I gotta add this one to the list. My late first husband was an independent thinker from the word go. When his second grade teacher put him in the hall for some infraction, he decided to go home. So he got up and walked home, unnoticed. His mother asked him what he was doing at home so early, and he told her he'd rather be at home than at school. She called the school and asked them if she could please speak to her son on the telephone, and they were pretty red faced when they couldn't find him. That may have started them thinking on other ways to discipline children!