35 Unethical Practices That Are Surprisingly A Thing In Some Schools, As Pointed Out By Folks Online

It is not only sexist but it has very pedophiliac connotations. My catholic school did not allow middle school or high school girls to wear any kind of shorts (they needed to go until your ankles) (yes also doing sports at 40C with long trousers) or to even wear sandals. Once we asked our tutor why we couldnt do it (at least for gym) and the boys could and he answered "because their knees are not erotic". It repulses me two decades later to think that he found our knees erotic

If a 15 year old boy gets distracted by a girl's body IT IS NOT HER FAULT!

the culture of guilt about women's body is more about adults ideologies that the reality...the f**k up thing is, that that's how the boys learn and grow up to believe that is what me do, and then just adjust to it...you get a perfect circle passing down this mentality down the generations...

My head teacher in high school hated my from day one and among other things often criticized my clothing and kept saying that the school rules don't allow this or that so after a while I asked for the specific rules. He said I should not wear anything "not acceptable to public opinion" . I asked if that meant his opinion. He couldn't answer.

How about punishing boys for being distracted by a bra strap and giving unwanted attention to girls?

Yep, also schools funded from local taxes, which means low income areas are also low funded areas.

American public school system is broken..... very broken..... beyond broken!

An explanation of American schools: unlike in most countries, where schools get funded per number of students, USA does it differently. Block funds are supplied by the US federal government, but most of school funding comes from local government, through revenue gained from property tax. So if you live in a wealthy town with high home ownership, your already-privileged kid goes to a lovely school with lots of resources, plenty of books, and computers and sports and music and art, etc. If you live in an economically depressed area, where most people rent, then your school will be severely underfunded, students will not have enough of anything, and even the teachers are likely to be less educated or less motivated, because the school can't pay as well. So the poor kids are completely screwed over.

Raising funds with low results just makes school staff become lazy. Why caring about results if funds raised anyway? What a low-rated school needs is attention from authorities. Maybe raising funds could provide solutions, maybe the problem is somewhere else.

Two things: I don't understand; aren't SATs optional, and only for entering college or university? Why should they affect school funding? Also, shouldn't this be a picture of American money? Israeli high schools don't depend on SAT scores at all, and, in fact, there are two other tests one can take to qualify, instead.

I got suspended for punching (and breaking the nose of) the girl who slashed my arm with a broken bottle (I would not give her my project so she could use it as hers) ... when we threatened a lawyer I had mine rescinded but she was only suspended for a week. The police would no NOTHING. (1980s Canada...) I had to live in fear of her repercussion for the rest of the year. She flunked out and could not come back...thank god.

My special needs daughter was suspended for two weeks because she hit a boy who wouldn't stop grabbing her bra strap on the bus. Broke his nose all over his face. He was kicked out of school

By that logic, if I beat up a math teacher, they would probably be fired and I'd be suspended.

Yeah, and then there's the issue of all the teachers who are the worst bullies.

In my experience "bully free" means bullies are free to fo as they please. My kids attended a school where the admins were overpaid but they supposedly didn't have the budget to have a full time school nurse or soecial needs teachers. As a result there was one kid with severe behavior problems who ran rampant with no consequences. We got our kids out of that school ASAP

Not an issue when you don't have extracurricular sports connected with schools :)

Once again, this is AMERICA.

I experienced this. When I was going to both middle school and high school-- the sports teams got a totally free ride. Paid equipment, paid uniforms, paid trips. And meanwhile, the music classes like choir and band, we got NOTHING. A tiny, tiny budget for music (that we had to photocopy to get enough copies of), and that was it. We had to pay for everything else ourselves. The excuse was, 'but sports equipment is expensive!' And musical instruments aren't?! The other excuse was 'but the sports teams win awards!' The musical groups did as well. Hell, we did BETTER than the sports teams. We didn't begrudge the sports teams getting funding, but we did resent that that got most of the pie while we got crumbs.

This is true. Our theater program was pulled so the football team could have brand-new equipment. They got new stuff three years prior.

And into college as well where the coaches are often the higest paid faculty.

At my HS graduation ceremony, the entire class, including me, discovered one of my friends had never missed a day of school since kindergarten. The principal then made a joke that maybe he'd break his dad's record at the factory in town. The kid had been t-boned by a drunk driver 2 years before and his parents still made him go to school. The comment from the principal set off a switch in his head. On Monday, he loaded up a U-Haul to move in with his fiance (set to get married in a week). He went to the new place and told her he had to escape now or it would never happen as he was scheduled to start working the next day at the factory. They loaded up her stuff into the U-Haul and just headed South. Eloped to Nashville, TN and after a couple of misfires, they opened a bait shop. Kids are grown up but he had a "gone fishing sign" and he'd shut down if they were sick or just needed a day off from school. He was voted "best life" at our 20th reunion.