Teachers Tried to Boredom-Torture Him with a Dictionary in Detention—Then He Finished the Whole Thing

Michael Levanduski

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When you misbehave in school, you often get detention as a punishment, and part of the punishment is being bored.

What would you do if you had a week of detention, and after finishing the full week’s worth of homework, your teacher told you to start copying words out of the dictionary?

That is what happened to the student in this story, so he claims that he copied the entire dictionary into notebooks over the course of three days, which upset the teachers for some reason.

Personally, I find it hard to believe that he copied every word (or even most of them) in that amount of time. Read through the full story below and see what you think.

My First and Last High School Detention Experience

There was one time I got annoyed with the preppy kids in high school being jerks to everyone.

A classic prank. I love it.

So, I went to this store at the mall with my older sister and bought a can of “fart spray” (it was basically canned sulfur) and took it to school. I found all their lockers and sprayed them all down with the stuff.

Needless to say I got 7 days of in-school detention but when my mom was called to the school, the principal made me wait in the hallway so she could talk with my mom and I overheard the principal laughing hysterically through the door.

Getting ahead on homework is a great way to spend detention.

Detention was kind of brutal, but I was determined to accept it and take it on. Ha! The detention lady wasn’t ready for my stubbornness.

She gave me all of my classwork for all my classes from all my teachers for the next full month. There was one problem though.

Why would they be upset that he did as he was told?

They messed up. They locked a medicated kid with ADHD in a room with books and classwork. I hyper-focused my way through it and got all of the classwork done in like 2 days.

The detention lady was extremely upset by this. Especially because I just calmly approached her unaffected by the entire situation and just asked her for more work. She said that I did it all.

Well, this won’t be any fun.

Then she got angry and slammed one of those giant pink Websters dictionaries on my desk and gave me a fresh blank spiral notebook and 3 pencils.

Next she said, “I want you to write every word and its first definition in this dictionary.” And then gave me an evil grin. For like .5 seconds I was shocked but then I realized, this is my chance.

There is no way he wrote out the entire dictionary in that amount of time.

I smiled at her and just asked her, “Am I allowed to get up and sharpen my pencil on my own or do I have to ask your permission every time?” She said that was fine.

3.5 days and 1 extra spiral notebook later, I had done it. My arms were blackened by graphite, but I was completely satisfied because I got to see that shocked look on her face.

Again, why is the teacher upset? He did what he was told.

She was in complete and total despair. She took my spiral notebooks and it was in that moment that I knew what I had to do.

She wouldn’t be able to resist it if I asked because she so desperately wanted to discipline me.

It wasn’t homework; they didn’t need to check anything.

I smugly asked her as she took the notebooks away, “Aren’t you going to check my work?”

I don’t think that this person made the point that they think they did. All they did was complete the busy work that was demanded of them, which was undoubtedly miserable. That was the punishment.

Let’s see if the people in the comments have a different take on the story.

Come on, there are plenty of other punishments the school can use.