What school rules did you break?

Apparently regularly trying to throw a bench at Monica or trying to defenestrate Rosie wasn't technically against the rules but considered "bad form" regardless.

I was accused of using bad language in class once when I never swore.

I went to school here in 2004 - 2006, and my English teacher just didn't understand me once. I'm Scottish, and I tend to have this tone that can be perceived as "aggressive" to non-Scots and I could just be having a normal, casual chat with a friend. I said the word "baltic" in a sentence and he told me to watch my language.

He clearly didn't know what it was that I said but he gave me a warning nonetheless.

Another rule that I "broke" was so minuscule and petty, even in retrospect it was downright stupid, but anyway:

I was exempt from Irish class, so I would often go to the library to study or do homework on my own for an hour, and I would listen to music while I did it. This was something I did the whole 3 years I attended school here and this was the only instance in which a teacher had a real issue with...

A teacher, who was walking along the corridors, who was no teacher of mine for any subject - wasn't a head, deputy head - she was actually a substitute teacher, a jack-of-all/master-of-none.. she stopped in her tracks, turned 180 degrees and actually made the effort to trek all the way down the corridor again to come in to the library, come all the way up to the desk I was sitting at, and in front of the librarian who was absolutely lovely, made an idiot out of me and shouted "give it to me! now!" I said "what?" and she accused me of being a smart arse and told me to hand over my earphones. I took out my earphones and then she saw my phone in my bag, turned off, and told me to hand over my phone. The ironic thing here was that there was actually two music players hanging on the wall in the library, with headphones attached, that a student could use at any time if they wanted to, yet I was out of line because I was using my own.

I didn't get my phone or my earphones back until the following Monday..

I'm no angel. I did break one rule deliberately because everyone else did it - - even the "top students" who would do no wrong, done it.

Does anyone, from the South East, remember the "Beat 102-103 Fugitive" where any listener could partake once a week in a random SE town and do some sort of scavenger hunt with clues to find an individual in random specific locations - the winner would win a prize on air.

Well they did the final one in Waterford City, and it happened to be on a school afternoon. The whole school ducked off to go into town to partake in it.

And we all got torn asunder when we got back.

It was the best day ever.

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I'm out of school nearly ten years now, off the top off my head tough,
Uniform issues.(Principal had a thing for ties and black shoes)
Not doing homework.
Mobile phone use.
Smoking.
Drinking on trips. tours.(However the teacher did bring us to a pub on a tour)
We also had spare keys off the school floating about.
Talking, being disruptive, etc.
Generally being a prick.
Cheating in stupid text and exams.
I normally got away with most of it.

What school rules did you break?

Off the top of my head though
Keys of the school floating about

Perhaps you could have paid more attention in English class.......