i'm sort of a mix of the two.. i posted great grades in subjects i found interesting and the ones i didn't, well, i got enough to get me my credits and no extra effort involved. however i did a lot of bad shit and never really got in trouble..
-licks his finger and flips through his book of bad shit- let's see here! :D
4th grade: i was given an in-school suspension for writing dirty madlibs about everyone in my class and my lunch teacher. she wuz hawt irl so i used my rather extensive vocabulary of words the big kids used to describe things. basically the entire book was filled with tits, ass, pussy and fuck.
5th grade: i was holding those big hydraulically assisted school doors open with my fingers between the door and the wall - my genius friend thinks the door is about to close(not seeing me holding it, obviously) and slams the door against the wall. my finger was split right in two and i had to get a whack of stitches at the hospital - he was deemed "violent" and his mother made him get rid of all his video games and violent toys. when i went back to school a couple days later he waited for me outside to come apologize and i pounded the piss out of him anyway. BUT NO PUNISHMENT FOR ME ON THAT ONE!
6th grade: my friend and i(we were, though pre-pubescent, very much "the shit") socially isolated this kid we were friends with before but he had turned into a dick. so we fucked with him and kept him out of our circle of friends and such.. apparently this became so distressing to him he told his mother what was going on and we were called to the principal's office! we totally talked the principal into believing this kid deserved what we gave him and we got out of another suspension(these were the same friends from the madlib story.)
re: the beating up the guy who messed my finger up.. thinking back i beat the shit out of a lot of people at school, and from school, and i never once got in trouble for it.
off top of my head:
1) in 1st grade we all had 6th grade reading partners to help us learn to read big boy books(tolkien was 1st grade reading here) and those kids wanted to be there about as much as we did. my first reading buddy was a real greasy sumbitch and i didn't like him off the bat.. i don't remember -exactly- what brought it on but he told me to shut up or something and next thing i knew i had kicked him square in his mid-pubescent junk and i was ruuuuuuuuuuuunnnnnnnnnning my ass off towards the teacher!
2) 4th grade there was a bully who had a couple of lesser bullies(i called them his minions) and the bully and i were friends, but we had some sort of falling out and his little jockriders kept eyeballing me at recess. i clocked them both just before the bell rang and went back to class.
3) 5th grade this ugly kid and i were swinging on one of those huge two-swing swing-sets and this girl i liked walked by and was smiling at me.. he turned and started talking to her so i punched him in the teeth. yes. i punched him right in the teeth. i saw him years later and he has a noticable turn in one of his front teeth still!
4) 6th grade i beat up the older brother of the kid in #3 twice. once because he was giving me the stinkeye - sucker punched him in the gut during recess - and once at a birthday party when no one was around in a room upstairs(the party was in the basement) i guess he was still sore about his brother and the first time i beat him up.. he tried to hit me so i kicked him in the stomach and pounded on him until he cried like a sissy.
only one here who knows me irl is sabin he'll tell you i'm not physically intimidating.. i'm 5'9" 150lbs but i am a mean motorsc00ter at times :D~
p.s. there was also the time in grade 9 i took down the entire lan at my highschool with a nasty stealth virus. SLOVAK_BOMBER for the win!(i forget the alternate name, it was the first big stealth virus i'm aware of)
..i came back to that school a year later(yeah i was given the boot not long after the virus ;0) to beat the shit out of this annoying kid who said he 'knew karate' to keep my friends from telling on him or beating him up themselves after he had pissed them off for months on end - one catch though! he actually pissed ME off so much in the 5 minutes i knew him that i put my fist through one of those plastic top composite board school desks before i had the chance to grab him and he ran away and told the principal. i wasn't a student there and he didn't know me.. my friends never ratted me out at their own risk(it was a prestigious high school with a zero tolerance policy) and he never bothered them again.
school was fucking great. :D
edit: spelling and clarity on last paragraph