Oooh another one
I found this one funny, as well as quite irritating.

I guess I was probably in year 10.

Having been playing football on the field in abut 30 degree C heat I was desperate for a drink. Thankfully I had takena bottle of water to school with me, so promptly took it out when I got to Science class and took a swig.

Our teacher, usually a very laid back kinda guy suddenly said "Dan! I'm sorry to do this, but I'm going to have to send you out for drinking at your desk"

I was in shock, I actually laughed and said "You are joking right?" But he was dead serious. I was being sent to 'Referral'* for stopping myself from dehydrating.

The best part of all this? I was one of the 1st kids in the class and people were still coming in at the time, so it's not even as though I'd interrupted the lesson.

A couple of months later it pretty much became government policy to encourage kids to take water to school and drink throughout lessons, when they realised that a hydrated brain was a healthy brain.

*Referral was basically a room for little chavs to spend the lesson copying out of a book, which was probably more suited to a 4 yeard old. It also meant having to take a sheet into lessons for the next 3 days so the teacher could mark how good you'd been.
(porkinator is a Rock n Roll nerd!, Thu 29 Jan 2009, 14:57, 2 replies)

drinking in labs
we were always warned it was dangerous, might acidently down some acid. oddly, our science teacher didnt have a problem with us eating in his lab at lunch times.
(Mong goose, Sun 1 Feb 2009, 1:25, closed)

.
While I agree with the above comment that you were most likely punished because it is considered dangerous to eat or drink in a science lab, not explaining that to you rather defeats the purpose of having such rules.
(xanthine, Mon 2 Feb 2009, 4:37, closed)