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Schools differ from country to country, and there are some pretty interesting school systems in the world. In The Netherlands, for example, kids start school on their 4th birthday, no matter when the school year starts. Kids in China, in turn, learn on the principle of memorization.
And then there's the US. What most of us know about American schools probably comes from movies and TV. But what are schools in the US really like? Well, here we have a list of pics from many primary sources, the students themselves. They capture the true experience of the American school.
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#1
Florida Teacher Here. This Is Our School’s "Library" Now
Florida passed a law that said no books can be displayed in a school, until they've been reviewed and approved by an appointed team. If a teacher shows a book that has not been approved, they could be charged with a felony.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
It really is unbelievable how tone deaf the the people who pass these laws are. Fahrenheit 451 and 1984 were not guidebooks. They were WARNINGS!
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Lost Penny 1 year ago
Why cover them though? Just burn them! A certain Austrian artist did just that, and he is one of the major historical figures now. Aim for the stars, Florida!
Dragons Exist 1 year ago
Tbh I wouldn't be surprised if Florida was involved in WWIII
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
Who decided that books belong in a school? Why, next thing you know, children will learn to read! The insanity must be stopped!
veirdbuttrue 1 year ago
We can't have American children thinking for themselves now can we!
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Shadow The Idiot 1 year ago
"You can't take away our guns!!! THAT'S OUR FREEDOM!!!! Oh, but abortions and books in schools? GET RID OF 'EM!!!! FREEDOM IS ONLY FREEDOM WHEN I WANT IT TO BE!!!"
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Julie S 1 year ago
I was in our town library the other day, they have a whole section of books that have been banned in other countries. With a little blub of what country they were banned in and why they were banned. Guess which country has the most banned books!
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
I read recently that China has given up on banning books. Apparently, the leadership thinks that there's no point any more. Admittedly, the Chinese Communist Party does totally control what books are allowed in schools, so maybe it's not a fair comparison.
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Ugh, do I have to? 1 year ago (edited)
our school is nothing like this at all, we have a wonderful library and very nice librarians.
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#2
My School Blocked A Website Because It Was Labeled As Educational
Kangaroo 1 year ago
“Billy! You’d better not be looking up EDUCATION on those computers!”
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Wondering Alice 1 year ago
School I'm in gave all the kids iPads, made a big part of the curriculum research based, then blocked so many sites you are lucky to find anything and forget cross referencing. Teacher logins are not much better. Apparently the fault is from local council who failed to provide enough band width for a fraction of the users. They did however seriously limit photocopying because it would not be need if all the kids had iPads. (UK)
Justin Tyme 1 year ago
Public schools are for socio-political indoctrination, not for education.
#3
During The Summer, My School Installed Metal Gates Over The Bathrooms To Keep Us From Going Between Classes
rullyman 1 year ago
I worked at a school in the UK that would lock all of the toilets during lesson time. One of the girls I was working with got her period and I had to take her halfway across the school to find one. It's inhumane.
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Dumb teenager 1 year ago
Our school still maintains the same rule but teachers almost never enforce it and they certainly haven’t resorted to installing gates.
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ConfusedCub 1 year ago
Just pee on the gate. Faff off with this nonsense, how is this even allowed/legal?
Steve Robert 1 year ago
This should be totally illegal! If I have to go, I'm sticking it right between the bars!
Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 1 year ago
Wait so thry say "no going during class" but now "no going between class"
Pencil McGovern 1 year ago
So they'd rather have students be excused from class to use the restrooms? I'd think going between classes would be preferred: not missing part of the class, not interrupting to ask to be excused.... This makes no sense.
Currently, American schools lag a bit behind other countries in the world in terms of their students' academic achievements. When they tested 15-year-olds in their math and science literacy, American teenagers ranked only 38th out of 71 countries. Among other 37 OECD countries in 2022, Americans ranked 38th in math and 12th in science.
Younger students, however, are doing surprisingly more well. In 2015, American fourth-grade students placed 11th out of 48 in math and 8th in science. Eighth-graders scored 8th both in math and science among 37 other countries.
#4
This Survey At My School
Mary Peace 1 year ago
Maybe it's the only way to make sure it's all different people making responses.
#5
My School Doesn't Have Stall Doors
There are also huge mirrors directly facing them.
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
That's how they do it in prisons here in the UK - well, without the mirrors or toilet seats, so I suppose it's slightly better.
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Zara VP 1 year ago
This is NOT how American schools are. Not sure where they got this picture, but it's most definitely NOT in any school I've been in or seen.
Becca not Becky 1 year ago
I attended 4 different elementary schools across 3 states. NONE of them had this
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Kisa “Kizna” Kitsugi 1 year ago
Same at my highschool in the 90s . It was so kids couldn't do... Well pick the list is long.
Blue Bunny of Happiness 1 year ago
Wow, rather than look at what the cause of “problem behaviour” and start to develop ways to correct it early, just take away privacy and dignity instead.
Roxy222uk 1 year ago
Woah, so if a girl needs to change a tampon she has to do it publicly? I can see that leading to toxic shock syndrome.
Lynda Nesbitt 1 year ago
Well, given the urinals, not sure it's a "girls' " bathroom. But, these days, who knows...
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Steve Robert 1 year ago
Which is why, for six years, I held it in until I got home. About the same amount of privacy you get in prison!
#6
My School Wants Us To Allow This On Our Personal Devices, Just To Use Google Classroom
StrangeOne 1 year ago
That's not right. If schools were that paranoid about it, they should have issued each student separate devices. Another thing that concerned me with online classrooms is students who were already vulnerable and bullied at school had their personal space exposed to their bullies and that eliminated their safe, private space.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
Just like if your employer wants you to be available on your day off, they better be paying for that phone or laptop or whatever.
Load More Replies... Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
I only have Android, Apple is overrated and overpriced!
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Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
NOPE. The school wouldn't be controlling the phone that I bought my kid and I'm paying the bill every month.
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 year ago
Oh yeah our school does that too. I eventually just set up a separate account.
Lilla Michella 1 year ago
Again German in the 1930´s and Russia just now 😱 #freespeech #landofthefree LOL
Interestingly, Americans don't think that the quality of education in the U.S. is above average. In fact, 32% of adults believe that when it comes to K-12 STEM education, America ranks below average compared to other wealthy nations. But are statistics of academic achievement all that matter when we talk about schools?
The National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, also surveys children about how they feel at school. Data shows that younger students report feeling happy "all or most of the time" more than older students. 49% of fourth-graders say they're happy at school, while only 27% of eighth-graders say the same.
#7
This Is The Inside Of My Child's Homework Folder Provided By The School. At What Point Has Consumerism Gone Too Far?
Gwyn 1 year ago
What if we funded the schools instead of relying on school districts to do it for themselves?
Big Chungus 1 year ago
I was going to say that this is because the schools aren't funded enough and they have to get "sponsors" just to pay for basic needs
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TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
"The next lesson about healthy food is sponsored by McDonald's - We lovin' it!"
Lila Allen 1 year ago
If you don't want ads, stop voting to block increases on taxes that fund your school.
Austzn 1 year ago
My oldest child's high school has full-on video ads playing during football games that play in-between plays, like not at the end of quarters, throughout the entire game!
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
This blows my mind as an Aussie, because inter-school school sport is generally within school hours (for state schools, not private) and not commercialised- most football fields and gyms are lucky to have scoreboards! Out of school sport has sponsors, but these are generally limited to the logo/name of a sponsor on jerseys. Only other time I remember these sponsors 'advertising' was when the players were given an eraser with the logo on at the start of the season when my brother played basketball, and the sponsor company went bust before the end of the season!
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Mary Peace 1 year ago
I can't do my homework, but I can save $70 on an academic evaluation, so all my problems are over.
#8
Creepy Surveillance Into The Boys' Bathroom At My High School
There is a window in the boys' bathroom that has a perfect line of sight with the security office that doubles as a panopticon of the entire commons area. If this was the girls' bathroom, heads would roll and there would have been a riot outside years ago. I hate it here.
StrangeOne 1 year ago
It's still perverted and as a parent I would be raising hell and pulling my kid out of that school.
ֆɦօօȶɨռɢ ֆȶǟʀ ⭐彡 1 year ago
As a female it disgusts me how perverted some people are towards boys and nobody seems to care.
Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
When I was in Jr High there was a window like that in the girls gym teacher's office to the locker room. I always went to either a bathroom stall or shower stall to change.
Luisa Vega 1 year ago
Although this is totally wrong, I understand why they didn't feel the need to monitor the girls bathroom. In my son's school, the boys bathroom is constantly being vandalized while nothing ever happens in the girls..not yet anyways.
Cybele Spanjaard 1 year ago (edited)
Why? Boys are not the only ones who fight in the school washrooms
#9
They Start The Indoctrination Early At My Florida High School
David Marchisotto 1 year ago
The jokes on you!, we Florida people are just going to evolve into fish...at least that's the kind of thing that passes for science education here in Florida, apparently.
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nottheactualphoto 1 year ago
What the hell kind of question is this to put on an exam? And given the "correct" answer shown, it's pretty blatant right-wing propaganda. This has no place in a curriculum.
Lynda Nesbitt 1 year ago
Conservatives wouldn't be saying an employer is the reason-this is much more like a liberal answer.
Load More Replies... bernie bulk 1 year ago
going by the library pic previous....im gonna take a wild guess and say, the florida education system
American parents say they're mostly satisfied with their children's education but don't think K-12 education in America overall is of good quality. They also think that teachers are doing a good job. 36% of parents think their children's teachers are "excellent" and 37% believe their kids' teacher is "good."
#10
The School Lunch System Is Disgraceful
From my years in high school I compiled some pictures of the horrible things that got served that no one questioned. It really is ironic given how adamant they all are about eating healthy by including every food group.
Montanavanna 1 year ago
I was a lunch lady. The food given to schools is the stuff that isn't good enough to sell at the market. It is the bits and ends of meat, crazy high fat content and so many canned goods. Our director was awesome though. High quality baked goods and fresh fruit or veg with almost every lunch. We also were required to serve 3/4 cup total of fruit and veg per meal. This looks like an Ala cart situation which is almost exclusively a high school option.
Chuck Freiman 1 year ago
Actually it looks better than the slop I had in school. Sloppy Joes and Fish Sticks anyone?
PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago
I wouldn’t complain as a kid personally, but as an adult eewwwwww 😂 I’ve always wanted to try an American school lunch though
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Emmy S. 1 year ago
The sad thing is, this would’ve literally been equal to a 5-star-restaurant meal at my middle school 💀 Shoutout to the half thawed pizzas, still rubbery chicken, mystery meat that caused food poisoning but they served it again the next week (…surprise surprise, food poisoning, at least for the brave ones who got it again, which many skipped over it bc yuck not fun), good times… good times… /s
27RatsStackedInATrenchcoat 1 year ago
compared to some of the stuff I had for lunch these don't look to bad.
Disgruntled Pelican 1 year ago
At least they got buns. At my high school you received one boiled hot dog, one boiled potato, and a single slice of white bread. They couldn't figure out why less and less kids refused to eat lunch.
The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
Doritos=corn chips=corn=vegetable. QED🤦♂️
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#11
My Friend Got In Trouble For "PDA"
Eric Brown 1 year ago
Oh heavens, not holding pinkies. Next thing you know, they might hold hands or even *gasp* hug! What has this world come to.
Peter Bear 1 year ago
Clearly it's all the fault of those uncultured yahoos that fail to understand the caliber of disaster indicated by a pool table in the community.
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Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 1 year ago (edited)
If i got told off for that omg I'd be so mad, physical affection is very necessary for mental health. Touch starvation is terrible and for me personally school used to be my only chance at anything
_-DungeonKeeper-_ 1 year ago
I hate that, halfway through the sixth grade school year the principal said no hugging or hand-holding was allowed at school, like tf what if someone's parents die you can't feckin hug them how dare people have siblings or empathy right???
#12
What A Sad Country We Live In For My 12-Year-Old To Text Me This
JoNo 1 year ago
I work at an Australian school. While we don't have 'active shooter' drills we do have lockdown drills. Not necessarily for a gunman/knifeman or a critical threat, it could be for other reasons where students have to remain in the classroom. There is the same number of lockdown drills as there are fire drills.
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StrangeOne 1 year ago
Kids shouldn't have to go to school to be traumatized and live in fear like that.
Eric Brown 1 year ago
I remember we had a bomb threat at my High School in 2005. So many students were taken home early because of it.
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
We had a few bomb evacuations at my primary school in the 1970s. Pretty much all of us children viewed it all as "just another boring fire drill" except, of course, each time there had been an apparently credible bomb threat passed to the police. So it goes. Back then, it was down to "The Troubles" over the sea in Ireland. My parents grew up with actual bomb-dropping German air raids.
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slay_potato 1 year ago
It has been 35 since Australia had a school shooting. They made guns illegal 35 years ago. F**k you america
Coral Rippin 1 year ago
The private pre-schools in the UK have terrorist awareness lessons!! 3 year olds!
Eats chez 1 year ago
whats horrible is it has affected so many. i am a freshman in high now but both years in middle school i had to send nearly the same texts to my mom. both times luckily obviously was nothing, but im thankful that both time the police came rolling up in 2 assult vehicles and 18 other cars including uc vehicles, i ppriciate them taking it seriously, but i was traumatied from the first time and just went along with it the second time. its horrible that they say "shooting threat" and my heart beat isnt even elevated. for context we live in a suburban town
Eats chez 1 year ago
okay for those who arent in school, this is misleading, this is called the "test out browser" its a special browser that only allows the school districts management, submission for assignments and test windows to be opened on it. it classifies everything, but that does not mean its supposed to be blocked. no hate of course but this pic is misleading
cecilia kilian 1 year ago
In France it is an "Intruder on campus" drill. Somebody goes around trying the door handles to see if we are locked down, and teachers get instructions on their phones to evacvuate their students through the windows if they are on the ground floor. We do not have work phones, and some teachers do not have cell phones.
Load More Replies... Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
I think I was about 13yo when we had our first active shooter. That was back in the early 90s. Nobody died that time.
Hunter Patricia Dogwood 1 year ago
I remember waking up in the morning to find my 16 year old on her phone. She showed me a tweet that said "I will shoot down every band student in the Fox Chapel high school." She told me she didn't feel safe going to school.
Those who are not from America might look at this list and think how strange and different American schools are. But the truth is that each country has something different about its education system and schools that might surprise people. Finland, for example, which is often thought to have one of the best education systems in the world might seem strange too.
#13
Our School Spent 1.3 Million On New Turf For A Loosing Team, But I Get To Deal With This Every Time It Rains Because They Can’t Afford To Fix The Roof
AndyR 1 year ago
TBF they're probably not spending any money on English classes either.
Load More Replies... DadManBlues 1 year ago
Good for you. The Hungarian government is playing much bigger: we have a collapsing health system and public education, but we bought an airport for $3.8 billion. And the PM (you know Viktor Orban, Trump mentions him frequently) froze $2B worth of public investment because of the poor state of the budget, but the state bought office buildings from the PM's son-in-law for $1.6B.
detective miller's hat 1 year ago
Was the same in my high school. The football team was a joke, they hadn't won a game since like 1988. But they still gutted the art department to spend a fortune on a new football field and new uniforms.
Sophia Athene 1 year ago
The marching band in my school had to fund itself. But the school required one to attend football games. When it rained & the woodwinds had to stow their instruments, people at the games got mad we weren't supporting the football team. We weren't allowed to practice on the football field but used a lined parking lot. The music dept had already been gutted. So transportation on s****y buses, uniforms, large instruments (think tubas), ALL of it came from soliciting donations & fundraisers that required each student to sell x number of crappy products but the parents usually had to pay the difference between what the student sold & what was required. We were the only school in the county and we had to fight everyone fundraising for their own department. The county was so inundated with fundraisers it was hard to sell items. The marching band students had to buy their own shoes and gloves and pay the dry cleaning bill for your uniform. I know there's more but I can't remember it all.
Load More Replies... StrangeOne 1 year ago
Contact the school board and have them investigate misuse of school funds.
Helena 1 year ago
Unfortunately spending stupid amounts of money on sports instead of education and infrastructure isn't seen as misuse.
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Unicorn Handstand 1 year ago
I think it was last year when the school district decided to stop funding the law academy at my high school. This is a school whose Varsity Mock Trial team has won NATIONAL competitions, SEVERAL TIMES. It's so stupid--we have multiple individual national champions, and you still decide to stop giving us money?!?! Like, what the heck?!?! Just a few weeks ago, the Mock Trial team came back from a competition at Yale. We're in Carrollton, Texas. They had to fly there, and it's obviously SUPER expensive. Last year the Law Academy teachers were scrambling around, trying to get some local law firms to help fund us. And still, us Law Academy kids have to sell chocolates throughout the school year to keep the Academy funded. 🙄🙄🙄🙄
Nimitz 1 year ago
This is a public health hazard and should be reported as such. I'm water damage certified. You've got about 72 hrs after an event to get that s**t dried before mold starts growing, and that looks like it's just allowed to sit and cook. Some of those spots are definitely the fruiting body growing through the wall and releasing spores into the air. Guarantee if they're letting it soak the problem is now in the floor and the entire walls. If handled quickly it's a couple hundred to fix. That's gonna cost tens of thousands to fix
#14
The Absolutely Terrible Design Of My School. This Is The Place Where Every Hallway Intersects
Chuck Freiman 1 year ago
So if there's a fire in the school, thanks to this choke point, finding the bodies will be easy. 👍
Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
Horrible design. Some people are giving crazy people really bad ideas.
#15
Our High School Covers Expiration Dates With A Sharpie
Katherine Bridgerton 1 year ago
Now the kids can eat expired chips AND weird cheese powder that no other country allows.
Sky Render 1 year ago
Not to mention corn so low-grade that cattle in other countries wouldn't be fed it due to poor nutritional value.
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Lara Verne 1 year ago
Please don't tell me they give you expired Doritos for lunch. It would be crazy even if it wasn't expired.
StrangeOne 1 year ago
I guess so they save money and time on having to rotate the snacks.
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The country began its education reform about 40 years ago and prioritized hiring educators in decision-making positions both at the local and national levels. Teachers in Finland must have a Masters degree in Education, and the system prioritizes the underprivileged. "Children from wealthy families with lots of education can be taught by stupid teachers," veteran teacher Kari Louhivuori said.
#16
I Guess My Daughter's School Administrator Is Trying To Reprimand Me?
I was late a lot through high school, but I'd never been sent home with anything like this. My mother would get a call from the school every now and then, that's about it. For reference, my daughter's in 1st grade.
Kiki’sNotLookingBack 1 year ago
upvote if being patronized is one of your least favorite things 😾👇
Sofia Carlson 1 year ago
Sometimes it's the only way to get their attention.
Load More Replies... Gwyn 1 year ago (edited)
Ok I see his point about it being patronizing.... but also you aren't exempt from knowing how to do things because you're the man. One late morning should have been enough for you to figure out you had to prep the night before and/or get up earlier the next day.
Li’l E. 1 year ago
Right? Like ooooooo, you had “full responsibility” for three kids? So basically you had to be a parent for A WHOLE WEEK?
Load More Replies... Pencil McGovern 1 year ago
If you're going through a challenging time, be proactive and let the school know your kid may be late so they'll at least know you're paying attention. Also, being late can absolutely affect a child's learning. Arriving 10 minutes after a lesson begins means they missed the demonstration of how to fill out the worksheet or the first several pages of the story being read. I get it that this family was going through something & he didn't like the (condescending) tone of the note but 10 minutes is a big deal.
Sofia Carlson 1 year ago
Should have put the kids in bed earlier and gotten them up earlier. It isn't rocket science.
Bi-Polar Express 1 year ago
Oh, no! You had full responsibity for a short time? Are you going to be OK?
detective miller's hat 1 year ago
I really never understood punishing kids for being late if they're being driven to school by their parents. It's obviously not the kid's fault.
Li’l E. 1 year ago
It’s funny, I’m pretty sure elementary school administrators get used to talking to children all day and then talk to the parents in the same didactic tone. I’ve noticed this in my kid’s school as well!
Terran 1 year ago
Lol, my father is a teacher and he always says how much he dislikes other teachers and isn't like them, while being exactly like them. It seems almost impossible for a teacher not to be somewhat patronising
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Heather Talma 1 year ago
This is a pathetic move by the school but at least they're not blaming the child for being tardy.
#17
My School Blocked Google
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 1 year ago
I can't see the name Chesapeake without mis-reading it as "cheapskate"
Pencil McGovern 1 year ago
Google has the most biased, easily manipulated and *heavily* monetized results. No schools should be using it.
Dumb teenager 1 year ago
I find it takes a while to load. Proton vpn is pretty quick though
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Hmmm hmmmm 1 year ago
I mean , they do take an awful lot of data , so if they're just encouraging you to use an alternative it's not so bad
#18
My School's Bag Check Line
Katherine Bridgerton 1 year ago (edited)
Now they are selling bullet proof shields that go in kids backpacks. Seriously ... USA now stands for united states of assault !
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
What do you want us to do? Get rid of the guns? What if the British are coming again?
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StrangeOne 1 year ago
That's too much. Like, .. at this point just homeschool your kids. You can do it in the evening. Some kids don't even need a teacher constantly present.
Singaporean schools are often at the top of international ranking tables as well. What American students might find strange in a Singaporean classroom is that teachers are usually the ones who talk the most during lessons and discussions by the students aren't that widely encouraged. Pupils use digital devices in the learning process, as teachers incorporate technology into classrooms.
#19
My Children's School Folders Are Starting To Look Like Internet Pop-Ups
This is in my wife's hometown, which is small, so she doesn't share my anger. She said it was to raise money for the fall festival. Told my buddy from back home about it and he was just as angry as I was, even calling it child labor.
Joe Reaves 1 year ago
The artist owns the copyright, not necessarily the physical art. The school no doubt argues that the art was made with their materials so belongs to them.
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Fire Singer 1 year ago
I could get behind the costume thing, fine, but to pay to get your kids own art?? That's weird to me. I know it's a small town and they need to fundraise but paying for their own art is just crazy.
Biggus Dickus 1 year ago
You this is extremely sad and pathetic...but maybe not on the teachers though but on the government cuts to the schools budgets...I've heard of teachers spending their own money to supplement the difference many times What happened to "the kids are the future?"
Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
Only if they reliably vote GOP. Otherwise it's wasteful spending. At LEAST here in Michigan we decided that teacher are no longer unworthy. But boy in the 2 thousand teens...they were useless.
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Rowan Kohler 1 year ago
Nope. Where is this b******t occurring I’ve never even heard of such a thing.
#20
Bathroom Pass In An American School. I Mean, I Get It, Kids Take Advantage, But This Is Too Much
Ephemeral Mochi 1 year ago
We all know girls can hold in their periods! /j
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S Q 1 year ago
Jeez, WTF is wrong with your schools. Where I am from , you jus raide your hand , tell your teacher you need to go and that's it. You go whenever you need. It's been working like that forever and no problem. We are not prisoners for f@%^& sake.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
Same. Some teachers may say two students can't go at once, depending on who they are, because they are likely to get up to mischief if together, but that's it.
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Smart Fridge Gaming™️ 1 year ago
In my school you have to use this stupid app called smart pass to use the bathroom, it’s so bad
Austzn 1 year ago
This is peak dystopia; regulating biological processes with a tacky written policy. "We'll just make the rule what we want to happen and if it doesn't it will be because the individual has failed!" Brilliant!
#21
This Is What They Gave Us For Lunch Today. I’m A 6'5" 160 Lbs Track Athlete, With Practice And Weight Training After School. This Did Little To Nothing To My Hunger Level
Sophia Athene 1 year ago
Absolutely! The only way this meal was acceptable is because the student opted to not choose from any other options. Quite possibly, this was all a training athlete could eat that supported training and practice. Sidenote: I loved those hamburgers with a generous helping of mustard. I passed on the side options because they looked nasty. Eventually I brought my own lunch because I had teachers who let me hide in their classroom and eat and do homework so I didn't have to take it home.
Load More Replies... JoNo 1 year ago
Again, can students bring their own packed lunch? Surely it would be better than this.
Janos Schumacher 1 year ago
Again, yes. Also, this does not look like a standard American school lunch. There's no vegetable, which is required, chocolate milk is rare. TruMoo is a SoCal brand so maybe things are different in Cali but in my neck of the woods, more common was Tony's pizza, beenie weinies, or Salisbury Steak. Generally mixed vegetables, mash potatoes, or tater tots as a side. Often some grapes or other mixed fruit.
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Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
That is ridiculous and nasty looking. That's not enough for any teenager especially an athlete.
Bi-Polar Express 1 year ago
All schools in the US are required to have lunch choices and a salad bar for any school participating in the school lunch program and getting those funds. Find out why your schools aren’t giving that. I notice that kids will refuse to get anything healthy and then ask for extras of the unhealthy stuff like this.
Alice K 1 year ago
When did that happen? My children's public schools never had a salad bar, not in elementary, middle school, or high school. But they are millennials.
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Ivy at Eve 1 year ago
So the fat that was left out of the milk is re-introduced with the milk? My appetite is over.
The South Korean education system is often lauded as well. Students in Korea spend more time at school than American students. An average American student spends 180 days a year at school, while a Korean student – about 220. Together with Finland, students in South Korea also get the least amount of homework per week.
#22
Honestly, I’d Rather Just Ask For Cash
So we have to buy a $60 box of chocolate bars (which I noticed are now only 0.8 oz when they used to be 1.5 oz), sell the whole box, and only $22 of that goes towards an end of year trip? Just no. I’d rather donate cash and save myself and my kid the headache. Or even do a lemonade stand, or sell bracelets. Seems like the least efficient way to do a fundraiser.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
The fact that our schools are holding fundraisers for basic needs says a lot about our country as a whole.
StrangeOne 1 year ago (edited)
Why doesn't the schools save the money they pay for these chocolate bars and use it to fund the field trips and just have the parents pay any difference in cost for their kids? And then the kids can do their own thing on the side if the parents can't cover the difference.
Rowan Kohler 1 year ago
I do not let my children embarrass themselves selling this school nonsense. It’s mostly parents that sell them to coworkers and people that don’t want them. I teach my children better things instead and reward them myself.
PHOTOBOB 1 year ago
When my son was in grade school (early 1990's) he had a fund raiser. He sold (we donated $20) worth of stuff . Then he comes home with a note that he raised more money than anyone in his class and as a reward was given time in a money machine (they blow money and you get to keep whatever you can grab) He grabbed $30 and we had to pick it up because a grade schooler would probably use it to buy d***s. So my son managed to raise -$10 for the school. So proud. After we realized that this was not some crazy prank.
#23
School Board Policy For Lunch In North Carolina
Crystal M 1 year ago
When my son was in Kindergarten, he misplaced his lunch money, they refused to feed him. He cried all day and it broke my heart. Why couldn't they call me, he was 5 and this was the first week of school!
DennyS (denzoren) 1 year ago
What in the actual hell. This can't be right.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
For profit school cafeterias have been a ting ever since Reagan. YAY Reaganomics. Let's shift more burden onto middle class families who are struggling to survive.
Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
In Michigan, meals (breakfast, Lunch) are state/federal funded, ever since Covid. No one pays, except staff. Before Covid I would collect pop cans (10 cent deposit) from around the building from indoor sporting/school events, and cash them in once I couldn't move around my janitors closet any more. Proceeds used for past due charges in the lunchroom. Cafeteria staff knew who needed it.
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Cerise Hood 1 year ago
It was close to the last day of school, and I was short by a dollar. My school took away my tray and I was stuck eating the muffins I got for snack time.
#24
My School Banned The Dinosaur Game
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 year ago
Ours did that too! Seriously, I can tolerate a lot but banning the Dino game is TOO FAR.
Nonna_SoF 1 year ago (edited)
I'm not saying you should do this but on windows you can create a batch file that will run command line inputs. There's a bunch of things you can do with them. For instance you can have it run a web browser and then run itself. You then replace the shortcut for the web browser with one that looks identical but runs your. Bat. Oh I should add that the pause/break key not only will break this run away train, it is in fact the original purpose of it.
If you've ever been to Spain, you know that the siesta is sacred to people there. The same is true at some Spanish schools: students get a two-hour lunch break to go home and eat and possibly take a nap. The usual school hours are from 9 am to 5 pm, others from 8 am to 3 pm.
#25
My School Is Fining Students That Take Too Long In The Bathroom
Smart Fridge Gaming™️ 1 year ago
isn’t it literally illegal to have cameras in a public bathroom???
Load More Replies... TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
Honest question: Are the cameras IN the bathroom or at the entrance?
Chris Sprucefield 1 year ago
Doesn't matter. Data protection laws makes it clear where you can and can not place cameras, and places like toilets and their entrances/exits is one place where you have expectancy of privacy and the right not to be recorded. (there are exceptions such as where the adjoining space is a public space like a town square having a public toilet facility, but this is not the case here)
Load More Replies... Lost Penny 1 year ago
To be fair, fines are for hanging out in the bathrooms, not for 'taking too long.'
Philly Bob Squires 1 year ago
Hard to do when all of the courts are in their favor.
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Donkey boi 1 year ago
'I don't s**t often. But when I do, I make the journey worth it.' - My cousin, that has a condition that results in a lot of constipation.
Pencil McGovern 1 year ago
If the cameras are *in* the bathrooms, then, yes, absolutely illegal. If the cameras are at the entrance and only capture who's going in and out, then no, that's legal.
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YakFactory 1 year ago
Cameras in the bathrooms is a bit "uncomfortable", as in weird. What happened to privacy?
MyWeird “WolvesGoTo” DailyLife 1 year ago
Cameras in the classrooms aren’t allowed [unless EVERY parent agrees, EVERY teacher, EVERY student— etc], so why are they allowed in the bathroom?
#26
School Has A "Minimum Donation" For A Fundraiser
My friend's kid's school is having a fundraiser. I was like, yeah sure I'll donate 5 bucks. Nope. Well now they're getting no money because 15 is a little too much for me.
DadManBlues 1 year ago
The words 'must' and 'donation' should not be in the same sentence. It's like the 'mandatory' and 'tipping' - they describe system-level errors.
Hunter Patricia Dogwood 1 year ago
We have minimum payment laws for employees, but we should not have minimum payment laws for a kid's d*** school fundraiser.
Rowan Kohler 1 year ago
The hell if they hunk they can enforce this one anyone. Only a private school would pull this s**t.
#27
Sign On The Nurse's Door At My School
Zoey Bear 1 year ago (edited)
So is a headache with a nosebleed considered an emergency or nah, just have to wait for the aneurysm to take hold???
ConstantlyJon 1 year ago
an aneurysm is better than going to school in public schools in america at this point. that's why we spend and arm and a leg to pay for private. not everything is better, but we don't have any of this s**t going on at least.
Load More Replies... Gwyn 1 year ago (edited)
If she's closed for prep then the sign should have hours as 8:50-2:10. Also how can they be closed during school hours? Every time I go to my kids school there are kids in the health office. They have the admin assist fill in during the nurses lunch.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
My high school only had an actual nurse part time, probably shared with another school. If they weren't there you had to knock on the staff room door and hope a teacher was in there. In my primary school the first aider was the office lady.
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Jessica Cooney 1 year ago
Best not get food poisoning from the "healthy lunch" provided during these times.
Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
So the nurse wants a kid bleeding all over the place. Holding the head back and pinching the bridge of the nose doesn't always stop a nosebleed. Headache would depend on severity, kid could have a migraine or undiagnosed brain tumor, etc. Sore throat could be anything from allergies to strep to Mononucleosis.
Reviewer01 1 year ago
Don't put the head back with a nosebleed, no no no no!
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Brandie Litchfield 1 year ago
But they can't have a cough drop in class. Or be given their PRESCRIBED MEDICATION unless it fits in the schedule of this alleged nursing professional!!and we wonder why any idiot would rather homeschool their child instead of tolerate this micromanaging bs that prefers kids be target practice since guns are more protected than our students!!!!
Hunter Patricia Dogwood 1 year ago
This is awful. Those things can mean internal damage or severe illness, and my kid has already caught pneumonia once from the nurse not being in her office...
weatherwitch 1 year ago
At my school our school nurses medical areas even had separate rooms with a bed and a chair in them for students to rest or sleep. They were by the staff rooms so quite quiet. They understood that paracetamol, a hot water bottle, blanket and a nap helped so much especially for the crippling period pain I used to have. The nurse would check in on you, bring the sick bucket or a warm drink. On a good day I'd feel better quickly and be back at class. On a bad, might be two hours. Understanding and Compassion go a long way. Now kids aren't even allowed out of the class for the toilet or to change their sanitary protection. We've gone backwards. This was 1980s, Matlock, UK.
Here's another fun fact for you: students in Australia and New Zealand sometimes go to school barefoot. Kiwis and Australians going to the local supermarket barefoot isn't so unusual generally, so why should schools be different? Inglewood Primary School in Perth, Australia, has officially adopted a no-shoe policy. "We believe that children need opportunities to explore indoor and outdoor environments without shoes," they stated in a newsletter.
#28
My Blind Child Came Home From School Today With This Homework
Eats chez 1 year ago
no they cant make such "accomodations" unfortunately. haha lol
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I have no kids, so I'm asking here not trying to be dumb or confrontational, but when there is a blind or deaf child in a standard public classroom isn't the teacher supposed to be given specific material to help that child? Otherwise you end up with things like this. I'm pretty sure that's what's supposed to happen, now, whether it does I guess is a whole other thing.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
Yes. That's the way it would be where I teach in Australia. Either we would have supports for them to be able to participate or we would have a different task all together (that teaches the same thing).
Load More Replies... Kiki’sNotLookingBack 1 year ago
they weren’t prepping for the blind kid, just call and explain to get a more suitable version.
OneWithRatsAndKefir 1 year ago
Okay, but, assuming this is a primary school… classes usually have to account for every student. With the reasonable adjustments that have to be made for a student with a disability, alternatives should have already been considered.
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M O'Connell 1 year ago
I'm pretty confident that I could turn 12 of these into a tactile exercise that might be of benefit to a vision-impaired child (provided I could locate some fresh deer tracks).
M O'Connell 1 year ago
I could probably work in a flower morphology lesson that's tactile-only too.
Load More Replies... Chris Sprucefield 1 year ago
Inconsiderate teachers.. I'd have a VERY stern word or five with them if this was my kid, about how they are deliberately setting the kid up to fail, disregarding a physical disability that surely, they MUST know about, never mind having a negative mental impact on the kid, effectively bullying the kid by giving them a task they KNOW they can not perform...
#29
About Half Of This 50-Gallon Trash Can Is Full Of Perfectly Good Cartons Of Milk, Expiration Date Is In 2 Weeks. Schools Waste A Lot Of Food
Nicky 1 year ago
Our school district used to give food away to the homeless until someone claimed to have gotten a tummy ache and sued.
Pencil McGovern 1 year ago
Unless this happened before 1996, the district is lying and they just don't want to donate. Federal law protects people and entities from being sued when they donate food in good faith. Good Samaritan Act, shortened link to usda.gov: https://shorturl.at/h9uDh
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Montanavanna 1 year ago
We didn't. We would sanitize them and put em out at lunch as free for anyone who wanted one. That is what this looks like to me. We didn't fish them out of the trash of course but would collect unopened milk when we collected the trays.
Rodney Bowie 1 year ago
*record scratch sound* Wait, didn't we just point out them using a sharpie on the expiration date on a bag of chips? So which is it?
Russell Rieckenberg 1 year ago
You can't tell by this picture, or the expiration date, that this milk is good. The expiration date assumes the milk stays refrigerated. Maybe there was a power outage or some other reason their coolers failed.
slay_potato 1 year ago
I once had chunky chocolate milk at school. It was 2 weeks over the expiration date and I told admin and they did nothing.
#30
There Was A Typo In The First Sentence Of My School's Guide To Careful Writing
ConfusedCub 1 year ago
Gads I had to read that twice even though it was pointed right out! Must be past bedtime.
I believe we have many Pandas from different countries here. So, don't hesitate to share what distinguishes the schools in your homeland from the rest of the world. Is it the curriculum? Is it the classroom environment? And, if you've ever been on both sides, how did an American school compare to the ones in your country? Let us know in the comments!
#31
Toilet Paper Provided At My School
Dumb teenager 1 year ago
At this point just use the cardboard in the middle instead
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CanadianaKa 1 year ago
When I was in school it was those sheets like in a tissue box, which were smooth and shiny and NOT absorbent.
justanotherweirdo 1 year ago
I mean, this can’t possibly be a cheaper option for the school, considering each person has to use up 10 feet of toilet paper per go
General Anaesthesia 1 year ago (edited)
They forgot to put the washing machine in the "hand wash" cycle?
Hunter Patricia Dogwood 1 year ago
I've heard of school where kids bring their own toilet paper. Petition your school for that.
#32
This Map Is In My School's Elementary Library. Because All Of Eastern Asia And The Pacific Islands Are Apparently China
Libstak 1 year ago
And not labelled...just a random landmass in the pacific
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Jessica Cooney 1 year ago
If you were to ask China, they would confirm this as a well known fact.
me myself and i (she/her) 1 year ago
Chinese person here. I can confirm that Japan and the pacific islands are all part of China /s
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廖亚芳 1 year ago
I'm Chinese and I'm going to laugh when I see this map. Wrong. It would be great if China was really that big. Hahahahaha
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Rinso The Red 1 year ago
This is a bizarre blending of continents and countries. No wonder kids think "Africa" is a country?
BTDubs 1 year ago
Love how there's "united states of America" and "Australia" and fucken "Greenland", but then also just "South America", "Europe" and "Africa"...
Pencil McGovern 1 year ago
And Canada appears to be just a few scattered trees that America hasn't chopped down yet.
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#33
I Don't Think That's Even Legal
Jan Rosier 1 year ago
'sorry, but I am going' - and I did go, when this happened once in a class I was in.
Chris Sprucefield 1 year ago
....until there is a spark, and the school management and their teachers (or what is left of them) is charged with negligent homocide / manslaughter...
Rebecca Donaldson 1 year ago
All I see here is just a picture of chairs and desks. Can someone explain?
RosaTheWitch 1 year ago
It's a gas leak. Gas is invisible. Just ignore the picture and focus on the text.
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Huddo's sister 1 year ago
This is literally one of the things we do compulsory emergency drills for in Australia. Our Emergency management plans are massive because of all the things we have to be prepared for. A gas leak would most likely be an off-site evacuation, unless the yard is huge.
#34
When Your School Bans Wikipedia, Only To Copy Directly From Wikipedia In Their Own Lesson Resources
DadManBlues 1 year ago
They should ban pencils, too. I once saw John Wick k¡lled 3 men in a bar with a pencil. A f××king... pencil.
Bi-Polar Express 1 year ago
The people who decide what is blocked and the people who do the lesson planning are not the same people.
#35
High School Bathrooms Are Really Wild
Say No to Downvoting 1 year ago
I have literally had nightmares about being forced to use a public toilet with that exact layout.
Jessica Cooney 1 year ago
I actually had a nightmare about having to use school bathrooms exactly like this recently.
Leebo13 1 year ago
Yeah, just in case they aren't self conscious enough about themselves.
Load More Replies... Huddo's sister 1 year ago
Is this their idea of a disabled toilet? People with disabilities deserve privacy too!
Jenny Mason 1 year ago
This is an accessible toilet for people with disabilities, so why are they deciding to humiliate them when they need the toilet?
Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
Looks like an excuse for a handicapped stall but without doors, I don't think so.
Jenny Mason 1 year ago
I thought that at first. It's a discarded paper hand towel. If you look at the dispenser on the wall you'll notice the things on the floor are the same colour as the towels.
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Bathroom "Stalls" At James Rumsey High School
SolitaryIntrovert 1 year ago
Red states try to spend as little money as possible on schools, or anything else they consider radical lib/communist
Kangaroo 1 year ago
“Proper bathroom stalls are woke! None of that in our schools! You’ll poop where God can watch you!”
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Rowan Kohler 1 year ago
In Europe using the bathrooms outdoors in non private stalls is not an issue because nudity doesn’t bother them like Americans. They sensor violence on tv and we do the opposite.
Kangaroo 1 year ago
Honestly it’s not the nudity that bothers me. I’ve been skinny dipping with friends loads of times. I just don’t want anyone making eye contact with me while I poop. I don’t want to be watched while pooping. I’m a nervous pooper.
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RosaTheWitch 1 year ago
Oh! I was thinking the dividers were really dirty!
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Winter 1 year ago
It stands to reason, though, doesn't it? If a kid wants *privacy* in the bathroom, it MUST be for nefarious reasons, like shooting up on dr*gs, or something more frivolous, like sneaking in a "friend" for a "quicky" [dontcha just *love* the mindset of some people?! ;) ]
RosaTheWitch 1 year ago
Exactly - they must spend ages thinking about all the things the kids *might* do? It's disturbing…
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Just Got Handed This In The Middle Of Class. I’m In High School
Russell Rieckenberg 1 year ago
I graduated high school in 1973. I don't remember how much our yearbook costed, but adjusted for inflation likely way more than $85.
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Donkey boi 1 year ago
85 fecking Dollars! I'm glad we never had that kind of c**p when I was at school.
#38
The Shower Rooms In My School Dorms Have Mushrooms Growing In Them
Lost Penny 1 year ago
"The budget's been really tight lately, there is not enough food for everyone. We improvised, okay?"
Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
Do not go in there barefoot, make sure you have shower shoes so you don't get foot fungus. Somebody is not cleaning like they are supposed to. I would bleach the hell out of that place!
Hunter Patricia Dogwood 1 year ago
Oh my goodness. First overpriced gas, now mushrooms growing in the showers.
Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
The discoloration in the corner suggests poor sanitation as well. Appears one of the little treasures pissed in the corner. THAT'S why it takes all night, after students depart.
#39
Bathroom Passes. Each Circle Represents One Pass, We Get One Of These Papers Per Semester. To Get More, We Have To Arrange An Appointment With The Administration
brownowlgonewhouse 1 year ago
At least they get passes; where I teach in the UK we are told to absolutely never let students go to the toilet during class unless they have a medical condition 🤷♀️
OneWithRatsAndKefir 1 year ago (edited)
I hope ‘having a bladder’, ‘having intestines’ or ‘having a uterus’ count as having medical conditions.
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I Like Tea 1 year ago
Are you expected to schedule your trips, or meant to save them for special occasions? It's inhumane.
Steve Robert 1 year ago
Issued by Brown? I'll show you brown. And the yellow paper used to be white.
Rebecca Elliott 1 year ago
I wonder now how I made it all day at school & rarely used the bathroom.
Joanne Hudson 1 year ago
In third grade Janet was terrified of the teacher and afraid to raise her hand to go to the bathroom so she sat there in the third row and pissed herself. She REALLY had to go.
#40
This Milk At My School
Bisha Moten 1 year ago
Heh. This was always the best milk to get. It's frozen folks. The milk had gotten so cold in the box that it froze, and the person taking the photo peeled off the box to show that. Save your outrage. It's just frozen.
PandaGoPanda 1 year ago
In England we used to have to defrost the milk bottles on the school hot water pipes in winter.
Daniel Alexander 11 months ago
Why? They went through the effort to freeze the milk. Why would you freeze milk?
Heather Talma 1 year ago
Why'd you waste part of your 9 minutes of eating time to take this picture?
#41
When The School Gives A Big Box To Hide The Size Of The Pizza
John Mosley 1 year ago
Maybe they could give a full size slice if they saved money by deleting the packaging.
Nimitz 1 year ago
I used to be kitchen manager of a pizza place. An extra large all meat 16" pizza had a food cost of under $5 and yields 12 large slices. That looks like they're getting 20 slices per pizza and it's just thin cheese. That's "feeding" 20 kids for about $3. These people need to be publicly flogged
Lost Penny 1 year ago
Start growing mushrooms in shower rooms. Pizza with mushrooms will provide better nutritional value.
Chuck Freiman 1 year ago
In my day, we didn't have pizza. Or pizza boxes. In fact we were waiting for pizza to be invented!
Space Invader 1 year ago
Actually, seeing what the actual pizza looks like makes me glad there's not more....
Montanavanna 1 year ago
That could be a serving for smaller children. We would cut the slices smaller for k-grade 3.
Cybele Spanjaard 1 year ago
This is like many packet foods today that are now 1/3 less than two years ago and cost more. The food' marketeers' are playing on the buyer's purchasing knowing what we have to eat and what we prefer..it is a rort, all Supermarket companies need to be investigated as it is here in Australia now, not that price will reduce they hopefully will not be reduced to less product for more dollars
#42
When You Get One Formula Wrong In Our Weekly Tests At My School, They Make You Write It Out 150 Times. I Have 4 More Of These To Do
YDNinja 1 year ago (edited)
Replying so people can see the gif EDIT: I guess that's not how it works
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Norm Gilmore 1 year ago (edited)
That sort of (totally unneeded and unfair) punishment is just power tripping sadism. The only lesson that that teaches is the tutor is an a-hole..
RosaTheWitch 1 year ago
Reminds me of my French Canadian biology teacher (even though I'm in the UK.) Most detentions were just extra time at school, to get homework done, or to help the teacher, but Dr. J was old school, so I had to write something like, "I must not speak in class as it is rude and prevents the teacher from doing his job to the maximum of his ability" for as many lines as I could write in the allotted detention time. Totally useless, and it genuinely wasn't me talking either!
Load More Replies... Rowan Kohler 1 year ago
I would not allow this as a parent as this is excessive to say the least.
Ellinor 1 year ago
I had one of my teacher straight up bullying me when I was like 9, and at one point I used to have so many lines to copy everyday (like 150 lines each day!) that my grandparents (both teachers) would help me cheat by tying pencils together to write faster.
Mr.Punch 1 year ago
MY parents would had a "nice little chat" with the teacher... parent-tea...4a1ad9.jpg 
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
While we were meant to remember a few formulas off the top of our head in maths, we were allowed to have a summary book for most things. One of our final exams was closed book, and focused on mental arithmetic without formulas, the other was open book. Writing this out may help, but no way would you need to do it more than a few times.
Jon Penryn 1 year ago
Never mind you will never use this in real life, learn it for the moment then forget it.
#43
My Little Brother’s Middle School Schedule. He’s Having Such A Hard Time Remembering When Periods Start And End. Why Are The Times This Specific?
General Anaesthesia 1 year ago
I don't think those are breaks, but time to move to the next classroom.
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The Mediterranean Fruit 1 year ago
In my area - Midwest US - they do this b/c the State requires public schools to have a certain number of hours of instruction per year. These passing periods are 4 minutes. If they were five minutes instead of four, which would make keeping track much much easier - it would mean losing 8 minutes of instruction a day. For a school years of 32 weeks, that's over twenty hours of instruction time lost. We pretend that having a four minute rather than a five minute passing period makes a whit of difference.
Dont Sellmyinfo 1 year ago
My son’s schedule is like this. We had to follow his bell schedule on meet the teacher night; it was insane. They get like 2 minute and 23 seconds to get to each class. My husband and I gave up after the 4th period bell and just wandered into the class when we got there.
Mark Hastings 1 year ago
Wait till he joins the world of the working class. For years my job started at 5 am, first break was at 8 am, lunch was at 11 am, second break was at 12:30 pm. Someone decided we need a balanced work day, work started at 5 am, first break was at 7 am, lunch was at 9 am and second break was at 11:30 am. The only problem with this was the cafeteria schedule was breakfast from 4:30 am to 7 am, lunch was 10 am to 11:30 am. The cafeteria was no allowed to adjust their hours to the new schedule because it would not work with managements daily schedule. A few months later the cafeteria laid off all their employees and shut down due the lack of business.
DadManBlues 1 year ago
4 minutes breaks between classes? My kids have 10 minutes, with a 15 m. break at 10 AM.
Diana Lucas 1 year ago
When my daughter was in high school, the times were super specific like that because the teachers union had negotiated that every Friday was a half day so they could work on lesson plans and the like. The added minutes per day for each class made sure the state-mandated number of hours for students was met. The students got used to it very quickly.
Kangaroo 1 year ago
My high school was exactly the same. I think our hours were 8:58am - 3:22 pm or something specific like that
Load More Replies... Heather Talma 1 year ago
First of all, this is normal. Second of all, why does he need to remember? That's what the bells are for.
#44
This Sign On A High School Classroom Door
OldButNewButBroken 1 year ago
Double suspension if you pee in their coffee. Especially if you don't tell them until they've finished it
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Pencil McGovern 1 year ago
Unless there's a rolldown gate blocking the bathrooms between classes.
Uncle Schmickle 1 year ago
Just take a leak right in class on the floor, and explain you didn't want to miss out on valuable class time.
#45
"Gift" From The School My Girlfriend Works At For Teacher’s Appreciation Week
Cybele Spanjaard 1 year ago
Cheap Ramen noodles..just add hot water. It is an insult. Often best to give NO 'gift' just kind words.
Robert Miller 1 year ago
a pizza party is too much for the school budget ....but the superintendent makes $250,000+ .......
Rowan Kohler 1 year ago
That would not have made it home it would have been trashed in front of the person that handed it to me.
#46
I'm A Night Custodian At A High School. This Is What The First Day Of School Looks Like
StrangeOne 1 year ago
One time me and some classmates made a ton of scuff marks on the floor. The custodian was pissed, collected us all outside the classroom with the teacher and principal. We were made to erase all the scuff marks. I felt bad after.
George Costanza 1 year ago
I don't buy it. There's no way this is the first day. Last day maybe. First day? No chance.
Kangaroo 1 year ago
Right, how did they students get so many paper assignments to throw about on the first day of class?
Load More Replies... General Anaesthesia 1 year ago
And this is the teachers' bathroom. You should see the students' latrine!
Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
OMG. No wonder the parents say they didn't get... Paper. Here in NC when a kid goes to middle school they have to get Menactra (Meningitis shot) they send a paper home at the end of ,, 5th grade, during the summer and the beginning of 6th grade. If you don't have it by a certain date the kids are suspended until they get it and a TDAP. They also have to get another Menactra in 12th grade by that certain date in Sept. We have had so many calls from parents and seniors gotta have shots this week. We don't have any openings try the health department
RosaTheWitch 1 year ago
I'm surprised there isn't a load of hassle from anti-vaxxers. I'm old, so when I was at school (here in the UK), everyone had vaccines without any fuss. Not sure about nowadays though.
Load More Replies... Daniel Alexander 11 months ago
This is still better than my school bathrooms, where there's wet toilet paper all over the walls and puddles of who knows what everywhere.
weatherwitch 1 year ago
I've never seen Anything like that before!! We'd have been done one for doing this and being so disrespectful to the cleaning staff for that 😮😮😮
#47
My School Could Afford $6,000,000 Worth Of Renovations, But They Can’t Afford Toilet Paper That I Can’t See Through
Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
Our maintenance manager did away with this shortly after hire...thankfully.
Load More Replies... Donkey boi 1 year ago
In my day we had rolls of tracing paper! Used to just glide straight off your a**e without toughing the shite.
Cybele Spanjaard 1 year ago
That is like public toilets the old shiny non-absorbant single ply slippery paper.. no wonder there is a mess in bathrooms
Stannous Flouride 1 year ago
It's very much a "penny wise, pound foolish" thing because they're just going to use that much more.
Apachebathmat 1 year ago
When I was at school (England early 80’s) the toilet paper was shiny on one side like grease proof paper, go in at the wrong angle and you got a poopy sleeve or you slapped yourself up the back of the head
weatherwitch 1 year ago
Yeah but at least it's soft compared to the 70s greaseproof paper bog roll we had 🤣🤣
#48
My School's Renovated Toilet
#49
You Can’t Convince Me That "Syrup" Isn’t Just Motor Oil
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
That looks like "Goldsaft", a syrup made from sugar beets (Not that tasty in my opinion) Grafschaft...70-png.jpg 
Šimon Špaček 1 year ago
Why do you have plastic utensils? Come on, kids are allowed to use real things!
Alice K 1 year ago
No, they are not. We do not trust kids to not impale each other with metal utensils. And they cannot be trusted not to throw them away so we have to buy more. Bottom line is, kids cannot be trusted.
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Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
In some areas in the US Deep South, it may be cane syrup which tastes similar to molasses but is slightly thinner.
#50
High School Throwing Away Perfectly Good Books
brownowlgonewhouse 1 year ago
These are probably out-of-date textbooks that no longer correspond to the curriculum. They can be donated, but I've had donation centers refuse old textbooks as they say no one buys them.
General Anaesthesia 1 year ago
The author changes one word in the foreword and existing editions are obsolete. Support publishers!
Load More Replies... Say No to Downvoting 1 year ago
Are they perfectly good books though? I can’t make out the titles but if they are outdated textbooks that literally no one wants or needs, what are they supposed to do with them?
Kangaroo 1 year ago
They probably talk about evolution or slavery or gay people or something else that you’re not allowed to learn about in certain states
Load More Replies... Dusty's mom 1 year ago
American school textbooks are a grifter's dream. I had to purchase new editions of books that had less than five changes. Lined my professors' pockets nicely. But a lot of educational material these days are available online, making tomes like these obsolete.
Christine Stewart 1 year ago
In college, it was infuriating to have to buy a new textbook instead of buying one used from the campus bookstore, because the author had released a "new edition" that was now required...(seriously, if there were any important updates or corrections, a simple companion pamphlet would have sufficed. These weren't books that could have been so egregiously out of date....)
#51
A Teacher In Texas Was Fired After They Gave Middle School Students An Assignment Full Of Racist And Offensive Slurs
Neon 1 year ago
Wrong... There is no W in TFA(5th paper, third to last) ;)
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Pencil McGovern 1 year ago (edited)
Thank you to @Carrie B for correcting me. The story is real. See the link Carrie provided. [Edited to correct my mis-informed comment.]
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Layla Holston 1 year ago
I might be dyslectic because I could have sworn that this paper said N****r (hard r)
JohninND 1 year ago
That's produced and distributed into the curriculum...am I supposed to believe this is a 'lone teacher' act? That paper had to pass through a few hands and before a few eyes to end up in the kids hands. See what I mean?
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
It's made on an online worksheet generator and not official education department material. Teachers don't get every worksheet scrutinised before giving them to students (at least, not where I teach) so this could definitely be a lone teacher.
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#52
This Is What We Got Served For Lunch Today At School
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 1 year ago
That's the great thing about American "cheese": it tastes exactly the same in OR out of the wrapper!
Load More Replies... Lost Penny 1 year ago
Should've invested in mushrooms. Not only would you serve great nutritional food, but you would also be able to afford a kick-a*s TV to watch morning announcements.
#53
In My School Library
Lost Penny 1 year ago
Turn the fan on & enjoy watching the opening scene from another Final Destination movie.
OldButNewButBroken 1 year ago
I have always wondered why Final Destination haven't made one with a school shooting. Too realistic perhaps?
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My School Locker Can’t Even Fit My Backpack Because Of Those Shelves
StrangeOne 1 year ago
I found it easier to just carry my backpack with me. There was never enough time to go to my locker between classes. There was barely enough time to get from a class at one end of the school to the next class on the other side of the school.
Mochi 1 year ago
Unfortunately schools (just graduated) don't allow for you to carry a backpack, whether it's clear or not because of weapon threats! United States of Ak-47!!
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#55
My School Blocked All Of The Emergency Exits Instead Of Fixing The Alarm
Biggus Dickus 1 year ago
These people are IDIOTS why are you posting these pictures here and not showing them to your neighborhood fire department??...I'm starting to think maybe some of this stuff is staged
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago (edited)
Maybe they did and used the evidence pictures for this thread? It's not like digital pictures are single use only
Load More Replies... Lilla Michella 1 year ago
Apparently in this school it becomes cheaper to buy weapons for emergency evacuation...
DadManBlues 1 year ago
This is unacceptable. Our Fire Brigade would close the school immediately.
#56
My High School Spent $15,000 On A 2x2 TV Just To Show Morning Announcements
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
Huh, we just had them read to us by our homegroup teacher when I was in school. I'm sure most people don't pay attention either way!
#57
School Lunch On Thanksgiving
ConstantlyJon 1 year ago
I actually remember that turkey gravy. Has a weird taste to it. Kinda requires a dry/dusty roll to soak it all up.
Biggus Dickus 1 year ago
Thanksgiving??? They make y'all go to school on thanksgiving??? I haven't been to school in ages but damn
Igor914624 1 year ago
Looks like SOS that I was served in the army.... SOS ($hit on a Shingle)
Damned_Cat 1 year ago
That's gross, but at least it looks like real turkey. A former co-worker told me her kid's school served chopped deli turkey in gravy one year.
#58
If I Want To Download 1 Image From The Photographers The School Hired For Graduation, I Have To Pay $45
Damned_Cat 1 year ago
Wow. If my parents had to pay prices like these for photos and yearbook, and to bring my artwork home, I wouldn't have had any of it!
Rowan Kohler 1 year ago
Nope. School pictures and yearbooks are outdated and a scam. My iPhone can do better.
Pandamonium Pandas Pandie 1 year ago
just take a screen shot, that's what I do, the web cant control our buttons
Bored Trash Panda 1 year ago
I am glad I am a photographer so will be doing my son's pics when he graduates.
#59
Some Kid Stuffed A Cheeseburger Into The Computer At School
Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
...or move the keys around on the keyboards. Our IT guy is a saint to put up with the fixes.
#60
My Kid’s School Lunch
Biggus Dickus 1 year ago
Bro yall need to report those people for child abuse.. and YOU gotta at least send your kid to school with a bag lunch or a snack or something
Pencil McGovern 1 year ago (edited)
Unfortunately, for many children in the U.S., school lunch is the only food they can rely on each day. Not because their parents don't care, because they literally can't afford to feed them. We can't just assume the parents are doing less than everything they can.
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#61
Since Kids At My School Think It's Funny To Rip Soap Dispensers Off The Wall And Throw Them In The Toilet, The Staff Refuses To Give Us Soap
Shark_a 1 year ago
Well this one I agree with. Still it is not fair, the rest suffers because of couple of dump idiots.
Fire Singer 1 year ago
My nephew says at his high school this is an ongoing problem, bathroom vandalism. I think that's why the need for so many bathroom passes and not letting kids go during class and all that. I don't agree with it, but I think that's why so many schools have cracked down on bathroom use. It's nuts!
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#62
When Your School Advertises Rings, That Start At $300, To Seniors, Who Just Got Out Of High School And Are Irresponsible With Money
CanadianaKa 1 year ago
A-bloody-men. They were a monopoly when I graduated in 89 and clearly that hasn't changed. Though in a culture that worships the Superbowl I'm unsurprised how flashy and attempt to copy the Superbowl rings they are... Yeesh.
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Oskar vanZandt 1 year ago (edited)
I always envied having a class ring... There was no way my parents or I could afford purchasing one.
Sparky4 1 year ago
Same for me. But i finally graduated college after many years of going part time. I got myself a ring - from josten's...
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#63
School Has Become Pay-To-Win
Fire Singer 1 year ago
Ok I see both pro and con with this. Pro - you buy a ticket to go to a dance and have fun with friends so you get out of homework. Con - you either have no friends, or no money, to go to said dance or you just plain don't want to go so now you're stuck doing homework even if you don't go for a reason outside your control.
Reviewer01 1 year ago
As a nerd, I wish to know where I can purchase homework tickets to get out of school social events
Pencil McGovern 1 year ago
So if you buy a ticket, you get a pass to... what? I'm guessing "HW pass" means hallway pass. So you can skip a class or something? Can someone explain this to me, please?
SweetCheesySpaghetti 1 year ago
I was thinking "homework pass." like, if you went to the dance you didn't have to do homework.,
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Layla Holston 1 year ago
what if someone buys one ticket and then copies it and has a bunch of them?
#64
Every Year, My School Gives Me A Physical Piece Of Paper With My Password, That Doesn't Change Year-To-Year
It’s for WiFi, Google Drive, the school’s computer login, email - everything. Just to remind me they're storing them in plain text.
General Anaesthesia 1 year ago
This is not the US, ocdsb.ca: Ottawa-Carleton District School Board. 2016.
Kiki’sNotLookingBack 1 year ago (edited)
My old private school did this too. Why is this bad, again?
#65
Someone Stole A Toilet At My School
Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
Nope, probably cracked porcelain, didn't have a spare. Our building would have to shut off the entire wing to shut off water (pipe sticking out). They are lucky.
#66
Schools Put Gates Over The Bathrooms Between And During Class
Biggus Dickus 1 year ago
When I was a kid, you'd restrict my ability to relieve myself, I'd just go in the corner and when I got in trouble...show them and a lawyer that picture right there ...poof I guarantee those gates will be gone by Monday morning
Sami-Jo Ross 1 year ago
I'm sorry, DURING AND BETWEEN CLASSES? So basically the bathrooms are never open?
Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
In our building, if there was hijinks in the johns, principal would lock the one vandalized. Then, you would have to go to first floor to use bathrooms. LOTS of ratting students out due to the inconvenience factor...it worked. You may have something happen once a year, rarely twice.
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I’m So Done With My School
#68
My High School Removed Mirrors In The Bathroom, For No Reason Whatsoever
Pencil McGovern 1 year ago
I don't believe there were ever mirrors over those sinks, unless they re-tiled the entire wall. But if they did remove (or relocate) mirrors my guess is it would have something to do with students using cameras in the toilet areas of the bathroom.
Jossh Nine 1 year ago
Yeah, youre right. There looks to be no evidence of mirrors ever being there.
Load More Replies... Becca not Becky 1 year ago
I heard about some schools doing that because kids were filming Tik Toks and showing up super late to class. Class attendance and grades improved after that, last I checked.
Fire Singer 1 year ago
My nephew told me that too. He's in high school and they took out the mirrors for several reasons: vandalism, tiktoks, and girls were kissing them after applying lipstick.
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School Removed The Bathroom Mirror To "Prevent Girls From Skipping Class"
The Mediterranean Fruit 1 year ago
As a gal who grew up in the '80s, in the US, we spent a LOT of time between classes jacking up our hair during passing periods. The higher the hair, the closer to God. I'm certain we were late to class.
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Evagating Beewolf (she/they) 1 year ago
*sits in bathroom for all of class constructing an elaborate argument for why mirrors should be allowed back in*
#70
My Daughter’s School Asking For New Or Used Pencils. How Have We Gotten To This Point? We Are Failing At A Fundamental Level
Pencil McGovern 1 year ago
Sad but necessary: https://www.donorschoose.org/ A reputable, tax-deductible gofundme-type site exclusively for teachers to fund classroom projects and basic needs. Many requests are only a couple hundred dollars or less in total so a $5 donation can really make a difference.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 1 year ago
I know that's a maths teacher and not an English teacher, but the writing is awful.
Jossh Nine 1 year ago
So many of the things posted here have already been paid for by the parents, and other tax-paying citizens. I'm Canadian and I'm just (and I never use this word)...flabbergasted.
Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
May I suggest YOU pick up the pencils on the floor after class then? I assure you your janitor got tired of it.
M O'Connell 1 year ago
I'm getting up to 40 and am still working through the pencils I picked up off of the floor when I was in school.
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School Disabled Our Ability To Switch Computer Networks. I Have Work That Needs To Be Submitted From Home
Even if I somehow jiggy my way to connect to my home WiFi, the school WiFi will auto-connect after 5 minutes. Doesn't seem very legal.
#72
This Is The "Food" We’re Supposed To Eat At School
StrangeOne 1 year ago
Is the milk, orange and container all supposed to go into the wrap, too?
Lara Verne 1 year ago
Slice of ham, slice of cheese, orange, chocolate milk, and dry...tortilla? What is in paper cup?
Joe Parker 1 year ago
I might be wrong, but I think many of these school lunch issues that are shown are actually the fault of the federal government. guidelines were put in place, I don't recall when, having to due with calorie amounts, grains, vegetables, or something. they were absurd.
#73
Our School Built A New Sports Area On Grass. Can’t Wait To Play Basketball On That
#74
School Cafeteria Has "Build Your Own" Options, But Covered The Glass So You Can't See The Options
Lost Penny 1 year ago
"It's Tuesday's Identify-mystery-ingredient game! The winner gets a slice of mushroom pizza!"
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 1 year ago
*Mushrooms grown on-site in the shower room.
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#75
My Little Brother's School Lunch
Remi (He/Him) 1 year ago
Why are all the milks here with chocolate flavor or something? What even is that? Like cocoa but cold?
Kangaroo 1 year ago
Have you never had chocolate milk before? I guess you could say it’s like cold cocoa. It’s one of my favourites and I’m in my 30s haha
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School Lunch
#77
The Bring Your Own Potato Bar Hosted By My School For Teacher Appreciation. At Least They're Providing Plates
Biggus Dickus 1 year ago
Hahahaha... me too lmao.. at first I was like wtf??
Load More Replies... Fire Singer 1 year ago
I could absolutely be wrong, but I think this is like a potluck thing to celebrate birthdays, not teacher appreciation. Maybe it's both but it specifically says something about September 26th Birthday celebrations.
#78
There Are No Locks In The School Toilet
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 1 year ago
Judging by half of these, you're lucky to even have a door. Or access to the toilet at all.
#79
They Took The Doors Off The Men's Bathroom At Our School, But Not The Girls'
Pencil McGovern 1 year ago
Yes, it does. And, you're right, we don't. This isn't the U.S. Maybe France.
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QueerAxolotls 1 year ago
I think all students deserve DOORS, the boys at my middle school would continuously YANK THE SINKS OFF THE WALL and use them instead of the urinals, and they still got a door because you know, human privacy?
Biggus Dickus 1 year ago
This is actually illegal and discriminatory and if they reached out to the right people something could definitely be done about it... where does personal responsibility come into play??
#80
Paying $55 Fee For School Supplies Instead Of Buying A List Of Supplies. Up From $30. I Understand The Cost Of Everything Has Gone Up, But Buying The Supplies Ourselves Might Be Cheaper?
StrangeOne 1 year ago (edited)
When my kid was going to school, even back in the 00's, there was a $55 fee + a list of supplies, including 100 pencils for the teacher.
Gwyn 1 year ago (edited)
Don't get me started on school supplies. The amount of printed work papers/ unused paper that comes home and the used supplies that get sent home at the end of the year have me convinced that we waste a lot in these schools. We now have a stash of about 20 perfectly good scissors because apparently they need fresh scissors out of the package every year. One year my kids all came home with a whole bunch of never used dry erase markers the teacher wanted to get rid of at the end of the year.
#81
This Vending Machine At My High School
ConfusedCub 1 year ago
Might as well unplug the thing. Hah! Probably an abuse issue and owner/operator got tired of dealing with it. Our Coke machines in high school back in the 90's were always lined up with students when the refill guy showed up to claim their cash. You can generally tell just by the stock left in there vs the money stuck in the receptacle.
Rowan Kohler 1 year ago
Have a vending machine prone to getting violent retaliatory at their own risk.
#82
This Was The Lunch That My $40k Per Year School Served Today
Biggus Dickus 1 year ago
Right, and you're STILL paying them 40k a year though?? Seems like a lot of complaining but nobody wants to really do anything about it though
Reviewer01 1 year ago
It's almost as if the decisions are made by parents and the consequences are visited on the student
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DeoManus Argentem 1 year ago
My school was ~$35k (USD) K-12 (graduated 2002, so who knows now) and all food was extra - didn't even get that. TBH, though, the food service was actually good and cheap... But not free.
Biggus Dickus 1 year ago
Lemme put you onto something big homie.. anywhere else you pay someone for something... in most cases that makes YOU the boss...just something to think about
Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
And, oh, by the way, YOU were the one who decided that public education was broken, and instead of being a pain in the a## in the district, to effect change, you left everyone else behind in your journey of righteousness.
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Just Found That The Plastic Knifes In My School Are Terrible At Cutting And That I've Been Ingesting Microplastics All This Time
Biggus Dickus 1 year ago
Law suit... look up the effects of microplastics ... CLASS ACTION right there... and bring your own utensils to school if you value your own health
Pencil McGovern 1 year ago
If you're a student in the U.S., absolutely do not bring a knife to school. Not even a butter knife.
Load More Replies... Huddo's sister 1 year ago
From what I've read, the US won't allow proper utensils in most schools because there is a risk they could be used as weapons. Also possible they don't want to have the cost of paying staff to work longer because they are washing more things, even if they are put through a dishwasher.
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We Live 0.7 Miles From My Daughter's School, So She Is Ineligible For Bussing. Yet Every Morning As We Leave For School, This Thing Idles Out Front
#85
The Amount Of Leg Room On A School Bus
B Jones 1 year ago
As I've heard it out, most school buses aren't traveling fast, most anything hitting it will not cause much trouble, but mechanical things and possible fires are more a threat, and getting 40+ young kids off a burning bus when they panic and can't undo a seatbelt would be worse. But any that travel on highways and such should probably have them.
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Why? This Was In The Boys' Bathroom In The Middle School Where I'm A Custodian
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
The cleaner at the school I work at (in Australia) said this happens almost daily! There has been a rise in wet toilet paper being stuck to ceiling and walls recently too.
#87
This School's Music Department Has 22 iMacs, Apple Mouses And Apple Keyboards, But Chooses To Run Windows On Them. Talk About Wasting Money
PandaGoPanda 1 year ago
We'll be learning plurals today, children. Who can tell me the plural of mouse?
SleepyVampire 1 year ago
The plural for computer mouse can be mice OR mouses.
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My School Lunch
Tobias Reaper 1 year ago
looks like wet tissue and stale orange peel with a ketchup pot prisoners eat better
Pandamonium Pandas Pandie 1 year ago
make the people who decided to give us this b/c they wont ever have eat it since they school admins eat it for the rest of there lives so they know wt they make us go through and change their minds
#89
At My School
Debby Keir 1 year ago
So, do you normally read from the bottom to the top of the page?
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Lea S. 1 year ago (edited)
Just saw a video last week where a man advised people in wheelchairs how to use escalators/stairs when they were in a bind. Thousands of nasty comments, people going 'just use the stairs' as if the idea never occurred to them. Elevators weren't an option, they found an alternative, and people still bitched and moaned.
#90
This "Grilled" Chicken Sandwich At Our School. It Tastes Moist But Dry At The Same Time, And It’s Rubbery
Betta Fish 1 year ago
I have this same chicken at my school. It tastes like the underwear of a high school boy whos been moshing at a school dance
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#91
You Have To Pay 25 Cents For Tampons And Pads At My School
StrangeOne 1 year ago
That's typical in Canada, too. Nothing too out there and strange. They're usually old dispensers. But they should bring in new ones that allow card readers or .... I think I've seen people pay for things with their phones.
Professional Bastard 1 year ago
Huh. Theres two dispensers in the girls bathroom, one is free and the other not. Guess which one works?
QueerAxolotls 1 year ago
My school used to not even have those, thankfully the women's club (not sure what term to use, just a place for the female students to chat and hang out) partnered with a non-profit and got period boxes in the bathrooms.
OneWithRatsAndKefir 1 year ago
In my high school, while we did have these in the girl bathrooms (though I think they were tampons only, not pads; and I think the price might have been a pound), you could also get free pads and tampons at the school nurse’s office. Just walk in, grab from a box immediately to your left, leave; no need to ask for them or explain why you need them.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
Even though it costs money, this would have been preferable to having to go to sick bay and hope there was a nurse there that day if we needed a tampon etc at school. Now the premier of my state has just promised to have free dispensers in every school in the state.
Tracy Leonard 1 year ago
Schools in Ventura County provide them for free (I'm a custodian at a high school there).
#92
My Girlfriend Just Got A Job Teaching At A D-Rated Elementary School In Florida. How Do I Clean The Kid's Bathroom?
1st grade class with a private bathroom. The wall behind the toilet is disgusting. Apparently, the janitors are too lazy to clean it for her, so it’s either our job, or the kiddos will have to put up with it for a year.
Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
Enzysan. If you can get the maintenance director to buy it, it works. Otherwise bleach the s*** out of it at the end of the day. let THEM clean it up. Of course someone doing their job would be best. I would have SUCH a sense of shame if I walked out after cleaning and it looked like this. Also, put in a maintenance request to have the BathRoom painted...with enamel paint.
Biggus Dickus 1 year ago
Does "D" rated really mean black and/or Latino?? Seems like Jim Crow all over again down there and nobody is marching or protesting or rioting?? PRIORITIES people we make all this noise about the cops and look what these people are doing to our kids though...come on
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
I suggest either a flamethrower or chemicals you can find on the list of banned substances in warfare
#93
This Ad At My School
Lost Penny 1 year ago
Now these people definitely invested in mushrooms. However, mistakes were made.
Pencil McGovern 1 year ago
A Music RT Dance At The Ate Sign? I honestly have no idea what this is meant to say.
#94
The Spoons At My School, That I'm Supposed To Consume Soup With
Pandamonium Pandas Pandie 1 year ago
ya its paper, which is made from trees, which are made of wood, have fun eating your wooden soup!
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#95
School Blocked Google
Pencil McGovern 1 year ago
They're not being denied access to the internet, they're being denied access to the most heavily monetized and untrustworthy search engine in common use. DuckDuckGo is exponentially less manipulative. It's a totally responsible decision, especially in a school.
#96
This Is Why The Paper Towel Dispenser At Our High School Stays Empty
#97
New Acoustic Foam Just Put Up In My School
Keith Evans 1 year ago
that actually works reduces the sound reflections no need to cover the entire surface
M O'Connell 1 year ago
I think their point is that one of them is oriented differently.
Load More Replies... Eric Brown 1 year ago
You don't need a lot to massively reduce echo though. About 10% coverage will reduce echos by half.
WhatsSleep? 1 year ago
No? You have to look really hard to see any resemblance at all, and even then that's a stretch
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Some Kids At My High School Stole Several Stall Doors From One Of The Bathrooms
#99
My Kindergartener's School Supply List
Virginie Michaud 1 year ago
What's with the different supplies for boys and girls? Baby wipes for girls, sharpies for boys? Different sizes paper plates? Makes no sense. I see no reason why this distinction based on gender should be made.
Pandarosa 1 year ago
The kids are being asked to buy classroom supplies, I guess they just assigned different items to each half of the students.
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Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago (edited)
I read that and thought "What?" - each child must supply five boxes of crayons, 24 per box? 16 glue sticks? - "general supplies do not need to be labelled". Yeah, they're getting the parents of these kids to provide supplies for the entire school. Just say no, that's what I'd do.
Bamamom2boys 1 year ago
This always ticked me off when my kids were in elementary school. I get that schools don't have money, but I'm not buying stuff for the classroom.
Pencil McGovern 1 year ago
In addition to everything else wrong with this, the specific branding of some items really irks me. Schools shouldn't be promoting specific corporations, any crayons their parents choose should be just fine. What's next? Amazon-exclusive products? Ridiculous.
Bored Trash Panda 1 year ago
Right. I always bought the cheap ones. They work exactly the same. They could just freaking deal with it.
Load More Replies... Norm Gilmore 1 year ago (edited)
And this is the list of materials needed at a NZ kindergarten.... (I copy/pasted this from a list and it ran it into one line. Sorry) a drink bottle - named a sun hat - or a warm hat in winter. Please name all your child's clothes a change of clothes, and a bag for sending home dirty clothes warm jacket and gumboots in the winter - we play outside all year round! food - check with your teachers about the kind of kai we encourage children to eat at kindergarten spare nappies and wipes a bag to hold all these things in - named
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
It should either be parents purchasing for their children to use only, or school providing shared supplies, this is ridiculous. The school system should be providing funds for a lot of these!
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
Not when the whole class shares. Glue sticks get dried out or lost really quickly, especially with this age group.
Load More Replies... Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
They do teach the metric system in US schools. The thing is, stuff on sale in the shops in the USA is usually described in US customary units. There's no sense in asking for a 200mm x 130mm plastic supply box when the nearest you're going to get is marked up as 8" x 5" (203.2mm x 127mm if you want to nit-pick). At some point, the US might collectively go "Argh, this is silly" and stop it, but I wouldn't hold your breath. Here in the UK we don't seem ready to give up on our beer in pints or roads in miles.
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#100
Our School's Public Computers
Na Schi 1 year ago
Mhhh, are US schools now using Scandinavian re-imports 🤔 (Have a look at the letters Æ, Å, Ø...
Remi (He/Him) 1 year ago
The energy drink euro shopper is popular in Finland among teens or at least used to be, as is that keyboard layout.
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LazyStream 1 year ago
This happens because students think it's funny to either rearrange them into rude words or just take them off for fun. It happens in Australia also, probably world wide.
#101
Toilet Paper Roll At My High School
#102
The Way My School Serves Ketchup
Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
Ok...cut down on wasteful packaging...lets make up our minds on what we find wasteful here Pandas.
Anna Boes 1 year ago
A refillable bottle with ketchup in a school - awesome. A bowl with ketchup to help yourself to at my family gathering full of well behaved middle aged people - awesome. An open bowl of ketchup in a cafeteria for underaged homo sapiens with a yet-to-be fully formed brain, complex and challenging social dynamics that entice and reward very, very bad decisions and a plethora of bacteria, viri and fungi on and around said half grown people.... bad choice. Very bad choice. Potentially made by a person whose brain also needs another little while to fully develope.
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This Keyboard In My School's Computer Lab
#104
Guess What I Found After Getting On The School Bus
#105
At School?
StrangeOne 1 year ago
There's so much to say with this that doesn't involve agreeing with the OP. We shouldn't be judging at all.
Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
Nah...it's normal. My daughter's grad class in 06 had 5 waddle across to get their diplomas. ..but they GOT them!
#106
Thing In My School Auditorium
Roan The Demon Kitty 1 year ago
a wrestling dummy, albeit a very s****y one, and why it has that torture device on its "head" i don't know.
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My New High School Still Has CRT TVs
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
Nothing wrong as such, except modern flat panel displays typically give a much better, bigger picture and use less electricity. But if the CRTs keep working without needing repairs, why not keep them in use?
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What do you think ?
Helena 1 year ago (edited)
Pretty obvious they're trying real hard to tank the public school system so they can swoop in with charter and private schools, and truly intensify the classes permanently. This is intentional. Like when they privatized prison. They want to intentionally tank it so they can point to it and say 'see, private is better'. Bunch of aholes poking holes in the boat decrying how it won't float anymore.
Potato patato 1 year ago
The title makes it seem like every American school has all these things
LazyStream 1 year ago
Australian here, and been working in high schools for over 10 years. Toilets are locked during class time- students see the office to get access. This prevents them being vandalised, and students skipping class to meet their friends. No lunch is provided at all. Bring from home or pay at the tuckshop. Toilet paper- yes it's thin for staff also. They have to chose between teaching supplies or paper- what would you choose? also
Zelda McLink 1 year ago
Locking the loos up must be a new thing. I graduated high school in 1997 and they were never locked.
Load More Replies... Sky Render 1 year ago
So much of this follows a critically flawed concept of punishing everyone when a small number are a problem in some sort of vain hope that the guilt will get to the guilty and they'll change their ways. What really happens is that this behavior empowers the troublemakers to cause misery for everyone else at will.
DeoManus Argentem 1 year ago
I've never seen any of these things at US schools. Maybe they were taken from schools for troubled kids or something (disciplinary issues, etc?) Especially the range of weird bathroom stuff (faculty and visitors/parents use the same bathrooms as students and thus would never be locked/exposed in a normal school).
SAF saf 1 year ago
I recognize most of these. Went to school in Southern California and West Texas. I've always ended up in s****y' schools and i've seen alot' worse than these pics.
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B Spears 1 year ago
As a former teacher, I have to say many of these were not surprising. My students never, ever brought school supplies. Either the teacher or the school provided everything. Pencils were supplied and quickly broken into tiny pieces, bathrooms were trashed all the time, students constantly asking to use the bathrooms and staying for long periods of time (texting, meeting up with friends, playing on their phones, etc), Text books were gotten rid of because a)everyone has online books b) students wouldn't use them. Homework is a thing of the past and no one did it. Grades didn't matter until ninth grade so many students just passed along.
Leebo13 1 year ago
All the ones involving toilets/restrooms because just horrified me because when I was an adolescent, I was very self conscious about my body and I was very bladder shy as a result, and I'm sure that there's kids in those schools who are just as uncomfortable as I would have been having to use those shambolic facilities.
Cole Patterson 1 year ago
The United States is not a perfect country and, like every other country, has problems that need fixing. Perhaps this article is misleading... maybe; but "anti-American" is a stretch.
Load More Replies... Cole Patterson 1 year ago
I cannot attest to the validity of most of all of these images, but what I can say for certain is that my schools were similar. Paying for school lunches has always irked me, as the students are required by law to attend. The schools needs to use the inordinate amount of taxes that we donate to them to feed the students who didn't volunteer to be there.
Sojourner 1 year ago
Must be groundhog day, because it's another America-hating post. My HS in California is just fine (albeit a bit old, it was built in about 1990)
Cole Patterson 1 year ago
Listing problems that the United States has with their educational system does not equate to "America-hating." Not everything is black and white.
Load More Replies... Helena 1 year ago (edited)
Pretty obvious they're trying real hard to tank the public school system so they can swoop in with charter and private schools, and truly intensify the classes permanently. This is intentional. Like when they privatized prison. They want to intentionally tank it so they can point to it and say 'see, private is better'. Bunch of aholes poking holes in the boat decrying how it won't float anymore.
Potato patato 1 year ago
The title makes it seem like every American school has all these things
LazyStream 1 year ago
Australian here, and been working in high schools for over 10 years. Toilets are locked during class time- students see the office to get access. This prevents them being vandalised, and students skipping class to meet their friends. No lunch is provided at all. Bring from home or pay at the tuckshop. Toilet paper- yes it's thin for staff also. They have to chose between teaching supplies or paper- what would you choose? also
Zelda McLink 1 year ago
Locking the loos up must be a new thing. I graduated high school in 1997 and they were never locked.
Load More Replies... Sky Render 1 year ago
So much of this follows a critically flawed concept of punishing everyone when a small number are a problem in some sort of vain hope that the guilt will get to the guilty and they'll change their ways. What really happens is that this behavior empowers the troublemakers to cause misery for everyone else at will.
DeoManus Argentem 1 year ago
I've never seen any of these things at US schools. Maybe they were taken from schools for troubled kids or something (disciplinary issues, etc?) Especially the range of weird bathroom stuff (faculty and visitors/parents use the same bathrooms as students and thus would never be locked/exposed in a normal school).
SAF saf 1 year ago
I recognize most of these. Went to school in Southern California and West Texas. I've always ended up in s****y' schools and i've seen alot' worse than these pics.
Load More Replies... B Spears 1 year ago
As a former teacher, I have to say many of these were not surprising. My students never, ever brought school supplies. Either the teacher or the school provided everything. Pencils were supplied and quickly broken into tiny pieces, bathrooms were trashed all the time, students constantly asking to use the bathrooms and staying for long periods of time (texting, meeting up with friends, playing on their phones, etc), Text books were gotten rid of because a)everyone has online books b) students wouldn't use them. Homework is a thing of the past and no one did it. Grades didn't matter until ninth grade so many students just passed along.
Leebo13 1 year ago
All the ones involving toilets/restrooms because just horrified me because when I was an adolescent, I was very self conscious about my body and I was very bladder shy as a result, and I'm sure that there's kids in those schools who are just as uncomfortable as I would have been having to use those shambolic facilities.
Cole Patterson 1 year ago
The United States is not a perfect country and, like every other country, has problems that need fixing. Perhaps this article is misleading... maybe; but "anti-American" is a stretch.
Load More Replies... Cole Patterson 1 year ago
I cannot attest to the validity of most of all of these images, but what I can say for certain is that my schools were similar. Paying for school lunches has always irked me, as the students are required by law to attend. The schools needs to use the inordinate amount of taxes that we donate to them to feed the students who didn't volunteer to be there.
Sojourner 1 year ago
Must be groundhog day, because it's another America-hating post. My HS in California is just fine (albeit a bit old, it was built in about 1990)
Cole Patterson 1 year ago
Listing problems that the United States has with their educational system does not equate to "America-hating." Not everything is black and white.
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