20 Kids BANNED From School For Stupid Reasons 

I’m appalled by the girl getting suspended for being abused. As a teacher myself, that just infuriates me to the core. 😡😡😡😡😡

I have a disability and when I got bullied a lot while in school, I was told the school barely did anything to stop the bullying. My mom saw me get abused plenty of times, and reported it to the school administration, but they were like "boys will be boys." Yet when I acted up, I got in trouble, and I've even been suspended twice for bad behavior, and my dad agreed with me that both of my suspensions were results of injustice.

The one about the girl getting in trouble for reporting her attacker made my blood boil

This list is insane. Wtf is wrong with teachers and administrators at American schools?!? I'm horrified that children were either suspended or expelled for practically nothing. Worst is how some of these kids never got it removed from their records, which will cause them problems later on. The amount of crap that teachers have said or done to students have been worse. Especially the amount of teachers that punish diabetic kids for using their phone or other device. Teachers stating that the kids are texting or playing when they are actually trying to check their blood sugar levels. Yeah, some kids are assholes and just horrible to teach or deal with, but the majority of them are very good kids who don't intentionally cause trouble, but some teachers/admin need to pull that stick outta their butts

I was in the principles office for sending a note to a student about my mental health. For having suicidal thoughts, I was belittled by my principle, saying that I should feel ashamed because her husband committed suicide. As if I can't talk about my emotions and connect with other people was a crime.

I got suspended all the time for being bullied. I'd finally stand my ground and get in trouble, not them. Once for just telling a guy to shut up. The teachers all thought I was just a bad kid and deserved it.

I got in trouble with a teacher for “being disrespectful” when the teacher was absent. As to what I did, I don’t know, as nobody was willing to tell me. I got multiple days of detention and had to write an apology letter to the EA as she was the one who reported me and who I had assumed I was supposedly disrespectful to. When I acknowledged what I thought I got in trouble for, turns out it wasn’t the reason. Only for the EA to go and tell my parents that I was lying to them about the incident and I got grounded at home. Long story short. The EA had fabricated the incident as apparently I wasn’t her first victim and she had done this to any student she didn’t like (which was a lot and included some of my friends and my older brother) and the teacher who punished me was extremely gullible and believed every lie told to her. Thankfully the other teachers I got at that school were smarter and she couldn’t convince them that I was some problem child. Also years later my parents apologized for not believing me as even they raised an eyebrow when I discussed what happened and the fact that there were so many normally good kids who “got in trouble” under her watch.

Wow, these schools must definitely be strict. In my school, one girl got into trouble for writing her name on the desk in easily washable marker.

I helped a classmate by escorting her to the nurse’s office after she was hurt on the playground. My parents were informed and I had to sit out for the rest of recess without complaining. I felt like taking matters into my own hands because my teachers had other kids to watch over.

There was girl at my school with the same first and last name as me, and she often got detention. I was made to serve those detentions simply because my name matched the list of ‘troublemaker’ students, and no teacher believed me when I said I was the wrong one

God, what bizarre and terrible reasons! I remember I was blamed for paying a bully back in primary school, then I got bullied in secondary school and a teaching assistant there told me I was getting too old for content for kids! I was then taken out of secondary school because I started developing OCD and they couldn't handle it! But I enjoyed the next school I went to and college; the latter had tons of students who were disabled, like me, as I'm autistic.

I got a detention and had to write lines once for “eating” in class, it was a gummy tablet thing I had to take for my hypoglycemia. Teacher just wouldn’t listen to me, she got in trouble for it later though. No where near as bad as this list! The girl getting in trouble for being an abuse victim 🤯 ridiculous

I can’t imagine the parents reactions to this hogwash. I’m glad my school was never like this.

Getting arrested for freaking burping? That is the most insane thing I have ever heard of.

A common one is defending yourself from bullying, it's outrageous

#8 was reported as "sharing paracetamol" in many US sources at the time. While that is another name for acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, the word has never been common use in the US and so a US-based article using it as an at best curious choice.

I was once kicked out of the classroom because I spoke better English than my teacher. I learned it from the Saturday morning cartoons, He learned it from a book. So my pronunciation was a lot better than his and he didn't like it - Wanker. Thankfully I had a good school director that chewed his ass out in front of the class. (best day in school ever)

Schools can be such a pain

I remember I once got detention for reading a book in class. I also got suspended for wearing a winter coat in the winter. Dress code stated that I could only wear a jacket with the school logo on it, but the school didn't sell jackets for under 60 degree (15 celsius) weather. it was a good 32 (0) outside and I had to go outside to get to my classes. Nevertheless, I basically got suspended for being cold. The good news is that I stayed warm during my suspension and was allowed to read books during my detention.

I remember half of my classmates graduates in 2016 were banned due to a grad prank gone wrong when everyone was having a friendly water fight until someone used soda drinks and made a huge mess which the Principal identified the ones who was involved with the water fight and soda fight and kicked em out. Like wtf.

I feel like every school that did this should be torn down forever or at the very least, fire the principals/assistant principals

my experience as a bullying survivor I can see why some of these kids were suspended/expelled for breaking certain school rules like not having food/drinks in class unless its a special occasion or something or you have a medical reason to like a diabetic having a low sugar episode or somebody with an issue that causes dizzy spells if they don't eat I.E. Cluster headaches/Migraines

If huggs were banned from my school growing up, I'd be WAY more depressed than I already am.

How many of these where the correct course of action is to fire the administrators and school board? Suspending a student for reporting abuse whether its them or another classmate being abused should be an automatic firing, blacklisted, and possibly have criminal charges filed against them once we know what they can be charged with.

Schools have some pretty stupid rules. I was bullied when I was in school just like lots of people are, but in middle school I got suspended just for speaking out and saying that if people don't stop bullying there will be deadly results. I got suspended for almost a week and had to go to a hearing to get back in because they took it as a threat. We seriously need to do a major overhaul with school rules nationwide, otherwise cases like the ones on this list are just going to keep happening.

Imagine getting raped not once but twice only to get suspended and being told to apologise what kind of school does that

When I was 14 I got a 3 day suspension because I wore a pacifier around my neck & would chew on it throughout the day as a coping mechanism at the time & they suspended me because they said that the pacifier thing was something drug abusers did. I wasn't using any drugs, wasn't caught doing anything, wasn't tested, nothing. They just assumed.

I once opened the door for someone at school and all I got was a stern talking to.

“We had a teacher that was so strict, she wouldn’t let us breathe in her classroom”

when I was a in elementary school, in winter whenever it was deemed too cold to go outside for recess, we would sometimes play poker. Usually for nothing but every now and again candy/snacks were involved. This was the early 2000's.

The Education System is complicated

I feel like starting at the age seven and a half (if not sooner), when a person gets kicked out of a school, it's usally for an unfair reason.

In my old secondary school we had to ask for keys for toilets when there were classes on and a pass so the deputy principal could see if you had one or not, if not you were in detention. And no face or body piercings like nose rings or bellybutton rings.

I find it funny how parents are so worried about a single suspension or single item on school "record" I don't know of any college that looks at a school record and says "oh looks like Johnny had a day of suspension in 3rd grade so no scholarship"

My brother got expelled from high school for defending himself when kids would jump him. They didn't get in any trouble. In a way, it was worth it. He tested out and got his GED at 16. He once asked me if I saw the mark on one of the brick walls near the gym. I said "I think so." He said, "I did that. It was with blank's head." The Glee one? That didn't take place on school grounds. The school had no grounds to get involved.

This is why I am happy I graduated

I got detention (my only detention) for not having my shirt tucked in. It was part of the dress code, but luckily they removed it the following school year.

My school had a thing about PDA too, and fortunately hugging wasn't deemed offensible but man that school, if hugging is considered PDA, then so are handshakes, and fist bumps, and any kind of affectionate acknowledgment. as the parents, I would have sued the living shit out of that school since they had no clear outline of what is and isn't considered PDA.

Number 15 i live in missouri and I'm disabled myself, so the school better be glad I'm not her parent because i would be doing everything i could to it and it's faculty. Blaming and punishing a disabled girl for being sexually assaulted and having her apologize for it as well is so wrong on so many levels. And they did it TWICE!? That is one of the most horrible things i have ever heard. How is that not #1?

At our school a girl was suspended for wearing trousers in winter instead of the usual skirt,the following year the rules were changed to allow all girls to wear trousers in winter.

I got punished because my teachers hated me .

I got written up for yawning 🤦🏽‍♂️, teacher told me it was rude and distracting to the class all while yelling at me of course

I'm happy the teacher did get fired. But the little girl did the right thing recording the situation. Amen.

I was held back for 10 mins during lunch because some dumb, naughty kids couldn't keep their mouths shut and my teacher didn't notice I'd been quiet all lesson. I was furious

I can’t even with the guy sexually abusing a girl in school, repeatedly, yet it was the GIRL who was REPEATEDLY suspended when she told on him!!!!???!?! 🤬

I was given in-school suspension one time because I was out for two weeks with double pneumonia.

Yep. These are the stupidest reasons to suspend kids. We got kids doing WORST things in school, and they never get suspended. SMH!

I got suspended for skipping school. We had a discussion with the vice principal who suspended me about concerns we have with the school, and when I questioned the rationale of suspending someone for skipping school, the response I received was "Yeah, when you think about it, that doens't make sense does it."

In middle school got in trouble in math class for eating a lollipop the DAY AFTER Halloween! A FREAKING LOLLIPOP GUYS!! THE DAY AFTER HALLOWEEN!!!

Don't forget the kid who made a gun motion with his thumb and forefinger. That kid is going to grow up to be John Dillinger!

My teen son and I both like to dye our hair bright colours. They tried to “enforce the dress code” which stated “no in-natural hair colours”. I point blank asked the principal why another student’s lack of self discipline at finding a hair colour “distracting” was more important than another child’s education? I further enquired if they could prove that every teacher & other student in the entire school had their “natural” hair colour, then we would agree to change our son’s hair colour back. He is currently in grade 12, and his hair is bright green, blue, and purple.🥰

You gotta admit, Clock Boy was pretty smart AND must have come from a rich family if he had his own PCB printer laying around...

I work with Intelectually Disabled Adults and unfortunately this happens way too often. Thankfully, we are trained to recognize and report such issues. However, this should be common sense for all people to recognize.

Two things 1: Are these schools still open? 2: No wonder America is falling behind

In 8th grade, when I was 14, I almost unfairly got myself suspended from the school bus and one of my best friends, Jackie, who tried to stick up for me, God bless her soul, almost got the same punishment. We had another bus driver who we loved a lot, coincidentally named Jackie, who had to leave for a long while for reasons I can't remember. Lol But, the female substitute who stood in her place Jackie and I hated and so did everyone else. I didn't even know that what I was doing would lead me up to trouble. I admit, there was one moment where I actually did talk back towards the bus driver but it was for reasons that she was not understanding and I was trying my best to stick up for myself. I'm very bad at organization skills and even to this day I still need to work on them. Whenever I knew that I was getting closer to getting home I would try my best at getting myself ready but I was always bad at getting ready at the right time and the mean bus driver assumed that I was doing it on purpose. My best friend Jackie, God bless her soul, even stood up for me at one moment. But, then the mean bus driver gave both Jackie and I an actual bus referral and wanted it actually signed by the principal. My parents and Jackie's parents actually found it very ridiculous but luckily the female principal actually knew me and Jackie well enough to know that we were innocent and didn't suspend us from the school bus. She had the talk with the mean bus driver and I changed up my habits to be much better organized with my things before getting off of the school bus. One thing's for sure Jackie, everyone else, and I were so thrilled to actually have our old nicer bus driver, Jackie, back. EEP! :) But, even then I wanted to be very respectful of Jackie so I still made sure that I was well organized with my things before getting off the bus. Lol

I remember at my school after 9/11 they would let you have anything camouflage, backpacks pincil bags etc

In my high school, you can go to the office and ask the secretary for a Tylenol, Advil, cough drop, or a Tums, granted that your parents signed a concent form.

I really feel sad for the girl being suspended for getting abused. I had a teacher who actually did the same to a girl in my class at high school who was constantly abused and bullied for her dissability by other students and teachers. I took it upon my self to be a guardian for her during school time, and outside me and my friend network became her new life. To say her mum was happy is to say it lightly. And in school my friends and I always had her back. Even took the war to the teachers. It p***es me off when schools go down these routes.

Asking Miss America to prom and getting rejected in front of the whole school is punishment enough😅

I remember one time I got SUSPENDED for using the RESTROOM

Where is the kid that had the Don't Tread on Me badge?! That was something that the internet defended the kid and made fun of the school that the kid got suspended from by correcting the teachers and giving history facts about the flag.

I was once suspended for two days when I was like 10, because me and my friend had been drawing a bad cartoon of our teacher, who was horrible to us, feeding posion apples to students (something only a kid would do). The teacher had found my friend's notebook after class, and some other students, who didn't like me and were actively bullying me at the time, ratted me out right then and there, despite it not even being my notebook. My friend, whose notebook it actually was, didn't get any type of suspension. The teacher got so upset about a 10 year old's bad cartoons that she ran home, and no one from the school could get a hold of her for a couple of days. I had to write her a long apology letter and come in for a personal meeting with her. I was so upset about it at the time, the teacher made such a big deal out of it, that I thought for sure I had ruined my entire education (I am autistic, and a bit of a nerd, so that was a very scary thought to me). Today I can very clearly see that she was a horrible excuse for a teacher, and should have never put her own self-esteem issues onto a child.

In elementary school, during lunch, students would get "benched," meaning that they are forced to miss out on lunch reccess for an X amount of time. So in the 4th grade, I had a separate math teacher who got me benched and I had to miss 5 minutes of lunch reccess, and they didn't tell me what I did wrong. So they gave me lunch detention for no f***ing reason. And when classes resumed, my primary teacher asked why I got benched, and to this day, I still don't know why. The teacher assumed I already knew, I was forced to make a guess that didn't finish a homework assignment, but that wasn't the reason. Nobody gave me a clear answer.

That's the school system for you 😂😂😂

LoL... I live in SoCal and went to a private Christian school nursery through 8th grade and in my 6th grade year, it was lunch time and the fourth fifth and sixth graders all had lunch at the same time. It was a small Christian school so everybody had to eat lunch physically inside the playground at the tables and then after about 15 minutes they would dismiss the 6th graders to the outer portions of the playground to socialize for the rest of the period. During the table portion of lunch I got up to throw my trash away and you know at that age you still have boys sitting at one table and girls sitting in another table, so I sat down next to my crush at the time on my way back from throwing my trash away just to say something and then I went back to the girls table. Our lunch monitors would choose at random somebody to wash the table before dismissing that person when the table was cleaned to wherever they went on the playground or outside. So the playground monitor came up to me and told me since I was table hopping at the eating. I was going to have to wash both tables before I could be dismissed with the rest of my class outside the playground. I can seated although I thought that was pretty stupid to reason that that be why I wash the tables but I did it anyways and started to head outside the playground... She stopped me and said "where are you going?" I let her know that I had washed the two tables and was going to go join the rest of my class for the rest of the period cuz I wanted to have as much time to socialize as possible and she told me that I had to wait until the rest of the other kids washing tables were finished before I could be dismissed... To which I turned around looked at her and said, "This is Stupid!" Boom! - Smacked with an In House Suspension for being disrespectful of our lunch monitor! So ridiculous to be honest with you! Yours truly got to spend an entire day sitting outside of their favorite principles office and the principal had to look @ their "favorite" student all day! It wasn't too bad, my friend snuck me some notes during breaks and I got a lot of homework done!

I was suspended all the time as a small child unfairly. It was most likely because I was the only neuro divergent kid at school. Like, I'm 23 and I'm STILL learn social norms

That first one is so dumb I hope those parents took him out of that school

This list makes school seem worse than prison.

My brother had CF and passed away when he was 25 yrs. I am a carrier of CF. The Palo Alto school needs to be schooled! They have no idea how CF works on a genetic level. A person with the Genetic marker but does not have CF aka a carrier, can not get a person with CF sick. It just means that we have to be careful whom we have kids with. If our partner has the gene then we MAY, and I stress MAY have a baby with CF.

I remember number #1 and hearing about that story of the kid who built a digital clock for his "science project." yeah that teacher and the school they are definitely racist and only "accused" ahmed of building a bomb and being a terrorist because he's Muslim/Arab. you're right and i agree with you miss mojo Ahmed shouldn't have been suspended from school and expelled it is ridiculous and absurd the kid was definitely targeted and expelled because he's Muslim and because of his race. what makes it even worse is the internet and youtube and reading the idiot comments in the comments section about the "incident" from people defending the teacher and the school and their actions and people agreeing that he's a terrorist when he isn't and saying it was a bomb when it was just a clock a digital clock Ahmed built for his science project to show his science teacher and what makes me angry and "pissed" me off even more about this incident is i don't think they would have done this and the kid would have been "expelled" if the kid was "white" the teacher and the school is definitely "racist" and Ahmed was targeted because he's Muslim race is definitely a role in this incident and it definitely played a "factor" here and i don't care what anybody says especially all the idiots and morons on the internet and youtube in the comments section defending the teacher and the schools 🏫"despicable" actions but i am glad those people most of those people are in the "minority" a very small minority of the comments though and most people in the comments like 85 or 90% percent of them agree with and defend Ahmed.

Wow!! These are ridiculously stupid “broken” rules!! Poor innocent kids&teens!

In my first year of school in Melbourne, Australia, at the tender age of five, I was made to stand in the corner because I farted in class.

A school installs a $10K security system and repaints the tiles in the cafeteria…yet can’t build a freaking AC. Yeah, sounds about right.

Some of these I can understand like the fear of school shootings with the video game one but a suspension seems like major overkill for what could have been a conversation... a lot of these seem like an admin or a teacher having a power trip...

Wait so let me get this right, two different gender friends can hug platonically without ill intentions but will still be suspended, yet schools can’t suspend the bully who assaulted a disabled student?!

1:43 AKA American Eagle Outfitters shirt ?

😅Really, They Ridiculously Believed That A Staring Contest Game Was An Offense To Them,UNBELIEVABLE 😂, Even Wearing A U.S T-shirt And Burping Out Loud Are You Kidding Me.

Most of these boil down to adults who get high off their own power.

15:01 Oh come on! Look at that clock! It looks suspicious as heck! If kids can get in serious trouble for bringing toys guns onto school, why can't he get in trouble for that?

Some of these stories are old I mean like before the pandemic. Although they never mentioned about the highschooler who successfully asked out a pornstar for his prom date and even payed for her plane ticket. Sadly the school got wind of the woman's reputation and refused her for the prom

The Principal's Office anyone? Wills Point High School banned sweatpants as they had a strict dress code policy

We should definitely stop banning kids from schools for stupid reasons like these! It’s basically discriminating so many people!

The Kid who burped got arrested?? He must be the Lenny Bruce of class clowning.

At what point did schools become prisons?

10:00 OH FRAG! A friend of mine's cousin's sister got in trouble for that. The kid asked if he had Tylenol he shouted "i got drugs" that impacted the cousin's sister so hard she couldn't process what happened that week thankfully she was able to walk the stage. WORSE THEY DON'T HAVE A NURSE OFFICE! what happens if a student has a head/stomach ache?! Wait for an ambulance? How long? How long would it take?! This is why i don't like private school

A bunch of these are really stupid reasons for someone getting banned from school

If you look at pictures of Achmeds clock you can clearly see it is made to look like a bomb. He deserved that punishment.

I think more and more people are waking up to the TYRANTS that run some schools. Also I slapped my bully so hard he had a red mark on his face rest of day-he constantly snapped my bra. Teacher did NOTHING to stop it. Nowadays I'd be suspended while that god awful boy would get off scott free

I was in 9th grade and teacher gave me a stapler as a hall pass. I had a friend in a class I shot staples at (going 6" in front of me, 20' away from him) and was seen by our vice principal. She pulled me into her office and wanted to charge me with assault using a deadly weapon. I laughed at her and so did the other student involved. After the SRO said that is was stupid (his words) I was so excited for her to explain this to my father, a police officer. He informed her in the kindest of ways that if I had stapled the guy in the forehead several times she would have point but that this was just outrageous. The SRO agreed and it ended with me being suspended for disrupting the class room. A couple weeks later I was suspended for having a sucker in my mouth in the hallway, she may have been holding a bit of a grudge 🤣

When I was 10 years old in the 5th grade, I got in trouble for holding my girlfriend's hand. One of the other teacher thought that it looked "inappropriate."

I was suspended because the RE teacher said I was choking my ex friend at a school dance on security camera when I was only giving her a pep talk and trying to make her feel better about herself at the dance and the worst part of it was she also lied and said I choked her while also constantly following me after my suspension saying how her grandpa wanted to shoot me dead now with his shotgun if he ever saw me So yeah I got suspended and death threats for just giving my ex friend a pep talk and trying to cheer her up at the dance when she felt awful

The weirdest thing we got in trouble for was playing pencil break and/or spork break

Wait so a kid got suspended for watching a tv show outside of school? Can they even do that!?

I wonder how many lawsuits have resulted from these penalties.

Meanwhile bullies go scott free. 😡

A girl got suspended twice for being assaulted? That's messed up. SMH!

Honestly being suspended (or worse) for anything besides fighting or maybe drug use is ridiculous. Kids are going to behave better by… not being at school? Punishment above “go change” for dress code violations is especially bad.

I can relate to the jolly rancher person. I got suspended for a week for having one of my friends chicken nuggets, the school always bullied me more then anyone else could.

I graduated high school 10 years ago was a special education student with reading comprehension issues and have cerebral palsy being bullied constantly and no body cared and now people get suspended for hugging and building clocks 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 LMAO

The one about the girl getting suspended from recording a harassment makes me so angry…and disappointed towards that school.