Never suspended, but stuck in detention for finishing a fight. Thankfully the gym teacher saw how it started.

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I was a bad kid, but not trashy-bad (i.e., I never shanked anyone). But the only cool story is when I ditched school a few times and went to my buddies' schools pretending to be a new transfer student named "Johnny Lennon." Had a blast each time. Also, they never had proof, but I was (rightly) punished for repeatedly ordering takeout for 50 (from the one Chinese place in Hyde Park that delivered) to the priests at the high school. It was a trick I learned from Moe Berg. Apparently, they would not deliver to the monastery after that, and the priests were pretty pissed.

Nothing else worth telling--they would sound even more juvenile than these do.

The place in Harper Court?

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Jugs indeed sucked, but I just didn't show up. I got a bunch of Saturday jugs, and the principal got me out of a bunch, but after a few, I decided that being the rebel wasn't worth it.

God, I don't even remember. I heard a few teachers mention it and I looked it up....I'm still skinny and clueless, but I was way skinnier and clueless-er back then.

This reads like a JOrr story. He had to known or worked with a guy called Moe Berg.

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I don't things have changed very much from what I could tell when my stepson was in junior high last year. In fact it appears it is more of
the same at his high school. They let kids hand stuff in late all the time. The running joke at my house is how annoyed I get
when he tells me he is reading a book at school. They don't even make the kids READ the book anymore. They listen to it on tape in class
together. It becomes quite apparent when I look over his papers he is handing in.

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Is JUG an acronym? If so, that may be common knowledge I did not know.

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Took awhile for me to come to grips with that myself. But i got really lucky. After routinely taking my sons to book stores (& bribing them to go with me) they became fairly quick readers who could pick books apart.

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As someone who majored in journalism ( I'm sure it really comes through here) and minored in English, and knowing how hard I had to bust my ass
to get all of my reading done in high school and college it really annoys me. He writes like a 3rd grader and doesn't really have much comprehension
of the English language, spelling or grammar. I've only been married to his mom for 2.5 years and I could take some blame for not trying to tutor him
on my own time, but I have just been looking at the school system and wonder how many kids are just skating by like him with no clue. To his credit
he does enjoy "listening to" the books.

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I will say this from talking with my sons' teachers over the years, they've/we've gotten pretty lucky with teachers who are themselves avid readers who engage their classes on themes and nuance, unlike how many have taught over the years.

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

JUG, derived from the Latin sub iugum, but I can't remember what it really means. Justice under God is what we thought it stood for but it didn't.

Set a girl's hair on fire.

Set a guy's car on fire.

Stabbed a guy to death.

Decapitated a cat.

Senior year homecoming. Every year the seniors would steal a fiberglass cow from the local driving range and paint it the school colors and put it on the school grounds. We took that and also stole a concrete goose from the principals house and painted that as well. A janitor saw us and got our license plate and the kid that was driving ratted us all out. We got arrested and charged with conversion. I was luckily still 17 so I went to teen court and they laughed the case out of court. I got 5 days in school suspension. All of us were there though and the suspension supervisor was a parent of one of our friends so she let us hang out and talk.

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I knew you was cool, T-Bone.

One of our jugs (or J.U.G.'s) was that the teacher who was running it would write two random numbers on the chalkboard, like 156,789 and 12 and you had to subtract 12 over and over again until you got to 0 while showing all the work.

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I got a detention in 6th grade for missing assignments and that was it. Once I got to Badger, there were the people who could get away with everything and the people who could get away with nothing, and due to what must have been a clerical error I was among the former, so I skipped class a lot and swore with impunity and one time stormed out of my media literacy class because I felt disrespected.

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I used to sweat grade school grades for my first son.

I don't even look at the actual grade on the report card for the others. Bullshit subjectivity produced by an easily manipulated class of people with clear gender bias.

I have found the only grades that matter are 7th grade as those are a large consideration for selective enrollment schools

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And men have lost their reason.

I was never suspended.

I got detention for taking a key chain that was a hand where you could move the fingers and putting it where the middle finger was showing.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

It was a gradual process, born entirely out of laziness. I covered smaller sports (golf, swimming, lacrosse, etc.) Rather than go to the meets I would find out from friends what happened. Id get the scores and who scored correct then just make up inane quotes from the players. This went on for months. Then for the last issue I got extremely lazy and just cut and pasted an old article and changed the names of the opposing schools. The issue came out on the last day of school my senior year. I thought I got away with it until the following morning when the school called my parents and told them what happened.

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Not exactly detention, but one time I was skipping rocks into the river behind my high school and for some reason that sent the football coach into a rage. He got out his hazing paddle and made me take a few whacks. Your CCL Hall of Famer, Tom Winiecki, ladies and gentlemen.

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that's awesome.....

On top of this, the head coach had an affair with a student the next year. Rather than fired or jail time, he was made Dean.

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Sophomore year English 1st day 2nd period.....Teacher Larry Riggs... Dick Bueller ....Dick Bueller....Dick Bueller.......Dick Bueller is Dick Bueller here, well all the kids were pointing at me....he walks up and ask are you Dick Bueller? I said my name is Rich...... Pecker head. A month of detentions

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

In 4th grade, we had to read a book, then make a shadow box of our favorite part of the book and go up in front of the class and talk about it. So I ended up reading the back cover of some book where it summarized what went on in the book and then based my shadow box off of the one or two sentences describing something that had happened. The shadow box part was great... what I got tripped up on was that I had to walk in front of the class and talk about the book. All I could talk about was the couple of sentences that I had paid attention to to create the thing, and then I got pressed to name some other parts of the book I liked and folded like an accordion. Detention. Lesson learned and I got much better at faking reading books as I grew older.

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"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas

In 1st grade I wrote MANY swears on my folder and this little Caller Bob who sat next to me ratted me out. My mother was immediately called to the school and when I got home she choked me & washed my mouth out with liquid dish soap. Palmolive.

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Soccer 1,2,3
Spanish Honor Society 1,2,3,4
Forensics 1,2,3,4

"Smiles with Nostrils"

"...no Hmong, go find some blacks"

bunch of lightweights in here.


I had so many detentions that by my senior year they stopped giving me after school detentions and instead only gave me Saturday breakfast club detentions which were from 8 - noon. At one point I had 8 in a row, think I broke Bender's record from the movie.

Ya know when they do the senior class voting for most likely to succeed etc? I was voted most likely to get kicked out of graduation. By my senior year the school had taken away all my free periods including lunch because they decided I had to be closely supervised at all times. I actually had a weekly meeting at school with my dad and the assistant principal my senior year so they could discuss my behavior.

As far as suspensions, was never suspended but was expelled from summer school for telling a teacher he was full of shit and also dipping tennis balls in rubber cement, lighting them on fire and boucing them down the hall. Was also kicked out of school the last day of school junior year because me and a buddy took about 20 large garbage cans and stacked them in front of a full classroom door.



One highlight of was my senior year the school started displaying this huge banner flag in the front hall whenever someone or a team accomplished something. At the time the hockey team was #1 in the State and on our way to the State title game. I asked the principal to put the flag out for us and he said he wouldn't since hockey is not an official school sponsored sport (its technically private b/c if it was sponsored the school would have to pay for equipment and ice time). Later that week when the flag was displayed I ripped it off the wall, stuffed it in my samsonite hard briefcase that I used to carry all my stuff in (that's a whole different story of trouble making) and took it home. Only problem is I did this in front of about 100 kids.

Next day get called in, principal gets real serious and says, "we know you took the flag. If you bring it back tomorrow we won't involve the police or your parents" I told the guy I had no idea what he was talkin about but I would "ask around". Late that night I drove to the school, put the flag in a bag and stuck it by the back door to the gym. Next day, went to the principal and told him I guess he has to call the cops cause I don[t know who took it. He got all mad and yelled at me that he knew I took it and returned it last night. I acted shocked and ecstatic that the flag was found and actually told the principal that he didn't need to apologize to me for falsely accusing me, it was all good. Yea, I was a total punk.

I've got 100s of stories just like that, probably forgot 100 more.

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This thread is asking about your FIRST detention or suspension. Follow the rules.

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