re: Did Teachers Make you Write sentences for misbehaving?

In middle school I got punish work for something and the first time I turned it in, evidently I forgot to capitalize something so she told me I had to do it over.. So I went ahead and did it over.. I turned it in and she told me to redo it because I forgot a comma somewhere.

I had to write out a few paragraphs a bunch of times so It was just small mistakes. It wasn't like I made the same mistake each time, she actually looked through it all as if she was trying to find something wrong. When she told me I had to rewrite it because I forgot a comma, I told her I was not doing it again. She started telling me some shite like "you will do exactly what I tell you to do" so I told her something like "well I guess we will see tomorrow" and she started screaming at me that if I didn't have her punish work the next day I would be sorry, etc.. She was an English teacher that ended up only teaching one year, her contract didn't get renewed because there were many complains about her..

Anyway, so the next day she ask for the punish work and I said something like "what did I tell you yesterday?". She went crazy and started telling me how I should respect her because she was a teacher and that my parents must be horrible because of the way they raised me. I waited for her to shut up and started telling her that she has to be the dumbest teacher ever for thinking my parents are horrible just because I will not continue to do the worthless, time-wasting punish work over and over while I had other homework. I said some other stuff that was evidently "harsh", I dropped an f bomb as well, but she started to cry.

She sent me to the office and made two other kids go with me. One of them told me that she wanted him to tell her if I said anything bad about her. The principal gave me this lecture and called my parents. The principal told my mom he was going to make me go apologize and assign me punish work that would be turned in to him. I told him I was not apologizing because I wasn't sorry for anything I did. My mom had to talk to me and talked me into just telling her I was sorry just to be done with it. I went back to class and told her I apologized but only because I was told to do so and that I didn't regret anything I said. It ended up getting me suspended for 2 or 3 days. And I didn't have to do any punish work so I was happy.

It was a long time ago but for some reason I can still picture that teacher sitting at her desk with this horrifying look on her face just yelling at me like she couldn't control herself.