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30 Of The Most Bizarre And Just Straight Up Dumb Rules That People Had In Their Schools, As Shared On This Thread
We need rules. Apart from our bodies following some very strict and complex biological laws, without which we would not even be, even the very words we use follow universally agreed principles. Like this one, called English.
The political economist Elinor Ostrom (who shared the Noble Prize for economics in 2009) observed the phenomenon of spontaneous rule construction when people had to collectively manage resources such as land, fisheries, or water for irrigation.
She found that people construct rules together about, say, how many cattle a person can graze, where, and when; who gets how much water, and what should be done when the resource is limited. These agreements often arise from the needs of mutually consensual social and economic interactions.
But on the other end of the spectrum, we have the powerful, imposing their way of doing things from the top down. This is exceptionally evident in institutions. To show that it's not necessarily effective, let's take a look at a Reddit thread created by user ObviousEntertainer with the question, "What's the dumbest rule you had in school?"
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#1
Needing to wait 10 minutes before and after classes have started to use the restroom.
My adolescent body with developing Crohn’s Disease did NOT take kindly to this rule, and got
Into fights with the bathroom monitor often (someone who would make sure nobody was in
the bathroom for too long doing drugs, having sex, other things of the sort).
Thankfully the Principal had a heart of gold and gave me a special pass to use his personal private bathroom which was so nice and clean. In a high school of 5000 teenagers, being able to poop in peace at the rate you go with Crohn’s Disease made my life somewhat less sh*tty (pun intended).
bibbitybobbityboop 3 years ago
Aw damn my science teacher had the same rule, plus we weren’t aloud to fill up our water bottles are get a drink at the fountain during class at all which was b******t
Den Ver 3 years ago (edited)
Why 10 min. "rule"? (Explanation for ages 12+) . . . This guideline* (for fewer than half of schools), exists to manage GROUP behaviour. Almost everyone making comments on this topic acts like they are the only person in the room and they're being tutored; they are only thinking in terms of the Individual and not taking into account the amount of LEARNING the GROUP achieves. If there were only 12 students per class this guideline* wouldn't exist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1st Point: If this wasn't a guideline, students would socialize instead of, "taking care of business" between classes and just leave class when they had to 'go' (increasing classroom disruptions) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2nd Point: When there are 30+ students in a classroom (including "disruptive learners" -- pick your synonym), if kids are allowed to go in an out of the room when the group is restless (first and last 10 min.) then this causes other students to "need" to leave. Pretty soon, somebody is always out of their seat drawing attention away from the lesson and the amount of GROUP learning decreases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . *Note: This Is A Guideline. Exceptions are always made for people like the OP (this story wasn't a surprise since there are always students who need to be accommodated). . . . Furthermore, when someone really needs to "go" at the start or end of class they can ask the teacher and be allowed to leave -- there aren't any stories here titled, "I peed my pants in class". (also, you can hear it in someone's voice when they need to leave, it can't be faked any more than somebody can fake hiccups). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PS: It's even worse for the teachers -- they only have five min. between classes (that's why they act so rushed when students interact with them at the end of class).
BeepBeepBoopBoop 3 years ago
we kinda have something similar, but it's the ten minutes at the start of class, and the last ten minutes you're not allowed to leave the room at all. It's probably for safety reasons but it's still weird
AspieGirl88 3 years ago
I was pretty lucky in high school, when it came to this rule. My year-8 form tutor realised I suffered IBS & he wrote a signed note, explaining that I had a condition that required unrestricted access to the toilets whenever needed. I only had to show this note to whatever teacher I was with & they'd immediately let me go to the restroom. God bless you, Mr Hull, you were one of the best. 🙂💖🙋♀️
Sunshine Daydream 3 years ago (edited)
Exception for kids with medical issues: You don't come to my classroom and immediately demand a potty pass - Not Gonna Happen! If you miss the first 5-10 minutes, you have missed important instruction time
BoxerQueen907 3 years ago
I am in middle school, and we still have this rule. I'm actually in class rn
UnicornSnotRules 3 years ago
As someone with severe Crohn's disease, all I can say is, bless this principal!!
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#2
No gloves, because only gang members wear gloves.
It's freezing cold and your gloves are bright pink? Take them off before someone thinks you're a member of the notorious pink gloves gang.
Lara Verne 3 years ago
It's freezing cold and your gloves are blue? Wait, no, those are my hands.
OwenHasADHD 3 years ago
My hands would revolt against me if I didn't wear gloves.
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Alexis 3 years ago
My (elementary, middle, and high) schools have school uniforms, including jackets and sweaters, tracksuits, literally everything. The school winter jacket was s**t. It's not warm enough, especially not for morning assembly out in the playground every morning during winter. They wouldn't let us wear our own winter coats unless they can be completely concealed under the school jacket. It was a nightmare. No one could wear a winter coat under that jacket.
Pieter LeGrande 3 years ago
But we're you allowed to wear gloves or mittens? Pink?
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TheAquarius1978 3 years ago (edited)
Well, i use to move around with the notorious " white socks tennis club gang " ( no Im not kidding lol ), it was a group of 3 of out classmates, 2 of them where from rural áreas and they where extremely prude, didn't drink, didn't smoke, didn't curse, didn't even look at girls ( we where all in out 20s btw ), and the last One wanted to look cool só hard that he only wore black, but instead of looking like a goth or a emo, he looked like a gipsy lmao, to be fair they also laughed and the " nickname the rest of us gave them " and also all the groups had little nicknames, actually those where great Times ( despite the fact that i once woke up with my hair and my a*s crack full of toothpast, and my snickers filled of shaving cream )....
ThatGayBeans 3 years ago
This is f*cked. I need gloves for BDD and will have a medical episode without them.
#3
In high school, they tried to implement a rule that guys weren't allowed to wear pink that was definitely targeted at a guy who was "one of the freaky people" who would wear a pink hello kitty shirt to school. It didn't work, though, because a large portion of the guys came in the next day wearing pink (including a lot of the football players, which shocked me a little) and the decision was overturned before the day was over.
Fluffy mommy panda 3 years ago
That just wrong you should be able to wear what you want to wear it a free country......it should be totally free.
The Veil of Fire 2 years ago
I love people who freak out hen guys were pink. Check the history folks. Once upon a time pink was for boys and blue was for girls. Also, not sure if its still done in any culture but boys used to wear dresses until the could control their body function. Fear of the unknown causes some worst and silliest rules.
meow point1 3 years ago
Luckily, my teacher was the opposite. A boy thought it was funny that another boy had a pink cell phone, and the teacher tore him a new one and said it was okay for boys to like pink.
#4
We could not touch each other. All physical contact was banned.
There was one teacher that claimed if it wasn't for this rule, we would all be running around raping each other. Ah, yes, truly the time of my life.
alias D. 3 years ago
Yep we live in this world this horrible horrible world
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TheAquarius1978 3 years ago
Asking the real important questiona i see lol.
Load More Replies... TheAquarius1978 3 years ago (edited)
When i was in school 6th and 7th grades there was a tendêncy for some kids to grope some girls butts, One day One of the girls complained to out teacher ( big, big dude called Victor Hugo ) now Victor was an amazing teacher and kind of a jocker, só he told the " perpetrators " to stand side by side face forwards to the board ( there where 5 " criminals " ) then he Said the One in the left Will move to the right and Will grope the a*s of all the others and só on, untill all five had groped and been groped lol, we all laugh, Victor laughed, they laughed, and the girls where never groped again lol. ( If this was today that teacher, that was probably One of the best i ever had, would definitly be fired and probably end up on court )
Lara Verne 3 years ago
Geez. I had plenty of physical contact with my classmates at school, and no one was raped. Oh, and physical contact is not necessary sexual.
AspieGirl88 3 years ago (edited)
What … the … actual … F*CK?! They’re CHILDREN, for goodness sake! This is NOT how you teach children about “good/bad touching” & will only create an unfriendly atmosphere amongst them. What they’re doing is incredibly toxic & unhealthy. 😣🤦♀️
Kayjunmoon 3 years ago
Heckadeck, that is sad. Talk about givng young people the wrong message.
Lawrencium 3 years ago
While I know cultural norms vary, generally speaking as an adult you ought not to touch others without their permission; so I suppose I could see this being a somewhat reasonable rule... But, the alternative automatically being rape??? Seems like a bit of a false dichotomy, no?
deanna woods 3 years ago
Do people like this really not understand how rape and sexual assault actually occur or are the just making a really stupid excuse.
#5
In grade school. We weren't allowed to fight back. That was the actual rule. A kid pinned me down with the help of his friends and started going at it. It was winter and he was wearing his big puffy gloves so it wasn't too bad, but I kicked him off of me and I got in an equal amount of trouble as him. A different kid a few years younger got suspended for a similar instance that same year.
When I pressed them as to what I was supposed to do, apparently I was supposed to "use my words". Yes because the most effective tool to stop someone beating the s**t out of you is to ask them nicely to stop. I loved that school, amazing teachers and support staff, but f**k the administration was terrible.
Mrs.Pugh 3 years ago
Bro, I'm remembering what they told us to do at my first elementary school if we were ever bullied. Put your hand out IN THEIR FACE and say "stop". Yeah, that totally wouldn't have gotten anyone's hand chopped off 🤷🏽♀️
Lawrencium 3 years ago
What kind of school were you in where elementary students were routinely carrying around machetes?! /s
Load More Replies... OwenHasADHD 3 years ago
The Zero Tolerance Policy. The stupidest rule to ever exist in schools.
Lawrencium 3 years ago
Zero tolerance, because circumstances outside of a standard deviation are definitely unlikely! /s
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Meh 3 years ago
I've commented this before but anyway...... My sons old school had the same rule, so after one "fight" where my son defended himself, I was called to the school. I asked them to clarify that he'd get the same punishment as the aggressor if my son defended himself. When they said yes I turned to him and said " you may as well defend yourself properly then" ( he was holding back before, And my side of the family have a history of being boxers ). He had one more altercation and was left alone after that. We also changed his school and haven't had any issues there so far
Wintermute 3 years ago
Those rules are purely to benefit the school by avoiding liabilities in case you hit back to hard and the shitty parents get a shitty lawyer. The administration isn't paid to care about kids. They're running a business.
FakeOptimist 3 years ago
If I had (was) a kid there I would ask if the same rules apply to staff members.....
Seth 3 years ago
They know it's a stupid rule, and it has absolutely nothing to do with the safety of the students. The rule's only purpose is to spare them the responsibility (and ensuing liability) of determining who was the aggressor and who was simply defending themselves. To be fair, they're not criminal investigators, and resolving situations like that isn't why they got into education, but regardless it is a part of the job, and mutually assured expulsion did nothing to reduce bullying or violence. The real lesson that rule teaches is that if someone attacks you, accept that you'll be punished no matter what action you take, so mess the attacker up so bad that they never target you again.
Bruce Ferrier 2 years ago
First, THIS IS THE DEFINITION OF BULLYING, second, they probably believe that it is like saying a magic spell that turns them into a nice angel and don't think how bullies almost never listen to their victims
#6
If you were absent too many days out of the year you got a 2 day suspension. Nothing like kicking kids out of school for not being in school.
Denise Lewis 3 years ago
my daughters school would fail you for a semester if you had to many days absent. no matter what your grades were.
Nikki Angulo 2 years ago (edited)
Well, it’s hard to have good grades if you aren’t going to school. Teachers can’t exactly give an absent student the same work as students who are there (and they can’t know for sure if the student did it on their own or had a lot of help.) So, unless there is a valid reason for prolonged absences, (illness, death in the family, etc. . .) I can see why they would have that rule. But I assume it would have to be quite a few days absent.
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Micheala Smith 2 years ago
What an incentive! Nah I don’t think I feel like being in school so I’ll take two weeks off…and get an extra two days! Awesome
Sue Denham 3 years ago
I wish we'd had this at my school. It's like those customer loyalty cards - buy ten, get one free.
Sweetpotato314 3 years ago
Where I am, school funding is tied to attendance. That's why so many admins ignore behavioral issues, which is driving so many of us away from the profession. They don't care if the students misbehave, as long as they come to school. The system is BROKEN in the US.
#7
My kindergarten had no doors on the toilet cubicles, but huge mirrors on the opposite wall. We all had to go at the one time. *everyone could see what you were doing. I have lifelong anxiety from this*
saltypancakes 3 years ago
It’s disgusting that adults think kindergarten children don’t need any privacy.
Nightshade 3 years ago
Yes! In preschool, there were two toilets- one close to the door and the other next to it, with a little blue squiggly divider. But even a preschooler could see straight over them. So I made sure that everyone was at recess before using the one farther from the door. And ever since, I’ve only used the bathroom during lunch or recess.
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Gardener of Weeden 3 years ago
I worked as a "pre-school" program teacher. 1 bathroom, 12 (4 yr old) kids, 1 teacher. I can not tell you how many parents dressed the kids in cute little jumpers... that these poor kids could not get in and out of. I would have to keep the door "cracked", so I could hear when they needed me. But I did request all kids open the door fully before they washed their hands.
Fluffy mommy panda 3 years ago
Thank you for what you do. My kids have wore one before and I aways worried about her at school. Now I did show her how to get it up and down. But still. I don't like putting them on her but sometimes that is what I'm stuck with. I think all my kids have outgrown them but I don't know......I try to have them not wear them to school because of this reason. But thank you for being a good teacher.
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XenoMurph 3 years ago
In my school we still have that. And when I say school, I mean pub. And when I say we still have that I mean uninals.
Load More Replies... Fluffy mommy panda 3 years ago
I know. It creeps me out. That in prison they can have the bathrooms like that. But I get why they do. But it aways uncomfortable for me. They had they like that in jail. Went to hospital where I live and they had a toilet exactly like a jail toliet I was like what the heck.
Load More Replies... Gabriella de cruz 3 years ago
In my 1st primary school we had to have the toilet doors wide open. I remember getting told off in front of everyone for closing the door when I peed.
Vilma 3 years ago
When I was in kindergarten (20 years ago), we didn’t even have cubicles, just those tiny toilets put next to each other. But we were 3, we didn’t care :D
Jef Bateman 3 years ago
There is a preschool here where the toilets are not even in a separate room. At least there was when we were shopping for a preschool.
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ẽ̶̛͗͋̄̒̇̌͒̈͒͆͋̄̾̾́̊͗̓̃̒̓̓̚͝͝͝ 3 years ago
My kindergarten was like this, and to make things worse the male and female bathrooms were combined.
Snakeloverforever 2 years ago
I know my kindergarten bathrooms were in the same room as the class but in a different room they were just in the same area and they didn't even have gender SEPARATIONS I walked into so many people doin their biz!!
Nikki Angulo 2 years ago
I had to tell my female students MANY times last year that we don’t go into the bathroom when someone is in there! AND calls and texts home so parents and guardians could also talk to them. I even made a rule that if someone is in the bathroom at all (even just washing their hands) you have to wait until they leave before you go in. This year I had to remind some boys to close the door to the washroom (which is in our coat room area, so fairly private, unless someone is in the coat room) when they are using it!
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
In preschools they have this, but usually a divider/blind in front and a window higher than kids can see through and the blind acts so you generally can only see their chest and higher, so the teachers can be legally supervising kids at all times. The teachers rarely look through except to confirm their head count. Kids that want privacy will tell their teacher (or their parent will as kids are sometimes to shy) and the teacher will make sure they are the only ones in the bathroom when they need to go, and teachers also turn their backs. Once they reach primary school (lowest grade being prep where I live, equivalent to US Kindergarten) the supervision rules are different, so no reason not to have doors on all cubicles.
#8
Couldn't wear flip flops because they were considered a weapon but you could wear stiletto heels...
Alexia 3 years ago
That reminds me... Our class had a small celebration in high school at the end of the year (it was something common). The janitor reported to the principal that we had brought condoms in school, which was outrageous, and that we were noisy and messy. The principal decided to ban such "parties". Bonus: those were not condoms. They were balloons. But nobody would to listen to us.
Tracy Wallick 3 years ago
I mean, that's fair. School admin understands the power of La Chancla
TheEndIsNigh🇨🇦and🇬🇧in🇺🇲 3 years ago (edited)
Ahhhh! I was just going to say that someone higher up must've had a mom or 'buelita who was a third-level, black belt in Chancla. Edit for spellcheck trying to control my thoughts.
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Irish woman abroad 3 years ago
A weapon? A hazard to your feet in crowded corridors, more like!
Kayjunmoon 3 years ago
How can flip flops/jandals be a weapon? I would have thought they were banned because they were ‘dangerous’ on steps etc but not a danger to others.
John Dilligaf 3 years ago
obviously not a Hispanic kid or you would know about La Chancla, the favored discipline tool of Latina Moms. Seriously, a POed Latina Mom can hit a running kid at 50 yards and boomerang one around a corner if need be. Those things should be banned by the Geneva Convention.
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#9
In middle school, if we said sorry we got in school suspension. The teachers claimed that apologizing is a form of lying and lying is bad.
Edit: We also weren’t allowed to have water bottles or to to a water fountain. The only time we got a chance to drink was during our lunch. We could also only to go the bathroom once a semester, or we would be have in school suspension.
Derek Skiba 3 years ago
Insanity has entered the chat. Stupidity has entered the chat.
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Irish woman abroad 3 years ago
Apologising is a form of lying? Wtf?! This is one of the craziest ones yet!
General Anaesthesia 3 years ago
According to Leroy Jethro Gibbs of NCIS fame, apologizing is a sign of weakness. Rule number 6. 20 seasons of that balderdash.
Load More Replies... OwenHasADHD 3 years ago
Why is everyone focusing on the apologies rule?? Kids could only use the bathroom ONCE A SEMESTER???
Barbara Kayton 3 years ago
Although if you genuinely mean semester, I’m calling bs on this one.
MonkeyInTheMiddle 3 years ago
I say sorry so many times, I don't know how I would function here-
#10
At an all girls high school: No ankle socks because ankles can attract boys and make them have sex with you. Ankles lead to legs. And legs lead to.... up there.... and we ALL know what's in that area. (which also, according to the school was rape on the girl's part because you were making the boy want to have sex with you and boys, as you know, cannot resist so....)
Bubs623 3 years ago
All dress codes for girls are based on the assumption that boys/men are unable to control themselves, so girls must also take on that responsibility of keeping them 'in check'. Victim blaming starts young
FakeOptimist 3 years ago
To quote another comment : " Sickos projecting their own perversions on kids." ( Nea about the "no touching at all" rule.)
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RafCo (he/him) 3 years ago
This reminds me of a conversation I had with an Indian friend. She told me that her town created a curfew for women, because men couldn't resist themselves and would rape any woman they saw at night. We both agreed that it sounded like the curfew should have been for the men, if this theory was true. After all, they are the dangerous ones here.
Lizard Queen 3 years ago
"iTs NoT tHeRe FaUlT yOu FoRcEd ThEm ItS yOuR fAuLt" - Idiotic d**k heads
Seth 3 years ago
Imagine if our culture put as much effort into stoping rapists as they did trying to make victims "less attractive to rapists". This makes me feel ill, like when a rapist student gets caught and the media cycle focuses most of their energy on the promising future the rapist had.
#11
Clear or mesh backpacks only. This was from 1st grade through high school in the late 90s to early 2000s.
We also had to wear a safety vest as our bathroom pass in high school. It was such a joke that the first year the rule was introduced, our year books were a giant safety vest on the outside. Honestly the thought of a shared unisex safety vest for bathroom visits still grosses me out as I know those things were never washed properly.
Edit: This was before Columbine happened.
Fluffy mommy panda 3 years ago
I think all through middle school we had to to do this. In highschool we didn't crazy.
#12
I wore the skull misfits shirt and they called me to the deans office and told me to turn it inside out. They said it was because it represented death. I said “so it represents something that inevitably happens to every person, so I’m not allowed to wear it?” Then walked out. Never caught any flak for it, was pretty proud of my punk 16 year old rebellious self.
My True Form, Apparently 3 years ago
Really random, but that profile picture is awesome.
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Nicholas L 3 years ago
Lol. Same thing happened to me in '97. Took the shirt off and tried to go to class, got a day suspension.
Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 3 years ago
Elementary school said 5yo daughter needed different clothes. Arrive & told her leggings were against dress code - too form fitting. Her sweater had cut outs (she had a tank top under it) acceptable. Her tank top had spaghetti straps & not allowed. Refused to change her clothes - SHE WAS 5! Leggings were all that fit in length and her sweater covered her behind. Administrator said her permanent record would show her as a discipline problem Fought to see principal who backed me up. Pissed me off. She avoided me after that
iEatStyrofoam 3 years ago
i got like 2 misfits shirts and got in trouble for both of them haha
#13
In high school we had what they called "lock-out". If you were 1 second late for class the teachers would lock the doors and you were supposed to go to the cafeteria to get a detention for being late. Instead of getting a detention I would just leave school and skip the whole day and not get in any trouble. All because I was a few seconds late for class. Pretty dumb.
Stannous Flouride 3 years ago
Careful, that might lead to them learning. And we all know learning is a gateway to intelligence.
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keighterz 3 years ago
My high school tried to do this my senior year. They called it hall sweeps. None of the teachers complied cus they all thought it was stupid. First day it went into effect my creative writing teacher stood in the hall with a giant push broom and literally swept people along the hall trying to be as ridiculous as possible. It was hilarious.
Victoria Marie 3 years ago
My school did this but also had a dumb extra step. I was driven to school by my dad and one day he was running late. So my dad said he’d sign me in at the office. When we got to the school, the office sent us up to the second floor. We got up there and were met by one of the principals who asked what we were doing. I explained that my dad needed to sign me in and she said “we don’t do that anymore” and gave me a form. So I was like “so I get a detention because my dad was running late?” To which she just shrugged. I then look at the form and it’s a fill in the blank letter that you send to your parents where you have to explain why you’re late, what you’re going to do to make sure it doesn’t happen again, etc. I asked “you expect me to send my dad a letter explaining why I’m late, even though he’s standing right next to me and he’s the reason I’m late?” The principal shrugged and said something about school policy. My dad just rolled his eyes and left. 🙄
Louise Davidson 3 years ago
I was the kind of kid who would have been deliberately late so I could skip out on the rest of the day.
RafCo (he/him) 3 years ago
I had a teacher in high school that would make you sing "I'm a little teapot" if you were late. It was rather effective.
#14
No Simpsons anything. This was when it premiered, and there was this national scare that Bart was a bad influence. There were to popular Bart shirts that were banned, one that said "I'm Bart Simpson, who the hell are you?" and another that said "Bart Simpson, underachiever and proud of it"
This eventually evolved into banning all Simpsons shirts, school supplies, stickers, etc. after some of the teachers started watching the show.
AspieGirl88 3 years ago
When it comes to T-shirts, it can always be worse. When I was 12 & had to go on holiday with my (now ex) father & his partners family, my mum had unknowingly picked a very awkward shirt that she didn’t know was highly inappropriate for my age & even I didn’t know what it meant at that age. How bad was it? I ended up wearing a blue T-shirt with red lettering that said “choke the chicken” & an image of a chickens head! LMAO. I can laugh about it now & eventually reminded my mum of that time, explaining the meaning. She was so shocked, but legit was choking with laughter at the mere thought of me wearing a dirty slogan T-shirt, whilst holidaying with people who didn’t really care much about me, so I hope I embarrassed them before burning that bridge (basically; I almost died at Christmas 2013 & they just wanted to have their happy wee family Christmas, even after the surgeon himself told my “dad” over the phone that I wasn’t going to make it … lucky I inherited my mum’s stubbornness). 🤷♀️👚😂
Fluffy mommy panda 3 years ago
Oh I'm so sorry you almost died. I'm so sorry they treated you like that. I'm glad your okay now.
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Bob La Capra 3 years ago
I was a believer in the national scare about Bart until I actually started watching the show and realized it wasn't about Bart it was about Homer....someone I could actually relate to
BasedWang12.4 3 years ago
and here I was in third grade with a backpack full of South Park pins
KWilly 3 years ago
I had that one too!!!! I LOVED it. My parents got it for me because I was constantly mooning people!
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Lucas Gonzalez 1 year ago (edited)
Personally I hope homer strangles every one of these teachers
Anastasia Redmond 3 years ago
"Bart Simpson, underachiever and proud of it" I had that one. Now attending Oxford.
#15
No water bottles because a few girls 4 years ago snuck vodka into the bathroom.
Kayjunmoon 3 years ago
Banning bottles for that reason is ridiculous, there is always a way round the regulations, especially ridiculous ones.
WindySwede 3 years ago
Especially when you just can make it into gello and store them in a candybag. Bring some "fresh orangesc, definitely not with alcohol in... Well please don't though
Load More Replies... Irish woman abroad 3 years ago
That's nuts! Are you supposed to die of thirst, or just drink from a germ-ridden communal water fountain? 🤮
Joshua Moon 3 years ago
In my school no soda bottles because of a kid sneaking in bourbon in Pepsi bottles. I was the kid.
RafCo (he/him) 3 years ago
For me it was those IBC Root Beer bottles, and it was Rum. We never got caught though. Our school had a vending machine for coke, and one for cigarettes.
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Monday 3 years ago
Guy did that in uni, would fill water bottle with vodka and drink them in class. Nobody could understand why he was hiding it since he was a legal adult and there were no rules against drinking alcohol on campus.
leah 3 years ago
In the 90s before water bottles, we had a girl sneak cherry KoolAid made with Everclear. Sneaking alcohol in schools has been going on for ages. I chose not to partake, but that's because the punishment from my mom would have been much, much worse then anything the school could have done to me.
Lizard Queen 3 years ago
And if 4 people do it that means everyone will. Logic. Because WE ALL copy eachother... 🤦♀️
Sweetpotato314 3 years ago
Punishing the whole group instead of the actual perpetrators is just lazy classroom management.
#16
In primary school, we weren’t allowed to use erasers. We were never told why.
Irish woman abroad 3 years ago (edited)
Where I work, some teachers will take the erasers away from certain kids, because they get so bogged down with trying to write the date and heading perfectly, and so caught up with perfectionism in total, that they get nothing done. Plus, they want to see where this child is getting stuck. A child who always writes a couple of letters and immediately starts rubbing stuff out is a bit of a red flag. (they do give them back, they're not monsters!)
mrsmir 3 years ago
Somebody should take my eraser away then because I STILL do this and I’m 34! Lol
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Dan Padgett 3 years ago
I think that's so a teacher can see how you're approaching a problem and if you have any shortcomings etc.
Sunshine Daydream 3 years ago
Kids start erasing and never stop, huge waste of time. Just scratch out your error and quickly keep writing
WoodenLion 3 years ago
once in the '60's i had a teacher where you could not erase on a test. her reasoning was that your first choice is most likely the correct choice.
Fluffy mommy panda 3 years ago
I mean they do say that and that happens to me all the time. But still........
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Pieter LeGrande 3 years ago
We had the same rule at one school for a while. Kids would reach for their lunch in their bag under the desk. Grab a piece of bread and use that instead - it works a treat when moulded into a tight ball.
AspieGirl88 3 years ago
That’s kinda like the education Roald Dahl had in “Boy”. When the boys were writing their letters home, their teachers would scold them for mistakes, but then tell them they couldn’t erase it, that “it must go as you wrote it”. Maybe it’s a lesson in humility or something, IDK. Some schools are weird like that, I guess. 😅
#17
The boys weren’t allowed to wear shorts at my middle school, but the girls could wear ‘culottes’ (basically shorts with a fancy name). One day about a hundred boys came to school wearing culottes. The Man had it stuck to him hard that day
Queerios 3 years ago
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MissMePhoenix 3 years ago
Where i come from we call them "skorts" lmao at least we did in the 90's 😂
Bryn 3 years ago
No. Clam diggers are pants that hit mid calf while pedal pushers hit just below the knee and have a slit cut into them to low knee to bend better. Culottes generally hit at or just above the knee and are wider; generally made out of flowy material. Many times, you can't see the separation until the person moves
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Wendy Kaufman 2 years ago
It was skirts for us. It was the 80's, in a school designed in the 70's so it had no windows, just air conditioning , which was too expensive to run in the 80's. The boys all wore miniskirts. The next day they were allowed to wear shorts.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
This is something I have been reading about often on BP. Why are boys not allowed shorts? Not like you guys have uniforms, and even then, short are always in at least the summer uniform in Australia. Are boys supposed to overheat for some perverse reason?
Sarah Monk 3 years ago
Excellent way of obedience as a retired school worker I admire this behaviour greatly.
#18
We couldn’t wear winter clothing in class (coats, gloves, hats). Even with the heat on, it got cold in the winter inside the school so we just had to freeze. They said it was because winter clothing were gang symbols. This was a farm town in Wisconsin.
Mrs.Pugh 3 years ago
What's up with schools and normal clothing looking like gang symbols? Do the administrators not wear clothes?
Laura Ketteridge 3 years ago
More like the administrators were coming up with all sorts of rules to cover their asses.
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Historyharlot93 3 years ago
All these administrators and teachers banning “gang” clothing really have no idea what a gangbanger really is. It seems like they’ve learned everything from Hollywood and ladies magazines with scare stories in it.
Oliver Nelson 3 years ago
Had this one in elementary school. We couldn't wear them though because they weren't a part of our uniforms.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
We were allowed them in the school colours as part of our uniform, but not in class. Presumably for the same reason you aren't allowed hats inside, whatever that is.
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Elizabeth Deighton 2 years ago
Our cookery teacher insisted that we took off our school jumpers, roll up our sleeves even in winter and if we complained about being cold, her answer was that we should have eaten a good breakfast as if at 12-13 we had any say over what we were given for breakfast plus no heating on. Ok if cookers were going but why we couldn't just roll up our jumper sleeves I don't know
Henry Russell 3 years ago
our school has our winter clothes colder then our summer clothes. the winter shirt is paper thin not even long sleeth
#19
My middle school banned hugs. At least, they banned front hugs--the rule was against "chest to chest" contact, regardless of context or gender. No chest bumps after a game. Several girls got in trouble for hugging their female friends goodbye after school. It was a strange place.
Edit: To clarify, this was a public school in a suburban area in a liberal part of the country (US). I don't remember whether there was a ban against hugs from behind--I'll try to ask some old classmates when I get home and update if any of them remember.
FakeOptimist 3 years ago
Even banning hugging after school ??? My mum would have loved the challenge !!
Olive Wisp 3 years ago
my school banned hugs for over three seconds, but luckily no one ever enforced it
makennag104@gmail.com 3 years ago
My elementary school was the same we weren't allowed to hug each other
Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 3 years ago
Son got in trouble in kindergarten for hugging his friend who was a girl. Even her parents thought it was stupid
Mosheh Wolf 3 years ago
There were a number of schools in which group hugs were a thing. In some places the hug pile ups would block the hallways. So a number of administrations took the nuclear option and banned hugging.
#20
Well 3 of them.
No mechanical pencils or any pens that click. Teachers found that s**t annoying.
No peeing outside the toilet or urinal. Common decency but if your caught, you would get a call to your parents. The rule isn't stupid, its actually really good, but the people who its targetted at are.
Zero tolerance policy. It's in nearly every school. I haven't had any encounters but it does strike people hard. Imagine getting beat up.... and getting punished for being beat up because you happened to be involved even though you did nothing. It's a d**k of a rule.
OwenHasADHD 3 years ago
Who in their right mind would take a p**s just...not in the toilet or urinal??? Where else would you go, on the floor??
Orange Is Aging 3 years ago
As a person who went into the male restrooms in middle/high school… yes. The floor. 😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫
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MiriPanda 3 years ago
Zeo tolerance really needs to go asap. It ingraines in people the belief that they, as victims, are both helpless and at fault, too.
A Jones 3 years ago
Yeah, it also encourages helplessness which is very bad in the long-run of one's life. Like they won't have much coping in the adult world. Like defending yourself in a bad relationship.
Load More Replies... Bubs623 3 years ago
Zero tolerance is beyond idiotic. When my son received suspension for 'fighting back' I raised a Karen size stink. They literally worded it 'fighting BACK'. I was so loud and annoying and took it to the 'manager' - Superintendent of school district- and then rallied all the other mama bears/Karens and we got the policy changed. Poor man had no chance.
Mrs Irish Mom 3 years ago
👏👏👏 my child (girl) was 7 and gettin picked on and hit by a boy in class, teacher said no hitting back allowed, told boys parents and it happened again twice, my husband gave his dad a warning that if it happened again he will beat d s**t out of him wit his kid watching, worked perfectly, dad and kid wer super nice all year 🤷
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Waco Bayless 3 years ago
When my daughter was in middle school, she got jumped in the bathroom by 2 other girls. Because she fought back she was suspended along with them.
Joseph Kastorff 3 years ago
zero tolerance is definitely not a rule anymore. More like 15x tolerance before anything is actually done.
#21
We weren't allowed to wear shirts with pictures on them. That includes embroidered logos like you might see from Nike, Champion, or Polo shirts. Kids were wearing those shirts that had Bugs Bunny and Taz dressed up as Kris Kross and some parent or teacher thought they looked like gangsters. So the shirts were dubbed gang paraphernalia and the school wanted them banned but didn't know how to just ban those without some kid feeling targeted so they banned all shirts with pictures. We'd have free dress day about every two weeks (which devolved into whenever they felt like it) where you could wear a picture shirt, except for those dubbed "gang paraphernalia" (? why they didn't do that to begin with, over Kris Kross Bugs Bunny of all things I don't know). If you wore something with a logo on it you had to either cover it with masking tape or buy special labels from the school to cover it.
Yay for insane Christian private schools.
Bored&InSchool 3 years ago
no, this is way worse. but in a different way.
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Had this and that was at a public school. But the rule said "printed graphic" so I would draw on white tees with sharpie during class. That and I wore post-it notes on my entire shirt and had people doodle whatever they wanted a few times
keighterz 3 years ago (edited)
We could not wear anything that promoted alcohol so no Budweiser shirts or anything. If there was a swear word on your shirt they just covered it with duct tape. My high school was such a chill place my freshman and sophomore years before the new principle came in and started putting up gates in the hallways during lunch 🙄 Edit for typos
ShaZam Beaubien 3 years ago
I'm sure the special labels to cover up the design were free .... capitalism at Christian private schools at its finest.
#22
My middle school had a rule; if you were sent to the office for misbehavior, you remained in the office for the rest of the day. Knowing this, my first period teacher found every escuse to send me to the office. I missed all of my lessons and nearly failed 7th grade.
Oliver Nelson 3 years ago
I wouldn't be surprised. My brother currently has a teacher that picks only on him. She looks through his backpack just looking for something to get him in trouble. She has also given him demerits related to his tics (he has Tourette's).
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EeveeExpertShadow 3 years ago
Some teachers are complete and utter... I can't even think of a word strong enough.
KING ILLEGAL FOREST 3 years ago
We would be sent to sit in The Chairs outside the principal's office. It was basically like being put in the stocks so that you could be mocked by the students and teachers who walked past that part of the school.
Brian Droste 3 years ago
I was going to make another comment but lost it. But couldn't this be consider harassment?
#23
Non American here, We need to pay fine when we don't speak English in school. In every class, class leader used to note down student names who ever speak their native language other than English. This rule went on for 2 years and then they finally removed it.
FakeOptimist 3 years ago
And against poor people. Rich kids can afford being fined.
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Alienking06 3 years ago
I almost feel happy when I hear people speaking different languages in my school (Canada). It truly shows how diverse we are.
Sophie Mattocks 3 years ago
boarding schools in california, USA used to do similar things to their native american students. they werent allowed to speak their native languages, and if they were caught doing so they would be beaten and starved by their captors.
Elizabeth Butler 3 years ago
Was not only California and it was done to attempt to eliminate the native culture over time. And the children were FORCED into the boarding schools, it was not an optional opportunity deal. Many of these schools were religious schools. It was part of the propaganda campaign to justify the European invaders taking over the lands of the supposed primitive uncivilized natives, who were in many cases way more civilized than their conquerors.
Load More Replies... RafCo (he/him) 3 years ago
I went to a British school in Brazil. We weren't fined for not speaking English, but we were not allowed to speak Portuguese during lessons, or to ask questions in Portuguese. But the point of the school was English immersion. If you asked a question in Portuguese the teacher would just "In English Please!" No fines or punishment. When we were really little, they would help you ask your question. When I moved to America, I appreciated it. Interestingly, in America I went to a Japanese school where they had a Japanese immersion program (but I didn't qualify because I was too old already).
Pieter LeGrande 3 years ago
Tried that in French class - no English. Gave up after the first lesson when every kid asked all their questions in English. Would have had to penalise every kid, and one of them was the principal's son.
Lady of the Mountains 3 years ago (edited)
....I wasn't allowed to speak English in Spanish class, but it was loss of fake class money that was a punishment for that. And it was only one hour of the day. This is just weird, anybody know where this is?
#24
In middle school, had a stupid as all hell "one way hallway system", where students could only walk in the halls one direction. Made me late twice actually since my class was the first one behind the exit door, but forced to go in the entrance door. Was enforced even when halls were empty. One stick in the mud teacher threatened to write me up if I questioned the rule.
FakeOptimist 3 years ago
Sure : write a kid up for questioning the rules. Should report that teacher to whoever taught them ethics and have his/her diploma revoked.
Bobetta the DG 3 years ago
My school has this and it's so annoying because it takes so long to get to class if you have two classrooms close to each other and have to go all the way round the school. The kicker is teachers can sail right past you going the " wrong way" .
Seth 3 years ago
Indeed. I would have asked administrators to make a list of all the countries that send people to jail for questioning laws, find the common theme that unites all of them, then ask if they think a school should be run like them.
Load More Replies... Lizard Queen 3 years ago
MINE HAD THAT TOO. It made it so hard to get to classes so I was always late. ALSO my school had lockers but nobody got any because there were not enough for anyone. NOT ONE GRADE GOT LOCKERS. Basically we just had to walk around the school a lot with REALLY heavy backpacks. *sigh*
Krista Paradowski 3 years ago
Riverview Junior High. Even if your next class was directly across the hallway, you had to walk all the way around. 🙄
Sylvia Potts 3 years ago
My school has this. You end up having to leave pinch and break early if you don't want a detention for being late
Eric S. 3 years ago
So organize with the other kids and ignore this idiotic rule. You don't have to put up with this s**t. I'm sure at least one of the parents is a passable lawyer. Get creative.
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In elementary school, we couldn't kick a ball at recess because the school was afraid we would kick the balls to the top of the building.
Dan Padgett 3 years ago
I don't think a single school in the UK is allowed to operate without a ball on the roof.
MonicaChicagoGal 3 years ago
I got a call my son had accidentally kicked his shoe on the roof 😆
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
I've had to make a call to a parent whose child purposely kicked their shoe on the roof...
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Joshua Moon 3 years ago
I feel bad for our playground monitor people in elementary school. We used to play a ton of soccer during recess. Well as close to soccer as 30+ elementary school kids could get. I swear the playground monitor spent more time getting the soccer ball from the road because we kicked out over the fence than anything else
ShaZam Beaubien 3 years ago
I bet the teachers didn't want to keep going up there to pick up balls. Kids are jerks.
Nikki Angulo 2 years ago
Ive told kids, if you kick it on the roof, it’s gone! I think some of them have a goal to kick it and have it land on the playground on the opposite side of the school because there was an urban legend that someone in a previous grade had done it.
TheAquarius1978 3 years ago
I remember in the 6th grade some One kicked a basketball, that hitted me straight in the face, and no harm no faul ( they didn't did it on purpose ) i got a red face, the other kid apologised, i went my way, and the kid continued playing football with a basketball.
#26
At any point you may not talk during lunch, and may not laugh at large stools in the bathroom.
I s**t you not. (Excuse the pun)
Edit: I am from the UK
Fluffy mommy panda 3 years ago
Yeah this one is just a control thing. It ant even right.
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Huddo's sister 3 years ago
How to they police that? Kids spend all their time in class not allowed to talk, it is basically uncontrollable at breaktime
#27
We weren't allowed to be indoors for more than five minutes at recess. This was in Canada and indoor recess started when it was below -25C. Instances of school-wide diarrhea really shot up during the winter.
Remi (He/Him) 3 years ago
Our temp limit was -15°C. Above that you needed to go out during recess. Our teacher also liked to play this weird power trip where we couldn't check the temp ourselves and, if we asked it always seemed to be -14,5°C even when the news were saying it was gonna be a -20 something day
RafCo (he/him) 3 years ago
My daughters went to an all outdoor nature school for pre-school and kindergarten. There was no indoors at all. The classroom was in the woods, and the teachers would light a fire-pit to have a warming area. We would send them to school with winter camping gear. My girls absolutely loved it. During the pandemic, the school was able to stay open as it was all outdoors. Kids had to wear masks, but it was helpful to stay warm anyways.
Allison B 3 years ago
I've never heard of anything like that. Sounds really interesting. I'd have hated though even as a kid. Never did like the outdoors. Also scared of bugs and easily distracted. All true for my entire life
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kath morgan 3 years ago
I remember one summer a few years ago, we had record breaking heat. A couple of kids had fainted. The shitforbrains lunch lady on her f*****g power trip would not let us indoors. I swear she never enforced it as strictly as she did that week. Most weeks my group ate lunch in the corner of C block without hassle. But some people are very small, and can’t feel big without hurting someone smaller.
Talon 3 years ago
That would be horrible! I also live in Canada and two of my friends, plus myself, are allergic to the cold. One, it's very severe and she has an epipen. My other friend, their throat closes up when they have like freezies and they get hives, and I luckily only get hives
Nikki Angulo 2 years ago
Wow, I’ve never heard of an allergy to the cold! I also live in a very cold part of Canada. We have had indoor recess all week. (Teacher)
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Daniel Atkins 3 years ago (edited)
I thought that temp is what Canadians call light jacket weather.
Elizabeth Deighton 2 years ago
We went up to a new built school. On a wet break, our classrooms was supposed to go to the walk ways, just a cover on the top open to the weather. Our class was the only one that had to do that whilst other classes had a warm place to stay. We hung about the cloak rooms (as opposed to toilets) refused to go out until the rule was changed to staying in the classroom were our last lesson had been
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
Our temps didn't get as cold as that, but we could only spend breaks inside if it was a 'wet day timetable' which was only if it was actively raining at the start of break. No chance of being inside in 30c+ heat either.
#28
We could play Magic TG but we had to remove any offensive cards. Yes they looked through our decks to make sure. Good ol' Oklahoma.
Remi (He/Him) 3 years ago
What makes a card offensive? And I bet someone tried to report a card to be offensive if they lost because of it too many times. "Teacher teacher! I think Wally's black lotus is really offensive!" 😄
I can't think of a good name 3 years ago
Wallys black lotus is fake, because he's using it
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Marek Čtrnáct 3 years ago
Card "Unholy Strength" had the pentagram in its art removed in later printings. Invoke Prejudice had so bad KKK vibes in its art it was eventually banned everywhere. Demons were canceled for a few years before the publishers realized that the moral guardians don't have as much power as they used to. Cards Jihad and Crusade were eventually deemed offensive. Oh, and some cards had to get new pictures for Chinese markets because they showed skeletons.
Brooke Rosen 3 years ago
Being from Oklahoma as well, I really can't believe they allowed Magic TG! I grew up in the Satanic Panic 1980's...
#29
When I was a freshman in high school (late '80s) there was a designated smoking area on campus. It was a square, maybe 10' x 10' painted on the ground in the courtyard. Students could only smoke in that box on campus. The next year they decided that you could only smoke in that box if you had a note from your parents. The year after that, no students were allowed to smoke on campus. My senior year, staff wasn't allowed to smoke on campus. This resulted in the box metaphorically moving to someone's driveway across the street, where students and teachers were all smoking together.
BluEyedSeoulite 3 years ago
Smokers' Corner was also directly across the street on public sidewalk. I didn't see any teachers smoke there but my sister was a smoker and has different nemories
Toothless Feline 3 years ago
I genuinely do not have a problem with this. I was in high school in the same era, and students were not permitted to smoke anywhere on school grounds. Teacher and staff only in the teachers' lounge.
Lizard Queen 3 years ago
I am in school rn and my teacher got fired for offering a kid a cigarette, Taking a nap on top of a desk, and smoking.
Nicky Hands 3 years ago
😂🤣😂 When I was in HS (89-93) there was no smoking for students but we would sit in the top field with our ciggies in coke cans and we would take sips of our drinks and then blow the smoke into our jerseys...we always had deodorant on us
Waco Bayless 3 years ago
I can't believe that the students were allowed to smoke on school grounds, period.
Carol Leckie 3 years ago
We had a smoking area, plus Grade 13 students could use the teacher's lounge and smoke in there on their spare periods. Not at lunch time though because the teachers were using it then.
Kelly C Bundy II 2 years ago
meanwhile, at MY high-school equivelant, not only could you get stoned walking PAST the bathroom, apparently teachers were hotboxing in a "magic bus" :P
Nikki Angulo 2 years ago
No one is allowed to smoke on school grounds in Ontario (Canada) so when I was in high school students and staff would all smoke across the street from the school on the public sidewalk.
#30
When i was in middle school that god awful " Shrek is love Shrek is Life" video came out and the student council wanted to have a shrek spirit day because of it. So the school banned shrek and anyone who talked about it got a detention.
Return of Saturn 3 years ago
Yep, nope, I shouldn't have googled it! I'm so glad I didn't watch the video-
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#31
It wasn't the rule, but the wording.
Grade 9, they made an announcement that you couldn't show your bum crack in the school. The admin decided to word that as 'no back cleavage'.
Csaba Hegedűs 3 years ago
We call it 'mason cleavage' in Hungary. But really, why would you want to show that to anyone in the first place?
Fluffy mommy panda 3 years ago
Most people don't know there showing it. Some people your just like okay you have to be feeling cold air or something like your showing a lot of crack.
Load More Replies... Fluffy mommy panda 3 years ago
We had that rule too. But everyone one shows crack sometime in there life. Some more then others. Lol
#32
Went to a Catholic school where there was a big white line painted across the schoolyard and during recess boys played on one side and girls on the other. We were not allowed to intermingle during recess even though we weren't separated during class or lunch. I'm a guy and all my friends were girls so we used to stand at the line and talk, go in trouble many times for that.
Also in high school, post Columbine, we weren't allowed to carry backpacks around the school. We had to leave them in our lockers and carry our heavy a*s textbooks around.
FakeOptimist 3 years ago
Sure, you can't start young enough with separation/different rules. Just send the women who stand behind this and the female relatives of the men to Iran....
Snakeloverforever 2 years ago
They did not separate us but I mostly had friends that were boys
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
I commented on another article that I didn't understand the problem with carrying your books to class (that's all we ever did) but apparently you guys have more than 2 classes in a row and aren't allowed to go to your lockers in between
Kayjunmoon 3 years ago
My Protestant infant school had completely separate playgrounds. Can’t trust a five year old with a white line, a brick wall is needed/:)
#33
In second grade, only one boy and one girl were allowed to go to the bathroom at a time. I had to pee so bad that I was shaking and this kid took a stupid amount of time to get back. He finally came back and I had to wait in a line to his desk and he finally said I could go. Pissed myself on the way there. F**k you, Mr Bennish.
keighterz 3 years ago
Control. A lot of adults put rules into place just for control. I’ve actually caught myself doing it with my kids once or twice.
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KOTLC_Fan 🇺🇦 3 years ago
At my school (currently) only one kid can go at a time. No matter the gender. It’s cause last year some kids went to the same bathroom together 🤢 (boy and girl) and someone ..brace for it..made stew in the toilet. Threw vegetables in there then tried to flush it.
#34
In middle school we weren’t allowed to chew gum. I was caught and had to write a 2,000 word report on the history of pizza. I wrote that damn report and my teacher forgot and never asked for it...
Sasy 3 years ago
if you got caught with gum in my high school you would end up having to scrape the bottom of the desks that were of course caked in hard gum :)
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
Same. Some of our desks were only held together with gum though :)
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Fluffy mommy panda 3 years ago
We weren't allowed to chew gum in middle school either. You got caught you got wrote up.
Random Dog Owner 3 years ago
I also have this rule bc some KINDERGARTENERS stuck some gum on another kid's chair. WHY???
Bryn 3 years ago
I actually don't have a problem with this. People don't know how to properly dispose of their gum and either spit it out anywhere or stick it places and it's just absolutely vile.
MiriPanda 3 years ago
And a lot of thwm will chew loudly without closing their mouth... 😫
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On the first day of class, my seventh grade writing teacher demanded that we all buy comfortable pens. On the second day of class, she went desk to desk sampling our choices. Several students (myself included) experienced awkward embarrassment when she slammed down our pathetic pens and shouted “NOPE.”
Hufflepuff (any pronouns) 3 years ago
I hold my pens incorrectly. I always have, even though in elementary school they would get mad at kids who didn’t write while holding the pencil correctly. As a result, pens that are comfortable for me to write with are often very different than pens that work for other people.
The Radio Demon 3 years ago
You're the lucky one. I got my hand taped to the desk in first grade because I'm left-handed.
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School-mandated haircuts.
Edit: Wow. This blew up. It was only for the boys, by the way. For the girls, so long as you didn't color your hair other than its natural hair color, you were good. Check up was every Monday, when we were lined up (according to height) for the flag ceremony because the school president wanted to share "all the good news" with us, which ranged from positive events, to one of their staff and students winning awards, etc. The prefect was very strict about it, but the teachers weren't so we'd just skip mornings every few Mondays so we didn't have to get a haircut.
FakeOptimist 3 years ago (edited)
A son of someone I know has long hair : past his shoulder blades. That school would be in só much trouble... Edit : he's planning to donate it to his cousin when it's half a metre
Bob La Capra 3 years ago
3rd grade, in the mid-1960s, one of my classmates came to school sporting a mohawk. Was made to stand in the cloak room facing the wall until his parents retrieved him. He returned to school the next day with a more conventional look.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
Lol, these days a mohawk is better than a mullet, in my opinion :) My brothers all had either mohawks or fauxhawks at least once at school, including one whose hair was almost shoulder length, and he did then styled it into a pointed mohawk for his last week of year 12, including coloured hairspray as that was allowed for their last week. Took him about an hour and a half each morning, yet he was actually on time to school for the first time in years!
Load More Replies... Huddo's sister 3 years ago
My cousin was given a detention because 'buzz cuts' and basically anything shorter than no.4 cutter wasn't allowed. Don't know what they thought a detention would do, make is hair grow faster?! At least this was an equal opportunity rule, though some people managed to get away with undercuts by keeping their hair down at school.
#37
They boys were not allowed to have doors on our stalls (we had a brick wall about 4ft high between toilets with nothing in front). They said boys would ruin them.
Kayjunmoon 3 years ago
I actually think the people who make these types of rules have dirty minds. They worry what goes on behind closed doors.
Hufflepuff (any pronouns) 3 years ago
Someone at my school stole one of the stall doors from the boys bathroom, so although it’s a stupid rule, they’re not wrong.
#38
I was in the First Grade. We only had one recess and it was in the late afternoon. We had to walk in a straight line to the playground, stand in the playground yard in a straight line quietly while the two teachers who pulled playground duty lead us through some basic exercises.
Here is the problem: We are FIRST GRADERS. It's late afternoon. And you HONESTLY expect us to stand there on a playground after an entire day of sitting in class at our desk doing work and listening to instructions and only having one break (lunch) and do basic exercises while standing on a f*****g playground? I am a sadist and this school taught me how to do it well.
And when we wouldn't properly do what we were told, the basic exercises continued, meaning less time playing and burning energy and having just a little bit of fun during the day.
Some time in January something happened and we royally pissed off those two teachers. So when they pulled recess duty there was no exercising and playing. No. We had to stand in line for the entire recess period. So about twice a week for the remainder of the school year.
This school taught me sadism, taught me well...
Fluffy mommy panda 3 years ago
Exactly. Apparently here they where not .....
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I really don't get why they did that. Recess is suppose to be for the kids. And they do exercise because there running and playing. This one is just kinda unfair and sad
#39
I went to a primarily White High School. There was almost no gang problems or race problems. We had probably 20 black kids out of 1,500. One rather popular black student/athlete (who later played in thr NFL for 10 years) was the only kid in school to ware a do rag. For no reason they started a no Do-Rag or Bandana policy. This student clearly felt singled out and decieded to test the Administrations limits and wore he Do Rag anyway. He was confronted by the princeable and suspended the day before the 1st district football game of his senior year. There is a parking lot not on school grounds overlooking our football field that you can see from the stands. He watched the game with his do rag from that parking lot. Everytime we scored we made sure we pointed to him to draw attention to the fact he was watching the game from a distance. The whole student body wore white T-Shirts wrapped around their heads with "FREE @%&$" written on it with Sharpie.
Fluffy mommy panda 3 years ago
That was just wrong of that school to do. They should have got into trouble for that. It just wrong.
BasedWang12.4 3 years ago
maaaan our gym teacher told a student to take off his "dude rag" and we all were dying
#40
In my elementary school my teacher made a rule after the first quarter where if your assignment was not fully in cursive you would automatically fail no matter how much you did and how well. The worst part is that we didn’t know how to write cursive and we were still learning it.
Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 3 years ago
Most students didn't start learning cursive until 2nd or 3rd grade. Schools didn't even teach my kids (now 28 & almost 22), but I did. Youngest got in trouble for writing in cursive in 4th grade. Told to rewrite paper. I argued w/ her and won. No rules about it
Jessica Wood 3 years ago
I was made to believe that I would completely fail in life if I didn't learn to write in cursive. Joke's on them, I can write in cursive and still failed at life.
Justin Smith 3 years ago
My 4th grade teacher had the opposite. You couldnt use cursive unless explicitly told.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
We weren't allowed to until grade 3, which is when they began teaching it, because you needed to have fluency beforehand, so it could be read by the teacher :) but our state writing font is Victorian modern cursive, so technically it was cursive letters, just not joined up yet :)
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You are not allowed to have fake pockets, for no reason, out of the blue just a new rule. In home room the teacher would check to see if you have any fake pockets. The rule is no longer enforced, but a teacher still have the power to enforce it Then the same school banned Spanish one day, it was a detention if someone said a Spanish word At my school teaches can give you demerits for what they deem bad, which lead to one teach giving out 2 demerits ( 4 demerits is a detention) for any made up words. The reasoning was that we would sometimes substitute made up words for our swears, so someone would say what the fluka, or just say a random sounds out of boredom
Amanda Rose 3 years ago
Not allowed to have fake pockets. They clearly haven't seen women's pants before.
General Anaesthesia 3 years ago
Maybe it's one way to make girls wear dresses without making girls wear dresses?
Load More Replies... Robin Roper 3 years ago
Imagine a place where student's can't say - Los Angeles, taco, Texas, salsa, Cafeteria, gusto, bronco, Colorado, Florida, Montana, El Paso, San Francisco, mosquito, patio, plaza, oregano......
Feminist Percussionist 3 years ago
It’s oregano Italian? But other than that, yea that’s so dumb.
Load More Replies... censorshipsucks 3 years ago
right so in history class you go, "Pizzaro led his conquerors to conquer south america" instead of "conquistadors"
#42
At my elementary school they would turn the lights off in the cafeteria after most kids got their food. Lights off meant "No talking". It also meant that 300 kids had to eat in the dark. If you spoke, the teachers pounced on you and you got instant detention. It wss ridiculous. This was every day, not just for an announcement or something.
Bob La Capra 3 years ago
The bus driver on the 15 minute shuttle between the elementary and high schools demanded absolute silence during the trip. A pretty tall order for 25-30 kids all under the age of 10.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
That reminds me- my dad was made bus prefect in high school and was supposed to stop kids acting out on the bus, but as he was quite a shy kid, not really up to the job :)
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#43
Buses were not allowed to depart at the end of the school day until the flag on the flagpole outside the main entrance had been taken down and properly put away. If someone forgot, all the buses would sit there idling for as long as it would take until the flag was dealt with.
#44
cant wear red to school. so stupid
Fluffy mommy panda 3 years ago
This is just a stupid rule. Makes no sense unless you are suppose to wear a uniform.
The Radio Demon 3 years ago (edited)
As someone who literally only wears red and black, this rule is a criminal offence to me
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In elementary school, when we’d line up at the water fountain after recess, a teacher would be standing next to us and counting “1... 2... 3... times up!”They had a b******t three second rule at the water fountain!
Locke Lamora 3 years ago
I believe we had a five-second rule in elementary. If you were still thirsty, you’d have to go to the back of the line and wait again.
Grudge-holding Treefrog 3 years ago
There was a similar rule at my elementary school. We did have on tracker who would give us 10 seconds instead of 3. She was great
#46
No one could wear Joe's Crab Shack shirts. At first it was just the tie-dye ones that said, "Peace, Love & Crabs."
Because of the implication of sex and pubic lice I suppose? It was a stretch. But then they expanded to any Joe's Crab Shack shirts.
My friend had to wear a PE shirt all day because her shirt was a Joe's Crab Shack shirt. It didn't have "offensive" slogan on it. It just had a picture of a crab and the restaurant's name. She still had to change shirts. She was so embarrassed because no one wants to wear your PE shirt all day.
#47
I'd broken my middle finger nail below the white bit, but it wasn't super bad so I'd used clear nail polish to hold it together and make it stronger until it had grew out enough to clip away. My high school had a strict no nail polish policy, but I thought that it was just the one nail for a legit reason, maybe they'd be cool. No one said anything to me it had almost grown out and it was three weeks before the final exams when we were doing revision I was in biology. My teacher looked at my nail, saw clear polish and told me to take it off. I explained the situation, mentioned that it was clear and said I'd take it off as soon as the break grew out and this lady just wasn't having it. Apparently taking off one f*****g nail's worth of clear polish was more important than revising for my f*****g exams. I got sent out of the class because I refused, and I was super pissed.
#48
Hair couldn’t be extreme, colored or past earlobes for guys as it would be considered a distraction to others. I had long hair past my shoulders and would not cut it. Was in ISS a lot. It’s a silly thing to get detention for. Kids don’t go to school to be told how to dress and how they *should* look. I remember how much of an impact the breakfast club movie had on me in my junior high days.
Joshua Moon 3 years ago (edited)
I got kicked out of school my freshman year for having green hair. School dress code only said that hair has to be a natural color. My counter was that grass is green and grass is natural. My principal lost his mind when I walked into school. Made me wash my hair thinking it was temporary hair dye. But it wasn't. I laughed at him the entire time I'm washing my hair in the boys room. He finally realized it isn't washing out so he suspends be until I dye my hair back. I said fine bye. After three days he calls me mom and tells her I'm expected back to school regardless of my hair color.
#49
Our school 'banned' black socks. It was a public high school in a predominately poor neighbourhood so the parents didn't give a s**t and bought whatever socks were cheapest or didn't have the money to buy all brand new socks again. It got to a point where we'd have whole school assemblies on it and the teachers threatening to suspend kids from school, for wearing black socks.
Derek Skiba 3 years ago
When you wear clothes that are the principal's least favorite color: GANG
censorshipsucks 3 years ago
we had a similar ban on white socks which was allegedly a "black fashion statement" and unacceptable in our then-white racist schools.
BluEyedSeoulite 3 years ago
This reminds me of when my middle school tried to ban pajama pants. Then just girl pajama pants since they didn't have pockets. The parents thought it was as dumb and sexist as we did and basically ignored the rule. Pretty hard to argue against pajama pants when many parents were nurses
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
We were only allowed to wear white socks if girls and grey socks if boys, until they changed to a gender neutral uniform when my sister was there, then everyone had to wear grey. Not really a problem, since kmart or wherever would always have 'generic' white and grey socks on back to school special. What was a problem was later, when I had left the school but my sister and cousins still went there, they changed the uniform policy and everything but the socks HAD to be bought from a particular uniform shop, that was out of price range for most parents and they had ended all second hand sales of uniform a couple of years before. I was so angry! My sister only had one year to go, so could have worn the old uniform for that year, but wanted a blazer, so had to have full new uniform- ended up having to use the Smith Family (charity) uniform fund for it, which I thought ridiculous, as she had the choice not to change and that money could be used for someone else.
#50
In middle school we weren't allowed to talk at lunch or else we would get put up on the wall and get handed a detention. Like a clean version of hell.
Fluffy mommy panda 3 years ago
This is just wrong on so many levels your not in prison your going to school. Don't make it any worse then already is.
#51
In grade school we were told not to use spoons. Only babies used spoons. Yet they gave us spoons.
Fluffy mommy panda 3 years ago
Only babies use spoons that just awful. That shaming people for using spoons. What the heck. Is wrong with people some food you need a spoon to eat with.
#52
You have to ask permission to have a drink. This rule got ignored when I was in year ten, but I still remember one teacher just screaming at me for taking a sip of water on a hot day.
ahyesthepotato 3 years ago
and then get sent to detention for the rest of the week
Load More Replies... Fluffy mommy panda 3 years ago
That just so wrong. That asking for a kid to pass out. If I was a parent I'd give them a piece of my mind.
Error 404 (He/They) 3 years ago
I would Ask if I could drink before every.single.sip just to p**s them off and show them how stupid that rule is 😑
#53
No colored shoelaces—apparently it was a sign of gang affiliation No toe shoes—it looked too much like you were wearing only socks No eating outside the cafeteria—this was to reduce litter in the hallways but our school cafeteria could only fit 100-ish people so everyone ignored it. They tried enforcing it by “guarding” the cafeteria doors so those buying lunch couldn’t leave but then people just stopped buying school lunch Edit: for clarification
Error 404 (He/They) 3 years ago
Been scrolling for 5 minutes and I have never Seen the word "gang affiliation" that many Times in my life
myvloggun [[ he/they ]] 3 years ago
actually there is a colored shoelace code, but it's only on specific boots!
#54
Girls couldn't wear tank tops because showing armpits wasn't allowed but guys could wear wife beaters. Made no sense. No chains on wallets back in the day when chain wallets were the thing so dudes replaced their chains with pearl necklaces as an FU to admin. No black lipstick allowed. Oh, and they were really concerned about Starter jackets and gang activity. This was a small farm town of like 700, total overreaction. Also most high schools allow you to attend a shorter day if you've met your graduation credits but we had to sit all day and sometimes that meant having 2-3 study halls if we had already met requirements. Such a waste of time.
Bob La Capra 3 years ago
I had most of my graduation credits met by my senior year but instead of 2-3 study halls a day I took Phy Ed with the 7th and 10th graders.
Random Dog Owner 3 years ago
No shoulders, dyed hair, dangly earrings, and no cat ear headbands. OUR HISTORY TEACHER SHOWED US A FRICKIN BULLET AND SWORDS
Fluffy mommy panda 3 years ago
In school we weren't allowed to wear tank tops either. Except for in pe. I forgot wether the guys where allowed to wear wife beaters or not.
BasedWang12.4 3 years ago
Wonder how many non-USA folk had to now search what a wife beater was outta pure confusion
The Radio Demon 3 years ago
If you can send a girl home for wearing a tank top, you can send me (a male) home for wearing crocs with thigh-high socks. It's absurd.
#55
In primary school, we weren't allowed to put our rubbish from our lunches in the bin. I distinctly remember being in an assembly, where there headteacher said "your lunchbox is your bin". I mean, did she think the bins we're for decoration? So stupid
𝙱𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝙱𝚒 𝙿𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚊 3 years ago
In pre-primary the teacher would check our lunch boxes to make sure our rubbish was in there, no bins
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
Maybe it was part of the 'nude food' thing and they just explained badly. Kinders and primary schools in Australia often do a program called nude food, to encourage both healthy eating and as little single use food packaging as possible. Sometimes this means sending the kids home with their packaging as a reminder to try to buy less (though with some parents this makes no difference).
#56
I remember that once a teacher yelled at me for walking fast om the hallway Like, those kids over there block all the path playing with kendamas , in the bathroom 3 guys fight and in that classroom they play sh*tty music loudly but somehow I'm the problem
#57
In 3rd grade we had to have "play mates" It basically meant that we couldn't play with our friends on the breaks/recess, we had to play in a group, that group was filled with students from other classes too, not fun.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
Considering the first day at my new school I had 'buddies' who I had to play with during recess and lunch and they spent the whole time arguing with each other, which led to me playing on my own and I never made friends I really connected with at the school, I know how badly this works. The theory is that you aren't too clique-y and can get to know a broader range of people, and hopefully there will be less people bullied and left out. Works in theory, not in practice.
#58
"No hats" was basically the only dress code my school had. The dumbest thing was moreso the reasoning behind it. It was put into effect after Columbine because apparently different groups (jocks, nerds, goths, etc.) wore different headgear to differentiate themselves.
sugar-dusted-strawberries 3 years ago
a big school shooting that happened in america in 1999 where two students shot and killed 12 students and one teacher
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Huddo's sister 3 years ago
In Australia we have to wear hats in term 1&4 (summer terms) or else "no hat, no play for you today". We just can't wear them inside.
Willow 2 years ago
Sensible- in my school (in England) you have to wear hats or sit in the shade if it's more than like 20 degrees out. We really aren't made for hot weather
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Nicholas Montgomery 3 years ago
My school has a rule where you cant wear hats, BUT you can request a hat pass and be allowed to wear a hat. this will inevitibly lead to everyone requesting one.
Rival Hydra 3 years ago
Terrible! I wear glasses and have no muscles cuz I’m a jock, how rude of them! ( joke, I kinda like being a nerd😁)
#59
No one was allowed to have or say the word "Dr. Pepper" because it was the password to a shared Brazzers account the administration found out about.
#60
We weren't allowed to show our shoulders at all. Officially, the dress code stated that shirt straps couldn't be under 3 inches in width. However, people got written up daily for wearing even a t-shirt with sleeves that were too short. This also applied to the choir/band trip we took to California, where the girls weren't allowed to wear tank tops or shorts (even the ones within the dress code) because it made our male principle "uncomfortable." Spent that entire trip sweating my a*s off while the guys got to wear shorts and I'm still bitter about it over 10 years later.
#61
Tiny school that required students to wear name badges to help prevent a shooting. The teachers and principals would call you out by name for not wearing one.
Irish woman abroad 3 years ago
So many of these are connected to school shooting. What kind of surrealistic country is it where children are restricted and penalised, while the root of the problem is not addressed?
Fluffy mommy panda 3 years ago
What the heck how is that suppose to prevent school shootings......?
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
More likely a way to identify bodies after one :(
Load More Replies... #62
In primary school, pens were banned and everything had to be done in pencil. Vice versa in secondary school. We also had a rule where you weren't allowed to change seats in the dining hall once you'd sat down for the first time. Very hard to enforce, but we all stuck to it.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
We only had to use pencil in primary school until our cursive writing was legible enough for us to earn our pen license, in grade 3 or 4. Then we had to use pen for English but could choose for other subjects I believe. In high school we could use pencil for most things, except essays, though pen was preferred. At least with pencil they didn't have to worry about the mess white out inevitably caused! Thank goodness white out tape was created before I finished school :)
Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 3 years ago
HS said only black ink,but no one listened. I used whatever pens my mom had,
#63
Junior high was riddled with stupid rules. Most of them had to do with our general appearance. One time I got sent home because my pants *weren't the correct shade of blue* to match the ugly a*s uniform. The principal had to *drive me home so I could change pants!* Wasted valuable hours of my school day and education just because of a color. EDIT: a word.
Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 3 years ago
Had a VP most girls hated. She didn't like my BFF for some reason, but liked me (office aid). Once she told BFF she had to wear some nasty old gym clothes saying hers didn't meet code. They stunk, didn't fit & were ripped. Said her parents didn't return calls, not true. Gave her my pants & extra t-shirt (for after school stuff). Then called her mom from the main office. She was there in 30 minutes, caught VP accusing BFF of stealing clothes. It wasn't pretty, mom for the win
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
I mean, if it's a uniform I don't see the problem. Didn't stop me getting annoyed when they tightened the rules so you had to buy pants from the uniform shop, rather than other blue ones from another store, just meant I always wore the skirt in winter, as my body type didn't fit the shape of the school ones.
BasedWang12.4 3 years ago
Oh man I woulda loved to see my principle or teacher try to get me in a car with them... Lordy lordy. Plus my dad woulda been up to the school so fast
#64
* boots were banned because they "promoted thuggish, anti-social behaviour". I wore steel toe-capped boots for the entire time I was there because I found them more comfortable than shoes and no one noticed...well, except the bully who got dropped kicked in the crotch because I'd had enough of his s**t. He noticed. * boys had to have short hair as long hair was a distraction. I decided to f*k da police and grow mine out. That caused a few arguments. * we were allowed to wear our own coats over the top of our uniforms when going to/from school. Just so long as they were black and conformed to certain styles. No one paid any attention as it was completely unenforceable. * in sixth form, girls were allowed to wear whatever they wanted to. Boys still had to wear a shirt and tie selected from a very small range of colours. When we complained about the double standards, the school graciously allowed us to select two additional colours. The school's excuses for all of this was to prevent bullying and prepare us for the workplace. Kids just found other reasons to bully each other and I've never had a job that required a three-piece suit.
Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 3 years ago
While uniforms made dressing kid easier, I moved him the next year. 2 colors of pants - only purchased at 1 store. 3 colors shirts short sleeves. Long sleeves had to be bought from school as well as sweaters.- no other sweaters allowed. White shoes and socks only. Girls in dresses, jumpers or skirts only until they decided it was cold enough for pants. Only basic hair accessories. No bows, ribbons etc. This was a public school in a fairly poor area. 2 years later uniforms were voted out. Stupid rules
The Radio Demon 3 years ago
My friend had a rule like this and decided to wear thigh-high boots and short shorts.
why hello there 3 years ago
Tell them that they're amazing! And so are you :D
Load More Replies... Huddo's sister 3 years ago
While I agree kids will find other reasons to bully, uniforms still cut down on them being bullied because they can't afford new clothes everyday which is a good enough reason for me. Parents can buy one set of uniform (hopefully considering the socio-economic area of the school for what the restrictions are) and the kids can wear it all week if need be.
Jessica Wood 3 years ago
Indeed. Kids will just set their own arbitrary standards for uniforms then bully you if you don't meet them.
#65
No ballpoint pens.
Vix Spiderthrust 3 years ago
Yes, we had to use fountain pens. No good reason for it, just pure snobbery.
The Radio Demon 3 years ago
"dost thou have an inkwell?" "no, my good fellow" "methinks thou art lying"
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Maddymoocow 3 years ago
At my primary (grade) school we weren't allowed to use ballpoints or felt-tip pens - fountain pens, pencils and crayons only. It was about appreciating what we create and not just doing things the easy/cheap mainstream way.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
When I was teaching primary school I took in a fountain pen for the kids to use as an interesting English activity. One of the kids purposely broke it in 10 minutes and I was pretty devestated!
Load More Replies... Tami_DE 3 years ago
I can't write with fountain pens, they constantly scratch the paper, don't write properly and hurt to hold for longer periods. Same problem that office ballpoint pens have, you have to hold them so wierdly from above. I write with my hand and pen fairly flat to the paper, so maybe I'm just wierd.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
I think the problem is fountain pens were meant to be held so your hand doesn't rest on the table, since the ink might smudge and the nib is shaped to accommodate that position. Not sure the problem with other pens though.
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At my grade school we weren’t allowed to wear ankle socks. You would get detention if you did.
#67
In my high school you can't play cards unless it's uno since playing cards are used for gambling. My best friend got detention for clapping,even though a lot of other people were clapping, because he "disturbed the lunch period" and supposedly started it all even though he didn't. You can't sing happy birthday in the cafeteria. You can't do a promposal on school grounds.
Nicholas Montgomery 3 years ago
Bring in like 30 decks of cards and slowly spread the cards around the hallways. then deny deny deny. or start betting over random stuff such as sports games and point out the hypocricy.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
We weren't allowed to gambol but playing cards were allowed, especially as some teachers used them in maths lessons etc. We did get kicked out of the library for playing uno though. Well actually, because we got too passionate about the game and made too much noise. Only for one day, though people were kicked out for the same reason on and off during the years. We also had some teachers see people playing blackjack in the year 12 common room and some made them stop but others didn't care. I can see why they discouraged promposals though. I really don't get the trend (though we don't even have prom in Australia). It seems like it puts more and more pressure on kids to be in couples when prom could just be a fun group event.
#68
In middle School, the dress code dictated you had to tuck your s**t in. Which might not be a big thing but they took it so seriously. I think they're reasoning was it was more professional? I guess? It was never really explained and they were handing out detentions for this s**t left and right
censorshipsucks 3 years ago
my school had that plus ties plus jackets had to be buttoned and worn at all times even on hot days.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
We had to tuck our shirt in if we were wearing the button up and tie, which when I started was the only shirt allowed in winter terms. Then they brought in long sleeve polo shirts and let us wear them all year so no more tucking for me :)
Jessica Wood 3 years ago
We used to get detention or even have the class replaced with punishment if we didn't have our shirts tucked in. Because workplaces will fire you if your shirt isn't tucked in?
#69
My fifth grade teacher hated the smell of mint or fruity things. Had a strong sense of smell when it came to it, one day I was eating some jolly ranchers my buddy gave me & when while in the middle of taking a test she started sniffing & walking around the class. When she got to me, she knew... put her hand down just under my chin & actually made me spit them into her hand.. wut. Leading to her implementing a rule for no types of candy in class or that fruity smelling kids perfume for the girls. TL:DR teacher hated fruity/minty smells, made me spit jolly ranchers into her hand & banned candy from her classroom.
Laura Ketteridge 3 years ago
I am amazed that candy and sweets were ALLOWED in the class to being with.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
You can eat during tests? We couldn't eat at all during class. I get the mint thing though, since I'm allergic to it :)
Littlebunnyfufu 3 years ago
Wonder if teacher had smell induced migraines or smell sensitivities.
#70
At my high school, students were not allow to use the restrooms during lunch.
#71
In high school you were not allowed to use the football field unless you were on the football team. That meant that if gym class wants to be held outside the only thing we were allowed to do is run around the outside of the field. The reason they gave was they spent one and a half million dollars to renovate the field and that was reserved for only the football team. Got to love Catholic School.
#72
Girls could have piercings but guys couldn't. Did it anyway, it was a very mediocre school.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
We were all allowed ear piercings as long as we wore plain sleepers or studs. No other piercings allowed though, which seemed fair. Some people got away with putting in invisible (clear) studs or covering with a bandaid if newly pierced.
#73
when i was in grade 8, we had to write our homework in our agendas and if a parent didn't sign it that would result in a detention.
Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 3 years ago
They tried that wihen oldest was in middle school. So many kids with late working parents nothing was getting signed. Same kids over & over. Parents protested rule gone.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
I thought it was bad enough that we were forced to write the homework (and nothing else) in our school diaries!
#74
NO POMEGRANATES!!!
Joey 3 years ago
This one I get. I believe the story goes if you eat a pomegranate in school then you’ll be tied to that school forever
Shadow the Dragon King 1 year ago
Persephone is calling, she wants her myth back
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What do you think ?
Sasy 3 years ago
As an Australian that went to an all girls high school and we wore uniforms, all of this is just horrific. This was the 80s and even with the uniforms we were dying our hair, we had Boy George and Marilyn hairdo looks, Cyndi Lauper and Madonna looks etc. We could talk, run, play, skip, play elastics etc at Lunch and Recess. The only thing I can ever remember as being somewhat hilarious then and now, was a message over the intercom asking us to not use suntan oil on our legs at lunch time because the seats after lunch were getting all oily :) sure we had rules, and yes if you asked to go to the loo during class, you got a sigh from the teacher but you still got to go.
censorshipsucks 3 years ago
this is so pathetic, and it's why kids hate school and why education results in usa and other nazi countries are so poor. Go look at finland's system you psychopathic fascists.
CrazyCatLady 3 years ago
Yes please! I want Finland’s school system. They are the happiest AND also one of the most educated countries in the world.
Load More Replies... My True Form, Apparently 3 years ago
The school district I’m in will not allow special education for gifted students, because apparently it’s impossible for gifted students to have disabilities. Me and my brother have been diagnosed with ADHD, autism, depression, and anxiety.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
That makes no sense! More funding is needed, not less, and many people on the autism spectrum (which ADHD, OCD and Tourette's are) are 'twice exceptional'. That's the wording one of my professional development courses for teach used, because they can be exceptional (aka 'gifted') in one area and yet need more support in another. Really, is anyone gifted in ALL areas, including social?
Load More Replies... Billy Harrelson 3 years ago
So when i was in kindergarten through 2nd grade, the school I was at was pretty chill and you could wear shorts on hot days (school had no AC... in the South). This was early to mid-80s. Get to 3rd grade. First rule in the student handbook "No shorts of any kind shall be worn" same with the earlier school, no AC. 100 degrees outside? Too bad, you're wearing pants. We asked the obvious "why?" Supposedly, and I don't know if this is true or not, but some girls had decided to wear their swimsuits to school once and the principal didn't like that their butt cheeks were showing and since banning that could have seemed vague he banned all shorts. Or it could have been the fact that Daisy Dukes were all the rage at that time. I don't know, I was 8 and I thought it was all stupid. Boys were eventually allowed to wear "shorts that were below the knee" when I got to 4th grade. In 5th grade we got a new principal.
Billy Harrelson 3 years ago
The first thing we asked was whether shorts were allowed. She said "I don't care, so long as they're tasteful." The girls were happy after that and no one ever wore anything too short anyway.
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Aiden Brough 3 years ago
How about rules students DIDN'T follow? I used to teach part time and would say to my students "You must have your book (SINGULAR!), paper, a pen and most importantly, a calculator". Each lesson, without fail, I'd get at least one or two turn up without ANY of the above. And these were ALL over the age of 16. And doing some form of accountancy lesson (tax etc)...
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
I never understood why kids would come to class without a pen or paper, except they were probably would be hoping to get out of the work. Of course they never did, as the teacher would have paper and or a pen. Was annoying though because if the teacher didn't have a spare pen they would always ask the 'good/quiet' kids to lend one, which was often me, and we rarely got them back!
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SheamusFanFrom1987 3 years ago
Once in my old school, a kid in my class had to wear a glove on his right hand because an accident had left a scar (pretty big one) on the back of said hand which was mostly healed but still not too good to look at. It was a black cotton fingerless glove with nothing else on it. His parents spoke to the principal about it (showed him the scar, even) and got consent but somehow, our old prude of a teacher wasn't having it when she was informed (she was there longer than the principal and thought that gave her more authority over him). During assembly, she marched the guy up to the front and demanded he take his glove off there and then. Mind you, the principal was there and was already snickering quietly. The guy nonchalantly peeled off the glove to show us a reddish, recovering scar with partially dried blood pretty much across the back of his hand. I kid you not when said prude teacher almost hurled there and then and stumbled away from the assembly field.
SheamusFanFrom1987 3 years ago
Continued: Safe to say she never gave him flak about the glove again until his hand fully healed but pretty much got tormented/teased mercilessly (even by the principal who had to but rarely could stand her) whenever she decided to make a fuss out of any minor situation ever again. XP
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DrBronxx 3 years ago
My wife's school softball coach had a rule - no ice cream the day before a game. First, that's random. Second, how in the hell do you enforce that? My reasoning for the existence of the rule was that, sometime years before, a student pigged out on ice cream one night, was sick and couldn't play in a game the next day. So, the coach took the extreme NEVER AGAIN approach. This was in Japan, by the way.
Error 404 (He/They) 3 years ago
This is why school sucks and yet people still blame ViDeO gAmEs for everything
Sasy 3 years ago
As an Australian that went to an all girls high school and we wore uniforms, all of this is just horrific. This was the 80s and even with the uniforms we were dying our hair, we had Boy George and Marilyn hairdo looks, Cyndi Lauper and Madonna looks etc. We could talk, run, play, skip, play elastics etc at Lunch and Recess. The only thing I can ever remember as being somewhat hilarious then and now, was a message over the intercom asking us to not use suntan oil on our legs at lunch time because the seats after lunch were getting all oily :) sure we had rules, and yes if you asked to go to the loo during class, you got a sigh from the teacher but you still got to go.
censorshipsucks 3 years ago
this is so pathetic, and it's why kids hate school and why education results in usa and other nazi countries are so poor. Go look at finland's system you psychopathic fascists.
CrazyCatLady 3 years ago
Yes please! I want Finland’s school system. They are the happiest AND also one of the most educated countries in the world.
Load More Replies... My True Form, Apparently 3 years ago
The school district I’m in will not allow special education for gifted students, because apparently it’s impossible for gifted students to have disabilities. Me and my brother have been diagnosed with ADHD, autism, depression, and anxiety.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
That makes no sense! More funding is needed, not less, and many people on the autism spectrum (which ADHD, OCD and Tourette's are) are 'twice exceptional'. That's the wording one of my professional development courses for teach used, because they can be exceptional (aka 'gifted') in one area and yet need more support in another. Really, is anyone gifted in ALL areas, including social?
Load More Replies... Billy Harrelson 3 years ago
So when i was in kindergarten through 2nd grade, the school I was at was pretty chill and you could wear shorts on hot days (school had no AC... in the South). This was early to mid-80s. Get to 3rd grade. First rule in the student handbook "No shorts of any kind shall be worn" same with the earlier school, no AC. 100 degrees outside? Too bad, you're wearing pants. We asked the obvious "why?" Supposedly, and I don't know if this is true or not, but some girls had decided to wear their swimsuits to school once and the principal didn't like that their butt cheeks were showing and since banning that could have seemed vague he banned all shorts. Or it could have been the fact that Daisy Dukes were all the rage at that time. I don't know, I was 8 and I thought it was all stupid. Boys were eventually allowed to wear "shorts that were below the knee" when I got to 4th grade. In 5th grade we got a new principal.
Billy Harrelson 3 years ago
The first thing we asked was whether shorts were allowed. She said "I don't care, so long as they're tasteful." The girls were happy after that and no one ever wore anything too short anyway.
Load More Replies... Aiden Brough 3 years ago
How about rules students DIDN'T follow? I used to teach part time and would say to my students "You must have your book (SINGULAR!), paper, a pen and most importantly, a calculator". Each lesson, without fail, I'd get at least one or two turn up without ANY of the above. And these were ALL over the age of 16. And doing some form of accountancy lesson (tax etc)...
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
I never understood why kids would come to class without a pen or paper, except they were probably would be hoping to get out of the work. Of course they never did, as the teacher would have paper and or a pen. Was annoying though because if the teacher didn't have a spare pen they would always ask the 'good/quiet' kids to lend one, which was often me, and we rarely got them back!
Load More Replies... SheamusFanFrom1987 3 years ago
Once in my old school, a kid in my class had to wear a glove on his right hand because an accident had left a scar (pretty big one) on the back of said hand which was mostly healed but still not too good to look at. It was a black cotton fingerless glove with nothing else on it. His parents spoke to the principal about it (showed him the scar, even) and got consent but somehow, our old prude of a teacher wasn't having it when she was informed (she was there longer than the principal and thought that gave her more authority over him). During assembly, she marched the guy up to the front and demanded he take his glove off there and then. Mind you, the principal was there and was already snickering quietly. The guy nonchalantly peeled off the glove to show us a reddish, recovering scar with partially dried blood pretty much across the back of his hand. I kid you not when said prude teacher almost hurled there and then and stumbled away from the assembly field.
SheamusFanFrom1987 3 years ago
Continued: Safe to say she never gave him flak about the glove again until his hand fully healed but pretty much got tormented/teased mercilessly (even by the principal who had to but rarely could stand her) whenever she decided to make a fuss out of any minor situation ever again. XP
Load More Replies... DrBronxx 3 years ago
My wife's school softball coach had a rule - no ice cream the day before a game. First, that's random. Second, how in the hell do you enforce that? My reasoning for the existence of the rule was that, sometime years before, a student pigged out on ice cream one night, was sick and couldn't play in a game the next day. So, the coach took the extreme NEVER AGAIN approach. This was in Japan, by the way.
Error 404 (He/They) 3 years ago
This is why school sucks and yet people still blame ViDeO gAmEs for everything
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