Posted on 04/22/2010 7:45:54 AM PDT by olepap
It was just a prank!
On Thursday, April 1, 2010 ( April Fools day) me and my class of fellow students decided to pull a small prank that would not hurt or disrupt anything during class: At 3 p.m., the entire class (or half of the class, as it ended up to be) fell out of their seats at the same time and laid in the floor for a few seconds and then got back in their chairs again.
After we had returned back into our chairs we began reading again. By the time we had all returned to our chairs, our teacher had left the classroom and, what we later found out, had called an administrator. We were all taken down to the ISS (in-school suspension) room where we were then given two days of in-school suspension. When we pulled our prank, it was at the end of the day and the last day before spring break; we were also reading and it was not during a lecture or a test. It was a simple prank where nothing was broken or hurt.
The reason Im writing this is because I dont believe that we should be serving two days of ISS for something so small and harmless. We even got back up and continued reading after she walked out of the room. And, yes, we said April Fools!
So, do you think we were in the wrong for doing such a simple, harmless prank? Do we deserve the two days of ISS? Maybe 50-to-life would have been more appropriate for rolling on the floor?
I think not. Some people need to lighten up, have a laugh and enjoy life.
Cale Norman
Cantrell Avenue
Fort Mill
Yeah, well I went to a private school and would have received a healthy dose of corporal punishment for such a stunt.
What was the “crime”? Synchronized Tomfoolery?
I’m SO glad I’m not a teacher.
ooooh, *kife!*
If you want to have fun at school, detentions is part of life, get used to it.
I spent so much time in detention the teacher in charge wouldn’t take me anymore so I hung out in the office. It may have had something to do with a little contraption that would light a match and snuff it out when she sat in her chair. She kept smelling smoke, was certain that I was lighting matches but could never see me doing it.
I was in the office so much that they put me to work. I answered the phones, ran to the bank etc. I eventually learned how to disassemble and repair the steno machine. The secretary loved having a man around the house.
My senior year, they finally told me, to go start college, they gave me my deploma and I left. That was the best thing the public school system ever did for me.
LOL! This is not far from where I live. I liked the suggestion of two days’ remedial English instruction for the letter-writer.
Youre fortunate to have learned so early and so inexpensively just how up-tight teachers and administrators are now. They have all the humor and tolerance of the TSA airport guys. Maybe a little grimmer and more paranoid, if thats even possible.
Engage these humorless twits only when absolutely necessary, and be prepared for senseless narrow-mindedness at all times. Never leave anything up to their imagination, because they have very little, and what little they do have is twisted into dark ways.
There is an alternative to simply quitly suffering these idiots. And thats to take em on and tweak their noses at EVERY opportunity. This will lead you to a noisy, complicated, and eventful life, so be sure youre up for the battle if you decide to go this way. They will resent being tweaked, and they will seek to get back at you so be sure the battle is worth the blood. Some are: some arent. It all depends on your attitude and strength.
What happened to humor in our world?
Before break? That's harsh.
Maybe this will help...think of it as a 'practical joke' being played by the administration.
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