crazy school rules (1 Viewer)

[MikeAlletto]

I have got a better education from movies

Hahahahaha...I just think thats funny I learned that fire can burn in the vaccuum of space. You can put a gun in your mouth and pull the trigger and still walk out of the building on your own. I can dodge bullets. And those boney aliens have acid for blood.
hehehe

 

[Chad R]

Okay, believe it or not most of the rules are initiated for student safety and/or to prevent unhappy conflicts (up to and including lawsuits).
PDA - While smooching in the hall seems acceptable to hormone raging teens, it is not acceptable behavior anywhere. When you work at a job, you can't do it. When you go to the mall or out in public you shouldn't do it. Also, under the guidelines for sexual harrassment, another person can be harrassed by watching other people engage in any sexual activity (and kissing is considered sexual activity). So the school doesn't want to open itself up to lawsuits. Just because you find it acceptable doesn't mean EVERY student at the school does.
Pagers - Simply, pagers are preferred communication devices of drug dealers. You may not be one, but an exception can't be made for you. Just because someone says they are using it for benign purposes, doesn't mean they acutally are. And since pagers and cell phones are disruptive to class, and since 90% of your day is spent in a classroom you don't need them at school. When you get to college, professors will tell you they're not allowed in their classrooms either.
Gum is just annoying and 99% of the time ends up on the bottom of a desk. You can't eat or drink in class either, so why should gum be the exception?
Skipping Assemblies - When you get a job you're not allowed to skip important meeting (whether you think they are or not) so you should learn to deal with them now.
Nail clippers - If they have a nail file that flips out, it IS a weapon. And honestly, personal grooming of that nature should not be done at school. I wouldn't personally suspend a student for having it (that goes against common sense) I would certainly confiscate it.
Aspirin is a drug and if taken in large quanitites can harm someone. Sad fact, the school is responisble for you when you are on school property, if you OD on anything they are liable. With school budgets across the nation shrinking a chool district needs to protect itself from lawsuits as much as possible. Headaches can be tolerated, and if they are so bad they cannot, then see the school nurse or go home.
Sorry to sound like an old bugger, but you will grow up and all of these rules won't sound as silly to you. I"m currently back in school getting certified to teach (that damn film degree wasn't the best investment) and can tell you I"m not doing it to torture kids. I'm obviously not doing it for the great pay (although it will pay more than the occasional film job). I'm doing it because I like kids and think that spedning an entire day with them is the best job you can have (unless one of my screenplays sell ).

 

[Derek Williams]

I work at a middle school as a computer specialist and can tell you that 50% of the rules are for safety and the other half are to teach students to follow instructions. One strange rule is no pencils under 3” long because the students use them as finger skateboards in class. Think of 36 pencils taping desks at the same time.

 

[Denward]

What's the saying? "Someone always has to ruin it for everyone." Things like pagers and 3 inch pencils may sound like silly things to ban, but you know someone has abused those items to the detriment of the school.

Many rules seem stupid when personally applied to you, but when you have to maintain some semblance of order among 1000 teenagers, dogmatic rules and policies are necessary so that you don't make a court case out of everyone who thinks they are an exception to the rules.

BTW, those of you who use horrendous grammar (and I don't mean typos or simple misspellings) while complaining about how school sucks should think twice. If you ever hope to persuade anyone that you have a valid opinion, you need to write like an intelligent person. Maybe school wouldn't suck so bad if you listened to what the teachers were trying to teach.

 

[Josh_Hill]

I listen in schools, hell I get straight A's. I dont come here to have a friggin grammar contest with someone. Im not writing a report. So, I dont really care if I dont have an comma or something not in its correct place.

 

[Shayne Lebrun]

Josh,

Are you aware that it's now a standard tactic, when considering somebody for a job with ANY form of written or spoken communication, to do an Internet search on their name?

Remember a little while ago, Google got it's hands on some really really old Usenet archives, and suddenly people are (only half-jokingly) worried about their old opinions and postings coming back to haunt them?

 

[Wayne Bundrick]

I wish I could find my old student handbook so I could quote some of the rules we had 15 years ago. There was no rule against finger nail clippers & nail files though. If the 2-inch nail file that folds out of finger nail clippers is a weapon, then so is a pencil or ballpoint pen or even a key.
We had a no pager/cellphone rule long before they became ubiquitous. No portable radios, TVs, or handheld video games. You pretty much couldn't have anything electronic except a calculator, although few math classes allowed or needed one. I think electronic items were allowed on campus but could only be used before and after school and had to be kept in the locker.
Bookbags & backpacks were allowed back then, but these days they are searched and you must take the books out and keep the bag in your locker until after school.
No, most of our rules had to do with the dress code. Until my last year of high school, we had a no shorts rule, and when shorts were finally allowed they had to be knee length (the only style that was knee length back then was bermuda shorts with a floral print). I think the no shorts rule was recently reinstated. Boys couldn't wear earrings. I'll bet that now they have a policy against any (exposed) piercings other than earrings, and perhaps they allow only one piercing per ear. They've always had an open-ended hair policy that outlaws any style/color they don't like. No moustaches, beards, goatees, chops or any other facial hair. Skirts had to be knee length. No tank tops, tube tops, strapless, bare midriffs, etc. The "muscle shirts" which were sleeveless but not tank tops were allowed. No sheer or fishnet or otherwise transparent garments. All appropriate undergarments are required. Much of the dress code was devoted to ensuring that the girls couldn't put anything on display and the boys couldn't get a good peek. (But the girls found other ways to entice. Some of the girls could fill a sweater quite nicely. Twin Peaks.

And one of my favorite fashion statements of that time was the posterior equivalent of the nicely filled sweater: tight blue jeans with no back pockets. Twin Cheeks.

Sigh. Those were the days.)
The school system in the neighboring county not only has a dress code but a uniform code, which mostly means collared shirts and non-denim pants. At the start of the current school year they pissed off a lot of parents by instituting a no cargo pants policy after parents had already spent hundreds of dollars on cargo pants for their kids.
Public displays of affection: in my day, I think they were officially not allowed but no teacher (except the one teacher who was anal about the rules, you know, there's always one) would find anything wrong with a quick peck of the lips in the hallway. That's about as much as would be considered appropriate in "public" anyway. They'd never allow a couple to wrap their arms around each other and play tonsil hockey.

 

[Dave Poehlman]

I remember school rules...
It's actually a state law here in Wisconsin that you cannot smoke on school grounds. So, all the smokers would have to walk across the alley behind school to a baseball field to smoke. It was kind of silly to see everyone smoking 20ft away from the school.
"No bongs in the boys room" that one always got me.

 

[Brian Lawrence]

The most stupid thing I remember was the "No Shorts" rule. I mean it was the most insane thing I have ever heard of and it made no sense. It's like you can not be allowed in the school wearing shorts... BUT you MUST wear shorts in phys ed!
It was funny that the day after they made this rule. They had several parents called in to take their kid home because they where wearing cut-offs. One of these girls had denim shorts that hung down past her knees and they sent her home for breaking school dress code :rolleyes, Yet there was no problem with the girls that wore the tight leather skirts hiked up to their asses While I was not going to complain I still thought that was very unfair.
Oh, and I never had much use for the "Two wrongs, Don't make a right" rule either.
Anyhow this was all a long time ago. Back in a time in which there where no security guards or metal detectors at the doors. A time when a kid got caught with a butterfly knife & nunchucks (Yes, that was me), the principal would just take the things away and then give them back to you at the end of the day and tell you not to bring stuff like that in again. And believe it or not the High School actually had a smoking room, in which kids where allowed to smoke during lunch break (I shit you not).

 

[Jeff Kleist]

Before I start on this, my mother is a teacher in a tough district, and she's darn good. I just despised school in all it's forms.
Compulsory public schooling is technically illegal anyway
Amendment 18, Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their
jurisdiction.
Anyone ever compute how much they owe you at minimum wage?
At today's rates, w/o penalty it's $85,176 And no, knowlege gained is NOT payment enough. I want hard cash

 

[Ryan L B]

how about this one, no tank tops for guys period and only on girls if no skin below the neck line is showing.

 

[MikeAlletto]

Amendment 18, Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude

hahaha...i hope that was all in haha, funny mode. I can't believe you compared going to school to slavery! You aren't working the fields, making shoes, or rolling smokes! You are sitting in a classroom collecting the knowledge that others have to pass onto you. Oh yeah...that sure is hard work. The pay you get is when you get out of school and get a good job.

unbelieveable...

 

[Jeff Kleist]

Only half ha-ha
I said that knowlege gained didn't count I learned about 50x more reading books than attending school during those years. I consider my entire education past 6th grade to be a total waste of my time

 

[Dome Vongvises]

I got something we can all agree on. Everyone and everything is stupid!!! There, ya happy now?
:p)
Seriously folks, all the rules looked stupid when you were in high school. When you grow and mature during your work and college years, you realize that half of them were for your sake and benefit (which implies of course that the other half of the rules still remained stupid). To this day, I refuse to believe and conform to the social rule that you have to ask to be excused to use the restroom. That's the greatest thing about being in college. If I gotta pee or poop, I just get up when I feel like it.
Of course, the scenario doesn't apply to high school, where an excuse to the restroom would go something like this:
"Excuse Mr. Johnson, I need to take a big shit, may I be excused?"
:rolleyes
Puhleeze, like I have to ask for permission to expel fecal or urinary matter.

 

[Shayne Lebrun]

You know, I used to think like that. Then I had kids.

When I was courting my wife, before she was, obviously, my wife, I remember watching with silent horror how regimented her little sister's life was. At dinner, for example, her mother would tell her when to start drinking, when to stop drinking, when to take a bite, how much to put in her mouth, how long to chew, and so on. The sister was, at the time, 3 or 4.

Then, I had kids of my own. And I saw that, given a glass of something with dinner, they'd more often than not simply drink the whole glass in one mighty chug, then announce that they were full. Or that they'd stuff food into their mouths until they gagged and spewed. Or that they'd chew exactly three times, then try to choke it down.

When we were potty training our eldest daughter, she quickly figured out exactly just how malleable 'But I haf to go!' is when the rules are 'No getting out of bed at night unless it's to pee or poop!' And she'd merrily spend an hour on the toilet, doing absolutely nothing in terms of peeing or pooping. So we'd send her off to bed, and guess what, instant generation of waste products.

The rules are all there for a reason, and a surprising amount of those reasons are valid ones. Don't think that you've got a better perspective on such things than the school that's seen kids come and go for eighty years has.

 

[Chad R]

If the 2-inch nail file that folds out of finger nail clippers is a weapon, then so is a pencil or ballpoint pen or even a key.

But you need pencils and pens in school, not nail clippers or nail files. It's impossible to eliminate potential weapons in school, but you can limit them to the bare minimum.

 

[Andrew_Sch]

I thought we were talking about PDA's as in Palm Pilots, personal digital assistants. My bad:b

 

[Ryan L B]

i hate how half of the teachers let all of the rules go out the window.

Here is how a popular situation goes in school

If I were to yell out loud "holly shit, or F*ck you" you get from the teacher "what was that"

I would say "oh shoot, or screw you"

the teacher "now that is better"

 

[Andrew_Sch]

they are too busy trying to teach basic socialization and manners to a bunch of spoiled, uncivilized, undisciplined, self-absorbed, illiterate, and monstrous children. What a shame.

Well, I was going to rant on how generalized and unfair this comment was, but then I realized...hey, it's true:frowning: . Only 2 1/4 more years of this crap. The things I hate most about high school are as follows:
-The assholes who take about two steps a minute and jam up the hallways.
-People (mostly girls, not to generalize, it's just true) who find it neccesary to yell right into your ear in a crowded hall just to acknowledge a friend a couple of feet away.
-The idea that drinking is somehow cool or a hobby of some sort. It amazes me how casually some people in this school just get drunk off their asses every weekend.
-All these "yo's" with wastelines around their ankles and skullcaps and earphones on constantly.
-Finally, the fact that a large percentage of guys see school as solely a place to either get a girlfriend and/or drugs, and that a good percentage of the girls see it as solely a place to get guys and talk on their cell phones. Also, some girls' need to constantly talk about fashion, and what they bought (or stole) last night. It's amazing how shallow some of the people in this school are. Their whole lives basically consist of four things: their car, their cell phone, their significant other and their clothes. Not too many people seem to be concerned with getting an education.
Aaaah... that was way off-topic, but quite cathartic.
One last thing: as far as gum goes, if a teacher wants to smell my dragon breath instead of my minty fresh eclipse gum breath, he/she can feel free to tell me to stop chewing anytime.

 

[Pete_S]

After reading some of the posts in this thread, it's obvious to me that teachers have no time to teach spelling or grammar. No wonder - they are too busy trying to teach basic socialization and manners to a bunch of spoiled, uncivilized, undisciplined, self-absorbed, illiterate, and monstrous children. What a shame.

As a current high school student, I must say I'm a bit offended by this statement. It isn't always the students' fault that learning doesn't take place; in a lot of cases, it's really quite clear that teachers are only in the business for the money. Allow me to rant a little.
My psychology teacher (who has her Master's and makes $58,000/year) shows videos to us 2-3 times a week and actually has the audacity to grade us on how well we pay attention. It baffles me that in a class composed only of seniors a teacher could treat us like such children. You say were's supposed to behave like adults? Well, meet us halfway!
My world civilization (honors, Advanced Placement) teacher is also fond of showing videos. Most people sleep during the frequent showings, and even he has been known to fall asleep now and again. He is the head of the social studies department, and he has made it more than clear to us students on numerous occasions that he does not enjoy teaching the class. Our only grades in the class are taken from our summaries of chapters from our college-level textbook, giving us little reason to pay attention to anything else that might be "taught" in the classroom.
My world literature (honors, Advanced Placement) teacher (Doctorate, $61,000/year) rarely does anything with my class. We have two group projects over the course of the year on which our grades depend, but nothing else in the class is graded. There isn't even a final exam. Again, there is little reason for us, the best and brightest in the school, to care about anything that is going on in the classroom. Apparently the "doctor" doesn't care much, either, because the average class period consists of him playing solitaire on the computer and us talking amongst ourselves.
My criminal law teacher (Master's, $58,000/year) can't properly pronounce half the words she uses, hands out papers with misspelled words on a regular basis, and worst of all, doesn't even know what she's talking about: the other day, she actually "taught" the class that it isn't statutory rape when someone has sex with an underage male; it's only statutory rape when an underage female is involved.
Finally, let me just say that I'm in the top 10% of my class and I don't deserve to be. I'm bright, I do well on standardized tests, but I don't feel that I do any work, even though I'm in all the honors classes that are available. My study habits have gotten progressively worse throughout high school, and I feel that I am entirely unprepared for college. I think it's inexcusable for some of the highest-paid teachers in the state of Illinois to do such a lackluster job of teaching. Since when has the job description for a high school teacher been "Insert tape, press play"?