school. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. Only reason I wanted to go to school anyway was band.
I kind of made a little game out of it. I noticed my 9th grade year that I had unintentionally made a pattern to my excused absences up to that point. It was something like 6th grade - 4 excused absences, 7th grade - 5 excused absences, 8th grade - excused absences etc. I was doing well to keep it on pattern until Junior year which I think I had a few days short from continuing the pattern.
Days like field days or days I knew they were going to have mass assemblies I tries to convince my parents to stay home from school. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. Only reason I wanted to go to school anyway was band.
I kind of made a little game out of it. I noticed my 9th grade year that I had unintentionally made a pattern to my excused absences up to that point. It was something like 6th grade - 4 excused absences, 7th grade - 5 excused absences, 8th grade - excused absences etc. I was doing well to keep it on pattern until Junior year which I think I had a few days short from continuing the pattern.
NinjaCoachZ
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I hated assemblies so I'd bail out of them and chill at the public library which was right down the road. That was it.
Received in-school suspension for missing classes. Had a really bad problem with social anxiety that wasn't diagnosed until after I graduated. I felt bad about returning to class, feeling like others were judging me. That led me to skip more classes just to get back into ISS, where I felt safe. Having the school's assistant principal tell me I'd live in poverty for the rest of my life wasn't a good time.
I remember ditching a class and walking around campus till my next class. I was confronted by a professor who asked why I wasn't in class. He tole me that he had seen me just walking around for 20 minutes so a bathroom excuse didn't work. Either way I gave him a fake name and he told me to go to I.S.S and he was going to call to make sure I went. I just left campus and biked in the hills for the rest of the day. I never saw that professor again. It was also on that day I learned I could ditch school entirely and no one would care, prior I would step out of class after attendance, but I realized the school was so terrible no one ever reported me absent so I skipped a lot of school, eventually dropping out. I still graduated college so no regrets.
Mr. Blonde
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"Bobby, you mean to tell me, you purposely avoided the presidential fitness test??"
Also this.
When I graduated my librarian gave me a signed Terry Pratchett book. ;-;
Not suspension but one time I had to stay after school. Our English teacher, who I liked, was pissed off at our class and said something along the lines of if you want detention raise your hand so I did, thinking she would laugh it off and not actually deliver it to me since I wasn't part of the problem. I was wrong. It was cool though, I asked for it.
She's still one of my favorites. She had us watch Monty Python for class once.
She's still one of my favorites. She had us watch Monty Python for class once.
Mister_Ruck
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I only got it once and that was for skipping school too many times in middle school. The bus came after my parents left for work so it was very easy to skip without getting caught. I always thought it was dumb that your punishment for missing class was having to miss class.
I couldn't really do this anymore in high school when my district upgraded to a system that called home every time a student was absent but my grades were definitely better off for it. Didn't stop me from being late almost every day once I got a car tho. Nothing ever came of that except lunch detentions which weren't an official punishment so you could straight up just not go to them and the teacher couldn't do anything except be frustrated with you.
I couldn't really do this anymore in high school when my district upgraded to a system that called home every time a student was absent but my grades were definitely better off for it. Didn't stop me from being late almost every day once I got a car tho. Nothing ever came of that except lunch detentions which weren't an official punishment so you could straight up just not go to them and the teacher couldn't do anything except be frustrated with you.
Funny story. There actually was such a thing as a student assessment report that would follow you from year to year from middle school on up. but they were these elaborate pre-formatted paper folders for organizing years of data. 20 years ago, schools started moving away from paper....
long story short, the digital permanent record hasn't quite made it around to a lot of schools, and instead of using the old paper method, teachers are just winging it. They aren't allowed to go back to the old system, no money to do it. And they're still waiting for the new system to come into place. Lots of loose leaf sheets held in yellow paper dividers with notes scribbled on the front of them.
Gordon Shumway
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Ha! Yup..shit was a blast. Knew the teacher. Her daughter was a friend in elementary school. She let me work on random projects and I'd get extra credit for doing different shit for the school. Everyone else always hated me because I'd be wearing headphones and was constantly in and out as I pleased.
That year was a breeze 😎
That year was a breeze 😎
IdreamofHIME
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On purpose? No.
nor sarcasm detectors it would seem
I got in-school suspension in high school, because I was missing a lot of classes. I used to hide under my mattress and not go to school, because I had a ridiculous amount of anxiety and fear. In-school suspension sucks, so I'm not sure why someone would want to get it on-purpose. You might as well just ditch.
Gordon Shumway
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lol..Under your mattress? How small are you?
weemadarthur
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Professor Beef
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I think I may have gotten detention on purpose, but it was mainly for being late. I accidentally skipped Saturday School once, and nobody batted an eyelash, but ended up going the second time I got it. I just spend the day reading and that was that.
Because I'm lazy. *shrug* I didn't really give a shit about athletics since, by the time my final year of middle school rolled around, I had already completed the PE prereqs. So I just dicked around during those classes knowing that it wouldn't affect my graduation chances.
Because I'm lazy. *shrug* I didn't really give a shit about athletics since, by the time my final year of middle school rolled around, I had already completed the PE prereqs. So I just dicked around during those classes knowing that it wouldn't affect my graduation chances.
One Eyed Willy
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I can maybe see some odd reason why someone might want to do this. But when I was in HS I was too worried about playing sports, and running a BBS to give a shit about actual school. I thought nobody cared about HS??
Gordon Shumway
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This was the best part..
Tudor
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I recall back in year 9 (middle school for you Americans) I was volunteering as a lighting desk operator at our schools auditorium, and towards the end of the year was so fed up with how useless all my teachers were that I and about 4 friends all just buggered off to the auditorium and played Halo and Anime on the projector screens and basically used that massive ass auditorium sound system as a glorified iPod dock for 3 and a half weeks.
Every morning we swung by the deputies office and told him we were cleaning the hall and every single day he wrote us an attendance slip. We never even heard a bad word about that incident.
HOWEVER. the following year I was given a 3 day in school suspension for ditching class for actually doing my job and assisting an event, I ended up sitting in an empty room on my own for 3 days doing random homework, no record went to my guardian or anything so with that lesson learned about 4 months later just before the exam period I set al the wallpapers in a Computer lab to a questionable piece of anatomy and got another 3 day suspension. Spent it studying and did really rather well that year. Didn't do anything again till my final year where I simply hated being there so I made some choice remarks to the deputy, got suspended and proceeded to study, watch anime and eat snacks for a week before finals.
Graduated top of my grade in Maths and Law and scored in the top 20 overall so I think it turned out pretty well overall.
Every morning we swung by the deputies office and told him we were cleaning the hall and every single day he wrote us an attendance slip. We never even heard a bad word about that incident.
HOWEVER. the following year I was given a 3 day in school suspension for ditching class for actually doing my job and assisting an event, I ended up sitting in an empty room on my own for 3 days doing random homework, no record went to my guardian or anything so with that lesson learned about 4 months later just before the exam period I set al the wallpapers in a Computer lab to a questionable piece of anatomy and got another 3 day suspension. Spent it studying and did really rather well that year. Didn't do anything again till my final year where I simply hated being there so I made some choice remarks to the deputy, got suspended and proceeded to study, watch anime and eat snacks for a week before finals.
Graduated top of my grade in Maths and Law and scored in the top 20 overall so I think it turned out pretty well overall.
johnnydelray
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Once, really fucking stupid, for smoking on premises. I.S.S for a day, and that was in the library which wasn't half bad, but I missed the assembly where I was supposed to receive my 1st Place rock climbing trophy (only trophy I ever won in entire school), so I got it in the library. I was kinda detached in general and it didn't bother me, mom was pissed though.
In high school I had about 27 detentions for being an all-round dickhead, never suspended. Deserved every one of them though.
In high school I had about 27 detentions for being an all-round dickhead, never suspended. Deserved every one of them though.
SoulUnison
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In 6th Grade I changed school halfway through the year, and the kids at the new school were monsters.
Like, my dad died and I went to school the next day. He hadn't been dead 24 hours and there were kids going "Haha, your dad's dead" on the playground.
Anyway, there was a thing where if you didn't miss a single homework assignment for the month you'd get to go to the beach or some other kind of day trip during the last week.
I'd always skip an assignment on purpose because I couldn't fathom being away from school with reduced teacher supervision with those kids. I'd go help the 1st grade teacher with classroom prep, instead, and had fun doing it.
Like, my dad died and I went to school the next day. He hadn't been dead 24 hours and there were kids going "Haha, your dad's dead" on the playground.
Anyway, there was a thing where if you didn't miss a single homework assignment for the month you'd get to go to the beach or some other kind of day trip during the last week.
I'd always skip an assignment on purpose because I couldn't fathom being away from school with reduced teacher supervision with those kids. I'd go help the 1st grade teacher with classroom prep, instead, and had fun doing it.
Did something quite silly and got a deserved day of internal suspension when I was 14.
I didn't have any homework to do so the teacher gave me the maths book they give to kids to do and told me to do some problems out of it.
It was a Foundation level GCSE problem book.
It shocked me that the maths exam someone can do at 15/16 tops out at difficulty at questions like: "36+18"
If I recall correctly if a student did the foundation exam, the highest grade they can get is a C.
I didn't have any homework to do so the teacher gave me the maths book they give to kids to do and told me to do some problems out of it.
It was a Foundation level GCSE problem book.
It shocked me that the maths exam someone can do at 15/16 tops out at difficulty at questions like: "36+18"
If I recall correctly if a student did the foundation exam, the highest grade they can get is a C.
supermarioworldE
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No. My folks had their shoes planted firmly up my ass, growing up. At most, I might've skipped my last period classes once or twice to spend more time with my friends.
I was 6'3" at the time, hiding under my bed and in the closet. My anxiety was really bad.
Mammoth Jones
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LMAO. This. Had plenty of ISS. Barely remember it. Usually for cursing or arguing repeatedly with racist ass teachers.
So your teacher just complied without asking Why? Did he/she at least make you do something that would earn the demerit? Did they say "no" at first then you turned around and called them a bitch?
Mammoth Jones
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Also this. No one gives a fuck. Lmao.
I once got "expelled" but that was only because my dad was struggling to pay the school fees.
I was a good kid for the most part.
The highest used to be a D back when I was doing GCSE in 2005, I did intermediate where B was the highest grade.
My cousin did foundation Maths and she failed it along with the rest of her GCSE...well except for textiles.
I was a good kid for the most part.
The highest used to be a D back when I was doing GCSE in 2005, I did intermediate where B was the highest grade.
My cousin did foundation Maths and she failed it along with the rest of her GCSE...well except for textiles.
It was hard to get ISS in my school, actually. And it looked boring as hell because the ISS teacher was super strict about what you had to do (which, to be frank, I don't know what that was. Homework, I guess?)
Besides, I got after school detention once (for leaving the library a minute before the bell, yes, really) and I almost got grounded for like two weeks because of that so I decided to try not to piss my stepmom off.
Besides, I got after school detention once (for leaving the library a minute before the bell, yes, really) and I almost got grounded for like two weeks because of that so I decided to try not to piss my stepmom off.
davidwhangchoi
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My school would put some students On Report for bad behaviour things that were not bad enough to be put on detention or suspended for but incidents that accumlated over time. As in my adult life and my student life I became adept at bending not breaking rules, then I got the injustice of being put On Report even though I'd not broken any rules. So they send you to the Headmaster and he tells you that you are being placed On Report and they are sending a letter home to your parents.
Thing was that the post would be delivered before I left for school and as I was waiting for the letter to arrrive, usually within 2 days I recognised it becuse it always had a blue frank stamp from the school addressed to Mr and Mrs My Parents and no other letter was like that.so I scooped it up and my parents never knew I was On Report.
Ironically that type of thinking and problem solving that was looked down on me as a student basically was an asset in the real world.
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