My 90 Minutes As a Bad Kid...
Today, I went to ISS. That's right. In School Suspension. Me. Honors Student that has never even had detention. Yup. For 90 Minutes today, i was a bad kid. Let me explain....My first class of the day is AP Literature with a very difficult and unorthodox teacher. We had a small homework assignment over the weekend, that about 2/3 of the class had forgotten about. My teacher comes in and tells all of us who didn't do our homework to standup. Not wanting to lie, I stood up with about 10 of my classmates. His next words were, "Get out! Go to ISS!" Now, usually a missed homework assignment does not result in ISS. Actually, I looked it up in our student handbook (because, yes, I'm a dork) The types of things that do result in ISS are skipping class, skipping detention, vandalism, fighting, posession of tobacco or lighters, and not usually forgetting to analyze a poem. So we all head to the ISS room (which only one person in the group actually knew where it was). We all walk in and of course get weird looks, because, well, we just aren't the type of kids to get ISS. We were each freaking out in our own little way. Some of us were wondering if this was going to kick us out of our clubs, then make up not get into college, and then not get a job and die homeless. Ok, maybe we were over reacting a little. But still, it was a seemingly very serious situation.
Our teacher gave us some work to do and we did it easily. After a while we realized that freaking out gets old and so most of us just kind of relaxed. One of the leaders in our overly punished group decided that we were going to have to go to the principle's office and demand justice. The more sheepish ones of us (including me) weren't exactly thrilled with the idea. When the class period was almost over we were escorted back to our classroom by one of the Homework Doers. It turns out that the ISS was not going on our permanent record but was used as a scare tactic. (Thank goodness!!) But I was faced with "Did you go to ISS this morning?!" during every class. Even though it's a big school, news travels like a salamander being chased with a lit match. (I've never tried that, I just figure that they would run. Even though if you chased the salamander, you would probably have to move the match quickly, making the flame go out. So maybe nothing would happen, but I don't know.) Anyway, so today was an interesting day and I just thought I would share with yall My 90 Minutes As a Bad Kid.
posted by Shari @ 5:06 PM
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