So, the big, big, BIG news in school is that H.B in Grade VI got suspended for three whole days! Everyone is talking about it — even the teachers in the Staff Room. I know, because I had to collect the math homework assignments and take it to P Ma’am (which is kind of funny, because I forgot mine, but handed everyone else’s in) and I heard some of the English teachers whispering about it in a corner. I know, I know! Eavesdropping is a bad habit, but let’s just say that I have super sensitive hearing and couldn’t help but hear them okay?
So, in our school we have a code of conduct. It’s in our diary and about a 100 pages long. We’re supposed to sign on the 101th page and say we’ll follow all the rules and not break any of them — but I’m pretty sure no one reads it and just signs their name at the end. Anyway, the Code of Conduct covers all kinds of things — bad language, bullying, dress code, hygiene and even things like cyber bullying. So you can’t really do something stupid and say ‘Oh! THAT’S not covered by the code.’ It 100% definitely is.
If you break one code of conduct rule, you get a written warning, you break two you get detention, you break three then you get suspended. Is that where the phrase, ‘three strikes and you’re out’ comes from?
Known delinquent
Anyway, back to the story at hand. H.B has been one of those notorious kids since Grade I. He’s always getting into trouble or getting other people into trouble. There’s a rumour he’s the one who taught the U.K.G students a rude version of Jingle Bells before the Christmas assembly and convinced them to sing it instead of the real version. He’s always cutting classes, hanging out with older kids and hatching plans to bring the school down. But this time, he went a little too far.
So strike one, was that he pantsed someone in the middle school boys’ bathroom. Pantsing is when you pull down someone’s trousers when they’re using the bathroom. It’s the most uncoolest thing in the world if you ask me. If you have a problem with someone, you take them on face-to-face. You don’t do something sneaky behind their back. I don’t know why the school waited for two more strikes before suspending H.B. This was bad enough if you ask me.
Strike two was throwing a shoe at the football coach for not selecting him for an inter school match. And Strike three was even MORE stupid than one and two. He called a teacher stupid...TO HER FACE.
Rumour has it, he was bragging that he did all of this stuff so he’d get suspended and get a couple of days off from school. Hasn’t he heard of ‘stomach aches’? Oh well. At least I can use the boys’ bathroom for three days without worrying!
