This was before internet and today's social awareness. I was a wild child and stayed in a lot of trouble in HS. I got sent to the principals office quite often but was never severely punished. I would get detention sometimes but usually it was just a scolding.
We actually got along very well and I think I wasn't severely punished because, believe it or not I was really a well rounded kid, had a good upbringing and respected my elders. I wasn't violent or mean, I like to say I was curious and willing. I was a B- student.

Anyway on one occasion she got very serious and concerned, looked me in the eye and asked me what my problem was. I could tell she was a kind person with a big heart so I used that. I saw it as a way to be free, to do as I pleased so I told her my parents were alcoholics and abused me mentally and physically. She asked for examples and I literally made up scenarios of things that had never happened.

I got away with near murder for a long time after that. Our meetings became more like counseling sessions and I would just go back to class until one day, without my knowledge, she and my parents had planned a parent, principal, student meeting. I got called to her office and when I walked in, there sat my mom and dad.

I did a lot of things to make them angry and have disappointment in me but I have never seen my father so mad and my mother so sad and embarrassed.

I will say this. It caused me to get it together because I knew if I want back to the principals office there would be no mercy. Whenever I saw her after that I would try to hide. I wanted to hide from my parents for a long time after that but, well, parents.