Secondary school chronicles anyone?
The only place that can humble you to the point of no return.
I was admitted to three different secondary schools so it’s fair to say I’ve experienced a bunch of different characters.
The stubborn, the playful, the funny, the dummies, the bullies etc.
For me, I considered myself as the gentle and obedient student except tampered with but to my class mates they called me “Saucy Queen” whatever that means.
I never really got into too much trouble from serious cases asides noise making, late coming, incomplete notes, incomplete assignments etc.
Until one day I did.
It was the third school I was admitted at, actually the most serious trouble I got into at school happened in two different cases.
The first one was with a female teacher.
She’s naturally known in school to be that teacher that was mean for no apparent reason and take her frustrations out on helpless students.
Well one day during after school lesson, my class mates and I were the only ones in school cos she decided to delay us with her boring lecture that evening.
I was getting thirsty so I took an excuse to get water outside, while out I was distracted by friends so I delayed for a few minutes before returning to boredom.
I went back to class and as soon as she saw me she order me to kneel down.
Knowing this was after school hours and flogging was not allowed I obeyed without hesitation and also deep down I knew I was wrong.
She made me kneel for hours leading to the end of her teaching. Then she whipped out a big fat cane to flog me.
They don’t call me Saucy queen for nothing. Of course I stood my ground and reminded her it was just an after school lesson and I had already obeyed her punishment so there was no need for flogging again.
While I was talking, she began to flog the hell out of my body. Annoyed as fuck I grabbed the cane and threw it outside the class room, took my bag and walked out silently and immediately.
While outside my classmates were hyping me up and defending me, I was scared lowkey cos I know the next day I would be punished for this but I did not show any sign of weakness.
Next day came and to my surprise I was just asked to kneel down for 15 minutes. Also got long hours of counseling from my principal.
I felt bad and went to apologize to the teacher even if she violated me but students are never right I guess.
Another case was one time I got invited to a house party thrown by my senior.
He was my school crush as at that time and I’d be damned if I missed a chance to have a proper conversation with him outside school.
It was just me and my closest classmate that were the juniors present. Well if I said I knew attending a house party will get me into trouble in school I would be lying.
After having a great time at the party and successfully talking to my crush to the point that we exchanged numbers, I went home feeling fulfilled.
Well that happy moment didn’t last. At assembly the next day our principle mentioned that he had received info that a particular senior threw a party and we drank and smoke (of which innocent me didn’t) to stupor.
They called out the host of the party (my crush) to call out every body that attended.
He hesitated but was later forced to do so or face expulsion.
Well he called out a few of his mates excluding me and my friend with some other people that missed school that day.
They were all flogged by every teacher present and still faced two weeks suspension.
By having a crush was the only way I survived that punishment if not I would’ve been used as a bad example for the rest of my stay in that school.
Ever since then, I never got into serious trouble again because I was in pursuit of a prefect position of which I still didn’t get so it wasn’t really a win win situation for me.
Oh and till now, we still don’t know who snitched!
Have you ever been in serious trouble in school or you were a part of the nerdy nerds?
I’d love to know.
Thanks for reading!