Suspended/expelled from school?

[Breaststrokemum]

OK folks......confession time! I have reason to be interested! Anyone here ever been suspended or expelled from school? Why? Did the punishment fit the supposed 'crime'? Did it have any impact on your future?

BM

[SwimBackwards]

No I didn't, but my best school mate did. In the 6th form he climbed through a window into our common room and had the misfortune, not to be caught doing it, but slipping and slicing an artuary in his wrist. The headmaster found out (because it was he who called the ambulance and applied the first aid to stop him bleeding to...) and suspended him on the spot (as though he hadn't already just learnt his lesson)! I lost touch with him when we both went to different colleges so don't know how it impacted him in the future. I went on to become a Masters swimmer (but you can't read anything into that!)

[Stevie_k]

Nope, but i was on report for a year. I was in a detention that was an injustice in the first place, then got my time doubled for another injustice. I just walked out and told the teacher to f off, and called her something unrepeatable.

Good lord did i get into trouble! The expelled/suspended word was banded around a bit but i managed to crawl my way out of that.

I was the playground hero for a while.

Mind you i was stuck on report with all the wrong uns. Joy!

I eventually chose to become a builder anyway so I pretty much blew school out completely and didnt do any exams at all.

[lane 2]

Cor, not sure i really want to confess this lot but, suspended 3 times, first time for clouting the head girl, well, she was pushing me back into line at dinner time! second time for letting of bangers in the corridor, and third time for being generally disruptive, almost resulted in being expelled. My teachers would be amazed to know that I am now teaching in a secondary school!!!

[KatieBun]

Suspended once, because my parents were so fed up with hearing awful things about my behaviour and work (or lack of) that they refused to go in and see the head nun any more so she suspended me for a day instead.:D
Guess what I did for 23 years, lane 2! Teaching! 14 of those years in secondary. Is there a pattern emerging here?

[LAZy]

I wasn't bad enough to be expelled..................but did get the cane -

AT 5 YRS OLD!! -

and yep.......................guess what I still do for a living?

[laserblazer]

I wasn't suspended but I did, and probably still hold the record for number of detentions in a term. Unless they make terms longer it should be hard to beat.

No prizes for guessing what I do for a living? Could we be living proof of "If you can't do it - teach it" or "Set a thief to catch a thief" or "Poachers make the best gamekeepers"?

[LAZy]

No prizes for guessing what I do for a living? Could we be living proof of "If you can't do it - teach it" or "Set a thief to catch a thief" or "Poachers make the best gamekeepers"?


or..............

'it never did me any harm..'

'tough love..'

'discipline maketh a man- or woman....'

'I can do better...'

[laserblazer]

or "If you can't take a joke, you shouldn't have joined!"

"It's only pain, it won't hurt!" Good one when you're coaching sprint sets :)

[kookiegal]

mmmm am so tempted but have confessed to too much today, will leave it for another time, not that good really

[Happi Blue]

Suspended a few times at 15 for having blue or pink hair (my punk days!) and not wearing the correct uniform. I didn't affect my grades or future but as my parents keep telling my sons they could never do anything rebellious that would ever match what I've done so they've never tried (thank God!)

[Cagri]

I was suspended for a day when I was 14. I made fun of a younger boy in a school trip. Teacher grabbed me from my ear and I sat in an empty class doing homework for a very long day. I now feel sorry for bullying that kid though .. wonder how he turned out in life?

Oh I also did this when I was 6 :)

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[Stevie_k]

I was an huge tie rebel.

We used to turn ours around so you had a 3 inch long thin tie.

Bend the rules as far as possible.

Mostly i didnt wear one, which had me constantly sent down to the funny time man. He had a selection bright pink and other vivid multi coloured tie's to choose from.

They were also fat and he made you do them the right way up.

Strangely i preferred that to a black stripey stumpy short tie.

Im not much different now. I take my tie off lunchtimes and 20 minutes before i leave work, and sometimes im a total rebel and refuse to wear it completely.

I think it stems from being a life long scruffy herbert.

Im going to die when i wear a suit for my wedding.

[Cagri]

I didn't like ties either. I also never put my shirt in my pants.. They were always loose on the outside. I was constantly scolded for that. What a stupid teenager I was :)

[KatieBun]

I wasn't bad enough to be expelled..................but did get the cane -

AT 5 YRS OLD!! -

and yep.......................guess what I still do for a living?

I got the ruler (edgeways on) at 5 and the cane at 7. Sadistic B******s.

Was also threatened with being sent home constantly for the last three years of school, mainly because I "jazzed up" the uniform with cowboy boots, luridly coloured stockings, duffle coat etc. Unfortunately for the head honcho, it was a split site school and had two assemblies taking place at once. That meant two people were needed to play the piano for the hymn. Head of Music was at one site, other music teacher didn't do piano. So it was my job.:) Threats went on for years but nobody ever sent me home to change. I wonder why not.:rolleyes:

[missjackiechan]

I got sent home by the headmaster on numerous occasions sometimes for fighting with boys and once for wearing an 'indecent' uniform (wasn't that bad..a bit like Britney Spears in that video) Not much has changed really!

[KatieBun]

I got sent home by the headmaster on numerous occasions sometimes for fighting with boys and once for wearing an 'indecent' uniform. Not much has changed really!
:joker::cheers:

[missjackiechan]

Oh my god mjc--are talking a kind of st trinians sort of look here !!!:aarrgghh:

yes unfortunately. The headmaster grabbed me by the ear and looked at me in disgust and shouted "what the hell have you got on", I thought I was quite funny at the time so I replied "not much"....he didn't see the funny side.

[GettingFaster]

Fantastic response!

At junior school at the end of playtime all the classes lined up in the playground before going into class in neat lines. If you were naughty or talking or fidgeting (on a bad day if you were even breathing a bit loud) you were hauled out to the front. If you were really naughty the headmistress (Sister Madeleine - dreadful woman!) would stand you up on one of the benches, pull down your socks and slap the back of your legs. By god she had a hard hand! Got that a couple of times, mainly for being late. Not much changes there then, but at least the boss has never slapped the back of my legs.

[zanshin]

Never at school enough to get suspended:) was always twagging and getting caught; suspending me would have done me a favour. Used to get the cane/strap on a regular basis when I did turn up.

I used to get the blame for everything, although it was never my fault:zip:

[Verity]

I was once kicked out of a classroom for sneezing... honest

V

[laserblazer]

At my very first school Miss Bailey used to wack our ankles with a drumstick and blooming painful it was. One poor girl got wacked because she had wet herself! I think the fact that this was 55 years ago and I can remember it vividly speaks volumes :)

[Verity]

Guess itsnot funny really

V

[Verity]

The closest I came to getting the strap was when I was 8, I'd gone out on a rainy playtime to play football with the lads, (in direct contradiction of our form teacher's order). After break we all got hauled in front of the class (me and about 10 lads). After telling us off the teacher (who was about 6ft 6in tall and towered above us) went along the line (I was at the end) administering the leather strap to all of the others. On coming to me at the end of the line, gamely standing there with my eyes closed and my arm held out palm upwards, he said "It's not my policy to strap little girls Verity" so I got off with it. All because my 2nd year teacher was a sexist b******
How fair is that? I was really unpopular with the lads after that.

V

[Tewson Veste]

Our dinner ladies (Junior school) would banish us to stand in the school hall facing the wall for the duration of lunch time if we did not eat our lunch. I spent alot of time staring at those walls.

[Big Nev]

Our English teacher used to make us kneel in front of the class and face the wall for clicking your pen!!!!

My knees have been calloused ever since!!!!

[Linny]

I was suspended twice, once for a day and once for about 2 minutes when the headmaster changed his mind as I skipped out the door.

Got the cane once when I was at school....

[Wildswimmer]

I would have done if the staff at my "old skool" had found out who was responsible for the "Great Stink". I'd made a pocket dispenser to produce hydrogen sulphide gas on demand and after revealing the design to like-minded delinquents the whole place stunk of rotten eggs for a week.

Wildswimmer Pete

[Leprechaun]

The VP of our prep section at school was a right old witch. Taught maths - she was quite good at it too, but grumpy as hell at the start of the week. Small, wizzen perhaps, not much longer than a 3foot ruler but could do a lot of damage with it. Hands as smooth as a dogfish when it came to the odd slap too. The lesser ables ones in the class got fearful hidings while we just cringed and got on with the work.

In the secondary stage of our Grammar School the nightmare situations were always when games was rained off and the entire class had to sit in the gym or changing rooms for a double period, quietly and reading. This was usually two or three classes combined so there were all sorts of minor scraps that broke out when the games master had sloped off to the staff room. Almost inevitably there was too much noise and the entire class got slippered for the sins of 5-6 who started it.

Some of the more yobbish elements down the lower end of the form used to take exception to the odd thrashing, as exemplified by the end of year confrontation with teachers as they left, but in the main the teachers could give out a fair bit of stick and didnt tend to come off second best.

[SwimBackwards]

I did regularly have to stand in the bin in the corner by "Dizzy" my 2nd, 4th and 5th Geography teacher. He disliked me, I hated him and my mum used to !*""*ck him every parents' evening. He eventually retired to some castle in Scotland, and I've never stood in a bin since (unless I talk in meetings at work that is)!

[Stevie_k]

I got turned upside down, held by the ankles and had my head dipped in a muddy puddle.

We were playing rugby, and our team was winning convincingly.

Teacher went on the other side to even things up a bit. Very cold, wet and muddy day.

Anyway he was ploughing through our team with palm offs and heading towards another certain try.

He steamed towards me. I put my hands up as a gesture of innocence to let him know there would be no challenge from me.

As he went whistling past, i stuck a leg out and he could not have caught his ankle on it more perfectly if he tried.

His legs were still in the air when his face hit the huge muddy puddle and he slid face first for about 4 yards.

I dont really know what happened or why i did it. It was a natural reaction.

Never played rugby after that.

[Big Nev]

I nutmegged our sports teacher once playing football. I was the class hero for a long time.

He actually played amateur football with my uncle and told the story in a different way....but I was King (pardon the pun Stevie) in the school footy squad.

[GettingFaster]

I did regularly have to stand in the bin in the corner by "Dizzy" my 2nd, 4th and 5th Geography teacher. He disliked me, I hated him and my mum used to !*""*ck him every parents' evening. He eventually retired to some castle in Scotland, and I've never stood in a bin since (unless I talk in meetings at work that is)!

I'm so sorry, SB, it took me AGES to work out what your mum used to do to him at parents' evenings - my mind was so far down in the gutter I had to get Dynarod out! :aarrgghh::speechles

Humblest apologies again.

[LAZy]

At 7, was made to sit in the dining room, facing (by then -cold) rice pudding from 12.30 until 3.30, because I wouldn't eat it.

Never eaten rice pudding before or since.

[LAZy]

I'm so sorry, SB, it took me AGES to work out what your mum used to do to him at parents' evenings - my mind was so far down in the gutter I had to get Dynarod out! :aarrgghh::speechles

Humblest apologies again.


:joker::D...yep - read it that way too!!

[mpfmark]

Most of my beatings came in primary school. C1976...I was at St. Patricks when Miss Ferguson who we all thought was about 100 years old would give us the ruler on a daily basis either across the knuckles or behind the knees just for laughs...she was and is horrible, I saw her at mass a few months backs and asked if she remembered me and what she did to me at school...I was very polite but am sure she thought she was about to be arrested...then of course there was Mr DEA now he was the sports coach, he had us in the pool at 6am and the footy pitch each weekend, if he caught anyone with a vest in the depth of winter you never played again, he would hose us down with the cold water fire equipment and generally beast us into tears every session...he loved us all really and wanted us to be strong, he took us everywhere on his days off and remains a friend to this day despite his almost criminal pressures...I would hate it if my mini me was treated like this but Mick Dea made me into what I am, I thanked him for doing so when he attended my mums funeral and he almost broke down in tears...he is in my opinion a Saint...not even gonna start with secondary school!!

Mark (http://swimmingthechannel2008.blogspot.com)

[Slainge]

I would have done if the staff at my "old skool" had found out who was responsible for the "Great Stink". I'd made a pocket dispenser to produce hydrogen sulphide gas on demand and after revealing the design to like-minded delinquents the whole place stunk of rotten eggs for a week.

Wildswimmer Pete

Blimey Pete - You were lucky not to have killed half the class, hydrogen sulphide is nasty stuff, a single breath of gas containing 0.1% of hydrogen sulphide can cause coma.......just as well they never worked out who was responsible, I think incarceration might have been on your horizon!!!1

[Slainge]

Although I remember some odd and inadequate teachers from my own schooldays (the whiskery female sports teacher who liked to "supervise" the showers, the tearful skinny economics teacher who couldn't control the fourth form etc..) I used to think modern day teachers were on the whole pretty OK, in the job cos they liked children, opening young minds, had a passion for the subject on so on. I would say that going to work in a school myself confirmed that opinion. HOWEVER!!!!! It also gave me the chance to see that the nutters are still there, and they are just as odd and inadequate.
I remember my first day as a worker in a school (not as a teacher I hasten to add), i was working in an area round the corner from a classroom outside which the young MFL teacher was having a "chat" with one of her pupils. They couldn't see me, but I could hear them. I could not believe what this teacher was hissing at the girl.......I won't repeat it, but it was hugely abusive and damaging. If that child had been my daughter I would have felt like murdering the teacher. As it was I was so disturbed by it I reported it to the head of the department. Guess what? Nothing happened.........
I think I would prefer to get the cane than have a teacher screw with my mind like that teacher.

[Wildswimmer]

Blimey Pete - You were lucky not to have killed half the class, hydrogen sulphide is nasty stuff, a single breath of gas containing 0.1% of hydrogen sulphide can cause coma.......just as well they never worked out who was responsible, I think incarceration might have been on your horizon!!!1

We didn't bother about 'Elfinsafety in the 1960s. Not only that the smell of H2S is so revolting that windows were opened long before any dangerous concentration could be reached.

I am aware that H2S is theoretically more toxic than hydrogen cyanide (although it takes a bit more than a single breath to induce unconsciousness) but considering the amount made by spotty-faced oiks playing with their chemistry sets (as we did in those enlightened days) as well as equally delinquent chemistry masters, no-one suffered any ill-consequences. My subsequent (1960s) Hazchem training confirmed H2S not to be the hazard it's nowadays made out to be.

Finally, bear in mind that stink bombs sold at the time released..........hydrogen sulphide!

Wildswimmer Pete

[lane 2]

I did some pretty gruff things at school and always accepted whatever punishment that was dished out. But the biggest injustice I felt was when our swimming lesson had just finished ( we were a normal secondary with the luxury of an outdoor pool ). The teacher had left the area with the rest of the class but had not noticed me hugging the side of the pool ( so I wouldn't be noticed !), and another pupil making her way to the deep end holding the rail. To cut a long story short, the other pupil started drowning and I swam to her and towed her to the side, saving her life. Needless to say, not even a pat on the back just a b....lking for being in the pool when I shouldn't have been!

[DRW]

OK folks......confession time! I have reason to be interested! Anyone here ever been suspended or expelled from school? Why? Did the punishment fit the supposed 'crime'? Did it have any impact on your future? BM

I'm curious about your "reason to be interested"! If you want to find out more about the removal of students from school and are talking about nowadays, the terms "suspension" and "expulsion" tend not to be used any more. They have now been replaced by the terms "fixed-term exclusion" and "permanent exclusion", although even "permanent exclusion" doesn't have the finality of expulsion.

There is plenty of online guidance for parents of children facing either type of exclusion, listing rights, what to expect, how to appeal. If you're interested in that kind of information, just ask. I did some online research recently on the subject in response to an enquiry on behalf of a student with special needs.

[amanda.corndoll]

im afraid i was a real swot at school and really loved it although looking back god knows why.
however i was once given a class detention for music because someone had pulled all the bobbles off the beaters off of the xylophone and no one would own up to it.
then in 6th form I was sent home for wearing unsuitable clothing. I had seen a girl wearing an outfit where i was working at and liked it so much i went home and with sewing machine and scissors and dye re created it. it was a pair of pink denim daisy dukes with a lace blouse over a bra all covered in flowers. to be fair i feel the cold so i had a cardie on as well and by this time i was wearing DMs full time.
i managed to stay in the building half hour before my head of year said " i think you had better go home" having been a swot and never been sent home before it was a revelation . thought it was great! walked home watched a bit of tv. then for some reason got changed went back to school and asked to be let back in!!
oh- and i still cant work out what SBs mum was up to!

[Breaststrokemum]

I'm curious about your "reason to be interested"! If you want to find out more about the removal of students from school and are talking about nowadays, the terms "suspension" and "expulsion" tend not to be used any more. They have now been replaced by the terms "fixed-term exclusion" and "permanent exclusion", although even "permanent exclusion" doesn't have the finality of expulsion.

There is plenty of online guidance for parents of children facing either type of exclusion, listing rights, what to expect, how to appeal. If you're interested in that kind of information, just ask. I did some online research recently on the subject in response to an enquiry on behalf of a student with special needs.

Thanks, DRW, but the problem is pretty much 'sorted'. We are refusing to give the powers that be (ie the aliens who are the 'senior management team') the thrill of another power trip. Let's just say that son concerned has started his 'study leave' a little earlier than his peers! (Not a bad thing!) It is always interesting in 'times of trouble' that we find out who our real friends are and we have had amazing support from his peers, their parents and a number of teachers. Enough said, methinks! :zip:

BM

[LAZy]

Often the fact that those with the balls to be non-conformists, are those with the determination to succeed.

Look at this lot on here. I rest my case.

[LAZy]

At our school, all the girls had their dresses measured above the knee - no more than 2 inches.
Sounds Victorian now doesn't it? and no...I'm NOT that old really.

[Dave_G]

I would have done if the staff at my "old skool" had found out who was responsible for the "Great Stink". I'd made a pocket dispenser to produce hydrogen sulphide gas on demand and after revealing the design to like-minded delinquents the whole place stunk of rotten eggs for a week.
Wildswimmer Pete
Wildswimmer
Don't mess with The Mekon

I was a very keen mad scientist, er sorry, amateur chemist, when I was in my teens, so am intrigued as to how you made this?

[QUOTE: Wildswimmer]
We didn't bother about 'Elfinsafety in the 1960s. Not only that the smell of H2S is so revolting that windows were opened long before any dangerous concentration could be reached.

I am aware that H2S is theoretically more toxic than hydrogen cyanide (although it takes a bit more than a single breath to induce unconsciousness) but considering the amount made by spotty-faced oiks playing with their chemistry sets (as we did in those enlightened days) as well as equally delinquent chemistry masters, no-one suffered any ill-consequences. My subsequent (1960s) Hazchem training confirmed H2S not to be the hazard it's nowadays made out to be.

Finally, bear in mind that stink bombs sold at the time released..........hydrogen sulphide!

Wildswimmer Pete [QUOTE]

Yes, I had great fun with my chemistry set back in 1960s. In addition to the 'normal' things found in chemistry sets at the time, my chemistry master at school, who encouraged my interest by discreetly supplementing my range of chemicals with one or two items which I could not obtain through normal shopping, although I was also able to do this through the services of Jukes Chemist in Wote Street, Basingstoke, the pharmacy which my parents and I used for more day-to-day items. I feel that I can safely name the chemist, as it no longer exists, indeed hasn't done for many years. I feel sure that in this day and age of 'elf'n'safety and anti-terrorism a great many of the chemicals I used routinely simply would not have been available, although my own parents did not realise the full extent and nature of what I was experimenting with!

I shall mention a couple of incidents involving my chemistry experiments. The first happened one Sunday lunchtime, soon after we had moved to a new bungalow at London Road, Basing, where I had the use of the coal shed for my 'laboratory' which was located next to the door leading into the kitchen. It was purely coincidence that my mother was dishing up Sunday lunch at the same time that I happened to be producing hydrogen sulphide, which wafted through the open kitchen door. For some strange reason, which I cannot explain, my mother was NOT amused, although I must admit the smell was utterly revolting, and the consequence was that my laboratory was very quickly 'banished' to the garage! (N.B we didn't have a car). I have to say that my mother wasn't very impressed by all the jamjars of various substances crystallising happily away on my bedroom window sill either!

The other incident involved the next door neighbour, with whom we didn't get on. One Saturday or Sunday afternoon, I was in the garden with a jamjar containing either a little sulphuric acidor nitric acid. Into this, I dropped a piece of potassium. The subsequent small explosion was heard by this neighbour who proceeded to give me a telling-off, saying that I shouldn't be playing with such dangerous substances, or words to that effect. My father heard this and afterwards asked me whether I knew what I was doing, to which I replied 'yes', a bit of a 'porkie', as in fact the 'bang' had taken me by surprise, which I conveniently 'forgot' to mention. His response was that I should carry on, and take no notice of the neighbour. Another favourite of mine was to make chlorine dioxide, which tends to explode in 'normal' conditions! How I managed to avoid blowing myself and our home up, I do not know.
In all seriousness, however, a friend of mine was not so fortunate, as he lost an eye and a hand one year attempting to make homemade fireworks.

[Dave_G]

I was suspended once, when I was about 10, from the school I was attending, which was a convent school run by nuns. This was for 'bunking off' and, I'm ashamed to admit it, nicking toys from shops, whilst playing truant. In addition to the suspension, I received a good (well-deserved) beating from my father with a garden cane, of the type used to support runner beans. However, these two punishments, and the shame involved, had a positive effect on me, because subsequently, I 'calmed down' and, although I was no way a 'goody two shoes' - far fom it(!) - I certainly never did anything like this again.
I have had my fair share of detentions, and been required to write 'lines', once for skiving off woodwork (a subject which I was useless at and which I hated) and doing my homework during that lesson time. I have never had the cane, although I won't say that there weren't times I deserved it! I have had my knuckles rapped with a ruler and, when I was 8, had two rulers whacked across both legs, for not doing my R.E homework!

[Wildswimmer]

Wildswimmer
I was a very keen mad scientist, er sorry, amateur chemist, when I was in my teens, so am intrigued as to how you made this?

I can't remember the full details but my H2S thingy involved medicine bottles and dropper and worked in a similar manner to a Kipp's apparatus. I didn't fancy the idea of carrying sulphuric acid in my pocket so the reagents were sodium bisulphate and ferrous sulphide.

I also supplemented the contents of my Merit chemistry set with certain other compounds bought from my local chemists. Subsequent experiments were a lot more.....er......."interesting" than those in the instruction booklet. Ironically I found an identical chemistry set in a car boot sale a few years ago. It's complete with all apparatus and the little test-tubes full of chemicals are still sealed. No doubt I'm now breaking some 'Elfinsafety diktat by keeping it in my bedroom.

Wildswimmer Pete