Banned from grad for senior prank

[lizbud]

Why do you assume that? Nice way to view teenagers I know my mom sure as heck wouldn't pay for it. It's stupid remarks like that, that make younger people disrespect their elders..

It's clear you don't understand respect. It is earned with wise choices
in the adult world. The world owes you nothing but a chance to earn respect
for yourself.

[K9soul]

Things have sure changed since I was in school, and I graduated in '93. I can't even imagine speaking in such a way to anyone when I was a kid, but especially an adult, or rolling my eyes at them. Maybe it is just how I was raised, but I certainly thank my mom for that. I always try to be respectful, even if it is not being reciprocated. It will just get you a lot farther in life with people you deal with on a day-to-day basis.

[Alysser]

I know this is off topic, but there are some teachers I would just will NEVER like. I never have talked back to a teacher, I always try and be polite to them. Saying sorry when I knock something down, saying thanks when they help me with something I don't understand, but some teachers I just cannot STAND, like my spanish teacher. She has no respect for my class, so even though I show her some respect, I will never like her.

Yes, I guess with certain kids, they have a right to yell at them, and I fully agree alot of the time but when a kid is DOING nothing wrong we get yelled at anyway. I hate when one kid or several, not the whole class, does something wrong, we all get extra work or extra lectures. ALOT of teachers at my school(especially the spanish teacher) pick on certain kids and it annoys the crap out of me. Please don't say you don't believe me, because if you weren't in our class you would have no idea what I am talking about and I guess will never fully understand. You can choose NOT to believe this whole post but I know it's true and it's really sad, IMO.

[sparks19]

I have to be honest here..... While I cannot stand it when kids speak like that to their elders and was always taught to not speak that way to my elders.... my temper did get the best of me once in highschool.

This is gonna sound like the stories your parents tell you about walking up hill both ways lol....

I missed the bus one day.... I could have just said screw it and stayed home and had my dad write me a note the next day excusing my absence... but I decided to walk..... in the middle of winter.... and it took me an hour and a half to walk there. So I missed my first class and got to my second class late (which was a gym class) when I got to class my teacher was harrassing me about being late.... so I told her my story about missing the bus and walking to school from where I lived in the cold and snow lol just so I wouldn't miss school all together. She didn't believe me and told me it was a likely story.... LOL I got so mad... I said "You don't believe me? feel my F*cking skin.... you think I just liek to sit out in the cold and snow just so I can be late for class? are you a crazy lady?" I got detention LOL but let me tell ya it was well worth it.

Was I in the right? no but sometimes your temper just gets the better of you.... I am sure everyone here has had a time when they have said something they probably shouldn't have said ....

[Lady's Human]

Said something I possibly shouldn't have to someone in charge? Yes. All the time in the Army.

Said something I shouldn't have to a teacher?

Never.

Not attending graduation would have been the least of my worries.

[K9soul]

Yes, I guess with certain kids, they have a right to yell at them, and I fully agree alot of the time but when a kid is DOING nothing wrong we get yelled at anyway. I hate when one kid or several, not the whole class, does something wrong, we all get extra work or extra lectures. ALOT of teachers at my school(especially the spanish teacher) pick on certain kids and it annoys the crap out of me. Please don't say you don't believe me, because if you weren't in our class you would have no idea what I am talking about and I guess will never fully understand. You can choose NOT to believe this whole post but I know it's true and it's really sad, IMO.

Alyssa, I never agreed with teachers who punish a whole class because of one student's behavior either. Their philosophy was it'd make the rest of us get hard on the other kid and make him/her behave, but it didn't work that way. I know there are difficult teachers, I had some too. You'll find there will always be difficult people to deal with no matter where you are, supervisors, co-workers, neighbors, landlords, etc etc. You just have to do the best you can and get through it, while trying to keep a hold of your own integrity. You can't control how they behave but you can control how you behave. I would never say that all teachers are infallible or kind or behave the way they should. They are people just like the rest of us and there are ones who behave poorly and ones who conduct themselves in a more respectful way. All you can do is try to be the bigger person. It won't be too long and you won't have to deal with that particular teacher anymore. I know how frustrating it can be.