Who doesn’t remember drinking milk with their pizza or burgers in the cafeteria? When you’re in high school, you don’t question a lot of the things that happen around you. It’s only when you leave that you start to realize what a weird place it really was! Some of the things are a bit peculiar, while others are positively bizarre.
Bored Panda has collected some of the best examples of weird school things, so scroll down to see exactly what we mean. For those of you still in high school, maybe this list will open up your eyes to all the weirdness. Remember to upvote your faves and leave a comment about other weird high school things you’ve noticed, dear Pandas!
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I had to do square dancing in 4th grade with a boy and the teachers wouldn't let us bring wipes or gloves. This was the time when cooties was a thing. It was gross.
It’s not just former students who think that high school is incredibly strange—some teachers are flabbergasted, too. For example, Michael De Main has been teaching in secondary schools for 16 years and he thinks that a lot of teachers accept things that are downright weird.
In Michael’s opinion, it’s bizarre that different high schools can choose to start and end classes at different times. So while one school might open at 8 AM, another might decide to start classes 15 minutes later. The same weirdness extends to periods that can last for 40, 50, or even 75 minutes, depending on school policy. Don’t even get us started on how breaks are not the same length, either.
If we started packing up before the teacher asked us to we would have to stay back after the bell went for about 2 mins or so.
Teacher Michael also questions whether we still need roll call—isn’t that time better spent, you know, actually learning things? Not to mention playground duty where a teacher has to stand around, watch the students play, and make sure that they don’t get into any trouble. And who can forget about toilet duty? Sure, teachers need to make sure that students aren’t getting into any trouble, but all of this seems a bit over the top, don’t you think?
So far this is the only one I can relate too. I only discovered about 5 years ago that this wasn't true.
My chemistry teachers solution to people stealing her calculators.
In an ideal word parents should introduce their children to the art of adulting.
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I'm glad my school taught me how to draw parallelograms instead of how to do my taxes. It's really come in handy this parallelogram season.
It's freaking addition and subtraction coliss. Don't tell me they didn't teach addition and subtraction!
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Is it just me or the US tax system is overly complicated and that's on purpose? The way I understand it, they take a cut of everything and then it's on you to calculate your exemptions, deductions etc and file them and they'll send you some of that money back. If you get them wrong or don't make the deadline, well, sucks to be you, I guess... In my country the income tax is paid by the employer so it's never even considered as part of my salary and property taxes are calculated by the tax office - I just show up once a year to tell them my name, swipe my card and they give me a receipt, and, if I do it before the end of April, I get to play less. Oh and I also get free Healthcare out of it.
You are correct, and there are different tax brackets for different income levels, the exemptions and deductions only apply for certain types of jobs with certain types of expenses and so on. Oh and you mostly only get money back if you make a nonlivable wage or have a ton of kids, otherwise you pay more money.
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Normal countries don't make you file your own taxes, they are just deducted from your pay and either your employer or the gov does the paperwork. The US could do this too but doesn't due to pressure from the tax prep lobby
But learning bio is not really impractical and useless. Quite the opposite E.g. Careers in healthcare, science - bio also affects every single thing around us everyday (ahem, COVID-F*****G-19). Having a basic understanding of bio is at the cornerstone of whether we're an ignorant society or not, whether there can be in future generations more great scientists who do things like cure diseases. So to quote Gordon Ramsay: "Mate, that's kind of a stupid complaint."
I agree. Biology, and science in general, is actually useful. Your knowledge about it also decides how you will treat people around you and how you treat yourself too.
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What do we do about inequality, bullying, taxes and getting loans? school system: Here, learn to fill out these checks that will be obsolete by the time you're old enough to use them.
We are already required to teach math and manners and social skills
Most kids slept through science as evinced by the misinformation going on all over the place. And the idiots who repeat "Darwin Award" CLEARLY NEVER read one iota of Origin of Species or anything else. Hilarious
I bet the same person post meme saying they never used calculus after graduating high school.
I seem to remember learning Math and English which is 90% of what you need.
However, according to Michael, the weirdest thing about high school might just be the students themselves who are hard to figure out even with all the experience in the world. Finally, let’s not forget about the basics: furniture. Some students still have to sit on uncomfortable chairs and use tiny desks, so it’s no wonder that some of them can’t pay attention!
When you look at everything, high school sure is a weird place. But I sure could go for some chocolate milk and a slice of pizza right about now.
I had one of those hair thingy's, had it in for ages. I didn't get mine on a cruise or holiday though.
We just got to smell the home ec class burn another batch of cookies every day, the teacher was too stupid to know to adjust cooking times etc for higher altitudes and couldn't figure it out, we literally begged our English teacher to let us go show them what they were doing wrong, she laughed and told us to go ahead because that teacher had been driving her nuts for years
I got made fun of for having a "fat a*s". Who knew that in todays world people would pay thousands to have a butt like mine!!! I struggled for YEARS feeling like my butt was something to be ashamed of. In my 30s now & OWNING IT!!
I never understood why the Sophomores would bash the Freshman, you're only a year older get over yourself
What kind of school is this? The worst I saw in the toilets when I was at school was wet toilet paper thrown on the ceiling or mirrors.
I'm really starting to wonder what kind of fast food c**p they serve in U.S. schools. Chicken nuggets, hamburgers and pizza?!
Is this an American thread? Public schools really aren't that bad in Australia. Really, the only difference is they put education first, whereas private schools put money and status first.......and their buildings have a fresher coat of paint on them.
I guess I'm very American because almost every one of these was extremely relatable.
Finnish schools had a game for kids called kuka pelkää mustaa miestä, which translates to Who's afraid of the black man. One of the kids was selected as the black man, then we shouted "who's afraid of the black man?!" and started running in the gym class while the black man tried to catch us. This was considered a normal activity at the time. Naturally not played anymore.
The concept sounds kind of fun, but the name tho haha
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Is it surprising that children sometimes behave in infantile ways? Especially during puberty?
I went to a catholic school in Ireland. You don't know what weird is until you have a 70 year old nun trying to give a sex education class. This happened when I was 15 years old. And yes, we did already know where babies came from. So did a certain girl in the class who at the time was already 4 months pregnant.
Every now and then I think about Americans as actually the unwitting participants of something akin to The Truman Show. What if there is another reality outside the borders? Distraction with a horrible thing to keep them from knowing about a hellish thing. An experiment by the rest of the world to see how people retain their humanity under certain conditions, recorded now and available in live streaming, engendering scorn and pity by turns in its viewers.
Eh my current high school isn’t so bad, but a lot of these are relatable from my old district
The stupidest thing that I remember people doing when I was at school was "Smileys" using a lighter.
The author of this post is Lithuanian. Just saying.
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Is this an American thread? Public schools really aren't that bad in Australia. Really, the only difference is they put education first, whereas private schools put money and status first.......and their buildings have a fresher coat of paint on them.
I guess I'm very American because almost every one of these was extremely relatable.
Finnish schools had a game for kids called kuka pelkää mustaa miestä, which translates to Who's afraid of the black man. One of the kids was selected as the black man, then we shouted "who's afraid of the black man?!" and started running in the gym class while the black man tried to catch us. This was considered a normal activity at the time. Naturally not played anymore.
The concept sounds kind of fun, but the name tho haha
Load More Replies... Is it surprising that children sometimes behave in infantile ways? Especially during puberty?
I went to a catholic school in Ireland. You don't know what weird is until you have a 70 year old nun trying to give a sex education class. This happened when I was 15 years old. And yes, we did already know where babies came from. So did a certain girl in the class who at the time was already 4 months pregnant.
Every now and then I think about Americans as actually the unwitting participants of something akin to The Truman Show. What if there is another reality outside the borders? Distraction with a horrible thing to keep them from knowing about a hellish thing. An experiment by the rest of the world to see how people retain their humanity under certain conditions, recorded now and available in live streaming, engendering scorn and pity by turns in its viewers.
Eh my current high school isn’t so bad, but a lot of these are relatable from my old district
The stupidest thing that I remember people doing when I was at school was "Smileys" using a lighter.
The author of this post is Lithuanian. Just saying.
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