I was suspended for...

Pre-College Topics High School Life
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<p>It's a long story.</p>

<p>In my AP economics class, my teacher made everyone sign up for Morningstar.com, an investment website that provides free stock charts and other accessories. When we signed up, there was a box that was check by default, which essentially said, "send me a bunch of free stuff." I unchecked it because I don't want them spamming me, but a few people in the class forgot to, or chose not to. The registration also required an address and phone number; my teacher instructed us to put the school's address and other contact info.
Because a number of people forgot to uncheck the aforementioned box, for the past two weeks, about five people get called out of second perid to go pick up a bunch of free financial magazines from the front office. It's not a big deal; it's just a bit inconvenient and I thought it was a bit funny. </p>

<p>Now, because I thought it was funny that the school has to deliver your mail to you if it is sent to their address, a few friends and I got together and (I know, it's a bit silly), each ordered a yearly subscription to Playboy magazine. We entered our own names as the recipients, but left the school's address. Basically, we wanted to see the look on the principal's face when she had to call us out of class once a month to hand over our Playboys. It's worth noting that we designated the magazines to be sent as gifts, e.g. when they arrived, one couldn't tell who ordered them. </p>

<p>When they arrived a few days ago, my friends and I were called to the front office and interrogated over our "suspicious" mail. We all acted as though we had no idea where it had come from. We acted bemused, albeit a bit amused as well. </p>

<p>The principal assumed that we had ordered the magazines ourselves, and suspended us all for two days for breaching the school rule that ban's indecent material. I've denied knowing anything about where the magazines came from, and the school can't prove that any of us had anything to do with them, but the principal basically said, "Who else could it have been?" and assumed that it was us.</p>

<p>I think this suspension is totally unjust. Sure, the prank was in violation of school policy, but it was just an innocent gag and no one was harmed in the process. If I want to waste my $12, I feel I have the right to do so.
Thoughts?</p>

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<p>What you did was pretty serious. It’s your fault. Feel the wrath of the punishments.</p>

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<p>That’s not true. Everyone makes mistakes</p>

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<p>Why is it pretty serious? It’s not like I was distributing pornography to minors, or, for that matter, in violation of any law that I can think of.
Sure, it violated some arbitrary rule, but the sole purpose of our antics was comedy, and it’s not like we harmed anyone.</p>

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<p>That’s hilarious <3</p>

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<p>Wow, that is funny, and by the way I am a 54 year old mom posting this! I suggest you join a frat in college, you have the right stuff. My overall take on this though is that Public Schools are trigger happy these days and just throw the book at kids without looking at anything objectively. I would recommend you keep your head down and fly straight from now on because you don’t want a discipline record as part of your transcript sent to colleges. I would check and make sure this will not be part of your permanent record to be safe too.</p>

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<p>LOL nice one</p>

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<p>It was wrong of them to suspend you without any proof, but hey, you did do it :stuck_out_tongue: I feel like having porn delivered to a school is a pretty serious instance of rule breaking, but I don’t think a suspension was necessary.</p>

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<p>I concur with DancingK. Both you and your principal should face serious consequences.</p>

<p>Although I applaud your sense of humor :)</p>

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<p>lmao bro…</p>

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<p>haha funny stuff.</p>

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<p>Playboy isn’t really <em>porn</em> though…I wouldn’t consider it completely inappropriate.
Either way, I do think a SUSPENSION is a little overboard. Funny prank.</p>

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<p>It’s not.</p>

<p>But it’s PLAYBOY. If you thought you’d be able to get away with that without any kind of trouble then you’ve got a long way to go in life.</p>

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<p>LMAO , Man that’s funny.
Yeah the principal doesn’t have the right to suspend you , But hey it’s your fault after all.</p>

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<p>Tell the principal you ordered the wrong magazine, you had intended to get “Prayboy” (entertainment for pious men) but selected the wrong one.</p>

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<p>^This times 100</p>

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<p>ummmm. technically the suspension was unjust cause you never got to view the actual magazine…</p>

<p>anyways, funniest suspension that i have seen given to a student was when back in 6th grade this kid raged out during orchestra and broke a couple of cellos. It was a serious thing and everyone had a very surprised look. I didn’t know why the kid was ****ed off when i walked in late and I was just staring at everyone’s face and a half-cracked cello in the kid’s hand and started dying of laughter. Never really saw that kid since then.</p>

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<p>If you ordered the magazines from the school’s website, they can track it back to you. In our SD, several years ago, my friend’s D gave her password to another kid, who used it after school to access a porno website. The D was called in and interrogated but was cleared because her mom could prove that she had been at a music lesson at the time it was accessed. She admitted she had given out her password and got a suspension for that but it was ISS while the other boy was given a longer out of school suspension.</p>

<p>Schools have policies and it’s best to follow them. At my company, it’s a firing offense to access certain web sites, that’s a lot more life impacting than a suspension in HS.</p>

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<p>This will make an admissions officer laugh so hard when you explain it on your college application…</p>

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<p>^</p>

<p>Lmaoo I’m could imagine</p>