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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/MLMCMLM on 2024-10-14 00:34:09+00:00.

When I was in high school we got a new principal who had a very annoying “policy” (idk what else to call it) where 2x a week we would stay extra in home room and be given a prompt to write about. Now I actually LOVE to write… fiction. The prompts we were given were always hallmark special dribble that were stale to write. Think along the lines of “write about a time you and your friend had an argument and how you worked through it” type of prompts. I found them belittling, boring, and a waste of both students and teachers time. Sometimes I’d refuse to write, sometimes I’d write like two sentences just to appease my teacher; idk why they irked me so badly but they really did.

So one day we got a prompt along the lines of “write about a time when you were/felt disrespected and how you overcame it”. Initially I just refused to write but my teacher (who was my fav teacher) pushed saying I needed to write SOMETHING to turn in. I sat thinking for bit before a PERFECT scenario came to mind and I felt like I was grinning like the grinch. I decided to write about my orientation at the school.

So when I went to orientation my mom went with me and it started in the auditorium with the principal giving a speech/overview. We sat in the front row and I noticed the principal check out my mom more than once. After the auditorium we could walk around and my mom wanted to ask the principal some questions. During their interaction I once again noticed him checking out my mom’s boobs; she was just in a T-shirt but is a C cup so even in a basic T-shirt there’s some cleavage. Afterwards my mom said how nice he was and I looked at her and said “mom. He was checking you out the WHOLE time.” And we moved on.

I wrote about this and also mentioned how he never apologized and how I felt he had disrespected both of us. I turned it in with a shit eating grin. Being my favorite teacher, they knew something was up when I had actually completed this writing prompt while also being happy about it. I sat down and they immediately started reading it. He let out a surprised loud “HA HA!” and I looked over with a smile and said “what’s wrong teacher, something funny?” He just snickered quietly while the rest of the class looked at me confused.

I thought that was the end of it, but later got called to the guidance counselor. They had my writing and asked me about it. One of the first defenses was “I’m sure he wasn’t really staring at her chest, sometimes he just isn’t paying attention.” Which instantly made it worse to me since they were essentially defending him. When they realized that didn’t go the way they wanted she switched to “I’m sorry you both felt this way about the interaction, would you like us to talk to him about it? We could arrange for him to apologize to you both if that will help resolve things.” I said no.

Tbh I hadn’t found it to be a huge deal, men can be disrespectful and this was an instance of that so I just wanted to move on and forget it, not bring more attention to myself. I had written about it more to throw his stupid prompt assignment back in his face rather than try to get an apology from him. Idk if he ever saw or was told about the writing but it was a satisfying morning for me.