Childhood injustices you can't forget

TheScurrilousFunge · 2021-02-26T19:43:11+00:00

Please tell me about your childhood injustices. I was just reminded of one by something on the TV - I found my classmate's bag strap behind a loo at school. It had clearly been hidden there, but not by me - and yet, I got the blame for it! It rankles TO THIS DAY. Tell me I'm not alone in not letting this stuff go!

FTMF30 · 26/02/2021 19:49

In the lead up to Christmas in infant school when the teacher asked the entire class who wants to be an angel in the nativity play. I shot my hand straight in the air, back straight, held breath. Proper infant school student style. The teacher looked right at me but selected three other girls to be angels instead. I was so pissed off.

TeenMinusTests · 26/02/2021 19:49

being accused of copying in maths aged ~6. I didn't need to copy.
the 'peer marker' marking my times tables tests aged ~9 altering my answers for 2 weeks, before on the 3rd week I also wrote them on a separate page so I could prove what was happening.

(Common theme of maths. I ended up with a maths degree. )

shittingthreeeyedraven · 26/02/2021 19:51

Several of my friends and I had been ‘excused’ from swimming (probably lied about periods) and then decided to jump in the pool fully clothed, led by one of the sporty girls. I jumped in after her and got a bollocking where as she was totally ignored and let off. Clearly it must have been my bad influence that made her jump first...

Brieminewine · 26/02/2021 19:52

When I was in about year 3 I asked to go and work in the library but the headteacher was there and somehow thought I’d been sent there for being naughty, he didn’t say anything at the time but told me off in the next school assembly!

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TheScurrilousFunge · 26/02/2021 19:54

@FTMF30 That is not okay. I still remember the pain of not being Mary. They should've made it so every kid could be Mary. Even if that meant 40 plays a year.

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ChikiTIKI · 26/02/2021 19:56

Someone stole my sisters shoes at lunchtime when her and her friends were sat on the grass (think it was one of her friends as a joke tbh). She put her trainers on from P. E. Kit and went to the reception desk and said something like "my shoes have been stolen, please can you write me a note in case I get stopped in the hallway". The person on reception took her details down and handed her a detention slip!

She sat through the detention then explained when she got home. My dad was furious. He sent an email to head of house saying he "expects them to sort it out or he will come in and sort it out himself".

The next day the head of house came and took my sister from class. Told her she had been very bossy and rude to the receptionist and that's why she got the detention, because she had rudely demanded a note. Totally untrue she never would have dreamed of being rude to a grown up.

For me it was a homework we got about slavery, we had to list all the things we could think of that show we have freedom. I wrote some things now, however many I could think of. We weren't told how many to write. Anyway the teacher decided I hadn't written enough examples so she took away my freedom in the form of giving a detention. Start of school year and I think she just wanted to show some authority.

Also every time I had to stay back with the whole class for 10 mins because some tosser was pissing about being rude to the teacher. That always made me feel so annoyed and the person who caused it never cared.

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TheScurrilousFunge · 26/02/2021 19:56

@TeenMinusTests What an arsehole! I'm glad you thought to double your answers. That would rankle.

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itssquidstella · 26/02/2021 19:57

I was 8 and deaf (terrible middle ear problems, I still have a tendency to shout if I don't consciously monitor my volume). The Y3 teacher told us to stop talking and be quiet. I didn't hear her (I was sitting on an table at the back of the room) and carried on talking. She made me stand up and told me off in front of everyone.

She popped up as a suggested friend on Facebook the other day, weirdly - I was quite tempted to send her a message to tell her I was still pissed off!

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TheScurrilousFunge · 26/02/2021 19:57

@shittingthreeeyedraven

Several of my friends and I had been ‘excused’ from swimming (probably lied about periods) and then decided to jump in the pool fully clothed, led by one of the sporty girls. I jumped in after her and got a bollocking where as she was totally ignored and let off. Clearly it must have been my bad influence that made her jump first...

Clearly you FORCED her to go first

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Saywhatyoumeanandmeanwhatyousa · 26/02/2021 19:58

Something got broken at home and my mum knew it was either me or my sister. She said she'd seen me do it and kept telling me to own up. I hadn't done it and genuinely thought I was going mad because she kept saying she'd seen me do it but I couldn't remember (because I hadn't!!). This went on for about 2 weeks. Eventually she admitted that she hadn't seen me do it (I hadn't done it!) but she never apologised for accusing me and lying about it.

Scbchl · 26/02/2021 19:58

My mum bought each of us three children a pack of rolos as a treat for after dinner. However, my older brother sneaked and ate a packet. When she found a pack missing. He blamed me and she believed him and I was sent to bed with nothing as punishment.

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TheScurrilousFunge · 26/02/2021 19:58

@Brieminewine

When I was in about year 3 I asked to go and work in the library but the headteacher was there and somehow thought I’d been sent there for being naughty, he didn’t say anything at the time but told me off in the next school assembly!

That's a dick move. Libraries are THE places to work seriously. As if you wouldn't just have been sent outside the head's office if you'd been bad!

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WorriedMillie · 26/02/2021 19:58

I got told off in assembly for trying to be disruptive (aged about 8). I was feeling happy and grinned at my friend, who grinned back
I’m still not over it

And around the similar age, another classmate bought me a box of wine gums for my birthday, which I stashed in my bag to take home
But yet another classmate (let’s call her Catherine (as that was her name)) stole them and walked around the playground eating them in a goady fashion. I snitched to the dinner lady, who said that the thieving toad might have had her own box of wine gums. Like fuck she did

DifficultPifcultLemonDifficult · 26/02/2021 19:58

I'm getting pissed off just remembering mine.

We had spelling tests every week when I was about 9. The teacher said I had spelled a word wrong and made me write it in my book 50 times correctly. I was the only one in the class who got it 'wrong'.

Only i hadn't got it wrong. The teacher had. And instead of crediting me with being the only one who got it right, she made ME correct the 50 times I had been forced to misspell it so it didn't look like she was an idiot.

I was bloody fuming. Still am.

ooohbriefcase · 26/02/2021 19:59

The class advent calendar. Names were written down by the teacher, and then pulled out at random to decide who got the chocolate that day. Everyone got 1 turn. My name was pulled out and the teacher was adamant I'd already had one (I hadn't). A few others in the class then piped up saying yea briefcase has already had one. I hadn't!!! 😂 never did get my advent chocolate. Fuckers 😂

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TheScurrilousFunge · 26/02/2021 19:59

@ChikiTIKI Class detentions. The worst of the worst.

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TheScurrilousFunge · 26/02/2021 20:01

@ooohbriefcase OMG. My brother ate my advent chocolate from our shared MILLENNIUM advent calendar. It was the BIG chocolate for the 1/1/2000. He stole it. Because he's a CUNT.

I'd have shared it with him if he'd have left it - he was applying his rules of behaviour to me. FUCKING TWAT.

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MrsBDarcy · 26/02/2021 20:05

I never got a Mr Frosty

ElDanglio · 26/02/2021 20:06

Ok so when I was about four, I drew teddybears on the wallpaper behind the sofa.

My Mum found it ages later and said 'Who did that?' I said 'I don't know, it must have been Daddy or Grandma!'

I got a smacked leg for lying! (It was the 70s)

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TheScurrilousFunge · 26/02/2021 20:06

The toy? Me neither, although I gather, retrospectively, that they were shit

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TheScurrilousFunge · 26/02/2021 20:06

@ElDanglio That's CRUEL

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HunterHearstHelmsley · 26/02/2021 20:08

I was Mary in one nativity. Then Angel Gabriel. Then Angel Gabriel AGAIN. I made my mom go to school as I didn't want to be A BOY ANGEL I think I was 5. They made me play the Angel Gabriel.

Inarightpickleandpreserve · 26/02/2021 20:08

I wanted to be an Angel in the nativity play, so so bad I wanted a frilly skirt and the wings with tinsel, and a frilly halo, I wanted it so so bad.

I was not picked and was a sheep.

Livid, 35 years on

Inarightpickleandpreserve · 26/02/2021 20:09

It was the same year I’d written a letter to Santa to ask for a Mr Frosty and didn’t get it.
Gutted.

MrsBDarcy · 26/02/2021 20:09

Yes the toy though that's me feeling that was unjust. Actually unjust was when a neighbour's daughter said she didn't know where my new doll was - then appeared the next day with it, claiming it was hers. Sheer cheek. I could write a CF post about it