in-school-suspension was honestly so extremely funny because i had undiagnosed Problems Disorder and unironically i LOVED being sent to ISS.
average day of ISS (sent there for 3 days because i was late to a class three times within a 9-week period):
- arrive at school and say a silly dramatic farewell to my besties
- stop at each of my classrooms to receive makeup work from my teachers which always ends up being some bullshit worksheet or textbook busywork
- arrive at ISS portable and go through the daily rigamarole intro of “you are Bad and you should Feel Bad. welcome to Bad Class, a confirmation that you will never make anything of your life, you horrid creature. you are not allowed to speak, eat, or feel joy. no doodling or reading, if you don’t have makeup work or homework i will assign busywork to you. fuck you. *spits*”
- spend the next 4 hours doing my busywork. it is QUIET. i can CONCENTRATE. the work gets DONE EARLY.
- the work only took 2 hours maximum, i spend the other 2 hours writing fanfiction manually in a composition book pretending that I’m doing textbook work. i am having the time of my life.
- our lunch time is the 10 minutes between the two lunch periods. there is no line, because there’s only ever 5-15 ISS students. i get to EAT instead of STANDING IN A LINE for half an hour and only having 4 minutes to scarf down my garbage.
- at the end of lunch, we are led in a big duck line through the school and we each get to stop off at our usual classes and pick up work to do. i already did this in the morning, so i use my time to say hi to my friends and figure out what the homework will be tonight.
- for the last 2 hours of the day i do my homework. IT GETS DONE. this is the ONLY time during high school where homework gets done. zero exaggeration. i never did homework unless i was actively in a classroom with no choice but to do homework.
- we get the usual outro of “this has been your day in Bad Class, because you’re a Bad Child. some of you will be here tomorrow, some of you will not, but i’ll see you again in a couple of weeks, because you are Bad and will always be Bad.”
- the school day is over, i did not encounter any of my bullies, i did not have to ‘participate in class’. i got all of my work done and then some. i got to work on my fanfics. i hang out with my friends after school and talk to others on myspace/facebook.
- it is the best three days i have in recent memory.
- i will be there again, probably on purpose.