'I got a detention for pretending to be a Pokemon': 25+ Kids who were reprimanded for the silliest reasons

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Nov 12, 2023 11:00 AM EST

We should really just let kids be kids. You only get so long to have a carefree childhood. As a child, you avoid adult responsibilities and can spend all day either playing or at school (and then playing once school lets out). That's your time to frolic in the grass, make up games, play on the playground, and run around with your friends. 

Knowing that you only get to be a child once, some teachers and parents are still crazy strict with their little ones. People who answered the question posted to r/AskReddit would know: they told the "silliest reason that you got punished for," with answers ranging from mild infractions to hilarious misunderstandings. For example, the OP shared that they and their classmates were punished for wearing their jackets backwards during recess. Their teacher's super weird logic that the kids wouldn't be able to remove their coats fast enough in an emergency just doesn't make much sense. Then again, if you're a teacher noticing a trend amongst your students, maybe you have to lay down the law fast, before your entire class gets stuck inside their backwards jackets. 

Next, these clueless retail customers brought their silliest questions to the store with them. 

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    Fe OUTDOOR 'I got accused of cheating on a science test in sixth grade, which I didn't. Teacher made me retake test the next day, I scored higher' wediset 401 wwwww Rados 1683 OUTDOOR My
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    Silliest reason that you got punished for? I'll start! In grade 5, we had to go outside at lunch break. Now during winter (in Canada), we obviously had to wear our jackets. At the end of lunch break, every class had to stand in a line in the playground to go back inside to our classes. Sometimes, the annoying teachers made us wait up to 5 minutes before going inside because we weren't being quiet. Now naturally, as kids, we got impatient and did weird stuff. That day, we (5-6 kids) decided to we
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    When one teacher saw us, she started screaming at us because "If the jacket caught fire (?), we wouldn't have enough time to remove it and might burn". Needless to say, the other teachers won't tell her "Stop being an idiot, there's more chance for them to slip on the ice and die, than for their jackets to catch on fire", so they had to agree with her; we got punished and had to write "I will not wear my jacket the other way around anymore." a hundred times. How about you guys?
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    [deleted] I got accused of cheating on a science test in sixth grade, which I didn't. Teacher made me retake test the next day, I scored higher because I looked up what I didn't know, and she gave me the score of the first time.
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    beefwich In second grade, the teacher sat me in the corner during recess because I was talking in a robot voice to my friend. Every week, my teacher sent home a progress report detailing our behavior that week. On that day, my teacher wrote "Logan had a bad day today. He sat out during recess for talking like a robot." That was the first time I'd ever heard my mom cuss. She just sighed and said, "What a dumb c..."
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    bigmikeyv I wasn't alowed to use my computer for a week becasue I "hacked" my moms computer. All I did was change the desktop background.
    via u/bigmikeyv
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    hsurbon I think we still have the note from my 4th grade teacher: She cut a piece of her own hair. A single hair fell off my head and in my boredom I cut it in half with a pair of scissors. My parents yelled at the teacher for trying to punish me for such a stupid reason.
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    tontyismynameyeh I took a book outside to read by myself one day in Year 3 at primary school (7/8 years old). A group of my friends stopped the game they were playing to come and see what I was reading, leaving this one guy who I wasn't really friends with by himself. He got monumentally told the teachers Р and at morning assembly the next day it was announced that books were now BANNED from being taken into the playground and I got told off for being a 'bully'. TL;DR Took a book into the playgr
    via u/tontyismynameyeh
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    Tryll In kindergarten, we were given colouring sheets with a picture of an apple on it, complete with stem and leaf, and told to colour it red. So I coloured the apple red, the stem brown, and the leaf green. Because that's how they're supposed to be coloured, d I got sent to the hall because we were supposed to colour the whole thing red and I wasn't following instructions. I maintain to this day that I was right.
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    tineyeit Once got written up (had to clean the teacher's room once a week for like two months) by a teacher for cussing, on a Saturday, at a Park, while not at some weekend event for school. Didn't even know she was there until I said something (not about her/a teacher) and she basically came out of nowhere. Came in that Monday and was called to the front office and given a slip with the punishment. Tried to appeal it to the principal and she basically said that the teacher could do so because s
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    arrowroots I got detention in 7th grade for not singing along with the class to Christmas carols. I explained to my teacher that I was Jewish, therefore didn't have a knowledge of the lyrics/melody, but she sharply said that my religion has nothing to do with my lack of participation and that everyone knows the words to those songs. yup.
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    [deleted] My mom loves to tell the story of how, on my birthday, my kindergarden teacher took my chocolate bar away during snack time because it wasn't a healthy snack. I became so offended that I marched right out of the class room (somehow?) across the hall to the principals office and asked the principal's secretary to fire my teacher for stealing. My diplomatic principal offered instead a small carton of chocolate milk in exchange for the candy bar and would speak to mrs. whoever about takin
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    [deleted] In 5th grade I got detention for stepping on an ant. In 11th grade my mom grounded me for watching "The Real World" because there was a scene where some people were sitting in a sauna or something and they were all wrapped in towels.
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    a_billion dollars It was 1987, I was 8 years old. I had been grounded from playing nintendo by my mom.(A common occurrence for me around that age since I was always on the thing). Well, a few hours later she gets home from going on an errand and I give her a pitiful, depressed look hoping she'll unground me, and she says "Ok I guess you can play. But you didn't play while I was gone did you?"
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    For some reason I worded my response: "No way, Jose!". And I was telling the truth. I hadn't. However, she had never heard that expression before apparently because she replied: "What did you call me? YOU'RE GROUNDED!"
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    Mac_Attack18 I was eating lunch with a friend this was back in 6th grade. It was just me and him at this end of the table and at the other end of the table was a group of kids. One of them decides to lift the table up. A teacher sees and gives us all detention. The kids at the other end of the table kept telling her we had nothing to do with it. To this day I hate when the group gets punished for one person.
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    + [deleted] When I was eight I got a detention for pretending to be a pokemon. Pokemon cards had been banned at school. Blastoise if anyone's interested.
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    EnviousShadow My P.E. teacher made me sit out of a game of basketball because I was smiling while he was explaining the rules. I loved playing basketball :(
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    Failcake We were in PE class doing the gymnastics unit, so we were in the gym on this really big, foam mat that gymnasts do somersaults/carthweels/ etc. on. Since you can jump and get some good air on these things, I thought aloud to nobody in particular, "we should play dodgeball on this thing" (my exact words). Seriously, those were the only words I said the entire period (except for "here" when he was calling attendance).
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    My PE teacher took this as a threat to his authority. He ranted for a good 45 seconds about how that he's in charge and I'm not, and how if I wanted to teach PE I had to go to college and get my own "PE credentials". I tried to tell him it wasn't directed to anybody and I was just thinking aloud, but he wouldn't have it and made me sit on the side of the gym for the rest of the period. He then gave me a zero for the day.
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    I ended up apologizing to him after class just because I didn't want to up my grade, although I now regret it because I ended up getting a B anyways (I should have told him to off). And seriously, who gives a s about their PE grade?
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    not_my_normal. When I was in kindergarten, I got put in time-out for sneezing too many times and too loudly one day. The teacher hated me for having an alternative family at a religious school.
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    PantheraOnca It didn't happen to me but I still find it hilarious. In elementary school a few of my friends played a game called Battlezone at one of their houses with his dad playing as well. We played on a LAN connection on teams of 2 vs 3, consisting of my friend and I who didn't know how to play the game and my other friend's dad, while the other team consisted of his son and my other friend. The father and son know how to play the game with everyone else being clueless as to what to do. My
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    the opposing team rushed our base and built 4-5 turrets where the only entrance/exit to our base was, completely trapping us in to our base. Eventually the father got completely p off, yelled upstairs to his son threatening to ground him for playing so unfair. It was f hilarious. tl;dr: My friend got grounded for kicking his dad's as in a computer game.
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    pdxtone Got yelled at and sent to bed without dinner because a mole dug under a fruit tree in the yard. My parents thought I was secretly digging holes in the yard.
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    ermano I had to sit in time out in 1st grade because I was snow watching a f plow out the window...little did the teacher know, there was a window where time out was. I watched the out of that snow S plow while in time out. Crazy old bat teacher.
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    S KITTEN I didn't get a perfect SAT score and my mom made me quit debate team.
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    16andwelladjusted. The day before a snowstorm my 5th grade teacher banned us from using the word 'snow'; anyone who said it got it a detention.
    via u/16andwelladjusted
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    omgwtf123 i got in a heated argument with my mom for not reading in a chair. i simply wanted to read it on my bed
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    [deleted] I was in grade 3, was learning to program in GWBASIC at home, and decided to write some silly programs on the computers at school (type your name and it prints it out, that kind of stuff). One of the teachers saw me and banned me from the computer for the rest of the day because "I might hurt it". The VP agreed with him.
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    peanutsfan1995. I've told this one before. Week of detention for having a Slayer album on my iPod.
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    BoxoKnives I walked the wrong direction in the hallway and got a "stern talking to." That garbage made me late to class... So I called her a bl and made it detention.
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