STORM2K

The Interfering or helping thread made me think of making this one.

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How good or bad were you in your grade school years? I was naughty. I did any or all of the following (but in no particular order):

* Turned off the water main (4th grade)
* Ran the heater to 105° (also 4th grade)
* Called my teacher a b**** (again 4th grade)
* Ran around the classroom chasing a fellow student (6th grade)
* Slammed the door so hard a ceiling tile fell off (also 6th grade)
* Jammed the bathroom drains so much I had to work for the janitor (various times)
* Yanked the fire alarm in summer school (from the main box, forget what year)
* Chased a girl all around the playground just to kiss ker (which I did, and then got slapped) - 5th grade
* Told a yard duty supervisor "You're not my teacher" (7th grade)
* Caused a huge people jam at the end of 7th grade during lunch by asking a girl out (caused the school supervisors to watch too). Got rejected as well
* Got suspended in 7th grade for my first ever and only fight - on a Friday the 13th too
* Said the b and s words next to a campus supervisor at lunch time in 8th grade (only had to sit out the rest of lunch though because he thought I was saying it to another student, but I wasn't - the guy was a jerk off though )
* Got suspended in 9th grade for saying that two very hot and cute cheerleaders were very active and busy the prior night (this was printed in my underground weather newsletter, which I was distributing 100 copies of on my own paper, ink, and time twice a week to my friends. Publication ceased afterwards )
* Almost got suspended in 9th grade for using the PA system code to call a student to the library to pick up a lost object. I then used the ocde again to call a teacher a bad name, then gave the code to some friends and they used it for other things.
* Got 3 days of ISS in 11th grade for saying something naughty about two color guard girls.
* Got kicked out of two schools in 12th grade - one for something which I cannot say here, and in the other I insulted the teacher due to her large and round size.

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I think that covers most of them. Now I'm a good boy. Do any of you want to share?

And what did your parents do about your getting suspended? My mother would have KILLED me! I was a good kid (other than crying every day for the first two yrs of elem. school). I was always afraid of what my parents would do if I got into trouble at school.

On the Friday the 13th one, my dad was not too mad because he had that day off from work, so he just worked on his car and I pretty much stayed inside and didn't do too much. But on the 3 day ISS one, they were livid. I can understand that one because it's for a good reason. Same thing for the underground newsletter.

When I called my teacher the b word, they just had my babysitter come pick me up since she lived like a half mile from the school. (She still does.)

I wouldn't be alive today to tell a story like yours lol. Way back in the dark ages when I was in school, we were taught to respect all adults, from the principal on down to the janitor. If one of them corrected us, we were expected by our parents to obey them. (That's not saying there weren't some that I wanted to call the "b" word or worse!) I was just afraid of the consequences when I got home. It always amazed me how fast news traveled in our rural area back then. Get in trouble at school and before you could get home, your parents knew about it! Therefore, I avoided any kind of trouble. You'd just have to know my mom. She put the fear in me early in life LOL.

I think that part of it is/was the fact that I didn't have the right diagnosis about my Asperger's syndrome until I was nearing 15 years of age. That could have played a role, I don't know.

I was always good in school. I followed behind my older sister who always got in trouble. Teachers grimaced at me and were shocked when they realized I was the exact opposite of my sister. Quiet, mildmannered and very reserved.

I was the first child in the family so I was wonderful in school. The teachers are now shocked when my sisters come through. :o

I was fairly bad I'd have to say. I know some of you might find this hard to believe, but I was quite the instigator.

My parents first encounter with the Principal came in 6th grade when I discovered that by scuffling my feet along the carpet in French class, I could electrically shock anybody I touched.

Next came the great headset caper. Again, in French class we had these headsets we wore that enabled the teacher to selectively monitor any student she wanted to with a switchboard she had at her desk. I discovered that by putting the mouthpiece into the ear cup, it would produce nasty squelching feedback straight to the ears of Miss teacher when she switched to me. lol...oh the joy. There was also a change in static that enabled us to know when she was listening to us, that of course required us to make burping noises, or other bodily functions at the appropriate time. Poor lady would get so flustered as she quickly switched to another student. That required another parent-teacher conference, the 1st of many with Miss Trainer.

She would hand out detentions like they were candy, and as a group, we manipulated her to the max. Reverse psyc at its best. As she was sentencing me or others to an hours detention that day, hands would go up, and other students would politely ask if they too, could have a detention please. Man..the good ole days...and we were only 11 or 12 years old.

I got progressively worse, until I reached high school and got my act together.

No way J - you an instigator! Glad you got your act together.

Well, I skipped my final class of the day one day in March because our basketball team made it to the boys' high school tournament and all of us seniors were parading through the halls, chanting "Rupp Arena...Rupp Rupp Arena!" which is the University Of Kentucky's stadium where the tourney was played. It was the day after we won the game that got us into the tourney. I'm not sure who started it, but it started right before the bell rang, so none of us made it to class. Then the principle came around the corner and we all did a 180 and headed the other way and around another corner and up the stairs to the second floor. It looked like something out of "Breakfast Club. We were banging on lockers and clapping and cheering and running through our maze of hallways. Then a couple of the other teachers came out into the halls to do their duty. *snicker* But a few of us caught the principal smiling and shaking his head as if to say, "Let them have their fun." Our teachers were told to "reprimand" us the next day for skipping class, but no one was actually to be punished.

Other than that, I really didn't do much at all. I was quiet and shy until I was about 16 and was afraid my mom would beat the spit outta of me if I did anything.

I was one of those kids who no one played with, often beaten up, etc.; the only way I could fight back was by exercising academic excellence, which I did...and further alienated me with my "classmates" (and my younger brother, who didn't match my progress, and had the same teachers).

High school was a little different...college, I "ran the school", active everywhere, had popularity, yet nothing basic had changed about me.

Question...did I "grow up" or did they?

I was very quiet in school, especially in elementary school... despite this, I was not unpopular in school (although not too popular either). I was fifth out of five to go through the school system in a populated town in southeastern Massachusetts; this town has grown tremendously in the last several years.

In high school specifically, my oldest brother, sister and two more brothers were before me. We were in the high school for nearly 12 years straight from September 1984 to May 1996 -- broken down to September 1984- May 1988, September 1985-May 1989, September 1986-May 1990, September 1988-May 1992 and then myself from September 1992-May 1996, graduation was in June.)

Out of the five of us I was very quiet. In fact, some of my brother's were just about troublemakers, but certainly not like other students were.

I didn't even attend (didn't want to) my high school graduation ceremony... my parents and one of my brothers went to Maryland and Virginia the morning after the event for a week... my parents and I were thinking about moving to Virginia instead of eventually Florida and my brother was looking at two college, the one in College Park, MD and UVA in Charlotteville, VA... he ended up going to WVU in Morgantown, WV.

I was good in school, except for 5th grade when I got several detentions and punishment-type writing assignments for talking during class. Yes, this shy guy actually got in trouble for talking too much. I guess it was a problem to have my best friends sitting next to me in class.

I only did a couple of bad things and did them all in HS

10th grade- Shortly after my father died I nearly started a fight with someone who thought it was funny

10th grade=Kept ditching Marine Biology class because the kids were cruel {scary part is the teacher actually understood and marked me present when I was not even there}

11th grade= Had to talk my way out of a suspension for skipping. I skipped English like 8 times in a 3 week period. Begged the teacher not to suspend me and it worked.

12th grade= Nearly beat up a kid because he was feeling up a girls' chest and I could see she wasn't very comfortable. The kid ended up taking 1 swing at me. He got suspended for like 5 days. I GOT NOTHING.

Despite these few incidents.. I actually got 1 of the best academic awards in the state of Florida. I was awarded the Disney Dreamer and Doer during 12th grade

Gee, all I ever did was wear the wrong color sox and promptly got conduct points taken off for that offense. LOL FYI, I went to an all girls Catholic HS - plaid uniform skirts, green blazers, knee sox, and oh, a name pin that had to be pinned on your ~left~ collar on your plain white button down blouse. Come to think of it I did take the elevator on a whim one day with 2 friends. Got in trouble for that too. Yes....I was a rebel.....NOT!!!!

Mary

LOL mary.. I bet you were a pretty school girl though

I was a VERY good student through school. .

I went to public school during my Kindergarten and first grade years, and only had a COUPLE of minor infractions. I was homeschooled for about a year and a half after that. In mid-term third grade, I went to a church school, and continued there until 8th grade, when I returned to public school to finish out junior high and high school.

I was a well-behaved student during my church school years. However, I was given a hard time by some students, which lead me to the principal's office a couple of times to work things out. Yes, I know, at a religious school! This affected my academics a little.

In eighth grade, I was a perfect little angel, especially in band. I was in the percussion section, way in the back. I tell you, detention slips to just about everyone in the class were common EVERYDAY, except a minority few students, including me. The instructor turned about as red as a doppler radar on May 3, 1999!

High school, I was "adored" by all the teachers, administrators and staff. Moral of the story, not one detention, suspension or expulsion of any type.

I was a teachers pet at my old high school. I actually still go back every once in a while and they can remember me and my teachers' pet ways lol

I've only gotten one detention, no suspensions.

The detention was for something really stupid. The class just got finished with a test, and alot of people crumpled their scratch paper up and shot it, like a basketball. Most missed.. and I was the last one to shoot and miss. I picked up all the rest of the papers that were missed. The teacher gave ME the detention because he only saw ME throw the paper.

LOL David.. that's the way it works. I got detention once for failing to check in during a field trip lol