When you were a kid at school what was the most stupid and unfair (a fault on the teacher's part) reason you or another kid got in trouble?

[EzraIsShy76028]

For me, it was back in 3rd grade, this boy named Taivian got in trouble for talking about fucking WATER GUNS... literally.

So the teacher had made up a system where she gave out this fake currency for good behavior and good grades. If you misbehaved or got bad grades you'd lose the currency. The currency could be used to buy snacks and some items like pretty colorful pencils or erasers and other stuff. And the teacher had just introduced this system and was presenting this to the class. Then the interaction between Taivian and the teacher went something like this:

So Taivian was just casually talking to his friends. And I didn't quite catch what he said, but I heard the word "guns" at the end.

Then the teacher in a really angry yelling tone said: "TAIVIANNN!!! DO YOU WANNA LOSE YOUR MONEY ALREADY? Talking about guns..."

Then Taivian said: "No no no but not real guns ma'am! Water guns! These really cool new water guns I have to play with my friends at the water park, and-"

Then she cut him off yelling at the top of her lungs: "I DON'T CAAAAAAREEE!!!"

And even as a 3rd grader I was like... what the hell?

I know it wasn't a cover up on his end either because I asked the other kids and he really WAS just talking about water guns in specific.

For some reason the teacher seemed to really dislike this kid just in general despite him not doing anything particularly absurd, but this was by far the stupidest reason he got in trouble.

[docster]

In the last 5 minutes of senior year of high school we were supposed to clean out our lockers and go home. They had set out large trash cans for people's trash. A popular guy who's locker was a couple of feet from mine just tossed the papers from his lockers onto the floor and took off. The Vice Principal came walking by and told me to clean up my trash and that I shouldn't just expect other people to clean up after me. I told him that I would because he told me to, but that I'm not the one who put it there. About nine years ago I ran into that now grown up kid. I mentioned that we were in the same graduating class but I didn't mention that incident. I had long since forgiven him, but I haven't forgotten it.

[Anonymous]

Probably for fighting when someone was defending themselves. The assistant principal was pretty old and burnt out…. He didn’t want to do any investigations and would just suspend students sent to his office for any reason. Even if they were innocent.

[EzraIsShy76028]

Ah yeah. A lot of schools are absolutely ridiculous when it comes to physical violence.

There was a rule that even if someone randomly attacked you and you didn't fight back at all and just let yourself get beat up, "it was actually YOUR fault as well because for them to have attacked you, you probably provoked them in the first place."

A similar rule about someone cheating off of your test and you not realizing it. You get in trouble for "letting" them copy you but what if you didn't notice in the first place? Why shall you be punished.

[Opinion Owner]

Yes but it depends on the principal. I appealed some of my suspensions to the superintendent successfully. If I was lucky I got the other assistant principal or the main principal. But most the time it was him since he was over the grade.

[Opinion Owner]

Most my principals were very reasonable and at least attempted a investigation before blindly suspending people.

But the guy seemed genuinely burnt out, lazy, and didn’t care anymore. He was riding it out to retirement and I don’t think he really wanted to deal with anything. He would rather suspended people so people avoided coming to see him.

[Agape93]

For telling my guidance counselor about abuse. Backfired big time.

[EzraIsShy76028]

Damn. The classic "opening up to the wrong person," huh?

A similar thing happened to an acquaintance/friend of mine at the time. She told a teacher she trusted about her abusive dad, and then the teacher went on to TELL the dad what she had just said.

And like... what the fuck? Why would you tell the abuser? Especially when it came to a teenage student who trusted you.

[Agape93]

Opening up at all was a mistake. Counselor called the cops, cops talked to my family, they called me a liar again, and that was it. They never checked again, and I wasn't believed again.