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

Talking
Passing notes

Sometimes laughing too hard. When you know you shouldn't be laughing and that makes it impossible to stop and you end up a snorty mess? That.

Talking

Although in my defence after finally completing compulsory education... I won the 'chattiest person' award in the yearbook

Skiving. I deserved to be caught though. A group of us went to my friend's house, and instead of just staying there, we decided to go into town. At lunchtime. In uniform. Where we met our Spanish teacher. We were really bad skivers!

Aside from that, talking to boys outside the school, and wearing the wrong indoor shoes - it was a catholic school

Smoking in the Science and Maths toilets.

Skiving PE I was being bullied and they did fuck all about it so tough shit.
Walking the long walk into town on Thursdays to buy a book.

The first Thursday of every month was when a new Sweet Valley High book came out

I cringe now There wasnt much diversity in those books.

Talking
Day dream
Being the class clown and a general twat only when i got older did i realise teachers are saints for not murdering kids like me im sure they thought about it

One of our teachers apparently ended up on a psychiatric ward a few years after we left.

Gum chewing and wearing the wrong coloured socks. The socks thing was just ridiculous. I wore trousers as part of my uniform, rather than the skirt, and my French teacher didn't like that I wore socks that were black or navy blue. You almost never even saw the socks! The rest of the time I was a goody-goody never in trouble for anything...

Talking
Texting
Answering back??

Talking ! The punishment was to learn poetry, I can quote many, many reams.
It was a boarding school.

We were not allowed to talk: in class, unless asked, in line(we lined up for everything even sandwiches at break time), or upstairs at all.No speech from the first foot on the first tread of the stairs.
Naturally we spent a lot of time upstairs, as that's where changed our clothes, bathed, polished our shoes(the result was inspected ) and slept.

I was 10 years old, some wee souls under this regime were as young as six.
Also got into trouble for unauthorised hair washing in the basins upstairs.Hot water for hair washing was provided once a fortnight in metal basins in the courtyard.As teenagers, (we survived till then !) we naturally washed our hair in between times in the cold water only basins upstairs.The theory was that shed hair blocked the plumbing.Hence the ban. You couldn't risk a sneaky bath wash as that would have been spotted.One horrendous time my parents mistimed their fortnighly visits to coincide with hairwashing Saturday.We would have had 6 unwashed weeks. Ah! Childhood in the 50's and 60's.

I became a day scholar in my final year,blessed freedom. It had it's drawbacks.I was reported for riding my bike no hands in school uniform whilst eating a chocolate bar, by the wife of a local minister.Oh the shame!

its ! not "it is" drawbacks! I did learn that much !

Skiving gym by constantly forgetting my kit. I still loathe exercising...

Daydreaming, lateness, failure to hand in homework on time, wearing trainers instead of godawful school shoes that my mother bought me against my wishes, wearing the wrong coloured school jumper.

I normally got in trouble for standing up against bullies. One ended up with me grabbing them by the hair and smashing their hear off the fire hose reel. Split heads and all that. I also got in trouble for smashing a chair over another bully's back and sending him to hospital.

No-one listened to me about the bullies, so I just kept quiet and didn't speak much. I usually sat in the HM office saying nothing.

Other than that, I was one of those students that you didn't know existed as I sat at the back taking in the lectures.

Wearing cropped blouses instead of tucked in ones, wearing black jeans instead of trousers.

Reading / daydreaming / falling asleep / talking instead of paying attention.

Being late repeatedly.

Refusing to do things I didn't see the point of (like jumping hurdles in PE).

But I was actually a very good girl compared to most people & only got 1 detention!

Sounds horrendous Aprilday.

My mum went to a school where there were some boarders, mostly daughters of Forces families. They were unhappy at the minimal bathing / washing regime too, with greasy hair from not being allowed to wash it regularly.

Not handing homework in on time or at all.

And chatting when I was supposed to be working.

But I only got 3 detentions in the whole of my secondary school career. My Y7 son has already had three - one for throwing an eraser to a friend in an art class. I think I'd have been in detention every day at his school!

Short short short skirts! In sixth form. Can't believe I wore them! Horrendously short!

Nothing!

I never, ever got so much as a mild telling off from any teacher.

I was such a goody two shoes

Slamming.

Like poetry slamming?

Being untidy
Not having "the right attitude for this school" because I was hugely introverted and had a stammer, so didn't want to do drama and reading out loud
Not trying in games, because I didn't have a growth spurt until I was 17 and was terrified of coming up against the defence in hockey and running away from the ball in lacrosse
Trying to get out of chapel because I'm half Jewish. Parents were called over that one.
Generally not understanding instructions, which meant I "wasn't listening". I was listening perfectly, just didn't understand because I'm very literal minded.

It was great overall though, I enjoyed school really

in primary school I was often in trouble for talking. I remember a day when I was sent out of class with my best friend and we just spent the whole day sitting in the corridor chatting.
I got in trouble for being silly, too. The worst thing I remember was when I shimmied up the wall in the toilets to touch the ceiling and was caught and told off.
At high school I never really got in trouble - I just used to put my head down and get on with my work; but sometimes I was really daft, for example my friend had a can of fizzy pop and I threw it across the field. It landed on a stone, burst and squirted up a teacher's leg! We got told off but I don't remember getting any further punishment.

talking, talking and talking... oh and wearing the wrong uniform items!

Slamming as in truanting/bunking off, not sure whether it's a northern term or if it's even used anymore (left school in 1985). Only really the maths lessons though, myself and bff would slope off to her house because her parents were out and we'd dye our hair and drink coffee.

I was always told off for talking and for having the wrong uniform.

Slight digression: One day instead of the regulation royal blue box pleated skirt, I wore a navy pencil skirt.

Deputy head walked past me, as I loitered outside the main hall. She refused to listen and ordered me straight home to change. As I lived almost a mile away, I had to run pdq, and all I could think of was, 'oh shit mums gonna kill me'.....I'd been outside the hall waiting to go in for my English O Level exam! Got back to school to see history teacher Mr Stone getting in his mg on his way to pick me up, as exam was about to start.

DH once lifted a bully above his head (this was decades ago back in the 1960s and he got the strength from anger) and was going to impale him on the railings and was stopped in the nick of time by a dinner lady.

He had been bullying DH for weeks and DH snapped.