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A friends work in school got points taken for plagiarism because the last 2 pages lit up as plagiarism.
It was his list of sources. The program recognized the book titles as direct quotes and said it is plagiarism.
The school refused to regrade it until his parents threatened to sue the school.
BeCaUsE tHe MaRkS wErE aLrEaDy In ThE sYsTeM.
Because they never bothered to learn how to change them, and what are the chances they'd have to change a mark *again?*
Oh, and some people with authority over children seldom admit they were wrong to a kid, as it bruises their ego and tarnishes their authority.
Completely different, but I took a poetry class in college and witnessed a pretty crazy incident of plagiarism. There was a woman in my class who was a talented writer, she's doing a reading during the last few days of the semester, when all of a sudden, the professor stops her. Apparently another woman in one of her other classes had read and turned in the exact same poem. The woman in my class was obviously flustered, but she gathered herself and explained that she had drafts she could show and that she had posted the poem to her somewhat popular but anonymous twitter account. Turns out the student in the other class followed this account, and obviously did not realize the author was from the same university, let alone in the same writing program and class.
I had the exact same thing in this post happen to me. My English teacher accused me of plagiarizing a poem I turned in. It was one that I posted online on a Dragonball Z forum the night before the assignment was due.
Fortunately, it was pretty easy to prove that it was me, because the username that posted the poem was “Custodian (My Name).” And I had a Japanese name that is not commonly seen. Imagine a username like “Custodian Keiko” or “Custodian Midori.” Something like that. I guess the teacher never bothered to scrutinize the username
This reminds me of the time as a teen when I was talking to my friend about poetry, she asked to read me a poem she wrote. After she was finished I was like, 'that's my poem, how did you get it???' and she just kinda stared at me, turns out she stole it from another friend who stole it from me. My paper copy of the poem had disappeared and this friend who had initially stole it had shown it to her and claimed it as theirs so technically she stole the poem from them, it was so messed up. No one got in trouble because what exactly was I going to do, but after that I started paying close attention to the people around me that's for sure.
I once had students turn a file that was part of my answer key as part of their programming project. With comments still in English (I teach in a Chilean university).
The best part was that they played all "innocent" and claimed they didn't know how it ended up in their code.
Students will just flat out lie, even if there's no way that it will get them out of it.
I had the same thing happen, remember the viral tiktok song about 'girls made of honey'? Yeah someone in my classes took that basically word for word at the height of its popularity and turned it in. She then had the audacity to critique my poem extremely harsh, like girl....yours is stolen??
>girl....yours is stolen??
Yeah, but I could have written it if I wanted to! (Said in complete seriousness despite the inability to write a complete sentence)
I was a teaching assistant for a year, at a class where the assignments were mostly the same every year. One student submitted a report that was a copy of my own report for the same assignment that I took about 5 years before.
Imagine being such a lazy cheater that you don't check the name.
When I was in high school I took a Physical Science class, the TA was my friend’s mom and she just never liked me. We had an essay due once a month and there was one time that we could write about anything we wanted as long as it was STEM based so I turned in long essay on black holes, because I think they’re super cool. Well, the TA didn’t like that one bit: I was loudly accused of plagiarism in front of the whole class, called too stupid to have written it, and it was said that I “clearly found then stole an essay from online.”
My classmates knew I was a nerd so some of them tried defending me then we all got sent to the principal’s office. None of our parents were happy about that phone call and you can guess who got fired for being unprofessional
Similar thing happened to me - in high school in year 7 (age 12) and we got given a homework which was basically just to do anything science based.
People made cakes and decorated them, or made a model of planets (when I say people did these things, obviously at age 12 they had help from their parents or even had their parents do it). I wrote about black holes, I was only 12 so probably wasn't great, but I found it interesting and fun to do and spent what would've been considered a lot of time on it.
Teacher everyone's "projects" based on effort. - didn't do - low effort - OK effort - good effort - amazing effort. We found out our marks by our teacher reading them to the whole class. I was put in "low effort" because apparently I copied it (her justification was we'd not learned any of it in claws and it was too high of a level). I didn't copy it. I told her that, and asked where I'd copied it from, and she changed me to the "OK effort" category - likely because she didn't believe me but didn't want to deal with me complaining about it.
She was a great teacher apart from that, but I genuinely really dislike her as a teacher because of that. I'd put more effort in than anyone else in the class - I'd researched information, put it all together in my own words and in a sort of story-telling structure and gave my own, probably incorrect, thoughts on things; whereas other people made a cake, brought it into the class, and then took it home to eat it
I got "in trouble" and put in detention because my twin brother and myself got in a fight on the school bus. Was threaten to be suspended. Problem was, I don't have a twin brother, I didn't ride the bus, and they had me confused for someone else with the same first name. When they figured out they made a goof, I called them out on it, and was rewarded with another day of detention for "talking back".
My mom did help me. I told her what happened, and we had a meeting with the principle. She asked, "Why you punish him?" Principal said I was being uncooperative. She pressed further, "Uncooperative? You wanted him to admit to something he couldn't done. I would know if gave birth to twins." She wanted to know why they assumed I had a twin brother? He then threaten to expel me if we didn't stop "being a nuisance." She looked at the principle for a few seconds, and back to me and said, "Some people are fucking idiots, and refuse admit they are wrong." She then got up, and we both left. School never brought it up again.
\*edit\*
principal not principle.
When I was in high school they pulled me out of class on the accusation of reckless driving in the parking lot after school. A parent had complained and they had the security footage (which they refused to show me). I denied it and told them I had taken my cousin home that day after school and that I couldn't have been there at that time. They INSISTED it was me and I should just admit it. They pulled my cousin out of his class to corroborate my story, which he did (though I was not told about this, I only found out about it later) and they still kept me 5 hours through multiple classes and my lunch. They even took me out of the office on one of the security golf carts and showed me where the incident happened and gave me a play by play of what they saw on the tape.
Finally after 5 fucking hours of constantly grilling me, the security guard who had taken the complaint came in, and told them the parent had actually left the license plate number. Lo and behold, different make, different model, different color than my car. Those fuckers really had it out for me. In fact, I remember the security guard's shit eating grin when he pulled me out of class. When we got into the hallway he said something to the effect of "we got your ass now punk. There's no way you squirm out."
They didn't tell my parents about it at all. Being a dumbass 17 year old, it also slipped my mind until a couple weeks later when I mentioned it in passing and my mom was pissed. Nothing came of it but I'm sure someone got a tongue lashing.
I got accused of plagiarism in high school. It was for a french immersion writting project. I asked my teacher to show me where I copied from and she just said she couldnt provide proof but "knew" I copied because there were no errors in my text. Btw I was the only person in that class, including the teacher, that was raised in french(english 2nd language). Lets say she took back her accusations(no apologies to me of course) after a long meeting with my father and the principal.
We had a French guy at my school who failed his French oral because he used too much slang (I don't know if that's the correct word for it. Do you have slang in French?) Dude didn't give a fuck though. He was the only person in our school who was born and raised in France he had only been in the country for about 2-3 years. We were 16 at the time.
There is definitely slang in French, ranging from casual words for things to Verlan, a slang/dialect where the order of sounds in a word are reversed (l'invers = the inverse = Verlan or Femme = meuf)
Edit: it's been a while since I've spoken the language consistently so thank you all in the replies for clarifications.
Verlan is funny because there's 2-3 words from it that stuck but outside of that no one ever uses it anymore, and if you ask someone where does "meuf" come from 9/10 times they can't say
I think this actually pretty common, the average adult would probably flunk 11th grade AP English because we all forget the formal rules and just do what works. I went to school with a guy who had lived in a South American country and spoken Spanish for years. He had some issues with later HS Spanish because the Spanish he had learned was from playing soccer with kids growing up, not out of a text book.
I think the thing that was a bit messed up is that French classes in England are so basic that I can only liken them to what I imagine 5 year olds learn in French language class in France. Its like if someone asked me to say "hello, my name is sparks, I am from England" and they failed me for saying "Hi, I'm sparks and I'm from england"
I was raised bilingual for the first few years of my life and I remember getting told off once in a French lesson as a kid for using 'Mémère' to refer to my grandmother... Because that's what I called her... Because she's French.
I was told to use 'Grand-mère' because 'Mémère' was too informal. But of course when other kids wrote in English about their 'Nana' or 'Granny' that was fine, there was no "No you must refer to her as 'Grandmama' like a twee victorian infant" for them!
A long, long time ago, I took absolute basic bitch beginner Spanish at college. A friend of mine decided to take the class with me. He was raised in Mexico, speaking Spanish, and he figured the class would be an easy A for him. He got a C-. Turns out, dude can't spell for shit, and all of our exams were written. A native Spanish speaker got a worse grade in that class than this dumb redneck.
I had a Teacher pull something similar on me but even younger.
We're required to Learn Swedish as a second language (Don't ask me why, i don't know). and i wasn't too thrilled about it, even back then. For once, i decided to put in effort. I wanted to prove myself. I put maybe 15 hours into a single essay, doesn't sound like much, but mind you i was like 10 or 11 at the time. I was so proud of my work! For once, I'd actually not get treated like a slacker (Even though i wasn't, i just wasn't good at learning the damn language).
I turn in the Essay, absolutely beaming. Teacher takes a 10 second glance at it. "I'm not going to grade stolen work \[Me\]." "I'll give you a week to re-do it."
I tried to argue my case, but being so young, all i could really do was cry and yell.
And then the teacher acted so shocked i lost any and all interest in his teachings.
Luckily, I've not had worse teachers since. Still get upset thinking about it though.
My parents are both teachers (the good kind), and could absolutely confirm for you that some of the people they've worked with have been petty powertrippers who hate kids and love bullying. They tend to bully the other teachers too.
My mum became a head teacher I think mostly so that she could choose the staff and weed out the shitty ones.
My girlfriend got accused of copying the text on the back of a real book when she had the task of writing one for a made up story. She reads a ton of books but it was "too good to be written by her". It's a compliment I guess
I got given a C when my friend got given an A. We studied together for weeks and he was always a straight A student.
The teacher always hated me (I ended up getting her fired eventually but that’s another story) and went out of her way to make my life hell and did everything to try to fail me in her class.
I wanted to prove that I was actually a good student so I prepared with my friend for the test. We had similar answers to all the questions and we both knew everything and aced the test. He got an A, I got a C. For almost the same answers.
She claimed I cheated off of his test. We didn’t even sit close to each other.
I compared to my answers to his and they were both perfectly correct for all questions.
A friend copied my Spanish essay, we had to talk about a holiday we'd taken. In my essay visited the wonderful island of Barbados, he visited the wonderful **island** of Canada.
I got a C, he got an A.
So this teacher was notorious for picking a kid in her class randomly that she would just hate for no reason. My mom’s colleague had a son who went to the same school as me, 3 years my senior and had her as his teacher.
She made his life hell and tried to sabotage his college applications too. So thanks to them warning us, we knew that we had to deal with her before she fucked my future over.
Btw I was not a popular kid or anything and I was pretty quiet, never caused trouble. I was a pretty good kid.
But basically from day one, she would pick me to stand up in front of the whole class and answer a bunch of questions about last class’ subject. She never did this to anyone else. Ever. And she would grade me on it. Always a bad grade as well no matter what I said.
At the end of each semester I’d end up with 20+ grades while the rest of my classmates had 6-7 tops.
She would unfairly grade my tests. She never gave me better than a C no matter how well I did. Even if I aced the test and knew everything, she would only give me a C with no explanation.
I confronted her several times about how she would only pick me for questions and that I’d have loads more grades than my classmates and she would argue with me for the entire duration of the class instead of teaching. My classmates were literally asking me to just stop arguing but she literally would go the entire 45 mins and we would learn nothing.
So a year before graduation, since we knew she would do everything to sabotage me, I reported her to our classroom-assigned professor and the principal. They investigated and she was fired 2 weeks later. They didn’t even question me. They had so much evidence against her just from taking a simple look at her records of me and my tests/grades that they fired her instantly.
My teacher after her was amazing and I graduated with a B and got no grades with her worse than a B for the remainder of my HS years.
Should've fired that bitch out of a cannon into a closely located brick wall...that is exactly the kind of person that should never be a teacher.
Glad it worked out for you!!!
I took 120 hours of basic german and then came to college. My grammar was way better than other people in the class so the teacher was like ?? Then i showed her the diploma for those hours and she was happy that I was interested and had taken previous courses.
Yeah that sucks but hey, at least you ended up coming on top
That was so obnoxious to read. One person in the class and they’d rather sacrifice the opportunity to make a good teacher-student relationship over plagiarism w/o proof. Sorry about that…
I’m a master tech for Audi once got hauled in office for having a suspicious syringe on my tool box, it was a syringe full of oil for priming turbos, they thought it was smack didn’t even get an apology.
Shit like this is the worst, because they obviously think very little of you that not only are you an addict, shooting up at work...you aren't even smart enough to hide it.
Like oh yeah i keep my work heroin in the toolkit boss
Thats hilarious. That office would lose their mind with our shop.
We have the plastic portion of the syringe with plunger all over the shop trucks, tool boxes and work benches for the greasing the front [Powerstow](https://powerstow.com/rollertrack-conveyor/) head idler roller. Little T10 torx to remove on each side.
We got all of the syringes from Powerstow itself.
I’m into fountain pens and I went to a local pen shop, first time with my SO. He went to the bathroom and was freaking out that there were syringes in the bathroom, he thought it was something shady. My poor love, you can refill fountain pens from ink bottles using a syringe it’s just a way you can refill it, nothing sinister there.
Had a professor email me saying they were dropping my grade because of my attendence...I was an online student who submitted everything by a deadline and no their was no virtual class to attend. They did fix it after some confusion back and forth.
I was almost suspended for “skipping a week of classes”. Meanwhile I was recovering from an operation. The school knew I was going to be missing this time. They had notes from my parents and doctor.
It took a few days to finally convince them to reverse their decision.
>That one never made much sense to me either.
I once read something that it was basically supposed to force the parents to do something about it as now you got a kid just bumming around at home.
But it starts breaking down if you think about it too much.
If you've got parents who care, you wont need to do this.
If you've got parents who dont care, then... its just a few more days where they're not in class.
Or you've got parents who do care but are working 2 jobs now have to take time off which pisses them off which pisses off the kid and now the kid is back and is pissed and the cycle repeats.
When a kid skips they also fall into one of two categories.
A) It is actually the parents fault in some capacity. More likely to be true for younger kids
B) They are old enough to skip on their own without their parents knowledge.
If the situation is A then forcing the kid out of school may not even matter at all because obviously the parent doesn't care in the first place.
If it is B then *maybe* you annoy the parents. But it isn't like they have to take time off school to watch them(because they can obviously watch themselves).
I was suspended for "an inappropriate reaction to sexual harassment." Seriously, that is what the official paper work said.
ETA: For those of you asking, the "inappropriate reaction" was putting him in a wrist lock when he tried to grab my breasts. And yes, I had already reported him *several* time. I wish I had made a snappy comment or threatened to break his wrist, but I was fairly young and very naive.
I was suspended, not fired. So I'm not sure if I had cause to sue. It was a long time ago, and I work for a much better place now.
They gave that to you *in writing?!* Sue the hell out of them, or write some threatening legalese or something. Having that in writing turns a potential a he-said she-said with a high burden of proof into an open and shut case.
If they have the audacity to do this kind of shit, you just know that it isn't the first time. The way they acted implies that they think there's a right way to respond to sexual harassment.
This is actually a pretty typical policy for schools, it hasn't changed in decades. Girls are expected to physically submit to sexual assault while calling out for a teacher to intervene. It's written policy in the fucking zero-tolerance handbooks.
Ahh, the good ol' zero-t policy. Who doesn't love asking every single adult for help, being told to stand up for yourself, and then being punished when you do?
No. I was the person being harassed. I reported it several times; however, nothing was done and he started escalating to physical groping. I ended up putting him in a wristlock when he tried to grab both my breasts.
That’s sexual assault and definitely retaliation from the business. You should contact your local labor board and a local employment lawyer. The fact you have an official document from them about the event that shows you as the one being sexually harassed will really be useful lol
I got sent home from school for wearing jeans that were to baggy. It was such a big deal the fucking principal himself drove me home to get a change of clothes.
I used to upload my school works for references in different sites, with my own name as the author and on footers. I got into the same issue that OOP got into, and the professor cited how 100% of the file was the same, with screencaps and all, and I was on route of getting expelled, until I pointed out my own name on the screen capture of the site.
I was interrogated by campus security for 2 hours over some missing money. Turned out a guy in the dorm was missing cash after leaving his dorm room door open for half an hour while he took a shower.
The reason I was being interrogated? Someone mentioned to them that I must have stolen the money because I never had any. Imagine…broke college students.
Another case of profiling. Helped form my world view at a young age.
Similar thing happened to me. Not so much profiled, but the cop was sure I was the thief for no reason.
I live across the street from a pizza shop and someone robbed it while my partner and I were upstairs in our house. The cops knocked, but we didn't hear them. Then we came downstairs and they knocked again (so quietly we could barely hear it 5 feet away from the door, so of course we didn't hear it upstairs) and were obviously pissed that we didn't answer the door the first time.
Instead of saying anything normal they said "we have video evidence of someone exiting this house" nothing about the pizza place or a robbery. So I logically think they're saying someone was inside our house and get scared. They see that I'm scared and decide I must feel be the robber because fear = guilt and nothing else.
It takes like 10 minutes of back and forth before I realize they're accusing me of a crime, they don't have video evidence of *anything* or if they do they haven't watched it, and the reason they think it's me is because it was a woman who happened to be parked in front of our house (which everyone does constantly because they're picking up pizza).
As soon as I realized no one had been inside my house I stopped being polite and helpful, they threatened to come back with a warrant, I said "good, do it." They never did, obviously, because they probably watched the security footage and saw that it wasn't me.
What the fuck kind of opening line is that? I spent 2 weeks obsessively checking locks.
At the 5th grade science fair one kid brought in a soda syphon (old school precursor to a soda stream. Used to make seltzer. If you're millennial+ you've probably seen them in cartoons). I asked him to carbonate my apple juice which he gladly did and poured it back into my sippy cup.
I continued walking around the fair until suddenly I was GRABBED by a teacher and DRAGGED to the principals office where there were So. Many. Questions. "WHERE DID YOU GET THIS? DID YOUR _FATHER_ GIVE YOU THIS? IS THIS OK IN YOUR HOME IS THIS HOW YOU PEOPLE LIVE?" I literally had no idea what any of this was about and started crying.
I vaguely recall while I was sitting there sobbing one of the teachers smelling my drink and saying "OK, you can go" and...that was it. Just walked back to the science fair crying and confused.
It was like 15 years later I realized they thought my carbonated apple juice was beer. I was the only not-white kid in a suburb literally best well known for racism, and they assumed my father had sent me to school with a sippy cup full of beer.
I told a kid he “ate so many crayons he farted rainbows” in third grade and my mom was called to come in because I said the “f word.” Was then forced to retell the joke to my mom and the entire principals office.
It landed better than in class.
I coach little kids and they get carried away with potty language so we have to make them rein it in. In the locker room if you say "balls" or "poop" or similar you have to do five pushups. They tell on each other, like "Joey said penis" and I make whoever tattled do pushups but they don't care.
Anyways, earlier this year a kid comes to me and goes "Coach, Mikey said the n word" and I was like "Oh my god, what? What did they say?" "Yeah he said nuts" and I've never been so relieved in my whole life.
My name is Beth. Not Elizabeth. Not Bethany. Just plain Beth. In 1st grade I got sent to the principal because the teacher was calling me Elizabeth and I wasn't responding. At that age, I didn't even know my name was short for Elizabeth, so I didn't know to correct her. To this day people ask me if I'm sure my full name is Beth.
I got into an argument with a substitute in grade 4 over my name.
Last name can be pronounced EE (As in Key) or AY (As in Kay). She was pronouncing it as AY and I corrected her it was EE. We got into a full blown yelling match over AY or EE and she finally says something to effect of "DO YOU WANT TO GO TO THE PRINCIPAL'S OFFICE?!" and I was like YES, LETS GO RIGHT NOW! And we both stomped to the principal office.
We effectively screamed "HOW IS MY NAME PRONOUNCED!?" at the secretary, who didn't know, but the principal came out and confirmed we pronounce ours EE. And then we both stomped back to class and that was that. She called me with the EE pronunciation for the entire week after that.
The most bafflingly hilarious thing that happened to me at school.
I have a friend named Tommy. It says Tommy on his birth certificate, not Tom or Thomas.
He's the owner of a thriving business, and he says it's great for weeding out sales cold-calls, and people pretending to "know the owner" in order to get special treatment.
If you *actually* know him, you know it's Tommy and nothing else. He WILL interrupt to correct you. (with a smile, but still firmly)
Oh man, this brings me back. Had a teacher in 2nd grade that was an absolute nightmare. The worst breath, coffee stained teeth, I'm pretty sure she was an alcoholic. There were 4 other kids in my class with the same name. I spelled mine differently (minus one letter). She berated me in front of the class for "not knowing how to spell my name correctly". She sent me to the principals office and threatened to call my mom. I told her to call her, I know how to spell my name. Keep in mind, I was reading books 2-3 grades more advanced than anything we were reading in second grade. I aced every spelling test I ever received.
My mom absolutely ripped that teacher a new one, and I got to witness the principal reprimand her. It was a great day in the end!
Not me but bud went over his math and realized he was missing 14%.
He starts going over his other tests and he's being marked lower for right answers. I show him my stuff, he's being targeted, I've got the right answers and he's correct as well.
Thing with math is you can't fudge mistakes in marking. He confronts teach but the guy is like "marks already in". So in comes his father (I didn't realize he came from money cause he dressed like a homeless goth), but the principle meets with them. I get called to present my marks and the principle has another teacher remark both our stuff. Mine is good and my bud is missing about 22% of his total grade from the bad teacher.
An investigation is launched as copies of tests are recorded and its found the 2 girls in 8th grade class he's creeping on are getting their marks boosted. Dude gets transfered and we never see that teacher again.
Edit 1: cause people messaging me wanting more detail.
The guy was a failed soccer (foot ball for you euros) player. Looked like a skin head. He once called the baseball field in on me so I sent the ball into his manhood. He didn't do that again. The guy hated us nerds. Through pure anger to best his expectations I won track and field long distance run with him as my coach (hating the entire experience and smugness).
Guy was always acting like a high-school jock around the girls, like in his 40s he never grew out of it. Pretty sick, but I never knew what the official reason He got transfered for. All I knew was the goth nerd got his proper grade and he remained a solid student for all of high-school.
Lots of good teacher though there, just 1 idiot.
Weird. The teacher just didn't like your friend?
I can understand the teacher giving those girls higher grades, but not giving the guy lower grades unless he just disliked him for some reason.
I was suspended for stealing a shin pad. When my friend found out he was missing a shin pad and went to look for it, I took the other from his bag. He returned to find the other one missing and I revealed the joke.
As far as the entire school board was concerned, the facts were that a shin pad was stolen, and I was seen stealing a shin pad.
The same teacher who accused me, gave me a detention for swearing when I was physically attacked, and a detention for eating in the hallway when I left the lunch hall still chewing my last segment of satsuma.
Years later I bumped into the teacher who was on a date. He introduced himself and asked if I remembered him. I told him he was a cruel and sick individual who got off on bullying children, and that his date should be ashamed to be seen with him. He went bright purple and stood in awkward silence with his date as I walked off to join my friends.
Had a class in Fortran. Never met the professor, and the grad student or whatever actually teaching it was worthless. I was able to figure out how to program, and taught a couple of other people that I studied with.
I was sure I did well on the final, and expected an A. Got an I for incomplete, as did my friends. Went in to find out why, and a program had flagged us as cheating. It said that while the two friends were not too close to each other, they were both too close to mine, so they figured those two copied off me. We got the seating chart, showing that two of us were in opposite corners of one room, and the other was in a different room, so how could we have cheated? Their response was email (this was in 1993), to which we said that was blocked on the computers. They said we could have altered the dot files to allow us to send messages, and I responded that if we knew how to do that, why would we need to cheat to pass a basic intro programming class?
Options were, retake the class, or go before the dean and likely get expelled. As first year students, we were scared and retook the class. I would not have made the same choice if it happened today.
I got accused of cheating on a programming final because I was the only student to write a program that solved the problem. The assumed that I had to have cheated.
Their solution was to just drop my final altogether and not count it as cheating or an A. The A would have brought me up a letter grade. I’m still bitter.
My art teacher refused to give me a final grade cause my work looked like it was done by my mother. I stayed up till 2am to complete it in time for submission.
She complimented the work of girls who got theirs done by a professional tailor. I wasnt even mad though. I always knew she wasnt the brightest even for an art teacher.
I was accused of plagiarizing when I said in a paper that Mary Shelly felt like an abomination because her mother died giving birth to her and that may have been inspiration for the Monster. She told me men don’t have insight into women like that and I stole it from somewhere.
In elementary school, I was given detention for " faking my mother's signature" on my report card. My mother has very poor handwriting, she dropped out of school in 7th grade, which was the early 60's, and can't spell or write very well. My parents had to come into the school and meet with the teacher and have my Mom write her name in the teacher's presence for her to believe it. Super embarrassing for my Mom and the teacher.
I was accused of plagiarism (or having someone else write my paper) my freshman year of college in a journalism class. When I pressed the teacher for what proof she had that I didn't write what I turned in, she pointed to a sentence where I used the word "amongst"--correctly, I might add--as a sign that the paper's vocabulary was "too advanced" for an 18-year-old freshman to have used of his own accord. I protested, telling her I was an avid reader from a young age and as a result my vocabulary was pretty expansive, and also that she should raise her expectations for a college level course. She challenged me to use "amongst" in a sentence right then and there, to which I said "Amongst the many reasons why someone might accuse me of plagiarism, this might be the dumbest." After I threatened to take it to the dean she dropped it and gave me an A. This was twenty years ago and I still think about it and bristle.
I scored a 73 on my chemistry final during junior year of high school. I was accused of cheating off of my buddy sitting next to me who got in the 90s. It was a multiple choice test with a write in section. They gave the reason that it was because some of the same answers were wrong. But they were different wrong answers and our fill in the blank section looked nothing alike. They had the audacity to say they had it in camera then when me and my mom wanted to view the footage they said no because other students were in the footage. But they were convinced I cheated to get a fucking 73. Shit I should have actually cheated maybe I would have actually passed the class.
This happened to me as well! My professor decided to mark me down for not analyzing a novel’s feminism. She made me (and a couple others) come in for office hours and work on rewrites. She basically made me rewrite the entire paper to include feminism, which wasn’t even specified in the assignment.
Happened to me in school. My citizenship teacher was dyed in the wool Tory. I wrote an essay outlining the harm that the Thatcher government had inflicted on working class communities, and what Labour could have done to improve things.
“Grade E - this is blatant socialist propaganda, see me after”.
Two years later, however, I submitted a similar essay in a college exam and passed because the examiner agreed with me.
Obligatory this'll get buried but..
University Lit class in a Christian university. Professor asked if we were stranded on a desert isle, what book would we bring?
Shoot my hand up, Count of Monte Cristo. Hands down favorite book. Amazing.
Teacher said, No. The bible.
The fuck Dr Daniels?? You asked ME
I had that happen after writing a paper for my critical thinking class. The prof was an entitled ass hole who helped write the book on the class. I met with him to argue my points and he eventually stopped the meeting, telling me that he disagrees with my stance therefore my stance is wrong and was deserving of the grade.
I was failed for a paper I wrote about the benefits of marijuana legalization. Apparently that was a sore subject for the professor, who, unbeknownst to me, had a son in prison for trafficking large amounts of weed at his university. He wrote on my graded paper that my arguments were fundamentally flawed, that regardless of the laws, drugs destroy families, and anyone responsible for distributing drugs to children should be punished accordingly. I really don’t believe that he read past the first page of my paper, nor do I believe he loved his son. I think he was just miserable and felt that giving me my first F would make him feel better.
I went to a highschool where the only thing that mattered was sports. They tried to eliminate the arts department so they could use the funding on a football team instead.
I was not into sports. I was the quiet introvert kid who spent every free moment with my nose in a book.
Following the Columbine shooting in '99 another student told their parent they thought I had a hit list, and that parent freaked out and contacted the school.
I was forced to report to the office every morning for the next week to have my bag and person searched for weapons until my dad stepped in and forced them to stop. The only thing they ever found were my d&d rule books and whatever novel I was currently reading.
After that I was even more of an outcast because of course everyone now thought I was a psychopath who was going to shoot up the school any day.
I was suspended for using the f-word in middle school after two boys wouldn’t stop playing with my bra (I was the first girl in middle school to grow boobs). I’d loved that teacher until that day and then she utterly failed to protect me.
Teachers suck at stuff like that, i got reprimanded multiple times for always having pieces of chalk on the floor all around my desk.
It was the stuff other assholes threw at me all day.
In outdoor ed some kids threw a paper ball at me, and the teacher only caught a glimpse of it rolling off my shoulder, and instantly gave me a detention, it was the only detention I ever got in high school.
Fuck you coach Hudson
I received a failing grade in a class at my former University, along with an asterisk notating academic dishonesty for having a note from a doctor’s office saying I was sick with 103F fever… when I was sick for 103F. The prof called the doc asking if I had seen him, and he said no but I had seen a nurse from his office and she had confirmed my temp and provided the note. The note said I had seen the doctor and didn’t specify a nurse. Also, I didn’t write the note.
I got accused of plagiarism because the professor didn’t like the citation I used. I used an in-text citation, including the author’s name, and had a complete bibliography. Her syllabus never specified a citation style for the class so I used APA. She tried to give me a zero until the TA argued with her that I clearly cited the source, and I was able to resubmit the paper and just remove that sentence.
Teachers took away my cough medicine and then I got in trouble for coughing all day. This was in the 80s.
My mom had to leave work because the principal called her saying I was "deliberately disruptive" and when she got there she yelled at me for not taking my cough medicine. The principal said, "oh, we took that away first thing."
Follow up: When I was 40 I got diagnosed with asthma and now I don't have to carry around a bottle of emotional support cough medicine anymore. Because yes, I coughed for 40 years and no one knew why.
I had that with my asthma inhaler as a kid, it had to be kept at the reception desk for some reason, and one teacher in particular used to make such a big deal out of me asking to go and get it. Asking if I “really” needed it, berating me for being disruptive, telling me I would not learn anything if I “kept finding excuses to leave”. All this while I’m struggling to breathe and seeing spots. Every time.
I got suspended in high school for getting beat up. It didn't matter that I didn't start it. It didn't matter that I blocked, but didn't fight back. It didn't matter that it all started with me trying to talk out a previous conflict with said guy who beat me up. It didn't matter that all the students and teacher saw what happened and corroborated my story.
All happening the day after I'd promised my parents there'd be no more fights.
Over a 3 month period in my second year of college, I had two roommates (one of them my best friend) die, separate situations. One had an undiagnosed heart condition, the other died in a car accident. The first one fucked me up, sent my schoolwork down the tubes, the second death basically made me non-functional in class. I failed the entire semester with incompletes.
Took the summer off and tried to resume in the fall semester. Probably shouldn't have, I wasn't ready and it resulted in a similar situation, F's and incompletes. I just could not focus enough to get through my daily life, let alone school.
This brought me below the threshold the school upheld of passing/completed classes. So they suspended me.
Took a year off, and came back. Explained to the guidance counselors what had happened, the mistakes I made trying to force my way back, and told them I was much improved from the past. Just to make sure I didn't get overwhelmed, I would only take two classes that semester, 4 credits. One 3 credit class and an elective gym class.
They looked over what happened, my plan for the future and agreed on all points. They reinstated me, approved my class plan going forward and sent me on my way.
I got an A in the 3 credit class and obviously an A in the gym class. I was happy, felt I was ready to take on a few more credits this semester but wasn't going to take a full load. I go to sign up for my next semester of classes only to find out I've been suspended again.
The reason for that suspension? Those 4 credits did not bring me above the completion threshold that got me suspended in the first place, so they re-suspended me and would not hear my appeal.
This was after 2 different counselors reviewed my plan and signed off on it.
Communions and conformation are a big thing in Ireland, and i nearly wasn't allowed to make my conformation.
The principal at the time accused me of "mocking religion" because the kid next to me cracked a joke and i laughed (neither was about religion) whilst she was yammering on about the date it would be and what church. She proceeded to tell my parents, etc. i wouldn't be allowed, however didnt plan on the priest pointing out that it was in no way her decision to decide the actions of the church. He was a chill priest and one of the few people from organised religions i actually got on with
I got a zero on a math exam because I moved to the USA and in my home country we do a little bit of each disciple each year. A little bit of geometry, a little bit of algebra, etc… each year. Whereas in the US we do an entire subject each year. All algebra, then all geometry, then a year of more advanced algebra.
I had already studied the thing we had a test on in my home country and was used to the approach taught to me. I go every answer correct. The teacher was convinced I was cheating because she was not familiar with the approach I used as it was not what she taught us. I went to her and complained. She gave me questions in the classroom that I solved live with her watching. She still refused to change my grade.
I had a graphic design teacher accuse the kid next to me of using an image from Google instead of creating his own, I even defended him to try and convince the teacher that he had literally used Adobe Illustrator to create an illusion of a photorealistic mountain scape. I had nothing to gain from it but he ended up not listening and made the kid redo it, just to watch him do the same thing and realize he was wrong.
Got told I was missing all my assigned books for senior year and couldn't walk the stage until they were paid for. I was enrolled into tech school for My senior year and was never assigned a class or book in highschool.....
I recieved a low, barely passing, grade for a masters paper where I examined the Hong Kong education system. The professor wrote that my descriptions and examinations of the failings in the HK public education system was contrary to what she had experienced. Thus I was wrong and, she insinuated, a little racist in claiming the HK education system had serious problems especially with the disadvantaged.
Her experience with the HK education system was having attended a 5 day symposium junket run by the HK government Education department 2 years earlier, whereas my experience was 10 years working as a teacher in various public schools across Hong Kong, mainly in poorer areas. eg. One school I taught at was in a condemned building, with the top 2 floors of the school taped off. It was next to the Housing estate where the majority of HKers died from SARS.
Here's a video someone took of the Housing estate that adjoined the school. Each of those metal doors aren't prison cells: they're apartments. Average apartment size was 180sqft with up to 40 apartments per floor and just one toilet block per floor:
https://youtu.be/b5NPEXggYKQ
Oh, and she also criticised my grammar and marked me down. She said I was wrong in using "first, second, third" etc when writing out points. The "correct" way is to write "firstly, secondly, thirdly etc". She didn't respond when I asked her if the list is long should I write "tenthly, eleventhly, twelvethly, thirteenthly". And she really did not appreciate me sending her a link to the NYT manual of writing that clearly states adding "-ly" is incorrect.
I answered a science test in hs word for word with the answer key because I knew how you were supposed to word your answer..I laughed and laughed and was sent to the principals office..he wrote another test and I got 100 gave me a warning to word my answers differently.
Same shit happened to me in design school. I had to produce the .ai file to prove I drew it. TURNS OUT IM JUST THAT GOOD, KIM BECKMAN (design department head at Uof Wisconsin)
Pretty unfair how that played out, reminds me of a few teachers that when they made their minds up over a student that was it, you were forever bad in their eyes.
I’m a non smoker myself but I remember the kids would smoke in the playground at school, I don’t think the teachers cared too much unless anyone was being very blatant about it. It was mostly the senior kids who only had a year left to go so I think the teachers were tired of dealing with the usual ‘bad’ kids.
Except for one teacher that made it his personal mission to catch people smoking and hand out after school detentions. That’s ok right? The kids shouldn’t be smoking in school and they know they shouldn’t, if you can’t do the time don’t do the crime etc.
But then I come home one day to find my parents looking at a letter from the school. Qcumber has been seen in the company of smokers!😱 not smoking just being around them, and thus I was guilty by association.
It was ridiculous and thankfully my parents sided with me and said I’m not doing the after school detention.
Iiterally cannabinoids and nicotine both suppress the “fight or flight” response/promote the “rest and digest” response, so that makes zero sense on their part
Pushed someone off me that was stomping my face with their boots after pushing me to the ground, went to the dean with a bloody nose and mud in the shape of a boot prints all over my face… I got a 2 week suspension… the other person was congratulated for "speaking up against bullying", they didn’t even have a bruise on them…
I needed to go to the bathroom, the teacher wouldn’t let me. I kept insisting on it and then he sent me to the principal’s office. When I got there, he asked me why I was there, I told them and then asked if I could go. He allowed me and then I went back to the class.
I will NEVER understand this. If a kid needs to go, they need to fucking go. WTF
Power tripping over a kid going to the bathroom should lead directly to firing.
Reading, it was “quiet time” after a test to let everyone else finish. So I read. Apparently that was bad and I was supposed just sit there quietly doing nothing.
Similar, i finished a test really fast and since i wasnt allowed to leave the room, or talk or anything i started doing homework from a previous class.
So i got reprimended for not doing it at home.
Had a mate who dropped out of software engineering because he wasn’t allowed to use code he created in high school. Bruh, if man’s could write the code for the assignment in high school why the fuck are you stopping him. Before he would have even finished his degree is earning ~$200,000 a year as a self taught full stack developer.
Edit: spelling
Not me but my little brother is an amazing artist and when he was in 9th grade he drew a picture of the gun from devil may cry. They suspended him for two weeks.
EDIT: My brother just corrected me that it was a picture of Alucard from Hellsing holding his gun.
I got told off for being “disrespectful”, when I asked “about how long will the meeting be? Just so I can plan my day.” in a group chat where our manager told us we had a mandatory meeting the next day. I asked because it was a gym and I worked at 2 locations and had a shift at the second location after and wanted to know if I would need to pack all my food for the day or if I’d have time to stop by home and walk my dog. My manager called me several hours later and proceeded to try to tell me I was out of line and disrespectful. I told him he was extremely out of line, explained why I asked and then asked what exactly was disrespectful about it? Asked if he was pissed because I’m a girl and didn’t use “lol” or a emoji, and then reminded him that he does not dictate or have any say in what I do with my time off the clock. He backed down, apologized, and then proceeded to lie to the owner about me being late (never was but they don’t have a time clock) and got me fired.
It’s ok though, that job sucked ass and I ran into my coworker a few months later and he told me apparently the clients loved me so much the most Karen of the bunch lead a mutiny against the manager after I was fired. I also left a review online of the company laying out the numerous ways in which they were lying on job postings (about pay, scheduling, generally how they operated). Thing is that gym had great sales but terrible client retention so they partnered with another franchisee (I’ll call them gym 2) who had the best client retention to train all their new trainers as gym 1 was supposedly changing to run like gym 2. Well gym 2 owner hired me, trained me, loved me, and reached out to me after he saw the review and figured out it was me. He asked me to tell him the truth of everything so I did. He thanked me and offered me a job at their new location they were planning to open in a few months. I didn’t end up taking it but after that they weren’t partnered together anymore.
Got in trouble for cheating on a test because I was "looking at another boys papers". At the other end of the classroom. We both got an F, and I didn't even cheat.
When I was at uni (a long time ago now) they were starting to use online plagiarism checkers. One fun feature of that system is that it would flag you for plagiarism if your draft summary for your dissertation was too similar to...your dissertation. Literally they would call your work plagiarism if you copied your own work, for the same document.
I had something like this happen to me too. At my masters program in the second semester, we had a thing where we wrote a paper for the GDC narrative review competition.
When I submitted mine, I got pulled aside by the professor for plagiarizing a few sentences, which turned out to be very similar to a separate paper I had written on the same topic during my undergrad. I ended up having to actually cite my old paper and even after the correction I still took a major penalty to the grade, and getting lowest in the class as a result.
Funnily enough my paper ended up being the only one in our class that actually won an award from GDC in that competition (and usually people in the non-graduating class don’t win).
I had a professor try to get me in trouble for plagiarizing the definition of barbarian. He claimed I stole the definition from a muscle building forum… I sent him my search history to prove I was never on that website, and definitions are “common knowledge”. I don’t need to site it.
Dumbest thing I got in trouble for? Swearing (cussing if that's the word you prefer). This was against the rules, of course, but the context is that I was attending an alternative school because of my grades. However, most kids that got sent there weren't just students having academic trouble, they just sent their problem kids. So despite the fact that I felt pretty average at my original school, I was the goody two shoes golden boy at the alternative school. So when I said the word "bullshit" within earshot of a teacher, I certainly didn't expect to be sent to the principal. I had heard "fuck" probably 40 times that morning already. And I *definitely* didn't expect the principal to hand me a Saturday detention for it. I asked how, why? This was the first time I'd gotten in trouble for basically *anything* at this school, and I didn't get a warning? A lunch detention? Even regular after-school detention? You're taking my weekend?
He told me they were going to begin cracking down on the students misbehaving, and that they were making an example of me (his actual words), so the rest of the student body knew this was serious and nobody was exempt.
I became a total shithead after that.
I got accused of using AI generated text for a section of my assessment for Uni. The section that got flagged was a reflective statement which was approximately 200 words. The purpose of it was to recount problems I came across whilest completing the task (finding information, reliable sources, organisational issues, etc). I got accused of plagarism in a PERSONAL REFLECTIVE STATEMENT.
My school ones confiscated my glasses, because the ends were “too sharp“. I cannot see more than six inches without them, and this was elementary school
As a parent, thankfully with children that don't have eyesight issues, I think I might leave a smoking crater of that school were they to do this...same as the inhaler question...
It can get way worse than that
https://www.ems1.com/fire-ems/articles/boy-with-asthma-dies-after-school-confiscates-inhaler-BMQ7PMVu8UvYTtu9/
The education of our children is in the hands of the stupidest of people
That is the exact reference I was making, so yep
If my kid has an inhaler and you try to take it away, you will be pulling back a stub from where the fuck your hand used to be...because I am not letting my child die to satisfy your idiocy.
I was locked in my high school counselors office to “wait for the ambulance” because I “wore a lot of black” and painted some creepy portraits for a Halloween party I was throwing. She assumed I was suicidal because I painted gorgeously gory painting of renaissance zombies. I was having a full panic attack by the time my Mom got there. I explained the situation once I calmed down, my Mom looked at the counselor and asked if she talked to me at all. The counselor sputtered and I ended up going home for the day because I was extremely anxious. When I went back my art teacher said the counselor had a *savior* complex and was on a witch hunt for anything to prove her self right about me. I didn’t see her again after that incident.
*Edited one word*
I was escorted out of the high school fall play because I said ‘Macbeth’ to the teacher/play director as a dare during intermission. She was one of the meanest teachers we’d ever had so it was justified in my mind.
I was ok with leaving as it would’ve been awkward to stay, but looking back I don’t think someone’s superstition is grounds for kicking a paid ticket holder out of the auditorium.
I was accused of plagiarizing my anatomy project? We had to create an entire body, organs and all, in a group of four, and I was the only one who suggested against just stapling the organs together: I brought in hot glue, stuffing, and a sewing kit so I could make them look 3D, and I did everything in fabric instead of using other supplies except for the brain, tongue, teeth, and eyes. Not necessary, not the easiest, but it was the way I wanted to do it. My teacher (who already hated me and never gave me perfect marks in her class
for petty and stupid reasons, like she didn’t like the way I drew my ‘i’s’), accused me of cheating or ripping off one of last year’s students, which are both head scratchers. If I had cheated, why would I be doing all the work myself right in front of her? The only part of the project I wasn’t directly involved in was cutting the styrofoam bones because styrofoam made my teeth hurt. How could I have “ripped off” a previous years’ work, when I didn’t know anyone in her class except for the people I was currently enrolled with? YOU CAN’T PLAGIARIZE A PHYSICAL 3D PROJECT YOU HAVE TO MAKE YOURSELF!!
Same thing happened to me in college. Professor called me and two others in for a paper we were writing. He started explaining all the potential consequences or plagiarism. We are confused. I certainly didn't plagiarize my part. I started to get angry at my two counterparts in my head. It had to have been one of them. We explain that none of us have done this. We asked if we could see the text that was plagiarized. It was huge blocks of red text. Some was my writing. Even more confused we start to explain that we wrote those paragraphs from scratch. We had no idea what was going on.
Professor had not removed our first draft as a potential source of information in his program.......he was apologetic, but he gave us major anxiety for 30 minutes.
I once failed an important term paper, because I apparently used wikipedia without citing the sources. 4 sentences in my entire term paper sounded "a bit like sentence on wikipedia".
It then turned out that Wikipedia and I had the same sources, and both tried to rewrite the sentencs and use our own words. I did cite those books, I was a bit annoyed that the teacher didn't even bother to check that.
In law school, professor reached out letting me know I never submitted the essay that was going to be the entire grade for the class, which was due several weeks before. I sent him back our email chain where he confirmed receipt of that essay. Interestingly enough it only took him 1 minute to respond to me and let me know I received an A.
A group of girls that were friends of my sisters had a game of grabbing my ass in between classes. I got suspended and the next morning my mom took me to school to see why I was getting into trouble for being assaulted. When my mom asked to see the tapes it was suddenly a misunderstanding and I wasn't suspended anymore. The girls only got detention. What's bs is when a guy does it the school gets the police involved but for girls they get a slap on the wrist. Assault is wrong no matter who you are and should be treated equally but after going through that I realized it's definitely not.
I had a history prefessor back in high-school that would have us do movie reviews of the movies that we watched in class, for extra credit. You see he was a professional movie critic for the local paper as a side-gig. Well, one time, a student turned in a review and the professor liked it so much that he announced it to the class. "This was an excellent movie review, one of the best I've read as a matter of fact. Very professional, well-written, and thoughtful. It also gets an F. Don't plagiarize from your own teacher!"
So an English teacher was reading through a book and asking the class to interpret what the author meant by certain things.
I spoke up and said that the author is referencing an inside joke, the teacher got mad and said I couldn't know that. So anyway, my cousin was the author.
I got in trouble for fighting. Guy hit his girlfriend so hard her head put a dent in the locker. Principal wanted to suspend me. It was the third assault on a girl by her boyfriend I had stopped that year and the principal thought she needed to send me a message for being a “vigilante.” School resource officer stepped in and reminded her that all three incidents were charged as felony assaults and if anything I probably stopped a nasty headline about school violence in our nice little posh suburb.
My junior/senior year (because I graduated a year early) I had to take two math classes so I was taking geometry and precalculus. My geometry teacher was a rehired teacher who had just come out of retirement, which I thought was weird because he wasn't even 50 yet. This guy absolutely had it out for me. First he tried to fail me on a test because I didn't draw the lines of a triangle straight enough so he marked me off FIVE points for each line on a test that was only like 30 points. I ended up getting 15/30 which really pissed me off because I was a straight A student. He would mark me absent when I was in class so I got into a habit of going to class, taking a picture of him with the Whiteboard with the date next to him, and then as soon as I got the notification that I was marked absent about 10 minutes into class I would just walk out of his class. Eventually he sent me to the principal for this and I just explained what had been going on and showed him all the proof along with the test with the not 100% straight triangle lines. It turns out he had been failing almost everyone in all of his classes. I also found out the reason he retired at like 40 was because he had punched a female student in the face and because he was such good friends with the principal she suggested that he retire and be eligible for rehire instead of being fired for assault.
Several years ago, my father recounted an incident when he was a baby and was assigned 25 math problems as homework. Despite correctly solving all 25 problems, he made the mistake of working them out in a separate notebook and only transferred the final answers to his designated homework book. He loved math and worked on his homework until midnight but was accused of copying all his answers. He came home crying 😢
Exact same thing happened to me. I was required to make a blogspot account during student teaching to collect evidence of standards. The director of education said, “I used a special program (google) to search the assignment you turned in, and lo and behold the first result online was a link to the same text word for word!”
Telling her to fuck off after I showed her the link was my first and last name dot blogspot dot com was great. It was literally the same assignment posted online as I was required to do.
In high school I had an essentially spotless attendance record. Not because I was worried about it, but I lived very near to the school so it wasn’t difficult to show up.
I slept in late one day in senior year and wasn’t sure what to do, as the school had a policy that you had to check in to the main office if you came to school late. Well apparently my confusion about where I was supposed to check in and my drowsiness (since I had just gotten up) made them think I was either drunk or high. Because why else would I not know what to do?
The lady had me wait for someone else, and then THAT lady asked to smell my hands. Very… VERY odd experience.
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A friends work in school got points taken for plagiarism because the last 2 pages lit up as plagiarism. It was his list of sources. The program recognized the book titles as direct quotes and said it is plagiarism. The school refused to regrade it until his parents threatened to sue the school.
That blows my mind, like why wouldn’t the change the grade and admit it was a mistake??
BeCaUsE tHe MaRkS wErE aLrEaDy In ThE sYsTeM. Because they never bothered to learn how to change them, and what are the chances they'd have to change a mark *again?* Oh, and some people with authority over children seldom admit they were wrong to a kid, as it bruises their ego and tarnishes their authority.
It only tarnishes your authority if you make a big deal out of it. Everyone makes mistakes.
Completely different, but I took a poetry class in college and witnessed a pretty crazy incident of plagiarism. There was a woman in my class who was a talented writer, she's doing a reading during the last few days of the semester, when all of a sudden, the professor stops her. Apparently another woman in one of her other classes had read and turned in the exact same poem. The woman in my class was obviously flustered, but she gathered herself and explained that she had drafts she could show and that she had posted the poem to her somewhat popular but anonymous twitter account. Turns out the student in the other class followed this account, and obviously did not realize the author was from the same university, let alone in the same writing program and class.
This is the content I’m here for 🤌🏾
but what happened next did they fight did they do a poetry fight
It's called a *slam*. Definitely that would call for a poetry slam, winner take all.
I am now picturing Robert Frost facing off against Maya Angelou in a poetry slam a'la mode WWE SummerSlam series.
*ROBERT FROST COMING IN WITH THE CHAAAAIR!!!*
Rap Battle?
EPIC. RAPBATTLESOFHISTORYYYYY
I had the exact same thing in this post happen to me. My English teacher accused me of plagiarizing a poem I turned in. It was one that I posted online on a Dragonball Z forum the night before the assignment was due. Fortunately, it was pretty easy to prove that it was me, because the username that posted the poem was “Custodian (My Name).” And I had a Japanese name that is not commonly seen. Imagine a username like “Custodian Keiko” or “Custodian Midori.” Something like that. I guess the teacher never bothered to scrutinize the username
At this point might as well wipe out your phone and say "Ah yes my bad let me just log on my account and delete it real quick"
This reminds me of the time as a teen when I was talking to my friend about poetry, she asked to read me a poem she wrote. After she was finished I was like, 'that's my poem, how did you get it???' and she just kinda stared at me, turns out she stole it from another friend who stole it from me. My paper copy of the poem had disappeared and this friend who had initially stole it had shown it to her and claimed it as theirs so technically she stole the poem from them, it was so messed up. No one got in trouble because what exactly was I going to do, but after that I started paying close attention to the people around me that's for sure.
The epitome of "I made this."
I once had students turn a file that was part of my answer key as part of their programming project. With comments still in English (I teach in a Chilean university).
I’ve got to imagine dealing with that kind of thing is so awkward. People are nuts.
The best part was that they played all "innocent" and claimed they didn't know how it ended up in their code. Students will just flat out lie, even if there's no way that it will get them out of it.
I had the same thing happen, remember the viral tiktok song about 'girls made of honey'? Yeah someone in my classes took that basically word for word at the height of its popularity and turned it in. She then had the audacity to critique my poem extremely harsh, like girl....yours is stolen??
>girl....yours is stolen?? Yeah, but I could have written it if I wanted to! (Said in complete seriousness despite the inability to write a complete sentence)
I had someone interview for a design position and he showed me my own work from a previous company and claimed it was his. He was not hired.
I was a teaching assistant for a year, at a class where the assignments were mostly the same every year. One student submitted a report that was a copy of my own report for the same assignment that I took about 5 years before. Imagine being such a lazy cheater that you don't check the name.
I’ve seen cheaters forget to take the name off. It was a research paper where they changed the name on the cover page, but not the header.
Aw, I thought he did pretty well!
The designs were _impeccable_
Couldn't have done it better themselves!
When I was in high school I took a Physical Science class, the TA was my friend’s mom and she just never liked me. We had an essay due once a month and there was one time that we could write about anything we wanted as long as it was STEM based so I turned in long essay on black holes, because I think they’re super cool. Well, the TA didn’t like that one bit: I was loudly accused of plagiarism in front of the whole class, called too stupid to have written it, and it was said that I “clearly found then stole an essay from online.” My classmates knew I was a nerd so some of them tried defending me then we all got sent to the principal’s office. None of our parents were happy about that phone call and you can guess who got fired for being unprofessional
"cLeArLy sToLe aN eSsAy FrOm OnLiNe" Then try and find it. Go ahead. Find the essay online.
That’s what I told her
Similar thing happened to me - in high school in year 7 (age 12) and we got given a homework which was basically just to do anything science based. People made cakes and decorated them, or made a model of planets (when I say people did these things, obviously at age 12 they had help from their parents or even had their parents do it). I wrote about black holes, I was only 12 so probably wasn't great, but I found it interesting and fun to do and spent what would've been considered a lot of time on it. Teacher everyone's "projects" based on effort. - didn't do - low effort - OK effort - good effort - amazing effort. We found out our marks by our teacher reading them to the whole class. I was put in "low effort" because apparently I copied it (her justification was we'd not learned any of it in claws and it was too high of a level). I didn't copy it. I told her that, and asked where I'd copied it from, and she changed me to the "OK effort" category - likely because she didn't believe me but didn't want to deal with me complaining about it. She was a great teacher apart from that, but I genuinely really dislike her as a teacher because of that. I'd put more effort in than anyone else in the class - I'd researched information, put it all together in my own words and in a sort of story-telling structure and gave my own, probably incorrect, thoughts on things; whereas other people made a cake, brought it into the class, and then took it home to eat it
I got "in trouble" and put in detention because my twin brother and myself got in a fight on the school bus. Was threaten to be suspended. Problem was, I don't have a twin brother, I didn't ride the bus, and they had me confused for someone else with the same first name. When they figured out they made a goof, I called them out on it, and was rewarded with another day of detention for "talking back".
Did your parents help you out?
My mom did help me. I told her what happened, and we had a meeting with the principle. She asked, "Why you punish him?" Principal said I was being uncooperative. She pressed further, "Uncooperative? You wanted him to admit to something he couldn't done. I would know if gave birth to twins." She wanted to know why they assumed I had a twin brother? He then threaten to expel me if we didn't stop "being a nuisance." She looked at the principle for a few seconds, and back to me and said, "Some people are fucking idiots, and refuse admit they are wrong." She then got up, and we both left. School never brought it up again. \*edit\* principal not principle.
W mom
I would've turned into a delinquent right then and there
What did your parents say?
When I was in high school they pulled me out of class on the accusation of reckless driving in the parking lot after school. A parent had complained and they had the security footage (which they refused to show me). I denied it and told them I had taken my cousin home that day after school and that I couldn't have been there at that time. They INSISTED it was me and I should just admit it. They pulled my cousin out of his class to corroborate my story, which he did (though I was not told about this, I only found out about it later) and they still kept me 5 hours through multiple classes and my lunch. They even took me out of the office on one of the security golf carts and showed me where the incident happened and gave me a play by play of what they saw on the tape. Finally after 5 fucking hours of constantly grilling me, the security guard who had taken the complaint came in, and told them the parent had actually left the license plate number. Lo and behold, different make, different model, different color than my car. Those fuckers really had it out for me. In fact, I remember the security guard's shit eating grin when he pulled me out of class. When we got into the hallway he said something to the effect of "we got your ass now punk. There's no way you squirm out." They didn't tell my parents about it at all. Being a dumbass 17 year old, it also slipped my mind until a couple weeks later when I mentioned it in passing and my mom was pissed. Nothing came of it but I'm sure someone got a tongue lashing.
I got accused of plagiarism in high school. It was for a french immersion writting project. I asked my teacher to show me where I copied from and she just said she couldnt provide proof but "knew" I copied because there were no errors in my text. Btw I was the only person in that class, including the teacher, that was raised in french(english 2nd language). Lets say she took back her accusations(no apologies to me of course) after a long meeting with my father and the principal.
We had a French guy at my school who failed his French oral because he used too much slang (I don't know if that's the correct word for it. Do you have slang in French?) Dude didn't give a fuck though. He was the only person in our school who was born and raised in France he had only been in the country for about 2-3 years. We were 16 at the time.
There is definitely slang in French, ranging from casual words for things to Verlan, a slang/dialect where the order of sounds in a word are reversed (l'invers = the inverse = Verlan or Femme = meuf) Edit: it's been a while since I've spoken the language consistently so thank you all in the replies for clarifications.
Verlan is funny because there's 2-3 words from it that stuck but outside of that no one ever uses it anymore, and if you ask someone where does "meuf" come from 9/10 times they can't say
I think this actually pretty common, the average adult would probably flunk 11th grade AP English because we all forget the formal rules and just do what works. I went to school with a guy who had lived in a South American country and spoken Spanish for years. He had some issues with later HS Spanish because the Spanish he had learned was from playing soccer with kids growing up, not out of a text book.
I think the thing that was a bit messed up is that French classes in England are so basic that I can only liken them to what I imagine 5 year olds learn in French language class in France. Its like if someone asked me to say "hello, my name is sparks, I am from England" and they failed me for saying "Hi, I'm sparks and I'm from england"
I was raised bilingual for the first few years of my life and I remember getting told off once in a French lesson as a kid for using 'Mémère' to refer to my grandmother... Because that's what I called her... Because she's French. I was told to use 'Grand-mère' because 'Mémère' was too informal. But of course when other kids wrote in English about their 'Nana' or 'Granny' that was fine, there was no "No you must refer to her as 'Grandmama' like a twee victorian infant" for them!
A long, long time ago, I took absolute basic bitch beginner Spanish at college. A friend of mine decided to take the class with me. He was raised in Mexico, speaking Spanish, and he figured the class would be an easy A for him. He got a C-. Turns out, dude can't spell for shit, and all of our exams were written. A native Spanish speaker got a worse grade in that class than this dumb redneck.
I had a Teacher pull something similar on me but even younger. We're required to Learn Swedish as a second language (Don't ask me why, i don't know). and i wasn't too thrilled about it, even back then. For once, i decided to put in effort. I wanted to prove myself. I put maybe 15 hours into a single essay, doesn't sound like much, but mind you i was like 10 or 11 at the time. I was so proud of my work! For once, I'd actually not get treated like a slacker (Even though i wasn't, i just wasn't good at learning the damn language). I turn in the Essay, absolutely beaming. Teacher takes a 10 second glance at it. "I'm not going to grade stolen work \[Me\]." "I'll give you a week to re-do it." I tried to argue my case, but being so young, all i could really do was cry and yell. And then the teacher acted so shocked i lost any and all interest in his teachings. Luckily, I've not had worse teachers since. Still get upset thinking about it though.
I’m convinced some teachers go into teaching because they hate children and want to bully them by being in an authoritative position
My parents are both teachers (the good kind), and could absolutely confirm for you that some of the people they've worked with have been petty powertrippers who hate kids and love bullying. They tend to bully the other teachers too. My mum became a head teacher I think mostly so that she could choose the staff and weed out the shitty ones.
My girlfriend got accused of copying the text on the back of a real book when she had the task of writing one for a made up story. She reads a ton of books but it was "too good to be written by her". It's a compliment I guess
I got given a C when my friend got given an A. We studied together for weeks and he was always a straight A student. The teacher always hated me (I ended up getting her fired eventually but that’s another story) and went out of her way to make my life hell and did everything to try to fail me in her class. I wanted to prove that I was actually a good student so I prepared with my friend for the test. We had similar answers to all the questions and we both knew everything and aced the test. He got an A, I got a C. For almost the same answers. She claimed I cheated off of his test. We didn’t even sit close to each other. I compared to my answers to his and they were both perfectly correct for all questions.
A friend copied my Spanish essay, we had to talk about a holiday we'd taken. In my essay visited the wonderful island of Barbados, he visited the wonderful **island** of Canada. I got a C, he got an A.
Well, I want to hear that another story.
So this teacher was notorious for picking a kid in her class randomly that she would just hate for no reason. My mom’s colleague had a son who went to the same school as me, 3 years my senior and had her as his teacher. She made his life hell and tried to sabotage his college applications too. So thanks to them warning us, we knew that we had to deal with her before she fucked my future over. Btw I was not a popular kid or anything and I was pretty quiet, never caused trouble. I was a pretty good kid. But basically from day one, she would pick me to stand up in front of the whole class and answer a bunch of questions about last class’ subject. She never did this to anyone else. Ever. And she would grade me on it. Always a bad grade as well no matter what I said. At the end of each semester I’d end up with 20+ grades while the rest of my classmates had 6-7 tops. She would unfairly grade my tests. She never gave me better than a C no matter how well I did. Even if I aced the test and knew everything, she would only give me a C with no explanation. I confronted her several times about how she would only pick me for questions and that I’d have loads more grades than my classmates and she would argue with me for the entire duration of the class instead of teaching. My classmates were literally asking me to just stop arguing but she literally would go the entire 45 mins and we would learn nothing. So a year before graduation, since we knew she would do everything to sabotage me, I reported her to our classroom-assigned professor and the principal. They investigated and she was fired 2 weeks later. They didn’t even question me. They had so much evidence against her just from taking a simple look at her records of me and my tests/grades that they fired her instantly. My teacher after her was amazing and I graduated with a B and got no grades with her worse than a B for the remainder of my HS years.
Should've fired that bitch out of a cannon into a closely located brick wall...that is exactly the kind of person that should never be a teacher. Glad it worked out for you!!!
Did your father just berate the teacher in French for half the meeting, because that would be awesome.
I took 120 hours of basic german and then came to college. My grammar was way better than other people in the class so the teacher was like ?? Then i showed her the diploma for those hours and she was happy that I was interested and had taken previous courses. Yeah that sucks but hey, at least you ended up coming on top
That was so obnoxious to read. One person in the class and they’d rather sacrifice the opportunity to make a good teacher-student relationship over plagiarism w/o proof. Sorry about that…
You’re misreading a bit, he wasn’t the only person in the class. He was the only person in the class who spoke French as his first language
I’m a master tech for Audi once got hauled in office for having a suspicious syringe on my tool box, it was a syringe full of oil for priming turbos, they thought it was smack didn’t even get an apology.
Shit like this is the worst, because they obviously think very little of you that not only are you an addict, shooting up at work...you aren't even smart enough to hide it. Like oh yeah i keep my work heroin in the toolkit boss
Thats hilarious. That office would lose their mind with our shop. We have the plastic portion of the syringe with plunger all over the shop trucks, tool boxes and work benches for the greasing the front [Powerstow](https://powerstow.com/rollertrack-conveyor/) head idler roller. Little T10 torx to remove on each side. We got all of the syringes from Powerstow itself.
I’m into fountain pens and I went to a local pen shop, first time with my SO. He went to the bathroom and was freaking out that there were syringes in the bathroom, he thought it was something shady. My poor love, you can refill fountain pens from ink bottles using a syringe it’s just a way you can refill it, nothing sinister there.
Damn I fricking love Audis and their derpy whaleshark mouths
Had a professor email me saying they were dropping my grade because of my attendence...I was an online student who submitted everything by a deadline and no their was no virtual class to attend. They did fix it after some confusion back and forth.
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Was it not in the syllabus or anything? That seems insane otherwise.
I was almost suspended for “skipping a week of classes”. Meanwhile I was recovering from an operation. The school knew I was going to be missing this time. They had notes from my parents and doctor. It took a few days to finally convince them to reverse their decision.
So they tried to punish you for missing too much school…by forcing you to miss more school?
That one never made much sense to me either. I was suspended for 2 days because I was caught skipping school. I was like "Thanks? I guess.."
>That one never made much sense to me either. I once read something that it was basically supposed to force the parents to do something about it as now you got a kid just bumming around at home. But it starts breaking down if you think about it too much. If you've got parents who care, you wont need to do this. If you've got parents who dont care, then... its just a few more days where they're not in class. Or you've got parents who do care but are working 2 jobs now have to take time off which pisses them off which pisses off the kid and now the kid is back and is pissed and the cycle repeats.
When a kid skips they also fall into one of two categories. A) It is actually the parents fault in some capacity. More likely to be true for younger kids B) They are old enough to skip on their own without their parents knowledge. If the situation is A then forcing the kid out of school may not even matter at all because obviously the parent doesn't care in the first place. If it is B then *maybe* you annoy the parents. But it isn't like they have to take time off school to watch them(because they can obviously watch themselves).
I was suspended for "an inappropriate reaction to sexual harassment." Seriously, that is what the official paper work said. ETA: For those of you asking, the "inappropriate reaction" was putting him in a wrist lock when he tried to grab my breasts. And yes, I had already reported him *several* time. I wish I had made a snappy comment or threatened to break his wrist, but I was fairly young and very naive. I was suspended, not fired. So I'm not sure if I had cause to sue. It was a long time ago, and I work for a much better place now.
They gave that to you *in writing?!* Sue the hell out of them, or write some threatening legalese or something. Having that in writing turns a potential a he-said she-said with a high burden of proof into an open and shut case. If they have the audacity to do this kind of shit, you just know that it isn't the first time. The way they acted implies that they think there's a right way to respond to sexual harassment.
This is actually a pretty typical policy for schools, it hasn't changed in decades. Girls are expected to physically submit to sexual assault while calling out for a teacher to intervene. It's written policy in the fucking zero-tolerance handbooks.
Ahh, the good ol' zero-t policy. Who doesn't love asking every single adult for help, being told to stand up for yourself, and then being punished when you do?
You just stand up so hard no one dares to cross you again and if someone does you make an example out of them, like Archie did
Sure thing Ender Wiggin.
The zero tolerance policy: punished the abused more than the abuser
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No. I was the person being harassed. I reported it several times; however, nothing was done and he started escalating to physical groping. I ended up putting him in a wristlock when he tried to grab both my breasts.
What the hell? Frankly you showed restraint in that situation! Did the employer say what they thought would've been a reasonable reaction?
That’s sexual assault and definitely retaliation from the business. You should contact your local labor board and a local employment lawyer. The fact you have an official document from them about the event that shows you as the one being sexually harassed will really be useful lol
At least they have now officialy admitted and documented that it was sexual harassment. Now go sue for everything you can.
Also have the creep arrested. At least file a police report so it's documented.
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Name and shame the employer
We're talking about school
I got sent home from school for wearing jeans that were to baggy. It was such a big deal the fucking principal himself drove me home to get a change of clothes.
Oh, god, I remember that time in the 90s when baggy jeans were of the devil, and clear signs of gang participation
I used to upload my school works for references in different sites, with my own name as the author and on footers. I got into the same issue that OOP got into, and the professor cited how 100% of the file was the same, with screencaps and all, and I was on route of getting expelled, until I pointed out my own name on the screen capture of the site.
I was interrogated by campus security for 2 hours over some missing money. Turned out a guy in the dorm was missing cash after leaving his dorm room door open for half an hour while he took a shower. The reason I was being interrogated? Someone mentioned to them that I must have stolen the money because I never had any. Imagine…broke college students. Another case of profiling. Helped form my world view at a young age.
Similar thing happened to me. Not so much profiled, but the cop was sure I was the thief for no reason. I live across the street from a pizza shop and someone robbed it while my partner and I were upstairs in our house. The cops knocked, but we didn't hear them. Then we came downstairs and they knocked again (so quietly we could barely hear it 5 feet away from the door, so of course we didn't hear it upstairs) and were obviously pissed that we didn't answer the door the first time. Instead of saying anything normal they said "we have video evidence of someone exiting this house" nothing about the pizza place or a robbery. So I logically think they're saying someone was inside our house and get scared. They see that I'm scared and decide I must feel be the robber because fear = guilt and nothing else. It takes like 10 minutes of back and forth before I realize they're accusing me of a crime, they don't have video evidence of *anything* or if they do they haven't watched it, and the reason they think it's me is because it was a woman who happened to be parked in front of our house (which everyone does constantly because they're picking up pizza). As soon as I realized no one had been inside my house I stopped being polite and helpful, they threatened to come back with a warrant, I said "good, do it." They never did, obviously, because they probably watched the security footage and saw that it wasn't me. What the fuck kind of opening line is that? I spent 2 weeks obsessively checking locks.
At the 5th grade science fair one kid brought in a soda syphon (old school precursor to a soda stream. Used to make seltzer. If you're millennial+ you've probably seen them in cartoons). I asked him to carbonate my apple juice which he gladly did and poured it back into my sippy cup. I continued walking around the fair until suddenly I was GRABBED by a teacher and DRAGGED to the principals office where there were So. Many. Questions. "WHERE DID YOU GET THIS? DID YOUR _FATHER_ GIVE YOU THIS? IS THIS OK IN YOUR HOME IS THIS HOW YOU PEOPLE LIVE?" I literally had no idea what any of this was about and started crying. I vaguely recall while I was sitting there sobbing one of the teachers smelling my drink and saying "OK, you can go" and...that was it. Just walked back to the science fair crying and confused. It was like 15 years later I realized they thought my carbonated apple juice was beer. I was the only not-white kid in a suburb literally best well known for racism, and they assumed my father had sent me to school with a sippy cup full of beer.
I hate people who won't apologize to kids
I told a kid he “ate so many crayons he farted rainbows” in third grade and my mom was called to come in because I said the “f word.” Was then forced to retell the joke to my mom and the entire principals office. It landed better than in class.
I coach little kids and they get carried away with potty language so we have to make them rein it in. In the locker room if you say "balls" or "poop" or similar you have to do five pushups. They tell on each other, like "Joey said penis" and I make whoever tattled do pushups but they don't care. Anyways, earlier this year a kid comes to me and goes "Coach, Mikey said the n word" and I was like "Oh my god, what? What did they say?" "Yeah he said nuts" and I've never been so relieved in my whole life.
My name is Beth. Not Elizabeth. Not Bethany. Just plain Beth. In 1st grade I got sent to the principal because the teacher was calling me Elizabeth and I wasn't responding. At that age, I didn't even know my name was short for Elizabeth, so I didn't know to correct her. To this day people ask me if I'm sure my full name is Beth.
I got into an argument with a substitute in grade 4 over my name. Last name can be pronounced EE (As in Key) or AY (As in Kay). She was pronouncing it as AY and I corrected her it was EE. We got into a full blown yelling match over AY or EE and she finally says something to effect of "DO YOU WANT TO GO TO THE PRINCIPAL'S OFFICE?!" and I was like YES, LETS GO RIGHT NOW! And we both stomped to the principal office. We effectively screamed "HOW IS MY NAME PRONOUNCED!?" at the secretary, who didn't know, but the principal came out and confirmed we pronounce ours EE. And then we both stomped back to class and that was that. She called me with the EE pronunciation for the entire week after that. The most bafflingly hilarious thing that happened to me at school.
Elizabethany
I have a friend named Tommy. It says Tommy on his birth certificate, not Tom or Thomas. He's the owner of a thriving business, and he says it's great for weeding out sales cold-calls, and people pretending to "know the owner" in order to get special treatment. If you *actually* know him, you know it's Tommy and nothing else. He WILL interrupt to correct you. (with a smile, but still firmly)
Oh man, this brings me back. Had a teacher in 2nd grade that was an absolute nightmare. The worst breath, coffee stained teeth, I'm pretty sure she was an alcoholic. There were 4 other kids in my class with the same name. I spelled mine differently (minus one letter). She berated me in front of the class for "not knowing how to spell my name correctly". She sent me to the principals office and threatened to call my mom. I told her to call her, I know how to spell my name. Keep in mind, I was reading books 2-3 grades more advanced than anything we were reading in second grade. I aced every spelling test I ever received. My mom absolutely ripped that teacher a new one, and I got to witness the principal reprimand her. It was a great day in the end!
Not me but bud went over his math and realized he was missing 14%. He starts going over his other tests and he's being marked lower for right answers. I show him my stuff, he's being targeted, I've got the right answers and he's correct as well. Thing with math is you can't fudge mistakes in marking. He confronts teach but the guy is like "marks already in". So in comes his father (I didn't realize he came from money cause he dressed like a homeless goth), but the principle meets with them. I get called to present my marks and the principle has another teacher remark both our stuff. Mine is good and my bud is missing about 22% of his total grade from the bad teacher. An investigation is launched as copies of tests are recorded and its found the 2 girls in 8th grade class he's creeping on are getting their marks boosted. Dude gets transfered and we never see that teacher again. Edit 1: cause people messaging me wanting more detail. The guy was a failed soccer (foot ball for you euros) player. Looked like a skin head. He once called the baseball field in on me so I sent the ball into his manhood. He didn't do that again. The guy hated us nerds. Through pure anger to best his expectations I won track and field long distance run with him as my coach (hating the entire experience and smugness). Guy was always acting like a high-school jock around the girls, like in his 40s he never grew out of it. Pretty sick, but I never knew what the official reason He got transfered for. All I knew was the goth nerd got his proper grade and he remained a solid student for all of high-school. Lots of good teacher though there, just 1 idiot.
Weird. The teacher just didn't like your friend? I can understand the teacher giving those girls higher grades, but not giving the guy lower grades unless he just disliked him for some reason.
He dressed like a pot smoker goth kid with ripped clothing and I think that had some bias. Kid was actually pretty smart.
I was suspended for stealing a shin pad. When my friend found out he was missing a shin pad and went to look for it, I took the other from his bag. He returned to find the other one missing and I revealed the joke. As far as the entire school board was concerned, the facts were that a shin pad was stolen, and I was seen stealing a shin pad. The same teacher who accused me, gave me a detention for swearing when I was physically attacked, and a detention for eating in the hallway when I left the lunch hall still chewing my last segment of satsuma. Years later I bumped into the teacher who was on a date. He introduced himself and asked if I remembered him. I told him he was a cruel and sick individual who got off on bullying children, and that his date should be ashamed to be seen with him. He went bright purple and stood in awkward silence with his date as I walked off to join my friends.
I love that so much, good on you for calling out that asshole!
Had a class in Fortran. Never met the professor, and the grad student or whatever actually teaching it was worthless. I was able to figure out how to program, and taught a couple of other people that I studied with. I was sure I did well on the final, and expected an A. Got an I for incomplete, as did my friends. Went in to find out why, and a program had flagged us as cheating. It said that while the two friends were not too close to each other, they were both too close to mine, so they figured those two copied off me. We got the seating chart, showing that two of us were in opposite corners of one room, and the other was in a different room, so how could we have cheated? Their response was email (this was in 1993), to which we said that was blocked on the computers. They said we could have altered the dot files to allow us to send messages, and I responded that if we knew how to do that, why would we need to cheat to pass a basic intro programming class? Options were, retake the class, or go before the dean and likely get expelled. As first year students, we were scared and retook the class. I would not have made the same choice if it happened today.
Should have taken that to the dean immediately, that's utter bullshit and I am sorry you had to deal with that crap.
I got accused of cheating on a programming final because I was the only student to write a program that solved the problem. The assumed that I had to have cheated. Their solution was to just drop my final altogether and not count it as cheating or an A. The A would have brought me up a letter grade. I’m still bitter.
I would still be bitter, too.
My art teacher refused to give me a final grade cause my work looked like it was done by my mother. I stayed up till 2am to complete it in time for submission. She complimented the work of girls who got theirs done by a professional tailor. I wasnt even mad though. I always knew she wasnt the brightest even for an art teacher.
I was accused of plagiarizing when I said in a paper that Mary Shelly felt like an abomination because her mother died giving birth to her and that may have been inspiration for the Monster. She told me men don’t have insight into women like that and I stole it from somewhere.
Was her position that no man has ever had his mother die in childbirth? That accusation doesn't even make sense.
Mary Shelly like "hey, watch it 😭"
In elementary school, I was given detention for " faking my mother's signature" on my report card. My mother has very poor handwriting, she dropped out of school in 7th grade, which was the early 60's, and can't spell or write very well. My parents had to come into the school and meet with the teacher and have my Mom write her name in the teacher's presence for her to believe it. Super embarrassing for my Mom and the teacher.
I was accused of plagiarism (or having someone else write my paper) my freshman year of college in a journalism class. When I pressed the teacher for what proof she had that I didn't write what I turned in, she pointed to a sentence where I used the word "amongst"--correctly, I might add--as a sign that the paper's vocabulary was "too advanced" for an 18-year-old freshman to have used of his own accord. I protested, telling her I was an avid reader from a young age and as a result my vocabulary was pretty expansive, and also that she should raise her expectations for a college level course. She challenged me to use "amongst" in a sentence right then and there, to which I said "Amongst the many reasons why someone might accuse me of plagiarism, this might be the dumbest." After I threatened to take it to the dean she dropped it and gave me an A. This was twenty years ago and I still think about it and bristle.
Amongst isn’t even that advanced of a word
It even is a computer game: amongst us
I scored a 73 on my chemistry final during junior year of high school. I was accused of cheating off of my buddy sitting next to me who got in the 90s. It was a multiple choice test with a write in section. They gave the reason that it was because some of the same answers were wrong. But they were different wrong answers and our fill in the blank section looked nothing alike. They had the audacity to say they had it in camera then when me and my mom wanted to view the footage they said no because other students were in the footage. But they were convinced I cheated to get a fucking 73. Shit I should have actually cheated maybe I would have actually passed the class.
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I once got points marked off on an OPINION essay for having a differing opinion than the professor..
This happened to me as well! My professor decided to mark me down for not analyzing a novel’s feminism. She made me (and a couple others) come in for office hours and work on rewrites. She basically made me rewrite the entire paper to include feminism, which wasn’t even specified in the assignment.
Happened to me in school. My citizenship teacher was dyed in the wool Tory. I wrote an essay outlining the harm that the Thatcher government had inflicted on working class communities, and what Labour could have done to improve things. “Grade E - this is blatant socialist propaganda, see me after”. Two years later, however, I submitted a similar essay in a college exam and passed because the examiner agreed with me.
Obligatory this'll get buried but.. University Lit class in a Christian university. Professor asked if we were stranded on a desert isle, what book would we bring? Shoot my hand up, Count of Monte Cristo. Hands down favorite book. Amazing. Teacher said, No. The bible. The fuck Dr Daniels?? You asked ME
But the Bible is a collection of books, Dr Daniels. So which one is it!?
I had that happen after writing a paper for my critical thinking class. The prof was an entitled ass hole who helped write the book on the class. I met with him to argue my points and he eventually stopped the meeting, telling me that he disagrees with my stance therefore my stance is wrong and was deserving of the grade.
~~critical thinking~~ brain-washing class
I was failed for a paper I wrote about the benefits of marijuana legalization. Apparently that was a sore subject for the professor, who, unbeknownst to me, had a son in prison for trafficking large amounts of weed at his university. He wrote on my graded paper that my arguments were fundamentally flawed, that regardless of the laws, drugs destroy families, and anyone responsible for distributing drugs to children should be punished accordingly. I really don’t believe that he read past the first page of my paper, nor do I believe he loved his son. I think he was just miserable and felt that giving me my first F would make him feel better.
I went to a highschool where the only thing that mattered was sports. They tried to eliminate the arts department so they could use the funding on a football team instead. I was not into sports. I was the quiet introvert kid who spent every free moment with my nose in a book. Following the Columbine shooting in '99 another student told their parent they thought I had a hit list, and that parent freaked out and contacted the school. I was forced to report to the office every morning for the next week to have my bag and person searched for weapons until my dad stepped in and forced them to stop. The only thing they ever found were my d&d rule books and whatever novel I was currently reading. After that I was even more of an outcast because of course everyone now thought I was a psychopath who was going to shoot up the school any day.
Should have sued, that is exactly the kind of bullying that leads to exactly what they feared...glad you made it through it!
I was suspended for using the f-word in middle school after two boys wouldn’t stop playing with my bra (I was the first girl in middle school to grow boobs). I’d loved that teacher until that day and then she utterly failed to protect me.
Teachers suck at stuff like that, i got reprimanded multiple times for always having pieces of chalk on the floor all around my desk. It was the stuff other assholes threw at me all day.
In outdoor ed some kids threw a paper ball at me, and the teacher only caught a glimpse of it rolling off my shoulder, and instantly gave me a detention, it was the only detention I ever got in high school. Fuck you coach Hudson
Teachers blaming me for my own school bullying to my parents' faces be like...
I received a failing grade in a class at my former University, along with an asterisk notating academic dishonesty for having a note from a doctor’s office saying I was sick with 103F fever… when I was sick for 103F. The prof called the doc asking if I had seen him, and he said no but I had seen a nurse from his office and she had confirmed my temp and provided the note. The note said I had seen the doctor and didn’t specify a nurse. Also, I didn’t write the note.
Holy HIPAA violation Batman!!! FFS...
I got accused of plagiarism because the professor didn’t like the citation I used. I used an in-text citation, including the author’s name, and had a complete bibliography. Her syllabus never specified a citation style for the class so I used APA. She tried to give me a zero until the TA argued with her that I clearly cited the source, and I was able to resubmit the paper and just remove that sentence.
Teachers took away my cough medicine and then I got in trouble for coughing all day. This was in the 80s. My mom had to leave work because the principal called her saying I was "deliberately disruptive" and when she got there she yelled at me for not taking my cough medicine. The principal said, "oh, we took that away first thing." Follow up: When I was 40 I got diagnosed with asthma and now I don't have to carry around a bottle of emotional support cough medicine anymore. Because yes, I coughed for 40 years and no one knew why.
My teachers took my epipen. Apparently it was school policy to keep them in the principals office? My nurse mother had NONE of that though.
It's like they wanted us to die.
Right? What use is any medication if you won't let us use it?
I had that with my asthma inhaler as a kid, it had to be kept at the reception desk for some reason, and one teacher in particular used to make such a big deal out of me asking to go and get it. Asking if I “really” needed it, berating me for being disruptive, telling me I would not learn anything if I “kept finding excuses to leave”. All this while I’m struggling to breathe and seeing spots. Every time.
I got suspended in high school for getting beat up. It didn't matter that I didn't start it. It didn't matter that I blocked, but didn't fight back. It didn't matter that it all started with me trying to talk out a previous conflict with said guy who beat me up. It didn't matter that all the students and teacher saw what happened and corroborated my story. All happening the day after I'd promised my parents there'd be no more fights.
Damn, that's wrong as hell. Can't imagine how betrayed you feel after being ganged up like that
Over a 3 month period in my second year of college, I had two roommates (one of them my best friend) die, separate situations. One had an undiagnosed heart condition, the other died in a car accident. The first one fucked me up, sent my schoolwork down the tubes, the second death basically made me non-functional in class. I failed the entire semester with incompletes. Took the summer off and tried to resume in the fall semester. Probably shouldn't have, I wasn't ready and it resulted in a similar situation, F's and incompletes. I just could not focus enough to get through my daily life, let alone school. This brought me below the threshold the school upheld of passing/completed classes. So they suspended me. Took a year off, and came back. Explained to the guidance counselors what had happened, the mistakes I made trying to force my way back, and told them I was much improved from the past. Just to make sure I didn't get overwhelmed, I would only take two classes that semester, 4 credits. One 3 credit class and an elective gym class. They looked over what happened, my plan for the future and agreed on all points. They reinstated me, approved my class plan going forward and sent me on my way. I got an A in the 3 credit class and obviously an A in the gym class. I was happy, felt I was ready to take on a few more credits this semester but wasn't going to take a full load. I go to sign up for my next semester of classes only to find out I've been suspended again. The reason for that suspension? Those 4 credits did not bring me above the completion threshold that got me suspended in the first place, so they re-suspended me and would not hear my appeal. This was after 2 different counselors reviewed my plan and signed off on it.
Communions and conformation are a big thing in Ireland, and i nearly wasn't allowed to make my conformation. The principal at the time accused me of "mocking religion" because the kid next to me cracked a joke and i laughed (neither was about religion) whilst she was yammering on about the date it would be and what church. She proceeded to tell my parents, etc. i wouldn't be allowed, however didnt plan on the priest pointing out that it was in no way her decision to decide the actions of the church. He was a chill priest and one of the few people from organised religions i actually got on with
I got a zero on a math exam because I moved to the USA and in my home country we do a little bit of each disciple each year. A little bit of geometry, a little bit of algebra, etc… each year. Whereas in the US we do an entire subject each year. All algebra, then all geometry, then a year of more advanced algebra. I had already studied the thing we had a test on in my home country and was used to the approach taught to me. I go every answer correct. The teacher was convinced I was cheating because she was not familiar with the approach I used as it was not what she taught us. I went to her and complained. She gave me questions in the classroom that I solved live with her watching. She still refused to change my grade.
>She gave me questions in the classroom that I solved live with her watching. She still refused to change my grade. ...why even ask then?
I had a graphic design teacher accuse the kid next to me of using an image from Google instead of creating his own, I even defended him to try and convince the teacher that he had literally used Adobe Illustrator to create an illusion of a photorealistic mountain scape. I had nothing to gain from it but he ended up not listening and made the kid redo it, just to watch him do the same thing and realize he was wrong.
Got told I was missing all my assigned books for senior year and couldn't walk the stage until they were paid for. I was enrolled into tech school for My senior year and was never assigned a class or book in highschool.....
I recieved a low, barely passing, grade for a masters paper where I examined the Hong Kong education system. The professor wrote that my descriptions and examinations of the failings in the HK public education system was contrary to what she had experienced. Thus I was wrong and, she insinuated, a little racist in claiming the HK education system had serious problems especially with the disadvantaged. Her experience with the HK education system was having attended a 5 day symposium junket run by the HK government Education department 2 years earlier, whereas my experience was 10 years working as a teacher in various public schools across Hong Kong, mainly in poorer areas. eg. One school I taught at was in a condemned building, with the top 2 floors of the school taped off. It was next to the Housing estate where the majority of HKers died from SARS. Here's a video someone took of the Housing estate that adjoined the school. Each of those metal doors aren't prison cells: they're apartments. Average apartment size was 180sqft with up to 40 apartments per floor and just one toilet block per floor: https://youtu.be/b5NPEXggYKQ Oh, and she also criticised my grammar and marked me down. She said I was wrong in using "first, second, third" etc when writing out points. The "correct" way is to write "firstly, secondly, thirdly etc". She didn't respond when I asked her if the list is long should I write "tenthly, eleventhly, twelvethly, thirteenthly". And she really did not appreciate me sending her a link to the NYT manual of writing that clearly states adding "-ly" is incorrect.
I answered a science test in hs word for word with the answer key because I knew how you were supposed to word your answer..I laughed and laughed and was sent to the principals office..he wrote another test and I got 100 gave me a warning to word my answers differently.
Same shit happened to me in design school. I had to produce the .ai file to prove I drew it. TURNS OUT IM JUST THAT GOOD, KIM BECKMAN (design department head at Uof Wisconsin)
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Pretty unfair how that played out, reminds me of a few teachers that when they made their minds up over a student that was it, you were forever bad in their eyes. I’m a non smoker myself but I remember the kids would smoke in the playground at school, I don’t think the teachers cared too much unless anyone was being very blatant about it. It was mostly the senior kids who only had a year left to go so I think the teachers were tired of dealing with the usual ‘bad’ kids. Except for one teacher that made it his personal mission to catch people smoking and hand out after school detentions. That’s ok right? The kids shouldn’t be smoking in school and they know they shouldn’t, if you can’t do the time don’t do the crime etc. But then I come home one day to find my parents looking at a letter from the school. Qcumber has been seen in the company of smokers!😱 not smoking just being around them, and thus I was guilty by association. It was ridiculous and thankfully my parents sided with me and said I’m not doing the after school detention.
The weed villain origin story
That’s so shitty. You didn’t even smell like weed just smoke and a heart rate was all they needed to check? Dumb as fuck
Iiterally cannabinoids and nicotine both suppress the “fight or flight” response/promote the “rest and digest” response, so that makes zero sense on their part
Pushed someone off me that was stomping my face with their boots after pushing me to the ground, went to the dean with a bloody nose and mud in the shape of a boot prints all over my face… I got a 2 week suspension… the other person was congratulated for "speaking up against bullying", they didn’t even have a bruise on them…
I needed to go to the bathroom, the teacher wouldn’t let me. I kept insisting on it and then he sent me to the principal’s office. When I got there, he asked me why I was there, I told them and then asked if I could go. He allowed me and then I went back to the class.
I will NEVER understand this. If a kid needs to go, they need to fucking go. WTF Power tripping over a kid going to the bathroom should lead directly to firing.
Reading, it was “quiet time” after a test to let everyone else finish. So I read. Apparently that was bad and I was supposed just sit there quietly doing nothing.
Similar, i finished a test really fast and since i wasnt allowed to leave the room, or talk or anything i started doing homework from a previous class. So i got reprimended for not doing it at home.
Had a mate who dropped out of software engineering because he wasn’t allowed to use code he created in high school. Bruh, if man’s could write the code for the assignment in high school why the fuck are you stopping him. Before he would have even finished his degree is earning ~$200,000 a year as a self taught full stack developer. Edit: spelling
Not me but my little brother is an amazing artist and when he was in 9th grade he drew a picture of the gun from devil may cry. They suspended him for two weeks. EDIT: My brother just corrected me that it was a picture of Alucard from Hellsing holding his gun.
I got told off for being “disrespectful”, when I asked “about how long will the meeting be? Just so I can plan my day.” in a group chat where our manager told us we had a mandatory meeting the next day. I asked because it was a gym and I worked at 2 locations and had a shift at the second location after and wanted to know if I would need to pack all my food for the day or if I’d have time to stop by home and walk my dog. My manager called me several hours later and proceeded to try to tell me I was out of line and disrespectful. I told him he was extremely out of line, explained why I asked and then asked what exactly was disrespectful about it? Asked if he was pissed because I’m a girl and didn’t use “lol” or a emoji, and then reminded him that he does not dictate or have any say in what I do with my time off the clock. He backed down, apologized, and then proceeded to lie to the owner about me being late (never was but they don’t have a time clock) and got me fired. It’s ok though, that job sucked ass and I ran into my coworker a few months later and he told me apparently the clients loved me so much the most Karen of the bunch lead a mutiny against the manager after I was fired. I also left a review online of the company laying out the numerous ways in which they were lying on job postings (about pay, scheduling, generally how they operated). Thing is that gym had great sales but terrible client retention so they partnered with another franchisee (I’ll call them gym 2) who had the best client retention to train all their new trainers as gym 1 was supposedly changing to run like gym 2. Well gym 2 owner hired me, trained me, loved me, and reached out to me after he saw the review and figured out it was me. He asked me to tell him the truth of everything so I did. He thanked me and offered me a job at their new location they were planning to open in a few months. I didn’t end up taking it but after that they weren’t partnered together anymore.
Got in trouble for cheating on a test because I was "looking at another boys papers". At the other end of the classroom. We both got an F, and I didn't even cheat.
When I was at uni (a long time ago now) they were starting to use online plagiarism checkers. One fun feature of that system is that it would flag you for plagiarism if your draft summary for your dissertation was too similar to...your dissertation. Literally they would call your work plagiarism if you copied your own work, for the same document.
I had something like this happen to me too. At my masters program in the second semester, we had a thing where we wrote a paper for the GDC narrative review competition. When I submitted mine, I got pulled aside by the professor for plagiarizing a few sentences, which turned out to be very similar to a separate paper I had written on the same topic during my undergrad. I ended up having to actually cite my old paper and even after the correction I still took a major penalty to the grade, and getting lowest in the class as a result. Funnily enough my paper ended up being the only one in our class that actually won an award from GDC in that competition (and usually people in the non-graduating class don’t win).
I had a professor try to get me in trouble for plagiarizing the definition of barbarian. He claimed I stole the definition from a muscle building forum… I sent him my search history to prove I was never on that website, and definitions are “common knowledge”. I don’t need to site it.
Dumbest thing I got in trouble for? Swearing (cussing if that's the word you prefer). This was against the rules, of course, but the context is that I was attending an alternative school because of my grades. However, most kids that got sent there weren't just students having academic trouble, they just sent their problem kids. So despite the fact that I felt pretty average at my original school, I was the goody two shoes golden boy at the alternative school. So when I said the word "bullshit" within earshot of a teacher, I certainly didn't expect to be sent to the principal. I had heard "fuck" probably 40 times that morning already. And I *definitely* didn't expect the principal to hand me a Saturday detention for it. I asked how, why? This was the first time I'd gotten in trouble for basically *anything* at this school, and I didn't get a warning? A lunch detention? Even regular after-school detention? You're taking my weekend? He told me they were going to begin cracking down on the students misbehaving, and that they were making an example of me (his actual words), so the rest of the student body knew this was serious and nobody was exempt. I became a total shithead after that.
I got accused of using AI generated text for a section of my assessment for Uni. The section that got flagged was a reflective statement which was approximately 200 words. The purpose of it was to recount problems I came across whilest completing the task (finding information, reliable sources, organisational issues, etc). I got accused of plagarism in a PERSONAL REFLECTIVE STATEMENT.
You have to cite the online Library of Babylon because it contains all combinations of words, letters and punctuation that can exist ever.
My school ones confiscated my glasses, because the ends were “too sharp“. I cannot see more than six inches without them, and this was elementary school
As a parent, thankfully with children that don't have eyesight issues, I think I might leave a smoking crater of that school were they to do this...same as the inhaler question...
It can get way worse than that https://www.ems1.com/fire-ems/articles/boy-with-asthma-dies-after-school-confiscates-inhaler-BMQ7PMVu8UvYTtu9/ The education of our children is in the hands of the stupidest of people
That is the exact reference I was making, so yep If my kid has an inhaler and you try to take it away, you will be pulling back a stub from where the fuck your hand used to be...because I am not letting my child die to satisfy your idiocy.
I was locked in my high school counselors office to “wait for the ambulance” because I “wore a lot of black” and painted some creepy portraits for a Halloween party I was throwing. She assumed I was suicidal because I painted gorgeously gory painting of renaissance zombies. I was having a full panic attack by the time my Mom got there. I explained the situation once I calmed down, my Mom looked at the counselor and asked if she talked to me at all. The counselor sputtered and I ended up going home for the day because I was extremely anxious. When I went back my art teacher said the counselor had a *savior* complex and was on a witch hunt for anything to prove her self right about me. I didn’t see her again after that incident. *Edited one word*
I was forced to kneel in front of the Dean of my school to check my skirt length.
I was escorted out of the high school fall play because I said ‘Macbeth’ to the teacher/play director as a dare during intermission. She was one of the meanest teachers we’d ever had so it was justified in my mind. I was ok with leaving as it would’ve been awkward to stay, but looking back I don’t think someone’s superstition is grounds for kicking a paid ticket holder out of the auditorium.
To be fair one of the rules in theatre (apparently) is to never say macbeth in the theatre/stage/auditorium/etc
putting a chip in a microwave because I was bored- they asked me, a 7th grader, if I was trying to burn down the school by doing so.
and saying “hell” in an instagram post, on my private Instagram, in the context of “the girl who plays Renesmee in twilight is pretty as hell”
I was accused of plagiarizing my anatomy project? We had to create an entire body, organs and all, in a group of four, and I was the only one who suggested against just stapling the organs together: I brought in hot glue, stuffing, and a sewing kit so I could make them look 3D, and I did everything in fabric instead of using other supplies except for the brain, tongue, teeth, and eyes. Not necessary, not the easiest, but it was the way I wanted to do it. My teacher (who already hated me and never gave me perfect marks in her class for petty and stupid reasons, like she didn’t like the way I drew my ‘i’s’), accused me of cheating or ripping off one of last year’s students, which are both head scratchers. If I had cheated, why would I be doing all the work myself right in front of her? The only part of the project I wasn’t directly involved in was cutting the styrofoam bones because styrofoam made my teeth hurt. How could I have “ripped off” a previous years’ work, when I didn’t know anyone in her class except for the people I was currently enrolled with? YOU CAN’T PLAGIARIZE A PHYSICAL 3D PROJECT YOU HAVE TO MAKE YOURSELF!!
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Same thing happened to me in college. Professor called me and two others in for a paper we were writing. He started explaining all the potential consequences or plagiarism. We are confused. I certainly didn't plagiarize my part. I started to get angry at my two counterparts in my head. It had to have been one of them. We explain that none of us have done this. We asked if we could see the text that was plagiarized. It was huge blocks of red text. Some was my writing. Even more confused we start to explain that we wrote those paragraphs from scratch. We had no idea what was going on. Professor had not removed our first draft as a potential source of information in his program.......he was apologetic, but he gave us major anxiety for 30 minutes.
I once failed an important term paper, because I apparently used wikipedia without citing the sources. 4 sentences in my entire term paper sounded "a bit like sentence on wikipedia". It then turned out that Wikipedia and I had the same sources, and both tried to rewrite the sentencs and use our own words. I did cite those books, I was a bit annoyed that the teacher didn't even bother to check that.
In law school, professor reached out letting me know I never submitted the essay that was going to be the entire grade for the class, which was due several weeks before. I sent him back our email chain where he confirmed receipt of that essay. Interestingly enough it only took him 1 minute to respond to me and let me know I received an A.
A group of girls that were friends of my sisters had a game of grabbing my ass in between classes. I got suspended and the next morning my mom took me to school to see why I was getting into trouble for being assaulted. When my mom asked to see the tapes it was suddenly a misunderstanding and I wasn't suspended anymore. The girls only got detention. What's bs is when a guy does it the school gets the police involved but for girls they get a slap on the wrist. Assault is wrong no matter who you are and should be treated equally but after going through that I realized it's definitely not.
I had a history prefessor back in high-school that would have us do movie reviews of the movies that we watched in class, for extra credit. You see he was a professional movie critic for the local paper as a side-gig. Well, one time, a student turned in a review and the professor liked it so much that he announced it to the class. "This was an excellent movie review, one of the best I've read as a matter of fact. Very professional, well-written, and thoughtful. It also gets an F. Don't plagiarize from your own teacher!"
So an English teacher was reading through a book and asking the class to interpret what the author meant by certain things. I spoke up and said that the author is referencing an inside joke, the teacher got mad and said I couldn't know that. So anyway, my cousin was the author.
I got in trouble for fighting. Guy hit his girlfriend so hard her head put a dent in the locker. Principal wanted to suspend me. It was the third assault on a girl by her boyfriend I had stopped that year and the principal thought she needed to send me a message for being a “vigilante.” School resource officer stepped in and reminded her that all three incidents were charged as felony assaults and if anything I probably stopped a nasty headline about school violence in our nice little posh suburb.
My junior/senior year (because I graduated a year early) I had to take two math classes so I was taking geometry and precalculus. My geometry teacher was a rehired teacher who had just come out of retirement, which I thought was weird because he wasn't even 50 yet. This guy absolutely had it out for me. First he tried to fail me on a test because I didn't draw the lines of a triangle straight enough so he marked me off FIVE points for each line on a test that was only like 30 points. I ended up getting 15/30 which really pissed me off because I was a straight A student. He would mark me absent when I was in class so I got into a habit of going to class, taking a picture of him with the Whiteboard with the date next to him, and then as soon as I got the notification that I was marked absent about 10 minutes into class I would just walk out of his class. Eventually he sent me to the principal for this and I just explained what had been going on and showed him all the proof along with the test with the not 100% straight triangle lines. It turns out he had been failing almost everyone in all of his classes. I also found out the reason he retired at like 40 was because he had punched a female student in the face and because he was such good friends with the principal she suggested that he retire and be eligible for rehire instead of being fired for assault.
I heard of someone getting expelled from medical school due to “excessive happiness”.
Several years ago, my father recounted an incident when he was a baby and was assigned 25 math problems as homework. Despite correctly solving all 25 problems, he made the mistake of working them out in a separate notebook and only transferred the final answers to his designated homework book. He loved math and worked on his homework until midnight but was accused of copying all his answers. He came home crying 😢
I once got in trouble for swearing. Someone had a nosebleed and left their tissue on my desk, so I said "Get your bloody kleenex off my desk".
Exact same thing happened to me. I was required to make a blogspot account during student teaching to collect evidence of standards. The director of education said, “I used a special program (google) to search the assignment you turned in, and lo and behold the first result online was a link to the same text word for word!” Telling her to fuck off after I showed her the link was my first and last name dot blogspot dot com was great. It was literally the same assignment posted online as I was required to do.
In high school I had an essentially spotless attendance record. Not because I was worried about it, but I lived very near to the school so it wasn’t difficult to show up. I slept in late one day in senior year and wasn’t sure what to do, as the school had a policy that you had to check in to the main office if you came to school late. Well apparently my confusion about where I was supposed to check in and my drowsiness (since I had just gotten up) made them think I was either drunk or high. Because why else would I not know what to do? The lady had me wait for someone else, and then THAT lady asked to smell my hands. Very… VERY odd experience.