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01/22/2004: Today’s Poll: School Troubles!

I’m working on a new article as we speak — should be up by this afternoon. Meanwhile, let’s get another one of those surveys going. Okay, kind of a shitty one, but I’m curious nonetheless: in your various travels at school, from nursery up to high school, what’s the most trouble you’ve ever managed to get yourself into?

I have a couple of good stories, but the best one is really embarrassing, so I’ll save it for the comments section later today. Post yours!


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Did you ever notice that when the school faculty tries to buddy up to the students, it shows how out of touch they are? I went to the local boarding school for Native Americans here by town for a semester, and man was it ever strange. Best weirdness: the principals big fat idea was to bring the whole student body together for assembly. The entertainment? Some yabbo who was used to doing his thing for elementary on down. His audience? A couple hundred bored out their skulls Native American kids, about half of them surly teenagers. The program? sitting at a electric piano, singing stupid kids songs. The highlght (?) was this poor mook running around the gym, to a prerecorded track of "GhostBusters" with a toy laser pistol pretending to shoot ghosts. It all came crashing down when he said he was going to do a "Reverse Moonwalk" and just as he got into position, somebody on the far side of the crowd emitted one of the best Bronx Cheers I ever heard. The guy just stood there, with his butt pushed out, which was an unfourtunate stance for him to be in, with a look of total shock. Then the Super went nuts, rushing out and calling us ingrates, and using the word "pissant" which let us know he had watched "Best Little Whorehouse…" on TV the night before. (All us teenage boys did, Dolly Parton and all, you understand) Then he said the worst thing I ever heard any school higher-up say, "Some of you kids are here because your parents don’t want you!" Holy Crap! We knew this guy had issues, he tried to keep us from seeing the quick flash of nudity in "Dragonslayer" which is an important plot point, but he thought it would whip us into a frenzy of some sort. But when those words fell out of his evil mouth, I knew I had to go back to the little farm school before I went insane in the not so good way. True or not, he didn’t have to say that in front of the kids who come here from other states. Keee-ripes, man!

Ghosted by kingklash @ 01/27/2004 1:42 PM EST


Well, my career as a troublemaking asshole didn’t really get started till high school, so I decided to make up for lost time by being as much of a sarcastic, condescending, bastard in nearly all my classes nearly from the very first day of freshman year.
My biggest official encounters with hostile authority took place at the end of eighth grade and the beginning of my senior year. In eighth grade I had my locker searched for drugs, as one of the drug-dogs had picked it out in one of the random searches they did every month or so, so I ended up waiting outside the assistant principal’s office for most of the afternoon, with nothing to do until the school’s resident police officer frisked me for whatever it was they thought I must have still been packing after the tremendous wait. (Jeezus, that’s a big sentence!) They found nothing on me and nothing in my locker. This was especially funny as the school’s drugs-and-sex issue counselor worked for my dad, who had designed and instituted the drug education curriculum at the school. I was also, a few months later as I was walking home from school, detained by police for no less than a full hour in a humid, smelly, police car, in sight and walking distance of the police station near the school. The officer told me that my parents had reported me as a run-away, to which I replied, asking whether this had been before or after they’d dropped me off at school that very morning. Needless to say, he didn’t take kindly to my sarcasm, but I had thick metal bars between me and the driver’s seat and knew I was totally innocent, so fuck him. After the point where I swore I was going to die in that car, another officer arrived ‘on the scene’, this one on foot. He took one look at me, a look at the picture he’d been given to identify the kid they were looking for, and gave the other officer a funny look, and said, "Who’s that? That’s not him. He doesn’t even look like this one." Hurray for your tax dollars!
One of my latest forays into youthful rebellion was the day I came to school in drag, in accordance with the alternative (read: better and more fun) spirit week I’d devised to counter the Pep Club’s lame-ass Homecoming Spirit Week. I went the full nine yards with pig-tailed, blue gel-streaked, hair, thick gray eye-liner, ‘Fuck-me’ pink lipstick, an ankle-length skirt (which replaced the prom dress I’d planned on wearing if I hadn’t broken the damn zipper again!), and to top it all off, a sock-stuffed 36DD bra I’d found the previous summer (and thouroughly cleaned). Needless to say, I turned a few heads and drew some interesting comments, some expected (fag, goddamn homos, etc.), some not (dude, it’s a good look for you, seriously.), and all was going well, as it had when I’d pulled the same stunt the year before with a different outfit and no administrative action. Then the bell rang for first hour. That’s when the problems started. The slight headache I’d been repressing to that point suddenly grew to a more than uncomfortable level of pain, so my English teacher (God love her) sent me to the nurse. The nurse didn’t appear to be in the office at the moment, so I went to the main office instead. That’s when, after sitting for twenty minutes of excrutiating cranial torment, I found myself called into my dean’s office. He didn’t like my outfit apparently, but who was he, he of the bland collared shirt and stupid K-Mart tie, to judge me? I told him I was sorry our tastes weren’t mutual and that I hoped he would try to be more open-minded in the future, but he told me that my fashion-sense was potentially offensive and demeaning to women, which I still fail to comprehend the logic of, and thought that calling my mother to bring me something more ‘appropriate’ (his word, not mine.) to wear was a better idea.
I was faced with a ten-day suspension if I refused to change (clothes) to fit their square mold. If I hadn’t been involved in a play at the time (yep, the faggitude continues!), I would have totally given them the finger and taken a well-deserved rest from their bullshit, but such was not my decision as I lay there in the darkness of the room where they send you if you need to lie down in the nurse’s office, a blessed icepack on my throbbing forehead, where I finally got to, lying broken, but not defeated, another victim of the status quo of high school politics.
So those are my stories of a hazardous youth, enjoy.

Ghosted by Princess Wuffles @ 01/27/2004 11:33 PM EST


Well, for starters I mooned the audiance at my grade 1 christmas concert, but *The Most* trouble I ever got in at school involved shooting another kid with a bb gun (at school) and being pulled out of class by my princpal.. I was quite the little hellion all along but that took the cake.. (still am) ;)

Ghosted by Cyanyde @ 01/28/2004 3:58 AM EST


btw my website is down atm so don’t fucking bother telling me ;P

Ghosted by Cyanyde @ 01/28/2004 4:00 AM EST


Last one I swear..

Grade 3, Our school used to let us out for a 15 minute "recess" to run off some of our energy so the teachers could fuck around for the rest of the morning..

One day when I was bored with chasing around the kid we all used to pick on, I picked up a particularly sharp rock and proceeded to scratch the collective shit out of every car in the teacher’s parking lot..

I’m sure you can imagine their horror at discovering my handi-work, even more horrifying was when I was "ratted out" by the "Bully Foder" and forced into slave labor for the remainder of the school year and most of the following summer to repay the damages.

Hmm.. now I’m not quite sure which story takes the cake.. This one at least didn’t involve "The Man".

Aside: I ended up getting the "Rat" back a few years later, but that’s another story reserved for the "Paybacks" article.

Ghosted by Cyanyde @ 01/28/2004 4:52 AM EST


In Public school I nailed the vice principal in the face with a snowball and got a 3 day suspension. 2 days after I got back, I hit janitor in the head with a snowball that I had spiced up with a small rock in the center. I got a 3 day vacation and the strap on the hands for that one. Last day of grade 8, I threw another kid’s book bag out the window of our 3 floor school and the principal drove me home in the middle of class. Not too bad for a grade-schooler in the mid-80’s.

Ghosted by Uplands Shawn @ 01/28/2004 1:39 PM EST


Uh, when I was in elementary school I took a wiz on the soccer field… GO TEAM!

Ghosted by Stoofuss @ 01/29/2004 5:57 PM EST


Hmm.. I was a bit of a trouble maker when I was in school. I got into trouble for just about everything, fighting, talking back to teachers, smoking, hacked into a computer my senior year which totally jeopordized me from graduating. The problem with me is, once i get into trouble, I tend to get into even more trouble. I don’t know when to keep my mouth shut, and it lands me in a deeper hole. I’m not content with just getting one referal, I have to get three and go the suspension route. When I hacked into the computer, I re-wrote alot of the menus names, and program names in the tech lab/computer graphics class to Megadeth album names and song titles. My freakin lab partner is the one that ratted me out, just goes to show you that two people can keep a secret if one of em is dead. Landed me 30 days in what they called In House Crisis, would’ve gotten expelled but for some reason some of my other teachers came to my defense. I had to have a hearing and everything at the school, you’d think I was in some kind of military court martial hearing or something from the way it panned out. That was the biggest mess I ever got myself into in school. Everything I did before that was small play, they took me hacking into their computer pretty seriously. And it wasn’t even a hacking job, all I did was guess the freakin password into the computer to grant me access into the administrator control options. The password was the most obvious thing, it was the initials of our high school. I was no stranger to suspensions and in houses however, I even had to go to Saturday school once because of a fight. I’m glad I graduated school when I did (1996), because of the ways things are now I would’ve been sending alarm bells to the freakin ATF or something. But if I had to do it all over again, I have a feeling I’d do the same things over… wouldn’t change a thing. As bad as I was in high school, I still went to college and graduated.

Ghosted by Guitarmageddon @ 02/02/2004 3:32 AM EST


The worst (and stupidest) trouble I got into was in ‘99 just before Episode 1 was released…being the geek that I was, I thought it would be funny to put cryptic messages up beside my locker every day (like ‘TWO DAYS UNTIL THE DAY’). MOST people knew that I was talking about Star Wars, inlcuding most of the teachers.

Unfortunately, this was apparently a little too soon after Columbine, and some grade 9’s got freaked out, and lucky me, I got to go to the principal and explain that no, I wasn’t trying to blow up the school, and yes, I was a huge geek.

Ghosted by M-Dan @ 02/02/2004 8:25 PM EST


Well one time in school this girl’s ex boyfriend told me to tell the girl that he says "if her left leg is christmas and her right leg is thanksgiving can he meet her inbetween the holidays" I figure Ill do this favor for the guy since he said he was saying it. So I tell her and say he told me to tell ya that. She starts crying. Soon enoug hthey get back together or whatever so after shes made a big deal out of it she says it was all me. So I had to repeat the 7th grade after doing so well and only 2 more weeks left. So I had to study my ass off and apologize a trillion times before they agreed to give me a final shot. But when one of her friends gave me a hard time I called her a "fat cow" in which lead to another trip, thus placing my place in 7th grade for another year. So I had to spend another year in 7th grade, get written about for sexual harrasment in the papers, and get plenty of respect from people who hated that stuck up bitch. It was all worth it though. Luckily for me the new 7th graders didn’t know who I was so I was considered "a new kid" and got to hook up with plenty of younger ladies. Not to mention I was in 7th grade so there wasn’t much to achieve.

Ghosted by Adam @ 02/13/2004 1:43 AM EST


Bah, you probably just failed the grade.

Ghosted by Fitch @ 05/03/2004 9:34 PM EDT


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