Poll: Am I In The Wrong Here??

[Lightning Delight]

Ok, yes the rule was stupid, but you had nothing to gain by defying it. Then, when the teacher asked you to put them away, you had nothing to gain by refusing. The teacher was an asshole about the whole thing, but there was really no point in what you did, either.

 

[Winthrop]

2.)Questioning a teacher. I don't accept any of them as enough, especially if the teacher disregarded the more disrupting students to peruse a silly rule about headphones.

In my school disobeying a teacher repeatedly gets you a suspension for insubordination. This seems fair enough to me.

On topic you were wrong. You weren't wrong to have them out, but he asked you to put them away and you didn't. Its a silly fight to pick. Still he doesn't sound like a nice guy.

 

[Hyperactiveman]

I was kicked out of the school library for showing me and my mates some RvB... Back in the day when machinima was picking up and in fact some of the teachers were interested in letting us create our own and present it in form of an assignment.

Dumb thing was that all of the other computers in the library were being used by annoying little shits (yr 8s) who had Super Mario Bros emulated onto them and were shouting to high heavens without any regard to the students doing homework.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?!!

 

[justnotcricket]

I think this is a case of learning to pick your battles. (I think others have already said something like this here)

Really - would it have killed you to just put the headphones away? You weren't using them, and it would have saved you the manhandling and the detention.

I understand being irritated at nitpicky and apparently arbitrary rules, but life is full of them, and at some point if you want to get on with things, you'll have to learn to not sweat the small stuff.

Especially if you know that the person enforcing the rule (in this case your teacher) is the kind of person who enjoys getting on people's cases.

Yeah, it might feel good to stand up to them, but if you take a look at the bigger picture, you had an embarrassing scuffle with a schoolteacher over having headphones out. Not exactly going to have you immortalised in bronze in the courtyard of the UN (or whatever)...

 

[Krantos]

You're both in the wrong. That doesn't stop what you did being wrong. You're not responsible for his actions, however, you are certainly responsible for your own.

 

[lord.jeff]

The rule does it have it's reasons, headphones keep you from hearing the teacher and are a distraction. Plus in the end it doesn't matter if you agree with the rule or not, it's the rule and your supposed to follow them especially one as harmless as this one. I laugh at this you asked for trouble and your surprised that you got in trouble.

Edit: Also your dress code isn't very strict it sounds like the one I had in place at my high school and the one in place in most high schools, it's pretty standard.

 

[Gaiseric]

At my school if we had our music players/cell phones out and they were seen they could be taken away without warning. If a teacher even saw earbuds it was taken. The simple solution was to not have it out.

I brought my mp3 with me everyday to and from school and I put it away before I got to school and didn't take it out until I was off school grounds. You could have done the same and kept it your pocket or backpack and nothing would have happened.

 

[Gxas]

You were not in the right to disrespect him. When he asked you to put them away, you should have. Period.

you are clearly one of the people who assumes that anyone in a position of any power deserves automatic respect due to the fact that they can uphold arbitrary rules.

Clearly, huh? Because I don't believe that at all. But, he was asked to put the headphones away, and he didn't. Respect or not, he was in the wrong, which was the original question.

But I'm glad you think you know me based on one arguably poorly-worded comment.

 

[Merkavar]

Personally, I would have instigated a rap battle

im more into dance battles.

Spoiler

But OT you were in the wrong cause your meant to follow teachers instruction but from what you said it seems like the techer had bigger things to deal with rather than your headphones. you mentioned the whole class were messing about. i would think that that would be a bigger issue to deal with.

but i also think that a week of detentions is abit much.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

The reason why I hate these threads is that (of course) people are going to say they are 100% in the clear, and the punisher is someone who is unlikable.

In your case, I see no exception. It was rule you knew full well of, and even when you were told to put them away, you did not. He even said, "Put them away or I'll take your iPod", and you didn't heed his warning.

 

[MorsePacific]

You were most definitely wrong. All he was doing was enforcing a rule. He didn't come up with the rule, but his position makes him enforce it. The least you could have done was oblige and just put your headphones away. There really was no need to be snarky with him.

 

[jumjalalabash]

... Why not just put them away??? Is it that big of a deal it takes 3 seconds to do.

 

[Seanfall]

to quote George Carlin:

?School uniforms?bad theory. The idea that if kids wear uniforms to school it helps keep order. Don?t these schools do enough damage, making all these kids think alike? Now they?re gonna get ?em to look alike too? And it?s not a new idea. I first saw it in old news reels from the 1930s. But it?s kinda hard to understand ?cause the narration?s in German.?

 

[Slaanax]

You Both are probably wrong, should have just did what he said, but the teacher shouldn't have grabbed you
in such a matter. On a side not I'd love to have told one of my Drill Sergeant when I was in Basic Training.

 

[FalloutJack]

Screw all asshole teachers who abuse the system for their own pleasure.

 

[mjc0961]

You were wrong and disrespectful when he told you to put the headphones away. As you said, you already knew there was a rule against it. Then when you were asked to put them away, you said no. All this over not listening to anything on them, but just because you were apparently too lazy to put them away when you were done using them. Yes, I feel you are 100% in the wrong on this one. It's like giving the cops shit over some law you don't like. The cops don't make the laws, they just enforce them. Just like the teacher doesn't make the school rules, he's just supposed to enforce them. Giving him crap isn't going to change the rule, it's just going to get you further in trouble.

 

[arsenicCatnip]

At my school if we had our music players/cell phones out and they were seen they could be taken away without warning. If a teacher even saw earbuds it was taken. The simple solution was to not have it out.

I brought my mp3 with me everyday to and from school and I put it away before I got to school and didn't take it out until I was off school grounds. You could have done the same and kept it your pocket or backpack and nothing would have happened.

I did the same thing throughout high school, and never got into trouble.

You took a simple request ("Put your headphones away") and turned it into something much bigger than it should have been. Seriously, there isn't any question about whether or not you were in the wrong. The teacher is the authority figure in the classroom, and you just disobeyed him. Therefore he punished you. QED.

 

[Jamash]

He bounced towards me demanding that i put away my headphones, i looked at him and said calmly to him that i dont see the point because my ipod is off and im not using them.

Why is it so important for you to have your headphones out? I don't see the point because your iPod is off and you're not using them.

It's much more pointless to have your headphones out when your not using them and your iPod is off, than it is to put them away and follow a very simple rule.

What possible function can a pair of inactive headphones perform that is worth breaking the rules over?

However, if there wasn't any point behind you having your headphones on display, ie. if you weren't making a fashion statement or a political statement by breaking the rule, but instead you just couldn't be bothered to put them away after using them, then you're still in the wrong (even more so) because laziness isn't an excuse for rule breaking... in fact as you grow up and experience more of life, you'll find that laziness isn't an valid excuse for many things.

Think of this as a valuable life lesson and learn that just because you can't see the point of a rule and can't be bothered to follow it, that doesn't mean you shouldn't obey it.
Take stopping an junctions for example, just because the road seems clear to you and you don't see the point of stopping, or just can't be bothered to stop your car fully, that doesn't mean a cop won't pull you over for breaking the law. He might even arrest you and confiscate your car if you argue with him and tell him that the law (and by extension his career) is pointless.

 

[starwarsgeek]

Sounds like you could have saved yourself a lot of trouble by just putting the headphones away....

And, yeah, being disrespectful to your teacher...for no reason...means you were in the wrong.

 

[infohippie]

It's a stupid rule, and the teacher was an ass, but you were still in the wrong to defy him.