Imagine having a teacher who does not want students to be late for class and comes up with an annoying rule to try to prevent students from being late. What would you do if you complied with this rule, but she was mad at you anyway and made you call your dad in front of the whole class?

In this story, one teenage boy is in this situation, and he calls his dad; however, the conversation does not go at all the way the teacher had hoped!

Let’s read all about it.

Okay, Call My Dad

In 9th grade I was a little bit of a jerk.

I have pretty severe ADHD and made it a habit of messing with teachers.

I never really did anything bad per se, but was constantly disruptive and talked back a lot.

My grades were solid though so mostly I just ended up with a lot of lunch detentions.

Meet Ms. On-Time.

One teacher in particular Ms. On-Time really did not like me, and after my mc she basically didn’t speak directly to me the remainder of the school year.

Now onto the story.

Ms. On-Time hated students being late to class. Anyone even a minute late would be sent to in school suspension for the rest of the class and then would receive 1 day of detention for the first infraction, a week for the second, and 2 weeks for the 3rd.

There was a new rule.

About halfway through the school year she made an adjustment to the rule.

Nobody was quite sure why, but the rumor was the front office had a talk with her about her policies for sending so many kids to detention and ISS.

The new policy was that if you were able to complete a task you would be allowed into the classroom. These ranged from doing a math problem on the board in front of the class to collecting trash around the room before you could sit.

Well I took this as a free way to show up whenever I wanted.

He showed up late a lot.

After showing up late for the 4th or 5th time in two weeks Ms. On-Time started to get mad and the tasks started becoming more and more difficult.

The next time I showed up late I had 15 seconds to recite the alphabet backwards, otherwise she threatened ISS for 2 weeks.

This is where the MC comes in.

He was ready!

After she had implemented this new rule I started asking friends from her class what tasks she had been assigning during the other periods.

I had collected a pretty long lists of these tasks, and made sure I was able to do any of them when asked.

Fortunately for me she had used the reverses alphabet on another student in the previous term.

Without breaking stride towards my desk I rattled off the reverse alphabet and sat down without another word.

The teacher didn’t let him get away with it that easily.

Ms. On-Time was livid.

It was pretty obvious I had practiced with how quickly I had been able to respond.

After staring at me for a few seconds she announced to the class “It appears Mr. Jumper doesn’t take me or the rules of my classroom seriously, but maybe he’ll listen to his parents.”

She called me up to the front of the room, put her phone on speaker and asked me to call my dad.

He called his dad.

Everyone is the room was ooohing and aaahing at me as I made my way up.

Called up my dad and this is a basic summary of how the call went.

One important this to note is that Ms. On-Time never let me dad know he was on speaker in front of the rest of the class.

Ms. On-Time – Hello Mr Junper, this is Ms. On-Time and I have jibjumper on the line and he has something to tell you.

Here’s how the conversation went…

Dad – What’d you do jibjumper?

Me – I was late to class. The rule is you have to complete a task to not get detention. Ms. On-Time told me to say the alphabet backwards and I did. Then she had me call you.

Dad – Ms. On-Time Is what Jibjumper saying true?

Ms. On-Time – Yes but he’s leaving out that he’s been late 5 times in two weeks and has a disrespectful attitude.

Dad asked all the right questions.

Dad – is that true Jibjumper?

Me – It’s true I was late, but I finished the task every time. I’m just following the rules Ms. On-Time put in place. I don’t get how that’s disrespectful.

Ms. On-Time – Don’t lie and act like that you know you were being disruptive and disrespectful for ignoring the . . .

Dad cutting off Ms. On-Time mid sentence – Now wait a second. You’re calling him a liar, but you put the rule in place that he could do a task to get out of detention?

Here’s how the conversation ended.

Ms. On-Time – Yes , but

Dad – And he completes the tasks as requested?

Ms. On-Time – Yes , but

Dad – Then what’s the problem here? It sounds like he’s following the rules YOU established for your classroom. Don’t call me at my office again unlesss he actually does something worth calling me for.

And then he hung up.

Let’s see how the class reacted.

I just walked back to my desk without saying another word.

Ms. On-Time just stood there for about 30 seconds with a look of pure outrage on her face.

Most the class was trying to suppress giggles.

I’ll never forget the grins on my two friends faces as I walked past them in the aisle.

That conversation certainly did not go the way the teacher had hoped, but she really should’ve told the dad he was on speakerphone in front of the whole class.

Let’s see how Reddit responded to this story.

This person calls OP a “punk.”

Another person thinks the teacher needed to reevaluate her classroom culture.

A teacher weighs in.

This person would’ve considered skipping class.

That teacher was being unreasonable.

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