to wonder what you were most often in trouble for at school?

[chaletdays]

We were just talking about this at work this morning.

For me it was not paying attention, and being unpunctual.

I was a daydreamy, away with the fairies kind of child

Handwriting and general messiness. Otherwise I was well behaved and quiet. I didn't work very hard but teachers attributed it to ability and not effort.

For performing the heinrich maneuver in the Oratory rather than praying.

Challenging authority or talking.

Biting the boy who was chasing me across the playground laughing & teasing nasty names at me. I can't remember that he was punished in any way.

(Sorry to be a downer on light-hearted tone, I was a boring goody goody otherwise)

Fighting
Dogging school (truanting)
Answering back
Not doing homework
Swearing
Generally being a pain in the arse

Primary school:

Correcting the head teacher's grammar
Making the head teacher cry

Secondary school:

Talking too much

Smoking.

And 'persistently flouting the school rules appertaining to hair and nail varnish'.

Dumb insolence.
And wearing legwarmers, which was forbidden.

Fighting.
I was a bugger for it.

Nothing. I can't believe I was so boring.

I once got a detention for forgetting my homework but when I turned up the teacher insisted I had handed it in ( I hadn't) and wouldn't let me take the punishment.

Not going and then...
Fighting

I was a good kid until I went to secondary school where I was bullied every single fucking day. After four years of being pushed around and beaten up Every. Single. Fucking. Day. I fought back. Then I had to keep fighting. Not proud of it, I still have the scars from some of the more vicious attacks. Cunts the lot of them.

And yet now I'm a vegan lentil weaving hippy who can't tolerate any violence with a strong cheek to turn.

"Not getting on with peers" - no-one would pair up with me, I didn't have friends as such just aquaintences. Couldn't work out friendships etc.

Eye contact with the teacher. "Look me in the eyes when I'm talking to you, why are your eyes darting about look me in the eye. Stop trying to stare me out"

Being over emotional. Being over sensitive to people's comments.

25 years later I was diagnosed with aspergers.

Subversion. Ironically, I was getting into trouble for this before I became genuinely subversive. But that's a self-fulfilling prophecy for you.

For sorting the bullies out,there were quite a few and some of them were really vicious.They always started on the kids that had loads going on at home,the Morons.

Never really got in trouble though deputy head had to look like she was telling me off so used to take me into her office and she'd make us both a coffee and dig the biscuit tin out.

She was great she said I knew more about her and her family than any of her colleagues.

Having zero wish to conform to any rules that I didn't agree with. My DCs seem to be quite similar. I muddled through (and fbecame a good negotiator). They are doing the same.

Summer I used to get in bother for putting up pllitical posters on the noticeboards -stuff like anti apartheid.I bet half the teachers actually sympathised if the trutb be known,even back then.

Only got into trouble once and that was last year at primary. Me and 2 friends legged it out the gate at break and hid in one of their houses. Teacher visited us all individually at home that evening and we were hauled off to the headmaster the following morning.

Talking and having 'too much nonsense in my head'

ballet - this was the early/mid 70's > - and much as I'd love to dob her in, even now, I suspect she probably has enough money to sue me. Or send the boys round. Or something! She put on a cracking performance of being too scared to go back into the school though - worthy of an Oscar it was!

I once wrote Mr x is a cunt on a bit of paper and passed it around the class until he intercepted it!
I thought he was going to kill me! I was put on report for a month and had to write him an apology
The reason I done this was because he was a nasty bully, everyone hated him. I was held in high esteem by my peers afterwards

I did, not I done!
Pay more attention Betty

Oh god.... this will be a horrible list

Truanting
Fighting
Make up
Short skirt
Smoking
Not doing homework
Piercings
Back chat
Refusing to follow instructions

You get the idea
I did se the error of my ways a few years later though and hauled my sorry arse to uni to get my degree. My teachers hated me.

Yes Cant - my teachers hated me and believe me, what I got up to was very low level compared to what goes on now. But they hated me and were continually sending me for psychiatric assessments because I wouldn't behave. So I used to misbehave at those too! Honestly - fucking idiots. Then I got moved to a school with a different ethos and suddenly found I was getting top grades for everything - well, except maths which was then and is now a mystery to me! - but I've always been amazed what a difference that made to me and presumably others too.

skiving

Lateness
Nail varnish
Shirt untucked
Attitude (never dealt well with authority!)
Talking
Swinging on my chair !