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People Are Sharing The Dumbest Rules That Their Schools Ever Enforced, And Here Are 50 Of The Most Mind-Boggling Ones
Ugh, school, am I right? Nah, just kidding, school’s pretty awesome. Oh, don’t get me wrong, I know that I’m wearing rose-colored goggles, but I also genuinely believe that our school days are objectively pretty darn good, overall. Well, except for a few… minor complications when it comes to rules.
You see, schools are like a microcosm of society: they’re full of some really cool stuff that is, unfortunately, balanced out by some rules and regulations that are absolute BS. Just how much BS are we talking about? As it turns out, cartloads of it. And it stinks to high heaven. One redditor proved this to the internet after asking their fellow users to share the dumbest rules their schools have ever enforced.
Check out some of the best of the worst ones below and upvote the ones that made you shake your head like a food critic being served microwaved meals. Oh, and be sure to share some of the mind-bogglingly bad rules that you’ve experienced first-hand in the comments.
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#1
Toilet paper rationing. This was in 1997/98, btw. Apparently the high school girls room was going through too much toilet paper so the dean, a woman, stood outside the door and distributed a few squares of 1-ply institutional toilet paper to us as we went in. If she noticed toilet paper on the floor, our ration got cut down. If we asked for more for...bigger jobs...we were told to saved it for home.
There were several episodes of girls stuck in stalls until friends could beg for more TP because of period messes or unexpected bowel incidents. The dean wouldn't even hand it over--she would go in the bathroom and pass it a few squares at a time over the door. If you didn't catch it as it fell and it landed on the floor, well, that's your fault and you're not getting more. If you used more than she thought necessary, tough luck, go to class with blood/sh*t on your body.
It took about a week of extremely angry parents coming to the school and calling both the school and the school board, but we finally got our toilet paper back, unlimited.
How did we celebrate?
By TPing her car, of course.
Michelle M 4 years ago
That Dean does not have much to do for her to stand in front of the toilet constantly
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
Indeed I think her hourly cost would be a massive number of paper rolls worth. This is only financially explicable if she her actions have near-zero added value over the baseline of "simply being in the building".
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cybermerlin2000 4 years ago
A competent legal team would have a field day with this one. Child abuse, poor child care, health and safety violations, sexual deviancy (why else would someone take pleasure in little girls suffering when it comes to bodily functions), Health and hygiene violations and that's before they go into abuse of power issues and possible grooming/forced BDSM actions against the dean
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
Don't get carried away, none of your sexual tangent will stick. Bit worried where your mind took you but OK.
Load More Replies... Jimifan 4 years ago
"I don't have a square to spare. I can't spare a square." "Is it two-ply? Cause it it's two-ply I'll take one ply. One ply... One. One puny little ply. I'll take one measly ply." "Look, I don't have a square and I don't have a ply."
JessG 4 years ago
I'm so somebody put this here! A perfect time for this scene quote! LOL
Load More Replies... Martha Meyer 4 years ago
Shouldn't a school dean have other things to do than stand somewhere handing out toilet paper all day?!
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#2
Rule: No duct tape ON clothing.
Reason: Some girls thought they could get past the "no ripped jeans" rule by covering the tears with duct tape. It became a "fad" and everyone started doing it so it got banned. A kid in my AP literature class found a loophole and MADE an entire outfit out of red and black duct tape. I mean Shorts, A TShirt AND a jacket and SHOES. When the school tried to suspend him they couldn't because the rule Was " No Duct Tape ON clothes" It said nothing about clothes made OUT OF duct tape... He won the argument and even wore the outfit a few more times to Say "F***k you " to the school and principles lol .
H Edwards 4 years ago
This is why most schools in the UK, and other countries too, just have a school uniform. Sure, we did our best to mess with it, but there's only so much you can do. Makes life a lot easier for the school.
Anna Banana 4 years ago
I don't mean it in a confrontational way but how do ripped jeans/duct tape on clothes make life more difficult for the school? I feel like it's only an issue if you make it one. Ignore it and it'll go away, like any other thing teenagers do.
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Hannah Edwards 4 years ago
My school wouldn’t allow jeans because apparently if it rained the jeans would take too long to dry and we could die of hypothermia.
Michelle M 4 years ago
A wise person once said, "if you can break the rules successfuly, make another rule that can be broken successfully."
Sandy D 4 years ago
They should have switched to other kinds of tape, like gaffers or electrical, even masking tape
M O'Connell 4 years ago
Where is the line between tape and iron-on patches? If you sewed the tape down, would it still count as tape?
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Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago (edited)
Haha, doesn't sound like it would be very comfortable to wear though.
#3
I wasn’t allowed to test my blood sugar in class (type 1 diabetic). Some teachers didn’t care but most made a fuss about it. “Go to the nurses office if you need to do that, it’s a distraction to everybody and other students might get freaked out by the needles” even though it was just a little prick that nobody could ever even see, and none of my classmates ever complained.
Told my parents about the rule, my dad got furious and told me to do it anyways, and that I have absolutely nothing to worry about as far as getting in trouble at home goes. So to me, this was free reign to stick it to the f**kers at school. I tested every class, more than I needed to, just to spite them. Eventually I got sent to the office and my principal called my dad. Dad showed up, and I’ve barely ever seen him as furious as he was that day. He was cursing, yelling, tearing papers off of walls.
I was never, ever, ever bothered about it again.
Nathan Pogorzala 4 years ago
The logic that is used when people say you can't do something completely normal and necessary because it might distract or freak out people is just ridiculous. they need to learn how to f****n deal with it.
Dilly Millandry 4 years ago
Couldn't agree more. If people are so precious they can't cope they're the ones who need to get sent to the school nurse. It would probably help people with needle fears seeing others using them so normally - not that there is anything to see particularly with this test.
Load More Replies... cybermerlin2000 4 years ago
A girl at my daughters school had this problem with just one teacher, and they used the excuse that she was upsetting the others. It blew up in their faces when one kid pulled out a book and started taking bets on what her readings would be for that blood sugar test. The teacher complained about it to the head mistress of the school and the teacher was VERY firmly put in her place before being 'let go' at the end of the school year
BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
Schools can be beyond stupid about medical stuff. You shouldn't prohibit use of things like this because a person might need to use it to stay alive, but obviously schools don't care.
Louloubelle 4 years ago
When I was in high school, a million years ago, we were allowed to carry our own aspirin (there was no tylenol, motrin, etc). We could have midol, tums, etc. anything over the counter was fine. Now, kids can't have anything, and it's nonsense. Do they honestly think a kid is going to OD from tylenol in the middle of school? Maybe if they paid attention to which kids seem to be troubled rather than take away their pain relief, this wouldn't be such an issue.
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Redditor SoLe123456’s thread went super-viral on the r/AskReddit subreddit. At the time of writing, in less than a single day, it already racked up 70.6k upvotes (and counting!). What’s more, the thread got over 34.7k comments and 400+ awards, showing just how many dumb school rules there really are on Planet Earth.
Nobody’s saying that rules aren’t needed. They’re incredibly important! They help create structure where needed, give us clarity, and provide us with a sense of security. This last one, security, helps us focus on what’s important. Without it, you’d constantly be living in a state of anxiety which will affect your performance at school and, later on, at work. In case you need further proof, just take a look at how much anxiety the Covid-19 pandemic introduced and how it affected your schoolwork and ability to concentrate.
#4
My highschool had "coordinates", not a uniform. But they stopped selling the shorts like a decade before I started there... So me and a bunch of buddies tracked down used pairs and started wearing them. Next year, shorts were banned outright... So me and a bunch of buddies on the rugby team started wearing skirts, because the rules said skirts were acceptable, but didn't specify gender. So you had a bunch of guys with hairy, hairy legs walking around in skirts we deliberately hiked up a little to show some thigh. Shorts were allowed again in a week.
Bow, I’m a Slytherin 4 years ago
These people (the ones in skirts - not the school) are genius.
John C 4 years ago
Every year as the summer months approach, I consider this myself. I'd like to go bare-legged when it's hot! If women get to wear skirts and bare legs without nylons then men should too! I just might do it this year.
Louloubelle 4 years ago
You do it John C! Wear those skirts proudly! Scots have been wearing kilts for centuries. How different is that?
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Ozacoter 4 years ago
My catholic school also baned women from wearing any kind of shorts (anything that even showed the ankle wasnt allowed). Apparently teenager boys can show their legs but girls couldnt "because its sinful".
Ozacoter 4 years ago
They also didn't allow us to show the shoulders (even if no cleavage was visible) or wear sandals.
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Mike Loux 4 years ago
If someone complained about the skirts, I would have affected a really bad Scottish accent and shouted, "It's no a skurt, it's a KILT!!!!!"
#5
I got Saturday school for missing a day of classes when I was 16. Seems reasonable, except I missed to go complete my US citizenship and officially become a citizen alongside my mom (it took us 12 years to go through the legal process, btw. Whole other issue). I had a note from my mother as well as a signed official Federal form they give you to explain to school/employers why you were absent. Apparently the only acceptable absence excuse was illness. I got punished for becoming a citizen
Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago
Agree but after 12 years a “welcome” is almost a slap in the face, as if they hadn’t been here for over a decade.
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Billy Maguire 4 years ago
That STINKS. When I was granted Citizenship, my employers gave me a paid day to attend the ceremony.
#6
"Don't damage school property" sounds reasonable enough until you get detention for staining a chair after suddenly getting your period.
Mimi777 4 years ago
That is so messed up. Especially if they don’t let them go to the restroom during class. That happened to a girl in my class freshman year of HS, the teacher wouldn’t let her go even after she told him it was woman problems, she ended up bleeding on the seat. They were metal chairs though, but she was so embarrassed I felt so bad for her.
BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago (edited)
Sue. You shouldn't be punished for something you can't control!
Viviane 4 years ago (edited)
Especially since periods can be unpredictable at puberty. Not everyone starts with regular cycles. Some people never get them.
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But! And there’s a big ‘but’ here! Not all rules are created equal. Not by a longshot. They have to be fair. They have to make life easier. They have to make sense. And some ‘rules’ fail on all counts, making us ask, why the ever-loving-frick they even exist at all if they only work to make everything more difficult. Can’t the teachers realize that they don’t make any sense??!?
Unfortunately, there’s no such thing as creating the perfect set of rules. It’s just not doable. However, this doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t attempt to make life better for students and teachers alike. Perfection is a process. A process of constant growth and improvement. And that means letting some rules go the way of the dodo. Though, that’s a bit unfair to the dodo—I’d pick the bird any day of the week over most of the rules featured in this list.
#7
Different staircases for boys and girls.
Cursed quoter 4 years ago
Everyone:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD7gaN7TJas
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Luis Hernandez Dauajare 4 years ago
My first job as a teacher was at a Catholic high school for three weeks. It had different staircases *and floors* from boys and girls. I had to start every class with the Lord's prayer and end it with the Hail Mary. Then the principal "suggested" me failing a student because his parents were divorcing, and he would "set an example of immoral family values". The kid was having a rough patch in the divorce and his grades were down, but the school wanted a "legitimate" reason to expell him and avoid legal consequences. I refused. The following day I was told my "trial period" had ended and was dismissed. Later found out the school was sued before the Human Rights Commission for expelling two kids for the same reason...
Dizzy Falcon 4 years ago
So, this school expelled 2 kids because their parents were getting a divorce and the kid was SAD? Hot damn where's the slap?
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Kt 4 years ago
My primary school had two different entrances, one had 'boys' above it. We didnt use it that was but when it was built (late 1800s) it was used, until probably 1960s or 1970s. In high school we had a one way system so you could only go up certain stairs and down ones at the other end of the corridor. Was so annoying if you realised you had forgot something!
Anonymous 4 years ago
We have it in my school. We even have separate elevators. It's normal in my country, dunno why
Johanna 4 years ago
Could you please say which country? Ive never heard of this before.
Load More Replies... Kira Okah 4 years ago
I bet you 100% this is not in a western country. This is actually quite common in India, Malaysia, and Indonesia. It's a thing of "you don't need to do anything involving the opposite sex so what need have you to interact?" Doesn't mean that it is right, but it's not unusual for SE Asian countries.
#8
We suddenly one day weren’t allowed to stand in circles during recess because, and I quote “we could be dealing drugs.” I will add that for the years prior we had been standing in circles no problem.
Next recess, we stood in a triangle, cue principle going apes**t. Next day we stood in a square, principle kept us inside for a week. And threatened us all with detentions if we did it again etc.
I believe their idea was open ended circles so they could see what we were doing. Still stupid.
Louloubelle 4 years ago
I absolutely love these kids that come up with ways to beat the system. Given my experience as a mother in the school system, and frustration with it, my hat is off to their cleverness.
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Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
And when they bust you for that, form a cone to grab one guy trying to grab ham off a greasy pole.
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Cara Strong 3 years ago
Keep going. Stand in octagons, rectangles, whatever. Stand in completely made up shapes.
#9
I got a suspension for holding a stick. The phone call with my mom went something like this (only slightly dramatized):
School: Mrs. TheQueq, your son has been suspended.
Mom: Oh my goodness, what did he do?
S: He was holding a stick.
M: Did he hit someone with it?
S: No. He was just holding it.
M: ...Did he threaten to hit someone with it?
S: No, just held it.
M: Did he refuse to put it down when you asked?
S: No, no, he was very cooperative.
M: So... what did he do wrong?
S: He held a stick.
M: And I should be upset about that?
S: Absolutely, you know we have a zero tolerance policy.
M: Right... well, I'll talk with him.
As you might guess, I did not get in trouble at home.
Powercat 4 years ago
Good thing I don’t have children because I don’t think I could put up with the kind of bullshit school staff is pulling 😑
Gabby M 4 years ago
As a teacher, I would say that school staff has to put up with more bs from parents than the other way around. Granted, I am definitely biased. Kids are great. Parents sometimes suck.
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Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
Yet many schools near me encourage kids to play with sticks, of course in a safe manner. Nature play is becoming very popular.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
Yep. Nature play, risky play and any open-ended use of materials is a very good thing.
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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
"He held a stick"... Future career in botany derailed by stupid school rule.
Louloubelle 4 years ago
My six year old stepdaughter got sent home for having Tums. My husband and her mother had just recently divorced and the poor little mite was taking it tough, and had stomach issues. Got a WEEK's suspension. At 6. For Tums. This was "zero tolerance", or as I called it, administrators and teachers too lazy to actually think the situation out.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
Zero tolerance is always such a cop out. It usually punishes those that weren't doing anything wrong and somehow those that are still get away with it.
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California Jones 4 years ago
We had that rule at my elementary. A kid climbs a tree and smashes a bunch of robin's eggs, no punishment. A kid plays with a twig, ISS.
Horatio Jay 4 years ago
Here in Japan my wife had to call two girls' parents because they had traded (not read) manga between classes, and told the parents that they needed to come in for a parent-teacher meeting about it. One of the girls' mom was incredibly apologetic and said, "Of course." The other said, "What? What's this crazy s*** you're talking about? No, I'm not doing that," and hung up on her. I love my wife, but I definitely sided with that second mom.
Ozzie Ogawa 4 years ago
Kids holding stick pretending it was a gun is just something normal, as they have great imagination. Well, unless your country is full of school shooters.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
It has actually been shown in some studies that this imaginary gun play can help children who have come from war torn countries to sort out their emotions in a safe way.
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Rules (and their consequences) have to be communicated very clearly, they have to be enforced consistently, and they must be timely. However, at the core of our need for rules is the fact that they’re supposed to solve a specific problem that we have. If instead they create additional chaos, demotivate students and teachers alike, and make people wonder why they’re in place at all, they’re awful rules. Get rid of them.
What’s more, rules can’t be created in a metaphorical bubble. The people who will be affected the most ought to at least have a say because they might notice some glaring flaws that would otherwise be ignored.
#10
Early 2000s our school banned mp3 players with the reasoning, they would make us anti social.
As protest, we blocked the access to the teacher's lounge by silently stand there reading books and shush-ing every Teacher trying to get past, while also making a petition to include books in the ban, since obviously they too made us anti social.
Pluto 3 years ago
I don’t care if this was a year ago, I refuse under all circumstances to bow. I’m a Slytherin as well, and if anything you should bow to me. Understand?
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Douglas Turner 4 years ago
The school had no idea what lay ahead... none of us did. BOOM! iPhone...
Bruce Ferrier 2 years ago
"bUt eXiTiNg tHiNgS mAkE pEoPlE aNtIsOcIaL" -Every boomer in the world
Leslie Burleson 4 years ago
This seems so super childish. Like why are you proudly posting about this ? It's not even funny
Just.a.ravenclaw.witch 4 years ago
This comment seems so super boring. Like why are you proudly posting this? nobody even asked.
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"Zero Tolerance"
Just means that if someone starts a fight with you, you fight back as hard as you can. You're going to get suspended for defending yourself anyway, might as well make it worthwhile.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
If my daughter defends herself she knows she won't get into trouble at home even if she gets suspended.
Janoel Murrey 4 years ago
this happened to me i got in a fight got suspended and did not get in trouble at home because i did not start it
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Miss Frankfurter 4 years ago (edited)
Final year of junior school there was a boy who was bigger than all the others. He decided to repeatedly beat up on my nephew. Had done this with other kids. Go to the school about it repeatedly. School goes to the kid's parents repeatedly. Nothing changed. One day at recess this kid literally picked my nephew up and slammed him onto the concrete. Luckily he was not severely injured. Solution? My nephew's dad called this kid's dad and said "Through all of this our son has never defended himself because engaging in fighting is not his way. The other reason is, because even though he's 12, he has a 2nd Degree Redbelt in Karate. He is NOT ALLOWED TO USE IT. However, consider yourself warned. If your kid touches him again, we have given him permission to do so in SELF DEFENCE. He can take one short, but very powerful punch to your kid's nose and flatten it. He touches my son again, he will defend himself". Never bothered him again. BTW, Blackbelt just before age 14!
Louloubelle 4 years ago
Wow, what self-restraint. Sounds like a great kid. I too, was bullied by a particularly unpleasant kid. I was a tiny, little girl, and this was a boy, much bigger. Back then (this was the late 60's early 70's).we had big families (we had 5 kids - this family had 7) and just about each kid in my family was bullied by one of these kids. The school never did anything, so my mother decided to go talk to their mother. The woman answered the door and had a shiner or both eyes. She knew there and then she couldn't, wouldn't to anything. So the other neighborhood dads got together and had "a discussion" with the "man of family". No one was ever bothered again, and my mom never saw her with any bruises again.
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Jazzy Mc. Jaz 4 years ago
one day this boy was being ignorant and rude to me on the bus so I hit him and got kicked of the after school bus for three day I didn't know until the next day where I hopped on and went home note: this kid didn't get in any trouble for what he started and he was about 61/2 ft and I was only about 5 ft, plus he is older than me, an stronger
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Unless of course your father has a meeting with the principal and explains the meaning of bullying and self defense to him. Like my father did.
Code_002.2 4 years ago
I had that happen. Kid collapsed and I did cpr on him I’m licensed so no scratch on meeee
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
If I have children, and they are attacked... I will go apeshit and sue everyone. If the teachers try to put the victims in trouble, I will be the God Of All Karens until they cry and beg for my forgiveness. Those people are bullies because nobody even bothers standing against them.
Toni Alabakovski 4 years ago
This just happened to our daughter last week. She got oss for 5 days. She is in 9th grade. She didn’t get in trouble at home.
#12
Girls MUST have a male escort them to prom as their date. If your date bails, you can't enter.
We were an all girls school. Many of us had zero guy friends. Finding dates was hard. I remember one year a girl's boyfriend dumped her when everyone was starting to show up for photos. She showed up at the venue, mascara running, begging the principal to let her go in. Principal wouldn't let her. One of the senior homeroom teachers ended up calling her nephew and said, "I need you to put on your suit and get here ASAP." He showed up with flowers and everything. So like... it was salvageable but totally avoidable.
The worst part? It wasn't always a rule until one year a group of girls went as friends and kept "stealing" other people's dates. Way to punish everyone forever because of one group of bi**hes.
whodunnitfan2013 4 years ago (edited)
At my school, you can be denied entry into prom if a girl's outfit is too "masculine" or a boy's outfit is too "feminine". Even if your outfit isn't inappropriate or anything.
Fish Boden 4 years ago
What kind of school is that? It sounds awful. Do they have other freaky rules?
Load More Replies... H Edwards 4 years ago
UK school leaving 'prom' (we don't call it that) sounds so much less stressful. Nobody even bothers with a date, unless they are already dating. Most people just go like it's a regular party.
Viviane 4 years ago
At my school, the graduation party rules were decided by a committee of students. One year, it was couples only, dinner and dance, dressed to the nines - and too expensive for most students. Less than 20 tickets sold, so cancelled. The next year, it was a dance with dessert buffet (affordable to most students), no partner needed, semi-formal wear (no jeans, but tie not needed). It was very well-attended.
Load More Replies... rabbitsrabbit 4 years ago (edited)
But what was it suppose to accomplish? Just cause u bought your own date (esp if its family like a cousin or a brother) doesn't mean u won't go around stealing someone else's.
Vicky Z 4 years ago (edited)
That's not an option in this school obviously
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JennyLaRue 4 years ago
Wow, what a way for a school to teach their pupils that they have to be reliant on a man
BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
This is the stupidest rule ever. The teachers are basically enforcing the idea that girls need a guy on these girls.
Furthermore, you can’t expect rules to be perfect the moment you make them. They have to be improved and adapted over time. Yes, it’s difficult, exhausting, and everyone would rather just get on with it, but on the other hand, the rules we live by form the foundations of our lives. We deserve rock-solid foundations, not fractured ones.
Don’t hold on to a rule, regulation, or school-life structure just because you’ve gotten used to it and because it’s been the way things have always been done. Think about better alternatives. Adapt, otherwise what you’ll end up with is a bunch of rules that people remember not because of how awesome they sounded on paper but because of how incredibly dumb and flawed they were in reality.
#13
In high school, the supervisor told the prefects and head girls to break up girls hugging in the hallways .I went to an only girls school and teachers discouraged girls from hugging each other. Apparently they thought that it encouraged 'lesbianism'. smh.
PjandBolt 4 years ago
First of all, lesbianism is perfectly normal and should be treated that way. Second of all, girls hugging doesn't always mean their lesbians. I am sick and tired of people thinking that any two people showing affection means that they're together. Affection is normal in every relationship.
Dorothy Parker 4 years ago
Hugging has been proven to help mental health and well being. It does not change one's sexual preferences. Sick homophobic dictators.
Alastor the radio demon 4 years ago
F**k it me and my gf can hug as much as we want ungrateful homophobic bastards
Zadie the Swiftie 4 years ago
As a student at an all-girls school...about a third of my class is bi or lesbian and I'm not saying this to be rude but we're all horny teenagers and girls are hot. Literally, yesterday we were watching the movie Tangled during study hall and the chat was all about how Mother Gothel is hot and how that point when Rapunzel has Flynn hostage could turn into porn.
#14
Skirt had to be a certain length. That's not the dumb part. If a teacher thought it was too short you had to KNEEL SO THEY COULD SEE WHERE THE HEM CAME TO ON YOUR LEGS. Was this a Christian private school where old male teachers were making middle school girls kneel on the floor to check their skirt length? Why, yes it was. I never wore skirts, so I was spared, but God, I hated that school.
Wilf 4 years ago
This was actually still happening in some UK schools even in the mid 1990s. I saw it. To get around it girls would roll the waistband of their skirts so they could lower them when spot-checks were made. Terrifying to think this was acceptable within my lifetime and I'm a millennial.
Louloubelle 4 years ago
My mother went to high school in the 40's. The style was big oversized sweaters, skirts (above the knee, shocking) and scuffed up saddle shoes. My grandmother made my mother clean her shoes and wear her skirt well below the knee. The minute she was out the door, the skirt got rolled up, and she scuffed her shoes. Rebellion knows no decade. 😊
Load More Replies... Raven Sheridan 4 years ago
Sounds like the teachers were a bunch of perverts who liked seeing schoolgirls on their knees.
nanashi 4 years ago
I was once told the reason girls had bs rules over their outfit to school was not because of boys; it's because of the male teachers.
H Edwards 4 years ago
Makes sense. Pretty much everyone remembers at least one dodgy/creepy teacher from when they were at school.
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Phil Boswell 4 years ago
Interesting technical point: traditionally the correct length for a kilt is so that when you kneel down it touches the ground around you, so that it will block the draft and keep you warm but not soak up the water (this *is* Scotland, the ground is *always* wet ;-) I'm not sure how you are supposed to keep your knees warm but maybe if you're hard enough to wear a kilt in public you can cope with cold knees!
MangleTangle 4 years ago
Nope. Wear shorts under skirts and kick any old men trying to check your skirt length.
#15
Locked the only boys bathroom because someone wrote on the wall in sharpie. It wasn't even anything rude or inappropriate either. It was just the word "hi" or something like that.
Didn't unlock the door until one boy wet himself and parents threatened to sue.
Michelle M 4 years ago
Have you seen a college bathroom? If sharpies weren't allowed, then they should be demolished
Bender Bending Rodríguez 4 years ago
I don't know if that's a good idea. Some states have felony/criminal charges for using wrong toilet. May be, hopefully things have changed now with trans rights movement.
Load More Replies... Ozacoter 4 years ago
The nuns in my school closed the recess toilets "so we dont need to clean them" and also the water fountain "so kids dont splash". We wouod be in mid May at 35 degreesC without water or a toilet... F*****g monsters
Ozacoter 4 years ago
We were also not allowed to go to the toilet during the classes, only in between. Inagine being a girl with terrible periods like me. I think that my pants we stained non stop from 12 to 16yo
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No coloured bras. I went to an all-girls school and we wore uniforms and the top was a light colour and very see-through for some reason (so it was easy to tell if you had a pink bra on for example). The weird thing was it was always the male teachers who called students out for breaking this rule.... yikes
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago (edited)
Oh fokk! We better alert the general British public! *https://youtu.be/uPMIYyapLF4?t=7*
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Ragnhild Nilsen 4 years ago (edited)
Actually a "nude"/pink/tan/ appropriate colour brown bra is less visible through a white blouse than a pure white one. And why should a teacher be bothered with what a girl wears? As long as she behaves in class and get her things done?
nanashi 4 years ago
we had this in my school (also all-girls), and one very brave girl goes no-bra and all the male teachers had to leave. she got into trouble but not before leaving a legend.
GirlFriday 4 years ago
Um yeah, I grew up with this rule too. I started wearing bras at 10 and I was the only one in the class at that young age that needed one. It was humiliating to get thrown out of class because my bra strap was showing. The teacher could have just said pointed to my shoulder and I would have fixed it. Instead, I was called out in front of everyone and sent to the principal's office where I was berated and further humiliated for needing a bra at a young age.
A B C 4 years ago
Why are there even male teachers on all-girls schools? Shouldn't teachers be all-female as well, out of obvious reasons? At least if staying close to the original direction of thought, I personally think generalising and splitting people by their sex (which has nothing to do with their gender, but that's another story) is plain stupid.
Michelle M 4 years ago (edited)
See-through! I'm very sure a old male designed the uniform. Pedos
Douglas Turner 4 years ago
Or just inexpensive cotton, worn from daily use and cleaning.
Load More Replies... Nice cuppa tea 4 years ago
This is a rule in many uniformed places where there is a white top. Creepy bout the teachers tho
Bernardita Valdés 4 years ago
What is a male teacher doin by staring at girls breasts to the point of defining the color of their bra? Use fake hard nipples over ur nips to do critical damage.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
I didn't go to an all girls or even a Catholic school and I still saw a teacher give a girl detention for a bright bra. Admittedly, I don't know why they chose to wear a bright orange bra under a white shirt anyway. This was our year 8 coordinator and she was very strict on the uniform though. She tried to give me a detention because my socks were the wrong length but it was when I just started there so didn't know. We had to either wear knee high socks or ankle socks (about 2-3 cm above ankle). I had worn anklet/sport socks so they were too short. After that I wore socks that were about halfway up my calf but rolled shorter and that was fine for the rest of my time at school.
#17
I spent 2 years in a private christian school where girls could not wear skirts or dresses unless it covered their whole legs all the way down to their feet. We were between 3 and 8 years old and that rule was meant to make sure boys wouldn't have any sexual temptation. This is not a joke.
Wilf 4 years ago
It's absolutely sick to teach girls that THEY are the reason boys abuse them, not that boys are responsible for their own behaviour.
Dizzy Falcon 4 years ago
"sexual temptation?" Excuse me, but the only people I loved were my family, when I was 3. Like, I don't think any boy who is 8 years old would have sexual tempted
Kristy Nelson 4 years ago
In addition to the obvious awfulness of that, way to teach boys AND girls that is expected!
Candace Alagappan 4 years ago (edited)
I apologize for my last comment. It was different, as this was sexist behavior. NOT CHRISTIAN.
Gabby M 4 years ago
That's not Christian, that is simply sexist behavior.
Load More Replies... riley_is_trans_ 4 years ago
If boys and men are sexually tempted by a woman or girl wearing a skirt it's the boys and mens problem. He needs to get his s**t together and stop sexualizing women for what their wearing
Stephanie IV 4 years ago
I’m sure this qualifies as abuse somewhere. How can you learn to run and climb and hopscotch and gummi-twist and cartwheel and rollerblade and rope-skip and handstand and and and - all the important bits when you’re between 3 and 8??
Louloubelle 4 years ago
Fairly certain these would be the same people that think those activities aren't "ladylike".
Load More Replies... #18
Guys were free to wear pants in cold days but girls had to wear a skirt no matter how cold it was
Katherine Boag 4 years ago
Us too. We were allowed to wear stockings, which i despised. And the skirts were short and would blow up in the wind.
Martha Meyer 4 years ago
The blowing up can be avoided by a weighted hem. But the skirt rule itself is sexist.
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Khavrinen 4 years ago
When I was in Junior High there was a group of girls from one of those super strict churches that said women must always wear dresses who got around it by wearing jeans under their dresses. I thought that was kind of clever, because the church can hardly claim it's "immodest" to wear *more* clothes than you're required to.
Miss Frankfurter 4 years ago
Wearing a skirt in winter, going to a private school, everyone had to take public transit, ie wait for the bus to come and walk a long way in many cases. I can remember many times walking along and my thighs were completely numb from the freezing temperatures. Ah, winter in Canada!
cybermerlin2000 4 years ago
The girls at my school (going back 39 years now) beat this by wearing ankle length very wide leg trousers that looked like a skirt
riley_is_trans_ 4 years ago
Makes sense us women are just objects for old creepy men to sexualize /s
Kennedy Johnson 4 years ago
I’d just wear pants. I’d see what they do. If I got suspended CNN, boy do I have a news story for you.
#19
At my high school, girls could not wear sandals or shoes that showed toes because, “toes make boys think of babies”. And babies made boys think of sex, and naturally sex is the devil.
Sonia Bailey 4 years ago
Personally think that an educator who seems something sexual in something as innocuous as toes, should not be around children.
Sonia Bailey 4 years ago
Weird. Personally I don't think kids to should wear opened tied shoes, kids can be clumsy
Sonia Bailey 4 years ago
Hadn't finished! And scraped and trodden on toes can really hurt! Nothing to do with weird food fetishes like this principal seems to think!
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Vetus Vespertilio 4 years ago
Anyone who has had to tend to a baby crying for hours for unknown reasons for the eleventh night in a row knows this one is ridiculous. You aren’t thinking about sex. If anything, you’re contemplating a quiet, celibate life in a lovely monastery!
Nolan Schekel 4 years ago
Why do toes make boys think of babies? They don’t make me think of babies.
#20
my high school decided to ban women’s athletic shorts one day which was ridiculous for many reasons. the next day every girl showed up in athletic shorts & the rule was removed by second block
cybermerlin2000 4 years ago
They should also have refused to do any athletics at school based on the fact they would be wearing nothing but their underwear and exposing themselves
llamalover 4 years ago
Even on our dress down days, us girls can't wear shorts of any kind. Of course, the boys can!
Nadine Debard 4 years ago
Once a girl in my classroom wore a mini-skirt and stockings or waders. She was about 15-16 and it was trendy. Our -female- teacher told her that she looked like a whore and forbad her to come back dressed like this. All the girls were shocked by this, so the next week we all wore the same outfits (mini skirt and stockers). The teacher smiled, nodded, and did her lesson without a word. Message understood.
Leslie Burleson 4 years ago
My kids' school was so annoying. They would've sent every single girl home for showing up in gym shorts . All kinds of ridiculous rules for girls dress code , and even the guys couldn't have an earring or long hair. No hair colors that weren't natural . They still have this dress code
#21
If you throw snowballs, you get a one day suspension. The first long weekend after a snowfall everyone would throw snowballs to get an additional day added to the long weekend.
Miss Frankfurter 4 years ago
I like the long weekend idea! That became a rule in our area because some kids were hiding a rock in their snowball and throwing that at others and taking aim at their heads.
Caroline Pichette 4 years ago
It was also a rule at my school. It was because some kids thought it would be funny to hide rocks inside the snowballs and one got injured after receiving one in the face.
#22
You have to wear your tie all the way home. Some sad bastard teachers would stand on the main road away from the school and try to hand out detentions in presumably their own time
Nice cuppa tea 4 years ago
But once you are off school property, how would they have any jurisdiction? Maybe they had a detention target to keep or something stupid like that
James016 4 years ago
They probably don’t but have a “you are representing the school in public” bs policy
Load More Replies... cybermerlin2000 4 years ago
When I was at school the smell of rebellion was overpowering. We had a rule where if we were in school uniform outside the school grounds then we had to look immaculate. Clean shiny shoes, straight tie, blazer fastened, shirt tucked in etc. There was another rule that if you were not wearing full uniform you had to go home and change into your uniform. One kid combined both rules and at the end of the day would nip into a boys toilets, change into jeans, T-shirt and trainers (sneakers) and carefully fold and pack his uniform into his school bag. He would then set off grinning at the teachers knowing that he knew they were p*ssed because they couldn't touch him for it. What were they going to do? Send him home? At home time?
Mariana Andres 4 years ago
At my school we weren't allowed to drink alcohol (legal from age 16 where I'm from) or smoke or do a bunch of other things in a 5 block radius from the school. I lives 4 blocks away. So I wasn't allowed to be "lazy, unruly, etc" in my own front yard.
Ashley Harrold 4 years ago
So if bullying takes place between two students outside of school, not their problem, but they can harass you about your tie?
#23
Banned all backpacks / bags on campus. Students were expected to somehow carry everything they needed in hand.
This was especially challenging if you had a non ideal locker placement.
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 4 years ago
American school? Drugs or guns. Or both.
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Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
Didn't someone use a microwave to carry their books in because of this stupid ban.
I am avoiding my homework 4 years ago
We had this at my old school I got a doctors note that let me have a bag
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Yeah, my school had that rule. No bag except to walk into or out of school. Leave it in your locker or lose it. Real fun when you're juggling your textbooks AND the science project AND your bagged lunch from home...
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
I've always wondered why kids in American schools in tv shows take their bags to class. In Australia they have to stay in your locker except for medical reasons. Isn't your locker used for storage?
Load More Replies... Bernardita Valdés 4 years ago
In my sisters school they banned color schoolbags or something like that, so they organized and started bringing their books and stuff on trashbags.
Jazzy Mc. Jaz 4 years ago
our is like that but since covid no lockers whatsoever so we have our backpacks now
Kennedy Johnson 4 years ago
In Bancroft in California we couldn’t have backpacks because people brought weapons to school!
Bruce Ferrier 2 years ago (edited)
This is me but it's just that they want you to so I ignore it and somehow nobody notices
Jenn C 4 years ago (edited)
It's America, you might have a gun. I had to carry a huge stack of books all afternoon one year because of this rule. Some girls started carrying really big 'purses' to get around this. We also couldn't wear our coats for this reason. Even in the Spanish room, where cold air came out of the heat vent.
Louloubelle 4 years ago
I think you must have gone to high school with my daughter. Same for her.
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‘No ripped jeans’ They enforced it to the point that when I fell in school, scrapped me knee and ended up needing stitches (obviously ripping my jeans in the process). They still dragged me to the office to suspend me for the day because me jeans were ripped. I was left there, stitched up, blood drying on my jeans as the vice principal yelled at me that my outfit was “inappropriate”. Add on: I went to a private school outside of the US, we had a doctor on call so he stitched me up at school, notified my parents and gave the okay on me going back to class. The vp didn’t notify my parents I was getting suspended for the day until after I went home and told them myself.
Yvonne Dauwalder Balsiger 4 years ago
There is stupidity and there is this! I don't even know what that should be called...
Katie Lutesinger 4 years ago
I hope the parents gave that jerk absolute hell when they found out.
BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
My school allows ripped jeans, but not if the rips are above mid-thigh.
Bella, Your Kitty-Loving Queen 4 years ago
The people at my middle school wear jeans that are almost completely ripped 🤣
Personindaworld 4 years ago (edited)
That rule makes sense in some places, but when you hurt yourself or ripped your jeans by accident, then that's just wrong.
#25
Girls weren’t allowed to show their ankles. The dean had a pack of socks in her office she would give the students and make them wear. Only girls tho. This was the 2000s.
Khavrinen 4 years ago
The men-folk just won't be able to control themselves if they can see ankles!!
Load More Replies... Dorothy Parker 4 years ago (edited)
I want to know where most of these posts took place. This one could be in a highly religious school.
Cain Hargreaves 4 years ago
What ho, my goode fellowe! Yonder I do spy a yonge ladie and it beseems to be that I do likewise espy...her ankell!
𝕊𝕒𝕞 (𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕪/𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕞) 4 years ago
if boys or male teachers can be sexually provoked because of girls' shoulders (bans on off-the-shoulder tops) and ankles, they should probably not be allowed to be around girls.
#26
In grade school, we weren't allowed to play on the playground equipment when it snowed. Eventually, were weren't allowed to play with snow or even go near it- I got in trouble for sitting in snow.
This was in Minnesota where it snows half the year. Recess basically consisted of milling around the blacktop for thirty minutes.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago (edited)
I remember one day in primary school it hailed so much, we had never seen so much hail before. Our teacher let us outside (after it stopped) and let us play with the piles of ice. It was so much fun. Never experienced anything like that again.
Henry Cheves 4 years ago
The teacher let you out after it stopped hailing, right?
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TheCatasaurusMeowMom 4 years ago
Born and raised Minnesotan here--can confirm OP is correct. Only time we had "indoor recess" was if there was a blizzard or a severe thunderstorm warning. Anything less, we were marched outside and told to, "Enjoy your recess!"
Beth L 4 years ago
Blacktop-only recess was to keep you from dragging all the mud and slush back in and making the janitor's life a living hell.
Crycket 4 years ago
I have heard that it is partially that, but also because tons of feet sinking into a school field, can cause it to dent and dry and way. This would cause tripping hazards when dried and be a potential lawsuit.
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tmw 4 years ago
teacher here. In ontario, canada, we have to close our playground equipment when there is snow on the ground. (a solid 4-6 months) we were told that the playground equipment is designed for safety. and when there is snow on the ground the measurements for safely falling off or stepping off or sliding etc where all off. They hadn't been tested for safety with a build up of snow under the equipment, so don't use it. basically, it comes down to 'can we be sued for this?"
Crycket 4 years ago
Came here to say this! Exactly. It has to do with liability. We get a community icerink in our school yard every year, and the kids can't use it because they need to have proper helmets. When I was in school, we would walk 20 mins to a public rink, no one had helmets. And if you didn't have skates you just watched, or sat back with another class.
Load More Replies... Bella, Your Kitty-Loving Queen 4 years ago
That was actually a rule in my elementary school. To be fair where I live it only snows December-February, but there was nothing to do when there was snow on the ground so-
N G 4 years ago
I was in agreement with this rule (snow can be slippery on equipment, increased injuries; snow melts and then you end up with a bunch of kids sitting in damp, cold clothing for the rest of the day) until you mentioned where and the fact it snows 50% of the time - so I'm thinking they should have known this and come up with another alternative for breaktimes - a covered area for running about with specific equipment (hula hoops?)
Me Potter 4 years ago
We have our football field (fenced in) opened and supervised as a snowball fight space if it snowed (and, what sadly happens quite often where I live, the snow hadn't turned to ice). I always thought it was a neat rule, it allowed kids that wanted to snowball fights, but also made sure random kids learning for their tests didn't have their books dunked in snow (usually).
#27
Can’t be standing around in groups more than 4 “gang mentality”
Sphiwe Mbangwa 4 years ago
weak... lol I think at some point we was on the watch list for Gang activity, mean while we was nothing but Nerds
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JustABoredwing 4 years ago (edited)
“Hey kid! Wanna join the Thumb Suckers? Toughest 5-year olds on the block!”
Xandra, The Little Hufflepuff 4 years ago
Rip the theatre kids I guess, we always stand in large groups
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 4 years ago
Wait until we return to presential class after the pandemic. Many schools will have this rule for safe distancing.
#28
Girls were not allowed to wear cycling shorts under their PE skirts. They wanted us to wear these dark green PE pants, basically just underwear and it was gross. My year protested, we said shorts or nothing and they backed off. This was 20+ years ago and it's totally different now, girls wear what they want for PE.
TTorrest Author 4 years ago (edited)
We had super short shorts for PE. Some girls started wearing mens boxers underneath to provide a couple extra inches of coverage (1990...). That was until the new ruling was passed down that banned them, because it was too "immodest" to have underwear showing. What exactly was so *modest* about our coochies hanging out???
Tanya MacLeod 4 years ago
I wore boxer shorts under my kilt all through high school (same years). Nobody was looking up my skirt. They finally started making skorts instead of just kilts 15 years ago at most for the uniform.
Load More Replies... 𝖊𝖆 4 years ago
Ugh who else had to wear hockey pants?? They were these awful maroon knickers that we HAD to wear under our hockey skirt. Couldn’t wear shorts underneath, and couldn’t just wear shorts either. I outright refused every PE lesson and wore shorts. Used to get in trouble but I’d reason with whoever, would you rather me miss every PE lesson? Or wear shorts and no one notice? It’s so degrading making young girls wear those, so revealing. No one wants to worry about their bikini line or showing off that much of their body at school, don’t forget being worried at that age about being on your period and showing. You’d think at an all girls school the mostly female staff would be considerate and get rid of those old rules? No chance
Miss Frankfurter 4 years ago
We wore bloomers. Actually, everyone got to wearing them all the time because our kilts had pleats all the way around. This was a problem on a windy day. Your entire skirt would fly in the wind. If you had your bloomers on, who cared.
#29
No farting in class.
They would say "if u need to fart then go to the toilet" but then 9 times out of 10 if u asked to go the toilet they'd say no
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
The issue i have with this is sometimes I fart unexpectedly when I laugh, cough or sneeze.
elStiJneriNO 4 years ago
that's not a problem due to the no laughing, coughing or sneezing in class rule
Load More Replies... cybermerlin2000 4 years ago
I'd let rip. What are they? Bowel Patrol? The Sphincter Inspectors? Once it's out, it's out!
BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
People shouldn't be allowed to make rules banning bodily functions. I mean, come on people.
Hannah Edwards 4 years ago
Holding it in makes your tummy do those weird noises I call “internal farts” I wonder if those were allowed.
AspieGirl88 4 years ago
This one has me cracking up, TBH. I haven’t farted since December 2013 (when I needed an ileostomy). I’m so glad I’m no longer a school student, because I’d never get away with releasing “stoma burps” from the ostomy-bag ... SO much worse than regular flatulence! 😂
#30
One particular professor at my university would lock the door a minute after class began. If you had to leave to go to the bathroom, you couldn't get back in.
Somehow this ancient fossil is still teaching and pulling similar stuff.
Kirsten Kerkhof 4 years ago (edited)
We have classrooms that have these hotelroom locks. You can only open it from the outside with a staff pass (it opens normally from the inside). If a student needs to go out for a moment for whatever reason, I need to leave the door open or they can't come back in. I usually teach with the door open anyway, but there are times when it's preferable to close the door. And with these classrooms I just feel I can't. I hate them. What's wrong with a simple key? -- Also, I've locked myself out more than once, because I'd left my pass on the desk. With a key you can just go back in because you couldn't lock the door, but with these rooms I need to find someone to let me in to grab my pass. Grrr ...
Bored Doggy 4 years ago
I have a teacher like this!!! Online school, however (Zoom). My teacher would hit "enable waiting room" where the host has to individually let students in. I usually enter Zoom meetings 1 minute before the class starts, so the first class with this teacher, I expected nothing to go wrong. However... at 8:59 am, I was locked out. Of a 9:00 am class. I finished a book waiting, looking at that screen, "The meeting host will let you in soon". Yeah, not soon at all. He would expect you to log on to the Zoom AT 8:50 AM EVERY TIME. Unlucky students would get locked out for 30 minutes... he even called them out when he let them in. The teacher says he did this when there was in-person lessons too... must have been a nightmare for people who always woke up late. What a dumb rule.
Karl Baxter 4 years ago
In the UK such electronic locks are required to be attached to the fire alarm. If the alarm goes off, all the power to the locks drops off and they open.
Load More Replies... Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
Universities are hell for many reasons : overwork, anxiety, boredom, loneliness, depression... But also because of those irresponsible teachers who do everything they want and piss everyone off because they know they are legally unfirable.
#31
We weren’t allowed to wear thongs. I don’t know how they caught people who did tbh
Kirsten Kerkhof 4 years ago
So staff looked at all the girls' butts to check for panty lines? Not creepy at all. Nah-uh. /s
Mike Loux 4 years ago
Everybody should start wearing Spanx, just to throw them off.
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AnimalsRuleHumansDrool 4 years ago (edited)
I keep thinking about the wrong type of thong, the shoe kind.
2BX 4 years ago
There was a fad in the early 2000's where women would wear very low rise pants with high waisted thongs, think juicy couture started the trend
Ozacoter 4 years ago
I remember that fad. The pants were extremely low waisted and so tight that even the most skinny girls showed some "love handles'. I never got how people tought that they looked good
Load More Replies... UwU PANDA UwU 4 years ago
At my school we had to where completely enclosed shoes. No thongs at ALL. This one new guy did not know and wore sandals but they were protected ones so he sorta found a loop hole.
2BX 4 years ago
I think that they are referring to the underwear not the flip flop thong.
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NinjaWolfy94 4 years ago
The Australian in me being confused for a split second. (Sorry this was unnecessary...)
Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago
Probably back when whale tails were popular. We had that rule too but nobody abided.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
Why does it matter what style of underwear someone finds comfortable?
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No leaving the dorm unless it's for a fire alarm. I went to boarding school from the age of 7. That rule meant we couldn't get out of our dormitory to have a wee in the night. We had a plastic tub one of the girls brought in and went in that. Then we had to smuggle the tub to the bathroom in the morning without matron seeing. Stupid bloody rule!
Alethia Nyx 4 years ago
That is horrible!! Dear Lord I hope they didn't still have this rule for the older girls, who have periods to deal with.
Ross Keim 4 years ago (edited)
Can’t imagine parents that do this to their kids, boarding schools that is
Sinkvenice 4 years ago
I used to know someone who went to boarding school. There were also day students and ones that went home every weekend if they didn't live too far away. This dude lived 45 minutes away but he boarded full time. He didn't even go home at weekends, only for school holidays. This was before I knew him. I've never met his parents and I don't really want to. Based on that they sound horrid.
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Debbie Lavender 4 years ago
It would have been fine to use the floor. Better than lugging a tub of urine.
#33
No beads. Apparently they thought beaded jewelry was gang related?
Anna Banana 4 years ago
Or promoting Buddhism, wasn't there a state which banned yoga in schools because it went against Christian values?
Pamela Page 4 years ago
Moved to Florida with two blue-eyed red-headed children. On the first day of school, my children were greeted by teachers telling them to remove their sunglasses and ball caps. When I asked the rationale for the sunglass/ball cap ban I was told that gang members wore them. This was at an elementary school. I snarkily asked if only gang members wore sunglasses and ballcaps in Florida. Needless to say, my children continued to wear sun protection and the school ignored the daily infractions.
#34
Women's thighs are not allowed to touch a chair.
Black Pug Puppy 4 years ago (edited)
You squat over it or sit in the edge
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Daria B 4 years ago
Bring a sitting cushion. Technically not touching the chair. And you have a comfortable seat. Win win ♡
Tabby_Sohee 4 years ago
Finally - it’s come, children. OUR TIME TO SHINE, OUR TIME TO *LEVITATE*
Load More Replies... Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 4 years ago
Because girls are "dainty little dolls that need to be perfect" disqusting
Load More Replies... BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago (edited)
Wh-What does this rule accomplish??? More importantly, HOW DO THE GIRLS SIT??!!
Demi Zwaan 4 years ago
They'll check your DNA and insist you're girl when it's XX. XXY people are screwed.
Load More Replies... Helen Haley 4 years ago
Its like they've never been to a store, they don't know how clothing works. You can only buy what is available. If the only shorts or skirts available are above the knee, what are they supposed to do in hot weather?
#35
They outlawed bracelets because there was an article in a magazine somewhere saying they advertised what sexual acts you were open for based on their colour.
Then someone tried to outlaw wrist watches for the same reason.
Helen Haley 4 years ago
This kind of crap is always brainless to ban. if you take away something you 'think' is serving that purpose, and it actually was, they just come up with something else.
the redqueen 4 years ago
Yup. They should just go ahead and outlaw all clothes then.....
Load More Replies... Douglas Turner 4 years ago
Get rid of that watch! You're using it to know when to meet for sexy times!
Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago (edited)
I remember that. I wasn’t in school but I remember the article about how the different colors meant different things like blow job, añal sex, etc.
Cain Hargreaves 4 years ago
I do too, but I was in school when it was a Thing. And supposedly if someone snapped your bracelet apart (they were thin plastic things, almost like rubber bands) that meant you had to do whatever the color correlated to.
Load More Replies... GirlFriday 4 years ago
My niece's school did this for the exact same reason. It was ridiculous.
Alethia Nyx 4 years ago
Wrist watches?! Watches?! WTF?? Are they supposed to go back to wearing fob watches or chain watches? I would have lost my s**t if they tried to ban watches at my school, I've worn a watch every day since I was about 9! The bracelet thing though my school did the same, it was these particular rubber bracelets that were a fad for a while, and they were banned more cos of the trading and disruptions they caused than anything to do with sex.
Niffler_13 4 years ago
My school banned them too. We called them jelly bracelets, and then it was the elastic bands that were different shapes. I had a whole bag shaped like male genitalia
#36
You had to wear your ID around your neck on a rope thing. Then the chokings started.
Cursed quoter 4 years ago
That went from zero to a hundred real f*****g quick.
Load More Replies... Wouldiwas Shookspeared 4 years ago
We had to in middle school but then no one did and so they had you sit in the auditorium for the rest of the day if you were caught without an id so people just wouldn’t wear them on purpose so they could sit with their friends all day.
Paddling Panda 4 years ago
Oh my god, I f**king LOVE that you legit changed your name to past-tense William Shakespeare!
Load More Replies... Henry Cheves 4 years ago
My school had this, but if someone tried to pull on it, the snap in the back immediately came loose.
Confused Flamingo 4 years ago
We had this stupid rule too but we just put our ID in our pockets with the rope hanging out and after sometime they the school stopped bothering
Just.a.ravenclaw.witch 4 years ago
intense ¨and then the murders began¨ flasshbacks...(from old bored panda post)
#37
"No Satanic Drawings" What qualified as Satanic was anything the teachers or faculty deemed as such, including the Star of David
Vic 404 4 years ago
Either they are ignorant or intolerant. Don't know which is worse.
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W McDonald 4 years ago
Tell that to fake Christians real Christians don’t enforce this
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Axolotl King 4 years ago
Oh I wasn't allowed to draw that fancy S thing that starts with those 6 lines in elementary school because my second grade teacher deemed it "A Gang Symbol"
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
Al teachers are despicable bastards who proclaimed themselves as gods. Always officially dispute all their unfair decisions until they are canceled... and they will eventually stop being such assholes. Almost harass principals/deans etc with your demands until they are too tired to mistreat you anymore.
#38
In high school, hair length on men and stubble. Look, a bunch of 15-16 year old guys are going to have a bit of stubble no matter how thoroughly we shave. Forcing us to go to the principal's office to dry shave nearly daily is freakin absurd.
Blake Ingram 4 years ago
That would have to be me nearly every day, the stubble doesnt go away.
Load More Replies... Carol Emory 4 years ago
My husband would have suffered greatly. Poor guy had a full beard and mustache in the 7th grade. He actually got mistaken for the teacher once.
Karl Baxter 4 years ago
Our school had a “boys’ haircuts must be at least an inch above the collar”. As I cultivated a Hendrix frizz I was suspended on several occasions and eventually threatened with expulsion. The 80s was a tough time for the long haired male 😀
Jessica Otto 4 years ago
Nope. If I had a kid and they tried THAT of all things I would throw a fit. Yes, just for that.
W McDonald 4 years ago
Some people don’t have time you know and some dudes flaunt it
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Elementary school principal banned talking at lunch. If you were caught talking or even signing to someone, you had to go sit by yourself on a folding chair with no table. There was once my mom came to eat lunch with my older sister and I. The principal was like " Oh you should go eat out in the hallway with your daughters" and she was like "nah, I'm gonna sit here with my daughter and her friends and talk to them and enjoy their presence" (usually if a parent came for lunch the student could invite one friend to join, unless you had siblings. Then it was too many people so you couldn't invite a friend). Anyway, one of my older sister's friends whispered to my mom that she was going to move so she wouldn't get in trouble for talking. THIS WAS A NINE YEAR OLD.
The Chosen One 4 years ago
yeah, I hear lots of stories about no talking at lunch rules and I never understood it. Lunchtime was my favorite thing ever because it was the only time I could be happy and hang out with friends and be myself and stuff. My mental health basically survived on lunchtime
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Martha Meyer 4 years ago
Having been a teacher, I can kind of see where this came from. Some of the smaller kids get so easily distracted during mealtimes, they end up not eating enough. I frequently had to remind kids to eat and drink during breakfast break, because they forget all about their food and drink while playing and then were hungry and thirsty in class later on.
Paddling Panda 4 years ago
This makes sense. An alternative could be to allocate 10 to 15 minutes to eat their lunches and then give them the rest of the time to socialise and play.
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Nathaniel Gray 4 years ago
We had a 10 minute period before lunch ended where you couldn’t talk.
#40
We once had a rule that we could only go to the bathroom during class. Not in the breaks. Only during class.
Carol Emory 4 years ago
Someone probably thought either A) they were dealing drugs in the bathrooms during breaks or B) students were having sex in the bathroom during breaks. The only other reason I can think is so they could monitor how many students went to the restroom during the day. All of these ideas are ridiculous though.
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Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
That's bizarre, usually it's the other way round (which is still wrong).
Niffler_13 4 years ago
It's to prevent incidents from happening with too many students in the bathroom. When I was in school they had to limit bathroom usage because of fights in the bathroom and frequent bomb threats.
Raccoon Queen 4 years ago
My school currently has the rule for the students that are in the school. It’s to limit the number of students in the bathroom at one time. Because of COVID. But to my knowledge this isn’t the norm
My O My 4 years ago
We weren't allowed to go during classes. During recess we weren't allowed to be inside the building
#41
We were not allowed to put our coats on until we were outside During winter when we would have a storm, we had to go outside in the rain to put our coats on or face receiving a detention if we put them on in the corridor
Jo Johannsen 4 years ago
First case of pneumonia will break the budget for the next ten years.
Douglas Turner 4 years ago
It's an outdoor coat. Are you outdoors? No? You better move, mister! We follow absurd rules mindlessly in this school.
Bernardita Valdés 4 years ago
Wear blankets, like grannys, so u keep warm during classes or in corridors. The thicker the blanket, the better.
Uber Mensch 4 years ago (edited)
I'll just let YOU explain to my folks why I get detention every time the weather is bad. I'm sure they'll appreciate it *tremendously*. Or maybe not...
JustABoredwing 4 years ago (edited)
I can just wear my coat everywhere in and out of the school! It’s not not allowed, sooo...
#42
Dumbest Rule: Zero tolerance for fighting. This meant both the kid who started the fight AND the kid who got beat on were both suspended. If the kid who got beat on just took it, he was just sent home for the rest of the day. If he dared to fight back, he was suspended for a week just like the kid who started the fight. Here's the truly stupid part: The school administrators couldn't explain how this led to MORE BRUTAL fights.
Marco Hub-Dub 4 years ago (edited)
My parents filed a civil suit against the school district and 6 employees including the principal after my brother was suspended for being beaten up. They failed to protect him from physical harm and gave him no recourse to protect himself that didn’t include punitive damage to his school record and potential college acceptance. Because the victim of violence has no way to protect themselves the school, teachers, administrators were found culpable for the violence by the judge. It took them several years to pay out, but the district lost big time.
𝕊𝕒𝕞 (𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕪/𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕞) 4 years ago
if you're gonna get beat at least try to kill the enemy first,, you're getting suspended anyway
LivingTheDream 4 years ago
in the early 2000's I was sitting in the principals office after a call that my son, who was in second grade, was being suspended for fighting. He had defended himself and the principal cited the "Zero tolerance" policy and he was not allowed to fight back. I told him i was proud of my son for defending himself. He did not start the fight and tried to walk away but was followed and attacked by a group of three older boys. I then asked the principal if I were to reach over the desk and proceed to punch him in the face, if he would let me do it until I was too tired to hit him anymore. I followed up by letting him know that every day my son was suspended, I would take him to ice cream and movies. oddly enough, the suspension was lifted. I pulled him out of that school and drove him 30 minutes away every day to a different school district within a few weeks.
Michael Afton 4 years ago
My parents always said I could fight back and I wouldn't get in trouble at home at all
Random Anon 4 years ago
Yeah this rule doesn't fly. It's lazy on the administrators' part. They tried this for a while in my old school. Asshats started fights with each other just to get time-off or to screw with the timid ones. They finally had enough when a staged fight turned into an all-out brawl.
Brenda Spagnola 3 years ago
Fought this with middle school. They had videos showing he was ONLY defending himself. They said it didn't matter. I raised holy hell. You're not putting a permanent mark in my kids file for DEFENDING HIMSELF against someone 50 pounds heavier and at least 6 inches taller. Threatened to take it to the press, TV News and then sue their ass off. My BFF is a lawyer. One visit from her and they changed their tune
#43
"No fighting", enforced by punishing the kids who were getting hit.
Caroline Nagel 4 years ago
My theory is that people in power admire bullies and think that those who are being bullied deserve it.
IAN KELLY 4 years ago
That really is the only explanation for their behavior isn’t it
Load More Replies... Uber Mensch 4 years ago
Like heck. If I'm going to get punished, too, then I'm doing enough damage to my attacker so it doesn't happen again.
Steven Daino 2 years ago
There idea is that first they take there brains out, then they get the idea to punish the victim so they will not want to get bullied. This makes no sence because noone wants to be bullied anyway.
Tobias the Tiger 4 years ago
I had a related experience in my daycare when I was about 6. I said something rather mean to another kid during recess, and the supervisor told that kid to sit down because I said something rude - I got away scot-free. I never thought I'd be mad about not getting in trouble, but...
Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 4 years ago
Did yall know that they're gonna pass a law that makes it so that you wont get punished for bullying? Guess I'll just die then :l
Robert Robi Z 4 years ago
Because you deserved to be beaten up, you somehow triggered it. The bully is the true victim. He must be helped and felt sorry for.
#44
My primary school had this wierd obsession with safety. When we played dodgeball the boys had to throw with their non-dominant hand while the girls got to throw full force. And we could get detention for going where the teachers couldn't see us. But the worst rule by far was that we weren't allowed to run on the playground, I'll never forget the time my teacher literally said, "the playground is no place to run."
Bella, Your Kitty-Loving Queen 4 years ago
Ugh. Another sexist school that thinks men are always more athletic than women. I hate people who think like this smh.
Martha Meyer 4 years ago
I would have loved for this dodgeball rule to be implemented at my school. Some of the more athletic boys made a bullying sport out of hitting you as hard as they could where it hurt.
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BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
Stupid teachers making the boys give girls a better chance. I would rather lose to a guy playing as well as he can than win in an unequal match.
Eliyahu Rooff 4 years ago
I have to wonder if I would have even been allowed to play. I'm ambidexterous.
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
Ugh... Another teacher who decides that "girls can hit boys, and boys can't defend themselves".
sylvanticx 4 years ago
oh yeah! at my elementary you were ONLY allowed to run on the track. the track was made of the same asphalt as everywhere else. we weren't allowed to play tag either. oh and we had areas that we had to be at during recess, so if your week is four square, that's all you can do. and there were never enough balls.
Alastor the radio demon 4 years ago
My school had something similar if you were caught running on the playground you couldn't go on it till the next day you were just forced to play on the field like wtf I don't want to play on the field and it was so annoying especially when they said we couldn't go in the forest near the school I loved doing that and finding salamanders and showing them off and then some prick broke someone's fence and they told us no more forest
Just.a.ravenclaw.witch 4 years ago
In my elementary school, i remember p=kids running out of the classrooms, through the blacktop,in a hurry to go play on the playground be first on the swings or whatever. then the teachers would stop you for running and make you go back and walk the whole f*****g way.
Jonathan Hsieh 4 years ago (edited)
I can throw a football around 50 yards with both arms. As well as a baseball. And volleyball 25 yards. But I'm still terrible at volleyball, no matter how bad my opponent is. Because the girls RULE at volleyball (even with the one arm challenge against THEM at my school).
#45
My friend nearly got suspended for wearing a trench coat, it was the Late 90s, probably didn't help that he had long hair, was shy, and weird
Ray Martin 4 years ago
America - thanks to the worshipped 2nd amendment, teens have easy access to lethal weapons, but as long as they can't get trench coats everything will be fine
JustABoredwing 4 years ago
“Don’t ban our automatic weapons! The problem is the trench coats!”
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Rae Reyn 4 years ago
Story time: The day before the Columbine shootings, my friends and I had to make a commercial for a Media class. We chose to advertise Mafia Brand Trench coats, which featured one of us opening the trench coat and having two goons jump out. Then Columbine happened and we were all suspended, in spite of the fact that, except for me, they were all semi popular straight A student-athletes. (I was straight C jock-bully)
JessG 4 years ago
Why would you be suspended for something that had nothing to do with you? At most, it was a coincidence, so I don't understand
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Sarah Grape 4 years ago
this sounds like my uncle. fortunately, he was a good student so the teachers mostly left him alone
Cain Hargreaves 4 years ago
Kid at my high school was suspended for wearing a trenchcoat in the days after Columbine, so he wore a dark blue bathrobe for the rest of his time in school. He was a pretty interesting guy, actually.
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
Suspended for a coat and being shy? I do not get this one. Is being a decently dressed person with a likable personality a crime?
#46
Candy canes were outlawed because you could sharpen them to a point and use them as a shiv. I went to school in rural Washington. We were definitely weren’t somewhere that shankings were to be expected
Olivia Hurd 4 years ago
this is actually realistic. in fourth grade one kid brought in candy canes for the class and some boys in my class licked them into blades and stabbed their friends. two kids ended up bleeding in the nurse, however our school actually did not ban candy canes, yet the banned Shopkins because they are “distracting”
Martha Meyer 4 years ago
A kid at my school managed to take off half the ear off another kid with a sharpened pencil. . No one expected something like that either. And he'd been aiming for the other kids FACE. At age 12. The kid he attacked bled like crazy and actually had to go to the hospital.
Anna Banana 4 years ago
I bet whoever came up with that rule thought they were very smart to think of that.
Axolotl King 4 years ago
Huh. I wonder if that was at my school, that same thing happened at my school, and the area lines up.
Fred Burrows 4 years ago
Guess you'd have to eraser burn their forehead when they took your juice box.
#47
It wasn't really the rule that was dumb but the reason for it. In my last year of high school, the school issued a rule that all students had to wear student IDs. If you didn't, you had to immediately go and pay for another ID. While you can see how many students may have saw this a way to skip class, the reason for this was the school shootings that happened the previous year. The reasoning was that it would be easier to spot who is a student and who is not a student to then see who has malicious intent.....except that most shooters were students....so....
Yvonne Dauwalder Balsiger 4 years ago (edited)
I was expecting to read they wanted to use the school ID as a dog tag to make it easier to identify shot students or something. Glad for the clarification in the last paragraph - but yeah, that won't prevent a shooting at all.
Alethia Nyx 4 years ago
I feel like the reason they said was to cover for the fact it was for the reason you said.
Load More Replies... Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
You know what would be even better, having stricter gun laws.
Kt 4 years ago
You cant take awy their guns.....it's their right. A right that was given to them when they could shoot 1 bullet a minute and they would have to load the gun again after each shot...but their right 🤣🙄
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V Martinez 4 years ago
Another reason that I've heard is to easily Id the kids themselves. If it's a medium to large school, I can see some trouble-makers kids giving someone else's name to avoid getting into trouble. Sure, they can ask the accuser to id the kid, but if they couldn't, they had a name and the falsely accused had to try to clear their name. If they were given the chance.
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
That's what they said... But it was probably for stealing students' money.
#48
Not really a rule, but the toilet paper Holders are OUTSIDE of the Stalls on a wall. So you have to calculate before taking a dump how much you need and hope that it was enough
Nice cuppa tea 4 years ago
Probably just led to everyone taking more than they need, causing the waste that they were trying to prevent in the first place?!
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
That's absolute crap. I would just take the whole roll in with me.
Ruth Farcas 4 years ago
Clearly the idea of a contol freak. Remedy: remove the whole roll straight away if you can, or all the paper, and take it into the stalls.
#49
If you were caught on your phone they’d take it until the end of the week. you’d get it back at half 3 on friday. parents went mental and a few even came together and sent bills through for part of the phone bills, they ditched that rule after 2 weeks.
Mimi777 4 years ago
At my HS school they would return them to you at the end of the day, that was reasonable but I’m sorry end of the week doesn’t sound reasonable if kids have extra curricular activities and go places after school and need a phone or a way to contact their parents.
Callum McLeod 4 years ago
And I am SO NOT using a flip-phone. (They are terrible!)
Load More Replies... cybermerlin2000 4 years ago
End of the lesson, yes. Any longer, no. Some kids have a damn good health reason for a phone.
Kt 4 years ago
I get taking phones off of kids, but maybe just til the end of the day? Most kids i know have phones for safety reasons - for when they are travelling to and from school or when they go out to meet friends or go to clubs. Keeping the phone for a week means theyre being punished at school and home because they then can't go out. Also, for anyone saying 'why do they take their phones to school, they don't need them'... well, bus tickets here are all done via an app for kids, so they do need their phone to get to and from school.
GirlFriday 4 years ago
My nephew's school installed cell jammers to keep the kids from using the phones in the building. This lasted about 3 months until the kids found out and the parents threw a fit. What if there was an emergency? In the time of school shootings, how was anyone to call the police if something happened?
Jenny King 4 years ago
I agree with others who say confiscate to the end of day or class but all week is going too far. I think anything confiscated should be returned at the end of the day. I like the idea of a grid-like shelf or box that the student deposits the phone in as they enter class (maybe even a box in the grid of the seating pattern?). It stays visible the entire time and others have a hard time "accidentally" picking up someone else's. I've seen this work for exams.
Tara Ray 4 years ago
In my school, our teachers went through our phones and read all out convos.
Jenny King 4 years ago
That is wrong. So is reading passed notes out loud.
Load More Replies... Rider 4 years ago
I've confiscated many a phone as a campus safety, we gave opportunity to avoid taking it. Our rule was after 2nd warning, teacher could hold the phone till the end of class/day. If a kid refused, they called us which is an automatic parent pick up, but gave another chance for teacher/office to hold it. Still refuse, trip to office where principles gave another chance. Still refused, called the parent to pick up the kid and phone, plus a conference. Sometimes we'd do a phone conference. Idea was to get parents involved in school order. It worked. For those who mentioned the legal issue of confiscating the parents property. Sorry that doesn't work. Most schools have students and parents sign a contract for the school rules and code of conduct. The kicker, in my state principles are legally responsible for students and are legally considered a parent when a parent is not present. So yes, legally they can take your phone and return it to parent.
AspieGirl88 4 years ago
These days phones are used to manage health conditions such as diabetes, though. My mum has the app for my (type 1) diabetes on her phone, so she can scan my results through quicker. Who’s to say these students don’t use their phones the same way? 🤷♀️
#50
My school made it compulsory to wear uniform in online classes
rossgunn398 4 years ago
I'm a teacher and I did that. Productivity of students went up immediately.
Daria B 4 years ago
Hmmm... Not sure about this one. As far as proper etiquette is concerned, I agree students shouldn't just appear on camera in, say, pyjamas or underwear, or something like that. But, on the other hand, it's absurd that someone dictates what you have to do and wear in your own home....
SunofSpringtime 4 years ago
I don't think this is dumb. A lot of people get dressed before wfh, it changes your mindset into working mode and make you more productive. Same case with uniform. Plus I would imagine the students already have uniform anyway.
Martha Meyer 4 years ago
I don't think this is a bad rule. They recommend putting on work clothes for adults too. It helps get into the right state of mind for school/work, which is harder to do at home than at the actual school/office. You can still wear lounge pants underneath!
Omi bub 4 years ago
Also stops the kids competing over trendy clothes making poor kids feel bad.
Load More Replies... Confused Flamingo 4 years ago
I avoided this by just position my Webcam such that they cannot see beyond my neck💀 I got away with it the whole year
Kt 4 years ago
Uniforms really aren't that strange fir schools. Where im from it was deemed for safety - if you were out of school and knocked over with no one around and no ID, at least they knew what school you went to 🙄🙄 I liked it for the 'equal' part. Plain black or gret trousers. Plain black or white shirt. Same tie. Plain black kr grey jumper. It wasnt as easy to pick on someone for what they were wearing then.
Load More Replies... Sum Guy 4 years ago
That is actually a good rule I can get behind... School isn't just about books, it's also supposed to teach you some sort of discipline
Kennedy Johnson 4 years ago
I think putting on school clothes helps you get ready for school. You shouldn’t just be wearing pajamas because those would not get you ready for the day.
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#51
A few weird ones and their reasoning behind making them: - Girls weren't allowed to wear tops with spaghetti straps because they could be easily cut with scissors. - No tube tops either, because they could easily be pulled down - No bra straps showing whatsoever, because it was considered indecent - No soft drinks with actual sugar because if it spilled it would make a sticky mess. Diet soft drinks were fine because they wouldn't get as sticky - No beverages of any kind (only in certain classrooms, depending on who the teacher was. Not like, computer labs where it was obvious drinks shouldn't be allowed, I'm talking like...random math or history classes based on who your teacher was, whereas the same class taught by a different teacher, it was allowed), because f**k you if you're thirsty. - No shirts from the company "Billabong" because it says "bong" and that's a drug reference And last but not least, because this one is a really funny one and I'm hoping someone from my class sees this and can confirm: No wearing the Alice in Wonderland joint smoking caterpillar shirts that we designed for homecoming week because that's absolutely not a paintbrush. This one makes sense...no idea how it got approved.
Helen Haley 4 years ago
Seems like the person coming at you with scissors should be the one punished. What the heck is wrong with bra straps? 50% of the populations is female. Just get over it.
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
People who work in schools are utterly evil, they always blame the victim.
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Tiggy Darling 4 years ago
"No shirts from the company "Billabong" because it says "bong" and that's a drug reference" Then surely no clothes with the letter "E" on them either? What crackpots!
BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
The reason girls at my school can't wear spaghetti straps is because we can't show our shoulders. Apparently they, "distract the boys."
𝕊𝕒𝕞 (𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕪/𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕞) 4 years ago
EX-F*CKING-SCUSE ME, WHY WOULD YOU BLAME THE GIRLS WEARING THESE INSTEAD OF, YOU KNOW, ACTUALLY PUNISHING PEOPLE WHO CUT THEIR STRAPS/PULLED DOWN THEIR TUBE TOPS?!!?!?!
Printerman 4 years ago
There seem to be a lot of school rules aimed at victim punishing, dunnit? Punish tube tops, not the a-holes that might pull on them, punish spaget. straps not the person trying to cut them, etc. Punish girls in general instead of forcing boys to learn how to behave themselves. What a bunch of BS.
Dizzy Falcon 4 years ago
The first 3... Bruh are teachers pulling down tube tops and cutting straps now?
Jonathan Hsieh 4 years ago (edited)
The first few are rather female-targeting. Frankly, women should be proud of their bodies, not ashamed. Also, forcing women to hide the "sexually-stimulating" parts of their bodies due to boys is absolute BS. The problem is the boys. And what are you supposed to do, pretend that breasts don't exist?
#52
Many many years ago when the Simpsons first came out, my school banned Bart Simpson t-shirts that said "Underachiever". It just sent the wrong message to students! So I wore my "I'm Bart Simpson, Who the hell are you" T-shirt instead. ....until they banned that one too.
#53
When I was in Junior school (UK boarding school in the 80's), we were not allowed to say OK as it was considered slang and not befitting the young ladies and gentleman that we should aspire to be.
We also had to have a comb and a hankerchief on us at all times.
On top of that, we weren’t allowed to have our hands in our pockets because, ‘it looks slovenly’.
littlesaresare 4 years ago
What are you supposed to say to replace OK? "I'm going to the store." "Acknowledged." ??
Stephanie IV 4 years ago (edited)
It’s stupid when you’re young and quite nice to have when you’re old, though. Meaning: when you’re past the age of thirty, it’s quite nice if you had manners drilled into you.
Jonathan Hsieh 4 years ago (edited)
Forcing kids to be proper is like forcing kids to listen to Queen, Van Halen, and Frank Sinatra. It is an incredibly good thing, but with disregard for what the current generation has to offer. Seriously, while a lot fo music nowadays is bad, their are a lot of good artists out there. While a lot of styles today are weird, a lot of them look really cool. Not all of your music was good. Just listen to "Dee-Dee King's" first album. Warning: this comment is by a kid who is trying to not be biased.
#54
'Students must keep their hair short'.
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 4 years ago
When I was in high school, a friend of mine got around that rule by citing religious reasons. He wasn't even religious, he just liked his hair. Whenever teachers asked him, he would show them the zero tolerance for discrimination rule in the school rule book. The rule lasted one month when several kids started copying him.
Load More Replies... Kira Okah 4 years ago
My friend's new school headmaster (in a boy's only school) implemented this rule, knowing that the majority of the school population were Sikh. Rule applied to them too, he threatened to cut their hair multiple times. Headmaster stated that it was to "clear up the riff-raff", by which it was found that he meant he was racist and purposely targetting the Sikhs.
BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
Ahahahaha NO. I will keep my hair so long it reaches my butt, thank you
Jonathan Hsieh 4 years ago
I looked like one of the Ramones in elementary school. I always liked long and messy hair, like Justin Herbert's haircut. It said something about me. Like a nerdy Asian trying to look cool.
Jo Johannsen 4 years ago
55 years they've been fighting a pointless battle. Time to surrender, school boards.
H Edwards 4 years ago
Oh come on, that can't be true. And if it is it makes no sense at all.
Load More Replies... #55
I was wearing a regulation uniform jacket in a classroom during winter that had no heating. The teacher demanded I remove my jacket and I refused because I was cold. She sent me to the head mistress.
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
The the head mistress sent you back to class, and when the teacher asked you why you were back, you answered "she says you will be fired next time".
#56
Rubix cubes were banned.
Charles Coward 4 years ago
"WhEn tHeY CeNsOr sOmEtHiNg ThEy uSe SQUARE PiXeLs!1!!1!11!"
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Michelle M 4 years ago (edited)
School: "we don't want anything that could make the kids smarter."
Jonathan Hsieh 4 years ago
Is this J Perm's school? I freaking love cubing. While I'm not really "fast" yet (only 23 seconds), I still watch all of J Perm's videos. He went to a school that banned Rubik's cubes because of him.
#57
No hot drinks. Rumour said it was because the principal burnt himself while drinking something so he banned it
Henry Cheves 4 years ago
If he's too dumb too be careful with a hot drink, why should everyone else get punished?
#58
You could only go to the bathroom twice a day, once in the morning and once in the afternoon. Mind you this is from 8-3 and you had to get a new pass every week and keep it the whole time or you couldn’t use the bathroom.
Jo Johannsen 4 years ago
Bet the diabetics loved that. I don't know how it is for Type 1, but my average is 1 to 1½ hours.
Anna Banana 4 years ago
So is mine, and I'm not diabetic - I just drink a lot of water/tea, depending on the season. I can't imagine drinking so little that you only pee twice in 7 hours.
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"No body armor of any kind"-The hell was we gonna get body armor? Most of us barley could afford to go to school. The fact that this was a rule also makes me wonder what the f**k happened to make them institute this.
Paul Aguilera 4 years ago
there was a student shooting in school but was hard to take down cause he was wearing armor. so to help police take down a student shooter, no students can wear armor. we're keeping them safe lol
Satirical Duchess 4 years ago
wdym "afford to go to school"?? please tell me there isn't anywhere where you have to pay to get into even state schools?
BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago (edited)
I am also wondering why they had to make that a rule.
#60
No running shoes on the new gym floor - playing floor hockey barefoot is painful.
#61
I got detention for pooping more then 10 minutes but I have serve stomach cramps and I asked why and they had no answer.
#62
Playing cards at lunch was prohibited because it "promoted gambling".
Paul Aguilera 4 years ago
to be fair, i did gamble at 16yrs old but we never had $$. we played for fancy pencils, notebooks, tater tots, milk cartons, basically whatever we wanted besides cash lol
JustABoredwing 4 years ago
What? Where else would I have learned to play War, Rummy, and B.S.?
Octavia Hansen 4 years ago
Good thing you don't live in Las Vegas! I think it's a state law that EVERYONE carries a deck of cards. Most places will give you a free deck!
#63
Conservative Christian College. A group of us played Age of Empires one weekend. They didn’t like it and called a meeting. Everyone involved got misdemeanors on their records. There was nothing in the handbook about it being against the rules. The only person that didn’t get any punishment was the son of the president even though he was just as involved as the rest of us. Was quite interesting explaining the write up on my record when I transferred. “You got a misdemeanor for what?!”
Nice cuppa tea 4 years ago
But how can you get punished for something you do outside of school? Was it a boarding school?
Cain Hargreaves 4 years ago
Having played Age of Empires myself I'm seriously curious about their reasoning on this one
#64
In the late 90s in my elementary school Pokémon cards were banned.
Katherine Boag 4 years ago
When stuff like this was banned at my school it was to stop kids fighting over trades and to prevent theft.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
Same thing happened at my school for the same reason too.
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Cain Hargreaves 4 years ago
Were they banned because they were satanic? There was private school in my area that did that. Apparently each Pokemon is actually a particular demon and playing with the cards can summon that demon? Apparently?
#65
The dumbest one I suffered was in the early 90s my junior high banned all jackets and jacket like clothing in class because there was a story about how some kids in an inner city school had brought guns to class in Starter jackets. Keep in mind that my junior high school was in a medium sized college town, not anywhere with an actual “gang” problem. The school also had a terrible climate control system and was always cold. The rule was really absurd, you couldn’t wear jackets or hoodies but pullover hood less sweatshirts were ok, as were sweaters. The rule was finally revoked after we had a fire alarm incident in the middle of February that had the whole school standing outside for 45 minutes in freezing weather while the Fire Department checked for whatever had set off the alarm.
Cain Hargreaves 4 years ago
My middle school had the "no hoodies or hoods" rule. And it extended to everything with a hood. Yes, even that furry scarf with ears on the hood and pawprints on the ends. No hoods!
#66
After 9/11 they made us wear school ids on our shirt or hanging from a lanyard around the neck. For some reason they decided it would be smart to also put each students medical history on the back. Mine just had “nosebleeds” written in cursive
#67
Took all the doors off the men's room bathroom stalls because of vandalism for 2 months.
Paul Aguilera 4 years ago
been there. i think it was grades 7 8 and 9. always traumatic when someone walked over and saw your "i'm forcing out a deuce!" face lol
#68
No slow dances at the prom.
#69
We were not allowed to have facial hair at all. Like to the point where the principal would walk around during lunch with razors and shaving cream and do "Stubble checks". Absolutely ridiculous and he would send tons of us to the bathrooms to shave during lunch, no matter how small the stubble was.
Bender Bending Rodríguez 4 years ago
What I want to know most and no one has asked yet is, Was the razor shared or disposable for each student who got sent to shave.
#70
They installed vending machines and later banned pocket change, so if you wanted anything from the machine you had to get it in the morning before classes started, or just get it cheaper in the shop next to the school.
cybermerlin2000 4 years ago
Just go to the shop. Vending machines are rented and if there isn't enough money made from them then the company that supplies them will investigate, see the dumb rule and remove the machines
Draco's Dragonfly 4 years ago
You ok there? You seem to have a bit of a delay ;)
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you had to have black shoelaces. no dark blue, no white, no grey. only black. there was also the rule your tie had to be a minimum length. so sometimes one of the assistant head teachers would come in and measure the length of your tie with a ruler.
Alexi M 4 years ago
Nope, yellow is actually anti-racist (and sometimes also another gay color), red and white is for neo-nazis. But you’re right about the blue and purple. For everyone else: this code was developed by punks and some skinheads to separate themselves from the racist punk/skinheads
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Dildos were banned. The school never thought they would have to print those words. You would think it was a given. Until a senior bought 100 dildos and snuck them around the school every day for 2 weeks straight
M O'Connell 4 years ago
They were probably the "jelly" variety, which are very cheap and I believe are made of Chinese industrial waste.
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Thomas Sweda 4 years ago
100 ? That senior must have had a well paying part time job. Those things aren’t cheap!
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 4 years ago
Brilliant!! This reminds of the HIMYM episode on the ban signs on public places.
#73
I was sent to the principle in elementary school for getting a drink of water out of line (as in we walked down the hall in a formation and we had designated water drinking stops). To this day I still remember the principal asking angrily well what if every one started getting water without permission? And I still don’t have an answer.
Jonathan Hsieh 4 years ago
The water gods will ask the sun god to send I fiery ball of hell down to that very school to show that "thou shall not drink if all request drink."
#74
No unnatural hair colors. Except for Lily, who dyed her hair the school color (maroon). It was dark enough to argue it was a weird red/brown, but it was clearly maroon and I think she got away with it because it was “school spirit”
BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
I hope that's not the school I'm going to next year bc I have purple hair right now.
Bella, Your Kitty-Loving Queen 4 years ago
My hair color is natural, but it’s not very common. These idiots would probably call it an “unnatural hair color”
JessG 4 years ago
If it's your natural hair color, then it's not "unnatural" and probably more common than you think
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#75
The new Principal made a "morning round-up" rule where anyone arriving to class after the last bell had to go to the cafeteria and listen to a lecture about not being late for class. This took about an extra 15 minutes, making the students even more late to class than they would have otherwise been. Needless to say, everyone hated it, even the teachers. That principal didn't last long...
Jaded Queen 4 years ago
Lucky, we weren't even allowed entry into the school. Even after just one minute, literally. Not kidding
#76
If found with socks lower that the knees: warning, 3 warnings: detention needless to say I got a couple of detentions
Cain Hargreaves 4 years ago
Geeze. I would've been. For a Halloween costume last year I had to get thigh-high socks if I wanted them to be knee-high socks.
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We had an up staircase and a down staircase. You could only go up the up staircase and only go down the down staircase. If you were caught going the wrong direction on either staircase, you would get some kind of warning/strike. I will admit that it did help from keeping the stairs get congested in between classes, but it was a huge pain in the ass if you had a class right next to the up staircase and had to go downstairs for your next class, because the down staircase was way at the other end of the floor,so you basically had to book it to your next class. Another stupid rule was only having three minutes in between classes. I went to a huge highschool, so you basically had to speed walk or jog to classes that were far. And with the whole staircase issue mentioned above, it resulted in people being late for class constantly.
Bow, I’m a Slytherin 4 years ago
We have all these rules. I think it just causes even more havoc. You have 800 students trying to come up the one staircase you can use after lunch; that won’t end well.
Lisa Wiseman 4 years ago
There literally is a play about this called "Up the Down Staircase" about a high school. CAme out in the 1960s
Bella, Your Kitty-Loving Queen 4 years ago
My school has that too, but in the case of covid I guess it seems reasonable?? Idk tell me if I’m wrong.
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
We had the same problem in my middle school. Many teachers would usually complain about us being late, and they eventually deleted this rule and our punishments (which we refused to do, obviously).
loading... 4 years ago
We have this because of Covid atm, and we have it on a few narrower stairways in science.
N G 4 years ago
We had the one-way system in our school. Over 2000 students in a series of buildings built in the 1950s it made total sense, especially as there were a couple of crushing incidents prior to the implementation of the system. Our stairs were reasonably close together though, so obviously less of an issue. There were other rules that were a PITA at the time, but with hindsight made perfect sense from a H&S perspective.
#78
I got in trouble for humming to myself in the bathroom and told I was disturbing another class
Cara Strong 3 years ago
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Load More Replies... #79
At the end of the school day, buses were not allowed to depart until the flag was lowered on the flagpole outside the main entrance and properly stowed.
Harrison Miller 4 years ago
I feel like the Principal was a Trump supporter... or maybe just a bigot.
#80
So many... You weren't allowed to wear a coat or a backpack (always freezing with tons of books), no card games at all, 5 minutes between classes (sprawling 1 story building barely leaves time to pee)
#81
We weren’t allowed to share cough drops, and you had to have a note to have them at all. This was apparently because they were considered “medication.”
whodunnitfan2013 4 years ago
They're considered drugs at my school, basically. Just like Tylenol or other OTC painkillers, like for girls on their periods.
Cain Hargreaves 4 years ago
Same here. A lot of us would sneak medicines like Tylenol in little foil packets because the teachers would call you out if they thought they heard a bottle of medicine rattle in your backpack.
Load More Replies... Jon Steensen 4 years ago
Kind of makes sense. The active ingredenses in that stuff is commonly disolved in alcohol, and some of them contains small amounts of morphine . For that reason cough sirup can sometimes be misused by students taking way more than the recomended dosis. Though they can be bought without a prescription, they are still a pharmapsudical drug, which is not harmless, and hence it ought to be treaded with care and respect. Therefore I think it was with good reason that the school tried to regulate the (Ab)use of them. Of course you should be given acces to them when you actually need it, while studendents getting drunk/high/intoxicated on that stuff should be stopped.
#82
Went to school during the time where health and safety suddenly started going crazy, they introduced a "no contact under any circumstances" rule i.e no touching another person, we were like 6 or 7 years old. Suddenly one day not only is tag suddenly illegal, but they actually enforced it, I remember one day like 70% of the schools population was pulled off of the playground and made to sit on the floor in the hall, for the crime of just playing the games that children play.
#83
"Don't play on the golf course. " Our tiny community got a burst of cash in the 70's due to having mineral rights on land with oil. It was amazing some of the things we had access to for a school in the plains in Montana: computer lab, ceramics, photography, and a freaking laser! They also bought the grade school a miniature golf course in the center of the play ground. A majority of the playground was concrete squirrels, turtles and a whale. These looked like a lot of fun to play on for a kid. We couldn't touch them. We couldn't get near them. We couldn't land our star wars figures on them, incorporate them in our games in any way or even walk near them when running from someone playing tag. Once in PE we got out the clubs and played a few rounds in my entire time in school. Other classes never even got that. After about 30 years, during a student clean up, they got some of the upper level high school kids to take hammers to them and pulverized them. "Don't let your underwear show." This was directed at the girls when Madonna was in fashion. One school official went to war on visible bra straps. While no girls even attempted copying Madonna, this official was making a preemptive attack. She made announcements and would bust girls in the halls. About this time the Varsity boys basketball team got new uniforms. Rather than spend money on the other teams, their old uniforms were given to the junior varsity girls team. Jerseys with huge arm and neck holes made for 17 year old boys where now being worn by 15 year old girls. Girls that were as active as possible and in public. If they pose for a picture, you could almost not see their bras. While playing the front of the jerseys flopped from side to side. At least one cup would be visible at any time. Suddenly girls basketball got a lot more popular.
#84
No clothes from Hollister or Abercrombie and Fitch or you get suspended for 3 days. I went to a private school and those stores had clothes that worked in the dress code guidelines. So, school starts, then a month after school starts, they decide a&f is too pornographic or whatever and told us we would get suspended for wearing anything from those stores. I didn't have any from there, because they were too expensive. I get making a rule like before people shop for school clothes (for a strict, religious private school, even though it's silly). Students' parents refused to go buy new clothes after already buying new ones. A friend of mine got suspended for 3 days for wearing a red polo, because it had whatever tiny embroidered logo was on it.
Nicky 4 years ago
A&F got sued for $22 million for discriminating against minority employees, putting them in the stock room instead of in front where the customers were, on the grounds that their clerks were "models" and minority employees weren't attractive enough/off-brand. Look this up.
it's Wednesday my dudes. 4 years ago
same with Hollister! they did this whole publicity stunt where they hired hot white models to stand outside the store shirtless to take pictures with customers.
Load More Replies... Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago
I bet it was to stop the bullying of poorer kids whose parents couldn’t afford those tacky brands.
cybermerlin2000 4 years ago
My high school put a ban on branded clothes because it caused elitism between students that was so bad it got to a point where students with Nike trainers would gang up on students wearing generic store brand. It worked. No more clothing snobs as everyones uniforms cost roughly the same
Bella, Your Kitty-Loving Queen 4 years ago
I’m glad I don’t go to this school. A&F is my fave! Honestly my closet is full of their adorable clothes lol
#85
That if you say/do anything back to your bully it becomes a mutual conflict and isn't bullying, so if they start calling you slurs and making you feel bad every day and you call them stupid once or twice the school probably won't help. Also dress code required school branded hoodies... they were 50 dollars. If you wore a non school hoodie you got in school suspension
Kt 4 years ago
Yeah, the cost of 'school branded' uniform is a joke. You want kids to wear something with your logo on it? Make it affordable then. The PE kits are like £50 for a tshirt and shorts. Luckily my school never bothered about this but my sister spends a fortune on my nephews school clothes because of it.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
Many dry cleaners do alterations, I know several people who had ordinary store brand shirts embroidered with the school logo. Rather than a $50 shirt from the approved vendor, you could buy an $8 shirt and have it embroidered for $5.
Load More Replies... #86
They banned plain red and plain blue shirts
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 4 years ago
Are your teachers expecting you to be trampled by a bull? Or was there a protest by the French?
Jonathan Hsieh 4 years ago
In California, XIV gang (Norcal) is red colors and XIII (Socal) is blue. It's gang related at my school.
#87
Prom was a mandatory lockdown for the night in order to avoid students going to parties after prom. Prom was held at various house parties across town instead.
Beth L 4 years ago
Prom babies are definitely a thing in most rural parts of the country...
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#88
My friend is an administrator at a private school in NJ and the faculty has to sign in and out of the bathroom using Google sheets. 9am, 10 minutes, M-F
#89
Yoyos. Somehow it became a thing in high school and, well, eventually they got banned.
Raven Sheridan 4 years ago
Yoyo's are a gateway toy. Next thing you know, you're strung out on hula hoops!
Stephanie IV 4 years ago (edited)
Yo-yos are weapons. At least in the eyes of schools. But, since everything can be turned into a weapon... well.
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#90
There were certain staircases assigned to each grade to use. Like we couldn't go down certain staircases because "tHoSE are THE kinDERGARTEN and GRaDE 1 STAIRS", even if the stairs were not in use by them at the time my elementary school had a whole lot of other cultish behavior lol. It was an over the top Catholic school
huewrld 4 years ago
my middle school had this, but only because the 7th-grade classrooms are on one side and the 8th-grade classrooms are on the other, so there were designated staircases for each grade. we also had the designated up-stairs and down-stairs from #80- the up-stairs were on the sides (the 7th- and 8th-grade stairs) and the down-stairs were in the middle (in front of the cafeteria and extracurricular classes, the ones that both grades can attend)
Cain Hargreaves 4 years ago
We had something like this when I was in 8th grade. We were sharing a new school building while ours was being renovated. The new building was going to be a middle school but they only had 6th graders at the time. And BOY did the administrators do their ABSOLUTE best to make sure the 6th graders and the 8th graders never crossed paths.
#91
“No spaghetti straps“…this was enforced from kindergarten to the end of elementary school edit: I just remembered, each grade had a different section of the school yard and they couldn’t cross the “line” separating them. This really sucked because only kindergartens and grade 1-3 could use the play structures.
Ashley Conover 4 years ago
My parents had me in a Lutheran School in second grade. I was more shocked by the fact that I grew up LDS. The only thing any student from second grade on would be able to spend recess on was the lawn with one tree. You had no toys to play with such as soccer balls, Etc. I would go and either stand or sit by the tree by myself. Note.. No longer active in that faith
Brenda Spagnola 3 years ago
Daughters elementary school banned Jennings and leggings, saying they were "clingy" and therefore inappropriate. My daughter had long legs and a long torso. For a few years, those were literally the only pants that fit her since she was skinny, too. Told the school when they found pants that fit her property, they should feel free to buy her some - at their own expense. Until then, that's what she would be wearing. She was in 1st grade.
#92
I went to school in the 90's and the school banned us from having pagers.
Clearstone 4 years ago
why would they do that? I'm so lost... Like if it was now with covid then yea I understand but in the 90's?
Cain Hargreaves 4 years ago
There was a mild panic that anyone who had a pager was a drug dealer (so your customers could get ahold of you at any time). It was the same at my school.
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"No watches during exams", because it could be a smart watch and it's to hard too differentiate between those and normal ones. I mean, it wouldn't be a big problem if there actually were working clocks in every room. Hm.
Kirsten Kerkhof 4 years ago
We have that rule at my school as well, and it's not that bad. I usually just project an online clock on the SmartBoard (we have clocks in the exam rooms, but they're high up and usually a minute or two wrong). Problem solved.
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 4 years ago
I do that too. But I also design exams when students must analyze a historical speech or newspaper article (I teach history). They can take their notes and printouts of the class presentations and make their own analysis. You cannot google it when the question is un-google-able...
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M O'Connell 4 years ago
That rule was definitely enforced even pre-smartwatch. You can thank Casio for making wristwatches with calculators built into them.
Bella, Your Kitty-Loving Queen 4 years ago
We were taking an important end-of-the-year test and the teacher made us take off all watches. Even ones that were clearly just digital watches that told you the time
Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago
Why would a child in class be that worried about what time it is during an exam?
#94
A kid went to the hospital after falling from a wall. Then the school painted yellow lines around the school as a border which the kids weren’t allowed to cross. So the teachers had to stand guard and make sure no one crossed it.
#95
We weren't allowed have personal drinks in classroom unless we had doctor's note.
JessG 4 years ago
This is about students bringing alcohol, so it's appropriate. Also, people now know the benefits of keeping hydrated, and drinking water. Also, caffeinated beverages have be come much more prevalent with many more varieties. That's why
Load More Replies... Caroline Nagel 4 years ago
People do realise that having e bottle of water with you all the time is something of the last 20 years - bottles of water on desks weren't a thing.
Load More Replies... #96
No shorts allowed between some day in October and some day in usually March/April (maybe May even). It was a K-8 school. We live in a 4 season area. It's hot in the summer, cooler in the fall/spring, and can sometimes snow but is usually just cold during the winter. It was a stupid rule.
Helen Haley 4 years ago
This was probably made to protect the less fortunate kids. The ones whose parents would send them to school in anything. Including shorts in winter.
Johanna 4 years ago
Posible. I know a Student, at age 10 going in a T-Shirt. It was at around 5°. Really shitty parents.
Load More Replies... Bella, Your Kitty-Loving Queen 4 years ago
Maybe even may? Well okay it’s the middle of may right now and it’s like 80 degrees where I am today!!
What do you think ?
ADHORTATOR 4 years ago
Holy...when I was at school in Germany in the 70s and 80s, almost nothing was forbidden - we had snowball fights in the winter, played ballgames in summer, gathered in groups, most of the boys had swiss army knives in their pockets...
pecan chewy 4 years ago
Throughout secondary school we were made to shower completely naked. We weren't allowed to take towels in or cover ourselves. We were watched going in and had to prove we'd got water on us when we came out. The boys showered in shorts. Not a great experience for girls in different stages of puberty on a weekly basis!
Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 4 years ago
Something tells me the staff are 🎶peeerrveeertsss🎶
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bryguy 4 years ago
These are so weird, but even weirder is how just last month (Apr 2021) Florida lawmakers pass a Bill that legalizes Teen Genital Inspections if they are suspected of being trans. This is to "allow young girls the chance to prove their skills in sports." WTF! A teacher/coach is actually allowed to inspect your childs gentiles and there is nothing legally you can do about it. And we are supposed to just have faith that isn't going to be abused horribly?
BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
The stupidest school rule I've heard is, "YoU cAn'T sHoW yOuR sHoUlDeRs Or BaCk sInCe ThEy DiStRaCt ThE bOyS!" Any boy distracted by normal body parts so much that they can't focus on school should not be allowed around girls
Kat 4 years ago
We weren't allowed outside during breaks. There was a shop across the street from school and they didn't want us to go there. Everyone who went out had to write down his/her name and class when getting in. So half the shool went out on every break and they couldn't handle the amount of people wanting in when the bell started ringing. All of them were extremely late for classes and the teachers started to complain and so it stopped.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Back in the 1950s, my dad's high school said all boys had to come to school in a tie and jacket. My dad and his buddies came to school in a tie, a jacket, and their blue jeans, and an undershirt. Three days later, the rule went back to "something clean is fine, thanks".
Kira Okah 4 years ago
Our secondary school had mandated school underwear - white striped with the school colours, unavailable anywhere but the exclusive school shop. This wasn't like vest and shorts type underwear, this was bra and knickers type underwear. The PE teacher (all of ours were female) had to be in the room when we changed and would give detention if we weren't in school underwear. Oh, and the bra sizes didn't go above a 34 band or a C cup, so tough if they were too small for you.
Random Anon 4 years ago
You know it's no wonder there are a lot of people with mental disorders looking back now. Bullying was rampant and the schools did diddly squat. A single bully can terrorize a lot of children.
Tabby_Sohee 4 years ago (edited)
My middle school had rules that girls weren’t allowed to wear leggings, or tank tops. Reasonable enough. But - they definitely should have thought themselves through. My friend asked the assistant prin. why we weren’t allowed to wear tank tops. A grown-a** woman told the 11 year old, “girls’ shoulders are too distracting to boys and it’s unfair for them to have to deal with their hormones because you can’t dress correctly.” Also, when I asked a different assistant prin. about the leggings rule and if it would be okay if we wore sports pants over the leggings: “No, your legs are still highly distinguished and those curves are the reason you have to watch out -“ here he laughed. Yes. He. I was in sixth grade.
ADHORTATOR 4 years ago
Holy...when I was at school in Germany in the 70s and 80s, almost nothing was forbidden - we had snowball fights in the winter, played ballgames in summer, gathered in groups, most of the boys had swiss army knives in their pockets...
pecan chewy 4 years ago
Throughout secondary school we were made to shower completely naked. We weren't allowed to take towels in or cover ourselves. We were watched going in and had to prove we'd got water on us when we came out. The boys showered in shorts. Not a great experience for girls in different stages of puberty on a weekly basis!
Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 4 years ago
Something tells me the staff are 🎶peeerrveeertsss🎶
Load More Replies... bryguy 4 years ago
These are so weird, but even weirder is how just last month (Apr 2021) Florida lawmakers pass a Bill that legalizes Teen Genital Inspections if they are suspected of being trans. This is to "allow young girls the chance to prove their skills in sports." WTF! A teacher/coach is actually allowed to inspect your childs gentiles and there is nothing legally you can do about it. And we are supposed to just have faith that isn't going to be abused horribly?
BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
The stupidest school rule I've heard is, "YoU cAn'T sHoW yOuR sHoUlDeRs Or BaCk sInCe ThEy DiStRaCt ThE bOyS!" Any boy distracted by normal body parts so much that they can't focus on school should not be allowed around girls
Kat 4 years ago
We weren't allowed outside during breaks. There was a shop across the street from school and they didn't want us to go there. Everyone who went out had to write down his/her name and class when getting in. So half the shool went out on every break and they couldn't handle the amount of people wanting in when the bell started ringing. All of them were extremely late for classes and the teachers started to complain and so it stopped.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Back in the 1950s, my dad's high school said all boys had to come to school in a tie and jacket. My dad and his buddies came to school in a tie, a jacket, and their blue jeans, and an undershirt. Three days later, the rule went back to "something clean is fine, thanks".
Kira Okah 4 years ago
Our secondary school had mandated school underwear - white striped with the school colours, unavailable anywhere but the exclusive school shop. This wasn't like vest and shorts type underwear, this was bra and knickers type underwear. The PE teacher (all of ours were female) had to be in the room when we changed and would give detention if we weren't in school underwear. Oh, and the bra sizes didn't go above a 34 band or a C cup, so tough if they were too small for you.
Random Anon 4 years ago
You know it's no wonder there are a lot of people with mental disorders looking back now. Bullying was rampant and the schools did diddly squat. A single bully can terrorize a lot of children.
Tabby_Sohee 4 years ago (edited)
My middle school had rules that girls weren’t allowed to wear leggings, or tank tops. Reasonable enough. But - they definitely should have thought themselves through. My friend asked the assistant prin. why we weren’t allowed to wear tank tops. A grown-a** woman told the 11 year old, “girls’ shoulders are too distracting to boys and it’s unfair for them to have to deal with their hormones because you can’t dress correctly.” Also, when I asked a different assistant prin. about the leggings rule and if it would be okay if we wore sports pants over the leggings: “No, your legs are still highly distinguished and those curves are the reason you have to watch out -“ here he laughed. Yes. He. I was in sixth grade.
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