I got two answers for this.
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When I was in grade school, the teachers would get mad and fuss at me for reading books during recess time. Because I wasn't playing with the other kids. But those kids told me they didn't like me and they didn't wanna play with me because they thought I was too weird. So why should I want to or have to play with the other kids if they didn't wanna play with me? Also I was sitting on the steps reading my Junie B. Jones book or Babysitters Club book or Judy Moody book and eating my cookies, minding my business, how was that bothering you any?
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In my sophomore year of high school I took a Ceramics/Sculpting art class, and it was the last day of school before fall holiday break. And rhe project we were currently working on was making tumbler cups that can be used to hold desk supplies like pencils, markers, pens, highlighters, etc. I guess i didn't wrap my project up as well ad i thought the day before because half the clay of my project was dried up before I was finished. I asked the teacher what I should do, she said that I could ask the girl at the table in front of mine for some clay, because she was prepping a new bag of clay. So when I went to ask the girl, she said "Of course, but can you give me about 10 minutes?" And I said "okay, I can wait". Whilst I was waiting, I pulled out my school laptop, checked to see if I had any new important emails and made sure I turned in all my finished assignments into Google Classroom so my teachers could grade them during break. 15 or so minutes later, I asked the girl again if I could get some clay now. But I just asked her from my table since hers was not far from mine. The teacher called me to her desk and said to me "We do not yell across the classroom! You can prep your own clay." I didn't even yell, I thought to myself. The girl was literally less than ten feet in front of me. But out loud, I responded "That's fine, but can I at least get an apron or smock first please? I don't wanna get my clothes dirty". And for some unbeknownst reason that made my teacher even more angry with me. "You have been very disrespectful all day today! Pack up your bags, I'm calling your vice principal". And I was sentenced to all day in school suspension.
But what about you? What's the silliest or dumbest reason you got in trouble for in school?
Zero tolerance era. Grade school (I think 4th?) I'm reading one of those books that's just like "Medieval History" with a bunch of pictures and the history on what the items was. (I think this one was about spies or James bond or something). Kid comes up to me actively reading and says "I was reading that, you took it from me!" Basically escalates it to "I'm gonna fight you" and starts sort of dragon ball z style punching me in the stomach a bunch of times really fast. Parents told me not to let that slide and to fight back, so I cock back and punch him in the face. Right as the teacher walks through the door. I was in 4th grade, I didn't deck the kid, but I did hit him. Whole deal, go to the office, explained what happened. "Zero tolerance, 3 day suspension"
Dad asks what happened, explained, got 3 days off school at home fishing and playing video games. Best time I had at that school, also completely broke my faith in that system, so win win.
This reminds me of the external suspension place my town's schools used for middle and high schoolers. Regular suspension and in-school suspension existed, but a handful of us "trouble-makers" went to this place in a plaza where it was like a single (or double, with a retractable wall) classroom. Thing is, going there rocked. The hours started later than normal school (9am vs 7 or 7:30am), there was a pizza place in the same plaza that we would get lunch from, we watched movies (it's where I first saw The Breakfast Club, funny enough), and afternoons were spent just chatting with each other (I think it was supposed to be "therapy" but nobody working there was licensed for therapy, so we all just talked.) Instead of gym, we either took walks or went to the community center in the same plaza and used the equipment (much better than school gyms.) Oh, and one of the teachers was missing a finger - IIRC he lost it in a water skiing accident. Dude was cool and laid back - all the teachers were.
So I'd be able to sleep in, get all my schoolwork and homework done during the morning, watch a movie, and screw around talking with other kids who were ostensibly there for being "in trouble."
As to why I was there? I'd been there a few times and can't recall each incident, but for the longest stay it was because I was being picked on by numerous classmates at the same time and in anger I told them all to "drop dead." Apparently, in a zero-tolerance, post-9/11 school environment, that is considered "making a threat." I got two weeks external suspension for it.
I insisted, "It's not a threat, it's a suggestion," but what are ya gonna do?