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I got called in to the Principal's office a fair number of times when I was a kid. I remember the first time. I was arguing with a kid on the playground at Long Pond School in Andover. It was over a kickball game, I was manning second base and had tagged the kid out. He balled his hands into a fist and looked like he was going to punch me, so I punched him first (this was early in first grade). I got sent to the Principal's office (Mr. Porstra). He sat me down and lectured me on why fighting was a bad thing, then he told me that he had written a letter (he showed it to me) and that it was going in my permanent record. (insert dramatic music here). He placed the letter in a manila folder. If you're an adult reading this, you know how absurd the permanent record sounds, but it carried a lot of weight back then. My dialysis nurse is now threatening me with letters that are going in to my 'permanent record'. LOL.