Tonight she sleeps the sleep of the righteous.

It could be worse, I once got detention for "Starting a fight" when I was the one who /lost/ the fight. As in I had to go to the clinic and get sewn back together.

Joke's on them, he grew up to beat his wife, and I grew up to be a job-creator.

The system works!

TBH I was in detention every week because the principal was convinced I'd done /something/ to get expelled from my previous school (actually the school had pinned the injuries of another student on me "fighting" her when in fact she had been injured due to their negligence) and therefore every case of theft, vandalism or fighting was somehow my fault. And I wasn't the only one, us "usual suspects" were in detention all the time, because it was easier to punish us for doing nothing than to do the detective work to figure out who actually ripped down the stalls in the bathroom, or painted "FUCK" in spraypaint on the side of the school, or whatever.

The only one I wish I could have taken credit for, was that this guy took a bunch of ketchup packets from the lunch room, poked small holes in them, and put them under the toilet seat, so if you sat down on the seat, your ass got coated in ketchup. That was one I wish I'd come up with.

That is a classic. I got the janitor's keys once but never did anything with them. I bet I still have 'em.

All high school janitors should wear a shirt that says I DIDN'T DO MY HOMEWORK.

It would improve academic rigor.

But wouldn't it be more appropriate with "I DID MY HOMEWORK!"? Surely that would be more jarring.

We want the kids to do their homework, not give up and kill themselves. They do that already.

Hate to see the guy who lost!

Ah, yes. In the prisons that are today's schools, victims are punished, bullies get off scot-free, and adults wring their hands over why victims go bad when bullies go Columbine.

Gotta keep God in the daily pledge though!

Hallelujah, bruddah! We gotta keep dem priorities stright!

Sad part is, it's not just schools; the whole world is like that. Well, the US anyway, I don't know enough about elsewhere.

On the bright side, victories such as hers are ultimately the more enduring ones. She's learned she can fight back against an oppressor and give him pause. That can make a big difference in her self-confidence and have positive repercussions for her future. All the school can do now is make an attempt at damage control.

Because schools totally haven't always been like that to even worse degrees then they are now? BACK IN MY DAY you didn't get excused for going home and crying to mommy about the kid at school bullying, she just pointed you to your dad and let him awkwardly try to teach you how to throw a punch and then pretended like it's not her fault when you inevitably got the crap kicked out of you. That's REAL parenting.

Still won my foot they all say that !