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At Detention3/25/2023 Regarding detentions, I found myself in a few of them over the years. While a couple were because I didn’t complete assignments on time, three times stuck in my mind.
In public school the vice principal’s son, Loge (m) and I got into a fight on the playground. The teacher caught us and took us to the principals’ office. We both sat there for over half an hour awaiting our fate. Eventually, after at least an hour, the principal came in and let us go. The second one, a couple of us tried to give a classmate a birthday spanking, that landed us in detention. I think the third time we were acting up in class, that was the detention that I had to sit and re-copy the dictionary in. Detentions in public school offered three punishments over the years, depending on the teacher supervising the detention – cleaning the classroom, doing homework assignments, or hand copying the dictionary word for word. In high school usually you just did homework or sat there staring into space. I remember one time getting into a disagreement with a few mean kids during a softball game, and I went back into my classroom and started cleaning up the kitchen-like workstation at the back of the room. The teacher thanked me, appreciating that I had done the clean-up voluntarily (as opposed to the ones who did it while in detention).
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