How many detentions and suspensions did you get in high school?

[free my dawg]

Probably about 5 detentions, although I should have really should have been awarded about 100. I just managed to wriggle my way out things effectively.

"Wriggle."

[Lief 🗽]

0 and 0.

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

A ton.  Mostly for being late to school or just taking the day off.  Some for being a smart ass.  A few for refusing to take my NY Mets hat off.  One out-of-school suspension for calling a teacher a "whore". 

[Simfan34]

A ton.  Mostly for being late to school or just taking the day off.  Some for being a smart ass.  A few for refusing to take my NY Mets hat off.  One out-of-school suspension for calling a teacher a "whore". 

Christ!

[GaussLaw]

At least five.  I've lost count. 

The way it worked in my school is that we were sent to the Student Assignment Center (SAC).  We say, "I got the sac, man" or "I got sacked."  SAC was horrible.  Normally school went from 8:30 till about 3:00, but SAC ran from 8:00 till 3:00.  It was so hard to get there on time, and tardiness added a day extra in SAC.  Also, there was no smoking in SAC.  Remember I grew up before there was a "smoking age."  I've been buying cigarettes since I was old enough to reach the counter, and back in those days high schools commonly allowed smoking.  It was not uncommon to see students smoking at school.  At my school, smoking was allowed outdoors at any time between classes or during lunch, as well as before and after school.  SAC had a strict no smoking policy, and any violation resulted in two days being added to the assignment. 

Typically a student would be assigned to one day in SAC for a small offense such as excessive tardiness to class, three days for cutting class, five days for engaging in fisticuffs, and ten or more days for serious offenses such as smoking weed on campus.  A perfect disciplinary record at SAC meant that a student's assignment was halved.  Ten days, for example, meant that you'd get out after five days if you were really well-behaved.  That never happened to me.  In fact, often a three-day SAC assignment would end up being a 14- or 15-day stay in that hellhole.  It was in a seedy part of town and it was populated by thugs and roughians.  Good students who made one mistake would end up in SAC, being influenced by some pretty unruly elements.  On any day there might be 20 to 30 students there ranging from 9th to 12th grade, and for the most part they were a wild bunch.

Teachers would send the daily assignments via courier to SAC.  For things like music and sports, there'd be no assignment.  You just missed out on practice.  For a chemistry lab, you might be assigned to write a report on that subject.  I put all sorts garbage in them it to see if he actually read them.  For example, once my chemistry teacher had me write a five-page report on Michael Faraday.  I wrote that he was a Satanist who practiced masochism and sadism.  In another report I wrote that Robert Boyle had been abducted by aliens and it caused him to develop a drinking habit.  Got an A on that one, and on all the rest of them.  I'm guessing he didn't read them.  Punk. 

Academically advanced students were expected to assist others once they finished their work.  I was always expected to do this.  I had to constantly tutor some excruciatingly dumb students.  It was very frustrating, but it did have its rewards.  Mr. Davos, who ran the place, always kept a bottle of Jim Beam in his office.  Because I was doing extra work I often had access to his office, and to his Jim Beam.  I was careful never to take too much so he wouldn't notice.  Also, Mr. Davos and his teachers, Mrs. Fullbright, Mrs. Shapiro, and Mrs. Sanchez, often sent me out to get their lunch.  Sometimes it was sandwiches from the local deli, sometimes it was barbeque or fast food or pizza .  On those trips, it was understood that I was allowed to eat there if I had finished my own work and could get back quickly.  Those trips were very much treasured, as they afforded me the opportunity to torch up a blunt on the way, so that I might relax and enjoy my time in SAC. 

I don't think my school used the words "detention" and "suspension" but I got plenty of SAC.  Overall, it was a horrible experience, but no so horrible as to be a deterrent to delinquency and misbehavior, apparently, as I was sent there a number of times during my high school years.  I voted 5 or more.

SAC sounds a lot like SHU or isolation in prison.  I guess maybe the talk about the pipeline has some validity.

[H. Ross Peron]

Two Saturday detentions for writing stories in imitation of Marquis de Sade freshman year and several regular ones (which i served in the form of another Saturday detention senior year) due to being late.

[free my dawg]

Two Saturday detentions for writing stories in imitation of Marquis de Sade freshman year

 

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

A ton.  Mostly for being late to school or just taking the day off.  Some for being a smart ass.  A few for refusing to take my NY Mets hat off.  One out-of-school suspension for calling a teacher a "whore". 

Christ!

I'm sure you were a rational little angel at 15, too. 

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

Worst thing I ever got was a warning.

[SWE]

0 and 0.

[Fed. Pac. Chairman Devin]

5+ detentions, and 3 suspensions.

[Consciously Unconscious]

None.  Homeschooled, lol. 

[dead0man]

No detentions or suspensions; but they don't do them in my school...

How do they punish in your school?  Is it like the UN, do they give you a strongly worded letter?

[Vosem]

In high school? I'm only a senior. I've served one in-school suspension (basically a detention that lasts the entire day), sophomore year. Aside from that, nothing (definitely no actual suspensions -- it didn't count as a suspension on my record). Voted for '1-2 detentions' and 'no suspensions'.

[Grumpier Than Thou]

5 in total, 4 my Senior year. Mostly for tardies, but there was one BS "insubordination" one thrown in for good measure.

I got one for "insubordination" Freshman because I corrected myself answering a question in Algebra and my teacher took it as me joking and therefore wasting his time. lol.

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

In high school? I'm only a senior. I've served one in-school suspension (basically a detention that lasts the entire day), sophomore year. Aside from that, nothing (definitely no actual suspensions -- it didn't count as a suspension on my record). Voted for '1-2 detentions' and 'no suspensions'.

Aw man those were the worst if you had a bad proctor.  I got a few of those in my day because I refused to do "Saturday School". 

[Redalgo]

No suspensions but at least a dozen detentions - all of which were assigned as punishments for improperly conjugating irregular verbs in a Spanish class.

[dead0man]

No suspensions but at least a dozen detentions - all of which were assigned as punishments for improperly conjugating irregular verbs in a Spanish class.

whoa, that's hardcore (not by you, but by TPTB).

[MadmanMotley]

I was homeschooled, so...

[Vosem]

In high school? I'm only a senior. I've served one in-school suspension (basically a detention that lasts the entire day), sophomore year. Aside from that, nothing (definitely no actual suspensions -- it didn't count as a suspension on my record). Voted for '1-2 detentions' and 'no suspensions'.

Aw man those were the worst if you had a bad proctor.  I got a few of those in my day because I refused to do "Saturday School". 

Oh no, our guy was pretty chill, and we could talk/move around the room pretty freely (just can't leave). But I don't hang with the kind of crowd that get those frequently, and we were still shut up in one room for seven hours, so it was soul-crushingly boring.

[Aliens]

I didn't get any normal detentions, but I had one Saturday detention.  Even though it was almost 3 hours, it was actually a pretty fun Saturday morning.  Along with a 1 hour lunch break, we just played seven up, watched a movie, and because it was almost Mother's Day, we had to write a kind letter to give to our moms.

[badgate]

I don't recall getting any; in elementary school, however, I was constantly in trouble.

[SteveRogers]

One detention, but I was exonerated and released from ISS after a day and a half upon a proper review of the evidence against me. It was because of my minor involvement in a series of events that lead to the school's PA system getting hacked and an obscenity being uttered over the loudspeakers. One of the assistant principals was convinced that I was secretly the mastermind behind the whole thing.

[MalaspinaGold]

One, for forgetting my french book somewhere (still not entirely sure).

[Illuminati Blood Drinker]

I vaguely recall losing my recess because I couldn't complete some dumb arts and crafts assignment in 1st grade. That's about it.