[umjames]

I actually did something similar when I was in middle school. The teacher wanted everyone in the class to write something like that 500 times and turn it in the next day.

I went home and ran the following program on my Apple IIe:

  10 FOR X = 1 TO 500
  20 ?"I will behave myself in class"
  30 NEXT X

  PR# 2
  RUN

With the printer plugged into slot 2 on the machine, this sent the output of the program to the printer.

Needless to say the teacher was not impressed the next day, when I handed in several sheets of linefeed printer paper. I was impressed however.

He made me write it by hand about 100 times instead of 500.

[eru]

In retrospect I wonder why we did what the teachers told us. Mostly.

[rms]

We were trained to obey with the eventual consequences of insubordination being suspension or expulsion.

[tb]

I have a friend who was suspended from high-school for (indirectly) refusing to do a word puzzle. His stated reason is that he doesn't like word puzzles. When he was asked to leave the room for failing to follow instructions, he refused. The punishments escalated and he refused each one on the basis that it was overblown punishment for refusing to do a word puzzle. Eventually he reluctantly agreed to a week's suspension because the only worse punishment available was expulsion.

He still carps on about being suspended for a week for refusing to do a word puzzle.

[tomjen]

What is so bad about suspension? He would have more time to do something that is fun when he is not in school.

[rms]

College applications ask if you were ever suspended from school.