Did you ever get suspended from High School or expelled?

[demtenjeep]

I am taking a class and am curious if there are changing trends.


If you care to share, please do. If not many thanks for reading.



If you were suspended or expelled, and you are comfortable with it please share the year and reason.


Many thanks in advance.



There is no agenda, I don't want this to become a bashing thread, I am just curious as to numbers and reasons.

[Canuckistanian]

1. .

:popcorn:

[demtenjeep]

2. I think, aside from the obvious weapons that are 0 tolerance, many students

that get expelled have a bias against them that makes them a target

[mitchtv]

3. I was expelled from Catholic HS

in last half of senior year.Cause- truancy ( the day they named the state scholarships, whichh I won) Finished up in Public HS, and I was delighted. Plus I didn't have to open a book because I had already covered the material in parochial school.

[Cid_B]

4. Think I got a day...

... maybe three for a pocket knife in the mid-late 90s. I had given an on the move handshake/slap to a friend in the parking lot and the vice principal suspected drug sales.

While drugs wasn't my thing I was an active Boy Scout and had lots of knives. Lesson learned...


Pre-columbine days... but still strict

[izquierdista]

31. A pocket knife?

All my friends and I had pocket knives in junior high and used them to whittle on all sorts of things. Although you would NEVER take one to a desk or other school property or the knife would be forfeited. Mine had a small screwdriver blade which came in very useful in band class on flutes and oboes. Of course, that was the late '60s, and suspensions were only handed down for out-and-out fights. They also had corporal punishment in the form of a "swat" as an alternative to suspension.

[Cid_B]

82. I followed the same rules as you did...

... but that was policy at the time. I think I knew it too. In any case, I deserved it, did my time and we moved shortly thereafter to a much larger school with Cuban gangs.

Next week's story time: Cid_B learns the difference between years of sparring and an actual fight... Stay tuned

[Aerows]

5. I got suspended in 7th grade

But I was at a strict private school, and pretty much breathing got you suspended. I breathed a lot.

[Drale]

6. I was only threatened with suspension once

and the threat to sue was enough to get them to back off. I used self defense against bullies, who the administration where warned were bulling and and others more then once. The difference between them bulling and me fight back was I broke two of their arms and put another ones head into the wall.

[NYC_SKP]

7. I was at a high school of 3000 and never knew of any expulsions or suspensions.

Back in the early seventies.

Now, I gather they're very commonplace, and I taught for eight years high school aged kids, same city, all either expelled, suspended, removed by parents, or truant situations or in juvenile hall.

So times have changed.

[Very_Boring_Name]

42. I don't know, I graduated in 2006 from a very large public school, and

can only remember 2 suspensions in the 4 years I was there. One was a kid who threw a desk across the room, and another was a kid who got caught smoking in the restroom.

[Art_from_Ark]

52. When I was in high school

there were two restrooms set aside for smokers

[jberryhill]

72. There was a student smoking lounge at my high school for a while

[RobinA]

62. My Experience Exactly

Graduated in 1975. Suspension was rare, expulsion unheard of. Stuff was handled with a lot less drama than today. Right now my ex-high school is making news because some kids were sent home from the prom for drinking. This common place event was not deemed newsworthy in my time. Maybe because the "news" was concerned with actual news about an actual war instead of ignoring it for the foibles of high school prom goers.

[Elwood P Dowd]

8. No, but I got kicked off the football team for a couple of days for a fight during a game

with one of our rivals. After watching the film (yes, they had game film in the 1960s), the coach put me back on the team because I didn't start the damn thing.

I met a guy in the Army who was kicked out of college for cheating. We were both drafted at the same time and went through the same basic training cycle. Poor kid could not get over the mess that one cost him.

[Drale]

11. Isn't is amazing how something like that

can completely destroy one persons life, but then another person can become the Governor of Wisconsin?

[Elwood P Dowd]

18. Oh yes, but it's okay if you're a republican.

Same with draft dodgers.

[lilyin]

9. Yes, I was suspended

on a Friday afternoon from a Catholic Elementary school. I was in grade 8. The nun left the room, leaving us on the "honor system." Chaos ensued....the usual culprits making a lot of noise. All I did was whisper to the girl behind me to ask her what book she was reading. When the nun returned, she asked WHO was talking. NO ONE stood up to admit anything except me and the girl behind me (who answered with the name of the book as she showed me).

The nun suspended me and the other girl and said we could not return on Monday until one of our parents went to the convent to talk to her. Our moms did that and we returned - the nun apologized to me and the other girl when she found out the whole story.

[R. P. McMurphy]

10. I got 3 days in 1979 for cutting classes . . .

and it really tore my principal up to have to expel me. I felt really sorry for him. The whole irony of the situation amused me though. :)

[WyLoochka]

12. Expelled 1963

from a boarding school.

[brewens]

13. Three of us for weed for one day. They couldn't prove it and

none of us cracked and admitted to it like they hoped. We all got the "it will be better for you if you just tell the truth" treatment. Like hell! We would have been booted for the rest of the semester and not graduated on time.

Fortunately we just had one joint and Bev, the girl with us, ate it. A cop spotted the likely stoner circle and got close enough to smell it. He searched my car and didn't find anything.

We stuck to our story that we were only smoking cigarettes, which was permitted back then. They had to let us come back. We still toast that day at our reunions. I love those two.

[socialist_n_TN]

14. Never got suspended or expelled during HS, but

I did get banned from my HS campus the very next Fall for showing up to meet some friends and getting into a shouting match with the Asst. Principal about the length of my hair. Back when I HAD hair. :)

I had fought this particular battle all through my HS years and I wasn't going to let the bastard tell me I couldn't have my hair any length I wanted now that I was OUT of HS. He banned me from the campus forever. That would have been about Fall '69.

[Forkboy]

15. Suspended twice for fighting.

First time was just me and someone who didn't see things eye to eye, the second time was just after I had moved and started at a new school. Someone thought I would make a nice polite victim for their bullying.

First one was probably in '81, second in '83.

[seabeyond]

16. no. not even close. no kinda or sorta. sons in 8th and 11th grade. neither of them have been in

any trouble. iss, suspended or expelled. it is not easy to do

[elocs]

17. Graduated in 1970, never suspended or expelled. In fact, my senior year I didn't miss a day.

I never skipped school although there were times I was called in sick but really wasn't, but I just stayed at home. When I was in high school most kids went to school whether they liked it or not because that is just what you did. I just never considered not going to school and going and doing something else.

[mrcheerful]

19. In 1972 I got expelled the last 2 days of the school year at my public high school

for getting fire crackers thrown at me, one of the smart ass bullies thought it would be funny to drop a brick of fire crackers behind me to watch me jump, fail. The principle saw the fire crackers going off around my feet and accused me of lighting them off because I didn't react. He made me empty my pockets and when he failed to find any crackers he still expelled me. I had him as a teacher the year before and one day laid my head on my desk because I wasn't feeling well, he came up, kicked the desk and broke my nose, he was on suspension for 6 months and when he came back he was the discipline principle. So until 1975 I had a few dozen hours in his office for crap like that.

Edited to add, funny thing is when me and friends got drunk in school and got caught he was out on vacation so I got off with stern warning about drinking on school property. Damn I was a rotten kid.

[AsahinaKimi]

20. Suspended one day back in my High School days..

For breaking a guy's nose, with my Shinai (Kendo bamboo sword).
He got a one month suspension for trying to steal if from me.

Shinai

[Journeyman]

21. I had perfect attendance through 3.9 years of high school. . .

Skipped a day in the final month because I was damned if I was going to get hauled before the entire school at the final assembly and forced to accept a Certificate for being a perfect dumb ass.

[REP]

22. Suspended many, many times - for tardiness! Came to class anyway.

I had an A+ average and my teachers didn't care if I was on the Do Not Admit list or not.

I worked throughout Jr and Sr high, so making the 7:15 class on time didn't always happen.

[sakabatou]

23. Nope.

[Bucky]

24. I got a couple of suspensions over the years--but in junior high. Now I teach. Ironic.

I think it was for mouthing off at the teacher repeatedly.

[Philippine expat]

25. Never expelled or suspended

but was once threatened with it for fighting on school grounds, However since
it was not school hours or at a school function I escaped.

[ismnotwasm]

26. Yup

Made through three high schools before I gave up on the whole thing. Understand, my problem was insecurity and authority, which is a rough combination. I also had budding political--call them feelings--ones that sneered at the hierarchies I saw in society, and were reflected in high school-- although I didn't know how to articulate those feeling exactly.

Being stoned or loaded all the time didn't help either.

A happy ending; Got a GED and a decent college education anyway, and I don't have to tolerate those apparently tedious High School reunions, which sound like a great benefit by all accounts, but you can't know about what you don't know about.

[Igel]

27. Graduated in '77.

Never suspended, never expelled. There were a few kids suspended in my class, but it was a mark of extreme shame. They never said why they were suspended, and people spoke of it in hushed tones.

Now nearly every school within 20 miles of me has on-campus suspension of some kind, some have two "steps" of on-campus suspension; then there's actual "no, you don't come to school" suspension; and, if that fails, there's a county-wide sort of penal school for those who continue to violate the rules. The "penal school" (my term, not theirs) is where the real troublemakers are sent--it's that or be expelled, but expulsion is difficult.

As with failing grades, the kids don't seem to care. They say out loud why they're suspended, and for some kids it's a kind of "cool". One kid stood up and bowed. No shame.

Was in one classroom for 6 weeks. Never did see one of the students. Another walked in one day and I had no idea who she was--hadn't seen her in the first 5 weeks. She was there one day, then back into on-campus suspension for something.

1. My class sought some sort of acknowledgement from the teachers. We had the same set of rules, more or less, and validation by the teachers mattered. Today's kids have their own culture; they don't care for validation from the teachers, or at least don't need it as much. It also hurts that the kids have learned all the reasons that they're told for why they're not responsible--broken homes, poverty, racial/ethnic minorities, LEPs, etc., etc., and throw them right back in the administrator's or teacher's faces.

2. My class was composed of kids who needed their high school diploma, they thought, to get a job. The kids in the schools I observed often firmly believed that since they were black or Latino they'd be discriminated against when it came to getting a job or into college. So, they said, why bother?

[csziggy]

28. I was threatened with suspension

When my English teacher saw what I had brought to show the science teacher - a black widow spider. It was safely in a jar but she was phobic about spiders. Hauled me off to the principal's office, raised hell about it. Fortunately the principal knew me, knew my parents, and believed my story. I had no intention of scaring the English teacher. I just wanted to show the science teacher the really cool spider I had found so she could preserve it and add it to the collection she had in class.

[xmas74]

29. 1993.

Three day suspension.

I raised my hand during second period and informed the teacher that I needed to use the restroom. He denied me. I raised my hand again and he made a comment about how I could "wait to change my tampon." I said I thought I was going to be sick. He still made me sit.

I stood up, walked over to the trash can in front of the class, and vomited. Some of it splattered on his shoes. I picked up my books and my purse, walked out of class to the office, and signed myself out for the rest of the day, stating that I had just vomited. The office said I had to stay at school and could lay down for the rest of the period but would need to return to class. I still had chunks of vomit in my hair and smelled awful. I informed the secretary that I was 18 and I was obviously sick so I would go home, clean myself up, and sleep the rest of the day. I also stated that I would take all the textbooks home and call after school for my assignment, which I did.

When I returned two days later, I was informed that I had a meeting with the vice principal. I was given two days OSS and three additional days ISS. The classwork during suspension would not count for credit.

It took me from a very competitive number eight in my graduating class to number eleven.

[tammywammy]

30. Never, and neither were any of my friends. n/t

[tularetom]

32. Got suspended for playing the pinball machine in a bar

at lunchtime. You weren't supposed to leave the campus but almost everybody did. The bar was about 6 blocks away from the HS and there was a men's store right next door. As I came out of the bar I almost ran inot the asshole vice principal on his way to buy a tie or something and I was busted. I was suspended for three days and kicked off the basketball team for two games.

Another kid and I once tied a goat to the flag pole in front of the school and he snarfed down all the flowers that they had planted there and took a dump in the flower bed. There was a come to jesus meeting with the PTB and for some reason that I can't remember (I graduated in 1959) he got suspended but I got off with an ass chewing.

[saras]

33. Sort of

1974, high school, I used to leave school, as did a substantial portion of the school, for lunch. Some of us went home, some went to burger joints (they weren't fast-food places yet, they cooked the burgers in front of you), some brought bag lunches and wanted someplace quieter than the lunchroom, which was a zoo with no keepers, and some went into downtown to run errands. Many walked, as their homes, downtown, or stores and restaurants targeting the students were within blocks. Some drove. Some just hung out in their cars, cranked the stereos, ate lunch (and often consumed some sort of drug, from cigarettes to Quaaludes).

Because of some sort of trouble with cars in the gravel parking lot, instead of banning the problem behavior, or even driving, they said we can't leave school for lunch.

I did anyways, and after four or five days I got stopped.

"You can't leave the school."
"What happens if I do?"
"You're suspended."
"What if I come to class anyways?"
"We can't let you do that."
"So if I leave, you'll make me go away?"
silence...
"We're having trouble in the back parking lot. Just don't make yourself conspicuous."

so I guess I wasn't suspended after all

note: as this happened in, probably, 1974, the dialog is an approximate reconstruction.

[steve2470]

34. nope, 1976 grad, guess I was boring :p nt

[wickerwoman]

35. Nope.

I only know two people who were suspended or expelled in high school (this would be early 90s). One was this total asshole bully who used to bring a knife to school and threaten people. He didn't get suspended for that though. He broke into the school after hours to steal the audio-visual equipment and got caught.

The other suspension was a guy in my English class. I wasn't there when it happened (sick that day I think), but we had a class field trip somewhere and they had a Christmas tree for disadvantaged kids and we were supposed to make ornaments to hang on the tree. Anyway, he wrote a bunch of obscenities on the ornaments.

Both incidents would have been around 92 or 93 if that's any help. There were about 700 kids in my graduating class and those are the only two that I heard about.

And I know a few girls who weren't technically expelled but who got pregnant and were "strongly encouraged" to transfer to the alternative school.

[one_voice]

36. Yes to both...

I've been both expelled and suspended. I was expelled from jr high..8th grade, and suspended multiple times..for fighting. I was never expelled from high school, but suspended a few times. For fighting.

I never started a fight, but no one ever got away with putting their hands on me. My family is inter racial and it wasn't as accepted back then. My mom and dad wouldn't let me hit people over words, but taught me to always defend myself. Sometimes I knew the right buttons to push, to make sure there'd be a fight. I have 3 brothers who saw to it that I knew how to defend myself.

By the time I graduated things had gotten a little better. My grades were always good..despite all the fighting.

[akbacchus_BC]

37. My math teacher took away all my Mills and Boons, LOL. He was

a friend of my dad's. Begged him for my comics and he said no!

[Ex Lurker]

38. I bought a mail order term paper for a history class in college

I probably would have gotten expelled if the prof had actually read it. One of the stupidest things I've ever done. I still can't believe I got away with it. It was a crappy paper, to boot, but at that point it was too late to write my own.

[CBHagman]

39. No, I didn't.

I served detention once in parochial school, but it was in a situation where the nun who was principal of our school gave an entire group of people a detention, whether they'd done anything wrong or not.

[bhikkhu]

40. Suspension, deferred to one week of detention

In science class I sat near the back. A couple of jokers behind me were lighting matches, and the teacher smelled smoke. He figured it wasn't me but that I probably knew who it was, so he demanded that I tell him who was lighting matches. I wouldn't talk, so he sent me up to the office to have them call my parents and have a suspension hearing.

I don't know exactly what went on, but they settled on a week of detention - which was an hour and a half after school in the library. I read Lord of the Rings and started on some others - they could have given me a month of detention and I'd have been happy.

[cliffordu]

41. Lessee.....i got suspended at times for:

Fighting, swearing, drinking off campus, smoking cigarettes during football practice ON campus, feeling up Jana Li**** in the hall before math, telling the school counselor what he could do to himself.....

Fuck me I miss high school. I miss Jana, too, but I digress.....

Should have graduated in June 1970. That night I was in Danang, instead, clowning around with a couple of 'veetnameese girls', Thai stick, Tiger Beer and a grenade launcher.

Good times.

Never graduated, but I did get my GED during basic training. Really. They gave us tests.

First the answers, then the tests.

[6000eliot]

43. 74, 75, and 76

All sorts of reasons, among them cutting class to get high. I quit in 76. If you told any of my teachers that I would one day get a Ph.D and teach college, they would tell you you were nuts.

[proud2BlibKansan]

44. No

[WCGreen]

45. three times at one Jr. High for just acting like a kid...

At the next Junior High, for leading a protest against the Kent State killings...

And once in High School.

[kentauros]

46. No, but I did plenty of crazy things with my fellow band friends

that should have gotten us kicked out for a while }(

[LibDemAlways]

47. Me, no. However, one member of my high school class

was suspended for spraypainting racist graffiti on the walls of the school. None other than former Sen. George "Macaca" Allen of Virginia, who is running again this year hoping to regain his seat.

[Chisox08]

48. Once for fighting a bully

Before we fought I told school admins. that I was being bullied by this kid. He was a "star player" on our football team and I was just a lowly freshman, so they just ignored my parents and my complaints about him. One day he punched me in the face and I just snapped and the next thing I remember was him on the floor bleeding from his nose and mouth and security pulling me off of him. I got suspended for 5 days because I caused injury. At least he never bullied me again.

[Iggo]

49. Suspended many times. ('76 - '79)

I had attendance issues. I was also written up for defiance a fair amount.

But the standard one was as follows:

1. Ditch (or get a Referral)
2. Get detention
3. Don't go to detention
4. Get suspended

So yeah, the punishment for taking a day off was, ultimately, they gave me another day off.

Never did get expelled.

But I went to four high schools in four years. That's like starting over every year.

You asked if I was okay with it. Yep. I deserved every one of 'em.

(EDIT ADD: At at least one of the four schools, a detention received in PE could be wiped out by taking a swat. I went that route twice.)

[sufrommich]

50. I was suspended in 1975 for three days for smoking in the

girls bathroom.

[vanamonde]

51. Duncanville High School, 1971

Junior year. My hair exceeded the dress code, being just over the ears and collar (folks, this is Texas, 1971).
Expelled in March 1971, got a GED shortly before the rest of my class got their diplomas.
I think it had no effect on my professional life, was somewhat disastrous with respect to my social life.
No regrets.
Oh yes, at age 56 all that hair is gone anyway. Why didn't somebody tell me - oh, it was because I was 16 and not listening.

[Cali_Democrat]

53. Suspended

Tobacco violation. Zero tolerance. 3 days.

[Rochester]

54. Came close a few times, and avoided being caught a few other times,

but no, I dodged them.
I'm so glad my school days are behind me now. I haven't been in a classroom since I was 17.

[Raine]

55. Not expelled or suspended but sent home to change my skirt

because it was too short. :eyes: It was the late 60s early 70s that's the way the skirts all were ... SHORT! :mad: I was a goody goody so finding myself in trouble over that was very upsetting to me. :-(

[jtuck004]

56. I'm sure I did, but I walked away in the Spring semester

of my senior year, got the GED out of the way and joined the Navy shortly thereafter.

I suspect they probably at least suspended me, though it was pointless. Which was why I left in the first place.

[DefenseLawyer]

57. Mid 80's. I got suspended a couple of times

I had issues with authority.

[jberryhill]

71. Similar problems here...

I TRIED to get suspended, but they wouldn't do that because they knew I wanted it to make a point.

I walked out of mandatory "pep rallies" involving the drill team because I told the assistant principal on the way out, each time, that I believed it was inappropriate for high school students to be playing with rifles.

He always said the same thing.... "Okay, so go."

Bastard.

[HubertHeaver]

58. Rec for the nostalgia.

[SoCalDem]

59. My best friend and I were "sent home" from school twice in one week

on a Monday for wearing too short of a "mini"...and again on Wednesday for wearing a "grannie-dress"... ahh the 60's..weren't they great:rofl:

We did it again on graduation day by wearing cut-offs under our "gowns", but there was nothing they could DO to us then :)

[NNN0LHI]

60. Never suspended or expelled but I sure remember my first day of high school

Kid sitting next to me in one of my classes kept messing with the girl sitting in front of him. Kept say to her "How about some trim baby?" (Back then "trim" meant doing the wild thang.)

She repeatedly told the kid to quit messing with her but he wouldn't quit.

She reached in her purse and pulled out a straight razor. The kind barbers used. I can remember the mother of pearl handles on it. Then she proceeded to slice that kids cheek wide open in a flash. I could see his teeth through his cheek. Blood everywhere. Even on me. It was like a horror show.

I had a new found respect for girls after that episode.

Don

[TexasProgresive]

61. Not me but many of my senior class were expelled and their names expunged

It was a Catholic H.S.in 1968. A student's mom discovered a pound of cheap Mexican weed in his closet. She panicked and called the school. The vice-principal called him in and threatened him with the police, remember you could get life for holding pot with intent to sell. The deal was he had to name names. And name he did all kinds of people including the school narc. They were all called in and if they didn't name names were tossed out. It was very sad. My French class lost 2/3 of the students. The teacher just gave up on it. In fact the last have of senior year was a bust (how punny!).

I still haven't got over the loss of my friends from school some users and some not, but to their credit none informers.

[Shagbark Hickory]

63. No but I went to a school where some very wealthy celeb children got expelled.

[seaglass]

64. Suspended for 3 days in the 70s. For something that would end us up in jail today.

It was the first time I skipped school and there were about 20 of us hanging at a kid's house. Someone had the bright idea to call in a bomb scare, not once but twice. I did not call it in, nor listen in, but I was there. One of the kids reported every person who was there.

My experience may be unusual but there were A LOT of bomb scares called into our HS, probably 3 of them in the last month before school got out. At the time that was what kids did to get their friends out of class. No one was scared that there would actually be that type of violence at our school - or at any school for that matter.

In any case this happened at the beginning of the fall semester and the school wanted to make an example of us because so many scares had been called in the previous semester. I got suspended for 3 days, my parents hired a lawyer and we had to meet with the police down in the squad room.

No charges were pressed, my parents think it was because they had brought a lawyer. And that may be so. I never recognized what my parents did for me then (we were not wealthy by any means) but they never threw the cost of the lawyer in my face. I did get grounded and probably other privileges taken away that I don't remember.

Just think what happens to kids who do this today - many I'm sure with the same motivation - getting time out of class.

[no_hypocrisy]

65. I probably should have been -- except my Mom was president of the Board of Education.

And I really pushed my luck as I regularly talked back to the Vice Principal and walked out once when she was yelling at me.

[AlabamaLibrul]

66. A few times over the years.

Mostly "fighting" -- finding out that quiet, bookish kid over there that they saw up at the Y a few times could kick some ass if you pushed him around. I got "sent home for the day" a few times when it was really no big deal, suspended for 3 days I think twice.

A few political speech bullshit things, and one time they tried to get me in trouble because this crazy-ass on the road followed me to school and reported me for giving him the finger out there for driving like an asshole. Nothing ever came of any of it though.

Little wonder I didn't walk with them.

Luckily these days nobody really asks me about where I went to high school. It never was that relevant to my growth as a human being.

[Greybnk48]

67. 3 day suspension in 4th grade for smoking at recess.

My girlfriend and I brought (stolen) cigarettes to school and buried them in the sandbox about 100 yards from where we normally hung out at recess. At recess time, all of the girls (16) and three boys ran down to that end and we began passing ciggs around like they were joints. We, of course, were caught. All 16 girls and three boys were suspended for one day. My girlfriend and I for three--the "ringleaders." I still think it's hilarious. :P

[HopeHoops]

68. No - but I probably should have a few times.

:evilgrin:

[Javaman]

69. Got suspended and got referrals. Let me tell you this...

they had zero effect on my life. Contrary to what all the various teachers told me.

But then again, I have always been the non-conformist and my employment history shows the variety of experiences I have had.

If you are following a "plan" and have the grades or the connections to get into an ivory league school, then maybe those things might matter, but I had a few friends who were colossal fuck ups and still got into Yale and Harvard.

I had buddies go to Annapolis and were the biggest truants you ever met.

But this is just my experience.

[shanti]

70. never n/t

[Ohio Joe]

73. Yes

Expelled in '79 and suspended several times.

[Spirochete]

74. I got expelled in sophomore year, 1969

For smoking in the bathroom. it wasn't the first time they had caught me, though.

[Phentex]

75. Not me but my hippie brothers and sisters were...

in the 70's. One staged a walkout. One wore a shirt made out of an American flag. One produced an underground newspaper. He also had hair that was too long and we laugh now because it was just on his shirt collar. He was the only one fully expelled. My mother was fired as a teacher for her involvement but she got her job back after a lawsuit. Good times!

[WCIL]

76. I was suspended for a day in the Spring of 1983

My best friend and I lied to the gym teacher and told her we were taking yearbook pictures, then went to McDonald's or Dixie Cream doughnuts or sometimes just shopping. We pulled this about twice a week for a month before the gym teacher finally asked the yearbook moderator about it. We got suspended and we failed PE for the quarter. We only got one day because we were "good girls". At the time I was ashamed, and my parents acted like it was the end of the world, but it has made absolutely no difference in my life.

There used to be a lot of fistfights in the Spring. Not bullying, usually friends who were hot and tired of school. Tempers would flare and they would settle their differences with their fists. Generally they were garden variety "Cubs suck, Cardinals rule!" arguments that boiled over. When it was over, they were friends again. Suspension was mandatory; 3 days for the instigator, and one day for the other participant. The instigator tended to be the one the Dean liked least.

My son served ISS twice in his senior year (Spring of 2008) for being tardy an excessive number of times.

[sarasvati]

77. Yes but it was an inschool-suspension

I used to ditch and one day I got greedy and was gone most of the day. The dean made me stay in the school with juvenile deliquents all day. When we went to the bathroom, we had to have someone come with us. I realized that I didn't belong there. The other kids were more hardcore; I just ditched! I really feel that this sort of suspension is far better than sending the kid home to play video games and go on the Internet. It's no real punishment whatsoever.

[madmom]

78. Once in the early '70's....back when we girls were not allowed to were pants to school.

We complained and the powers that be relented a little and decided we could wear pants if the temp was 10* or below. There were 4 of us who lived in the country and on the river where it's ALWAYS colder. We wore pants and by the time the bus arrived at school there was a heat wave going on it was about 15*. We where promptly sent home to change. One of the 4 of us had her own car so we all went together and after we "changed" we went to the next town over and went shopping for the day.One of the parents (never found out which one) over heard us and reported us. One week suspension. Needless to say we got a lot more shopping done.:rofl:

[kctim]

79. Suspended 10+ times over few years for fighting

was one of few "crackers" in mostly black school.

[Bubba Kush]

80. I got suspended for 3 days for lighting magnesium strips at school

We like bright things...

Also served an in-school suspension for fighting. That day was incredibly boring and unjustified (I was egged on)

[TheKentuckian]

81. Not really, at least not in high school. I did do a day of in school suspension for "likely cutting"

senior year. They couldn't prove it but a teacher was pretty sure she saw me cutting lunch (I was but wasn't actually busted).

I was suspended for being in a fight in 6th grade (Christian school) for three days and technically suspended (but effectively expelled as the term was the last ten days of the year) for drawing a picture of the PE teacher looking like a dumbass (which he was) but nothing off color or anything.

[demtenjeep]

83. do you think certain students get suspended because they already have a bad reputation?

I am of a mindset that some admins "lock on" if you will to certain students and tend to be harder on them than others

[H2O Man]

84. Sure.

I was suspended numerous times.

[Liberal_in_LA]

85. no

[mythology]

86. I was expelled from High School and banned from the premise

Apparently it wasn't the brightest idea I ever had to tell the school priest that he was an ass. Of course the veracity of my claim was never disproven.

He did provide some amusement when he stated that my disciplinary file as why I was being kicked out. But there was nothing in the file the first time my parents were allowed to see it. The second time there were several items hastily put in my file.

[Broken_Hero]

87. A couple of times-edit

In Junior high I was suspended for 2 days for fighting in the cafeteria, this happened in 1989

In High school I was suspended two days for giving my English teacher the middle finger, 1991 or 92...


That's it for me....