I have noticed that when you're putting facts down, there's a similarity of style between us; it's why I've never actually found anything you've said brusque or offensive; I think it's so similar to what I would do, it just feels natural. I really do hate being lumped in, and my husband is saying that this particular dislike is simply not worth the time.
But I honestly did just walk out of class when school had ended, if we'd been handed a class detention and I hadn't done anything. I explained, in my serious and slightly annoyed way, that the teacher could call the principal or better, my mother, to explain that I wasn't staying for detention because I hadn't done anything wrong, and see what lasting effect that had.
I realize now that this was probably bad for his general authority. Ummm, and it wasn't very civic minded of me. But the idea behind class detentions -- that everyone then gets mad at the people who did cause the trouble -- has never in my opinion worked.
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Date: 2004-06-29 06:19 pm (UTC)But I honestly did just walk out of class when school had ended, if we'd been handed a class detention and I hadn't done anything. I explained, in my serious and slightly annoyed way, that the teacher could call the principal or better, my mother, to explain that I wasn't staying for detention because I hadn't done anything wrong, and see what lasting effect that had.
I realize now that this was probably bad for his general authority. Ummm, and it wasn't very civic minded of me. But the idea behind class detentions -- that everyone then gets mad at the people who did cause the trouble -- has never in my opinion worked.
Of course, that would be my opinion <rueful g>.