When I was in 6th grade, I corrected my math teacher. She told me I was wrong. I refused to concede. She told me if I didn't concede I was wrong and she was right, she would give me detention (ostensibly to redo the busywork math sheet). She tried to shame/humiliate me and some other petty shit. I refused both and was given detention.

I went to another math teacher, the one who actually knew math, and asked him for help with the problem. It turns out I was correct. So, like any mature person, I went to class the next day and gloated. I was sent to the principal.

I went to the principal to argue my detention should be removed. Principal said I was lucky I didn't get a worse punishment because I was insubordinate, the substantive question was irrelevant and it was wrong for me to correct my teacher anyway.

I refused to go to detention. The principal decided she was going to double the detentions until I showed up. I ignored that and a few days later I was removed from class and had to sit and do "work" in some random empty room with a minder.

Eventually, my parents found out about the ordeal a few days later when the principal informed them what a horrible person I was being. Well, my parents flipped their shit at the principal, the teacher, the superintendent, and the school board over this.

I never attended that detention, I instead tested out of most of my middle school classes (and high school) and went and hung out with the honors teachers where I could do pretty much whatever I felt like. She would just motivate me to pick what I wanted to learn, guide me along the way, and answer any questions I had. If she didn't know, she would just tell me and we'd both try to figure it out. If only this was common.

I remember all the other people, many were friends, who didn't have parents who cared or wouldn't defer to "authority." Those kids have the soul crushed out of them under the boot of authority. I was always good at school, but many of my friends were not and schooling just made it worse. It's really such a shame and heartbreaking what schools are doing to so many little humans every year. It's a one-size-fits all sterilization mill where individuality is crushed and institutionalized deference to authority is taught from a young age. And since the people who generally staff schools are not in any way the sort of people who should be deferred to about anything, it teaches kids deferring to morons and abiding by their derpy thoughts or plans is normal.