As the saying goes, rules are made to be broken, and school rules are no different. However, since school rules are generally stupid to begin with, the punishments given for breaking these rules are correspondingly ridiculous and unreasonable.

Ah, detention. From time out when you were young, to the dunce cap with chair, to standing on the wall during reccess. The classic punishment, favoured by law enforcement officials and school teachers alike. Except, these aren't a tame "five minutes in the corner" kind of thing. This is a "head-down-for-forty-five-minutes-while-staying-completely-still-or-you'll-get-another-detention" kind of thing. Sure, older kids need longer punishments, but this is just stupid.

Writing lines, a relatively new punishment. Borrowing the idea from old schools, repetition, whenever kids break a rule, they have to write lines. Usually, this was pointless, because they would just write a whole column of a word at a time, rather than writing each sentence over and over. The lines normally had something to do with the rule they had broken or the way they misbehaved. As you would expect, this lead to some humourous lines. Some of them include: "I will not let others throw food in my soup", "I will not write lines on good paper", "I will not sit on bench", and "I'm a real boy".

Suspension doesn't really make any sense to me. If the student does something to warrant such a punishment, then it's very likely that they don't want to be at school in the first place, so how are suspensions effective? The whole concept is stupid.

Ooooooh. Expulsion. The most serious business of all serious business that ever serioused a business. Seriously. Anyways, you have to do something either extremely epic win or extremely epic fail to be expelled. Hopefully it's extremely epic win, because that might make it worth it. But seriously, hardly anyone ever gets expelled. It's all just a clever ruse.

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