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[meganbmoore]

So, discussing various childhood traumas with  fairest1 , (both of ours seem to center around classmates reactions to wallflowers and bookworms) I was reminded of getting in trouble in junior high for going to the school library too much.

Why?  Because my teacher thought I was lying and going to goof off because he didn't believe that I could read 2-3 150-225 page books overnight.  (Homework took an hour to an hour-and-a-half, these were light R.L. Stine, Christopher Pike, Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew books and the like.  When I had money of my own, I was buying Terry Brooks and Forgotten Realms and the like.  Not exactly great literature, but enough of a difference that most of what the school library had was reading extremely quickly.)

This merant that at least once every few weeks, I was either finishing what (if any) homework I had for the day while I was at school when the other students were reading, or I was rereading what I'd checked outt he day before.

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[wasabi-girl1.livejournal.com]

This actually happened to my best friend and I in grade 2. We had read all of the books in our classroom, even the chapter books, so we wanted to go to the library to get more books. At first our teacher was fine with it, but we were such fast little readers that we had to keep going so often that she forbid us from going anymore and made us re-read the books that were already in the classroom. Way to stunt some real learning there! :P

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

In this case, I was told in front of the class that I was obviously lying, because I couldn't be reading that fast. At one point, there was actually a limit on how many times a week I could go.

[musouka-manga.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of how the teachers used to have to frisk me to make sure I wasn't bringing (outside) books into class, back in grade school.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Really? I'm glad we never had that rule. It seems to be an odd one. Maybe they were worried about "bad books"?

[musouka-manga.livejournal.com]

No, it was just a rule for me. My parents also used to ground me from reading, sooo... ^^;;

[anatomiste.livejournal.com]

The only detention I got in middle school was for being late to the class after lunch--because I'd spent lunchtime in the library and had got so caught up in what I was reading that I didn't notice the time passing.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I got detention exactly once. The lunchroom was in a separate building and didn't have bathrooms for the students, and students could only go to the bathrooms in the main building at lunch time one at a time. Three other girls came in while I was in there, and we all got detention, even though I was the one following the rules and had cleared it with the teacher first.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I got detention once for the third time I was tardy to art class. My school was shaped like a capital E. My locker was in the bottom horizontal of the E, next to my 4th period class, and ALL my other classes were in the top of the E, some on the second floor. Not exactly the best for getting to class on time. :/

[lotuseyes.livejournal.com]

its funny in junior high I got in trouble also because I would often skip lunch period and hide out in the library (I was actually the reason they began to take roll call at lunch during the third marking period of 7th) and in high school I'd skip lunch and study hall to have about a hour and half in the library. by 10th I had read all the books I was interested and flipped through the ones I wasn't and the librarians just kept writing me passes to help them during that time. My vice--principal started to get suspicious when he saw I had more hours clocked in the library then I did in most classes XD

my 9th grade history teacher, Miss Potashner, would also check my bookbag for non-history related books, something that was again practiced by my 11th grade Criminal Justice teacher Mr. Tobias b/c he didn't like the fact I would read during the Law and Order hour each Tuesday. Though I have to say the funniest thing ever was in 12th grade English CP. Mr. Lymper, the teacher, was handing out the booklist for the semester and he said to everyone not to worry it wasn't THAT many books. Brian Lynch piped up and said 'Hey Alex, don't you have more books then this in your locker?' which Mr. Lymper thought he was joking about...until I took him to my locker (two down from his class down) and showed him the shelves of books I had stashed instead of a coat and such. As it turned out I had about a third of the books in my locker as it was and had read 5 others besides (the only one I hadn't read was a book of Hemmingway's short stories).

This unfortunately lead to the fact that I could never claim to have not read the book in class and my classmates looking to me to supply the correct answers when they were stumped.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I got in trouble for reading during lunch/break too. Also got the bit where students thought I should help them all with their homework.

[heavensgardener.livejournal.com]

I'm glad my schools never had restrictions on how much you could go to the library, or how many books to get at a time.

[logically.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, I was a horrible kid. Exacerbating this was my fast reading and absorption. I'd goof off in glass, having read the material ahead of time (this is early grade school) and be able to answer all the questions anyway. Drove teachers insane.

No one ever questioned my ability to read, though. That seems silly. >>

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

It wasn't my ability to read that was questioned, just the speed I did it at.

[logically.livejournal.com]

Which is what I meant. It is a reading ability, to read quickly. :P

[shadawyn.livejournal.com]

I didn't read that fast, but I read a book a day in elementary school and through a lot of junior high and early high school.

I was on "academic probation" in elementary school because I would read a book underneath my desk all day, and when I got home, but never did the homework or paid attention the class itself.

Of course, I was also the highest level reader in the class.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Yeah. it's funny how they never seem to notice how those things go together.

[curlyjo1.livejournal.com]

In elementary school I got in trouble for reading books in class after my work was done. My parents had a conference with the teacher about it.

Teacher: "CJ's been reading in class again..."
Folks: "Is her classwork done?"
Teacher: "Well, yes..."
Folks: "So, where is the problem?"

The only problem was keeping me supplied with books, between the school library and the public library.

Later, in middle and high school I got picked on by the other kids for reading: at the bus stop, on the bus, at lunch... any spare moment really.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I had the "any spare moment" problem myself.

[clytemnaestra.livejournal.com]

I hear you there - I got in trouble consistently in middle and high school for reading during class. Getting in trouble ... for reading a book. That always astounded me.

At least until my teachers figured out that they couldn't stop me from doing it, and I could listen to their lectures and read at the same time, so it didn't matter anyway.

Plus, I was the librarian's daughter, so... who is going to get the librarian's daughter in trouble for ... reading in class...? :)