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Originally Posted by RWood
In eleventh grade I got into a "discussion" with my English teacher that resulted in my appearance in the principal's office. The teacher insisted on failing me on a composition because I had split an infinitive (to her way of thinking it was the mark of bad breeding.) Support for my position such as "English is Germantic in structure and not Latin based." did not sway her.
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I knew a fellow who, for one of his high-school English classes, wrote a paper on the history of the term ... well, the one that starts with "F" and rhymes with "duck." Capisce?
He actually got permission to do it from his teacher, who was okay with it as long as it was a serious examination of the topic, which it was.
However, before he could turn it in, he got caught making copies of it by the school librarian, who predictably, after (figuratively speaking) giving birth to an entire litter of kittens and a barnyard's worth of various farm animals animals over it, dragged him straight to the principal's office (not even a vice principal -- straight to the top).
I forget what exactly happened to him over it punishment-wise, but I don't think it was too serious since he was generally a reasonably well-behaved guy, bit of a jerk, but a well behaved one. I
do recall that he had to come up with a different paper to fulfill the assignment, because the teacher was
not in a position to accept that particular one once (you should pardon the pun) the word got out on it.