What is the worst trouble you got in school?

[WomenHour]

I got a lunch time detention for not bringing my football boots for PE

I got in trouble for talking in class a few times and got lines for late homework once but nothing worse than that. Overall I was very well behaved.

@BellatrixLeStrangest

I locked my maths teacher in a cupboard after she'd shouted about me being "thick" in class. After class she went to get a book out of the cupboard as a way of giving me extra homework to do to catch up. I locked her in her cupboard and left her there for the entire lunch hour. I got a bollocking off the head teacher and my mum had to come into school but I didn't give a single shit.

I've never worked out why the first thing new teachers are taught isn't "never enter a cupboard with the keys in the door"

For my part, I let off a minor explosion in the assembly hall that scorched the floor. As nobody ever realised it was me though I was never punished.

I went to the sweet shop on the way to school.

Year 9- I got suspended for a week for refusing to take my clear plastic nose stud out.

Year 9- Lunch time detention for arguing with the deputy head as she caught me on my phone while I was sitting out of a PE lesson and I refused to give it to her.

Year 9- Litter picking for being caught with tobacco and had it confiscated and my parents called- they already knew I smoked and bought it for me so that wasn't an issue they just told me to be more careful

Year 9- lunch time detention for a week after accidentally drawing on a teachers top- had a white board pen in my hand as I turned round and she was behind me.

I got more careful after that, and clearly turned into a little prick in year 9

Primary school (1960s):

1. was slapped with a ruler on the back of my leg by the headmistress because I had spilled a bottle of ink on my desk;

2. was sent to the headmistress with my friend to 'tell her what we'd done' (laughed during a maypole dancing session) and was told off for not behaving better.

Secondary school (1970s):

1. In the second year (year 8) the whole class was given detention by the history teacher in which we had to write essays on the importance of good manners;

2. in the 3rd or 4th year I was told off by the chemistry teacher because I had forgotten to do my homework and had hidden my book in the pile containing everyone else's marked homework, that he was about to give back.

I can’t say as it’s seriously outing and still gets mentioned to this day and I’m 41 . I remember walking home after getting a 3 days suspension knowing my dad was home off a day shift and thinking he was going to kill me. He asked what I did and I explained it, ge then said ‘aye well hen you were quite right!’ Then told me about his own chequered past when he punched a teacher (who went for him first).

@hopeishere

I threw a ball at a teacher and told them to fuck off.

I then stormed out and hid in the grounds.

I went back into class after lunch and then then head nun arrived and dragged me - literally - out of class and brought me home.

My poor mum.

I had to write a letter of apology.

I'm amazed I never did that with my bastarding PE teacher (particularly having form for the rounders bat incident in my primary school)

I did once argue back about running away from the tennis ball. The idiot suggested running towards a fast projectile I pointed out that if someone was throwing a brick, you wouldn't run towards it to catch it, you'd obviously run away and duck.
I never understood how tennis counted as exercise. You stand there. A ball is hit towards you, you duck, go for a slow walk to fetch it, flap the raquet around until you hit it somewhere, wait for your opponent to hit it in your direction again and repeat.
Nor rounders. Sit on a bench, wait for someone to chuck a hard object at you, duck, and flap, stagger to first post, be declared out and go and sit down. Or fielding: work out where the two left handed people will hit the ball, go for a gentle walk to the furthest end of the field you can get away with, and make a daisy chain.
I was y10 before my teachers realised that I was genuineky that inept!

I never did a thing wrong at school , a real goody goody, even had a few teachers pet awards!!! No black marks or detentions but one teacher took a dislike to me for some reason so spent half of my time at school hiding out from that one evil bitch of a teacher. Nowadays I always give the pupils a chance. Teachers aren’t always right.

Smashed the little glass box the fire alarm was in to see if it worked I was 7 sat in the naughty chair corner crying all afternoon

In primary school in the early 60s I had the cane (across my hand) virtually every single day for not eating all my lunch.

I used to get shouted at and sent to the HT for not doing work in class and day dreaming and wandering off.

I used to escape from school but the teachers would always get me.

Just standing the other side of the school gate felt like sheer bliss.

I never set out to be naughty but I just seemed to get caned or slapped or shouted at for the most minuscule things.

Got slapped on the bottom and made to kneel in the hall for two hours because I did a cartwheel and showed people my knickers. I was 9 and it was a Catholic school. Didn’t tell my Mum for years as thought she would agree with the Headteacher (she was a teacher in a local school) but she was furious!

Uh, should've got suspended for hitting someone with a hockey stick, but managed to wrangle out of it.

I do remember the assistant head asking me for my address and me saying 'you have that information already, it's on file' God I was so cheeky!

My mother came into the school and she must have sweet talked him or something

laughed during a maypole dancing session

^^

I drew some glasses on my face with a red felt tip during class. I was hauled out, taken to the head of the subject and told I looked like a red Indian. 😳

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Dying

I called the music teacher a pervert & told him to back off & not invade my personal space in that arsey 15yr old girl way. I was initially sentenced to 3 days doing my work outside the heads office until my mum stormed kick up shit.

• stormed in & kicked up shit. You get the gist

Got shouted at, for several minutes, by a particularly vicious biology teacher whilst going home (on a coach) from a school trip.

I can't think what it was I had done - I think she just didn't like me.

I was always getting told off by her.

Apart from that, I was given lines a few times for forgetting homework.

Also, I forgot that the whole Home Economics class was supposed to "share" one egg to glaze their Cornish pasties. I got shouted at by the teacher for taking another one and "wasting school resources".