Well, I’m the unsavory character. I was expelled from boarding school for getting in trouble one too many times. I also spent about half of my junior and senior years in in-house suspension in public school, mostly for cutting class. I had out-of-school suspension a few times too.
So, gimme your purse!
I was suspended 4 or 5 times along with detention. The suspensions were all for skipping school.
Altogether, I guess it was 10 days worth of detention.
I had one that was called ISS (in-school suspension). During the school day, I was placed in a room with a solitary desk, no windows and a very noisy clock. I had to sit in the desk. I was not allowed to read or sleep. It was the longest day of my life.
Two but it wasn’t bad so I can’t answer your poll. I remember one time was for what I still consider my greatest comeback ever. A teacher asked us to sit straight or some day we’d end up looking like a comma. I responded that that was better than looking like a semi colon.
Maybe it wasn’t that funny.
I was a major nerd in a high school filled with nerds. I never did anything seriously bad, and neither did anyone else I knew.
But over the course of 4 years, I probably served some kind of detention 7-10 times, almost always for tardiness. I was a stereotypical absent minded professor, and was late a lot.
I got paddled once for socking a guy that hit me when he walked by my desk. He got paddled also.
Never had detention (after school).
Never had ISS (in-school-suspension - during the school day).
Never had suspension (out-of-school).
I only twice got called to the Principal’s office and both times were for good reasons (once to tell me my nephew had been born and once to tell me I’d been secretly selected for an award).
I skipped school a lot in my senior year. My last class of the day was a study. As a PEER mediator, my study was spent in the PEER office. My second to last class of the day was a completely stupid job skills class (I already had all the job skills they taught). So in 6th period I’d get a pass from my job skills teacher to go to the PEER office early. When I got to the PEER office, if the adviser didn’t have any office work or mediations for me to do, I’d get a pass to go to ROTC. If no one needed me in ROTC, I’d get a pass to go back to the PEER office but I’d really leave. My Colonel didn’t know I never made it back to the PEER office and the PEER adviser didn’t know I was supposed to be returning. So, I’d leave the school for the rest of 6th and all of 7th period and then I’d return to school for whatever after school activity I had each day. Never got caught.
I skipped on senior skip day but by that time I was 18 and as a ward of the courts, I actually became pretty much independent on my 18th birthday (other than the fact that I still lived in foster care). So, I excused myself from school that day and took my (real) mother out for mother’s day lunch (I had to work on the actual holiday). My principal checked that restaurant to see if any students were skipping there and caught me but the fact that I was 18 and with my mother kept him from getting mad at me. 
All the 16 and 17 year old students who skipped together at IHOP got detentions.
I was not a goody-goody. I was a goody-goody-goody, which lead to some problems with the institution that I saw as indoctrinating and oppressing people who weren’t strong or smart enough to fight back. The same school that teaches you about civil disobedience really frowns on you doing it to them, though. So technically, my answer should be “I’ve been suspended- you miscreants interrupted my (unfailingly polite but determined) revolution!”
I said none, but my schools didn’t have detention. Things pretty much jumped from being talked to to in school/out of school suspension with nothing in between.
3 detentions. One was total BS and the other two were deserved. Although one of the deserved ones just meant that I got to sit in air conditioning with one of my favorite teachers (who in no way tried to force the three students she wasn’t being paid to watch to follow the Official Rules on how detention was supposed to work) rather than have marching band practice in the 90 degree heat.
Daylight saving. The clocks were meant to go back an hour. Our teacher forgot. He was also late for the last lesson of the day. Our entire class had followed the lead of one kid who said ‘the clock says it’s home time, I’m going home’.
Except for me.
I was such a goody, that I stayed and waited for the teacher - and got given a detention (the other kids were supposed to feel guitly that I got punished for their misdeeds, they didn’t).
35 years on, I’m still pissed off.
ETA: The next four years I got away with so much shitty behaviour I should have been living in detention, never got caught.
none.
My entire four years of high school was spent as the negative example to the rest of the student body. I am pretty sure I owed detention time after I graduated
Detention, something fancy schools have, I never had because it didn’t exist in the schools I went to.
I never got detention, which was for various misbehavior. I was suspended twice for fighting (mandatory 3 day suspension).
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Wait, what? You got detention for showing up? 
None, though not because I was particularly well-behaved. I had enough leverage on several members of the faculty and administration that I was generally able to do as I pleased without repercussions. I didn’t really abuse that advantage (much), though, and probably wouldn’t have gotten into all that much trouble without it.
I had detention twice. The first time was because our school had decided (for some insane reason) to institute a no-tolerance policy regarding bringing your stuff to class. If you forgot a pencil or a piece of paper, instead of just letting you borrow from another student like any normal school, it was an instant detention. Detention halls filled up so quickly and there was so much outrage among the students and parents that the policy was dropped after three weeks, I believe.
The second time I technically deserved it, because I mouthed off to my history teacher, who absolutely hated my guts (even though I aced his class), and I his. I had to serve detention on the last day of school, meaning that I was stuck there after every other student had gone home. What an asshole.
This thread has made me realize that of all the times I skipped class, I was never busted. :eek: Well, except for the aforementioned senior skip day.
I’m disappointed in the people who were supposed to be watching me. 
Five or six hours of in-school detention for being late to class. A few of them were strategic, I was purposefully late so I could have an extra hour to study for tests.