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Just now, SnakeEater said:

At my school, if your shoes weren't pointy enough, you'd get suspended.
If you weren't wearing full uniform at all times, (shirt, tie, blazer, dress shoes), you'd get suspended.

Also, you weren't allowed to go to the bathroom during class AT ALL, no matter the circumstances. 

It wasn't even a private school or anything, it was a public high school packed with junkies and neds. God only knows why they were so unnecessarily strict with their rules. Additionally, if you were to fail even one of the preliminary exams before your finals, you would get kicked off the class in which you failed the prelim. No excuses.

Safe to say, my school wasn't the best.  :orly:

 

NO S#!T SHERLOCK, If the my school tried that, there'd be no one left.

Half of my year (Yeah, just my year) are either neds, junkies or dated neds or junkies.

 

I'll just quote my previous post for "most pointless rule"

13 minutes ago, Sherbert Music-Guard, Scoffer of Shortbread said:

If you have an injury,

It's against the rules in my school to not bring your kit, 

EVEN IF YOU CAN'T DO P.E. DUE TO AN INJURY, 

Seriously, I think the head of P.E. must have been high to make that a rule,

I WAS GAVE DETENTION BECAUSE I NEVER BROUGHT MY KIT IN BECAUSE MY CAT SCRATCHED ME SO MUCH I COULDN'T WALK PROPERLY, WTF, AND THE RULES ARE FULL OF LIES ASWELL, I GO TO ONE OF THE WORST SCHOOLS IN MY CITY AND THE RULES SAY "BEST RESULTS IN THE CITY" IN IT WHEN IT HAS SOME OF THE WORST RESULTS IN THE CITY IN EVERYTHING.

 

RANT OVER!

 

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43 minutes ago, Kyoshi said:

My high school had a rule of 'No kissing in the hallways between classes'. As if that was supposed to accomplish anything whatsoever. :| Maybe the principal was jealous of the all the smoochy smooching going on.

People making out in public is a bit of a pet peeve of mine. It's not really jealousy, it's more like "get a room"


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Just now, Total Lunar Eclipse said:

Oh yeah. We also weren't allowed to touch each other at all. Not even a fistbump. =)

That was like my primary (elementry) (NO, It was a public school, not a private school),

They in my high school probably had allow it because I'd be suprised if people didn't have sex in places at my school

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I remember my middle school banned dark colored nail polish. I wore purple one day and had a security guard pull me aside and tell me that I'd better have it removed by the next day. I peeled it off that night and damned if he didn't come up to me the following day to make sure it was gone! 

At the same school, I also got in serious trouble (taken into the vice principal's office and late for class) because I was wearing a Naruto headband (cringe, I know lol :lie:) and I also came to school one day when my hair was short, and the security guard pulled on my arm and told me my hair was too spiky. (I had seriously not even styled it- I had just woken up late and showed up a hot mess) He made me go in the bathroom and waited outside for me to soak my hair in the sink and flatten it, also making me like 20 minutes late to class with no pass or anything.

That school had a lot of rules that were really obviously angled toward "alternative" type kids: no dark nail polish, spiked hair, no wearing all black, no fingerless gloves, etc. I think it was kinda discriminatory, especially since there were definitely still alternative kids who just dressed in rainbows and smoked weed in the parking lot anyway. I just feel more comfortable in dark clothing, and I was never, ever a problem student. Straight A's and incredible attitude, but they still punished any kid that dared to wear a dark pair of jeans and a black t-shirt. (Any kid that dressed that way was forced to wear a spare Gym t-shirt for the day, or if there weren't any extra shirts, they got sent home.) 

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I don't think any of the schools I went to ever had any pointless rules. Then again, it's been over fifteen years since I last went to school--I don't count college and university as those are post secondary institutions--so my memory is hazy.

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Near the end of school we were not alowed to purchase food or drinks with cash; we had to deposit our money into a machine and then use our finger print to confirm the purchase. If you didn't spend all your money that very day of depositing it, you loose it.

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I don't remember much of my school life, but I do remember that apparently rap music was banned for a while at the school I graduated from. I think they banned it because they deemed it "offensive". Seemed a little weird to me since I remember our principal being a generally kind person and not that power hungry, and of course, we also had the usual "no public displays of affection" rule which also does nothing.


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My school also had the Pokémon card ban. There were just two problems with this. Firstly, they didn't ban the cards until most kids had already stopped collecting them. Secondly, the ban applied to all trading cards, except ice hockey cards for some inexplicable reason. Maybe that was because no one in our class collected them, as far as I can remember.

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My school had interesting rules regarding gun toys. You weren't allowed to bring anything that looked like a gun. I thought "fair enough, I dont like guns or gun toys anyway."

Grade 8, the class brought together a bunch of lego toys and were just having fun with them at recess. My lego cop had a microphone, but I was pretending it was a laser and my minifigure was trying to shoot down my friends ship. I was making little pew pew noises, then a teacher came up. They read us the school policy and took away the megaphone until the end of the day. Great school, but I have a feeling even the administration rolled their eyes at this one.

This is the confiscated lego piece. Yep.

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13 hours ago, Snow Frostflame said:

Anything on your head was prohibited. This annoyed me because I liked to wear my hoodie, helped me feel invisible.

Same. But, I broke that rule all the time.


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Gum was banned in my jr high. Although I thought it was a little overboard they banned gum because people would stick it under desks and spit it on the school grounds. They would threaten anyone caught chewing gum with one of those scrapers and the sidewalk gum.

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In my elementary school we weren't allowed to play war, because it was 'too violent'. Then we were banned from playing football (soccer for Americans) on the playground on certain days because the lower grades could play...whatever the English word for slagbal is, it's basically baseball without a pitcher, using a paddle. They never played it outside of PE lessons, so the rule was pointless.

In my second high school, I wasn't allowed to wear a shirt that said 'Val maar dood' (Drop dead) on it, because it was in conflict with 'the message of our school'. Would have been fine, if there hadn't been a huge group of kids wearing shirts from other bands saying stuff like 'Are you dead yet', 'Fuck you', and other stuff along those lines, and those were apparently allowed.

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We had to wear blazers at all times, even in the middle of summer and heatwaves. If not, you were put in detention. But the teachers could wear whatever they wanted. It was pointless at best and downright cruel at worst, especially when people were fainting due to heatstroke.

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When I was in highschool we were expressly forbidden from protecting ourselves. I don't just mean we couldn't hit someone back if they started beating on us, I mean we weren't even allowed to cover our faces when getting punched in them, we did, we'd get in at least as much trouble as our attacker if not more so. I found this out first hand when I tried defending my self against someone beating over the head with a stack of textbooks in front of a teacher no less. He hit about five times with everyone watching and when I hit him back with my thin and fairly soft binder made out of this rough cloth like stuff I got the sheriff called on me. Didn't do time or anything like that but still.           

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Coming from a private school, one of the most useless rules is following the gender expectations.  Where the men have to act like a gentleman and the girls have to act like a lady.  I don't remember the lists of what to expected from both genders but it was pretty dumb. Obviously no ones follows it. 


                 

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Our schools banned hats. Yes hats. This was extremely stupid. They allowed all sorts of shady and questionable stuff, but not hats.


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'No Backpacks allowed anywhere near your desk' 

I think it's stupid,basically they don't let us have our backpacks at our desks.they make us pile 'em up to the wall and I don't know why.I think it has something to do with phones,food,or something like that.


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