Ever punished at school for something you didn't do?

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I was told off in assembly in front of the entire school for supposedly talking when I absolutely wasn't. They wanted me to stand up for the rest of assembly but I just walked out instead. I wasn't going to take that injustice.

Got told off for cheating in tests twice.

The first was an end of year written test in PE. I was really quite spectacularly shit at PE, but I wasn’t stupid and had effective revision strategies. So I got the highest mark in the year. It seemed that the PE teacher couldn’t reconcile knowing a lot about the rules of netball without being very good at it, so cancelled my paper and gave me zero.

The second was a French vocabulary test. Me and three friends sat together in class. One test, we all got 8/10, but a completely different combination of correct answers. The others, she made no comment. Me, on the other hand, was screamed at, had a board rubber thrown at me, was threatened with a trip to the head teacher and given zero. I was actually pretty good at French but she never ever gave me above a C. When I asked why the answer was “you deserve nothing more”. Came out with an A in Year 10, which was the first year of the A star iirc. She said “I told you you wouldn’t get a good grade. I’ve been proved right. You must resit”. First and only time I refused to follow an instruction at school.

Mrs E, just why????

Got a detention for copying someone’s homework. Teacher didn’t believe me that he’d copied mine, because you know, a girl couldn’t possibly be better at Physics than a boy. I went on to do a Physics degree….

I didn’t get in trouble, but was given a D and my friend, who had copied my homework, got an A . I was raging, but couldn’t complain because she was my best friend, she’d copied with my full knowledge and permission, and I didn’t want to get her in trouble!

A girl called a teacher “crab head” (his name was Mr Crabb), and he thought it was me and told me never to speak to him again.

I didn’t.

It's brutal. You wouldn't throw a lump of wood at an adult's head. I can't believe they thought it was OK. I also had my hand hit with a ruler (the palm) when I was small, which stung. I can't remember my crime - talking, probably.

I've always thought teachers are often either sadists or megalomaniacs. There must be some lovely ones but I've rarely met one I've liked. I worked in a school and still held that view! We were viewing a house once when the EA said a lot of teachers lived in that road (near the school). I wondered for a moment why he was trying to put me off buying the house!

My form tutor once caught a classmate copying my physics classwork at registration. She went off the deep about collusion while we were trying to explain that the physics teacher had asked classmate to catch up by copying mine following absence. I got detention at lunchtime and had to sit on a hot hockey pitch in blazing sun for an hour. I'm ginger so I went bright red and was ill all afternoon. Never forgiven her being so unreasonable. Miss Page, that was you!

Yeah, plenty of times. That was how schools were back in the day.

Not school, but work.

Told off for talking during a fire evacuation - except I was on the radio to the fire brigade as I was the one who had sorted my bosses fire, and knew what was under the fire blanket id used! While they were technically right, im sure I'd also have gotten in trouble if I hadn't passed on what I knew!

I’m a similar age and I was 6. I was a really good kid. The teacher had to leave the room and warned us all we were to stay in our seats and not move.
A girl really close to me dropped her pencil on the floor by my feet. I didn’t need to get out of my chair to get it, but as I leaned over a nearby lad kicked me right up the bum so I fell out of my chair and had to stand up
to get back into it.
When the teacher returned she asked if anyone got out of their chair and thus lad said…. Petula did Miss!
At playtime we sat in this little hall and they put Play School on for us and I had to stand facing a corner. I will never forget I had a plastic belt on and I chewed right through it.
I never told my mum but I stopped sleeping and eating and kept wetting the bed.
Another girl in my class told her own mum as she was worried about me I had stopped speaking in school.
I am not sure if anything got done but at least my mum knew.
I met the lad again in my late teens, he’d just been in prison for a few months, so he decided it would be fun to corner me in n a dark spot and grope me.
I was that terrified I walked out of the place and went home.
If I could ever have hired a hit man in my life I’d have sent one round but I do know he was dead a few years later of a heroin overdose.
I have never ever forgotten that feeling of shame it was awful.

Twice, at junior school.
Once for breaking a window, once for losing a book. I did neither.

Yes. At primary school, probably aged 5 or 6 I was made to wash excrement off various fabric items. They claimed I had shit in the Wendy house. I had definitely had not.
The experience gave me a strong sense of justice/injustice. I can clearly recall stood in the toilets washing items with tears rolling down my face.

I have no idea when this happened but this is absolutely appalling.
I am close to 60 and honestly some of the things I saw in infant school I’ve never forgotten.
I can remember a little boy of 5 being told off during assembly. The headmistress literally dangled him by one arm and was whacking him on the backside. He looked like a rag doll and I can remember not sleeping for days after.
But what happened to you is traumatic. Incidents like these can leave real imprints of fear on young kids that cause all sorts of issues.
I am so sorry that happened to you.

My school issued whole class detentions for misbehavior in class, even for those who hadn't participated in the disruption.

It meant I missed my bus home and didn't get home until well after dark in winter, as bus after bus would pass the bus stop crammed with commuters until the rush hour petered out. I once left school at five after serving a one hour class detention (school day ended at 4), and didn't get home until 7:15. My parents had considered reporting me missing - mobile phones were a gleam in some engineer's eye at that time.

I think the idea was that the 99% who behaved themselves would somehow convince the 1% to shape up. Lol.

My DPs complained, and many others did too. The policy was dropped.

I was 6, so 50 years ago. Teacher told me off for speaking when I wasn’t. Then we were painting and I did something else to annoy her (no idea what to this day) and she shouted that she’d just about had enough of me and sent me to stand outside the classroom. Who knows what was going on, maybe she was having a bad day 🤷‍♀️.

This thread is giving me rage 😡
All that injustice. Name and shame them the fuckers!

In kindergarten (equivalent of reception in Australia), at the end of the day we were all regularly asked to crawl around the carpet around our desks and pick up fallen pencil shavings.
The teacher then praised the child who had collected the most. One day I notice the bin was surrounded by loads of pencil shavings so I collected them all up and proudly showed my handfuls of shavings to the teacher. She told me I was lying and I’d just taken them out of a sharpener.
Gutted. Nearly 50 and still not over it. 😄 If you’re out there Miss Haines, I was not lying!

I was always well-behaved at school but we used to get whole class detentions. Lost respect for any teacher who did that.

We got whole class detentions and lines. I once had to do lines as the teacher didn't think I did well enough in the weekly spelling test.

EDIT: I remember one girl got detention for I kid you not, the way she was standing. Honestly.

what happened exactly?

300 lines for talking on a day I wasn’t in school! For screaming and shouting in the dining room, I am writing this out 300 times. Junior school so 35 years ago.

while class also got hit for something, I can’t remember what, talking perhaps. I won’t have been talking.

In junior school my main bully once claimed I'd tripped him up when leaving the previous day. TBF as an undiagnosed autistic kid who struggled to cope, this isn't outside the realms of possibility that I would do, except I was off sick that day. Teacher seemed most aggrieved when this was pointed out. Looking back, it was a private school and I think his parents must've been buttering up the school somehow as generally his behaviour was far worse than mine, but I was the one who was eventually asked to leave.

Very young reception class was accused of trying to steal a pump bag that went on pegs in clockroom for indoor pumps. Mum was brought in to tell me off further and pointed out it was inside out and when put right way my name was clearly sewn in - other child who taken it wasn't even told off. It's the only thing I remember about that year or next TBH.

Sort of solidied view I was forming that wouldn't be listen to or belived over others.

Mum suspects as older sibling was a trouble maker and it was a village school some of it was assumptions being made - DH says he had similar at secondary till he got known distictive surname and troublesome older cousins with same name counted against him.

Most other examples blur into a mass of being told not trying hard enough round spelling or writing generally - turns out I'm dyslexic - and with PE again have asthma and GP thought it likely I always had exceirsed triggered form and also have dsypraxia.

I was one of those 'invisible' kids trying to melt into the background all the time due to my horrible home life. I was a good student, very well behaved (too scared not to be) and actually really enjoyed school because it was safe.

Anyway, one day after a science class when I was 14, I got shouted at by the teacher because he said I hadn't tidied my equipment away when we'd finished doing our experiments. It wasn't my desk, I'd been sitting in the second row and this was in the 5th one! I hate injustice so I tried to explain but he wouldn't listen. He was really angry and said that I had detention the next day for answering him back. He actually only kept me back for half an hour the next day, but when I got home I got beaten up by my dad from being late for doing my chores.

The next time I saw that teacher, he said "Ouch, what happened to you?" because I had a big bruise on the side of my face. I told him and actually I think his eyes kind of welled up a bit. He knew fine he was in the wrong but he wouldn't back down at the time. Bullying prick. I often wonder if he ever thought about that in later years.

Yep my one and only behaviour mark ever. He said I had my phone out in class. It was an iPod Mini and he’d said we could listen to music… he just didn’t know what an iPod Mini was. Must have been 2008ish?