<p>Here's the story:</p>
<p>I am a straight A student, ranked 5/500 in my class, allconference soccer player, starting goalkeeper, mathletes vice president, sci club, scholastic bowl captain, etc. I get called down to the student services office today because I printed out 36 sheets of biology notes out of 56 on a powerpoint. I stopped at 36 because I realized how much I printed and stopped. Well, it turns out the librarian wrote me a referral for this and now I have to serve 3 detentions. F that. I'm going in tomorrow to talk to the dean who gave me the detentions. Any tips as to what I can say? I've never gotten a referral in my life, I wouldn't do anything to hurt the school. It just seems absurd that I get 3 detentions for that...</p>
<p>Perhaps explain the situation? Apologize, admit that you should have paid attention, but explain the situation. Make it clear that you didn’t realize how much you would be printing, and tried to stop it once you realized.</p>
<p>That does seem pretty absurd… </p>
<p>Talk to them and perhaps offer to pay for ink and paper used…</p>
<p>^ I was thinking about that. I’m just going to try to be as nice as possible and not get offensive about it. If they don’t revoke the detentions, I’m going to ask to personally speak with the principal.</p>
<p>that sounds like something my librarian would do. i agree with the above posters–by the way, i’m not sure if it differs between school districts, but sometimes referrals aren’t shown on school records. if it makes you feel any better, a top ranking friend of mine put a banana in a teacher’s seat and subsequently got a referral, but he’s doing pretty well regardless.</p>
<p>I’m not worried about it being on my record, it’s just a hassle. I can’t miss 3 soccer practices for such a trifling thing. I wasn’t doing anything malicious. It’s not like I was spray painting the walls or smoking pot in the bathroom.</p>
<p>hahaha…I am quite sorry for being amused by this buuuut,
someone started a bonfire last week in the girls’ restroom at my school, and the whole right side of our school smelled of chocolate cigars and pot. She got caught but, nobody found her stash sooo she just received a day of suspension for the fire.</p>
<p>They have chocolate cigars?</p>
<p>But yeah, I can’t believe they’d give you a detention for that. Everywhere else they just have you pay 10¢ a sheet or something</p>
<p>That’s stupid. Even if it shows up on your application, explain what happened and I’m sure the adcoms won’t care and chances are, they would laugh at the librarian. </p>
<p>In any case, the school printers are for ANYONE to use. Teachers print out and/or copy more than 50 sheets of paper a day frequently, and you get punished for printing 36 ONE TIME? That’s Bs. What you should’ve got, if anything, is a warning.</p>
<p>To mock your librarian, especially if you’re a senior, on the last official day of school or the last day the library is open, go in there and print out 50 sheets of paper or 36.</p>
<p>Just an update: I talked to the dean and he stays adamant that I serve the detentions. When I told him I would repay for the paper/ink, he said that I gave the librarian attitude - something he hadn’t mentioned in previous meetings. Even worse, my parents are siding with the school. Ughh this sucks. Come senior year, I’m going to get the librarian back…</p>