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At one point or another, most of us have probably gotten ourselves into trouble at school once or twice. Getting sent to the principal’s office, having your parents come down to school to talk with the teachers, etc. is not necessarily the best experience when you’re a kid. In fact, it is typically quite terrifying for most. But you do have to do something extra silly or irresponsible to even get to that point most of the time. 

These people took to Twitter to share their stories of getting into trouble at school… for ridiculously silly reasons. From sparing lab frogs’ lives to getting detention for chilling at detention without having been sent to detention, here are 39 scenarios where people got into trouble at school because of something very silly. Scroll down to see the whole list and consider upvoting the entries that crack you up the most!

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Jennifer Walker
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not a chance I would have go r to summer detention for that especially since you reported it.

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For a lot of kids, school would eventually become kind of boring and repetitive. So it is no wonder why they constantly come up with ways to annoy each other or their teachers. Small acts of rebellion or silly stunts against the establishment that is school are not even necessarily bad as long as there is balance between acting up and being educated. 

There is always at least one teacher at school who will seemingly go out of their way to scold or punish students for doing barely anything. But that doesn’t only count for school. That could also be your family member or your boss. So in a way, school does somewhat prepare you for life and dealing with real people outside one's safe bubble. 

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DUN DUN (she/her)
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

LMAO my teacher would shed tears of joy if she saw someone reading a quality novel

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All in all, school is a place where people get ready for some important aspects of their lives. But a part of the learning process - the rebellion, the occasional prank, should not be met with complete shutdown and resistance. Instead, teachers should focus on educating their students, not pointing fingers at them for obscure reasons and calling it a day.

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Hannah Young
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Are you confusing reality with the show "Danny phantom" again?

Evil Little Thing
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Lab animals have no experience surviving in the wild. They can'tfeed themselves, find shelter, or avoid predators. If you really did that, you sentenced those frogs to horrible deaths.

Beth L
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And also possibly released novel versions of various diseases to the native amphibian habitat...

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Vlacas12
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why did I read "and set them on fire" first? I was a little horrified. 😅

Jo Choto
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We were doing a worm counting exercise in biology. We each had a little square outside and had to collect all the worms we could find in that soil within that square and put them in this bucket of water. At some point, I asked the teacher if the worms were good swimmers. He said the worms couldn't swim. So I tipped out my bucket and everybody else's too. So everybody had to go inside and refill their buckets with water, and put worms back in. But I could see the worms writhing and couldn't stand it, so I tipped out all the buckets. Again. So I was sent inside and was not allowed to participate any more. I would still rescue worms if I had to.

Zophra
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What a horrible teacher especially if the teacher knew how beneficial worms are. They couldn't be counted and put into a dirt pail?

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Pezor Zass
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

this seems like a noble thing to do, but there are lots of reasons why it isn't. Much better off organizing to stop them having live animals in the first place.

deadinside
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

this discourages them from using live animals, but it would be better to keep them as pets or sth bc they can't survive in the wild

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Beth L
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"I stole classroom supplies" isn't exactly a surprising reason to have gotten in trouble at school...

Eric Steward
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Schools purchase the frogs already dead, as it's not worth the trouble to ship live frogs for dissection. This post is likely a lie, stolen from an episode of "Saved By The Bell".

Les Izmore
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Introducing a non-native invasive species to an ecosystem is an act of ecoterrorism.

cybermerlin2000
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A kid in my school was punished with about 2 minutes detention after he came into school with yellow plumbers chalk and a small plastic knife from his action man. His crime: They were dissecting frogs. He made little markers that he used to label points of interest. Drew around the frog with yellow chalk and placed the knife next to the pinned down frog. When the teacher asked what was going on, he replied, "I'm not sure if it was murder or self-defence. He was armed but was killed with not a mark on him and someone had to nail him down. Plus the knife is clean so either the other person cleaned it or it was never used" The teacher sitting the detention laughed so much they let him go

Anita Pickle
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can understand this. Depending on where you are located it could be devastatingly cruel slow deaths for the frogs. Or have a bad impact on the local eco system. But I get why you did it. Just be mindful when you "free" animals, you could unintentionally give them a much worse fate. Like that person who returned the tortoise to the ocean... Did not end well for the poor tortoise.

Paul Davis
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And that's not a silly reason to get in trouble, that's a waste of funding your school has a hard time getting, and teacher hours, and ruined probably several hours of lesson plans.

Otter
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I know someone who set the live frogs from the lab free... and got away with it! And got away with it two or three times, because they restocked! She got away with it because she left notes signed with a male alias, and nobody ever thought it could be the "good" girl with the genius IQ. She used her genius IQ for good and was successful, the school stopped using live animals because of her.

Thomas Ewing
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Were they the little bitty peepers or the grand-daddy bullfrogs?

Hannah Warren
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2 years ago

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Blackheart
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The frogs cost money. They did not belong to you. You wasted school money. This is a very valid reason to get into trouble.

John Dilligaf
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

not a silly reason. You stole school property that the school would have to spend money to replace.

MorgothBauglir
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"stole". Imagine if someone stole your pet dog. How is that acceptable?

Teri Wadding
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In my day, we had to pith them before we worked on them in science class. You Rock!

Jane Dorothy Warner
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would've done that too, but the frogs we were presented with were already dead :(

Sonnovab Kegeles
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

sorry, this is too close to animal rights activists stealing lab animals, destroying years of lifesaving research. And yes, A great deal of animal trials may be unnecessary due to advances in scientific testing, but there are still things (especially medications) that have to be tested on a group of animals before they can be tested o humans. So in my opinion this was absolutely a punishable offense.

Twodogsandapicnictable
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Whens the last time school kids dissected live frogs? Most schools switched to bagged formaldehyded frogs forever ago. Did you free all the lobsters from the fancy resteraunt too?

Huddo's sister
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is why my science lecturer at uni when I did my teaching degree was a big animal rights activator- so the teachers would say no to using animals for science experiments before the students had to be the one to make up their mind try and help in an impotent way like this.

Daniel Marsh
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And you think the school was silly? Also, since when does a school use live frogs? True story: girl in my bio lab class (yes, college) put all the dissection frogs in doll's clothes (don't ask me how she had doll's clothes that would fit) and make-up, and yarn "wigs." The devotion! The attention to detail! The time spent!

UpupaEpops
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

At my first uni, we have adopted all the lab rats which were going to be killed. Everybody in the halls had at least a handful of rats. There was a no pets policy, so imagine the scandal when during a random search, they found hundreds of rats. :D

Barbara Gottschalk
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Two_rolling_black_eyes
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is a real problem. The most common lab frog (Xenopus) is a pest species that can cause massive damage. First, they are an aggressive predator that wipes out both prey and native competitive species. Secondly, they are a common carrier of a fungus that is the #1 cause of amphibian species loss around the world. There are several states going from small (California) to whole countries that prohibit their sale/use/import because of the danger they cause.

Jods
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So you were the source of the cane toad invasion in Australia.

DennyS (denzoren)
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I got called "heartless" and a "murderer" by my students at uni when we had to dissect the frogs.

J&B FitzTubeKidz
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hmmmm…..is she going to be your wife someday and are you going to build this big futuristic house because your a genius and is your kid going to travel forward in time to meet you as a kid and bring your kid self to your future self?

ohjojo
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I believe many anarchists split began this way. Vegans too.

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ima cat
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't get why teachers do this. We all have different paces of working!

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Guy MacGregor
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Kids don't realize that school don't legally have authority on them. Parents solely have. That school is not a prison, they are free to leave whenever they want, and that forcing anyone to stay somewhere against their will is unlawful imprisonment.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is doing nothing in detention common in many places? Only time I was sent to detention (in France) was for skipping German class and they had us take a super difficult German test and convinced us it would count towards our grade. Then they revealed it was basically a university level test and that we couldn't have possibly completed it and it would never count.

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ima cat
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

WHY!? PUNISH THE IDIOT NOT THE VICTIM! If someone breaks into your house, and they shoot you, but you shoot him back, you are not gonna punish the victim! Schools just want "zero violence" which does not make sense.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sure...I don't doubt that they could read but I'm pretty sure they don't kick kids out of preschool for being able to read. My son didn't get kicked out of his preschool for being able to read.

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Maggie Hood
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would finish assignments early and do something else but my math teacher would make me follow along with the assignment anyway

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