User blog comment:PlantyThePottedPlant/Random Topic Blogging III: Blog Harder/@comment-4123215-20130427052820

Sorry guys about not being on this site much. I've been a bit busy with school, Air Cadets, drama club, etc. I'll try to frequent more often, I promise.

So, with that out of the way, I need to blow off some steam. I personally don't mind my school that often. I never had a bad teacher since Grade 4, I haven't been bullied since Grade 6 (That is a long story, so I'll just omit it), and the rest of my class hasn't been bullied since Grade 7. Things are alright.

My school does have a few problems, though. The teachers often treat younger kids terribly, yelling at them for being loud (I've witnessed this in "Green Team" club, which is mostly occupied by young kids), and we are currently in debt, which means stuff like computers and lockers are almost unusable.

The worst part about my school though? THE DETENTIONS. I wanted to post this earlier, but it must have slipped my mind. I was reminded of it though when my friend got a detention for a terrible reason (She left her finished math assignment at home because she didn't want to be late for school and was in a rush. Got detention anyways without question).

However, instead of explaining why these detentions are terrible, I'll just show you some of my favorites:

* Kid asks "What's up?" to teacher while the teacher is scolding another student. The person who asked got detention.

* During a student-teacher assembly (Which was just the teachers complaining about how students never follow the rules), a person asks a question about one of the rules. She is told to go to the prinicals office, which the girl followed up with exclaiming "Are you kidding me?" then leaving.

* Classmate says the "J" word in the hallways. One day in-school suspension.

* Person whispers the "F" word to a classmate, and she was given a 2 day suspension.


 * Person passes gas (Sorry, that's the best fitting term I could find) in class, and is given detention.


 * Same classmate who said the "J" word looks at another classmate angrily after teacher berates him for talking. Detention. I was told to tell the teacher off, but aside from terrible detentions, she's an okay teacher, so I didn't do it.

And by fair, my favorite:


 * My brother (Who was given 2 detentions for being 2 minutes late for detention, because he had to warm up his food. He also had to serve the original detention) got a detention for forgetting his math assignment at home, even though he had it finished. He then went home and posted it on Facebook:

"I usually never post anything about my school in a bad way but today I felt I need to get this off my chest.. Yesterday after doing my homework I left my book on the kitchen table with my homework inside of it. I go to school and forget about it and leave it there. When I get into school I realize that I left it home so I go and explain to my teacher that I left it home and it's finished and I wil l bring it in tomorrow. I decided it was better to do this instead of go and copy someones answers just to get it "finished". I have forgotten my homework ONCE this year but my teacher still decides to give me a detention. I never copied off someone who spent all night working on it and I never lied. I was honest and I really did forget it at home. I didn't argue with the teacher even though I was p*ssed (Censored for wiki) because I actually haven't had a detention yet this year suprisingly. So I left it alone. Last year I had gotten a few detentions so I knew how it worked. No eating and bring work. So I used to buy my food and warm it up and put it in my locker until detention was over. Last year, the later you came in the later you got out so I didn't mind being a little bit late. Today I did the same as I did last year. Get my food before the canteen closed and warm it up and put it in my locker. I was walking to my locker and got called to the office for "skipping off" detention. I was actually on my way there. They told me that they are giving me ANOTHER detention for "skipping off". I now have the one I missed tomorrow and the one for missing detention the next day. I didn't even argue with the teacher because I'd just get in trouble again. Can I ask is this fair at all? With all the sh*t (Again... Wiki) going on in schools that the teachers don't see, you'd think they'd focus on wasting the time of people doing way more serious things than forgetting their d*mn (Just in case) homework. At the beginning of every year they always tell me "You start off with a clean slate this year" but I think it's BS if you ask me. Sure I got detentions and a lot of sh*t last year but this year I haven't done a thing to be put in there this year. What I think is so unfair about it is the fact that if it it was some girl that's never gotten in trouble in her life that forgot her homework the same as I did the teacher would let them off and everything thing would all be okay. I know for a fact that would be the case because I've seen it happen before. It is wrong and unfair in my opinion. I'm a forgetful person and that isn't going to change and a detention isn't going to make me. It's who I am. Instead of focusing on things about me forgetting homework why don't you give detentions to all those bullies that walk around in the halls doing sh*t behind your back and people that actually do something wrong. That's my rant for today.."

That post got 47 likes and 23 comments, many of them supportive. However, the school got a hold of this (Many people are Facebook friends with the vice-princial, because hey, he's pretty cool most of the time.

My brother had to go to the office, where the princial told him he shouldn't be posting that stuff on Facebook, my parents were brought in to be told he wasn't allowed to post that on Facebook, and a full on assembly was brought up, with the school stating they can "Hack Facebook's database, so they can see what you post" and "Can take you to court for what you say"... Nobody took them seriously after that.

My brother posted another rant a while later about the school (Which I will not post here, since it was more controversial then the last one, but if someone wants to see it, I may paste it here), and again, he was brought in the office, told the same thing, and since then, the detentions have only gotten worse...

'''And since some of you may have skipped a lot of the text, I give you a picture of my puppy. '''

