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<p>Systems of crime and punishment in schools can be just as precarious as the federal criminal justice system. Detention is given out for pretty bonkers reasons, and students from kindergarten to high school are often falsely accused of breaking the rules.</p><p>A<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/n33fyd/whats_the_stupidest_thing_you_got_in_trouble_for/"> Reddit thread</a> asked, &quot;What&#39;s the stupidest thing you got in trouble for at school?&quot; The answers were both hilarious and enraging.</p><h2>1. <em>The Breakfast Club, </em>21st century edition.</h2><blockquote> <p>Got Saturday detention for texting on my phone after school hours. There were no policies that said it was not allowed on school grounds or when I am allowed to use my phone. My high school was dumb.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/SnooDoughnuts231/">SnooDoughnuts231</a></p> </blockquote><h2>2. Salacious kneecap.</h2><blockquote> <p>My high school didn&#39;t allow ripped jeans at all. I was in my dance class (we weren&#39;t dancing that day) when I was bending down to sit on the floor and my jeans ripped at my knee. I got sent to the administrator&#39;s office for it.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Myles_Bennett--/">Myles_Bennett--</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>3. Falsely accused.</h2><blockquote> <p>Putting stickers on the Legos in the classroom.</p> <p>I wasn&rsquo;t even the one who did it.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Purple_gy/">Purple_gy</a></p> </blockquote><h2>4. Try being shorter.</h2><blockquote> <p>Being tall. I used to get bullied despite being taller than all the girls in my grade, because girls often fight with words, not fists. One girl was bullying me and it was getting really bad, so I went to a teacher to explain what was going on. She told me a girl that tiny couldn&#39;t bully me and I was probably misreading the situation. She then gave me some pointers on how to be less intimidating and basically instructed me to make myself smaller. She did not talk to the other girl. When things got worse, I was getting nasty prank calls at home and at school girls would insult my clothes. I remember buying a sweater that was a popular brand amoungst the girls at school, to show everyone that I knew what was cool. Well, the brand didn&#39;t design clothes for very tall girls, so the sweater was a bit cropped on me compared to others. So of course, I got ripped apart for that. When I told the girl I was going to tell the teacher, she decided she would beat me to it. She told the teacher I purposely bought a sweater like hers to make fun of it. So the teacher told me to remove the sweater and not to wear it again because it was hurtful.. I was so upset because I really liked that sweater. Unfortunately it died in my closet after that. Everytime I saw it I was reminded and I felt horrible. Sometimes I wish I would have just fucking punched those girls out.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ohheyhihellothere25/">ohheyhihellothere25</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>5. Victim Blaming 101.</h2><blockquote> <p>I got told that if I didn&#39;t give the other students a reason, they wouldn&#39;t bully me. Like it was my fault they were bullying me.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Chapter97/">Chapter97</a></p> </blockquote><h2>6. Wrong John.</h2><blockquote> <p>My name is John Smith. There was a kid in my school whose name was David John Smith but he went by John. He tended to get into trouble and the people in the office would look in their records for John Smith and I&#39;d get called in.</p> <p>It would always get sorted out but the tone was always sort of &quot;okay, well, I guess we&#39;ll let you off this time.&quot; -<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Anxious-Market/">Anxious-Market</a></p> </blockquote><h2>7. Punish the comforter, not the bully.</h2><blockquote> <p>In middle school they made a ban on boys hugging girls because it was exotic.</p> <p>So I&#39;m in the middle of hugging my sister and surprise I got in trouble for it BTW I was hugging her because I was comforting her because she was being bullied and the school did nothing about it.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ImaginationOk7012/">ImaginationOk7012</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>8. Hold it in.</h2><blockquote> <p>Coughing/Sneezing because it was disruptive behaviour. Happened to several students at the start of the year, which prompted even more disruptive behaviour - this time on purpose.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/fire-scar-star/">fire-scar-star</a></p> </blockquote><h2>9. Maybe the teacher was illiterate?</h2><blockquote> <p>For correcting a teacher. How do you make a mistake when you have the text book open up in front of you.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/failed_state_medz/">failed_state_medz</a></p> </blockquote><h2>10. You know who else had long hair? Jesus.</h2><blockquote> <p>Catholic school tried to give me detention for long hair, my mom did not give a single sh*t, came into the school office and told them off. They never said anything about it again. She&rsquo;s the best.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Telson_Guthbery/">Telson_Guthbery</a></p> </blockquote><h2>11. Red flag.</h2><blockquote> <p>We had career questionnaires when I a freshman. I put down that I&#39;d like to be a locksmith and under the &#39;why&#39; I put &#39;so I can pick locks&#39;.</p> <p>The teacher called my mom and told her I wanted to be a criminal. Like, even the principal got involved.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Nice_Bake/">Nice_Bake</a></p> </blockquote><h2>12. How dare you be enthusiastic about literature!</h2><blockquote> <p>In multiple English classes I had teachers scold me for reading too far ahead in books. I loved reading, and sometimes would sit down and read a whole novel in 2-3 sittings while the rest of the class was being assigned 1-2 chapters at a time. But I couldn&#39;t NOT do it if the book was good - for example I liked Charles Dickens and would charge through any of his books.</p> <p>Often they were mad because doing this would break their assignments. They might want us to use our imagination to predict what will happen next, or identify possible examples of foreshadowing before they came to pass. It was also a problem in class discussion when I would bring up things that hadn&#39;t happened yet.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>My favorite English teacher just modified my assignments instead of getting mad. Gave me different writing prompts as needed. And to keep class discussions on track he asked me to go back and skim the assigned chapters just before class so I knew where other people were. I happily complied.</p> <p>Seemed a lot better than telling a child NOT to read more.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/workislove/">workislove</a></p> </blockquote><h2>13. Preventing a crash could have caused a crash.</h2><blockquote> <p>It was lunchtime, so everyone&#39;s rushing out to the cafeteria. It was very crowded. As I was moving along the crowd, I saw a kid running my way. So as not to get in trouble, I side-stepped. Then, out of nowhere, the Principal scolded me, telling me how I could&#39;ve caused an accident because of what I did. But the kid that was running through the crowd got away scot-free.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Vladi_Sanovavich/">Vladi_Sanovavich</a></p> </blockquote><h2>14. Generosity is frowned upon.</h2><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><blockquote> <p>I bought a book at the book fair for my friend and the teacher called my mom about it. My mom was like you&rsquo;re literally calling me because my son bought a book for someone else&hellip;-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/FixedPiano/">FixedPiano</a></p> </blockquote><h2>15. What the teacher says, goes.</h2><blockquote> <p>Telling a teacher she misspelled my name.</p> <p>I was in kindergarten when this happened. We were in class while we took turns telling her what flavor of pizza we wanted for a pizza party coming up. She was writing everyone&#39;s name on the white board and 5 year old me politely raised my hand and told her that she had spelled my name wrong. For a little bit of context my name has a few spellings. My name only has one n while many people use 2 n&#39;s. Instead of just erasing the extra n she freaked out, (was like 8 months pregnant so maybe hormones??). Said I was being disrespectful and basically said I was just being a little a**hole. She even had the audacity to change my green card to yellow... I cried.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/clouddagger/">clouddagger</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>16. Snotty is naughty.</h2><blockquote> <p>10th grade Spanish. I sneezed, and a bunch of snot came out of my nose, and just hung there. I covered my face and went to ask the teacher for a paper towel. She started screaming at me and kicked me out of class. Tried to reach on to her desk to get some napkins, and she started shrieking at me, I ended up with detention.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/WyldeFae/">WyldeFae</a></p> </blockquote><h2>17. Good Will Hunting over here.</h2><blockquote> <p>I got in serious trouble with my math teacher for solving the problem correctly, by using a different formula than we were supposed to.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Lord_Bob_the_third/">Lord_Bob_the_third</a></p> </blockquote><h2>18. It must have been a long couple of months.</h2><blockquote> <p>Having my hair cut too short,was told I had to stand in the corner of the headteachers office until it grew to a reasonable length 😂-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/mkick90/">mkick90</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

18 people share the stupidest reason they got in trouble in school.

Systems of crime and punishment in schools can be just as precarious as the federal criminal justice system. Detention is given out for pretty bonkers reasons, and students from kindergarten to high school are often falsely accused of breaking the rules.A Reddit thread asked, &quot;What&#39;s the stupidest thing you got in trouble for at school?&quot; The answers were both hilarious and enraging.1. The Breakfast Club, 21st century edition. Got Saturday detention for texting on my phone after school hours. There were no policies that said it was not allowed on school grounds or when I am allowed to use my phone. My high school was dumb.-SnooDoughnuts231 2. Salacious kneecap. My high school didn&#39;t allow ripped jeans at all. I was in my dance class (we weren&#39;t dancing that day) when I was bending down to sit on the floor and my jeans ripped at my knee. I got sent to the administrator&#39;s office for it.-Myles_Bennett-- 3. Falsely accused. Putting stickers on the Legos in the classroom. I wasn&rsquo;t even the one who did it.-Purple_gy 4. Try being shorter. Being tall. I used to get bullied despite being taller than all the girls in my grade, because girls often fight with words, not fists. One girl was bullying me and it was getting really bad, so I went to a teacher to explain what was going on. She told me a girl that tiny couldn&#39;t bully me and I was probably misreading the situation. She then gave me some pointers on how to be less intimidating and basically instructed me to make myself smaller. She did not talk to the other girl. When things got worse, I was getting nasty prank calls at home and at school girls would insult my clothes. I remember buying a sweater that was a popular brand amoungst the girls at school, to show everyone that I knew what was cool. Well, the brand didn&#39;t design clothes for very tall girls, so the sweater was a bit cropped on me compared to others. So of course, I got ripped apart for that. When I told the girl I was going to tell the teacher, she decided she would beat me to it. She told the teacher I purposely bought a sweater like hers to make fun of it. So the teacher told me to remove the sweater and not to wear it again because it was hurtful.. I was so upset because I really liked that sweater. Unfortunately it died in my closet after that. Everytime I saw it I was reminded and I felt horrible. Sometimes I wish I would have just fucking punched those girls out.-ohheyhihellothere25 5. Victim Blaming 101. I got told that if I didn&#39;t give the other students a reason, they wouldn&#39;t bully me. Like it was my fault they were bullying me.-Chapter97 6. Wrong John. My name is John Smith. There was a kid in my school whose name was David John Smith but he went by John. He tended to get into trouble and the people in the office would look in their records for John Smith and I&#39;d get called in. It would always get sorted out but the tone was always sort of &quot;okay, well, I guess we&#39;ll let you off this time.&quot; -Anxious-Market 7. Punish the comforter, not the bully. In middle school they made a ban on boys hugging girls because it was exotic. So I&#39;m in the middle of hugging my sister and surprise I got in trouble for it BTW I was hugging her because I was comforting her because she was being bullied and the school did nothing about it.-ImaginationOk7012 8. Hold it in. Coughing/Sneezing because it was disruptive behaviour. Happened to several students at the start of the year, which prompted even more disruptive behaviour - this time on purpose.-fire-scar-star 9. Maybe the teacher was illiterate? For correcting a teacher. How do you make a mistake when you have the text book open up in front of you.-failed_state_medz 10. You know who else had long hair? Jesus. Catholic school tried to give me detention for long hair, my mom did not give a single sh*t, came into the school office and told them off. They never said anything about it again. She&rsquo;s the best.-Telson_Guthbery 11. Red flag. We had career questionnaires when I a freshman. I put down that I&#39;d like to be a locksmith and under the &#39;why&#39; I put &#39;so I can pick locks&#39;. The teacher called my mom and told her I wanted to be a criminal. Like, even the principal got involved.-Nice_Bake 12. How dare you be enthusiastic about literature! In multiple English classes I had teachers scold me for reading too far ahead in books. I loved reading, and sometimes would sit down and read a whole novel in 2-3 sittings while the rest of the class was being assigned 1-2 chapters at a time. But I couldn&#39;t NOT do it if the book was good - for example I liked Charles Dickens and would charge through any of his books. Often they were mad because doing this would break their assignments. They might want us to use our imagination to predict what will happen next, or identify possible examples of foreshadowing before they came to pass. It was also a problem in class discussion when I would bring up things that hadn&#39;t happened yet.  My favorite English teacher just modified my assignments instead of getting mad. Gave me different writing prompts as needed. And to keep class discussions on track he asked me to go back and skim the assigned chapters just before class so I knew where other people were. I happily complied. Seemed a lot better than telling a child NOT to read more.-workislove 13. Preventing a crash could have caused a crash. It was lunchtime, so everyone&#39;s rushing out to the cafeteria. It was very crowded. As I was moving along the crowd, I saw a kid running my way. So as not to get in trouble, I side-stepped. Then, out of nowhere, the Principal scolded me, telling me how I could&#39;ve caused an accident because of what I did. But the kid that was running through the crowd got away scot-free.-Vladi_Sanovavich 14. Generosity is frowned upon.  I bought a book at the book fair for my friend and the teacher called my mom about it. My mom was like you&rsquo;re literally calling me because my son bought a book for someone else&hellip;-FixedPiano 15. What the teacher says, goes. Telling a teacher she misspelled my name. I was in kindergarten when this happened. We were in class while we took turns telling her what flavor of pizza we wanted for a pizza party coming up. She was writing everyone&#39;s name on the white board and 5 year old me politely raised my hand and told her that she had spelled my name wrong. For a little bit of context my name has a few spellings. My name only has one n while many people use 2 n&#39;s. Instead of just erasing the extra n she freaked out, (was like 8 months pregnant so maybe hormones??). Said I was being disrespectful and basically said I was just being a little a**hole. She even had the audacity to change my green card to yellow... I cried.-clouddagger 16. Snotty is naughty. 10th grade Spanish. I sneezed, and a bunch of snot came out of my nose, and just hung there. I covered my face and went to ask the teacher for a paper towel. She started screaming at me and kicked me out of class. Tried to reach on to her desk to get some napkins, and she started shrieking at me, I ended up with detention.-WyldeFae 17. Good Will Hunting over here. I got in serious trouble with my math teacher for solving the problem correctly, by using a different formula than we were supposed to.-Lord_Bob_the_third 18. It must have been a long couple of months. Having my hair cut too short,was told I had to stand in the corner of the headteachers office until it grew to a reasonable length 😂-mkick90 

Systems of crime and punishment in schools can be just as precarious as the federal criminal justice system. Detention is given out for pretty bonkers reasons, and students from kindergarten to high school are often falsely accused of...