'The school had to call my parents and explain': High school senior gets back at teachers for his strict attendance policy

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    'Teacher won't let me into the classroom' J
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    Teacher won't let me into the classroom?
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    I was in my last year of high school (year 12 in Australia) and back when I was doing school, it was very important that you physically attend class. Back then, I also happened to have severe major and a sister who was not good at getting organised/ready to leave on time.
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    We had a teacher at my school who I'd always despised. he didn't encourage independent thought and spent our 70 minute periods writing on the board for us to copy down, just cycling back and erasing and writing continuously, no questions allowed until the last 10 minutes.
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    He was also notorious for not listening to students, and had an unspoken rule that he would lock students out of the class for 5-10 minutes further when they were late. Let's call him Mr Richard (for obvious reasons).
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    Well, one morning I was 5 minutes late to his class (first period - 8:45am) due to my sister throwing a tantrum. I knocked on the door, and:
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    Mr Richard: (Apparently for running late to class.) Was the bus late? his only valid excuse Me: No, but... Mr Richard: You can't come in. Shuts door in my face
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    Well. After bursting into tears, I decided that his unspoken rule of being left outside the classroom for 5 minutes when one attended late never actually stated one was required to wait outside the door to enter the room when he deigned to let the student in.
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    So I wandered off to the library to find something interesting to read. Apparently, after he opened the door and found me missing, the school had to call my parents and explain they'd misplaced me and why. I was eventually 'found' and Mr Richard had the nerve to ask - in front of my parents and the principal - why I:
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    A) Hadn't told him the reason I was late - because you didn't let me say so; and B) Didn't wait outside the door - because you didn't say so and I wasn't going to waste valuable learning time that my parents pay for standing and staring at a door.
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    My parents ripped them a new one, and Mr Richard didn't lock anyone out of his classroom for at least the next seven years (so my younger brother tells me). It gave me great pleasure to get one up on such a hard headded, infuriating teacher.
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    Congregation Of Vapors. My mom had a teacher similar to yours. All he did was had students copy his notes every class. He also had really strict rules about talking in class. As in, not allowed.
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    Mom talked to her friend in class, and was asked to leave the classroom. For an entire semester! So she studied on her own. That semester ended up being the best she did in that class/ subject ever. Would've gotten perfect score if the teacher wasn't being pedantic over the phrasing of one of her answers.
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    JimLongbow I had a math teacher like that once. We hated him. Problem was: He was really involved with training the new teachers and doing all kinds of stuff, that made him almost untouchable by the principal and his math colleagues. That is, until one day the fire alarm went off in the middle of one of his
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    never ending monologues on the finer points of calculus. Instead of following procedure and leaving the room in an orderly fashion (you know the drill), he kept droning and writing on. We were getting fidgety by that point because, Fire! Adventure! And no math lesson, even if turned out only to be a drill. When the first of
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    us dared standing up and approaching the door, the teacher locked his eyes on him, turned beet-red with anger and told the brave (if unfortunate) soul to get the f* back to his desk. When reminded of the fire alarm, he yelled "I DON'T CARE! THERE IS ONE PERSON TO END THIS LESSON AND THAT'S ME!" and kept going...
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    Well, it turned out not to be a drill. False alarm, that got resolved before the fire department could look for the missing class, yes, but not a drill.. and boy did he get ripped a new one by the principal for endangering a whole class of us. His apology to us was and
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    interesting exercise in halfheartedness but he was much more careful at least until I left the school two years later.
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    anomaly33 I once got a tardy slip as I was walking into the building. The tardy bell rang WHILE it was being filled out by the secretary lady that had stopped me from getting to class. She assumed I wouldn't get there before the bell.
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    shineyink Oh yes! My one teacher also used to make us sit outside if we were late. I hated the class so much, so I came late on purpose and then sat in the hall on my phone for 45mns. This was in 2007 so I was probably playing snake 2 or bounce
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    AnotherGit Protip for anybody still going to school who wants to be a bit rebellious. If you have a teacher like this, who doesn't let you into class when you are late, just go to the principal and ask him what to do. You are later because * insert excuse * and now the teacher won't let you in. The principal
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    will believe you because you obviously want to go to class if you even come to him but he'll be That look on your teachers face when he hears the door being unlocked and suddenly principal a comes in is priceless.

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