Unexplainable School Suspensions That Got Some Teachers Fired
Every school has its own, unique punishment system all around the world. Sometimes, these systems can be pretty relaxed, and unless you do something extremely bad, you will be good to go.
But unfortunately, the opposite exists too. In some schools, their punishment system is so strict that it could be considered unfair. Let’s take a look at some Redditor’s horrible school punishment experiences.
Duckworth
So for context, at my old high school, we had a Vice-Principal whose name was Mrs. Duckworth. As you can imagine, there were a lot of jokes circulating around the school about her name, and one student decided to make sure she knew.
The student walked past her in her office, and you guessed it, he said, “Quack Quack.” She didn’t take it very well, and the next thing we all knew, the student was actually suspended over it without even a disciplinary hearing.
Always Getting Bullied
There was this kid in middle school that was always getting bullied. Despite going to tell teachers and administration, nothing changed. His parents got involved, and even the few friends he had stood up for him as much as they could.
He still got beaten and picked on almost every day, and his abusers suffered no consequences. This went on for an entire school year. So over the summer, he took self-defense lessons.
Come next year, the bullying started up, but this time he broke one of the kids’ noses. However, he got in trouble and was permanently suspended from school. This caused such an uproar from his parents and other students that even the local news got involved.
It was a mess, but he ended up having to go to another school district, and I think the principal resigned over the incident.
His Hair
A friend of mine was suspended until he took his cornrows out. They claimed that it was distracting and “ethnically inappropriate.” My friend was adopted and did not know his ethnicity (he is noticeably not 100% white, not that it should matter).
This was a predominately white school in the Midwest back in ’02.
Another friend of mine found that the dress code was not gendered specific, so he wore a dress to school. He was suspended for the rest of the day, and they changed the dress code right away.
“Dressed Inappropriately”
I get called to the Principles office, and when I arrive, I’m greeted by my parents, the two other students I was rooming with, and their parents.
Long story short, our teacher chaperone had seen one of us standing at the front desk of the hotel “dressed inappropriately.” Yup, swim trunks, literally what hundreds of other students were wearing.
That teacher followed him back to our room, “being escorted by hotel staff” (to open our door).
We were all honor students, and this was a trip for a club that revolves around community service, and the teacher didn’t bother looking into or even discussing the incident with us to find out what was going on.
The school staff would not let us explain, and we were all suspended for two weeks and were not allowed to go on field trips for the remainder of our junior or senior year.