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What's the worst thing you got in trouble for doing in high school?
- i was expelled for holding the computer systems hostage
— mVquk49f
- I got a very stern talking to after a sports injury because my parents were suing the school for lack of medical care on the sidelines.
— lost_n_space
- **TLDR ; Accidently started a militia at school, cops called, people arrested.**
Had a friend group of guys that I still consider brothers to this day. The youngest of us was actually a little cousin of my best friend and had been talking to this girl from another school. Well, turned out she had a boyfriend and he found out and had started sending threatening messages to the little cousin. We were all hot heads and angry teens, but we honestly didn't take it seriously enough and just laughed it off, told our buddy to leave the girl alone and that she wansn't worth it, and to just move on. He agreed - or so we thought.
A few weeks later we arrive to our Wednesday night youth church service ( you were required to go at least once a month, it counted towards our grades. At the time I still cared about my school work and would go, however we all were just on our phones and in the back the entire time. ) As we get there, the four or five of us, we hear a shout from across the parking lot. It's the boyfriend, along with a handful of cars and about thirteen kids in total. Suddenly it became very real to us. They approach, but I guess they weren't prepared to instigate anything considering how populated it was and we just let the two talk it out because there was no reason for this to turn into some Outsiders scene. The talk went poorly, the cousin returned and told us that upon leaving, there'd be a fight. We walked there, and we were all too prideful to alert the church, parents, or authorities. We'd hadle this ourselves - this was our first mistake.
Little background, we weren't necessarily the popular kids, but we were loved by all and had few enemies. So each of us sent a few messages around as well as checked in to see if any of our friends outside of the school might want to come assist. I messaged three or four, as did the rest of us. Now, I know the assumption of this being a church school probably leads you all to believe that it's some high matienance, uniform, or otherwise privledged school. We weren't a public school, however we weren't all that. In fact, it was the only private school in town the would accept previously expelled students, including yours truly ( Freshman year was rough. )
So, our friend group isn't just church goers. My best friends at the time were two, 6'4 + twins who wrestled all through school, and my other calls for help went out to some stoners I smoked with, and some various misfits. One of the other guys and myself had a mutual friend who had been in his fair share of scraps and we asked him as well. Now, what happened next was about an hour of 'The Phone Game'. For those of you unaware, this is where you call someone and tell them something, they call the next, and the next and so on. The game however is how accurate the information stays when reaching the next person, of which it did not.
This mutual friend, 'D' for the sake of reading, had two older brothers who were ex cons. I can't remember if they were under the assumption that this beef was involved D or not, but it was enough to convince them to also sound the horn and collect their own adult, gang related brothers in arms. This also happened with the stoners, and just about every head in count that we'd reached out to. Like Rohan arriving in the hour of need, this web upon web of unrelated heathens, thugs, stoners, metal heads, athletes, and army hopefuls were suddenly appearing in the parking lot of this unaware church. It was like if 'The Warriors' and 'The Breakfast Club' had a love child.
People are patrolling, asking random attendees where is this person and that person, they're here to see them. The staff began to pick up on something. There's way more people here than ordinary just wandering halls and collecting in groups and that a good majority of them are not students - or even teenagers. At some point, they'd confronted the angry boyfriend and his club and scared the piss out of them because they all jumped in their cars and left. The problem? We now have a small malitia roaming for a fight in and outside of a church + school. Holy fuck.
Things start going south. There no longer is a common enemy, and without orginaization everyone began to make assumptions about who they were here to fight. Gang signs are being tossed up, threats are made, chests are being pushed and the whole place reeks of dank kush. The staff and unrelated kids in attandence are now aware that the fan is covered in shit and they are in the middle of a potential brawl. Cops are called, kids are taking off in all directions. There is still infighting and people are even being arrested at this point. Things have gone to hell.
Another hour has passed and my group has now been discovered to blame. Those they had managed to catch and question had divulged mostly that they were here because of us. We would later learn between talking amongst ourselves and the police that it was roughly estimated that anywhere between 65 and 80 people had shown up for this ultimate showdown. So we were questioned, some severe dicipline was dished out, and we weren't allowed to attend for a long while after. Not expelled though!
— fidksomethingwitty
- My dad was expelled for drag racing in the parking lot. When the vice-principle came out and saw them, his friend mooned him. This was close to the end of his senior year, so he just had to miss the rest of the year, but he still managed to graduate. Ahh, the 70s. Pretty sure kids would end up in jail for that, now!
— rose-bradwardine
- I got banned from recess because my friends and I (K-12 school) accidentally started a complicated warlord system where the younger kids were soldiers, mine workers or pit fighters. We had currency and territory and everything. Large scale battles took place and bikes were used as cavalry. Did not realize my buddies and I were living as warlords until the teachers started using our recess as a social experiment about the cruelty of man.
— JoeyCastle
- I got in trouble a couple times for Simply Having my eyebrow piercing in and not taking it out in the morning before school. Like, shit, I forgot. But it was always a big deal.
Also, my older brother, who was a about 7 years ahead of me, was threatened to be expelled because his hair was long - like, shoulder length. He always kept it up in a pony tail. This was around the time that my mother was going through chemo for cancer and shortly after my parents divorced. My brother, who was a huge jackass to everyone and seen as a big bad ass, was growing his hair out to donate it to either Locks of Love or one of the other charities.
My older sister, between said brother and I grade wise, was also threatened to be expelled for piercings, hair color, clothing (she was goth at a school surrounded by corn fields and country folk), etc.
Basically, the principal hated our family.
— Wolvieyy
- blew up a kiln in ceramics
— Shavedwookie2
- I was caught passing a note from the girl behind me to the guy in front of me and because I wouldn't tell who gave me the note I was busted.
— PookaShellTourGuide
- The only detention I ever had was because I was drinking lemonade in class. I had strep throat the week before and it was still feeling sore. I bought a small lemonade during lunch and brought what was left of it to class. My teacher said she only allows water in class and warned me not to drink it. I asked to go fill the bottle with water but she refused saying I should've done so before class started. Once the pain in my throat became too much to bare I tried to sneak a quick drink but was immediately caught and written up. I tried to explain that I was still recovering from strep but of course there was just "no excuse" for my horrible lemonade drinking behavior!
— FakeMoans
- It’s so silly but it still pisses me off to this day. We had a band trip and I went to hang out in one of the boys rooms because my best friends in the band were in that room. Boys and girls weren’t allowed in rooms together with closed doors past “lights out”. So that is the rule I broke. We literally were just hanging out playing cards and having a very innocent time. We weren’t even drinking or doing anything illegal. One of the guys told his mom that I was hanging out and it was a shitstorm for me, apparently the only thing that could be happening between boys and girls past 9pm was premarital sex. I was in-school suspended, had calls home to my parents from the band teacher basically telling them I was a slut, and interviews with the principal where she called me promiscuous, and assigned me a lot of “school chores”. It was really fucked up for me, I was being slut shamed as a virgin. The boys I was hanging with were interviewed too and had the same story, that nothing happened. I was the only one to get in trouble. They really blew the whole thing out of proportion.
— blamethemedia
- This was the late 90s, our school just got the Internet in the only one computer lab.
This was back in the day when you could type something totally pure and porn would come up. That's exactly what happened to me, innocent history class search and porn comes up.
Got sent to the principal's office, suspended for the rest of the day. They didn't believe me it was an accident, but I'd never been in trouble before either, so that's why I got a light punishment.
Then it started happening to everyone else, too, and they finally believed me. Filters were put on those computers shortly thereafter, but I never was apologized to.
— llcucf80
- I got a red card in a soccer game and when I got home my mom took my phone
— TheCutestSperm