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<p>The threat of detention looms large over every high schooler&#39;s head, because it&#39;s not as fun as <em>The Breakfast Club </em>makes it seem. While some kids act out for a variety of reasons, most students try to do what they&#39;re told and graduate in peace, however, arbitrary rules and power-tripping teachers can make that task difficult.</p><p>A <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/n0k571/what_is_the_dumbest_way_you_got_in_trouble_at/">Reddit thread</a> asked the internet, &quot;What is the dumbest way you got in trouble at school?&quot; These are the dumbest of the dumb. If only detention had an appeals process.</p><h2>1. Saying &quot;Peace!&quot;</h2><blockquote> <p>I said &ldquo;Peace!&rdquo; at the end of the Pledge of Allegiance in middle school (we took turns doing it over the intercom) and everyone acted like I had just slapped the school nurse across the face.</p> <p>My principal was a Revolutionary War reenactment enthusiast and suffice to say he did not find it amusing. My mother, on the other hand, still laughs about getting that phone call to this day.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/woahpossum/">woahpossum</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>2. Having messy classmates.</h2><blockquote> <p>My physical science class was making bridges out of toothpicks. They made a huge mess and everyone got detention. I was at home with a 104 F fever that day. I came back and was given my detention slip. &quot;You can blame your classmates for this.&quot; I never went.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/nights_captain/">nights_captain</a></p> </blockquote><h2>3. Eating a lollipop.</h2><blockquote> <p>Ate a lollipop that was passed out in AP Calculus B/C class by the Valedictorian on a day when we weren&#39;t having class. Teacher came back after approving passing out the cards with lollipops and gave everyone detention.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Nahtzee007/">Nahtzee007</a></p> </blockquote><h2>4. Not reporting a laser pointer.</h2><blockquote> <p>I got in trouble in elementary school because my friend brought a laser pointer and told me he had it in his backpack and if I wanted to play with it and I said no and the principal said I should&#39;ve reported.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Brahkk/">Brahkk</a></p> </blockquote><h2>5. Waving to a teacher.</h2><blockquote> <p>I waved goodbye to a teacher as they were turning around (like &quot;see ya&quot;) and they spun around, convinced that I&#39;d flipped them off. Nothing I could say would change their mind, and it wasn&#39;t like I had a bad reputation whatsoever.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/zomboromcom/">zomboromcom</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>6. Splashing in a puddle.</h2><blockquote> <p>Splashing in a puddle. In kindergarten.</p> <p>Kindergarten.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Breakfast_Bagelz/">Breakfast_Bagelz</a></p> </blockquote><h2>7. Drawing Jesus as Superman.</h2><blockquote> <p>I just started a new school. It was a Catholic school I knew nothing about religion. They asked us to colour a picture of the last supper. I had no idea who this people were so I turned them into superheroes. Made Jesus into Superman.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/shadowsmile1984/">shadowsmile1984</a></p> </blockquote><h2>8. Wearing a hockey shirt.</h2><blockquote> <p>I wore a shirt that said &quot;Puck&quot; to grade school. I played a lot of hockey growing up and I got the shirt from the local gear shop. They brought me into the office and the principal said it was one letter away from the f-word and that I was going to be suspended for three days. I didn&#39;t know f*ck was a word but I put two and two together and when my mom found out that the principal taught me the word f*ck she went the f*ck off on that dumbass. Funniest sh*t I&#39;ve ever seen, my mom screaming at the principal who was absolutely cowering and apologetic. Still got suspended though.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/RunTheTech/">RunTheTech</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>9. Getting revenge on a stabber.</h2><blockquote> <p>Got stabbed with scissors. Not deep. Broke the skin but not much more. Just the tip in every sense of the word.</p> <p>Punched the dude in the face. Instant referral to the principals office. Zero tolerance ain&#39;t sh*t.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/FrostByte62/">FrostByte62</a></p> </blockquote><h2>10. Taking medication.</h2><blockquote> <p>For using my asthma medication in class. I was told to keep my inhaler in the office, and to use it in there only. I was told it was &#39;distracting.&#39;</p> <p>Know what else is distracting? The sounds of someone gasping for air and having to be removed from class.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/jomosix/">jomosix</a></p> </blockquote><h2>11. Speaking English.</h2><blockquote> <p>So when I was 6 I moved from England to France and ended up meeting another English kid there. We became best friends and hung out all the time in and out of school. Even though we were both fluent in French and English, we always spoke in English because it just felt natural. People of course notice that we&#39;re not speaking French, so this one dumba** complains to the teacher that he didn&#39;t understand what we were saying. We were yelled at and got detention, and then the following years at school we were purposefully split up and put in different classes to encourage us to speak French more. We were f*cking 6 years old.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/BaffledDonuts420/">BaffledDonuts420</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>12. Having a butter knife.</h2><blockquote> <p>9th grade, expelled for having a butter knife in my lunchbox.</p> <p>It had mayo on it when I was called to the office and it was inspected.</p> <p>But &quot;a weapon is a weapon&quot; so my schooling pretty much ended there. Eventually got my GED.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/askingxalice/">askingxalice</a></p> </blockquote><h2>13. Having a toothbrush.</h2><blockquote> <p>My toothbrush had one of those rubber plaque pickers on the end of it, and as I had just gotten braces I brought my toothbrush with me to brush after lunch.</p> <p>An overzealous teacher decided it was a weapon and I was hauled in to the principal&rsquo;s office. They called home and I remember not really understanding why I was in trouble for that when I had a metal compass for math that legit could be used to stab someone.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/RuyiJade/">RuyiJade</a></p> </blockquote><h2>14. Having a destructive classmate.</h2><blockquote> <p>Someone poured baby powder all over the class at recess in the 6th grade making the floor slippery. Guess what happened when the teacher walked in through the door. Teacher broke his hand, whole class got detention.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/kamyar420/">kamyar420</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>15. Checking the time.</h2><blockquote> <p>I checked my phone for the time because the clock in the room didn&#39;t work. I was the good kid in that class, I never used my phone, but everyone else did and teacher didn&#39;t say anything. When I pulled it out for 3 seconds, she walked up and grabbed my arm. I told her she better let go of me.</p> <p>She called school police on me, 3 of them escorted me to the office despite every single kid in the room saying I didn&#39;t do anything wrong.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/hellothisismt/">hellothisismt</a></p> </blockquote><h2>16. Reading too fast.</h2><blockquote> <p>Read &quot;too far ahead&quot; in a book when I was 10. Everyone in my reading group was doing it, I just got overheard by the teacher while saying what page I was at. Still don&#39;t understand why it was a bad thing.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/DocDrowsy/">DocDrowsy</a></p> </blockquote><h2>17. Getting robbed.</h2><blockquote> <p>Kid stole my phone at school and I got in trouble for it because &quot;I shouldn&#39;t have brought it into school in the first place.&quot;-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/KiwiiCola/">KiwiiCola</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>18. Not throwing out a candy wrapper.</h2><blockquote> <p>I was given detention for having a candy wrapper in my backpack. I didn&#39;t eat candy in class, I didn&#39;t even show the wrapper, but Ms. Cox gave me detention.</p> <p>Ms. Cox was a notoriously mean teacher who would give you detention for anything. Everyone knew about her and sitting in her class was a game of survival because if you made the slightest mistake in geometry, looked at her wrong, or did anything to bring attention on yourself, Ms. Cox would descend on you like a heat seeking missile.</p> <p>At the end of class one day, I tool my homework nice and slow, I didn&#39;t want her to make fun of me for moving weird or something, and I opener my backpack. Inside, was a wrapper for some Reese&#39;s and from across the room Ms. Cox said &quot;everyone stop&quot; and we did, because she was freaking Ms. Cox.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>&quot;I smell something, candy, chocolate, who&#39;s got it?&quot;</p> <p>We all looked around at each other and then I realized she was talking about the wrapper and whatever faint traces of choco-peanut butter goodness were left over.</p> <p>I told her I had a wrapper in my bag and she asked if I ate it in class. I said &quot;No, we aren&#39;t allowed to eat in class, I ate it on the way here.&quot;</p> <p>&quot;But you didn&#39;t throw the wrapper away and now you tease me with it,&quot; she said. &quot; Detention,&quot; she said. She made me stay 2 hours after class because of that.</p> <p>Surprisingly, in detention she was a decent person but in a classroom setting it was unnerving and very uncool. It still blows my mind that a wrapper, wedged between my books unleashed her fury.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Michaelcoling/">Michaelcoling</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

18 people share the most ridiculous and unfair reason they got in trouble in school.

The threat of detention looms large over every high schooler&#39;s head, because it&#39;s not as fun as The Breakfast Club makes it seem. While some kids act out for a variety of reasons, most students try to do what they&#39;re told and graduate in peace, however, arbitrary rules and power-tripping teachers can make that task difficult.A Reddit thread asked the internet, &quot;What is the dumbest way you got in trouble at school?&quot; These are the dumbest of the dumb. If only detention had an appeals process.1. Saying &quot;Peace!&quot; I said &ldquo;Peace!&rdquo; at the end of the Pledge of Allegiance in middle school (we took turns doing it over the intercom) and everyone acted like I had just slapped the school nurse across the face. My principal was a Revolutionary War reenactment enthusiast and suffice to say he did not find it amusing. My mother, on the other hand, still laughs about getting that phone call to this day.-woahpossum 2. Having messy classmates. My physical science class was making bridges out of toothpicks. They made a huge mess and everyone got detention. I was at home with a 104 F fever that day. I came back and was given my detention slip. &quot;You can blame your classmates for this.&quot; I never went.-nights_captain 3. Eating a lollipop. Ate a lollipop that was passed out in AP Calculus B/C class by the Valedictorian on a day when we weren&#39;t having class. Teacher came back after approving passing out the cards with lollipops and gave everyone detention.-Nahtzee007 4. Not reporting a laser pointer. I got in trouble in elementary school because my friend brought a laser pointer and told me he had it in his backpack and if I wanted to play with it and I said no and the principal said I should&#39;ve reported.-Brahkk 5. Waving to a teacher. I waved goodbye to a teacher as they were turning around (like &quot;see ya&quot;) and they spun around, convinced that I&#39;d flipped them off. Nothing I could say would change their mind, and it wasn&#39;t like I had a bad reputation whatsoever.-zomboromcom 6. Splashing in a puddle. Splashing in a puddle. In kindergarten. Kindergarten.-Breakfast_Bagelz 7. Drawing Jesus as Superman. I just started a new school. It was a Catholic school I knew nothing about religion. They asked us to colour a picture of the last supper. I had no idea who this people were so I turned them into superheroes. Made Jesus into Superman.-shadowsmile1984 8. Wearing a hockey shirt. I wore a shirt that said &quot;Puck&quot; to grade school. I played a lot of hockey growing up and I got the shirt from the local gear shop. They brought me into the office and the principal said it was one letter away from the f-word and that I was going to be suspended for three days. I didn&#39;t know f*ck was a word but I put two and two together and when my mom found out that the principal taught me the word f*ck she went the f*ck off on that dumbass. Funniest sh*t I&#39;ve ever seen, my mom screaming at the principal who was absolutely cowering and apologetic. Still got suspended though.-RunTheTech 9. Getting revenge on a stabber. Got stabbed with scissors. Not deep. Broke the skin but not much more. Just the tip in every sense of the word. Punched the dude in the face. Instant referral to the principals office. Zero tolerance ain&#39;t sh*t.-FrostByte62 10. Taking medication. For using my asthma medication in class. I was told to keep my inhaler in the office, and to use it in there only. I was told it was &#39;distracting.&#39; Know what else is distracting? The sounds of someone gasping for air and having to be removed from class.-jomosix 11. Speaking English. So when I was 6 I moved from England to France and ended up meeting another English kid there. We became best friends and hung out all the time in and out of school. Even though we were both fluent in French and English, we always spoke in English because it just felt natural. People of course notice that we&#39;re not speaking French, so this one dumba** complains to the teacher that he didn&#39;t understand what we were saying. We were yelled at and got detention, and then the following years at school we were purposefully split up and put in different classes to encourage us to speak French more. We were f*cking 6 years old.-BaffledDonuts420 12. Having a butter knife. 9th grade, expelled for having a butter knife in my lunchbox. It had mayo on it when I was called to the office and it was inspected. But &quot;a weapon is a weapon&quot; so my schooling pretty much ended there. Eventually got my GED.-askingxalice 13. Having a toothbrush. My toothbrush had one of those rubber plaque pickers on the end of it, and as I had just gotten braces I brought my toothbrush with me to brush after lunch. An overzealous teacher decided it was a weapon and I was hauled in to the principal&rsquo;s office. They called home and I remember not really understanding why I was in trouble for that when I had a metal compass for math that legit could be used to stab someone.-RuyiJade 14. Having a destructive classmate. Someone poured baby powder all over the class at recess in the 6th grade making the floor slippery. Guess what happened when the teacher walked in through the door. Teacher broke his hand, whole class got detention.-kamyar420 15. Checking the time. I checked my phone for the time because the clock in the room didn&#39;t work. I was the good kid in that class, I never used my phone, but everyone else did and teacher didn&#39;t say anything. When I pulled it out for 3 seconds, she walked up and grabbed my arm. I told her she better let go of me. She called school police on me, 3 of them escorted me to the office despite every single kid in the room saying I didn&#39;t do anything wrong.-hellothisismt 16. Reading too fast. Read &quot;too far ahead&quot; in a book when I was 10. Everyone in my reading group was doing it, I just got overheard by the teacher while saying what page I was at. Still don&#39;t understand why it was a bad thing.-DocDrowsy 17. Getting robbed. Kid stole my phone at school and I got in trouble for it because &quot;I shouldn&#39;t have brought it into school in the first place.&quot;-KiwiiCola 18. Not throwing out a candy wrapper. I was given detention for having a candy wrapper in my backpack. I didn&#39;t eat candy in class, I didn&#39;t even show the wrapper, but Ms. Cox gave me detention. Ms. Cox was a notoriously mean teacher who would give you detention for anything. Everyone knew about her and sitting in her class was a game of survival because if you made the slightest mistake in geometry, looked at her wrong, or did anything to bring attention on yourself, Ms. Cox would descend on you like a heat seeking missile. At the end of class one day, I tool my homework nice and slow, I didn&#39;t want her to make fun of me for moving weird or something, and I opener my backpack. Inside, was a wrapper for some Reese&#39;s and from across the room Ms. Cox said &quot;everyone stop&quot; and we did, because she was freaking Ms. Cox.  &quot;I smell something, candy, chocolate, who&#39;s got it?&quot; We all looked around at each other and then I realized she was talking about the wrapper and whatever faint traces of choco-peanut butter goodness were left over. I told her I had a wrapper in my bag and she asked if I ate it in class. I said &quot;No, we aren&#39;t allowed to eat in class, I ate it on the way here.&quot; &quot;But you didn&#39;t throw the wrapper away and now you tease me with it,&quot; she said. &quot; Detention,&quot; she said. She made me stay 2 hours after class because of that. Surprisingly, in detention she was a decent person but in a classroom setting it was unnerving and very uncool. It still blows my mind that a wrapper, wedged between my books unleashed her fury.-Michaelcoling 

The threat of detention looms large over every high schooler&#39;s head, because it&#39;s not as fun as The Breakfast Club makes it seem. While some kids act out for a variety of reasons, most students try to do what they&#39;re told and...